I know people who use subtext, and they're are all cowards!!!
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 1h agoTrump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap
Mad Scholar Frights
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 1h agoWow, I wrote this one a long, long time ago – it's a rant about people going to see old movies so that they can watch them "ironically" and laugh
MidCenturyCinema@midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 35m ago10/10/63: From Russia with Love w/Sean Connery, Robert Shaw Remains peak Bond More: @denofgeek.bsky.social: www.denofgeek.com/movies/from-... @cinemascholars.bsky.social: cinemascholars.com/the-making-o... @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: pressplayredux.com/2012/09/14/f...
Good on him. "Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’" variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’
Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'
variety.com
People who haven't seen this film need to *at least once*. Get a blanket, get snacks.
Mad Scholar Frights@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 19h agoKwaidan is on HBO Max. If you haven't seen it, don't be alarmed by the 3 hr running time. It earns every minute. Slow and quiet but hypnotic because the visual, sonic, and narrative negative space create tension. This seems paradoxical if you prioritize "fast" movies.
It was one of the hundreds of films I devoured while self educating working at a video store and running away with stacks of VHS tapes. Its beguiling aesthetic lives with me still. Gotta check it right now.
"It does not seem to have been written and directed so much as composed and then performed, in the manner of a classic jazz arrangement rendered live for a paying audience." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/30-minut...
30 Minutes on: "Elevator to the Gallows"
As much as can be said about Louis Malle's jazzy French noir in 30 minutes.
rogerebert.com
ATTN Polish film exhibitors---what are the chances?
Mavoy Music@mavoyofficial.bsky.social · 16h agoIt's one of the best horror films ever made. I hope the new restoration will be bought by one of these new re-release distributors that we got in Poland.
Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · yesterdayjust to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand
In November, Mainers will defeat Susan Collins, and we will take back our Senate seat from the billionaires and corporations who think they own it.
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
He came back from the dead last year, took a look at the state of the world, and entered witness protection
Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold.bsky.social · 23h agoalso this is the publisher lol
I put Kwaidan on a few years ago knowing basically nothing about it, and squinting at the TV in disbelief and saying "wait is that a set???" was an experience
Mad Scholar Frights@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 19h agoIt's also staggeringly beautiful. The whole thing is shot in Tohoscope (wide, narrow "epic" format) on huge sets with forced perspective backdrops & gelled, primary colored lights with complementary costumes, which all goes a long way towards helping us take the stories seriously but not literally.
I wholeheartedly endorse this recommendation. My favorite sequence is "The Woman of the Snow". Tatsuya Nakadai was one of the greatest of all Japanese film actors and he radiates not only sensitivity but also utter terror. This sequence *FEELS* ice cold.
Mad Scholar Frights@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 19h agoKwaidan is on HBO Max. If you haven't seen it, don't be alarmed by the 3 hr running time. It earns every minute. Slow and quiet but hypnotic because the visual, sonic, and narrative negative space create tension. This seems paradoxical if you prioritize "fast" movies.
i've identified the Dockers store where Michael Tracy bought and then subsequently returned these pants after wearing them. i will be pursuing criminal prosecution.
“My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.” These titans of business. These masters of the universe.
My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.
Shane Mac, the CEO of XMTP Labs, got a rude shock when one of his AI agents posted his monthly bank audit in a company Slack channel.
businessinsider.com
Not only is Kwaidan beautiful and haunting, but it's one of my favorite movies to think about it. It's unparalleled for ruminators. Gosh, it is awe-inspiring.
Mad Scholar Frights@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 19h agoKwaidan is on HBO Max. If you haven't seen it, don't be alarmed by the 3 hr running time. It earns every minute. Slow and quiet but hypnotic because the visual, sonic, and narrative negative space create tension. This seems paradoxical if you prioritize "fast" movies.
Recommended it to a buddy and he came back the next week raving about it. Hypnotic cinema.
Mad Scholar Frights@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 19h agoKwaidan is on HBO Max. If you haven't seen it, don't be alarmed by the 3 hr running time. It earns every minute. Slow and quiet but hypnotic because the visual, sonic, and narrative negative space create tension. This seems paradoxical if you prioritize "fast" movies.
“despite no explicit sexual content or even nudity, the show is rated nc-17 for flusteringly beautiful people immaculately dressed and lit and tension that makes you aware of your body again.”
wild to be living in a world with live-streamed state executions and legal daylight kidnappings, but every time you turn around some loser is saying, hey man, what if art were completely frictionless? what if we killed even the possibility of human connection??
the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know
Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 2d agomaybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me
Developed from an original story by Wong Kar Wai !
One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h ago(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
i would show up for some tremendously offputting concepts if you told me hiro murai was involved.