Stopping the deluge

Links, Ponders & Wonders: 11.8.24 Edition

Hop in and drive away from this… this… this…. ?

I mentioned before. I am going to try to stop the LP&Ws for awhile. It is too much for me. I want to have these conversations. I do. But the observation of the world and sharing my thoughts doesn’t yield the same sort of discussions that the essays do. And they take away the time when I used to do the deep dive. I will go back to that for awhile. Do let me know if you miss them though….

Today’s LP&W Contents

1. Getting through the next period

2. Despite it all

3. Authored Cinema’s fail is similar to electing authoritarian oligarchs

4. Indie Film is a big, big thing

5. Is there any hope for anti-trust action? It is needed.

6. Listen to amazing directors and other new talents

7. Thanks Dear Producer (again)

8. An update on a popular HFF post

9. Looking back on what I did well

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Good Bones BY MAGGIE SMITH

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.

Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine

in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,

a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways

I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least

fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative

estimate, though I keep this from my children.

For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.

For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,

sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world

is at least half terrible, and for every kind

stranger, there is one who would break you,

though I keep this from my children. I am trying

to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,

walking you through a real shithole, chirps on

about good bones: This place could be beautiful,

right? You could make this place beautiful.

(HT: Christine Vachon)

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2

This I believe

As a believer in Hegelian dialectic, I believe we are still going forward. In a relatively short amount of time, we will have a communitarian society based on love and common good, committed to equality and culture. Say…. 5000 years from now, but in the scheme of things, still brief. We are all mayflies on the windshield of history.

At one time, I thought I was part of a big change but now, I know my situation was a relative anomaly that somehow was given a brief chance.

I am thankful for at least getting to feel as if it was something more, and I am going to keep on trying to keep on keeping on despite it all.

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3

Looking for an antidote to the world, I examine our industry.

This post feels timely to me. It was one of the first ones I wrote. I freed it from the paywall for all of you. If you like it, please let me know by gracing it with a heart or comment or both.

Where Did Authored Cinema Fail?

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4

There is a tremendous opportunity in “Indie Film”.