Kaja
@friesnwhispers.bsky.social
post-production person in Vancouver, BC
(Banner image is a painting by Portland-based artist David Rosenak)
(Banner image is a painting by Portland-based artist David Rosenak)
Original 1991 B5 Chirashi Handbill of David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch that I finally got framed. The artwork is by Hajime Sorayama, a renowned Japanese illustrator. I was so glad to find it reasonably priced on eBay. The B2 sized poster is way out of my price range and much harder to come by 😝
December 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Original 1991 B5 Chirashi Handbill of David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch that I finally got framed. The artwork is by Hajime Sorayama, a renowned Japanese illustrator. I was so glad to find it reasonably priced on eBay. The B2 sized poster is way out of my price range and much harder to come by 😝
Quick question, since the media isn’t bothering: if you’re the producer of a film up for the best intl feature Oscar AND on a film festival jury where some of the competing films are also being considered for the best intl feature, isn’t that a conflict of interest?
December 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Quick question, since the media isn’t bothering: if you’re the producer of a film up for the best intl feature Oscar AND on a film festival jury where some of the competing films are also being considered for the best intl feature, isn’t that a conflict of interest?
It’s such a shame that this isn’t playing in theatres in Vancouver right now! I don’t want to watch this at home for the first time.
Tonight’s viewing. This movie fucking rules. @shudder.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It’s such a shame that this isn’t playing in theatres in Vancouver right now! I don’t want to watch this at home for the first time.
You know how sometimes the wind currents are so powerful that sand from the Sahara desert can end up in Florida? Today the wind currents brought us a hefty whiff of bullshit from Saudi Arabia. Bullshit and sand share similar properties if you really think about it.
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
You know how sometimes the wind currents are so powerful that sand from the Sahara desert can end up in Florida? Today the wind currents brought us a hefty whiff of bullshit from Saudi Arabia. Bullshit and sand share similar properties if you really think about it.
This is obscene. I hope the deal chokes at the regulatory approval stage (it likely won’t since the US is a lawless wasteland). I don’t have words to say how upset this makes me.
Netflix is officially buying Warner Bros. Discovery and HBO Max in an $82.7 billion deal.
The announcement came after a weeks-long bidding war that pitted the streaming giant against David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance and Comcast.
The announcement came after a weeks-long bidding war that pitted the streaming giant against David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance and Comcast.
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. and HBO Max in $82.7 Billion Deal
It's official: Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery announced an agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO.
variety.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is obscene. I hope the deal chokes at the regulatory approval stage (it likely won’t since the US is a lawless wasteland). I don’t have words to say how upset this makes me.
I’d be profoundly disappointed in the film community at large if Mr. Panahi ended up in prison.
Iran has sentenced in absentia Palme d'Or-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi to one year in prison and a travel ban over "propaganda activities" against the country, his lawyer told AFP on Monday.
The travel ban is two years long, lawyer Mostafa Nili told AFP.
📸 Miguel Medina
The travel ban is two years long, lawyer Mostafa Nili told AFP.
📸 Miguel Medina
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I’d be profoundly disappointed in the film community at large if Mr. Panahi ended up in prison.
Imagine watching UHF as a teen and vibing along with it, thinking that maybe one day you’ll also be sticking it to greedy business men, only to become one many years later ☹️
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Imagine watching UHF as a teen and vibing along with it, thinking that maybe one day you’ll also be sticking it to greedy business men, only to become one many years later ☹️
This almost feels like a coda of a Herzog movie, all it needs is a dancing chicken 😝
90s Europop on a Dutch Street Organ
YouTube video by The Mechanical Music Man
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This almost feels like a coda of a Herzog movie, all it needs is a dancing chicken 😝
Hard to believe this came out 25 years ago, feels more modern than contemporary cinema. Today we get hollowed out imitations stripped of all the humanity that have none of the emotional sincerity or interest in the characters, which are observed condescendingly from above under the guise of empathy.
YIYI - Official 4K Restoration Trailer
YouTube video by Janus Films
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Hard to believe this came out 25 years ago, feels more modern than contemporary cinema. Today we get hollowed out imitations stripped of all the humanity that have none of the emotional sincerity or interest in the characters, which are observed condescendingly from above under the guise of empathy.
The line up is so good!! It’s going to take a lot of willpower to resist booking a flight to Marrakech (incidentally, I have time off for US Thanksgiving).
variety.com/2025/film/gl...
variety.com/2025/film/gl...
‘Dead Man’s Wire,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Hamnet,’ ‘A Private Life’ to Play at Marrakech Film Festival
The Marrakech Intl. Film Festival has revealed the lineup for its 22nd edition, which runs Nov. 28 to Dec. 6.
variety.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The line up is so good!! It’s going to take a lot of willpower to resist booking a flight to Marrakech (incidentally, I have time off for US Thanksgiving).
variety.com/2025/film/gl...
variety.com/2025/film/gl...
This sketch has ruined British Realism for me 😝
Most Awful Family in Britain / Icelandic Honey Week ~ Monty Python
YouTube video by beadbop
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This sketch has ruined British Realism for me 😝
Milli Vanilli giving back their Grammys
Milli Vanilli press conference (1990)
YouTube video by PastVid
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Milli Vanilli giving back their Grammys
From the set of Jacques Tourneur’s The Comedy of Terrors, they’re taking a coffin break.
