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Portland, Oregon-based film, jazz, and comics enjoyer. Currently reading Gemma Correll's "Anxietyland"

It's really sad that people don't seem to care about the struggles of mutant families that live in the dessert. With GPS, no one ever turns down the wrong road anymore. How are these families supposed to eat? I've started a new organization, The Hills Have Hearts, where for just $1 a day...

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Some context regarding Moda Center renovations. The Trail Blazers $600 million request is larger than any recent/planned public contribution to an NBA/NHL arena renovation. It's not "market rate" or even reasonable. What Dundon is demanding is an outlier.

Dot plot showing the median public contribution to NBA renovations from 2025 and beyond is $338 million.

If you can only watch 1 movie on the Criterion Channel this month make it LISZTOMANIA (1975) in their Rock Biopics series. It's an hour 45 of Roger Daltrey looking fine as hell in the coolest jacket known to man, when he isn't riding a massive d*ck or playing piano.

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First of the month means fresh Kanopy tickets, yay! 'Started with "Brighton Rock" (1947). Richard Attenborough as a razor-wielding teen hood, Hermione Baddeley as my new! Fav! Detective, brill lighting, filming location, chaos, violence, but oh that Graham Greene moralizing...

"Brighton Rock" (1947)

Film History Doc 'Boorman and the Devil' Trailer on Making 'Exorcist II'

Film History Doc 'Boorman and the Devil' Trailer on Making 'Exorcist II'

"We all make failures. Try not to make a famous one..." Yellow Veil Pictures has unveiled an official trailer for a film titled Boorman and the Devil, a fascinating documentary feature about an infamous moment in Hollywood history. After directing Point Blank and Deliverance, director John Boorman was offered to direct The Exorcist II for Warner Bros in 1975. The film was a massive failure, critically and financially, nearly ending his career. Years later, cast and filmmakers discuss its ambition and artistic value. This is the story of what happened, why it was an ambitious idea, and the value of taking big creative swings (especially in Hollywood). The film premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival last year with stops at many other fests. Playing in art house theaters during September to watch. The doc's director explains: "I miss big, ambitious filmmaking that takes huge risks. In 1977, John Boorman took an enormous creative and commercial swing with Exorcist II: The Heretic which didn't connect with almost anybody at the time—but now we can look back and appreciate how big creative swings are what going to the movies is all about. Boorman is one of the greatest filmmakers that has ever stepped behind a camera, and I’m so happy to be telling the story of the one film that not only nearly destroyed him, but forever changed the way he made films." Check this out. // Continue Reading ›

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Someone write a "Twilight Zone" -type story where these fuck-knuckles refuse to blacken their windows during the Blitz. Hitler prancing around the ruins of Buckingham Palace, moroons whining "Whut choo mean we speak German now"

The Baffler@thebaffler.com · 6d ago

Across the country, activists and their legal teams are fighting to loosen public health regulations and mandates around school vaccine requirements. Leina Gabra writes on medical autonomy and mutual obligation.