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THE INVERSION OF CULTURAL VALUE
From art culture to performance culture.
This diagram helps explain why some films now break through and others flop. We used to treat culture as the destination. Increasingly, we treat it as material for identity, performance and discourse.
This explain the contrast between Digger and You Can See Everything (YCSE)
Digger arrived in the old mode: big star, big director, serious film, go see it.
YCSE is built for the new mode: a film people can debate, meme, interpret and use as part of their own online identity.
Saw six films at BFI LFF this year and enjoyed them all
Wild Horse Nine
Fjord
Ken Russell’s The Devils
Fatherland
Misty Green
Bunker
I’m at theatre and in seat J10 and a boomer emphatically tells me I’m in their seat. Five minutes after they find their glasses - we establish their seat is J61.
A month or so ago I witnessed an enraged passenger phone the police because a “yoof” was vaping. I couldn’t hear the police on the phone but I could clearly tell the police operator ask the woman “well, what do you want me to do?”
Renate Reinsve trying to subtly enter the Club Kid Gala without being seen and then being spotted instantly
I don’t pay attention to reviews, but the Guardian review of Fjord seems to spectacularly miss the point on every level; also feels like they watched a different movie theguardian.com/film/2026/ma…
Harrowing stat.
In each UK year, assuming 40 seconds is spent per one hour video call on ‘sorry, you’re on mute,’ we lose 46 million man-hours. And that’s before anyone says ‘no, you go.’
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PLANET OF THE APES is a very entertaining movie, and you'd better go see it quickly, before your friends take the edge off it by telling you all about it. They will, because it has the ingenious kind of plotting that people love to talk about. (1968)
Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 retweeted
Jerry Seinfeld is fascinating. His entire act is about Pop Tarts and answering machines but then when you catch him offstage he's like "I don't care if those fuckin kids die!"
‘Girls’ Shocker: Lena Dunham Sets Revival at HBO With Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, Jemima Kirke Returning variety.com/2026/tv/news/gir…
The Brian Jackson / Yasiin Bey celebration of Gil Scott-Heron tonight at the @RoyalAlbertHall was fantastic
The marvellous Dame Vanessa Redgrave at the @clockwork_wb The Devils last night at @BFI
