Violet Lucca

@violetlucca.bsky.social

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Film critic. Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Jan ‘25). My writing about film has appeared in the NYT, Art in America, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and elsewhere. NYFCC member https://linktr.ee/violetvlucca

Tom Wilkinson’s character holding a shit ton of baguettes in Michael Clayton
A photo of Bill Swerski’s Superfans, an SNL sketch about Chicago sports superfans
Me: Still can’t believe you guys have to show ID when you want to jerk off Friend: VPN m8 Me: But will the pensioner down the street know how to do it? Or will he suffer in silence? This is a Ken Loach film
Me: Kasparov wrote a piece about how American power should be wielded in The Atlantic. Why the fuck is the guy who lost to a computer 30 years ago telling us anything? Surely there are other, more interesting chess grandmasters out there? Friend: You and I lose to a computer every day (from looking at posts) Me: lol. Fuck
Still from Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, 2012). Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) sits in the back of his limo, his face emotionless. Eric’s longtime tech guy Shiner (Jay Baruchel) sits across from him, looking despondent.
The cover of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials by Violet Lucca, with a foreword by Viggo Mortensen. The cover is a deep purple with a keyhole cutout; inside is a man covered in ears (from Crimes of the Future).
Headline: Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk’s SpaceX for Trespassing Subhead: The lawsuit alleges Musk’s aerospace company took over land the game maker bought in 2017 to interfere with then-President Trump’s border wall By Ginger Adams Otis Sept. 21, 2024 1:10 pm ET
Kick Kennedy’s taste for the extreme was fed by her dad’s eccentric environmentalism. Exhibit A: When she was six, word got out that a dead whale had washed up on Squaw Island in Hyannis Port. Bobby—who likes to study animal skulls and skeletons—ran down to the beach with a chainsaw, cut off the whale’s head, and then bungee-corded it to the roof of the family minivan for the five-hour haul back to Mount Kisco, New York. “Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet, Kick recalls. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”