timespace coordinates: 2010’s Turgistan, Middle East (fictional) + Florence, Italy Las Vegas Hong Kong etc
6 Underground is a 2019 American action thriller film directed by Michael Bay.
Tag: 2010’s
1418 – Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
1415 – Uncut Gems (2019)
timespace coordinates: 2012 New York City‘s Diamond District
Uncut Gems is a 2019 American crime thriller film directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, (Good Time) who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronald Bronstein. The film stars Adam Sandler, Kevin Garnett, Idina Menzel, Lakeith Stanfield, Julia Fox, The Weeknd, and Eric Bogosian.
The plot follows Howard Ratner, a gambling addict in New York City’s Diamond District, who gets in over his head with loansharks and must retrieve an expensive gem he purchased in order to pay off his debts. (wiki)
“That’s a million dollar opal you’re holding. This is old school. Middle-earth shit. “
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Based on his pioneering work in the recent book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, author and podcaster Erik Davis will explore the phenomenon of occult revivals, comparing and contrasting some of the factors that made the early 1970s and the late 2010s hotbeds of occultism, witchcraft, and visionary experience. Featuring films by visual artists Dustin Wong and Amanda Siegel.
youtube: High Weirdness Then and Now: The Occult Revival in the ’70s and Today
The Politics of High Weirdness: a Litquake talk with Erik Davis and RU Sirius
For Litquake 2019, Erik Davis spoke with RU Sirius about the politics of high weirdness, then and now.
High Weirdness By Mail by Ivan Stang
This hysterical hobbyist’s guide belongs in every hip library. Coot cat Reverend Ivan Stang, high holy of the Church of the SubGenius, has compiled a bestiary of American creeps and crazies so that you can write to them and receive mail that is weird, horrible, wonderfully absurd, or a combination of all three.
1392 – Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019 documentary)
Memory: The Origins of Alien is a 2019 documentary film that traces the origin of Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise. Directed and written by Alexandre O. Philippe, it focuses on the idea that film is “a collective art form – not just the wider circle of writers, performers and technicians beyond the director, but in the case of the truly great films, serendipitous access to a deeper collective unconscious …”, tracing the connections from H. P. Lovecraft to Francis Bacon to the Greek Furies. (wiki) / imdb / rt
30 Alien Poster Designs / Poster Posse Project / alternativemovieposters.com/portfolio
1391 – Abominable (2019)
timespace coordinates: 2010’s Shanghai/ Hong Kong > Sichuan region > the Gobi Desert > the banks of the Yellow River > the Himalayas
Abominable is a 2019 computer-animated adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio. It was written and directed by Jill Culton and co-directed by Todd Wilderman, and stars the voices of Chloe Bennet, Albert Tsai, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Eddie Izzard, Sarah Paulson, Tsai Chin, and Michelle Wong. (wiki)
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