Or we should go one step further back and revisit Delicatessen, which has long been one of my favorites. I think I enjoyed it more than City of Lost Children.

Oh, yes, The City of Lost Children pre-Amelie was already big in certain circles, especially because of the look of the film, the Gaultier costumes, the score, the Miette-One pairing, etc. I think it got even more attention after Amelie was released, but my teenage kids aren’t interested in seeing these movies partly b…

It actually lended the performance more authenticity, considering how the half time shows always seem so pre-packaged and produced.  I’m sure she didn’t want it preserved for posterity, however.

A country album makes sense as a follow-up to renaissance, because that was an album exploration of Black artists creating dance music genres. The new album, act ii, will do the same for country music because the genre wouldn’t exist without the songs/instruments/music from Black enslaved people in the South.

Thanks for confirming that you know nothing about what the movie was actually going to be like. Or for some weird but convincing satire. Not sure which is going on here, to be honest; it’s getting harder and harder to tell.

I mean, “Larry David was being kind of an asshole” isn’t a take I think most people would disagree with, here or in general.

Ehhhhh, Larry David punching Elmo this time wasn’t very funny. Like, I get the bit, but it didn’t land. The punch did. But not the joke. Wrong audience, bad timing. Which I think is a fairer criticism than “kids will be sad that Elmo got hit.”

Elmo incident aside, Larry David sure has been acting like a miserable prick in interviews he’s doing on his farewell tour and not in that “haha like on his show” way.

She wasn’t fired, though. Her contract was up & they didn’t renew it.

shhh i wanna see him have to hire back those twitter employees he fired for criticizing him

And though becoming the first person to win AOTY four times is a unique achievement, it’s also entirely not unique because she’s done it three times before.

“If you don’t support the mass murder I like, you’re supporting the other mass murder” has always been a rancid take. I just love being lectured about how supporting human rights means I’m actually supporting Hamas because I don’t consider Palestinians as a whole to be ineligible for human rights.

So there are two…

Half of me wants him to spend the rest of his life, however long, paying for the bad things he’s done to others and to America. Half of me wishes him to stroke out and die tomorrow. Which is better?

I don’t even have kids and I can say that I’d be super uncomfortable if one rich parent paid for all of my kids sports expenses. It’s kids sports, people. Reel it all the way tf in. If you’re posting on a 12-year-old’s IG, you’re completely unhinged. 

Rightwing hatred of Taylor Swift is so unhinged. She’s incredibly inoffensive, “a Leftist” in almost no way. She is not a radical, and advocates pretty boilerplate centrist Dem positions. But the Right has become so insane that a woman they can’t bully pushing back even an inch is now the Antichrist.

I, for one, can’t wait to be told how these comments are not only so much worse than anything Trump said about her, but that they retroactively justify Trump’s conduct.

AI has no more inherent right to free expression than your toaster. It also has no self to express and no ability to express at all. It can only regurgitate.

I just keep thinking back to Billy Wilder, who always maintained that color film was a mistake, and the lack of color was an intrinsic part of the film artform that it became something lesser without. The Apartment is the last Best Picture winner to be black and white simply because the director preferred it to color…

The AI people all say if they had to pay to license the content it’s trained on, it would be impossible. In which case, I feel like that’s fine. I can’t do all kinds of things because they’d be illegal.

I really hope this lawsuit (or one of the hundreds of others) is successful and sets a legal precedent that AI can only be trained on work that is explicitly licensed (and paid for). I suspect it may be too late to stop the inevitable tide of shit, but it would be some protection for artists.