Nathan Douglas

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Nathan Douglas

@bazinian_rite

Catholic | Filmmaker | Writer Editor & Founder @cathfilmmaker Thinking about cinephilia @voc_cinema 'Vulnerasti cor meum'

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Nathan Douglas
Nathan Douglas@bazinian_rite·
Friends, I'm overjoyed to announce the launch of The Catholic Filmmaker (@cathfilmmaker), an online journal dedicated to forming and supporting filmmakers in the Catholic Church. Read the founding statement and first essay at catholicfilmmaker.org.
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Nathan Douglas@bazinian_rite·
A very good interview. I particularly appreciated Bp. Varden’s reflections on the under appreciated power of film images lasting in the memory (for good and ill).
Thomas Mirus@CatholicPods

Bishop Erik Varden joined us on Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast to discuss cinema! Topics: cinematic violence, saint movies, the relationship btwn film and theater, public vs private viewing of films, foreign films, and +Varden's formative cinematic experiences. Link below

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Nathan Douglas
Nathan Douglas@bazinian_rite·
Just so I understand: you’re saying you can use AGI as an on-location camera without actually being on location, or actually recording an image of something that happened there? Wouldn’t it be more accurate to call this a simulation? I don’t doubt the amount of work or good intentions you put into this, but I guess I’m wondering at what point do we acknowledge the terms themselves have lost their original meaning beyond recovery?
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Crystalwizard@crystalwizard·
you can use it that way, yes - most cameras now have AI built in. i did an hour long video documentary on red pandas, 100% generated. but i spent hours researching facts, making sure that what generated was correct, etc. you can use it as an on location camera if you do it right
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@AVARY Is AI image generation a form of photography?

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Nathan Douglas
Nathan Douglas@bazinian_rite·
I’m not sure how it can be used at some point “in the process” if the process we’re talking about completely skips the act of an author filming an object for the purpose they have in mind. I think we need to be very clear about this when we invoke comparisons to other tech (iPhone, etc) that remain fundamentally linked to the photographic act, because AGI is more of a new medium than a continuation of what we’ve traditionally known as film / filmmaking, even if the end result is consumed in the same sensory mode as traditional films. There is a real shift taking place that isn’t just “new tool does the same thing but more efficiently” - it’s doing a different thing (most of all, to us, the artists). And, cards on the table, people are right to have strong feelings and to want to make strong distinctions about that.
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Roger Avary@AVARY·
Both Steven (with Full Frontal) and I (with The Rules of Attraction) were the first filmmakers to take Final Cut Pro, a consumer tool, into prime time usage on feature films. I only narrowly beat him to theaters because his system crashed and he lost all his work. That’s what it means to be on the bleeding edge of filmmaking. The guy is a mad scientist and it doesn’t surprise me at all that he’s at the forefront of the greatest democratizing filmmaking tool since consumer digital cinema. No one complained when he shot a movie on an iPhone. It astonishes me that anyone is in a kerfuffle about his experimentation with AI.
Variety@Variety

Steven Soderbergh says the backlash from his comments about AI in filmmaking is "mystifying to me": "There are some people that I have absolute love and respect for that refuse to engage with it. That's their privilege. But I'm not built that way. You show me a new tool. I want to get my hands on it and see what's going on." variety.com/2026/film/news…

