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Understanding biscuits' opinions on trans people much better now that I know he believes strong jawlines turn men illiterate and right wing and that he thinks not infrequently about beautiful androgynous males with delicate features. What twink hurt you so, biscuits?

I'm fascinated by why Carlson is ingratiating himself with the youth. It can't be accidental that that picture of him with Jerry Garcia also resurfaced recently

Which doesn't even make any sense in actual fact because in my experience Zyn is so ubiquitous as to be heavily used by people not at all in that scene or who even actively hate it, which probably goes to show the potency and relevance of the "leftists" frantically naming every phenomenon they...

As non-confrontationally as possible, and your beliefs about Hamas aside, shouldn't this metric apply to any country with a politically potent faction actively killing or calling, even obliquely, for the killing of a protected group

Loosely related, saw this many years ago and enjoyed it https://letterboxd.com/film/in-the-fade/

I haven't read Zizek yet

I've had multiple philosophy courses start with Heraclitus' fragments and Plato's Symposium. But that's only if you want to start at the beginning so to speak. You'd probably like Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra. If you're interested in Marx start here

Seems the French have stolen your thunder yet again. https://www.politico.eu/article/france-election-national-assembly-voters-marine-le-pen-far-right-national-rally-jordan-bardella-emmanuel-macron-jean-luc-melenchon-french-politics/

I'm going with the opening shootout of The Wild Bunch and the house burning down in The Sacrifice off the top of my head. The Komm Susser Todd sequence in End of Evangelion is a different kind of pure cinema but is absolutely a pure expression of animated cinema as a culmination and consummation...

Watching Mad Men again. The greatest show of all time and the end of a golden age?

I mean I think we're talking more about films released in the 21st century regardless of setting. There's certainly an interesting conversation to be had about the trends in science fiction over the last 10 years or so, with Julia Ducournau and both Cronenbergs' work especially. Really excited...

I'm surprised no one's mentioned some of the slow cinema practitioners of the 21st century. Can't think of a clever name for this list but my contributions would be the works of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jia Zhangke, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

An interesting flipside to this - not toxic nor exemplary, but perhaps meditative or redemptive? Notably the two examples that immediately jump to my mind are First Reformed and You Were Never Really Here, both from auteurs established in the 20th century. Essentially films following isolatos...

Much of A24 falls under this. Subsuming some of the great filmmakers they've put on the map under the name of a distributor I think devalues their work (like the Safdies) by placing it alongside the dreck you're talking about, so while I don't disagree with @catalog I think it's worth the effort...

I'm not familiar with any of those writers, I'm sure I'd agree with you if I were

Figured out the light meter. Will keep you all posted on my progress. I'm big on the Hudson River School as far as landscape paintings, but my goal is to create images as evocative of Kelly Reichardt and Larry Gottheim, to name a few, as possible.

The thing I find myself most intimidated by is picking the actual film to use; are there any you'd recommend for someone currently wanting to take pictures of the east coast of Scotland? I also haven't yet figured out how to use the built-in light meter, but I may just give up and use an app or...

Going to start film photography since a friend gave me an old Praktica LB and film as a gift. Any tips for beginngers? I'm mostly interested in landscapes.