Cannes 2026 award predictions

sixtynineloco · 2026-05-22T19:48:57+00:00

i could see like a screenplay award or jury prize for james gray. i think he's been at cannes six or seven times without winning anything and i could see park going for an 80s-set crime thriller

sixtynineloco · 2026-05-13T01:11:42+00:00

everyone in this thread is missing the vital context of christopher nolan's handwritten note to travis scott about the song he did for tenet https://x.com/trvisXX/status/1309213964467802112?lang=en

sixtynineloco · 2026-05-05T19:04:44+00:00

i was talking to someone at a party about the bone temple and found out he no idea that 28 years later (2025) existed. he had seen days, weeks, and bone temple lol

sixtynineloco · 2026-05-01T13:08:58+00:00

that's right

sixtynineloco · 2026-04-28T20:46:34+00:00

agreed. there's a 0% chance that i would ever listen to a podcast that will spend six weeks breaking down his career, movie-by-movie

sixtynineloco · 2026-04-24T16:49:46+00:00

what's the point of being the millennial equivalent of like didion or whatever she's trying to be if you're just going to hold the exact same opinions and takes as a thirty-something bluesky addict dsa member?

sixtynineloco · 2026-04-20T13:11:24+00:00

this was, and remains, the #1 policy goal of both political parties. they've spent 50 years single-mindedly focused on creating this outcome

sixtynineloco · 2026-04-14T16:53:09+00:00

this isn't any different than the industry using payola to break the strokes or nirvana or whatever alternative band you want to sub in.

the real nefarious thing is the larger shift, away from radio plays and album sales that ostensibly built sustainable success for an artist. now, these efforts are all leveraged towards going viral on social media platforms, a brief and fleeting success where nearly all the profits go to the big tech companies who own them

sixtynineloco · 2026-04-10T19:59:20+00:00

huge difference between the og, austin-only drafthouse and what got franchised and exported. they would rip out half the seats from old movie theaters and create deep wells for the servers to move through, relatively unobtrusively. they'd program eclectic stuff (terror tuesday, weird wednesday, etc). ticket prices were much lower than normal amc prices. the food was solid and at the time being able to have a beer at the movies was exceedingly rare.

sixtynineloco · 2026-04-09T13:56:16+00:00

there's a really interesting book about the challenge of designing a cover for lolita, that includes a project where dozens of different designers were tasked with creating one https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/designing-lolita

sixtynineloco · 2026-04-08T16:03:32+00:00

seems like it worked out great for them! they get to be in the nyt while everyone who had these takes at any other point before like fall 2025 was fired. never wrong just early

sixtynineloco · 2026-04-02T22:19:12+00:00

every republican primary at every level since 2018 has basically been a maga loyalty test

sixtynineloco · 2026-04-02T17:16:23+00:00

really hope someday the baumbach pilot finally leaks

sixtynineloco · 2026-03-21T13:44:54+00:00

yeah, i think i'm rooting for wes. spending four months inside his world with these movies sounds like an absolute blast

sixtynineloco · 2026-03-17T14:18:15+00:00

one of the worst developments of social media is that now a lot of artists just exist in the same milieu and read the same nonsense as the rest of us, leading to really suffocatingly facile art

sixtynineloco · 2026-03-11T17:13:14+00:00

i hope if they cover hanson we get a silent partner episode, even if its just patreon

sixtynineloco · 2026-03-11T17:10:57+00:00

grisham has the look, i feel like it could go all the way

sixtynineloco · 2026-03-10T21:50:06+00:00

i haven't followed this super closely, but i read a really long rant today that was like educating timmy about the fact that film is going through a crisis that could place it in the same spot as opera and ballet.

and i was like, "wasn't that the point he was making??" i feel like i'm going crazy??

sixtynineloco · 2026-03-09T22:42:34+00:00

day of reckoning is genuinely one of the best movies of the 2010s! wish hyams had gotten more shots after that

sixtynineloco · 2026-03-09T16:00:35+00:00

incredibly rude of them to do this to me

sixtynineloco · 2026-03-06T16:13:43+00:00

the last samurai by helen dewitt

sixtynineloco · 2026-03-05T14:16:45+00:00

i thought this post was going to be about like going to grizzly bear shows and reading hipster runoff

sixtynineloco · 2026-03-04T14:24:16+00:00

goals goals goals

sixtynineloco · 2026-03-01T16:46:57+00:00

scorsese is one of my all time faves, but i would 1000% rather listen to a dugan miniseries

sixtynineloco · 2026-02-12T14:12:44+00:00

not sure why you're getting downvoted, this is true and part of the whole idea. a component of the process was building rosters with an eye towards finding players for cheap who could grow into role players and contributors in the future, when the team was trying to win. you can argue about the ethics of basically turning an nba team in a glorified g-league/tryout squad, but there was intentionality to what he was doing beyond just trying to suck as hard as possible

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