Cold war anxiety mixed with advancing technophobia. Also, check out Colossus: The Forbin Project for a even earlier example.
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Cold war anxiety mixed with advancing technophobia. Also, check out Colossus: The Forbin Project for a even earlier example.
In fairness, what Musk is doing can more aptly be described as creating “Artificial Intelligence” than what LLMs actually are.
“Who doesn’t feel nervous in a world such as ours, sir?”
Jacques Demy is a wizard. Best thing about this (to me) is the central conceit is played so straight by every character that it immediately gets out of the way and allows the film to interrogate social norms, exploitative industry, and opportunistic culture without feeling contrived.
#nw: A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973) by Jacques Demy
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
I watched All That Jazz on Friday night and I am still thinking about it today. What an incredible movie.
Now this? THIS is art.
Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.
I’m all for advancing artistic medium, but I feel like having dry leaves and cloth apples flying at your head is the opposite of immersion? Like it *seems* immersive if you don’t think about it for more than 5 seconds. The future of cinema was apparently in Gallagher’s act this whole time.
But sometimes…
Oldy but a goody. Fuck fascists.
They often like to call it ableist when I say that, which of course is not my intent. If you physically or mentally cannot get out there on the streets, then clearly it isn’t about you. But those folks are almost never experiencing a disability. They just like to redirect away from their inaction.
Ya and god forbid they get offline and do something meaningful IRL as opposed to the self-delusion that sharing opinion articles online makes any significant impact.
No it means it’s already fucked and you’ve done well
@fulciseyefetish.bsky.social 👀
“Don’t overreact” Me: 🖤
Four words that every man wants to wake up to 😍
Ex: Bells-only dance party, he ripped her skin off, her veins gave birth to minions rising from the maggots. Headless chickens walk on four legs, eyes in their neck holes, beaming an evil force at the Buddha But noise kills all evil And the needles exit his eyes And he is one with all
My notes from our next podcast episode read like a violent psychopath’s diary. This film is batshit insane.
Yeah the dog is perched attentively at the window, smiffing liberally and watching the people and dogs as they go by
It’s so nice!
MOVIEJAWN invites you to our our Fall Zine Release Party and Satanic Soirée at Monster Vegan! On Sept 27 starting at 12pm until 4:30pm, we will be slingin' zines with @displacedsnail.bsky.social and @halothanic.bsky.social. FREE Screening of PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE at 1:30pm, ticket required.
What happened to this movie? I loved it when I caught it online during CFF 2024
w/o downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
My favorite movies: * Julie Newmar’s “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything!” * Alice B. Toklas’s “I Love You!” * Tad Hamilton’s “Win a Date with!”
It’s time for another round of Sell Some Prints, Pay The Rent! If I sell just 10 prints a day for the next few days I’ll be a very happy, and much relieved, girl. Any more than that and maybe I’ll buy myself a sandwich. www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products
Post a movie GIF from the year you were born
*NEW EPISODE ALERT* Joe and Graham explore the world of teenage vengeance with Mitzi Peirone's Saint Clare, a brand new thriller out on VOD. The fellas discuss Bella Thorne, the landscape of digital vs physical media, and wonder where has Frank Whaley been? #FilmSky open.spotify.com/episode/3lYm...
Love this one. Might be my favorite Stuart Gordon. “It ate him. Bit… off his head. Like a gingerbread man!”
Yes, it's true, it's SALO DAY ON INDIEWIRE! www.indiewire.com/features/int...
It comes more true everyday
When I went to Vegas in 2017. Simpler times.
Mr. Static, the brand new short from award-winning filmmaker Mike Williamson (In the Wall, Deathly) was a hit on the festival scene last year, and we're excited to bring you the online premiere today. In Mr. Static, which stars Christina Elizabeth Smith, Bill Watterson and Josh Petersdorf as the…
We all know that Westerns aren't accurate representations of Old West history. Having said that, some Westerns go so far as to take historical events & have the characters do the exact opposite of what they did in reality. Here's a🧵 of some examples* *Read alt text before commenting
One of my favorite discoveries from doing @filmsatfirstsight.bsky.social podcast. Check out the episode here: filmsatfirstsight.libsyn.com/episode-39-t...
Don’t BS and drive!
Excited to see Highest 2 Lowest at Bryn Mawr Film Institute today with this idiot @fulciseyefetish.bsky.social Here is a picture of us when we were still friends
Rarely have I heard @merzkyshoom.bsky.social happier than when Passion of the Coop showed up at his house. Bring yourself the same joy and snag a piece of wonderful art 🤩
I’ve sat with this for 24 hours and I’m still unsure how I feel about it. It’s a great film, but it’s a tough watch. It is an interesting work, but it meanders and stumbles over itself. It has incredibly real characters that feel over the top. It’s unique but weirdly feels pedestrian.
Spending this morning with the Labyrinth solitaire game.
I have no idea how I feel about this one
Since most people will not use AI with the intention of verifying it’s returned results, it’s basically the ”I’m Felling Lucky” button from old Google except it combines the top 5 results and then randomly makes up it own shit and sprinkles it in too.
nw: A Woman Under the Influence (1974), dir: John Cassavetes
Come to phoenixville!
This movie blew my 16 yo mind. Nowadays I’d say it’s pretty good.
