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A film about a failed lesbian actress traumatized by the casting couch dreaming herself into the lead role of a prime time soap opera where the director who steals the woman she loves has his movie taken away by the shadowy Hollywood elite who destroyed her dreams. Billy Ray Cyrus is also there.
Next week on the Marvelous! Patreon, we’ll pretend to be someone else.
February 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
A film about a failed lesbian actress traumatized by the casting couch dreaming herself into the lead role of a prime time soap opera where the director who steals the woman she loves has his movie taken away by the shadowy Hollywood elite who destroyed her dreams. Billy Ray Cyrus is also there.
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I made my threepeat appearance on the Marvelous pod to discuss the greatest film ever made. Even more Lynch impressions ensue. Check it out!
Fresh for patreon subscribers (that could be you!), @jaketropila.bsky.social returns to the show to discuss David Lynch's masterpiece Mulholland Drive. Open up your blue cube and join us for a look inside this dark Hollywood dream-within-a-dream.
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Mulholland Drive, or This is the Pod (feat. Jake Tropila) | Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema
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February 12, 2026 at 11:58 PM
I made my threepeat appearance on the Marvelous pod to discuss the greatest film ever made. Even more Lynch impressions ensue. Check it out!
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In 2024, he praised the festival’s political identity: “The Berlinale has traditionally always been the most political of the major festivals; it doesn’t stay out of things now, and it won’t in the future either… I like the Berlinale because it always speaks up and says something.”
To say that the Berlinale has to stay out of politics is the biggest nonsense we've ever heard. To this day it is considered the most political of all the major film festivals.
Another director we love who sold himself cheaply.
Another director we love who sold himself cheaply.
Wim Wenders Says ‘We Have to Stay Out of Politics’ as Berlinale Jury Fields Questions About Israel and Palestine: Filmmakers ‘Have to Do the Work of People, Not the Work of Politicians’
The Berlin Film Festival got off to a political start on Thursday as the competition jury, led by Wim Wenders, fielded several questions about Gaza.
variety.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:11 PM
In 2024, he praised the festival’s political identity: “The Berlinale has traditionally always been the most political of the major festivals; it doesn’t stay out of things now, and it won’t in the future either… I like the Berlinale because it always speaks up and says something.”
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Tired: Getting mad at Pam Bondi for high school theater-level theatrics at a hearing
Wired: Getting mad at Pam Bondi for letting the Ticketmaster monopoly continue and settling the case that would break it up.
From me:
prospect.org/2026/02/12/t...
Wired: Getting mad at Pam Bondi for letting the Ticketmaster monopoly continue and settling the case that would break it up.
From me:
prospect.org/2026/02/12/t...
Trump Justice Department Poised to Preserve Ticketmaster Monopoly - The American Prospect
Settlement talks on a monopolization case against Live Nation are under way, with Kellyanne Conway and other MAGA lobbyists seeking a sweetheart deal.
prospect.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Tired: Getting mad at Pam Bondi for high school theater-level theatrics at a hearing
Wired: Getting mad at Pam Bondi for letting the Ticketmaster monopoly continue and settling the case that would break it up.
From me:
prospect.org/2026/02/12/t...
Wired: Getting mad at Pam Bondi for letting the Ticketmaster monopoly continue and settling the case that would break it up.
From me:
prospect.org/2026/02/12/t...
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This started as an essay on Oliver Laxe's Sirat, until in my research I came across this Thomas Merton quote, and my worldview changed. When you read or watch or listen to something dull and lifeless, ask yourself: What does it aspire towards? Where's the angel?
February 11, 2026 at 1:53 PM
This started as an essay on Oliver Laxe's Sirat, until in my research I came across this Thomas Merton quote, and my worldview changed. When you read or watch or listen to something dull and lifeless, ask yourself: What does it aspire towards? Where's the angel?
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Over at @thebaffler.com, some thoughts on spiritual cinema, medieval mystics, Shaker chairs, dance music, and what it might mean for modern art to yearn for the divine. thebaffler.com/latest/wild-...
Wild Facts | Robert Rubsam
Spiritual cinema is fundamentally an aspiration: it must reach out toward something it cannot ultimately depict.
