#ThePainterAndTheThief
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Woah! Mind-blowing, jaw-dropping doc-as-nonfiction-verite(-ish)-film. *Massive* kudos to subjects, DPs, music, & esp editor, who does some pretty nifty(doc-prof eyebrow-raising😏?) timeline-overlapping! #Neon's on some kind-of era-defining indie run👏!
The often humorous adventures of a roguish anti-hero of low social degree living by his wits in a corrupt society
29 June 2020
28 June 2020
Hiking in “Sunny” Cali
They promised us an paradise of eternal sunshine, not something out of the Brontë sisters!
"Sunny" California, indeed😂😂😂!
#SoCal #CA
"Sunny" California, indeed😂😂😂!
#SoCal #CA
Liverpool (Finally) Wins the Premier League!!
At long last, #Liverpool has their league title!
Incredible! Thank you #JurgenKlopp (and the #CheatSox owners😇!)!
The first pro team I ever heard of was #LFC when I visited Mashi and Mesho all those...years, let's say years😬, ago, before I even had a concept of what pro teams were in sports (back then I assumed everything was a series of World Cups, cricket, football, and individual sports like tennis).
Back in those pre-Internet days(remember those?!), news was hard to come by, the odd score at the back of the Gulf Times, that awesome weekly show where they showed highlights, rounded up the news, and gave us a 30-minute version of a match(they did for the NBA and Serie A too, right?). There was a sense that this was an awesome team, doing awesome things, or at least its diehard supporters would have you believe, but all tinged with a bit of…sadness, no?
There were those *great* #KennyDalglish years, right? I seem to remember the #IanRush-#JohnBarnes years quite fondly, and would ask Baba, how come we get to see JB at the World Cup but not IR, and he would have to explain about Wales and well…it was all sorta confusing (it's the England *and* Wales Cricket Board, but they separate out for football, what sense is that🤷♀️?!).
The years/decades after that were a bit hazy…the charismatic #SteveMcManaman, the reliable #JamieCarragher, the…how do we define the singular? #MichaelOwen…until we come to…duh, duh, duh, the great, great, uniqu/suprem-ely talented, but somehow as defined by his failures as much as his successes, made more endearing by his sportsmanly suffering (remind you of a certain tennis player?!)…our #StevenGerrard.
Anyhoo, after a bunch of interminable Uniteds, Arsenals, Chelseas, and the worst of them all, Citys, and a bunch of searching-for-greener-pastures Torreses, Suarezes, Coutinhos, Sterlings…here we are!!!
I'm not saying this is the best Liverpool team of all time, or the best manager, or the best run they've ever had…all I'm saying you'll be hard-pressed to find a more deserving bunch of kids who played their hearts out for their talismanic manager!
#YNWA
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#LiverpoolFC #Wirral #UpTheReds #PL #CHAMP19NS #PremierLeague
#TrentAlexanderArnold #MoSalah #Alisson #Fabinho #VirgilVanDijk #SadioMane #JamesMilner #RobertoFirmino #JordanHenderson
#WeAreLiverpool #ThisMeansMore #Anfield #Kop #Merseyside
#football #futbol #soccer
#Wijnaldum #DivockOrigi
@liverpoolfc @trentarnold66 @mosalah
Incredible! Thank you #JurgenKlopp (and the #CheatSox owners😇!)!
The first pro team I ever heard of was #LFC when I visited Mashi and Mesho all those...years, let's say years😬, ago, before I even had a concept of what pro teams were in sports (back then I assumed everything was a series of World Cups, cricket, football, and individual sports like tennis).
Back in those pre-Internet days(remember those?!), news was hard to come by, the odd score at the back of the Gulf Times, that awesome weekly show where they showed highlights, rounded up the news, and gave us a 30-minute version of a match(they did for the NBA and Serie A too, right?). There was a sense that this was an awesome team, doing awesome things, or at least its diehard supporters would have you believe, but all tinged with a bit of…sadness, no?
There were those *great* #KennyDalglish years, right? I seem to remember the #IanRush-#JohnBarnes years quite fondly, and would ask Baba, how come we get to see JB at the World Cup but not IR, and he would have to explain about Wales and well…it was all sorta confusing (it's the England *and* Wales Cricket Board, but they separate out for football, what sense is that🤷♀️?!).
