mmmm,,.....starmwors

(Read John Costello's epic epistolary essay here).

Wrap up Trylon's edition of Bleak Week with Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring on 35mm.

Over on Perisphere, Sophie Durbin traces how Ingmar Bergman builds an ancient Nordic tale with modern cinematic tools in The Virgin Spring, and Jared Meyer dissects the precise cinematic language of the film to demonstrate Bergman's innovative use of natural motives throughout.

uhhhh fuck it we're showing this one tonight too. triple feature. three in one. air bud to the third for air bud three. the one with the puppies before Air Buddies. did you know there are six puppies in this one, but only five in the Buddies movies? Canonically this means the ABCU (Air Bud Cinematic Universe) killed one of the dogs.

A customer asked if doing something like Bleak Week was even ethical these days. An important question—the ethics aren't really the issue though. A lot of difficult art is designed to provoke thought and expose others to themes they may not want to confront on their own, in a safe, fictional environment.

Or at least that's what Finn Odum thinks in their essay on Jeff Kanew's Natural Enemies. Read that alongside Jackson Stern's fantastic assessment of the nature of toxic masculinity and its impacts on one man's deteriorating mental health.