“People come to movie theaters to be alone together. They use the Internet in order to socialize and interact while being apart. That’s the crisis of film culture in a nutshell: it’s attempting to celebrate one medium using another with opposite properties. But, of course, film culture is chock full of crises and paradoxes—and always has been. Cinema is a very mutable and adaptable medium; as a result, it’s perpetually in crisis. Before the digital crisis, there was the home-video crisis, the television crisis, the widescreen crisis, the color crisis, the sound crisis—and so on and so forth.” — This paragraph that is part of a questionnaire with Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (and a bunch of other film critics) stood out to me.
Let’s take a moment to consider the possibility of Freddie DeBoer being the new editor-in-chief of the Awl before our brains melt out of our pores.
There’s so many perfect things going on in this screenshot here but my favorite thing is how this guy with the voice of a fedora has a book titled Neckbeard Uprising.
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted an entry in my “screenshots of comment section replies I’m unsure of whether I should actually post” series.
“I know this is going to sound bad, but sending a woman to review Star Trek is kinda asinine, evidenced by the fact that her intent was to ruin the movie. I have a feeling deep down inside she hates these kind of movies, so she figured she’d screw everybody by telling everything that happened. You guys might lose some readers over this.” — Oh, okay.
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Rock the artist credit on a Supercuts ad that looks like it was made via Instagram filters.
EDIT: Wait, I’m on Supercuts’ website because that’s a thing you do on a rainy Sunday afternoon (the ad worked!) and I guess Jake Miller is the guy sitting in the chair. How long have chain hair salons been advertising like this? This musician you haven’t heard of gets his shitty haircut at Supercuts! Get yours here too!
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