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Nathan Douglas
Nathan Douglas@bazinian_rite·
Yes, albeit with the caveat that one could take the wrong lesson from Mel's Passion the same as one could take the wrong lesson from Pasolini (imitating the forms). Being hacky or lowbrow itself isn't a virtue. The crucial difference is in how much a filmmaker can find the "why" for adapting this material in a personal way, as a personal response to it, and offer that with true vulnerability.
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Amy Welborn
Amy Welborn@amywelborn2·
@bazinian_rite Exactly. Which is an interesting observation for all spiritual pop culture creation, isn't it??
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Amy Welborn
Amy Welborn@amywelborn2·
One of my sons re-watched the Passion of the Christ last night - he hadn't seen it in several years. "It was better than I remembered....but the Mel Gibson-y parts were even worse than I remembered." Him, probably:
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Nathan Douglas@bazinian_rite·
I'm a Millennial convert (c. 2013) and even though the empirical numbers were apparently higher when I entered the Church, I've never seen anything like this in terms of consciousness or cultural effect (and some of that is visible in my own diocese). Again, not the whole story, and maybe too much to do with vibes to be especially useful, but the *sense* that something is very, significantly different needs to be sussed out.
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Nathan Douglas
Nathan Douglas@bazinian_rite·
I think it's a mistake to say nothing hugely significant is happening. The very fact there's so much discourse around this shows that people are noticing something different and trying to make sense of it. We need the data reality check to keep perspective, but data is not the whole story.
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Damian Thompson
Damian Thompson@holysmoke·
A crucial if depressing report from @PillarCatholic. In short, nothing hugely significant is happening.
Amy Welborn@amywelborn2

"This is a positive trend, but it still reflects a Church in which the number of new Catholics is well below the number who entered the Church in 2000, or even 2015." "Across all 16 dioceses The Pillar reviewed, the average increase since 2024 was 83%. However, only two of the 16 dioceses had more new adult Catholics in 2026 than in 2000 —Newark and Washington DC. In fact, Among the 16 dioceses examined, the average diocese had 31% fewer people entering the Church in 2026 as compared to 2000."

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Nathan Douglas@bazinian_rite·
@amywelborn2 I read Cold Heaven on your rec a few years ago. Visiting my alma mater's library today and picking this one up.
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Amy Welborn
Amy Welborn@amywelborn2·
New Brian Moore unlocked, and wow, is it dark, especially if you are, as we say these days, a "creative." What are you willing to sacrifice to get that book published, that gig, to get that post to go viral? amywelborn.wordpress.com/2026/03/28/an-…
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Jonathan Liedl
Jonathan Liedl@JLLiedl·
Didn't want to try to compete with the actual cosmos-altering announcement, but on the morn of the Annunciation my wife delivered some "good news" we wanted to share: Our baby girl Adelaide Marie Tadros Liedl was born! She is *lovely*. A self-indulgent first-time father thread:
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Animation Obsessive
Animation Obsessive@ani_obsessive·
This film was one of the biggest influences on Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Seeing it for the first time, Miyazaki told his friend, "I guess we’re failures, aren’t we?" This is Crac -- the first masterpiece by animator Frédéric Back. We explore: ─➤animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-lamentat…
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Nathan Douglas@bazinian_rite·
I don’t like this take but in Kael’s defense… the Moral Tales were Rohmer’s warm-up act. If she still says this in the 90s, though, there’s no helping her.
pauline kael bot@paulinekaelbot

Eric Rohmer works on a literate, small scale, and maybe because his work is so different in both scope and appeal from movies made for a mass audience, and especially from our movies, he has been acclaimed here as a much greater artist than I think he is. (1972)

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Nathan Douglas
Nathan Douglas@bazinian_rite·
Most of the time, the title is the first real impression of what a film is. Even in a trailer, it is essential to seal whatever interest is stirred up by the images previewed. That pique of a good title then fertilizes the experience of the viewer as the film unfolds.
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Nathan Douglas
Nathan Douglas@bazinian_rite·
One thing I really hate about the current vogue with regard to titling films and TV shows - either ultra minimalist (one word is ideal) or ultra chatty/literal/over the top - is how we've lost the art of using titles to lay subtle structuring principles for a viewer to grab.
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AKTR
AKTR@AKTR33·
Beautiful homily today on how St. Joseph’s life was a failure in worldly terms, foreshadowing the Cross, and recognizing this should inspire us to reexamine our own standards for a successful life.
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Nathan Douglas
Nathan Douglas@bazinian_rite·
@d_a_goodman It’s the inert second half of Part One extended to an entire feature.
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Daniel Goodman
Daniel Goodman@d_a_goodman·
The whole movie really just be dramatic slow-mo, fortune-cookie lines whispered in a breathy voice, and Zendaya staring blankly at the camera.
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Daniel Goodman
Daniel Goodman@d_a_goodman·
Finally watch Dune: Part Two. Snooze fest.
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