This is the Snyder cut we should all agree on.

'So I'm a constitutional law professor,' Kate Shaw explained. 'I have never taught my students about the doctrine of the criminal immunity of ex-presidents from prosecution, even for official acts. And that’s for the simple reason that there is no such doctrine.” 

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“Trump’s legal argument is a path to dictatorship. That is not an exaggeration: His legal theory is that presidents are entitled to absolute immunity for official acts. Under this theory, a sitting president could violate the law with impunity, whether that is serving unlimited…

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“Perhaps the biggest irony is that, because Biden’s DOJ was so concerned about avoiding the appearance of politically motivated prosecutions, it took almost his entire term to get the case against Trump this far; if Trump wins the election, U.S. v. Trump will fade, but Trump v.…

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'Douglas Sirk’s films are descriptive. Very few close-ups. Even in shot-counter-shot the other person doesn’t appear fully in the frame. The spectator’s intense feeling isn't a result of identification, but montage & music'

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

''The Night of the Hunter' (1955) runs counter to the rules of commercialism; it will probably be Laughton's single experience as a director. It's a pity, despite failures of style, it is immensely inventive; like a horrifying news item retold by children.'

— François Truffaut

What's the best opening sequence you've ever seen in a movie?

David Lynch losing his mind when a producer says scene is 'too long'

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Folks, whatever the Court does, having this case heard and the idea of having immunity for a military coup taken seriously by being debated is a big victory in the information war that MAGA and allies wage alongside legal battles. Authoritarians specialize in normalizing extreme…

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