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"Barry" Cinematographer Carl Herse on Lighting Season 3's Dark Path "Barry" cinematographer Carl Herse unpacks what makes filming this series so drastically different, and how that helps the performances pop.

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Too early to be whining about it (S3 will premiere 2027), but I can't wait for the next season of Severance! come on already.

Bill Hader is incredible!!!

Binged four seasons of Barry over the weekend, and oh my, what a show! an instant favorite and some of the best television I've seen in the past decade. I can't get it off my mind. A masterclass in writing. Cinematography and directing in S4 was next level. I wish I watched it sooner.

“It is a serious thing
Just to be alive
On this fresh morning
In the broken world.”

- Mary Oliver, Invitation

The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, the rectangle is mine.

“In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, this rectangle is mine.” Zadie Smith shares the blueprint she uses to write impersonal essays. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wen976

Beloved SoCal octopus will spend her final days caring for eggs that will never hatch News of the approaching demise of Ghost, a giant Pacific octopus at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, prompted an outpouring of sadness on social media.

This story has me losing it tbh www.latimes.com/california/s...

Thank you! I’m already on it :)

So have people agreed on an alternative to #coverfly? #scriptsky

#BookSky

It’s horrifying indeed

The Secret Sex Lives of Muslim Women - EPISODE 1 - Salma Hindy's Sexual Journey Podcast Episode · The Secret Sex Lives of Muslim Women · 21/04/2025 · 49m

Breath of fresh air podcasts.apple.com/eg/podcast/t... #podcast

How “The First Homosexuals” Shaped an Identity A timely exhibition dissects the emergence of modern ideas about gender and sexuality—and the backlash against them.

Same-sex relationships have existed since time immemorial. What’s newly visible is the notion that engaging in them might be an exclusive preference and defining quality.

In a pop interview with Nicholas Hoult for Letterboxd, he mentioned how brilliant the storyboarding was for No Country for Old Men & how it was great to see how the Coens prepared.

Anyone has the storyboards for the film and can share them? I’m so curious! #filmsky #writing #directing

The speech is too fast for my brain to process. Can you ask your readers to please slow a down a little? It’s hard to keep up. Let the text breathe, please.

Do you have any discount codes going for this one?

What a dream! Congrats

I’m always amazed at how similar Pakistanis and Egyptians are — down to the humor, even. Two sprouts from the same seed.

Of course! And thanks for the follow back.

For the sake of our present we have to forget our past. Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide

In this week’s Directed By Women Viewing Guide: two new docs, a queer dramedy, a coming-of-(old)-age drama, one of Netflix’s best films on the big screen, a screening series at MoMA, Il Cinema Ritrovato, a doc on PBS, a pair of teen sex comedies, and a Palestinian short film.

No, Mornings Don’t Make You Moral We are different people at different hours of the day, but an early bird isn’t superior to a night owl.

From 2015: Why being an early bird doesn’t make you superior.

One of the unrivaled masterpieces of non-linear storytelling — the visuals (all practical, no CGI) still stunning two decades later.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

*chef’s kiss*
should follow more music journalists here

How To Be a Writer, #111:
Open laptop
Look into the void
Scream into the void
Consider that maybe the void also sometimes feels this way about you
Ask the void if it takes milk
Choose a nice mug for the void
And maybe a chocolate biscuit
Lose yourself in the void
Tea

#filmsky #skycinema #writers #writesky #writersky #blueskyfilm #film #cinema

not transcript. The shooting script if possible.

Anyone have the screenplay for Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda) translated into English, or even in Japanese? I can try and get it translated. For educational purposes.

These People Used to Live Here? Before the Chelsea Hotel got swanky, a long-term resident captured the louche building—and its iconic guests—with a black-and-white-film camera.

Tony Notarberardino’s photographs document the residents of the Chelsea Hotel—a cross-section of sex workers, performers, celebrities, vagrants, and club kids.