The years/decades after that were a bit hazy…the charismatic #SteveMcManaman, the reliable #JamieCarragher, the…how do we define the singular? #MichaelOwen…until we come to…duh, duh, duh, the great, great, uniqu/suprem-ely talented, but somehow as defined by his failures as much as his successes, made more endearing by his sportsmanly suffering (remind you of a certain tennis player?!)…our #StevenGerrard.
Anyhoo, after a bunch of interminable Uniteds, Arsenals, Chelseas, and the worst of them all, Citys, and a bunch of searching-for-greener-pastures Torreses, Suarezes, Coutinhos, Sterlings…here we are!!!
I'm not saying this is the best Liverpool team of all time, or the best manager, or the best run they've ever had…all I'm saying you'll be hard-pressed to find a more deserving bunch of kids who played their hearts out for their talismanic manager!
#YNWA
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#LiverpoolFC #Wirral #UpTheReds #PL #CHAMP19NS #PremierLeague
#TrentAlexanderArnold #MoSalah #Alisson #Fabinho #VirgilVanDijk #SadioMane #JamesMilner #RobertoFirmino #JordanHenderson
#WeAreLiverpool #ThisMeansMore #Anfield #Kop #Merseyside
#football #futbol #soccer
#Wijnaldum #DivockOrigi
@liverpoolfc @trentarnold66 @mosalah
26 June 2020
Liverpool (Finally) Wins the Premier League!
At long last, #Liverpool has their league title!
Incredible! Thanks #JurgenKlopp (& #CheatSox owners😇)! I'm not saying this is the best #LFC, ever…but you'll be hard-pressed to find a more deserving bunch of kids who played their hearts out for their talismanic manager! #YNWA
Incredible! Thanks #JurgenKlopp (& #CheatSox owners😇)! I'm not saying this is the best #LFC, ever…but you'll be hard-pressed to find a more deserving bunch of kids who played their hearts out for their talismanic manager! #YNWA
25 June 2020
Do the Right Thing (1989) .
#TBT so how about a #Throwback Movie? 😁
#DoTheRightThing (1989)
😆😂🤭😬😮😲😡🤬😱🥵😔🙏
Bl**dy H*ll! This funny, empathetic, superbly-crafted, incendiary human's-eye view of a neighbourhood *still* has the power to…well, do *every*thing! An instant stone-cold classic on release, let's hope that 30 years from now it'll finally feel dated because the alternative is too sad to even think about…
I mean, you could write a college term paper and not even begin to scratch its giddy, multitudinous surface to see everything that's going on. But I have a theory about (re)watching your favourite movies: the visceral reaction you have the first time you watch it as a young person, the analytical, battle-scarred approach to watching it once you're "grown up," and then when you introduce your kids to it. Man, I hope TBH brings her A-game for the third time, 'cause I'm not gonna have any idea how to actually adult that convo.
So, I'll talk, like I always do, about these things: *incredible* cinematography by the great Dickerson, I mean seriously, I've mostly known his work as a director, but man his early work holding the camera, dude, no seriously, all these hipster dudes with their DSLRs and steadicams doing one-r's these days, take a look at what the camera team did here, wow! And, of course, superlative production and costume design, that *stunning* editing, that score by Spike's father (paving the way for a long and fruitful collaboration with Blanchard), that in-your-face sound design(*integral* in a way that you don't often see), and of course, that casting director with an ensemble *bursting* at the seams with once and future "known" actors/stars…I mean, soooo many great performances: Spike (he was quite an actor, no?), Sandoval, Harris, Faison, Savage, Lawrence(yes, *that* Martin!), Edson, Smith(that shot of him at the end😯!), the irrepressible Perez, the doomed Nunn, the livewire Esposito, the conflicted Turturro, the great Dee, Sam Mutha-Bleepin' Jackson(what?! he's been with us *all* along, hasn't he?!)…have I left anyone out?!
And of course, the *great* Aiello, who brings all the nuance and charisma to a complex, complicated, infuriating, warmhearted character, a human being in other words.
But, I gotta say, in all of this maelstrom, in all of Spike's whirling directing, the person who steals the show is Davis. He may not have the last word in the film, but it's his presence that hangs over it all, an easily-ignored but insistent voice that things can, and, must, get better.
PS. TBH was right, as much fun as the movie is…it was all perfectly designed with Swiss-precision to inexorably build to its *inevitable* ending.
