Citizen Keith
@citizenkeith
because life is the way we audition for God. let us pray that we all get the job.
Removed O Brother, Where Art Thou? For The Other Side of the Wind as the last selection
Ranking podcasts reminds me of when men assign a number to a woman's looks... something I hoped we left behind
Diary of a Country Priest (1951) "It’s a ridiculous notion that films should be made to succeed right away, that if they don’t succeed right away they will never succeed. Films are like houses that withstand time magnificently—if they are well constructed." --- Robert Bresson
The first and last 5 minutes of My Dinner With Andre, where it's just Wallace Shawn going through the New York streets and thinking to himself -- I could watch 2 hours of that
Me arriving at liberal arts school in 2007
Read this account by a British surgeon of treating a woman in Gaza shot by a quadcopter while breastfeeding her child in a tent and then try to imagine the general mentality of the person piloting the drone who hunted her down and then pulled the trigger.
not at all. it is fascinating to learn how in the history of the arts a genius emerges because he could not create what was, up to that time, "art." one example, Jackson Pollock. just as Beckett understood that he could not out-Joyce James Joyce, or Andy Warhol that he could not…
Expert-level Nobokovian reverse-backhanded compliment. If posting had not existed, Oates would have invented it.
Clint Eastwood made Play Misty for Me at 40. Éric Rohmer made The Sign of Leo at 39. Elaine May made A New Leaf at 38. Barbara Loden made Wanda at 38. Bill Gunn made Ganja & Hess at 39. Robert Bresson made Les anges du péché at 42. Marguerite Duras made Destroy, She Said at 55.
Orson Welles made Citizen Kane at 26 years old PTA made Boogie Nights at 26 Kubrick made Paths of Glory at 26 Ryan Coogler made Fruitvale Station at 26 Chantal Akerman made Jeanne Dielman at 24 Jean-Luc Godard made Breathless at 29
The Searchers (1956 dir. John Ford) (Cinematography by Winton C. Hoch)
Francis Ford Coppola says he’s adding deleted dreams sequences and re-editing MEGALOPOLIS to make it “more weird” “It was [originally] more weird. I own the picture, I can do anything I want with it.” tinyurl.com/up3639y9
"It's too bad she won't live... but then again, who does?"
Cmon lmao
i am endlessly impressed by how effortlessly poetic theo von is able to be in a conversation. bro just said to joaquin, “thanks for coming on. it’s rare to look at a piece of art and then talk to the paint.” that’s a bar.
What a time to be alive. From the NYT: “Italian Americans, for and Against Mamdani, Square Off in New York” Also: how does one acquire a “Hot Italians for Zohran” shirt/hat/button? Same for “Paisans for Zohran!”