#samourai heart

[mogwai-movie-house]

A Film A Year

Going through an old hard drive today I found this almost-completed list from 2015 in which I'd set myself the task of choosing a single film for each year of the preceding hundred. It was interesting to see in what ways my tastes had changed and just how many more films I'd discovered and fallen in love with in the meantime.

Anyways, I thought I'd finish it off and update it to the present: I very much tried to keep it to just one film per year, but the competition some years was just too high so they've had to share joint first places:

1915 A Night In The Show 1916 The Vagabond 1917 Easy Street 1918 A Dog's Life 1919 Sunnyside 1920 One Week 1921 The Kid 1922 Dr Mabuse, The Gambler 1923 Safety Last / Why Worry? 1924 Sherlock Jr / The Last Laugh 1925 The Gold Rush 1926 The General 1927 Sunrise / Seventh Heaven 1928 The Last Command / Steamboat Jr. / The Man Who Laughs / The Passion of Joan of Arc 1929 The Love Parade / Un Chien Andalou / Lucky Star 1930 All Quiet On The Western Front 1931 City Lights/ The Smiling Lieutenant 1932 Horse Feathers / Love Me Tonight 1933 Duck Soup / The Invisible Man 1934 It Happened One Night 1935 The 39 Steps 1936 My Man Godfrey 1937 Nothing Sacred 1938 Adventures Of Robin Hood / Pygmalion 1939 The Cat And The Canary / The Wizard of Oz / The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1940 His Girl Friday / Pinocchio 1941 Citizen Kane / The Maltese Falcon / Dumbo / Sullivan's Travels 1942 Casablanca 1943 Le Corbeau 1944 Arsenic & Old Lace 1945 Les Enfants du Paradis / And Then There Were None 1946 A Matter of Life and Death 1947 Black Narcissus 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1949 The Third Man / Kind Hearts & Coronets 1950 Sunset Blvd. / La Ronde 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire 1952 Singin' In The Rain / Le Plaisir 1953 Calamity Jane 1954 Hobson's Choice 1955 The Night Of The Hunter /The Ladykillers 1956 The Searchers 1957 The Seventh Seal 1958 Vertigo 1959 North By Northwest / Ballad of A Soldier 1960 Psycho / The Virgin Spring / Two Women 1961 Breakfast At Tiffanys 1962 Le Doulos 1963 The Great Escape / The Birds 1964 Onibaba 1965 For A Few Dollars More 1966 Blow Up 1967 Le Samourai / Cool Hand Luke 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey 1969 Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid 1970 Le Cercle Rouge 1971 Get Carter / Harold & Maude 1972 The Godfather 1973 Don't Look Now 1974 The Godfather Part II / Chinatown 1975 Jaws / The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1976 Network 1977 Star Wars / Annie Hall 1978 Halloween / Superman 1979 Apocalypse Now / Alien / Life Of Brian / Manhattan 1980 Stardust Memories / Raging Bull 1981 Raiders Of The Lost Ark 1982 Blade Runner / The Thing 1983 The Dead Zone / Zelig 1984 Ghostbusters / The Terminator / Blood Simple 1985 Back To The Future 1986 Hannah & Her Sisters / The Fly 1987 Withnail & I / Wings of Desire 1988 Dangerous Liaisons 1989 Crimes & Misdemeanors / Dead Poets Society 1990 Goodfellas 1991 The Silence of The Lambs / Terminator 2 1992 Reservoir Dogs / The Player 1993 Schindler's List / Groundhog Day 1994 Pulp Fiction 1995 Se7en / Casino / The Usual Suspects 1996 Fargo 1997 LA Confidential / Grosse Point Blank / Boogie Nights 1998 The Truman Show / Happiness / Buffalo '66 1999 American Beauty / Magnolia / Being John Malkovich / Fight Club 2000 Memento 2001 Mulholland Drive / The Royal Tennenbaums / The Piano Teacher 2002 Adaptation / The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2003 Lost In Translation 2004 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind / The Life Aquatic 2005 Me & You & Everyone We Know 2006 The Prestige / Perfume 2007 No Country For Old Men / There Will Be Blood 2008 The Dark Knight / Let The Right One In / Tropic Thunder 2009 Cold Souls / Up / Zombieland 2010 I Saw The Devil / The Ghost Writer 2011 The Hidden Face 2012 The Avengers 2013 Her 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel / The Winter Soldier 2015 The Survivalist / The Lobster 2016 Like Crazy 2017 Coco 2018 Deadpool 2 2019 The Irishman 2020 Kajillionaire 2021 The French Dispatch 2022 The Banshees of Inisherin

#the real oscars #a century of film

[spacelizzbian]

S1 ep1

Not to immedeately well actually, but Ahsoka never officially practised as a jedi knight, she was offered the role but declined

(Not that this matters to anyone but nerds like me who have way too much investement in this)

Idk what people think of the dark side girl's design but I love that she just looks like an emo girl. Like yes, that is exactly every darksider's thing lmao

Ok Ahsoka's theme over the opening credits did make my heart swell a bit ngl

Ahsoka, former jedi, but mostly tomb raider

Pivoting star wars back to having more of a samourai feel is a good idea actually

Hah, that hole thing the jedi do never gets old

OMG HAHA, SHE USED THAT IN COMBAT SHE WOULD DO THAT

Ok if the combat keeps it fun like this I might warm up to this being live action ...maybe

Love that Huyang's neutral expression makes him look like's always annoyed and exhausted

Ahsoka demonstrating that she was absoultely Anakin's apprentice by implying she used some non kocher ways to make someone talk

Please tell me the music is what she's listening to the whole time in universe

Why does she need to be there, let her brood on the anniversary of her friend dying? 😒

Uh oh, that's strike one of lore that didnt feel like it needed to be there (at least it doesn't feel like that, yet)

If they dont explore Ahsoka's feelings towards the jedi order in this, idk what the point is. Everyone sees her as a Jedi and calls her as such but she made such a point of it in rebels that she's not one? But in tcw s7 she was considering rejoining after the war?? And now she doesnt seem to correct anyone on it anymore and even taught an apprentice???