#SpikeLee #ErnestDickerson #BarryAlexanderBrown #WynnThomas #RuthECarter #SkipLievsay #BillLee #BranfordMarsalis
#OssieDavis #DannyAiello #GiancarloEsposito #RosiePerez #BillNunn #JohnTurturro #RichardEdson #RubyDee #RogerGuenveurSmith
#MartinLawrence #JoieLee #FrankieFaison #RobinHarris #MiguelSandoval #JohnSavage…and, of course, #SamuelLJackson (and many, many, many more!)
@universalpictures @officialspikelee
#DoTheRightThing (1989)
😆😂🤭😬😮😲😡🤬😱🥵😔🙏
Bl**dy H*ll! This funny, empathetic, superbly-crafted, incendiary human's-eye view of a neighbourhood *still* has the power to…well, do *every*thing! An instant stone-cold classic on release, let's hope that 30 years from now it'll finally feel dated because the alternative is too sad to even think about…
I mean, you could write a college term paper and not even begin to scratch its giddy, multitudinous surface to see everything that's going on. But I have a theory about (re)watching your favourite movies: the visceral reaction you have the first time you watch it as a young person, the analytical, battle-scarred approach to watching it once you're "grown up," and then when you introduce your kids to it. Man, I hope TBH brings her A-game for the third time, 'cause I'm not gonna have any idea how to actually adult that convo.
So, I'll talk, like I always do, about these things: *incredible* cinematography by the great Dickerson, I mean seriously, I've mostly known his work as a director, but man his early work holding the camera, dude, no seriously, all these hipster dudes with their DSLRs and steadicams doing one-r's these days, take a look at what the camera team did here, wow! And, of course, superlative production and costume design, that *stunning* editing, that score by Spike's father (paving the way for a long and fruitful collaboration with Blanchard), that in-your-face sound design(*integral* in a way that you don't often see), and of course, that casting director with an ensemble *bursting* at the seams with once and future "known" actors/stars…I mean, soooo many great performances: Spike (he was quite an actor, no?), Sandoval, Harris, Faison, Savage, Lawrence(yes, *that* Martin!), Edson, Smith(that shot of him at the end😯!), the irrepressible Perez, the doomed Nunn, the livewire Esposito, the conflicted Turturro, the great Dee, Sam Mutha-Bleepin' Jackson(what?! he's been with us *all* along, hasn't he?!)…have I left anyone out?!
And of course, the *great* Aiello, who brings all the nuance and charisma to a complex, complicated, infuriating, warmhearted character, a human being in other words.
But, I gotta say, in all of this maelstrom, in all of Spike's whirling directing, the person who steals the show is Davis. He may not have the last word in the film, but it's his presence that hangs over it all, an easily-ignored but insistent voice that things can, and, must, get better.
PS. TBH was right, as much fun as the movie is…it was all perfectly designed with Swiss-precision to inexorably build to its *inevitable* ending.
#SpikeLee #ErnestDickerson #BarryAlexanderBrown #WynnThomas #RuthECarter #SkipLievsay #BillLee #BranfordMarsalis
#OssieDavis #DannyAiello #GiancarloEsposito #RosiePerez #BillNunn #JohnTurturro #RichardEdson #RubyDee #RogerGuenveurSmith
#MartinLawrence #JoieLee #FrankieFaison #RobinHarris #MiguelSandoval #JohnSavage…and, of course, #SamuelLJackson (and many, many, many more!)
@universalpictures @officialspikelee
Do the Right Thing (1989)
#DoTheRightThing (1989)
😂🤭😬😲🤬😱🥵😔🙏
Bl**dy H*ll! Funny, empathetic, incendiary human's-eye view of us *still* has the power to…well, do *every*thing! An indispensable, classic, let's hope in 30 years it'll finally feel dated because the alternative would be too sad…
😂🤭😬😲🤬😱🥵😔🙏
Bl**dy H*ll! Funny, empathetic, incendiary human's-eye view of us *still* has the power to…well, do *every*thing! An indispensable, classic, let's hope in 30 years it'll finally feel dated because the alternative would be too sad…
24 June 2020
Liverpool Thrashes Crystal Palace In Welcome Return to Form
#MoSalah, no problems🤣!
#BendItLikeTrent😳...someone get #GurinderChadha on the phone!
#Fabinho beautiful touch and thunder shot👏!
#LIVCRY...what a hashtag...isn't that what we've been doing these last many months...😏
#YNWA #LFC #Liverpool
#BendItLikeTrent😳...someone get #GurinderChadha on the phone!
