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Alan Mattli retweeted
That's fair. And I totally get that some well-known filmmakers don't get discussed much among certain groups. (I got a film studies degree without anyone ever saying the words "Ingmar Bergman" to me.) My issue is with the weirdly confrontational attitude that nowadays often accompanies declarations of ignorance. It's this very strange (and imo ruinous) modern tendency to assume that if one hasn't heard of something/someone, then it must somehow be suspect/not good. I get it every year when I share my Top 10/20 list. A bunch of people saying "Never heard of these!" as if that's the end of the discussion. Lists/recommendations should help us discover things, not confirm our biases or congratulate us for our taste.
Alan Mattli retweeted
Everytime I watch a classic horror film I think. Why isnt this 8 hours long with a cliffhanger every hour?
Alan Mattli retweeted
Last night I gave a lecture on La Jetee to a prison classroom and basically everyone in the class loved the movie. People who try to tell you that difficult or experimental art is only for educated nerds are wrong, that’s just shit that giant corporations want you to believe.
Late to the party, I know, but that's how it goes sometimes. Anyway, today I learned these are all the same actor.
ALT Bum in "Mulholland Drive"
ALT Joy von Troken in "The Princess Diaries"
ALT Valak in "The Nun"
Alan Mattli retweeted
RIP Eric Bauza, one of the greatest of all time. Did almost every single one of those voices in Coyote vs Acme. Someone who clearly loved these characters so much that he wasn't just doing Mel Blanc, he made them his own.
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Alan Mattli retweeted
These people seem to think Kurosawa was making indie arthouse films and not well crafted populist cinema lol. Same thing with spaghetti westerns, our standards for blockbusters have gotten so low people think its impossible for something to have mass appeal and also not look shit
Alan Mattli retweeted
I would say having not seen the film yet but loving documentaries that the death of doc filmmaking came when we taught audiences that documentaries only exist as an extension of journalism and not a legitimate branch of the art of moving pictures. The only rule is to document.
As good an opportunity as any to give a shoutout to Werner Herzog's THE WHITE DIAMOND – a blatantly embellished documentary that doubles as a commentary on the imperialist filmmaking tradition it's operating in.
Alan Mattli retweeted
While it’s true some people dismiss astrology on misogynist grounds, I’m afraid that Le Guin said it best.
Thinking about this bit from AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS for no particular reason.
ALT But a number of the passengers were at once attracted by the engineer's proposal, and Colonel Proctor was especially delighted, and found the plan a very feasible He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers without bridges, by putting on full steam; and many of those present avowed themselves of the engineer's mind. "We have fifty chances out of a hundred of getting over," said one. "Eighty ! ninety !" Passepartout was astounded, and, though ready to attempt anything to get over Medicine Creek, thought the experiment proposed a little too American. " Besides," thought he, "there's a still more simple way, and it does not even occur to any of these people! Sir," said he aloud to one of the passengers, "the engineer's plan seems to me a little dangerous, but--"
Alan Mattli retweeted
“In situations like this” what the fuck are you talking about. Are you Wile E Coyote
Alan Mattli retweeted
On the one hand, Israel says NAZA is a totally fictitious “blood libel”
On the other hand, Israel says the soldiers in NAZA revealed “highly classified information” and “a breach in information security”
Which one is it?
PM Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's military, Shin Bet and attorney general on Sunday to reveal the identities of soldiers and officers interviewed in the documentary "NAZA" and prosecute them for "serious information security offenses, criminal defamation and harm to Israel's diplomatic and security interests."
In his letter, Netanyahu wrote that "there is concern that those involved in the defamatory film committed serious criminal offenses by exposing highly classified information and creating a breach in the information security of a highly sensitive intelligence unit." | @jonathanlis1
🔗Read more: haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…
Alan Mattli retweeted
my most "pretentious" take is that i kinda don't wanna listen to you talk about films if you haven't watched any made before the 1980s
Alan Mattli retweeted
the Catholic Church racking up PR wins by saying shit like “we shouldn’t bring back public executions” and “your Claude app isn’t sentient”
What exactly does AI make people see that they could not see without it?
Ava DuVernay explains why AI was used in new documentary '14th:' "People should see this" trib.al/1ybSWqF
Alan Mattli retweeted
Every movie headline now is like
“Respected filmmaker explains why they used AI in new film”
and it’s a pic of them going
