I'd heard of this but I didn't know it was so fascinating. Gotta check it out.

hard agree, my dude

are you talking about the black bloc?

I mostly agree, however I wonder if that flattens certain unique aspects of Catholicism that can be ideologically, if not historically, retrofitted. Because the Reformation was about the interpretation of texts, early Protestant writing actually was significantly different from those by people who were writing before…

Great article—I love wallpaper. I can call a Paul McGuigan thing just from the wallpaper, which very aggressively put his movies in very weird dream-spaces. Not that he's a great director, but its nice to see baroque wallpapering that isn't just twee. (See also: Amour Fou)

It was actually very good. I was going to see The Neon Demon the day after I saw The Shallows, but then I just went to The Shallows again.

Thanks, I didn't know about that. That would certainly do it. I wonder if Rosenbaum just thought Kieslowski needed an interpreter—he seemed to dig Heaven.

Lord, though, I need to watch these again. I binged them on Facets' garbage transfers five years ago and I only remember three of them with any clarity, but I remember being blown away. I get this weird sensation that Kieslowski's a little out of fashion, but I hope I'm mistaken.

"the decalogue is bad, don't see it"
—Bilge Ebiri

Maybe Van Sant's most underseen film. It never received a US release, but I hear Cinelicious is doing a 4.35K restoration! Here's a clip:

Yeah, jump scares only work for me when I expect them (or, alternately, dread them and then one never comes). Without that someone may as well have dropped a pot in the kitchen.

Quite possibly the scariest moment in film history.

I have my tumblr prepped for McCona e s t h e t i c

I always figured Van Sant's Achilles' heel was straight-up dilettantism, but maybe that's just because I want to preserve sentimentality as itself neutral—even if in Van Sant's hands it turns to schmaltz (not neutral). But I think his dilettantism extends to his relationship to his public, trying out different modes…

I kind of think the opening of Finding Forrester is one of the better bits of his filmography, even if it's a little ethnographic for my taste.

You just don't have a good theory of what "fuck" means in this context, which is why the comment of yours I responded to is, to be generous, useless.

good lord that is on point

Fuck Ezra Pound.

It was my first one. Are the rest better?

BvS was very good