I don't wanna know for semantic reasons, but Ahsoka seems like a prime figure to explore the jedi of new and old since she is one of the only characters to have lived through both Yoda's and Luke's Jedi Orders. And she has so much juicy bagage to boot, it would feel like a waste if they didnt explore this

Lmao, Ahsoka knowing exactly what to say to get Sabine on board instantly

Girl, admitting that there hasn't been a place you'd consider home since the jedi order is deeply depressing and not the normal answer you think it is 😭

Sabine giving Ahsoka the same attitude Ahsoka gave Anakin, mmm delicious

Deadbeat mom Ahsoka and good mom Hera is not a thing I was expecting but I'm here for it

I give it a 40% chance that Sabine follows that order, she is after all officially part of the disaster lineage now lmao

"Formidable adversaries" bitch please

She has survived and beaten some of the best fighters in her lifetime so I'll never feel any tension with any foe she faces

Ok aight, setting something thematic up about Ahsoka and loneliness, good good good

"She's just as stubborn and bullish as ever"

Gurl, glass houses 💀

How tf are you holding that pencil?!?

Ok I do like that the nightsisters also had holocrons, makes them feel more like an actual faction of the force

Why do the lightsabers look so bad? They barely glow anymore💀

Not the emo dark side girl using her cape in combat 😂😭

Now that ending did make me gasp, before I immedeately remembered lightsaber wounds don't mean shit anymore if you're a main character

#ashowka #ahsoka spoilers #ahsoka #sabine wren #huyang #hera syndulla #sw #liveblog #lizzz makes a post

[still-single]

Luxor Rentals – Burn Yr Trash CS (self-released)

Remarkable low/mid-fi psych pop wanderings from a seven-piece band out of the small northcentral town of Orange, Massachusetts. They carry with them an unspoken pedigree of townie wisdom from a formidable backbench: timid Sebadoh-esque introspection (“Girl of the World”), early Dino Jr/peaking SY post-folk noise blowouts (“Dove/This Town Has Its Faults”), Yo La Tengo-esque drone heart flutter (“Suzuki Samourai Jam”), obligged Mountain Movers/Headroom/Burnt Hills style scope (most), actual Nuggets-style garage psych (“A Hallway,” “Wax Baby”), lost Syd/‘cid journeys into the drugged spiritual self, the arty sprawl of Cul de Sac ... all this and a cover of The Godz' “Permanent Green Light” indicate that these are folks who clearly know what they are doing, finding a way from antiquity to the thematic now, pretty incredible for what amounts to a demo for a forthcoming album and EP. Perfect late summer into autumn transitional music, wildly successful on its own terms, and one of the highlights of 2023 so far; ultimately a reassurance that our heroes won't be around forever and that new heads are at the ready to wield their torches. (Doug Mosurock)

#luxor rentals #belltower #bandcamp #psychedelia #mosurock #still single #review #Bandcamp

[14eliho]

samourai tropical heart

This was lost to time

#japanese makeup

[gintokigintokigintoki]

#anime #shimura shinpachi #gintama #manga #sakata gintoki #manga cap #kagura yato #kondo isao #okita sougo #hijikata toushirou #official art #samourai heart #sadaharu #gintama otae #katsura kotarou #elizabeth

[criterioncollection]

ANNOUNCING OUR NOVEMBER 2017 TITLES!

#jabberwocky #terry gilliam #desert hearts #donna deitch #Le Samourai #jean-pierre melville #alain delon #the philadelphia story #katharine hepburn #cary grant #james stewart #film

[bansept]

Ichihime - Samurai AU

Couldn’t do a fanart so i write this instead haha. I like this AU a lot, hopefully you guys too!

A bit of a disclaimer : I have less than basic knowledge on how the Japanese society worked in the Edo period, so I might mess the titles, names, foods and cultures, and many other things. Please forgive me if I ever mistake anything, my only help is Google :’(

Gashadokuro (yokai) : from what I gathered, it is a gigantic skeleton that chases of the living and kills them in a rather horrible way.

Return

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As long as he could remember, Ichigo had felt void in a tasteless and colorless world. Everything around him was empty of emotion, of warmth and of care. The only thing that was taught to him was the way with a sword, how to celebrate a victory with sake, or how to kill your body rather than your honor if a battle was lost.

The day he had worn his red and black armor on for the very first time, the Samurai Lord had finally felt emotions, fire burning his body, from his heart to his fingers. Hatred, disgust and madness grew on him like wildflowers on forgotten temples, but they were poisonous. No one could sprout them out, no one could soothe their bright crimson burn, and the young Lord was soon called The Human Gashadokuro, his fury unstoppable as he massacred any enemy forces by stepping on their bones and cutting off their heads.

Reminding himself those times was painful.

He knew the past couldn’t be changed, that all those deaths could never be reverted. When Ichigo wasn’t fighting, he would order all his people to remain away from him, to leave him alone… In peace. Even if peace was a pathetic term that hid his despair and pain.

Many years, from the age of 16 to the age of 23, he sat in his Samurai seat, thinking only of battle and how to atone his sins.

And, like an unexpected rainbow after a rainstorm, Lady Inoue was introduced to him.

Ichigo could not even pretend she was like the other noble ladies he had met and almost married off to. Inoue Orihime was beautiful, inside and out, warm and calm, her smile as incredible as her will to remain joyful. She was the only human being that made the mad feeling of hatred fade from his cloudy mind.

Of course they got along. Who would resist the charms of such a woman? Who could tell her “no” when she walked up to you with those clear and big grey eyes, imploring to learn how to cook from the servants, even if she was noble? Who could whisk their hand away when she took it and shyly leaned her face in the palm of it?

Not him. His only weakness was her, and all of the things coming from her.

.

.

.

The wars didn’t end. His armor was as if sewed on his back for a solid year, with no chance of returning home to his new wife anytime soon. The phantom of the blood thirsty Gashadokuro was hovering his brain, trying to take control several times. Make him forget the other feelings he had learnt with his Orihime. But it never succeeded, the monster pushed away as the horses galloped home.

He came back on a rainy day. The blooming flowers had retreated back inside their green shelters, the rain pouring hard on them without causing any damage, and the sky’s tears washed away the blood that had somehow remained on his armor. The horses were tired, and the men exhausted after running for so long.

Stepping foot on the muddy ground, Ichigo took off his helmet and gave it to the servant beside him, giving him a pat as he stared at the gates, the gardens, everywhere.

Before he could wonder where she would be, a female servant came to him, bowed profoundly and muttered the lady was asleep.

“Why would she be sleeping at such a time?” He wondered out loud, feeling his eyebrows return to their original form. “Is my wife unwell?”

“My lord, it seems she was having trouble eating and resting for the past few days. She has finally fallen asleep after waiting for your return day and night.”

