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Predator Badlands caught my eye.

Didnt know Ingmar Bergman was a Nazi sympathizer up until about 1948 or so.
28 minute mark of the film.

When he finally came to his senses about Nazism and rejected it, according to the film, he swore to never become politically engaged again, and not to bring politics into his films.
Which seems stupid to me, and the opposite of what he should have done.

Bergman: A Year In The Life
https://tubitv.com/movies/100015481/bergman-a-year-in-a-life

In the book, she does call the coin-flip. (I did not know that)

Saw Babylon this week on dvd. Brad Pitt. Its by the director that did LaLa Land and Whiplash.

I’d never even heard of it. I guess it bombed at the box-office.

I thought it was a ‘borderline’ masterpiece. There’s a twenty minute stretch in the last third of the movie that kinda drags or doesnt fit or somethin. But the rest of the movie was damn good, i thought.

I really enjoyed Yorgos Lanthimos’ newest film: Bugonia.

Its a few degrees less weird than his other films, but he didnt write this one.

Compassionate doomer film.

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Bugonia is named after an ancient Greek term for the myth of bees spontaneously generating from a dead cow’s carcass, symbolizing decay and rebirth, which ties into the film’s themes of conspiracy, corruption, and new life emerging from ruin. Writer Will Tracy also chose the name for its ambiguous, slightly unsettling sound, evoking insects, alien worlds, or illness, fitting the story’s surreal nature.”

Robert Duvall. RIP.

i have been known to watch some of these little criterion-closet vids.

“peaceful wise resistance” vs “feral urges”