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February 11, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Over at @thebaffler.com, some thoughts on spiritual cinema, medieval mystics, Shaker chairs, dance music, and what it might mean for modern art to yearn for the divine. thebaffler.com/latest/wild-...
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One of my favorite movies of last year, HAPPYEND, is now on @criterionchannl.bsky.social. First got to see it at the Chicago Critics Film Fest + @daniellamazzio.bsky.social talked to director Neo Sora for @chicagoreader.com when it was at the Siskel last fall.
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Neo Sora: ‘I feel like we might be living in a turning point right now’ - Chicago Reader
Neo Sora, director of Happyend (2024), spoke to the Reader about Japanese history, fascism, and how near the film's “near future” really is.
chicagoreader.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:20 AM
One of my favorite movies of last year, HAPPYEND, is now on @criterionchannl.bsky.social. First got to see it at the Chicago Critics Film Fest + @daniellamazzio.bsky.social talked to director Neo Sora for @chicagoreader.com when it was at the Siskel last fall.
chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
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had a cup of coffee at 7:30pm
February 11, 2026 at 3:39 AM
had a cup of coffee at 7:30pm
Cassavetes, too
February 10, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Cassavetes, too
Well it’s no Working Girl but what is?
February 10, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Well it’s no Working Girl but what is?
I just didn’t get that vibe at all I dunno
February 10, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I just didn’t get that vibe at all I dunno
Well my point isn’t that it’s a great film, I liked it but I don’t think it’s a misunderstood masterpiece or anything. My point is that the reactions I saw online were along the lines of ‘what the fuck is this insane object it makes no sense?!?!’ and I think it’s a pretty normal movie
February 10, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Well my point isn’t that it’s a great film, I liked it but I don’t think it’s a misunderstood masterpiece or anything. My point is that the reactions I saw online were along the lines of ‘what the fuck is this insane object it makes no sense?!?!’ and I think it’s a pretty normal movie
Really? It’s just a funny little sitcom style movie
February 10, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Really? It’s just a funny little sitcom style movie
Fascinating that America was presented with a perfectly acceptable, often charming 90s comedy like Ella McCay and resoundingly reacted like it was an unknowable alien object
February 10, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Fascinating that America was presented with a perfectly acceptable, often charming 90s comedy like Ella McCay and resoundingly reacted like it was an unknowable alien object
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"Intellectual freedom" zealotry has always & only been about suppressing voices that oppose the violence & cruelty of whiteness/capitalism.
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In her latest column, @bakerdphd.bsky.social looks at the history of AAU regarding campus free speech. If they took a stance on many key issues today, some status-obsessed public universities would face very difficult membership decisions.
How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares
Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.
www.insidehighered.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:40 PM
"Intellectual freedom" zealotry has always & only been about suppressing voices that oppose the violence & cruelty of whiteness/capitalism.
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Sentimental Value has a lot of acting but is otherwise inoffensive so it’s pretty easy to let it slide
February 10, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Sentimental Value has a lot of acting but is otherwise inoffensive so it’s pretty easy to let it slide
I’ll play:
The Secret Agent
One Battle
Sinners
Sentimental Value
Marty Supreme
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Train Dreams
F1
Bugonia
The Secret Agent
One Battle
Sinners
Sentimental Value
Marty Supreme
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Train Dreams
F1
Bugonia
This is where I'm at:
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Bugonia
The Secret Agent
Hamnet
Train Dreams
Frankenstein
F1
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Bugonia
The Secret Agent
Hamnet
Train Dreams
Frankenstein
F1
February 10, 2026 at 1:33 PM
I’ll play:
The Secret Agent
One Battle
Sinners
Sentimental Value
Marty Supreme
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Train Dreams
F1
Bugonia
The Secret Agent
One Battle
Sinners
Sentimental Value
Marty Supreme
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Train Dreams
F1
Bugonia
Wait what’s Last Winter doing on here?
February 10, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Wait what’s Last Winter doing on here?
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CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
this in-progress pile is doing things to my brain
February 10, 2026 at 2:23 AM
this in-progress pile is doing things to my brain
when you listen to too much @suspensekills.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 1:10 AM
when you listen to too much @suspensekills.bsky.social
My all-time fave
February 10, 2026 at 1:08 AM
My all-time fave