Ichigo gave a sharp nod and a quick sigh, rushing as fast as his heavy armor could go inside, opening the wooden panels to reach his private quarters. Worry was evident on his face, and no one dared wishing him congratulations for his victories.

Seeing her laying on her own bedding, on her back and one hand extended to his own futon, Ichigo kneeled next to her sleeping form, silently taking off his armor piece by piece.

“You worried me, my love. I thought… That someone had attacked you. That you were sick. That you would be far away from me, even though our bodies are close… I am happy those were merely nightmares.”

He told her, tone calm and gentle, whispering to not wake her. It took a few more moments until he was in a human state again, bare as the day he was born, and sliding in his futon, gathering his wife close to his chest.

“You should have woke me up! Ah, I feel so bad for not welcoming you…”

“Don’t… I couldn’t dare wake up my tired wife… You looked as exhausted as my men. But not as muddy, which I’m grateful for.”

She gave him a pout, stopping her hand from hitting his tempting chest, turning around and huffing. Ichigo chuckled, sticking his front to her back and his hands imprisoning themselves around her waist.

“I missed you.”

Three simple words, not as powerful as the other ones he enjoyed proclaiming to her, and it was enough to calm his sweet lady, her head shifting to look at him.

Months. 10 months. That was how long they had been apart. For so many days and nights, forced to live in the dream of holding each other soon, of seeing their faces contort in happiness and mischief. Her big eyes were calling on him, begging him to forgive her, and he pulled her against his lips, easily forgiving her.

“Will… You go again?” She asked, hands toying with the sheets around them, a few hours later.

Her fear was evident, the anxious and atrocious feeling of yearning prepared to come back. But he smiled, soothing her by playing with her long hair.

“No. All the threats are gone now. No war should explode anytime soon. And if it did, I wouldn’t go for long.”

“That means… You’ll stay?”

.

.

.

He did stay. For days and days, until they turned into months and they forgot about a war. The demon was still in his mind, taking over his body to kill the ones responsible for her body ache, the poison useless against her. She had tamed the Human Gashadokuro, and in return, he protected her.

Ichigo Kurosaki didn’t know all the emotions. His life had been dull, then violently sharp, red and black the only things he could feel. But with one woman and her will to warm him, wait for him, and love him, he could finally feel human, by her side.

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I love this AU because I can be gory and fluffy at the same time.

Here, it was merely just one idea, I’ll write more!

#ichihime #bleach #ichihime fanfiction #ichihime headcanon #ichihime writing #ichigo kurosaki #orihime inoue #ichigo x orihime #ichihime samurai AU #fluff

[tcm]

A Journey Into French Cinema By Susan King

Do you remember the movie or filmmaker that changed your life? When you realized film was more than entertainment? When you were moved so emotionally that you couldn’t shake the feeling you had when watching the movie? Veteran French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, who directed such acclaimed films as THE CLOCKMAKER OF ST. PAUL (‘74); COUP DE TORCHON (‘81) and ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT (‘86), was just a boy when he fell in love with the films of such directors as Jacques Becker and Jean Renoir.

Their films gave him “tremendous emotion,” he told me in a 2017 interview for the American Cinematheque. “Tears and love. Because of them, I think, I understood my country. I think I fell in love with France because of those films. Not because of politicians, but because of Renoir, because of Claude Sautet, because of Marcel Pagnol.”

In 2016, he directed a valentine of a documentary, MY JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA. It’s a must-see for French film fans, as well as those who are just dipping their toes into the country’s cinema. The documentary looks at the works of Becker and Renoir, as well as Jean-Pierre Melville, Claude Sautet, the writer-director team of Jacques Prevert and Marcel Carne and the pioneering New Wave filmmakers Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.

“The main reason I decided to do the film is that I wanted to say, ‘Thank you’ to all of those people who changed my life,” noted the 79-year-old Tavernier. “I mean those directors, screenwriters, composers, actors and actresses. Some of those films gave me hope, gave me strength. You know there is a Chinese proverb which says that when you drink the water of the well, you must always thank the man who built it.”

Jean Renoir (1894-1979) didn’t build French cinema, but he was definitely one of the chief architects. The son of renowned Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, he is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, French filmmaker of the 20th century. He was also one of the most influential with the New Wave directors because he was what the New Wave considered an auteur, a filmmaker who exerts his personal influence and artistic control so that he is considered the author of the movie.

Renoir made countless classic films both in France and in the U.S., where he fled when the Nazis took power of his country. Renoir earned his only Oscar nomination for Best Director for THE SOUTHERNER (‘45). But two of his greatest accomplishments are LA GRANDE ILLUSION (‘37) and THE RULES OF THE GAME (‘39). LA GRANDE ILLUSION, which was released in the states in 1938, was the first foreign language film to earn a Best Picture Oscar nomination and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Film.

Set during World War I, LA GRANDE ILLUSION is a powerful anti-war statement as well as a look at the class structure in France. Renoir’s frequent collaborators, superstar Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio and Pierre Fresnay, play three French officers who are captured and sent to a POW camp run by an aristocratic German commander played Erich von Stroheim. Though critics often have cited THE RULES OF THE GAME as Renoir’s masterpiece, I prefer GRANDE ILLUSION because he imbues his characters with empathy and sympathy.

THE RULES OF THE GAME opened 91 years ago this month in France, just a few months before the German occupation. Audiences, especially the wealthy, didn’t want to see this film as it satirized the ruling class. Renoir would later say that he tried to salvage the film by cutting it, “and to start with, I cut scenes in which I myself played too large a part, as though I was ashamed, after the rebuff, of showing myself on screen. But it was useless.” Renoir was figuratively bound and quartered by French audiences for RULES OF THE GAME because it skewers the aristocracy. The rich and spoiled have no morals bounding in and out of each other’s arms and beds during a hunting weekend at the country estate of a wealthy marquis (Dalio). The scene of the rabbit hunt is horrific, as these frivolous beings kill countless defenseless animals trying to escape their rifles. And the estate’s staff and workers are equally amoral.

The only character who has heart is Octave played by Renoir, a big bear of a man who is “friends” with the aristocracy but in the end is really alone. THE RULES OF THE GAME only stayed in theaters for three weeks and was actually banned as “demoralizing.” The shortened version did play in the country after World War II, but it wasn’t until 1956—when two French lab technicians found over 200 boxes with bits and pieces of the cut material— that the film restored to its originally glory.

