ooh i can talk abt men this way too. if you work in hollywood, you get one artless movie about your tedious empty fixations, but not thirteen.
The Silvs@thesilvs.bsky.social · 23h agoIf you’re a Homeric translator, you get to write one insufferably pedantic, myopic, snarky review, but not two.
yeah, i wish emily wilson, translator of the odyssey, wrote a review of the odyssey like just another film critic. i would like another one of their perspectives.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterdaythe thing is that Wilson seems to not be particularly well-versed in film criticism, which when criticizing a film of the Odyssey is more important than knowledge of the Odyssey.
i’ve invented two new chess pieces, “the chalice” and “the rook twice”
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Juni! 🥰@literallyjustadog.online · 5mo agodo you care about trans people? cool! cancel your new york times subscription! oh, but you just play the games? thats the worst argument you could've made! go fuck yourself!
you can tell that video games have sort of provided an exceptional cover for every other medium, but especially film, to avoid talking about whether their populist forms constitute “art”
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Philip Bump@pbump.com · last wk.[guy who reportedly makes seven figures arguing for centrist positions]:
the criticism of emily wilson “not being a movie enjoyer” and therefore not able to offer useful criticism by virtue of not understanding the medium would maybe feel more appropriate to me if it was not in defense of christopher nolan, who i question whether knows what movies are either
little girl just walked her balloon dog directly over some broken glass and it died
navel gazing is much maligned, but sometimes the obvious, almost vapid thought at the center of something needs to be stated so we can start moving past it, and it takes a specific kind of dumb intellect to make it happen. i fear this is why the french have found themselves so often at the forefront
having just read orlando and then watching the 1992 film adaptation has caused me to wonder if it’s possible to still write the woman author sex change genre, sort of in the same way it’s easy to tell if something came into being after the detonation of the first atomic bomb
the price of a miller high life compared to the price of a negroni feels transmisogynistic
though of course she possesses many other desirable qualities, they have come to know her as the successful tomato grower
you know yr wife is down bad for someone when she texts you a picture of their parallel parking job
james nolan is a boring guy interested in boring stuff whose movies ask stupid questions of the audience
it’s cool how the amtrak station is the most confusing place in the world