I drove around Ocean City MD after a break up listening to this and crying for an entire day. Must’ve been summer of 2010 or 2011? Btw, my favorite song is probably Beside You in Time… or Me, I’m Not… or Sanctified… alright I can’t pick one 5 more just ran through my head haha
I’m on a film podcast and kinda fit the description of the perp, BUT the whole angle is that the host is a certified film buff and I (co-host) am the novice. I’ve learned quite a bit in the 2.5 years I’ve been doing it but I don’t hop on a mic and start talking like I can teach film studies.
Beautiful score. Some great action. Heartbreaking story.
nw: Exiled (2006), dir: Johnnie To
We are taking a mid-August break to rest and recuperate. We'll be back next week with two brand spanking new episodes. Enjoy the week and go watch a movie! #FilmSky
Now watching for the first time: Blow Out (1981) Dir: Brian De Palma
Now watching Tilda Swinton, Amy Madigan, Frances Fisher, Karen Sillas… great performances from some of the best actors
Our final bit of @chattfilmfest.org coverage drops on Mon. and it's a doozy! @rachelshatto.bsky.social from @moviejawn.com joined us to talk about so many great films. Let's highlight some of the films that we'll be diving into. 1st up is @smashism.bsky.social's Pater Noster and the Mission of Light
That fight scene is truly what elevates the game (plus Platinum Games’ stellar hack and slash combat)
Join us and a couple of special guests, @cinemafromage.bsky.social from the Bloody Good Horror podcast and @nohungryghosts.bsky.social from @silverscream.bsky.social, as we discuss @deafcrocodile.bsky.social's new release, Freckled Max and the Spooks. #FilmSky open.spotify.com/episode/2e6G...
Thank you 🙏
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Oh and Black Mirror episodes around the subject as well.
Looking for any deep cuts in the “human & AI/robot love story” realm. Any media - film, tv, book, short story, music, music video… doesn’t matter. I know Ex Machina, HER, Companion… and then I just go blank. I assume there’s got to be plenty of material out there.
The second most devastating shooting to take place next to an ice cream truck
Every once in a while I think I might be starting to have a LSD flashback, and then I realize I’m just getting sick and my muscles are aching.
My favorite reddit thread happening rn:
Government is not a for-profit business. Government is not a for-profit business. Government is not a for-profit business.
Watched this during Chattanooga Film Fest last year (virtual) and really enjoyed it. I was disappointed that I wasn’t able to share my enthusiasm with a crowd. Love that it’s getting a bd release though
Hard to stay silent when you receive a @moviejawn.com package. Always a pleasure and this one does not disappoint. Thanks for the work you do. Excited to dive into the article on Joan Crawford. I just picked up a copy of Mommie Dearest last week and have been meaning to dive into her films.
I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
Weird day
nw: Family Enforcer (1976) Dir: Ralph De Vito #filmsky #moviesky 🎬📼🍿📽️🎥
nw: Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972) Dir: Lucio Fulci #filmsky
Weekend Haul. Very happy considering I managed to score this for just about $100, and Mirror made up half of that bill. What’s your favorite film in this image? #filmsky
Bucket List: -1
(2/2) …surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler…” etc. It’s feels amateurish in a way that only a master could reproduce, if you know what I mean…
(1/2) And it almost feels intentional. 2 pages in and he gives us: “…save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set:
Feels like a very different style from the later 50s and 60s. I’ve never gotten this vibe from Updike, Salinger, Bradbury, etc. Of course not Hemingway either… It feels more romantic than modern. Which I could understand as a choice reflecting the narrator’s intentions and want for sympathy.
Lucio Fulci’s The New York Ripper was released today in Italy in 1982 #horror #filmsky
Nothing pisses off the Severance fanbase more than telling them that Milchick is a perma-innie
Kraftwerk this Thursday in Philly. A bucket list moment for me. Can’t wait.
Something about it is rather exhausting. And I’m particularly loquacious myself. But not even Tom Robbins’ extensive multi-page, overwrought descriptions feel as tiresome as the way in which Humbert conveys his story.
nw: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Haven’t watched this since it originally released. Damn I love Stephen Root.
Damn straight. Everything is potentially addictive. Everything.
Now reading: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov I’ve been meaning to read this book for 20 years. Only a few pages in and it already feels a bit try-hard w verbose passages and such. Still not sure if it’s the character or Nabokov’s style. #booksky #fiction #novels
Drop something RED
What time is now?
What is the coolest shot in movies? #filmsky
Feeling exactly the same these days. It makes me spiral. I need to reconnect with the things that make me want to fight. Not just with the things I need to fight.
Going to watch Flow tonight with my sweetheart. Feeling rather emotional these days so hoping I lose my composure in only the best ways.
They were good folk! Caught them at a airing of The Crow at a local drive-in. They were part of the punk rock flea market.
If you see this, post a photo from your device with no explanation.
Whoops brain fart lol. Yeah he even continues it on the ride home it’s completely ridiculous.
It’s brutal. Apart from the rampant and obvious sexism, I had never realized just how embarassingly long Corey Haim speaks with that black/urban dialect.
Picked this up a month or so ago and had forgot just how poor taste this film is… in a mostly charming way… mostly.
“…intelligence is the ability of a living creature to perform pointless or unnatural acts.” “Yes! That’s us!” - Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
