April 28, 2022
None of us knows what truth is, so I touch it only with a pair of pliers
Werner Herzog Has Never Liked Introspection. During the pandemic, the legendary director completed two films and wrote two books. The first is "[p]art adventure narrative, part memoir, and part unclassifiable lyric, “The Twilight World” tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, an actual Japanese soldier who manned his post on the island of Lubang, in the Philippines, for three decades after the Second World War had ended, having convinced himself that it had not", and the second about himself, describing it as "some sort of memoir, but not in terms of an autobiography. Only part of it is about my life. It’s really about the origins of ideas."
No Way Home Was Kind of Sexist - Video Essay
CJ The X reviews Spider-man: No way Home. (spoilers)
The »KA-POW!« Batman
"a social practice with an organic history"
Sri Lankan writer Vajra Chandrasekera writes about his religious background and current politics: I like “unbuddhist” because it’s a pejorative to reclaim, perhaps, but also because it signals both opposition and proximity, in the same way that an atheist is someone who exists in a theistic framework and opposes it.
John Darnielle Wants to Tell You a Story
it would be replete with scenes infinitely more cruel and damning
Eugene Debs wrote a scathing Review of Birth of a Nation [PDF] soon after its release. Ida B. Wells thanked him [twitter link]. (Includes racist slurs, used intentionally by people of good will.) [more inside]
"Get us out of this hell."
A fascinating longread on a (terrifying) London that could have been, the origins of British NIMBYism, and the implications for policymaking in the face of climate change. Michael Dnes writes about London's lost ringways (archive) for Works in Progress.
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