Rangel
@parksidefilms
My body is 60% vitamin water
When I just started to get into cinema, I read an article in Film Comment where someone was asked "who's our greatest living filmmaker?" And the response was something like "well, if we go by number of masterpieces, then it's Frederick Wiseman." I had no idea who that was but I was dying to know. 1/
From "I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes, the Man and His Work," directed by Michael Ventura (1984). Cassavetes was born 96 years ago today.
4/ My town is in Cook County which our mayor apparently thinks it means we’re too close to the scary Black people in Chicago. And he wasn’t happy enough with the picture as it was, so he had it darkened:
3/ You could probably guess he’s also framing the opposition to his slate with MAGA language. Here’s the front of a mailer:
2/ Here’s the inside of the mailer (if he’s done such a great job of making us safe, why the fuck do cops need more money/tech?!):
1/ I live in Berwyn, IL and our mayor is a registered Democrat running unopposed with a slate of his incumbent alderpeople. Here’s how he’s campaigning with MAGA language: