Brody has talked about how years in film swing between the US and the rest of the world dominating; I think that’s a little too neat, but this certainly feels like a transitional year with old masters existing alongside new voices who might have not gotten the chance to make a film until recently

I’m a sucker for seeing that bande dessinée sci-fi style translated to the screen

The accents in this bit are so bizarre that I now have intrusive thoughts of “unisemity”

When I was in Norway this year they already had TV ads from telecoms warning about this

Hey I like his playing on “I Wish It Would Rain Down” by Phil Collins

Just sick of examples of genocidal rhetoric from Israeli politicians being met with “everyone hates Likud.” How have they held power then, even if it has to be in a coalition (with further right parties)?

This seems to translate in America as journalists not knowing how to accurately talk about Israeli politicians or situate them in a larger context; I don’t think you’d ever see mainstream press call Israel a far-right country like they would with Orban and Hungary, for example.