#Fabinho beautiful touch and thunder shot👏!
#LIVCRY...what a hashtag...isn't that what we've been doing these last many months...😏
#YNWA #LFC #Liverpool
23 June 2020
RIP Joel Schumacher
RIP #JoelSchumacher
One of my favourite directors. Excelled at well-made, satisfying mainstream films, but when you dig deeper you realise what an eclectic high-quality career he actually had, one that's more than worthy of celebration. So many great movies to (re)discover!
One of my favourite directors. Excelled at well-made, satisfying mainstream films, but when you dig deeper you realise what an eclectic high-quality career he actually had, one that's more than worthy of celebration. So many great movies to (re)discover!
22 June 2020
Da 5 Bloods
#Da5Bloods
Oh #SpikeLee, you've done it again! Loose-limbed, furious, empathetic genre deconstruction that never loses focuses on what really matters: complicated, complex, compelling characters at the heart of it all. Give #DelroyLindo (& #TerenceBlanchard) *all* the #Oscars!
Oh #SpikeLee, you've done it again! Loose-limbed, furious, empathetic genre deconstruction that never loses focuses on what really matters: complicated, complex, compelling characters at the heart of it all. Give #DelroyLindo (& #TerenceBlanchard) *all* the #Oscars!
21 June 2020
Liverpool Escapes with Draw in Return to Title Run
😬
#Liverpool *escapes* with that famed 0-0 draw vs...#Everton😲
Hey, at least they're back, no👍?
PS. Thank g*d for (season-long)stealth MVP #Alisson👌!
#MerseysideDerby #LFC #EVELIV #YNWA
#Liverpool *escapes* with that famed 0-0 draw vs...#Everton😲
Hey, at least they're back, no👍?
PS. Thank g*d for (season-long)stealth MVP #Alisson👌!
#MerseysideDerby #LFC #EVELIV #YNWA
Happy Father's Day 2020
Happy #FathersDay y'all!
To help you celebrate (and make you miss the #USOpen even more) here's a picture of #PebbleBeach!
#Monterey #CA
To help you celebrate (and make you miss the #USOpen even more) here's a picture of #PebbleBeach!
#Monterey #CA
19 June 2020
RIP Ian Holm
RIP #IanHolm
One of my *all*-time faves. Discovered him during that incredible high-profile 90s run, then realised after re-watching/membering many earlier great films, he had been there all along. What a long, stunning career in cinema, TV, theatre...lamp scene in #BigNight👏
One of my *all*-time faves. Discovered him during that incredible high-profile 90s run, then realised after re-watching/membering many earlier great films, he had been there all along. What a long, stunning career in cinema, TV, theatre...lamp scene in #BigNight👏
18 June 2020
They Live (1988)
#TheyLive (1988)
Awe-bl**dy-some a**-kicking tongue-in-cheek/steadfastly-earnest sci-fi/horror/actioner social/political-satire that is relevant now more than ever! Speaking of a**kicking - that fight between #RowdyRoddyPiper & #KeithDavid...🤛🤜👊💪😮😲😵💥#JohnCarpenter👏
Awe-bl**dy-some a**-kicking tongue-in-cheek/steadfastly-earnest sci-fi/horror/actioner social/political-satire that is relevant now more than ever! Speaking of a**kicking - that fight between #RowdyRoddyPiper & #KeithDavid...🤛🤜👊💪😮😲😵💥#JohnCarpenter👏
16 June 2020
RIP Sushant Singh Rajput
RIP #SushantSinghRajput
So very sad, gone too soon. The kid had real spark. My mother alerted me to him back with his TV show, but I didn't catch up until the fantastic #KaiPoChe!. And I'm so glad I did. 10 films in only 7 years, well on his way to a substantial career. Sigh...
So very sad, gone too soon. The kid had real spark. My mother alerted me to him back with his TV show, but I didn't catch up until the fantastic #KaiPoChe!. And I'm so glad I did. 10 films in only 7 years, well on his way to a substantial career. Sigh...
15 June 2020
Colourism in Cricket
Dude, #HasanMinhaj, changing #cricket one @PATRIOTACT takedown at a time!
Good for #DarenSammy for shining a light on this, and for the always thoughtful @sambitbal for his take:
https://t.co/Pu7yp6LKWp
Good for #DarenSammy for shining a light on this, and for the always thoughtful @sambitbal for his take:
https://t.co/Pu7yp6LKWp
13 June 2020
Let's Cross That Bridge...
