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ben, 28, nyc, also @don-hertzfeldt

“New-To-Me” - May 2023

  1. What Really Happened to Baby Jane (1963, Ray Harrison)
  2. All About Alice (1972, Ray Harrison)
  3. Single White Female (1992, Barbet Schroeder)
  4. Saint Omer (2022, Alice Diop)
  5. The Salt Mines [1990] & The Transformation [1996] (Susana Aikin & Carlos Aparicio)
  6. The Key to Reserva (2007, Martin Scorsese)
  7. Crimes of Passion (1984, Ken Russell)
  8. The Backrooms (Found Footage) (2022, Kane Parsons)
  9. Witness for the Prosecution (1957, Billy Wilder)
  10. The Fluffer (2001, Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)

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  • Always on Sunday (1962, Ray Harrison)
  • Am I Alive or Am I Dead? (2002, Katya Zamolodchikova)
  • Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995, Mel Brooks)
  • Fleshtone (1994, Harry Hurwitz)
  • Jade (1995, William Friedkin)
  • My Cousin Vinny (1992, Jonathan Lynn)
  • Operation Avalanche (2016, Matt Johnson)
  • The Roman Springs on Mrs. Stone (1963, Ray Harrison)
  • Something Wild (1986, Jonathan Demme)
  • Spy on the Fly (1967, Ray Harrison)
  • Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979, Lucio Fulci)

New Releases:

  • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (Kelly Fremon Craig)
  • Evil Dead Rise (Lee Cronin)
  • Reality (Tina Satter)
  • Sanctuary (Zachary Wigon)

No one forgives us for being sincere about him – rather: For daring to be sincere about him. To tell the truth is to commit an indelicacy, it is to accord a superiority over him.  “Nothing allows you to be sincere to me” – “What right do you have to throw the truth in my face?”

Notebooks Emil Cioran

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“Socially the clock had a more radical influence than any other machine, in that it was the means by which the regularisation and regimentation of life necessary for an exploiting system of industry could best be attained. The clock provided the means by which time - a category so elusive that no philosophy has yet determined its nature - could be measured concretely in more tangible forms of space provided by the circumference of a clock dial. Time as duration became disregarded, and men began to talk and think always of ‘lengths’ of time, just as if they were talking of lengths of calico. And time, being now measurable in mathematical symbols, became regarded as a commodity that could be bought and sold in the same way as any other commodity. . The new capitalists, in particular, became rabidly time-conscious. Time, here symbolising the labour of workers, was regarded by them almost as if it were the chief raw material of industry. ‘Time is money’ became one of the key slogans of capitalist ideology, and the timekeeper was the most significant of the new types of official introduced by the capitalist dispensation.”

— George Woodcock, The Tyranny of the Clock (March 1944)