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purkka@purkka· May 22

new bluesky rule: you have to say this every morning as you log on or else trust & safety will apply the Rude label on your account

a woman peers up out of the window. the subtitles read: Hello there, Mr Blue Sky.

purkka@purkka· May 20

BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (Radu Jude 2021) 📽️

a shop window with various merchandise including bags branded with characters from animated movies. towards the middle, next to a couple of Frozen bags, is one bearing the image of the main character from The Emoji Movie

purkka@purkka· May 18

i've seen a lot of bad video files in my time, but one has to wonder how "two identical sets of burned-in subtitles" happens

three women sitting on a couch; the subtitles read "Don't worry?", and then again, on top of that, "Don't worry?"

purkka@purkka· May 17

it's not even at all close to what it looks like, the average frame is something like this

two men and a woman on a beach with a grey sky and a gloomy atmosphere; the men are arguing, and she is looking at them with a weirded out expression

purkka@purkka· May 17

early Hong posters are so campy because they were clearly still figuring out how to market his idiosyncratic work... like, uh, that's not the vibe in the film

poster for the Hong Sangsoo film Woman on the Beach, showing a man and a woman smiling and embracing on a beach with a bright blue sky in the background

purkka@purkka· May 16

this event, of course, took place in reality

purkka@purkka· May 14

also, shoutout to the film club we have at the FVN server; thinking about movies is more fun together! we're doing HOUSE next Sunday!!

discord event next sunday reading:
[Film Club] House
We discuss Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1977 film House / ハウス. The call is for discussion only; watch it yourself beforehand.

purkka@purkka· May 14

i've been watching so many movies this year... the only downside is that i can't really find the time to write lengthier reviews for everything 😭

purkka@purkka· May 8

BALLOON (Pema Tseden 2019) 📽️

frame from BALLOON: ram with curvy horns standing in sparse grass

frame from BALLOON: two wide cups of tea on a wooden table

frame from BALLOON: people on a motorcycle at night; the headlight is illuminating smoke from a burning incense

frame from BALLOON: a woman with her mouth covered by a blue scarf and a man with a white hat seen from behind a cracked window; several socks hang on a thread

purkka@purkka· May 8

on a pretty hot streak this blessed #letterboxdfriday... who knew movies could be good!

Balloon (2019) ★★★★
Chocolat (1988) ★★★★½
The Man Without a Past (2002) ★★★★★
Cute Girl (1980) ★★★½

purkka@purkka· May 5

POV: you are seconds away from being recommended a hong sangsoo film

telegram message reading: "Film suggestions are welcome."

purkka@purkka· May 4

an iconic phrasing i think about all the time but can't explain the appeal of is when hideo kojima reviewed La chimera and noted "Also, Isabella Rossellini was in it, too." that's so true... me whenever i watch a movie with isabella rosellini in it: also, isabella rosellini was in it, too...

I watched Alice Rohrwacher's latest film, "La chimera.” It was wonderful. I was fascinated by the indescribable vibe, worldview, tone, and unique rhythm of the film. Rohrwacher’s films do not fit into any conventional film grammar or logic. In a way, they have a mysterious charm to them that cannot be put into words. This is an eccentric adventure story about a "grave robber" with special abilities – but who is neither Indiana Jones nor a treasure hunter – who chases love and fantasy. I was startled by the sudden chorus of Kraftwerk's SPACELAB. Josh O'Connor gives a great performance throughout the film. As was the case in “Challengers” as well, but he is currently one of the best actors out there. Also, Isabella Rossellini was in it, too. This film will be released in Japan on July 19.

purkka@purkka· May 3

finished watching Edward Yang's films! he's just so so good. Yi Yi and A Brighter Summer Day are some of the greatest "the totality of the human experience" films i've seen

Yi Yi (2000) ★★★★★
A Brighter Summer Day (1991) ★★★★★
Taipei Story (1985) ★★★★
Terrorizers (1986) ★★★★
Mahjong (1996) ★★★★
A Confucian Confusion (1994) ★★★★
That Day, on the Beach (1983) ★★★½

purkka@purkka· May 1

yippee combined vappu and #letterboxdfriday

Aatamin puvussa – ja vähän Eevankin… (1940) ★★★
In the Presence of a Clown (1997) ★★★½
Helsinki, Forever (2008) ★★★★½
Mahjong (1996) ★★★★

purkka@purkka· May 1

this is, despite masquerading as an effort catering to the tastes of teen readers, conceived exclusively for parents, right? or do 13-year-olds really worry about their YA having "excessive language" in it?

