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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-20 at 23:07

Today would have been the 79th birthday of David Lynch, who died last week. The family asked fans to join them in a group meditation at 12pm today, which we've missed, but you can still celebrate the iconic director by watching "David Lynch: The Art Life," a documentary that is free to stream on Criterion for those who live in the U.S. It covers Lynch's early career, from his time as a painter to the production of "Eraserhead." Criterion subscribers can also watch "Eraserhead," "Inland Empire" and Lost Highway on the service. Here's more from @Gizmodo.

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[#]DavidLynch #Film #Cinema #Movies #Documentary

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-20 at 22:13

"The Brutalist" has come under fire for the use of AI to "tweak" the Hungarian dialogue of Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones to make it more "authentic," which came to light in an interview with editor Dávid Jancsó for video tech publication Red Shark News. Some people online have said that this should disqualify the Oscars contender from awards consideration. “Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own,” director Brady Corbet told @THR in a statement. "They worked for months with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to perfect their accents. Innovative Respeecher technology was used in Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy." Here's more. What do you think?

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[#]Film #Hollywood #AwardsSeason #Oscars #TheBrutalist

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-20 at 21:12

Critics didn't think much of Adam McKay's "Don't Look Up" when it came out in 2021 (it has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 56%) yet it's now the second most-watched film on Netflix. McKay spoke to the NME about the L.A. fires, climate breakdown, how he'll get his next project to viewers, and the enduring relevance of "Don't Look Up." “The estimates of how many people saw that movie – Netflix will never say exactly – but it’s somewhere between 400 million and half a billion. Viewers all really connected with the idea of being gaslit. Being lied to by their leaders, lied to by their big news media, and being lied to by industries."

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[#]Movies #Hollywood #LAFires #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-20 at 19:08

Rod Serling, creator of "The Twilight Zone," believed that the arts were a vehicle for social criticism. While his famous show is now thought of as a sci-fi and fantasy anthology, it was also a way for Serling and others to critique the United States' policies. "The late 1950s and early 1960s were a time of lingering McCarthyism, Cold War paranoia, rampant racism, and relentless pressure to conform to a middle American, white, heterosexual, three-kids-and-a-suburban-house idea of normalcy," writes Matt Zoller Seitz of Roger Ebert. Here's his tribute to Serling's creative courage.

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[#]RodSerling #Writing #Television #TV #Entertainment #TheTwilightZone

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-20 at 18:12

The Rev. Bernice King spoke at the annual service in Atlanta to commemorate her late father and warned against anti-woke rhetoric. “To be woke is to be aware of oppression and commitment to justice,” she told the congregation at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. had been preacher. She warned those who would strip away civil rights. "We will not go back!" Here's more from @AssociatedPress.

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[#]MartinLutherKing #MLK #CivilRights #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-20 at 17:30

Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died of an aggressive brain cancer at age 67. She entered politics as a teenager, working on a campaign to elect Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who fought Texas' abortion ban in Roe v. Wade, to the state legislature. She continued to work as an activist and reproductive rights advocate all her life, most recently helping launch a chatbot that provided information about where and how people could terminate their pregnancies. Here's @19thnews's tribute to her.

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[#]CecileRichards #AbortionRights #PlannedParenthood #Activism #RoeVWade #RIP #InMemoriam

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-19 at 22:35

When it comes to the best food cities in the U.S., Chicago, New York, and San Francisco take the lion’s share of acclaim. But Tucson, Arizona, the desert-bound city with the oldest continuously cultivated soil in the country, boasts a fascinating food scene all its own. Read more from @BBCNews:

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[#]Culture #Travel #Arizona #USA #Food #Foodstodon

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-19 at 21:33

Season one of “Severance” debuted in early 2022. Season two just started a couple of days ago. Remember when you didn’t have to wait so long between seasons? Ben Lindbergh and Rob Arthur tackle this question for The Ringer:

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[#]Culture #TV #Entertainment #Severance

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-18 at 23:12

In West Texas, artisans known as “Golden Needles” preserve the craft of making cowboy boots by hand. Two in particular, Jose Contreras and Victor Rodriguez, have been at it for over 30 years. Each is in his early 60s and among some of the youngest in the trade. AtlasObscura.com has more on this dying breed of bootmakers that swear "machines just don't do it as well."

