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ITT: Discuss the art of filmmaking and videography, the state of the film, TV, streaming, internet video industry - history, current events, predictions for the future, comparisons between countries, analysis, etc.

Seems like all you need nowadays is a smartphone that can shoot HD video, a gimbal or tripod off of e-commerce platforms, and a computer with a decent GPU and RAM with something like kdenlive or Davinci Resolve installed on it
So I wonder why more people don't get into it
Surely there are people with the talent for it out there that obviously can't get into the gatekept oligopolic monstrosity that is Hollywood

Would anyone be interested in a group stream of some Soviet era red westerns such as "At Home Among Strangers" ( Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих; Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh)? I am also up for streaming other films if anyone has any suggestions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fOhGQLNBiY

Reds
Land and Freedom
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Somewhat)
Cargo 200
The Trotsky
Baader Meinhof Complex
Judas and the Black Messiah

I've seen only a few other threads about horror on here and they seemed too specific, so I thought I'd make a broader one.

How do you feel about the current state of horror media? To me it seems at it's always been in a way; a mixed bag. However I feel like I've noticed this trend and, correct me if you think I'm wrong, a lot of more successful recent horror seems to be more creator-driven than in the past.

This is natural I think, as the internet has opened a lot of opportunities for more unique visions and riskier decisions that large studios would otherwise reject.

In a strange sort of symbiosis, though, these large studios attempt to acquire these successful creators and even properties for themselves; see the phenomenon of Slenderman for example. Once an entirely community made, solely internet creation has gotten several of his own movies, and has by and large become an 'artifact' of sorts of 2010's-era web. Studios cannibalize these unique properties and, once they've made some modicum of a profit, utterly destroy the integrity of them, leaving communities to look for the next big thing in horror.

With that aside, feel free to discuss almost literally anything horror related here; movies, books, ARGs, games, creepypasta (the rare good kind, if you can find any).

Post leftist political cartoons, current or old.

Preferably originals, but edits are welcome too.

caricatures and political posters also welcome

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modern simpsons fans are like trots in that they heap praise on the early seasons while they decry later seasons as "not real simpsons!". in reality all seasons are actually existing simpsons and while the later seasons may not be perfect they are still deserving of critical support from dedicated fans. some fans go so far as to point out that even the early seasons had their problems, despite what trots claim, most notably Some Enchanted Evening and Homer's Odyssey. as good Groeningists we should realize that the simpson is not a state of affairs that is to be established, an ideal to which episodes have to adjust themselves. we call the simpsons the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. the conditions of this movement result from the episodes now in existence.

Recommend me anything to watch.

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