Alberto Has Arrived On Amazon

Hey guys,

Some new things:

1.  As of today, Alberto and the Concrete Jungle is available to watch on Amazon!
   Go here
   
   It'll eventually be on more VOD channels: YouTube, Google Play, Tubi, etc.
   
   But Amazon has a big interface, so I'd like to kindly ask you to support the film right now:
   
   Share the Amazon page publicly and send it privately to as many people as you can. Here's a shortlink:
   

   https://rb.gy/nlzaqt
   
   Feel free to send the trailer directly to help with attention:
   https://youtu.be/YPx13BFGA1U
   
   Add your rating and short review to the Amazon page and tell others to do so. You'll need to purchase it - it's only like $2.99.
   Act anonymous, not like you know me or anyone that worked on the film. These sites are meant for a larger unbiased community.
   (- IMPORTANT: If you worked on the film, only add a rating. Do not add a review. Amazon forbids it and checks against IMDb name.
   - Also, only one review per household (location).
   - Also.. reviews from people who have never purchased and reviewed any other Amazon products or movies may not be posted.)
   
   Add some words to IMDb -- if you worked on the film, you can still do this, just act anonymous! -- and tell others to do so:
   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9354432/reviews
   (Again, please no celebrating cast/crew like you know them.)
   
   Thank you so much for your support!

   

   Now back to our regularly scheduled programming:
   

2. Have been thinking about getting back to Tokyo this year, and coincidentally, Michael Mann and HBO just showed it off. I'd be going to a sunnier part.
   

3. Again, do your own research, every point of view. We're all low on time and resources, so it's not easy...but always worth a try.  Here in the case of food too, don't let the corporation-government alliance dictate it to you.
   

4. Haven't seen jeen-yuhs. Judging from what I hear, it's not worth it. Time for some celebrity docs that are actually critical or at least less glorifying of their subjects. But that's not how it works. These are made by the celebrities themselves. The ones that aren't pretty much need celebrity approval anyway. To make one that really gets into the weeds, you need to do it with a fictional celebrity. Stay tuned.
   
   In the meantime, we have Pam & Tommy, on the heels of Framing Britney Spears and Controlling Britney Spears and Britney vs Spears. They're made without consent, but even with that brazenness, they didn't exactly go the distance. The thesis is always that celebs are victims. Do we have anything more interesting to say about these people other than "sympathize"?
   
   With Pam & Tommy, this simplistic moralizing doesn't seem to have totally worked out. Apparently it may be hypocritical, as Inkoo Kang points out:
   
   "...the series’ moralizing — combined with Anderson’s pointed refusal to participate in the project — only underscores the fact that the show replicates the exploitative dynamics it condemns."
   
   So, a series pointing a finger at men exploiting a woman, is exploiting that same woman's story, ha.
   

5. Tic illness spreading through social media
   

6. Stanley Kubrick on the meaning of the 2001 ending.
   

7. I mean, this shot is pretty great, but the whole thread of Guillermo's tweets is really something.

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