In 1999, a The Village Voice poll placed it as the second-best film of the century after Citizen Kane. During the 1930’s, Jacques Becker (1906-1960) was an assistant to Renoir. And just as Renoir, he was very much admired by the New Wave. Truffaut once wrote that Becker “is an intimate and realistic filmmaker who is in love with verisimilitude and everyday realities.” Tavernier described Becker as “the finest French filmmaker of the ’40 and ‘50s the most even in quality, the smartest in his choices.”

Among his acclaimed films are the gangster noir TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI (1954), starring Gabin, and the taut prison escape drama LE TROU (1959). But his loveliest, most emotional film is CASQUE D’OR (‘52), starring Simone Signoret, as the mistress of a ruthless gangster (Claude Dauphin), who falls passionately in love with a reformed ex-con (Serge Reggiani). Though it’s telegraphed early that their love affair will end tragically, it’s so well-acted, compelling and even suspenseful. Signoret won the BAFTA honor for Best Foreign Film Actress.

Early in his career, Tavernier worked with Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973), who was a mentor to the New Wave directors and was best known for his superb almost minimalist film noirs including BOB LE FLAMBEUR (‘56), LE DOULOS (‘62), LE SAMOURAI (‘67) and LE CIRCLE ROUGE (‘70). Tavernier notes in MY JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA that Melville was a bully, having squabbles with his actors and would also dress down his crew in front of everybody.

“That was a nightmare for me,” he told me. “When I was coming to work, I was sick. I was young. It was demanding, as frightening as school. It’s only later on the set of other directors that I discovered the atmosphere was not like that. That doesn’t change anything about the talent of Melville, but he created an atmosphere which was frightening, especially for a young kid like me.”

#French films #french new wave #bastille day #Jean Renoir #jean pierre melville #TCM #Turner Classic Movies #Susan King

[cinemasentries]

Criterion Announces November 2017 Releases

#criterion collection #jabberwocky #terry gilliam #phiiladelphia story #le samourai #desert hearts

[kikenhanna17world]

A Journey Into French Cinema By Susan King Do you remember the movie or filmmaker that changed your life? When you realized film was more than entertainment? When you were moved so emotionally that you couldn’t shake the feeling you had when watching the movie? Veteran French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, who directed such acclaimed films as THE CLOCKMAKER OF ST. PAUL (‘74); COUP DE TORCHON (‘81) and ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT (‘86), was just a boy when he fell in love with the films of such directors as Jacques Becker and Jean Renoir. Their films gave him “tremendous emotion,” he told me in a 2017 interview for the American Cinematheque. “Tears and love. Because of them, I think, I understood my country. I think I fell in love with France because of those films. Not because of politicians, but because of Renoir, because of Claude Sautet, because of Marcel Pagnol.” In 2016, he directed a valentine of a documentary, MY JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA. It’s a must-see for French film fans, as well as those who are just dipping their toes into the country’s cinema. The documentary looks at the works of Becker and Renoir, as well as Jean-Pierre Melville, Claude Sautet, the writer-director team of Jacques Prevert and Marcel Carne and the pioneering New Wave filmmakers Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.“The main reason I decided to do the film is that I wanted to say, ‘Thank you’ to all of those people who changed my life,” noted the 79-year-old Tavernier. “I mean those directors, screenwriters, composers, actors and actresses. Some of those films gave me hope, gave me strength. You know there is a Chinese proverb which says that when you drink the water of the well, you must always thank the man who built it.” Jean Renoir (1894-1979) didn’t build French cinema, but he was definitely one of the chief architects. The son of renowned Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, he is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, French filmmaker of the 20th century. He was also one of the most influential with the New Wave directors because he was what the New Wave considered an auteur, a filmmaker who exerts his personal influence and artistic control so that he is considered the author of the movie. Renoir made countless classic films both in France and in the U.S., where he fled when the Nazis took power of his country. Renoir earned his only Oscar nomination for Best Director for THE SOUTHERNER (‘45). But two of his greatest accomplishments are LA GRANDE ILLUSION (‘37) and THE RULES OF THE GAME (‘39). LA GRANDE ILLUSION, which was released in the states in 1938, was the first foreign language film to earn a Best Picture Oscar nomination and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Film.Set during World War I, LA GRANDE ILLUSION is a powerful anti-war statement as well as a look at the class structure in France. Renoir’s frequent collaborators, superstar Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio and Pierre Fresnay, play three French officers who are captured and sent to a POW camp run by an aristocratic German commander played Erich von Stroheim. Though critics often have cited THE RULES OF THE GAME as Renoir’s masterpiece, I prefer GRANDE ILLUSION because he imbues his characters with empathy and sympathy. THE RULES OF THE GAME opened 91 years ago this month in France, just a few months before the German occupation. Audiences, especially the wealthy, didn’t want to see this film as it satirized the ruling class. Renoir would later say that he tried to salvage the film by cutting it, “and to start with, I cut scenes in which I myself played too large a part, as though I was ashamed, after the rebuff, of showing myself on screen. But it was useless.” Renoir was figuratively bound and quartered by French audiences for RULES OF THE GAME because it skewers the aristocracy. The rich and spoiled have no morals bounding in and out of each other’s arms and beds during a hunting weekend at the country estate of a wealthy marquis (Dalio). The scene of the rabbit hunt is horrific, as these frivolous beings kill countless defenseless animals trying to escape their rifles. And the estate’s staff and workers are equally amoral.The only character who has heart is Octave played by Renoir, a big bear of a man who is “friends” with the aristocracy but in the end is really alone. THE RULES OF THE GAME only stayed in theaters for three weeks and was actually banned as “demoralizing.” The shortened version did play in the country after World War II, but it wasn’t until 1956—when two French lab technicians found over 200 boxes with bits and pieces of the cut material— that the film restored to its originally glory. In 1999, a The Village Voice poll placed it as the second-best film of the century after Citizen Kane. During the 1930’s, Jacques Becker (1906-1960) was an assistant to Renoir. And just as Renoir, he was very much admired by the New Wave. Truffaut once wrote that Becker “is an intimate and realistic filmmaker who is in love with verisimilitude and everyday realities.” Tavernier described Becker as “the finest French filmmaker of the ’40 and ‘50s the most even in quality, the smartest in his choices.” Among his acclaimed films are the gangster noir TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI (1954), starring Gabin, and the taut prison escape drama LE TROU (1959). But his loveliest, most emotional film is CASQUE D’OR (‘52), starring Simone Signoret, as the mistress of a ruthless gangster (Claude Dauphin), who falls passionately in love with a reformed ex-con (Serge Reggiani). Though it’s telegraphed early that their love affair will end tragically, it’s so well-acted, compelling and even suspenseful. Signoret won the BAFTA honor for Best Foreign Film Actress. Early in his career, Tavernier worked with Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973), who was a mentor to the New Wave directors and was best known for his superb almost minimalist film noirs including BOB LE FLAMBEUR (‘56), LE DOULOS (‘62), LE SAMOURAI (‘67) and LE CIRCLE ROUGE (‘70). Tavernier notes in MY JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA that Melville was a bully, having squabbles with his actors and would also dress down his crew in front of everybody. “That was a nightmare for me,” he told me. “When I was coming to work, I was sick. I was young. It was demanding, as frightening as school. It’s only later on the set of other directors that I discovered the atmosphere was not like that. That doesn’t change anything about the talent of Melville, but he created an atmosphere which was frightening, especially for a young kid like me.”

