The Mission was shown in 35mm in Taiwan, so did they find the negative?
"Very grateful to Mr Chiu Fu-sheng for taking the trouble to send The Mission to Tokyo Laboratory after filming where the 35mm film has been preserved in a temperature and humidity regulated environment."

The narrative structures of traditional western fantasy have primed our imaginations for imperialist apologia, writes Eden Kupermintz

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.@jeezluisjorge.bsky.social writes on the relationship between bodybuilding and pulp fantasy

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This does, in fact, explain a lot

Crossed 1500 albums on my Bandcamp collection. Follow along here as I continue to experience the golden age of metal (I am 1000% serious when I say that this is the greatest era to listen to metal)

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the shrouds is some of cronenberg's funniest work. loved it. unnerving confluence of grief, paranoia, and equally invasive/pervasive tech. felt somewhere between a DeLillo and later period Gibson novel, and crucially with no resolution.

Goodbye to a true visionary, I'm sorry I hated your film as a kid, I love it as an adult

I'll try and not to suffer, Mr. Lynch

Thanks to all for your kind remembrances on this awful day. Words will come later. Only feelings at the moment. Mourn and remember him but don’t forget to celebrate too. We won’t see his like again. The man from another place has gone home. #DavidLynch #TwinPeaks

I think TP:TR being 18 hours has made people overlook this, but: Lynch spent most of the 21st c. unable to get funding. At a certain point he seemed to give up entirely on getting a feature funded. Lynch! The best US filmmaker of the last 50 years! What is the industry good for?

didn’t quite manage to get this out before the new year but here’s a new Electric Trio for you all! featuring a silent romantic drama, a surreal noir mystery, and a no-frills car chase actioner

Great piece that I think correctly identifies the film's engagement with the colonialism of Israel/Zionism, which is: not really taking a stance at all, besides paralleling the project's allure with the American Dream (however critically).
Whole thing cloaks itself in a scrim of cheap ambiguity.

I went long on THE BRUTALIST, a catastrophically amateurish feat of cinephilic pretension. I have not loathed a movie this much in quite some time

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Hey friends, thought I would drop my latest Substack post: on horror, American spaces, and the post-industrial landscape. I was pretty proud of this one and I hope you enjoy
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