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It’s a funny thing about the French painter Balthus, in that he nearly gave up his budding career out of frustration. When Balthus reemerged at the age of 25, he focused almost entirely on portraits – lurid, filthy, decadent portraits. … Read More

Related: “The Snow” (2013) (Good Pictures/Bad Camera is a regular feature on IFB.)

“I remember the video game phenomenon, probably all of you do too. The most interesting thing about the video game phenomenon to me was that within a few years after its beginning, kids and non-kids were putting two-and-a-half billion dollars … Read More

10. Out of The Furnace There’s the good guy with a gun and the bad guy with a gun. Only justice is blind and the world is ambivalent. 9. Gravity The most brilliantly executed movie about space since Stanley Kubrick’s … Read More

Gordon Gekko is an incredibly likable egomaniac. Jordan Belfort is just an egomaniac. Wall Street is a fictional story that feels vital and real. The Wolf of Wall Street is a factual story that feels passe and hyperbolic. With a running … Read More

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“The wall surrounding memory misremembered is clean and wide and high, similar in effect to the wall one finds in certain airports in other countries, clean and wide and high like that, banking in or letting go those who want … Read More

IFB Presents: 7 Classic Springsteen Stories That Are Well Worth Mass Retelling 19 Reasons Why 6 Souls Is The Absolute Worst Movie Julianne Moore Has Ever Agreed To Be a Part Of Moving On: The Year of Losing Dangerously IFB … Read More

(All 2013 images taken with a Canon PowerShot A1300 digital camera.) (Good Pictures/Bad Camera is a regular feature on IFB.)