[nakedgrease]

19 definitions of loving for CD, 19, 2020.

As much as we struggle, and get frustrated because of this very struggle, the existence/potential of some sort of satisfaction is apparent because of these definitive art works. They’re frustrating because they can’t seem to grasp “love”, or give us a clear-cut, satisfying answer, yet the fact they they exist, and continue to exist, is satisfying in and of itself.

1. Nobuyashi Araki -- Sentimental Journey

2. Three Times -- Hou Hsiao Hsien

3. Chúng tôi yêu anh

4. My Little Dead Dick -- Patrick Tsai

5. Kimi no Nawa -- Shinkai Makoto 

6. Paterson - Jim Jarmusch

7.  Purple - Google Arts and Culture

8. An Almost Made Up Poem -- Charles Bukowski

9. What is Love? 

10. Le Samourai - Jean-Pierre Melville

11. Weekend - Andrew Haigh

12. True Lies - James Cameroon

13. Mad Girl's Love Song -- Sylvia Plath

14. Loneliness -- Kira Gyngazova

15. The Real Work -- Adam Gopnik

16. Heart of Glass - Blondie

17. Talking Barnacles - Patrick Tsai

18. The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

19. ______

[veryhottub-blog]

Nous l'avons tant aimé 😢😢😢 Au revoir à notre "Beau Bizarre" aujourd'hui c'est "Comm'si la terre penchait" dans un "Les Vestiges du chaos" Christophe ne nous dira plus jamais " Des mots bleus Les mots qu'on dit avec les yeux" Il a tiré sa dernière révérence à notre monde pour retrouver espérons-le un bien Monde meilleur 🙏🙏🙏 Quelle tristesse cette sale période 😢Sincères Condoléances à sa Familles et à ses Amis et Paix à son âme 😢 maintenant qu’il retrouve le Paradis des Saltimbanques où tous ses prestigieux prédécesseurs l’attendent avec une mélodie du bonheur infini C'était Christophe : Monsieur Daniel Bevilacqua, dit Christophe, né le 13 octobre 1945 à Juvisy-sur-Orge et nous a quittés le 16 avril 2020 à Brest, Christophe descend d'immigrés italiens originaires du Frioul. En 1891, son arrière-grand-père, le maçon-fumiste Baptiste Bevilacqua, s'installe à Juvisy et fait venir de nombreux compatriotes pour travailler dans l'entreprise familiale1. Plusieurs décennies après, le père de Christophe, Georges Jacques Bevilacqua, tient une entreprise d'installation de chauffage central — qui prospère assez pour s'étendre à la vente d'électroménager —, tandis que la mère est couturière2. Vers l'âge de 8 ans, Édith Piaf et Gilbert Bécaud sont ses premières idoles, puis il découvre le blues, Robert Johnson et John Lee Hooker. Fasciné très jeune par l'American way of life, tel qu'il est dépeint dans les films qu'il va souvent voir au cinéma.À la fin des années 1950, comme bien des jeunes de sa génération (celle du baby boom de l'après-guerre), il est marqué par Elvis Presley et James Dean, tout en développant une passion sincère pour le rock des pionniers de la maison Sun et le blues (il reconnaîtra avoir également été influencé par Georges Brassens). Ayant trouvé sa vocation, il apprend la guitare et l'harmonica. En 1961, il fonde Danny Baby et les Hooligans (« Danny » étant une référence à son prénom Daniel) un groupe amateur. Il chante le plus souvent en yaourt (du faux anglais) tout en s'accompagnant à la guitare et toujours en play-back car il n'aime pas apprendre par cœur. Au début des années 1970, sa popularité fléchit pendant une courte période, durant laquelle il se laisse pousser une moustache qui, avec sa longue chevelure blonde, signera son image de latin lover. En 1971, Francis Dreyfus crée le label Les Disques Motors où vont sortir désormais les albums de Christophe. Il revient dans les classements avec respectivement Mal et Mes Passagères, la même année, et Oh mon Amour, Main dans la main, Belle et Rock Monsieur en 1972. Le déclic se produit à nouveau pour Christophe lorsque son producteur Francis Dreyfus lui adjoint les services du jeune parolier Jean Michel Jarre, avec qui il écrit l'album Les Paradis perdus6, très influencé par le rock anglo-saxon de l'époque (Pink Floyd, Lou Reed). Le succès est à nouveau au rendez-vous, la réussite de leur association concrétisée, en 1974, par l'album Les Mots bleus ainsi que le 45 tours de la chanson titre, un des sommets de la carrière de Christophe, qui lui permet de renouveler son public. Il se produit alors à l'Olympia pour deux soirs à guichets fermés. Dans un moment de dépression, il tombe pour une courte période dans la drogue[réf. nécessaire]. En 1976 il collabore avec Boris Bergman pour Samourai, qui contient la chanson Merci John d'être venu dédiée à John Lennon. En 1978, il publie l'album Le Beau Bizarre, aux textes signés de Bob Decout, qui n'a pas le succès des précédents mais lui vaut les louanges de la critique. C'est un album résolument pop-rock, que Libération place parmi les cent meilleurs albums de l'histoire du rock 'n' roll. En 1980 il collabore avec son beau-frère Alan Z Kan pour Pas vu, pas pris et, à la demande de son épouse Véronique, Christophe ressort le 45 tours Aline : la réédition dépasse alors le million de copies en France.En 1983, son troisième plus gros succès en simple est à nouveau une ballade, Succès Fou, dont il vend quelque 600 000 copies et qui achève de le cataloguer comme chanteur pour midinettes. En 1984 il sort Voix sans issue en yaourt. Christophe se consacre aussi dans les années 1980 à débattre sur les plateaux télé contre le fléau de la faim dans le monde, montrant qu’il est aussi un homme d’engagement. Par la suite, son rythme de travail se ralentit : il compose la musique du premier tube de Corynne Charby, Boule de flipper8. Il publie un album d'adaptations de standards anglo-saxons des années 1940-1950 (Clichés d'amour), des 45 tours (Ne raccroche pas en 1985, qui se veut un clin-d'œil à l'adresse