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[#]Culture #Texas #Style #Fashion

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-18 at 20:33

Before the late-1800s, lobster was viewed as food for the poor. That changed when railroad chefs began offering the creepy-looking bottom-feeders to wealthy train passengers. Eating lobster then became chic. In the past decade or so, food startups and sustainability advocates have been hoping that a similar cultural renaissance might be possible for other edible arthropods: insects. @Grist explains:

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[#]Culture #Food #Foodstodon #USA #AmericanCulture #Cuisine #Insects

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-17 at 23:44

We've seen a lot of great writing over the past couple of days about David Lynch and his incomparable contribution to cinema, but this piece from Brian Tallerico at Roger Ebert brought a tear to our eyes. "When people point to Lynch works like 'Mulholland Drive' or 'The Straight Story' or even those of us who love 'Lost Highway' it’s not just that specific film that speaks to them," he writes. "It’s the sense that the potential of the form is limitless as long as people like Lynch are involved. The entire art form was shifted by him and is now lessened by his absence. We owe it to him to burst through the doors he opened."

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[#]DavidLynch #Film #Cinema #Movies #InMemoriam #RIP

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-17 at 22:36

What is a Passport Bro? Adrian Nathan West writes for The Baffler about men who travel to foreign countries in search of women who "value traditional masculine qualities." "Whereas sex tourism is seen as the seedy last recourse for losers who can’t get any in their home country, xenophile pickup artists see themselves as incipient alpha males," he writes.

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[#]Lifestyle #Culture #Manosphere #Longreads #PassportBro

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-17 at 19:25

Hollywood loves a comeback, from Demi Moore to Ke Huy Quan. Nicholas Barber writes for @BBCNews about the essential ingredients: Behind-the-scenes redemption stories; working with a critically revered director; edgy material that reveals a new side of the actor. He concludes: "Getting back to the top of the Hollywood tree is hard enough — but staying up there is the really tricky part. As Bette Davis and Marlon Brando learnt, one comeback isn't always enough."

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[#]Movies #Film #Cinema #DemiMoore #Entertainment

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-17 at 17:48

Here's a video of Dench, Smith and Plowright discussing how long they'll keep working for, from the documentary "Tea With the Dames."

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[#]JoanPlowright #RIP #InMemoriam #Theater #Entertainment #Movies #Cinema

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-17 at 17:46

Actress Joan Plowright has died at 95. The British Oscar-nominee and Golden Globe and Tony winner was part of a generation of actors including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave and Maggie Smith, and was known for her work in reviving the U.K. theater scene alongside her husband, the late Laurence Olivier. Here's more from @CNN.

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[#]JoanPlowright #RIP #InMemoriam #Theater #Entertainment #Movies #Cinema

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-17 at 00:43

Critics and film lovers are sharing stories about their interactions with the iconic David Lynch. Here's one from Consequence's Liz Shannon Miller, who got to ask him a question on the press tour for "Twin Peaks: The Return." "Throughout the whole panel, Lynch was entirely himself, as idiosyncratic and warm and open as you might expect (even when dismissing a question with just a few brief words). It was a remarkable experience, one that brought out his human side in unexpected ways, while confirming what a force he was," she writes.

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[#]RIP #Film #Movies #Cinema #DavidLynch #InMemoriam

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-16 at 23:45

Comedian Bec Shaw is tired of the argument that "wokeness" is ruining comedy because "you can't joke about anything anymore." She writes in her Substack about how often that sentiment is wielded to justify "the most hack, unfunny, mean-spirited, boring jokes that have ever existed." She continues: "People are whining and frothing at the mouth to be able to 'say what they want,' and what they desperately want to say is… the same old jokes we’ve heard over and over for years." Tell us in the comments what you think.

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[#]Comedy #Humour #Humor #CancelCulture #Wokeness

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-16 at 23:05

During her early days of studying Spanish in 2022, writer Catherine Lacey kept a journal of what she was learning. "As I looked through it more recently, it became clear how cheerfully deranged the early days of learning a new language appear from even the slightest distance," she writes for The Paris Review of the book, which contains such phrases as: "They are afraid of my cat! Why? I don’t know." and "She is a pilot. I was stupid. She was a pilot I was a marathoner until my accident."

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[#]Learning #Languages #Spanish #Culture

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-16 at 21:48

"The faux-feminist man who is accused of being a secret predator is by now, after the revelations of the Me Too movement, a familiar figure," writes @Vox's Constance Grady. Amid the latest allegations against author Neil Gaiman and actor Justin Baldoni, she writes about the phenomenon of men who build their public image on being good guys.

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[#]Celebrity #Culture #PopCulture #NeilGaiman #JustinBaldoni

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Written by Flipboard Culture Desk on 2025-01-16 at 19:04

David Lynch, the legendary director, has died at age 78. His family announced his death on Facebook. Here's @Variety's tribute to the Oscar-winning creator of "Twin Peaks," "Blue Velvet" and so much more.

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[#]Film #Entertainment #DavidLynch #InMemoriam #RIP

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