Discover Blink YA – a clean teen-focused imprint readers are looking for. No spice, graphic scenes, excessive language, or need for content warnings. Just wholesome, engaging stories perfect for anyone 13 and up.

purkka@purkka· Apr 29

The Wolf in the Wardrobe just passed 10k downloads + browser plays! (art by @pinknarcissus.bsky.social) #FurryVN Devlog: purkka.itch.io/the-wolf-in-...

Art of an anthro wolf in a forest holding a plate with a pancake; text made of jam reads "10k"

purkka@purkka· Apr 27

this relatively unknown language called English has an extremely weird feature where, unlike in most languages spoken across the world, the referent's gender is marked in some personal pronouns

screenshot from https://wals.info/feature/44A showing values for feature "Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns"

In 3rd person + 1st and/or 2nd person 18
3rd person only, but also non-singular 42
3rd person singular only 61
1st or 2nd person but not 3rd 2
3rd person non-singular only 1
No gender distinctions 254

purkka@purkka· Apr 27

took a bad movie recommendation quiz. and would you believe

Your Result:
Joshua and the Promised Land

purkka@purkka· Apr 27

images that go hard

purkka@purkka· Apr 24

people don't talk about how he's literally neurodivergent and a minor

poster for the 1938 adaptation of Aleksis Kivi's play Nummisuutarit, showing the faces of people against a green background, most prominently Esko's

purkka@purkka· Apr 24

happy #letterboxdfriday

Joshua and the Promised Land (2004) ½
Nobody Knows (2004) ★★★½
Nummisuutarit (1957) ★★
A Confucian Confusion (1994) ★★★★

purkka@purkka· Apr 24

last night i dreamed that bluesky added a small button with an image of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on every page and when clicked, it displayed a modal that said something to this effect

screenshot of bluesky feed showing a round button with an image of RFK Jr on the bottom left corner

modal with an image of RFK Jr and text reading "Sorry about the Robert F. Kennedy Jr, I needed to get your attention somehow" and an OK button

purkka@purkka· Apr 23

bluesky devs announcing the carousel

purkka@purkka· Apr 23

I sexually harassed and discriminated against female employees! First to Sue Wins $5,000,000!

purkka@purkka· Apr 18

KAILI BLUES (Bi Gan 2015) 📽️

frame from KAILI BLUES: man on motorcycle in a dark tunnel lit by a cold light of a lightbulb hanging on top and the red glow of the motorcycle's back light

frame from KAILI BLUES: a cloudy view of a city

frame from KAILI BLUES: television against a rocky wall of a cave with trash around it

frame from KAILI BLUES: woman with a light blue jacket and a yellow skirt on a boat with a wooden frame going down a river

purkka@purkka· Apr 17

i don't know anything about the show, but there's some really good analysis of what fandom is and how dominant fan modes of engagement come into conflict with art not catering to them here

excerpt from the text linked in the quote:

So it turns out that The Pitt is for everyone except for one specific group: Fans of The Pitt. I use the word “fans” in a specific way here. The definition of the word has become disturbingly broad. Right now on Twitter, there’s a sidebar feature with AI summaries of current discourses, and it never fails to use the word “fan” when describing discussion of a work of art. “Fans Debate,” “Fans Erupt,” “Fans Discuss,” always fans fans fans. The Fan has become a catch-all identifier for anyone with positive feelings about a work, the way Kleenex became the word for facial tissue. It used to be that fandom was a distinct mode of engagement. The average person might enjoy watching Grey’s Anatomy—the fan would bandy about minutiae, attend conventions, write fanfic, cosplay as the characters, investigate, fixate, obsess. We came up with no word for the casual enjoyer. We are all fans now.

Fandom can be fun. I’ve been part of them in my life, and if I told you which ones I would be too mortified to show my face on here again. At a certain point in my life, though, I started to realize that being a fan of something was harming my ability to think critically about it. My mental projection of what a work meant to me was coming into conflict with what the work actually was, and accommodating that dissonance was getting to be more trouble than it was worth. Fandom by nature is histrionic; the intensity of a fan’s love is directed both inwards and outwards. Moreover, fandom is a space where being histrionic is encouraged, where the quilt of community is knitted with emotional outbursts, where hierarchies are assembled based on who demonstrably cares the most. I don’t mean to moralize too much—it’s not evil to be part of a fandom. Some works are designed to foster such a reaction. The Pitt, I think, is not one of them.

purkka@purkka· Apr 16

bluesky is down so i can't even post about how they misspelled "regions" on their status page that is also itself not loading

google search preview for status.bsky.app reading "We are investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos." [sic]

purkka@purkka· Apr 15

looking forward to seeing CREVICE (2028)