Critic (Filmbulletin, @MaximumCinema, @swissinfo_en, @ofcs, @AsjcSVfj). AmLit post-doc. Cat person. Will rate your Werner Herzog impression. Any pronouns.
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Pretty incredible that Werner Herzog found not one but two perfect musical collaborators over the course of his career. Early Herzog owes so much to Popol Vuh, just as late Herzog is kind of unimaginable without Ernst Reijseger.
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Just kind of running with this thought, it occurs to me that, even though music/opera is Herzog's other great passion, the films he's devoted to the subject are mostly unremarkable – save for FITZCARRALDO, which is literally about the maddening inability to stage music.
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LAST WORDS: unassured ethnography
JAG MANDIR: bit of a slog
GESUALDO: intriguing failure
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD INTO MUSIC: straightforward Bayreuth portrait
LA BOHÈME: yikes?
ODE TO THE DAWN OF MAN: not all that insightful
THE KILLERS: UNSTAGED: anonymous concert film
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Jun 11
That is not crazy. It’s totally predictable unless you have never left the United States.
🚨CRAZY STAT: The World Cup opener attracted twice as many viewers as the Super Bowl final. 🤯
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Jun 11
I have such enduring love for this mode, to the point where I still fantasise about whole games dedicated to tournaments and seasons past.
FIFA World Cup 98 contained a classic matches mode that many players never discovered.
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No one has failed upward more than this unqualified propagandist.
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Jun 9
I can't remember who said it, but the OCARINA OF TIME remake announcement proves it right yet again: tough luck if you want to see big money going into new, original media – you're stuck in a 1980–2000 nostalgia prison for the time being.
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I mean this is just unambiguous, full-fat Nazi stuff and we shouldn't be afraid to say that.
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Jun 7
The LEGALLY BLONDE 2 DVD extras include the trailer to THE SIMS 2 for some reason.
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Jun 7
The first two Vampire Weekend albums, especially CONTRA, and extra-especially "Giving Up the Gun."
Jun 2
what is an album that y’all think is best enjoyed in summer
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Jun 4
The fun hater™️ has logged on.
ALT Letterboxd diary: The Sheep Detectives – 2 stars War at a Distance – 4 stars Prison Images – 4 stars Jurassic Park III – 3 stars Masters of the Universe – 1 star
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happy pride men to the two gay guys in barry lyndon embracing in the river
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Feb 7
Favourite first-time watches in January:
Midnight (39)
Ten Skies (04)
Pickpocket (59)
To Each His Own (46)
3 Bad Men (26)
The Circle (00)
Marty Supreme (25)
The White Balloon (95)
The Man from London (07)
The Fugitive (47)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (62)
Eephus (24)
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May 4
Favourite first-time watches in April:
Introduction (2021)
The Movie Orgy (1968)
Oki's Movie (2011)
Matinee (1993)
Scream 3 (2000)
Signs (2002)
Scream 2 (1997)
Scream 4 (2011)
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Jun 4
Favourite first-time watches in May:
Paper Trail (2026)
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Renoir (2025)
Bitter Christmas (2026)
Bring It on (2000)
Sleepover (2004)
Legally Blonde (2001)
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Alan Mattli retweeted
This is great.
Jun 3
If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues. theatlantic.com/philosophy/2…
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Alan Mattli retweeted
Jun 3
so cool that we can see in real time how Nazism happened
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