Strong AI sheen to many of the scenes in the "Blossoms Shanghai" trailer.

You can't write an essay about "gooning", and then expect me to take the essay seriously.

A loose adaptation of Schnitzler's "Late Fame", but it's about MacMahonist zoomers and a washed up director.

Seems like a trustworthy person to me.

Bergman (and Sweden) nazi discourse on the other site. Terrific.

Looking at the behind the scenes on my Megalopolis blu-ray, and thinking that it all looks much too big, involving far too many people, only to then later hear Coppola himself complain about this. How do you end up with this little control when it's your own money, and you're the director?

Auteurism is rejecting Messiah of Evil because the two credited directors also wrote the screenplay for Temple of Doom.

"Wow, this scene from Caught By the Tides is incredible!" and it's just footage from Xiao Wu and Unknown Pleasures.

Stating the obvious, but if you ever needed reminding that you never should blame digital tools for the stylistic conventions of this slop era:

A pleasant surprise, and the most powerful film experience of the year: Romero's Season of the Witch (aka Hungry Wives or Jack's Wife). A great film.

Tolstoy
Chekhov
H. James.
It would be dishonest of me if I didn't mention Hamsun.
I have avoided all of his late works though, for good reason.

Honorary mentions: Faulkner, Cather, Gogol and Pushkin.

In a reading slump. Trying La petite Bijou/Little Jewel as a potential cure. This will be my 4th book by Modiano.

The 25 pages that I've read so far are very good, even if (or perhaps because) they are very familiar.