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One of Hollywood’s worst weeks in just got worse. David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, The Elephant Man and others who also created the Showtime drama Twin Peaks, has died at 78. His family posted the news on social media.

Thomas Necchi takes on Burroughs, addiction, and the "Ugly Spirit" that animates his work.

Rear projection is much older than cinema. Beginning in the late eighteenth century and reaching a peak of immense popularity in the nineteenth—the era of early industrialization—rear projection, in the form of the magic lantern, was used to display moving images of demons, monsters and ghosts, in evening presentations called phantasmagorias. When Marx wrote of a “phantasmagoric form,” this was the reference he was conjuring. His metaphor therefore linked the dark illusions of cinema’s prehistory to the dark operations capitalism was carrying out on the relations between men. With Kurosawa’s film, the metaphor comes full circle. The cinema of homo economicus ends where it began: in a hell of our own making.

Tell me why I'm wrong, and if not, repudiate this maudlin, caricatured, two-dimensional, simplistic, cliched, sappy, melodramatic, piece of cinematic legend.

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Couldn't find a "TV" or "television" comm (which we need).

What did everyone think of the finale? I liked it! Finally, a good ending for once. Great stuff, good ending. Just what I wanted.

And it ended logically too.

Of course, this is a later set-up for Thrawn.

We got no Palpatine in the end there.

Lots of impressive shots from the cinematography. Well-done angles there.

Glad Omega became a pilot for the Rebel Allliance.

At least some people get their happy ending in the end in this galaxy.

Too much war and too much "dark times."

We need good stuff happening for once, otherwise what they fight for is worthless.

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Check it out.

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Watch.

I can see why some people didn't get into The Green Knight but I love it. I also love The Canterbury Tales and of course A Knight's Tale.

I donno if anyone else got this out of the film but I saw it as a portrayal of the other side of the Golden Rule that I feel that philosophies and society fail to acknowledge.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"

Should you expect to be treated as you have done unto others?

The green scarf is defying that expectation.

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Good stuff. Well, not really. Heavy subject matter, if anything. And the retching sound at the end was all too real for me (as someone that once went through an OD).

Honestly, I do like the subject matter of fascism (and especially neo-fascism nowadays). There's the pre-fascist era, when it was just being developed, from the 1890s onward, and then there's when it was actually coined by Benito Mussolini onward. And then there's post-1945. Operation Paperclip, the rise of the white power movement in the 1980s and the terrorist attacks of the 1990s. And not to mention the "fourth empire" of the Ku Klux Klan during the Obama years.

I live in Virginia and that's where the fiasco at Charlottesville happened with people invoking the "great replacement theory" meme, and you can connect that to "white extinction anxiety" during the late 1800s to 20th century.

The movie evoked all these thoughts for me and the normalization of it. I see it with several of my family members too. We are living through the growth of a new fascism in the United States, I feel.

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This will be me when I'm making a movie:

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This is BIG.

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I'm not surprised, but then again, I am a member of this org lmao

Lily Gladstone has made history as the first Indigenous woman to win Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama at the Golden Globes.

The “Killers of the Flower Moon” star took home the award on January 7 for her portrayal of real-life hero Mollie Burkhart in the Martin Scorsese epic.

“Killers of the Flower Moon” follows the serial killings of Osage Nation members in 1920s Oklahoma, led by organized crime mastermind William Hale (Robert De Niro) and his nephew Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), who was married to oil heiress Mollie (Gladstone). The murders lead Mollie to ask the newly formed FBI for help in solving the case.

Gladstone beat out fellow nominees Annette Bening (“Nyad”), Sandra Huller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Greta Lee (“Past Lives”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”), and Cailee Spaeny (“Priscilla”) to make history at the 2024 Golden Globes.