Lee Kang-sheng gives a raw performance in “Black Ox,” Tetsuichiro Tsuta’s hypnotic mood piece based on a Buddhist parable. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/01/22/film/black-ox/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #tetsuichirotsuta #leekangsheng
dansup
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Comment something you want explained! I’ll try to make an episode about it.
#news #science #history #politics #film #explainer #movies #geopolitics #government
Inspired by a real-life court case, Koji Fukada’s “Love on Trial” grapples with the ethics of the idol industry, but can’t seem to reach a verdict. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/01/22/film/love-on-trial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #idols #kojifukada #kyokosaito
#QuestionOfTheDay what two villains from separate works of fiction would you love to see try to work together to watch the fireworks as they inevitably conflict?
#fiction #anime #manga #books #television #TV #comics #comicbooks #film #movies #musicals #TTRPG #CCGs
Comment something you want explained! I’ll try to make an episode about it.
#news #science #history #politics #film #explainer #movies #geopolitics #government
ophiocephalic 🐍
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We finally managed to wrap the TV series, Tatu Taps on Love during the internet lockdown in Uganda.
It was two and a half months of waking up early, long days, and pushing through despite the challenges. Now it’s done, and it feels good to say we finished. Grateful to everyone who showed up and made it possible.
#sisi #film #movies #art #cinema #filmmaker #filmmaking
We finally managed to wrap the TV series, Tatu Taps on Love during the internet lockdown in Uganda.
It was two and a half months of waking up early, long days, and pushing through despite the challenges. Now it’s done, and it feels good to say we finished. Grateful to everyone who showed up and made it possible.
#sisi #film #movies #art #cinema #filmmaker #filmmaking
Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:
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Oggi ho finito di guardare Il Traditore di Marco Bellocchio sulla vicenda di Tommaso Buscetta. All'epoca io ero alle scuole superiori. Alla strage di Capaci cademmo tutti dal pero - letteralmente - perché nessuno ci aveva spiegato nulla e per noi, qui al Nord, la mafia era qualcosa di remoto. Sono passati tanti anni e spero che i ragazzi di oggi siano più fortunati di noi in quanto a consapevolezza. Film ottimo, l'ho gradito molto, soprattutto sul maxi processo.
#Unofilm #film #filmMastodon
Oggi ho finito di guardare Il Traditore di Marco Bellocchio sulla vicenda di Tommaso Buscetta. All'epoca io ero alle scuole superiori. Alla strage di Capaci cademmo tutti dal pero - letteralmente - perché nessuno ci aveva spiegato nulla e per noi, qui al Nord, la mafia era qualcosa di remoto. Sono passati tanti anni e spero che i ragazzi di oggi siano più fortunati di noi in quanto a consapevolezza. Film ottimo, l'ho gradito molto, soprattutto sul maxi processo.
#Unofilm #film #filmMastodon
Michael Graaf
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@caityjohnstone mentions the 2020 smearing/vilification/cancellation of Roger Waters for speaking about this #corruption. Four years earlier he provided narration to a startling and undeniably accurate #documentary #film about #Hasbara - the corruption and the manufacture of consent for it - called 'The Occupation of the American Mind' which started the ball rolling toward his erasure. It's recently become quite challenging to find; even any discussion of the film's existence. Although it could be rightfully considered propaganda itself simply because it has a point of view, a "bias", it does bring together a preponderance of facts about these things. It makes for compelling viewing even if you feel Waters is an asshole. He's rational and worthy of some respect, if only for sticking his neck out. And his participation in this film's production is limited. He just provides narration for parts of it; it's mostly well-edited, well contextualized, academic and journalistic archive & actuality.
#journalism #dissentingOpinion #freeSpeech #antiwar #speech #decolonization #publicOpinion #zionism #propaganda #publicRelations #manufacturedNarrative
"Some people will look at these clips and claim it’s antisemitic to even share them. Others will look at them and cite them as evidence that the world is ruled by Jews. For me they’re just evidence that the world is ruled by wealthy sociopaths, and that western democracy is an illusion... I mean, you really couldn’t ask for a better illustration of the sham of American democracy than this. Two billionaires from supposedly opposite political parties publicly admitting that they use their obscene wealth to manipulate US politics to advance the military and geopolitical agendas of a foreign state on the other side of the planet..."