de la jeune Stéphanie de Monaco), mais ne fait plus de scène.Il se consacre alors essentiellement à ses collections de juke-boxes, de disques rares et de grands films — sa cinéphilie était bien connue du directeur de la Cinémathèque française, Henri Langlois, à qui il prêta une copie originale de La Strada de Federico Fellini. Mélomane averti, il se tient toujours au courant des dernières nouveautés, afin notamment d'actualiser sa propre musique. Perfectionniste jusqu'à la maniaquerie, il peut passer un an à travailler sur le son d'une partie de batterie.Après un 45 tours passé à peu près inaperçu Chiqué chiqué en 1988, Christophe change de maison de disques en 1995. De Motors, il passe chez Epic, une division de Sony9.En 1996, il publie Bevilacqua, un album ambitieux qui ne fera guère parler de lui où on l'entend en duo avec son idole Alan Vega du groupe américain Suicide.Véritable disque d'ambiance, Bevilacqua surprend par sa modernité : Christophe ne ressemble plus au dandy crooner des années 1970. Il a travaillé durant plusieurs mois sur l'album dans le studio installé chez lui.Cinq ans plus tard, le 5 juin 2001, l'album d'avant-garde Comme si la terre penchait, produit par Philippe Paradis, connaît un meilleur accueil, même si on est encore loin des résultats de vente passés.Il annonce alors son retour sur scène (où il ne s'était pas produit depuis 26 ans) et donne une série de concerts à l'Olympia.Il a fait appel à des éclairagistes du théâtre et de la danse pour mettre en valeur son spectacle. Il chante, assis sur un tabouret, la lumière centrée sur lui, pendant que des danseurs se produisent sur une chorégraphie de Marie-Claude Pietragalla, des images de rock'n'roll sont projetées sur le décor. Les CD et DVD Christophe: Olympia 2002 paraissent l'année suivante. En 2004, il chante en duo avec Alain Bashung sur la scène de l'Élysée Montmartre Les Mots bleus et Amsterdam. En mars 2005, sur la scène de l'Opéra-Comique il reprend la chanson Hollywood de Brigitte Fontaine composée par Areski Belkacem.En 2007, Christophe chante L'un dans l'autre sur l'album Arkhangelsk du trompettiste Erik Truffaz, morceau dont il a écrit les paroles10. Le 30 juin 2008, il sort, chez AZ, Aimer ce que nous sommes : une œuvre large sur laquelle il travaille depuis 2004. Plusieurs artistes, comme Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Filipacchi, Florian Zeller, Murcof, Jac Berrocal, Carmine Appice et son ancien producteur Francis Dreyfus, ont collaboré à cet album, enregistré essentiellement de nuit, entre Paris, Séville, Londres et réalisé par Christophe Van Huffel (du groupe Tanger). En 2009, il donne un concert spectacle dans le parc du château de Versailles, avec Carmine Appice à la batterie. À la fin de cette année, il entame la tournée Aimer ce que nous sommes.En 2011, il participe à l'album de reprises de chansons d'Alain Bashung Tels Alain Bashung en interprétant de manière remarquée Alcaline et reprend en duo avec Brigitte Fontaine Hollywood sur l'album L'un n'empêche pas l'autre. Il ressort cette même année l'album Bevilacqua Dans le cadre de la tournée « Aimer ce que nous sommes », qui a déjà emmené Christophe dans toute la France, en Suisse, en Belgique et au Liban, le 18 juin 2011, il revient dans sa ville natale, Juvisy-sur-Orge, où il se produit pour un spectacle de trois heures et demie devant près de trois mille personnes En octobre 2011, il est invité par Julien Doré sur la scène de l'Olympia13,[source insuffisante] et, en novembre, il chante en duo Boby avec Loane.Après une tournée de plus de cent dates, début 2013, Christophe choisit de donner sept concerts en France, sous le titre Intime Tour, avec une formation épurée (piano, synthés, guitare). Le 18 mars 2013, Christophe sort un album d'inédits Paradis retrouvé (BMG), à cette occasion, le journaliste Bayon considère qu'en tant que « yéyé minet rockab electro dandy beauf bouliste à pin-up, Christophe serait ce chaînon manquant elvisien entre Adamo et Vega via Juvet À la suite du succès des premiers concerts de l'Intime Tour, la tournée se poursuit en France et à l'étranger, donnant lieu, le 31 mars 2014, à la sortie de l'album Intime En 2016 il collabore avec Jean-Michel Jarre à l'occasion de l'album Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise pour le morceau Walking The Mile. Christophe sort un nouvel album le 8 avril 2016, Les Vestiges du chaos, qui reçoit un accueil critique enthousiaste. L'album comprend un duo avec Alan Vega, l'une des idoles du chanteur[réf. nécessaire]. En 2019, Christophe est invité par les curateurs Martin Widmer et Marie Villemin du centre d'art de Neuchâtel (CAN) en Suisse à mettre en musique des entretiens qu'ils ont réalisés et montés de l'artiste Suisse Olivier Mosset. Pendant plus d'une année Christophe et Martin Widmer collaborent sur la réalisation de ce morceau qui sortira finalement sous forme d'un maxi 45t en juin 2019. Ce disque étonnant et inclassable restera comme l'une des publications les plus originales mêlant musique et art contemporain. Quelques mois plus tard, à l'occasion du vernissage de la grand rétrospective d'Olivier Mosset au MAMCO de Genève le 25 février 2020, son curateur Paul Bernard invite Martin Widmer a penser avec Christophe le projet de la version live du disque

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This is a mugging and I'm here to steal your heart ~♡ (at Le Samourai) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_vd1JJhZ9B/?igshid=pgwiei36upqc

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A Mean to an End

Here's a langsty mini fic, because somehow my anti-depressants don't work like they used to...

