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Nov 12, 2024 | 
australiannationalreview.com | Big Picture
Bitcoin & the Tokenization of EverythingBy Big PictureI interviewed Mark Goodwin, the Editor in Chief at Bitcoin Magazine on the background of Bitcoin and the tokenization of everything. Where did Bitcoin come from, how does it work and what impact has it had on our financial system? Is Bitcoin a means of liberating us from the clutches of evil central bankers, or is Bitcoin a Trojan horse those same bankers are using to foist a cashless society upon us?
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
letterboxd.com | Gemma Gracewood |Brian Formo |Eternal Sunshine |Big Picture
“Hers was a unique eye,” says Lee director Ellen Kuras of the groundbreaking WWII photojournalist, Vogue model and her surrealist muse Lee Miller. “One could argue it’s a female gaze, but I tend to think of it as a humanist gaze; someone who really looked at people and cared about people and believed in justice.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
letterboxd.com | Justin LaLiberty |Jack Moulton |Big Picture |Big Trouble
“Fuck DVD” is how Kevin Smith chose to begin the Criterion Collection LaserDisc commentary for his third feature film, Chasing Amy. At the time, heading toward the end of the 1990s, home video was in a state of flux, ebbing and flowing between the hoard of general consumers clamoring for sell-through-priced VHS tapes and ardent home theater junkies eager to acquire the latest and greatest technology to show off the superiority of their deluxe systems.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
letterboxd.com | Gemma Gracewood |Ella Kemp |Lola Landekic |Big Picture
Thousands of Letterboxd members added The Wizard of Oz to their diaries this week for the 85th anniversary of the film’s 1939 premiere. Some rewatched it at home—on HBO Max, specifically, for David: “Well, it is the 85th Anniversary of this film, so I had to revisit it once again.” Others, including Scott, in theaters: “Good lord, seeing this in IMAX and remastered in 3D for the 85th anniversary, what a trip.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
letterboxd.com | Gemma Gracewood |Rafa Sales Ross |Fran Hoepfner |Big Picture
For Art House Theater Day, filmmakers from Michael Mann to Flight of the Conchords to Daisy Ridley share eight community-building ideas to center the collective cinematic experience. Additional reporting by Ella Kemp.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
letterboxd.com | Noreen Plabutong |Ella Kemp |Rafa Sales Ross |Big Picture
“You guys wanna go see a dead body?” It’s the question that triggers the boyhood adventure at the heart of Stand by Me, a tender drama about four friends who wander out of their small town to search for a missing boy’s remains. If that sounds a bit morbid (it is), it might not be a surprise that the movie is based on a 1982 novella called The Body, by the horror master himself, Stephen King.
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May 30, 2024 | 
letterboxd.com | Rafa Sales Ross |Leo Koziol |Ella Kemp |Big Picture
As high school fades in the rearview mirror and responsibilities melt into possibilities, five teenagers from rural Oregon hop into a busted van heading toward the Pacific Coast. Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross’s fiction debut Gasoline Rainbow spans the 500 miles that separate the recent grads’ small hometown and the ocean shores they dream of yet have never seen.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
letterboxd.com | Rafaela Sales Ross |Chandler Levack |Big Picture
While accepting the Golden Globe for Best International Feature Film in 2019, Parasitedirector Bong Joon-ho famously said, “Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.” A few weeks later, the director would go on to accept the Oscar for Best Picture, the first time in the history of the Academy that a non-English-language film took the ceremony’s main prize.
Subtitles are not new to cinema.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
letterboxd.com | Adesola Thomas |Kambole Campbell |Big Picture
Ava DuVernay is practiced in carefully adapting the lived experiences of Black figures across narrative film, documentary and television. She’s captured SCLC and SNCC leaders organizing alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, the Central Park Five’s prosecution in When They See Us, and the reflections of activists and prison abolitionists like Angela Davis in 13th, DuVernay’s documentary about the transmutation of racialized chattel slavery to codified mass incarceration.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
letterboxd.com | Ella Kemp |Mia Lee Vicino |Big Picture
Emerald Fennell knew exactly how the vomit in the sink was supposed to look. The year is 2007 and the place is Oxford University—Fennell is graduating in one world, but her lead character Oliver Quick is just beginning in another. After her incendiary revenge thriller Promising Young Woman, the Oscar-winning writer and Oscar-nominated director flips the script towards something different and daring for her follow-up, Saltburn.