To be opposed to the spuriously-faithbased whitenationalist ideology that excuses and promotes genocide like the 2025-6 US-Israeli #holocaust in Gaza and broader Western Asia - whether or not you label it as antizionism - is to be in favor of democracy over authoritarianism.
#Antizionism isn't #antisemitism, period. #deconflate It is however antifascism. Which is why hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, have been spent (on something the Likud and other Israelis call Hasbara) to vilify those of us who find the now-ubiquitous, 21st Century #fascism intolerable. The US bargain with the people running the colonialist, occupying, apartheid, terror state of Israel was always a devil's bargain, in the end helping to promote and reinforce the US version of white-nationalism and its enforcers who are now at war against the US public in places like Minnesota. And Maine. And North Carolina. And Oregon. And Illinois.
Thank god it can't happen here #tgichh #plutocracy #corruption #racism #whiteNationalism
That's my take; here's @caityjohnstone's
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/zionist-billionaires-openly-acknowledge
@caityjohnstone mentions the 2020 smearing/vilification/cancellation of Roger Waters for speaking about this #corruption. Four years earlier he provided narration to a startling and undeniably accurate #documentary #film about #Hasbara - the corruption and the manufacture of consent for it - called 'The Occupation of the American Mind' which started the ball rolling toward his erasure. It's recently become quite challenging to find; even any discussion of the film's existence. Although it could be rightfully considered propaganda itself simply because it has a point of view, a "bias", it does bring together a preponderance of facts about these things. It makes for compelling viewing even if you feel Waters is an asshole. He's rational and worthy of some respect, if only for sticking his neck out. And his participation in this film's production is limited. He just provides narration for parts of it; it's mostly well-edited, well contextualized, academic and journalistic archive & actuality.
#journalism #dissentingOpinion #freeSpeech #antiwar #speech #decolonization #publicOpinion #zionism #propaganda #publicRelations #manufacturedNarrative
#music #film #movies #QuestionOfTheDay share some of your favourite songs from movie musicals
That one short clip scene in Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope, when the Rebel fleet is beginning to attack the Death Star, and Porkins, before he becomes "Roast Porkins", looks like he's regretting that Chipotle' chimichanga with extra guac.
Seriously, it's there.
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Takuro Ijichi’s “Vicissitude” is a visually sumptuous debut that hints at a director still coming into his own. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/01/16/film/vicissitude/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #takuroijichi
French animated film “Mars Express” draws inspiration from Japanese classics such as “Ghost in the Shell” and “Akira” for a sharp, cyberpunk ride that feels familiar yet entirely its own. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/01/15/film/mars-express-anime-influence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #anime #jeremieperin
Kevin Carson
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#QuestionOfTheDay what's something (a character, a theme, a plot point, a scene, etc) in a work that you enjoy which you find people (audiences/fans/critics, etc) regularly misunderstand or miss the entire point of and it bugs you? This can even include people misunderstanding authorial intent or the message of the work, etc
use spoiler warnings as needed
#fiction #books #movies #film #TV #television #comics #comicbooks #anime #manga #videogames #ttrpg #CCGs #music #musicals
#QuestionOfTheDay what's something (a character, a theme, a plot point, a scene, etc) in a work that you enjoy which you find people (audiences/fans/critics, etc) regularly misunderstand or miss the entire point of and it bugs you? This can even include people misunderstanding authorial intent or the message of the work, etc
use spoiler warnings as needed
#fiction #books #movies #film #TV #television #comics #comicbooks #anime #manga #videogames #ttrpg #CCGs #music #musicals
#QuestionOfTheDay most disappointing villain reveal in a work of fiction you otherwise enjoyed?
#fiction #books #videogames #superheroes #ttrpg #ccgs #comics #comicbooks #anime #manga #musicals #film #movies #TV #Television
It’s a long way down…
frdbr 🎥🌳
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If you're a #screenwriter #contentcreator or #filmmaker
and you use #Fountain syntax for distraction-free writing this might be for you. I too like getting my first #draft this way but the long list of #monochrome text makes it hard to quickly skim scenes, dialogue, etc so I made a highlighting feature for #kate on #kde and #texteditor for #gnome so I can navigate a little easier. It's now up on #github! Of course also works on Kwrite!