TRIGGER WARNING (REALLY TRIGGERING) : graphic suicidal attempt...

DON'T READ THIS IF YOU ARE DEPRESSED OR SUICIDAL, OR IF YOU KNOW YOU ARE EASILY AFFECTED BY THIS KIND OF SUBJECT...

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He was fine when Keith left. At least, that's what he had assured him.

After the war, Lance had fallen into depression. His family had helped him get through it by making him work at the farm with them. Keith visited him for a week one month later. They spent every day together that week and just before he left again, Keith had confessed to him. It had mean a lot to Lance who had accepted his love with open arms, as if this was his saving. After that, Keith always visited him in between benevolent missions, until two years later, when they decided to have their own place on Altea, which was closer to where Keith did his missions.

Lance decided to become a teacher in a pilot school, but needed to be trainee for a year before that, supervised by Iverson who was way more pleasant with him now.

Things were going great... At least, that was what he was trying to convince himself daily.

The depressive thoughts had been bothering him for a while again. He dismissed them with dark jokes in front of his friends or family, creating awkward silences sometimes.

He hated himself for it.

He hated himself for the dark emotions he felt, even if he had everything he had ever wished for. He was a famous pilot, had saved his family, would become a teacher at the Altean Garisson, and had a loving significant other... What could he wish for more? What could he have more that would make the dark thoughts disappear?

Nothing...

There was nothing else, really...

So, why was he feeling so down and hopeless?

What was eating at him now that he still couldn't get rid of?

Insecurities, guilt, pressure... Yeah, that's what it was.

He didn't know how to fight the overwhelming despair in his mind anymore.

"You should have save more people."

"You don't deserve happiness when so many innocents died."

"You could've saved Allura."

"It's your fault if she died... If all these people died."

"You were too weak, you should have stepped aside before."

"And now you want to teach young pilots? What are you really going to do? Teach them to be as weak and useless as you?"

Lance wanted the thoughts to stop. He wanted to silence them forever, but he had only one way in mind to do so.

He should probably have told Keith, should've told someone about how depressed he felt, and how he was not dealing well with the dark emotions that kept growing in strength inside his fragile heart.

Was it that he didn't want to bother them with it anymore?

Or that he wanted to try and deal with it by himself, to prove that he was strong enough?

Or... Maybe it was because he didn't want help?

Maybe he just wanted the dark thoughts to finally give him the courage to end it...

Keith was gone for a few days only. He had noticed that Lance wasn't feeling so good these days, and had asked multiple times if he wanted to come with him, or if he wanted Keith to stay. Lance had refused both options, saying that he was fine and that he was super busy anyway.

Lance looked at his phone again. Incognito tabs were open. "How to kill yourself and make it look like an accident?" "How kill yourself quickly?" "Which way can you kill yourself with the least chances of surviving?"...

These tabs had been opened and closed again a few times in the past weeks or so. He still looked at the suggested ways, often asked and answered by "writers" on forums. Nothing seemed to fit what he was looking for exactly, but he already knew that there was an almost sure way.

He closed all the tabs one last time.

Keith was going to call soon to get news from him and wish him goodnight, like he always did.

Once this was done, no one would be calling or looking for him until the next morning.

So no one would find him in time...

He had bought cutter type refill blades at the school's coop. He already knew then for what he would really use them.

He had taken them out of their hiding spot, in a place Keith would surely never find them.

He made sure the front door to the apartment was locked, then locked himself in the bathroom. Double protection, allowing more time to be found just in case someone unexpectedly visited him before he was completely gone.

Lance breathed deeply a few times. His hands were shaking. He made sure once more that he hadn't forgotten anything. He had cleaned the whole apartment and left his goodbye letter on the kitchen table. The doors were locked, the lights were closed, except those in the bathroom, he had his phone and the blades.

Good...

He waited a few minutes before Keith finally called. Lance hesitated a moment, before answering. Talking to Keith and hiding all this from him would be hard... But he needed to do this... He needed to hear his voice one last time.

"Hey," Lance answered, clearly too low and shaky to be normal, despite his best efforts.

"Hey, you alright, sharpshooter?" Keith asked right away, concern evident in his voice.

"Yeah, just a bit tired. What about you, samourai?"

"I'm tired too. We had a long day here. There were way more people to help than expected, but we were still able to do everything we planned on doing today, so I'll be back home in time, don't worry. Can't wait to see you and hold you in my arms."

Lance felt a knot form in his throat, knowing that Keith wouldn't see him alive again.

"Lance?" Keith asked after a few seconds of silence.

Keith was not the one to monopolize the conversation usually, and even if he did sometimes, Lance was quick to answer questions or comment on anything he said.

"Yeah, sorry, I just spaced out a moment... I love you, Keith."

"Ok... Are you sure everything is alright? You sound really out of it."

"Everything's fine, babe. I'm just tired. I'll go to sleep soon..."

And never wake up.

"I love you, Lance," Keith interrupted him. "Don't lie to me. I... I can feel it, like I did when the war ended. I wanted to believe you, but, I'm sorry, I can't lose you because I wasn't careful enough. Pleasr, tell me what's going on."

Lance felt all his walls fail him and he knew that he had to end this call right now, no matter how worrisome it would look. If he kept talking to him, he would become unable to get going with his plan. Everything was ready, he had prepared everything, he was suffering, he couldn't let anything or anyone stop him at this point.

"I'm sorry, I love you."

"Lance... Lance! Don't..."

He hung up and put his phone away. Keith called back a few seconds later, just as Lance took one of the blades and walked to the bathtub. When Lance didn't answer, Keith sent him multiple texts, and tried to call again. Lance turned the shower on and sat right under the running water with his clothes on. Tears were falling down in cheek, his whole body was trembling, his heart was beating hard in his chest... He didn't know if he was scared or excited. But nothing could stop him now, not even the incessant calls and notifications he was receiving.

He put the blade on the inside skin of his left wirst, where multiple faded scars lined already, as a reminder of his old unhealthy coping mechanisms. He pressed it against his skin, piecing it right away. He let out a small scream under the pain, but still dragged the blade down his arm. Blood poored out and Lance took the blade to his other wrist with shaky bloody hands to do the same.

Once he was done, he dropped the cutter blade and watched with a growingly blurred vision the diluted red liquid flow down the drain. His wrists were burning, but he still smiled softly at the weird exhilarating sensation that settled in his stomach.

This was it.

He had done it.

Finally.

It would all end.

