Agnès Varda, Pragmatic Dreamer
review of new Agnès Varda biography
Cannes 2023: Asteroid City review
"It’s as if he wants to convince us that behind all the origami is a raw human heart, so he fridges a wife and hopes that’ll stand as a placeholder for emotion."
When Joss Whedon Was Our Master
as much as I recognize Whedon's shortcomings, I really didn't connect with this specific criticism—seems to be arguing that particular "realist" techniques ("show don't tell") should be valued over their alternatives... e.g. I don't agree that stories are (or should be) "about letting the audience disappear into a world you created."
No, It's Not Some Fever Dream. Saturday's Warrior Really Happened.
"As it turns out, Pam’s case of Wheelchair was terminal."
The First 3D Digital Film Created by Ed Catmull, Co-Founder of Pixar (1970) | Open Culture
great moments in cinema history: two interpolated faces making 😲 faces at each other
Four Steve Jobs Myths about Pixar
"In short, the look and feel and vision of Pixar all came from inside and predated Jobs by at least a decade. Steve Jobs was a crucially important money man for the company, and later a business dealmaker of the first order for it. He was responsible for the look and feel and vision of Apple, but not of Pixar. The marketing message seems to have been crafted to make it seem that what was true for Apple was also true for Pixar - one genius fits all - but that was not the case as the details make clear."
Gentle Cinema, a list of films by Doug Dillaman • Letterboxd
"Pleasant people doing pleasant things and there's not much drama and you just kind of feel lovely about the world." incl some of my favorites like totoro, paterson, tampopo, whisper of the heart
BAM | NYC Horror
good list of nyc-set horror films that aren't on the regular lists
Primer Timeline : coolguides
plot explanation - Can someone explain the sequence of events in 'Primer'? - Movies & TV Stack Exchange
Blind Spot: The Fabulous Kindness of Amelie Poulain?
"But this way of thinking suggests that the blind are lacking something in their relationship with the world which they must rely on the kind-hearted to give them. That a world without sight is a world without knowledge, sensation and community. That sight is better than no sight. This is perhaps not a surprising reaction from a film-maker. But what if this blind man relates to the world in a wholly different way? What if the pictures he gets from hearing, touching, smelling and tasting the world are just as fulfilling as Amélie's and Jeunet's fetishization of vision?"