October 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
From the set of Jacques Tourneur’s The Comedy of Terrors, they’re taking a coffin break.
Philippe Lesage’s Who By Fire is to Québec in the same way that Michael Roemer’s films are to New England: the location is a character in it self. Loved the ensemble cast, Balthazar Lab’s cinematography is gorgeous (shot digitally, with Panavision lenses from the 70s). Watched on Apple TV.
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Philippe Lesage’s Who By Fire is to Québec in the same way that Michael Roemer’s films are to New England: the location is a character in it self. Loved the ensemble cast, Balthazar Lab’s cinematography is gorgeous (shot digitally, with Panavision lenses from the 70s). Watched on Apple TV.
I recently discovered this track and I’m head over heals in love with it!! I had no idea that Chicago had a jazz/funk phase.
Street Player (2003 Remaster)
YouTube video by Chicago - Topic
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I recently discovered this track and I’m head over heals in love with it!! I had no idea that Chicago had a jazz/funk phase.
In memory of Terence Stamp, I’m sharing this fascinating documentary where I learned that he and Francis Bacon were lovers and that their relationship had a great influence on the art direction of Pasolini’s Teorema.
youtu.be/rgYaTKH8L7M?...
youtu.be/rgYaTKH8L7M?...
Francis Bacon - A Brush with Violence (BBC)
YouTube video by Culture Vulture Rises
youtu.be
August 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In memory of Terence Stamp, I’m sharing this fascinating documentary where I learned that he and Francis Bacon were lovers and that their relationship had a great influence on the art direction of Pasolini’s Teorema.
youtu.be/rgYaTKH8L7M?...
youtu.be/rgYaTKH8L7M?...
More scientific inquiry needs to be done about bullshit. There is so much of it being produced every day that the sheer mass of it transcends the metaphysical into the tangible, kind of like a hygroelectric charge. Maybe it too can be harnessed — into manure, for example & sold to farmers.
August 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
More scientific inquiry needs to be done about bullshit. There is so much of it being produced every day that the sheer mass of it transcends the metaphysical into the tangible, kind of like a hygroelectric charge. Maybe it too can be harnessed — into manure, for example & sold to farmers.
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Frankly disappointing that the future tech we are promised is “Microsoft Teams in your car” and “things you write or create will be stolen without credit”
July 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Frankly disappointing that the future tech we are promised is “Microsoft Teams in your car” and “things you write or create will be stolen without credit”
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A Palestinian activist who helped film the "No Other Land" documentary, Awdah Hathaleen, was shot and killed by an Israeli settler on Monday. Locals identified the killer as Yinon Levi, who was sanctioned by the U.S. and the EU for “regularly leading groups of violent extremists” in the West Bank.
Activist Who Helped Film “No Other Land” Shot and Killed by Israeli Settler
Israeli violence in Masafer Yatta has intensified since the film won an Oscar.
buff.ly
July 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A Palestinian activist who helped film the "No Other Land" documentary, Awdah Hathaleen, was shot and killed by an Israeli settler on Monday. Locals identified the killer as Yinon Levi, who was sanctioned by the U.S. and the EU for “regularly leading groups of violent extremists” in the West Bank.
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Yes my superhero screenplay has a bit of product placement but it's not fair to say it "sold out"
The Exxonnauts use the power of Exxon Mobil gasoline to save the world from evil, but the movie isn't really about Exxon. It's about family
The Exxonnauts use the power of Exxon Mobil gasoline to save the world from evil, but the movie isn't really about Exxon. It's about family
July 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Yes my superhero screenplay has a bit of product placement but it's not fair to say it "sold out"
The Exxonnauts use the power of Exxon Mobil gasoline to save the world from evil, but the movie isn't really about Exxon. It's about family
The Exxonnauts use the power of Exxon Mobil gasoline to save the world from evil, but the movie isn't really about Exxon. It's about family
Some people might find this blasphemous but The Age of Innocence is a much better adaption of Edith Wharton’s writing than The House of Mirth. It’s also a superior film on a technical level; the latter looks like it was made for television.
July 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Some people might find this blasphemous but The Age of Innocence is a much better adaption of Edith Wharton’s writing than The House of Mirth. It’s also a superior film on a technical level; the latter looks like it was made for television.
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Me: I love crypto.
<people look around nervously, start backing away>
Me: With a k! Krypto with a K.
<people look around nervously, start backing away>
Me: With a k! Krypto with a K.
July 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Me: I love crypto.
<people look around nervously, start backing away>
Me: With a k! Krypto with a K.
<people look around nervously, start backing away>
Me: With a k! Krypto with a K.
Yeah, Bergman was nuts but contemporary filmmakers covertly peddling right wing propaganda are much more concerning and should be called out by the media instead of a crazy old man whose been dead for 20 years.
July 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Yeah, Bergman was nuts but contemporary filmmakers covertly peddling right wing propaganda are much more concerning and should be called out by the media instead of a crazy old man whose been dead for 20 years.
Rich, bored and dumb is such a dangerous combination.
June 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Rich, bored and dumb is such a dangerous combination.