The real Billy Joel documentary is his 1990 concert film Live at Yankee Stadium, shot on lovely 16mm film, which inexplicably features Wong Kar-wai's "step printing" slow-mo technique

Tom McH@tommchenry.bsky.social · 17h ago

what I'm learning from this billy joel documentary is that when you find yourself in a tricky life situation, you can always get yourself back out of it by writing a legendary pop song

These are both good as hell, he's racking up some wins before he Runs

Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social · 19h ago

Pritzker signs new laws requiring businesses to accept cash and pay employees for jury duty. @capitolnewsil.bsky.social reports: blockclubchi.co/45HkIfg

My god I've never hit the follow button faster

Weird Popeyes@weirdpopeyes.bsky.social · 20h ago

Feels like a shift that the NYT is casually using the word "centrist"; 5-10 years ago the only people saying "centrist" were using it explicitly as a pejorative coming from the left

Why not ask kids to multiply three numbers and turn in the result? Any three numbers they’d like.

I hate this shit. Reading education is not about picking books that are the easiest or most fun. It’s about teaching kids to read closely and critically. You wouldn’t tell a math teacher to only teach the easiest and most fun version of math!! Show the same respect for reading.

I walked past the Production Office at work where the PAs hang out and overheard one of them exclaim "You've seen Good Burger over 100 times?!," so I guess the kids are... well, I'm not actually sure if they're alright, but I personally felt good about it.

The Garfield RV belongs to someone in my neighborhood, I see it parked on the street all the time and today I parked right behind it. Always a joy

b. wolo@bwolo.bsky.social · 20h ago

You have been visited by the Garfield RV

You have been visited by the Garfield RV

Has this take been on ice since like 2009? Even then I don't think it was accurate.

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 24h ago

On social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?

Finally finished Wittgenstein’s Mistress. In addition to being mostly an irritating slog, I’d also like to point out that Dalkey Archive’s 2023 edition is riddled with typographical errors. The bad boys of experimental lit are too bad to hire a proofreader I guess

b. wolo@bwolo.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am committed to finishing Wittgenstein’s Mistress but I can’t wait for it to be over. I can’t take much more of this

possible to eat meal without spilling on shirt eat food no shirt spill possible? can i eat food without spilling on shirt clean shirt after meal impossible food stain on shirt how to clean food stain fashionable? world record meals spilled on shirt world record cash prize

Considering going to Bullitt tonight bc I’ve weirdly never seen it. But I’m salty that the Siskel has gone back to booking DCPs for almost all rep screenings even when prints are presumably available. I can’t imagine there is no circulating print of Bullitt?

I've been professionally compelled to watch many lame, unfunny tiktoks posted by public libraries. This is the first one I've ever seen that actually made me laugh

Ben Zipperer@benzipperer.org · 2d ago

public libraries ftw

Now, for no reason except that it's the subject of my interest today, here is a thread of photographic portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson — scans from his 1998 book Tete a Tete:

I've been professionally compelled to watch many lame, unfunny tiktoks posted by public libraries. This is the first one I've ever seen that actually made me laugh

Ben Zipperer@benzipperer.org · 2d ago

public libraries ftw

They should let Cooper Hoffman be James Bond. Imagine what it would do for male self-image. Men could stop being obsessed with going to the gym. There's no reason other than greed to keep making James Bond movies anyway so they might as well serve a social purpose

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2d ago

Amy Pascal teases that the next James Bond will likely be cast by the end of the year. “End of the year is a good bet.” (Source: Deadline)

The American moviegoing public to Marvel Studios after seeing The Odyssey and remembering what a real movie looks like:

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 5mo ago

🎶Don't come around here, Namor

Saw the trailer for Late Fame before The Piano today and wow that looks like it's gonna hit me right in the Henry Fools. The whole trailer might as well have just been a title card that reads "this is the kind of movie @b_wolo will like"

No one wants to buy lemonade from your kid. Go back in the house

Having lost a bit of weight and keeping my hair short, I swear I’ve noticed a concomitant uptick in strangers smiling at me on the street. No one wants to smile at an unkempt fat guy

Finally made it to the new third screen at the Music Box. Just the right spot to see nude Harvey Keitel in 4K

I am committed to finishing Wittgenstein’s Mistress but I can’t wait for it to be over. I can’t take much more of this

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

Kramer saying “Chobani”

Eminem introducing Obama at a Detroit rally for Harris speaks to me as a single-issue voter whose issue is that Curtis Hanson's 8 MILE (2002) is a great movie