Founder of Xperiment Media. Director & Cinematographer https://xitter.cf/t.co/kE6pSa3Ovj. Advancing tech and business in US, Europe, Dubai, Asia. HEC Paris alum. Catholic.
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Big news! I talked to Stephen Pizzello.
It’s confirmed. His book “Gordon Willis on Cinematography” is coming out later this year or in 2027.
Soderbergh read a digital galley proof.
When Gordon Willis died, I was depressed for a full week.
A Hollywood Reporter obit mentioned Stephen Pizzello from @AmericanCine was working on a book. That was May 2014.
11 years on, Soderbergh’s Oct 31 diary entry hints it might finally be out?
Must investigate…
If I ever get replaced by silicon consciousness, and if that thing has all my memories…it still won’t be me. Unless it can feel the PAIN and UNCERTAINTY of everyday life.
Consciousness is downstream of embodied living.
Shocked at how many people already feel deep empathy for unconscious silicon. This is going to cause a religious war. Society is not prepared and we should probably start teaching philosophy of mind in k-12.
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The world is healing.
I was in a packed movie theater in Burbank for Digger, expecting nothing, and I dunno how to say this but EVERYONE was into it: cheering, howling, screaming, and, at various points, it felt like we were watching the most delightfully insane (and original) movie of the year.
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Publishing’s basically destroying the middle of the value chain. Non-essential purchases (any entertainment) live or die on perception of value. Such operational efficiency is destruction of your own appeal. When things feels generic, cheap or algorithmic, people stop wanting it!
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. buff.ly/xPjU80t
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People continue to generate the free raw material as big tech compress it into models that no longer require the middle class. That’s the business model.
The bloodbath will begin once the feedstock cannot make a living and realizes the owners of compression have no further use for them.
I’m starting to get increasingly uncomfortable with the economics of AI as it is currently happening
It seems fundamentally wrong that a small number of people with access to a huge amounts of VC money can vacuum up all the contributions of humanity, often paying nothing for it, then turn around and get enormously rich while the many people who put all the work into creating the training data get nothing
I am generally pro-AI, but the way it is happening is seeming increasingly parasitic to me
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How is this different from wearing a COMPUTER on your face?
Experiencing reality through a screen is not life.
The idea of living in the moment and not living life through a screen is both relevant and timely and “iNsiGHTfuLL” but what a deeply boring example
The obvious one is playing with your kids . Is that not aspirational enough for tech companies to celebrate ?
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Addy Khan retweeted
Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
j’ai toujours pensé que les films de polanski et de friedkin parlaient du mal dans le quotidien. parfois c’est banal, parfois c’est iconique. rosemary’s baby et cruising sont des films New York sur des horreurs vues et invisibles, mais toujours ressenties.
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I’m seeing this happening a lot, anecdotally and IRL. Introverts who normally crave watching movies alone in the cinema…yearning for a big crowd.
DIGGER is best enjoyed with friends, family, strangers. Ideally all of them, ideally as many of them.
Revivals will be insane.
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I’ve seen DIGGER. It’s brilliant, maximalist filmmaking. Very on the nose, but bursting with ideas…never holds back. Many secrets too.
A tree falls.
A nephew lurks.
Level 4 unlocked.
Tom Cruise, Iñárritu and Lubezki go ballistic in this exquisite 10min continuous shot. Whoa!
Beautiful. Everything the Holy Father says runs completely counter to what the tech bros preach.
· cultivate a spirit of contemplation
· make time and space for art/beauty
· openness to the divine
In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.
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“Time is on my side…yes, it is!”
First look at Mike Flanagan's ‘THE EXORCIST’ film, starring Scarlett Johansson, Chiwetel Ejiofor & John Leguizamo.
The film follows a detective who watches the execution of a serial killer - only for his murder spree to continue in demonic ways.
In theaters on March 12, 2027.
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Critics are DIGGING their own graves. They’re disconnected from reality.
I got into filmmaking because of Cahiers du Cinéma, Rosenbaum, Farber, Hoberman, Ebert. Guardians and defenders of art, always ahead.
Bilge, Adam Nayman, etc are so off the mark with DIGGER…it’s sad.
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Huh? It’s not like Tom Cruise or AGI mortgaged their houses! Everyone’s good. @joerussotweets has a fascinating theory that the $160mil spent was to service Tom’s first look deal at Warner. So they’ve already made their money back!
DIGGER is a sexy beast. A cult classic.
After The Hollywood Reporter declared Sunday that Tom Cruise‘s big-budget Digger had been “buried at the box office,” this reporter received an email from a reader earnestly wondering how things went so wrong. hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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