Nice. I hadn't remembered it was her debut - very assured!

Did you see My Twentieth Century back when it came out? (I don't remember if when I saw it was a restoration or the first time it was released in the US or what...)

On Body & Soul has an incredible lead performance. It's never specified that the character is autistic, but she has tons of the traits. (I haven't seen it since finding out I'm autistic myself - need to revisit it). Definitely not a film for everyone, but it's dark & strange & beautiful.

I just saw My Twentieth Century maybe five years ago, after having been moved & gobsmacked by On Body & Soul. I need to see more of her films. I missed The Story of My Wife. Hoping to catch Silent Friend at AFI Silver as part of their forthcoming European festival.

& of course sometimes my mood on a given day affects how much I like a movie. Extreme case: It was a mistake to see Zero Dark Thirty one night when I'd been to a friend's memorial service that day. Maybe I'd still have disliked it regardless, but that subject matter never had a chance with me then.

But I've also grown to appreciate some films more over time. Seeing the Kurosawa restorations recently has been revelatory - bumped up my ratings on Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, & Seven Samurai (Yojimbo was already 5 stars).

I've probably gotten stricter as I've gotten older, so movies I saw in the late '90s & 2000s, when I was first becoming a cinephile, may fare better if I haven't seen them since then. 2002's Man on the Train, seen in 2003 & given 4 stars might only be 3 stars if I revisited it today.

21 '50s 5 star films.

Looking a bit more at the '40s, I've seen 200 '40s films, 52 of which I rated 4 or 4½. There are also a handful I know I loved but haven't rated (Blood on the Moon, Brighton Rock).

I'm stingy with 5 star ratings. Casablanca & It's a Wonderful Life are 4½ & 4 for me, haha.

Movies I love that are partly comedies include The Royal Tenenbaums, Punch-Drunk Love, Tampopo, The King of Comedy, His Girl Friday, & Paper Moon.

Uncivilized also has a sale running: 20-65% off almost everything.

It's funny scrolling back through his Instagram, because there are all these interesting, artistic shots of all kinds of stuff ten years ago, and then his feed starts filling up with photos of this same grotesque monster over and over.

Oh, the generative AI slop I'm talking about is the stuff like him dressed as the Pope or wearing a crown or dumping his diarrhea on peaceful protesters, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the text of his social media posts is also AI.

The Fox "News" "documentary" series is called The Art of the Surge. I have no interest in giving Fox my money to watch it, but I think that's what the group-tweet-writing clips were from.
& I think it's clear the generative AI slop is made by someone other than Donald "Everything's Computer!" Trump.

The only clip I can find now with a quick search shows Trump being the one mostly dictating the tweets, but I remember Howard Lutnick & maybe Marco Rubio or someone else dictating in a clip I saw. They were all in the same room, so those were done with Trump's knowledge, but they weren't his words.

There's footage of his cabinet dictating tweets along with Trump himself as an aide types everything up. I think it was in some Fox News "documentary" about the last election. So Trump isn't the only one who uses Trump's accounts, though I wouldn't want to guess how much is him & how much is others.