In Punjab you don't cross a bridge...
...the bridge crosses you! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
PS. As always, #StaySafe #StayPositive🙏
#Punjab #India
...the bridge crosses you! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
PS. As always, #StaySafe #StayPositive🙏
#Punjab #India
12 June 2020
We Wanted Great Sports Not Some Rando Golf Tournament
We wanted
#IPL, #Federer, #LFC's run to the title, #LeBron, er, #Lakers run to his MVP, #Dodgers' run to World Series, #Wimbledon, #BritishOpen, er, #TheOpen, #F1,
instead...
...we got something called @CSChallengeFW🤷♀️
Hey, at this point we'll take anything, right?😴😏
#IPL, #Federer, #LFC's run to the title, #LeBron, er, #Lakers run to his MVP, #Dodgers' run to World Series, #Wimbledon, #BritishOpen, er, #TheOpen, #F1,
instead...
...we got something called @CSChallengeFW🤷♀️
Hey, at this point we'll take anything, right?😴😏
11 June 2020
Grab (2011)
#Grab (2011)
Lovely little documentary short about a little-known, and seldom-seen, Native American tradition. The tilt-shift opening, open-heartedness, drolly humourous(and heartbreaking) narration, assured, genteel storytelling rhythm...wonderful.
h/t: TBH (as always!)
Lovely little documentary short about a little-known, and seldom-seen, Native American tradition. The tilt-shift opening, open-heartedness, drolly humourous(and heartbreaking) narration, assured, genteel storytelling rhythm...wonderful.
h/t: TBH (as always!)
09 June 2020
The Wretched
#TheWretched
D*mn good #Disturbia-by-way-of-#AmityIsland (this time, the shark's a witch…oh gawd, please don't give #Syfy any ideas for a #SharkWitch movie😬!) fun. The *perfect* movie for #DriveInMovieDay. Good screenplay structure, no?, incl a #Shyamalan-esque *double*-twist!
D*mn good #Disturbia-by-way-of-#AmityIsland (this time, the shark's a witch…oh gawd, please don't give #Syfy any ideas for a #SharkWitch movie😬!) fun. The *perfect* movie for #DriveInMovieDay. Good screenplay structure, no?, incl a #Shyamalan-esque *double*-twist!
05 June 2020
Blow the Man Down
#BlowTheManDown
Entertaining #CoenBrothers-Meets-#ManchesterByTheSea indie, ahem, NEo(😉)-noir. Kudos to young dirs, DP(& colourist for that eye-watering lo-fi/IG-filter look). Great cast, #Oscars/#Emmys to Squibb & Martindale(which sounds like the world's most fun lawyer show!)
Entertaining #CoenBrothers-Meets-#ManchesterByTheSea indie, ahem, NEo(😉)-noir. Kudos to young dirs, DP(& colourist for that eye-watering lo-fi/IG-filter look). Great cast, #Oscars/#Emmys to Squibb & Martindale(which sounds like the world's most fun lawyer show!)
03 June 2020
Gemini Man
#GeminiMan
#AngLee, #CliveOwen, #WillSmith vs. Will Smith…be still my beating heart! Not quite as bad as the reviews would have you believe. We've been treated to some spectacular #DC / #Marvel stuff since 2008, but there's still no substitute for Will Smith in Blockbuster Mode
#AngLee, #CliveOwen, #WillSmith vs. Will Smith…be still my beating heart! Not quite as bad as the reviews would have you believe. We've been treated to some spectacular #DC / #Marvel stuff since 2008, but there's still no substitute for Will Smith in Blockbuster Mode
02 June 2020
Underwater
#Underwater
Good, clean #Alien-Meets-#TheAbyss-Meets-#Leviathan-#Kaiju fun, and it's nice to see #KStew having so much of it. Appealing cast, and you need to watch the awesome BTS to see how the enterprising DP, prod designer, kid director put this whole thing together.
Good, clean #Alien-Meets-#TheAbyss-Meets-#Leviathan-#Kaiju fun, and it's nice to see #KStew having so much of it. Appealing cast, and you need to watch the awesome BTS to see how the enterprising DP, prod designer, kid director put this whole thing together.
01 June 2020
Stan Wawrinka Service Motion!
Holy bleep is that #Stanimal... how does one learn to serve like that😳?! I pulled a rotator cuff just putting my hand between my shoulder blades🤣!
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