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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 16h

Not much to say about #TheConjuring #LastRites, but that was an A+ casting for "young Patrick Wilson".

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 22h

Wow, they actually made Season 6!

There were some doubts if they would.

Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 1d

Only had one of those lately 😅 Probably need to remedy that.

Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 2d

And THIS is how I learn they made a new Partridge series??

(what good are those all-knowing algorithms, supposedly aware of our every like)

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 2d

Just a ride, a ride, a ride 😛

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 2d

And while I try not to comment on acting since I don't know the first thing about it, I know I won't ever forget this smile that Cate Blanchett gives in the climax.

Such an incredible mixture of triumph, disgust, decades of hurt bubbling up, maybe even anticipation of retribution.

#NightmareAlley

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, I agree!

I occasionally felt that GDT's staging was a bit theatrical, favoring wide shots of people in intricately decorated interiors. But whenever he goes for a close-up... oooh, that man knows his movie magic too!

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 2d

Just look at these portraits alone!

🔥🔥 Dan Laustsen, man 🔥🔥

#NightmareAlley

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 2d

On a whim, watched GDT's #NightmareAlley for the first time tonight, and hooboy, how did I avoid that before?!

One of the most gorgeous-looking films of our time. And just as damning in its breakdown of capitalism as it was in 1946: ruthless con men sell dreams, only to leave you broken and hooked.

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 3d

There's a quote in Tom Shone's excellent Christopher Nolan book (that I had the pleasure of translating) that just gets more and more relevant with each passing year.

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 3d

I kinda like how the biggest jump scare in #Sinister is also genuinely hilarious.

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 3d

You seen this video?

It's a... complicated issue, yeah.

youtu.be/uQh6pvXdywI?...

The Problem with Fantastical Racism

YouTube video by Princess Weekes

youtu.be

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, yeah, I'm not saying they didn't have their reasons.

It's just that they try to combine different kinds of narrative. A disaster movie is about the big picture and joint efforts, it gives you full information on what's going on. Kevin's story is the opposite: isolation, doubt, NOT knowing.

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 3d

There's a sequence in #RebuildingParadise that has such intense emotions (all from off-screen characters!) and clear visual storytelling (that use of rear-view mirrors!), you could swear it's been staged.

But nope. Sometimes, life is the best director.

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 4d

Followed #TheLostBus with #RebuildingParadise, and somehow a doc is more visually compelling than a fiction film styled as one.

It also highlights an imbalance at the core of Greengrass's movie that wants to be a personal tale, full of uncertainty, but embracing that would defy genre conventions.

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 4d

What Greengrass captures extremely well is the sheer escalating power of the disaster. You keep on wondering:

How can one stop something like this?

The answer, of course, is that you can, but #TheLostBus only hints at the real issue of climate change and politicians ignoring it.

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 4d

Somehow, #TheLostBus is the most sentimental, least political of Greengrass's docudramas. Still masterfully intense, of course, but at some point I just couldn't get over how the firefighter plot is only there to provide exposition.

Next to Spike Lee's return to Katrina, this feels kinda shallow.

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 4d

Browsing some 1990s video game magazines, and adverts from that time are certainly...

...something.

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 5d

I'm in this picture, and I don't like it.

Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 5d

Artist: Unknown

[pic of guy in bed 'i will be productive today']

[pic of guy half fallen off of bed 'actually no']

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 6d

"Помоги найти вдохновение" 😏

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 7d

#AlienEarth

Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 7d

As a man in my 30s, I feel that "Aaaah!" with every fiber of my being.

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 8d

Didn't I hear the other day that his Star Wars film was the furthest in development out of everything not currently in production?

I wonder if they'll aim for a shoot next year.

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 8d

Oh, they've been a huge part of my childhood!

(I mean, I was a nerdy dark-haired kid with glasses, of course they were)

But I was lucky to lose interest in the franchise just as JKR started going off the rails. One last parting glance was a surprisingly gay opening scene from Fantastic Beasts 3.

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Ilya Glazkov @ilglaz.bsky.social · 8d

Posted pretty much the same text on The Other Website, and earned myself a Rowling-supporting diss from one of the major Russian independent news agencies.

Surreal.

But also, bruh.

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