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In celebration of Akira Kurosawa's birthday, here's Martin Scorsese reflecting on his brilliance and what it was like working with him.

The Master is still the best of PTA, PSH, and Phoenix. A bunch of guys who have done a lot of maybe their “best” stuff.

FYI the ai public backlash is working. companies like Disney are avoiding using AI in their work cus when general population noticed its AI we have a negative outcry. what im trying to say is AI hate is working. keep it up!!! maybe we will see this tech become obsolete.

These are from three separate Andy Weir books. I call em ‘Reddit Player One’ for a reason. I’ve beaten this drum a lot lately but he’s not a good author. He can’t write unique characters, he just keeps writing different versions of the same person.

People have this ridiculous idea that if art offends them that's bad thing. Not only that, they think the offending art should be banned or not made at all. Their brains have been fried by Disney movies and kiddie crap, they don't know what art is

Don't waste your time with terrible AI fruit videos when you can watch Mickey Rooney lead an orchestra of fruits, featuring practical effects by the great George Pal.

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

gandalf the gray and gandalf the white and monty python and the holy grail's black knight and benito mussolini and the blue meanie and cowboy curtis and jambi the genie and robocop, terminator, captain kirk, darth vader, lo pan, superman, every single power ranger, bill s preston and theodore logan, spock, the rock, dock ock and hulk hogan finally got his cowboy ass😭😔

The first poster for Martin McDonagh’s ‘WILD HORSE NINE’ has been released. Starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Mariana di Girólamo, Ailín Salas, Tom Waits and Parker Posey. In theaters this fall.

The way some people (not everyone) are talking about Paul Thomas Anderson like he’s some middling talent that was just discovered yesterday and not one of the industry’s most respected and celebrated filmmakers who’s been making revered masterpieces for thirty years.

here's my twenty favorite 70s movies

One of the most frustrating parts of the human experience is people's lack of curiosity. Refusing to engage with older art, going straight to modern remakes without any thought of even trying the original work, saying you don’t have to play an interactive game to be a fan etc.

“I love B-movies, like Anthony Mann’s 'Crime Wave' (1953), because the creative muscle [of the filmmaker] hasn’t been put through the Hollywood homogenization machine. There is a wildly chaotic rawness to [B-movies]. And they’re not self-important.” --- Kathryn Bigelow

UPDATE: Life is still rough but I am in a position to start getting things back together. I am hoping to be back to streaming by the end of March/beginning of April, depending on how the next couple weeks go. Things are getting better and I hope they continue to improve. 💖

Every PTA movie sparks the same discourse. With licorice pizza, ppl were debating whether the film endorsed the pedophilic relationship despite characters IN THE MOVIE pointing out how weird and creepy it is. Some people just aren’t smart enough to engage with morally complex art

He's Ryan Coogler's roommate and close friend. Race should not be the determinative factor of everything in life. People of different races can collaborate to make beautiful things. It's ok.

Del Toro’s Sensei in Battle was extraordinary in that he never demonstrated his martial arts skills in fighting, but in his cast of mind. He never lost his cool. He delegated & directed his people. He trusted them. He didn’t panic. He didn’t worry. He acted - with capable calm.

Train Dreams might not have won any awards last night. But this film is like an antidote to our dopamine-addicted world. Slow down your scroll for a moment and just sit with this for a moment. Here’s to the slow work of beauty in transforming the human heart.