The pain inside, the dark thoughts, the guilt, the insecurities... Everything. He would be free.

Free...

His body felt numb now...

He could barely hear anything.

He was cold.

So cold...

His eyes opened and he realized that he couldn't remember having closed them.

Oh.

This was really the end, uh?

He hoped his friends and family would be alright.

Keith...

He closed his eyes one last time.

But didn't see darkness this time, only a bright encompassing light.

And then Allura appeared, softly extending her delicate hand toward him, a sad smile on her lips.

He took her hand.

And she took him away.

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Chainalysis Whistleblower Shares Company Secrets in Explosive AMA

A current or former Chainalysis employee has gone rogue and conducted an AMA on r/Bitcoin in which he disclosed sensitive information about the company’s blockchain forensics capabilities. The whistleblower then appears to have had a change of heart and deleted all their comments. Thankfully, the internet never forgets. The comments remain archived on Removeddit.com and they provide a fascinating insight into one of the most hated companies in crypto.

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Chainalysis Has Its Dirty Secrets Aired in Public

As a company that works hand in glove with law enforcement, governments, defense contractors and other three-letter agencies, Chainalysis is secretive about the sauce that makes up its proprietary tech. The company was dismayed, therefore, to discover that an anonymous employee was conducting an ask me anything (AMA) on Reddit on June 24 without their permission. Users of r/Bitcoin proceeded to ask a series of probing questions about Chainalysis’ forensic capabilities, which the anon was only too happy to answer.

Twelve hours later, perhaps after sobering up, or after management tracked down the rogue employee and placed pressure on them, the comments were deleted, but an archived version remains. When asked about the company’s take on BTC mixing tools such as Coinjoin, Wasabi and Samourai Whirlpool, for instance, the anon began: “I personally love it. The company management hates it, of course. Things like that destroy the need for our/their software. It can make the software completely irrelevant.”

Simple Preventative Measures Can Make Blockchain Forensics Obsolete

Many cryptocurrency users feel that they are powerless to attain a reasonable measure of privacy in the face of such well-funded and well-equipped adversaries. As the Chainalysis anon’s AMA shows, however, forensics tools aren’t nearly as powerful as they’re made out to be, and simple obfuscation measures can thwart them. (Having recently spoken to a Chainalysis employee at a blockchain conference, in which a similar sentiment was expressed, news.Bitcoin.com can attest to this.) When quizzed about the ability of coin mixing and other privacy tools to make Chainalysis obsolete, the anon replied:

Even just privacy coins are more than anyone can handle right now, but throw in anonymization techniques, and forensic tracking utilities are done for. They might still have a niche purpose, but it will be small.

Commenting on Chainalysis’ most hated adversarial tool, the anon ventured that it was probably Wasabi, a privacy-oriented BTC wallet that used Coinjoin. While conceding that bitcoin mixers are “still bad” for forensics firms, the anon asserted that “Wassabi is enemy number one. There is no way to de-anonymize it, and I don’t see how the government can legally take Wassabi down, so it will probably persist. Put it this way, if everyone used Wassabi, Chainalysis would go out of business.”

While observing that “running your own node and electrum server is a great way to not get your IP tracked” by Chainalysis software, he countered that mobile wallets are bad for privacy. As for the five likeliest things to have your bitcoin transaction flagged as suspicious, the answer came: “Being stolen funds (like from a hacking type incident), coming from a dnm, coming from a mixer, coming from terrorist financing, and coming from ransomware payout addresses.”

An Unethical Company or an Innovative Startup Fighting the Bad Guys?

To say that Chainalysis and similar companies are controversial within the bitcoin space would be an understatement. On the one hand, their software can generate useful research reports into on-chain activities, including UTXOs, “hodler waves,” and lost coins. It can also be used to follow the flow of hacked funds from exchanges. But on the other hand, many people believe Chainalysis goes against the spirit of bitcoin, and that its software will be sold to despotic regimes who will use it to surveil and persecute cryptocurrency users, leading to a financial system that is even less inclusive than the one Bitcoin was designed to replace.

When quizzed on the most unethical thing Chainalysis has done, the anon responded: “1. Transparency. 2. Defeating the purpose of a system that was designed for anonymity, thereby reducing the interest and market for crypto. And pushing people into other crypto platforms, away from what we/they are able to track.”

“[Chainalysis] definitely think they are the good guys,” he commented. “They are definitely team government, which doesn’t sit right with me, personally. Self-righteous would be a good way to describe the attitude of some of them … Not a single person in the company has displayed any sort of concern over the ethics of our software except for one person being concerned that law enforcement would use our software and abuse their authority … He left.”

According to the anon, the government agencies using Chainalysis software include HSI, FBI and IRS (they “seem to have the most licenses, or are, at least, the most active in using our software, since their names come up constantly.”) In addition, “ATF, DEA, SEC, Secret Service, CIA (through In Q Tel), and most of the other federal law enforcement agencies are running the software. Only really large police departments are running the software (it isn’t cheap) like NYPD. I know some district attorney offices have software licenses too, but I don’t know which ones. Oh and RCMP uses the software too. And Europol. The national police (NCA) in the UK, as well.”

Other gems from the now deleted AMA include confirmation that Chainalysis runs its own Electrum nodes (at one point it was responsible for 10% of all BTC nodes) and discussion of whether Chainalysis creates dusting attacks for tracking purposes: “It has been discussed a few times, but no one has ever admitted to it. It doesn’t seem like there is much utility in it, because if the address exists on the blockchain, it can already be tracked. And if it doesn’t, a single payment to it will make it appear in the software, so no need for dusting. It wouldn’t improve IP tracking capabilities.”

Use Mixers and Monero for Privacy – Don’t Use Mobile Wallets

The anon also explained that Chainalysis keeps its “own database on entities in the crypto space are a known, or believed to be bad actors. Individual people aren’t exactly tracked.” As for cryptocurrency that has passed through a mixer, “Mixed funds are rated as high risk if the mixer is attributed (known about). Same level as dark net markets.” During the AMA, he recommended monero for privacy, but reiterated the need for caution for mobile wallets that don’t incorporate privacy measures.

Final privacy advice from the current or former Chainalysis employee went as follows: “I would say to avoid mobile wallets, look into Wasabi/Coinjoin and similar efforts, run a VPN/tor at all times, remember that everything you check out on the clear net is being logged by someone.” Shortly after typing those words, Reddit user “chainalysis1” deleted their account.

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