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a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich gq.com/story/tony-kushner-wa…
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i don't really care for this movie, but Driver does something in this scene that i've never seen an actor lock in on before, which is how upset he is by the words coming out of his own mouth, a very common thing in anger
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it actually does scramble my brain a bit to think this song was out in the world, being performed as early as 2003. sounds like nothing else from that time.
just 2 dudes in 2003 not realizing they just made one of the best songs ever nitter.app/copiumx/status/1863980…
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hey Mubi, consider distributing it
Best Documentary Feature Film: NO OTHER LAND (Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham) #Oscars
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going to a movie by yourself at 10:30am is the most civilized experience a person can have
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saw a redditor say they didn't like Hereditary, but then they decided to watch it again without being on their phone this time and they loved it, so they recommend watching Hereditary without being on your phone
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this is actually a great video about terrible modern lighting
🎬 Side by side of Risky Business dance scene of 9-1-1 and the actual movie.
I have to applaud the camera crew and editor for their fantastic work in recreating the scene and especially ryan for an amazing performance.
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Jared Leto is one of the worst things that ever happened
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it’s so wild that Downey’s narrative is that he was a massive talent and huge drug addict who got cleaned up, made a comeback and then got stuck in the biggest movies of all time for a decade, requiring another comeback
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in retrospect, Folklore, Evermore, and Midnights were the chronicle of a woman feeling deep things for the first time ever while in an actual adult relationship, only to find that way too scary and retreat back to perpetual teenagedom
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it's actually so cool Sebastian Stan shamed them into nominating him for an Oscar, maybe my favourite approach to awards campaigning in history
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the scene is written and directed toward the idea of the characters, his especially, saying regretable things, but Driver reaches something deeper, which is the pain involved in saying those things to begin with
need that guy to do a good movie again
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there was some discussion here a while back about how "serious" The Substance is intended to be, and i will just point to this and say i was 100% correct (complimentary)
Coralie Fargeat's script for #TheSubstance, winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes, is now available to download for free.
thefilmstage.com/download-th…
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i think a lot about this emotional moment from a 2017 60 Minutes interview in which Donald Sutherland shares how he was affected by being "ugly" even in the eyes of his mother
Martine St-Victor
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Paul Walter Hauser giving his own Marvel movie 3.5 stars on Letterboxd is why we stan
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Severance season 2 is a fascinating situation where on an episode-by-episode basis i’ve liked them all, even the Cobel one, but structurally there’s a problem. not a show-sinking problem, at least not yet, but a problem.
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you know that thing where people will complain about bad CGI in some Marvel trailer, and sycophants will defend it by saying, “that’s just Twitter’s compression fucking it up!”
explain this then
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i don’t think most people are aware of just how insane JK Rowling has become, really as simple as that
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very silly that Challengers is just not in the Oscars conversation. like just totally stupid. not that any of this matters, but come on, what the fuck?
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was sitting front row for this, and lemme tell you, shit was like witnessing the monolith from 2001
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it’s very funny to me that Conner O’Malley’s videos don’t actually do well on TikTok. true millennial art.
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part of the reason i don’t use star ratings on Letterboxd is that they can’t account for a five-star three-star movie like Twister
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the biggest thing that happened to me in 2023 (apart from my cancer diagnosis, having my spleen removed, losing my job, writing my first newspaper story and speaking at my sister’s wedding) was learning the word “escalate” is derived from escalator, not the other way around
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a thing that does not happen even once in Killers of the Flower Moon, god i love that Oscar voters are largely fucking morons
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film school should just be people strapped to the Clockwork Orange chair, forced to watch Jaws over and over and over until they understand how a real movie works
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saw someone call The Brutalist Oscar bait and you know, i get it, but i don't think a personal project years in the making, produced completely independently, which only got distribution after flooring people at Venice, really counts as Oscar bait. at least not intentionally.
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thinking back to when Oppenheimer ended with the guy literally looking into the camera and saying "we destroyed the world" and some people still thought it was a hagiography about how nuclear war rules
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didn’t realize A Real Pain was also a Fruit Tree production. is Emma Stone quietly becoming one of the great producers of our time?
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also, they may not know it’s one of the best songs ever, but you can tell as they’re performing it they do realize they’ve got a banger on their hands. the smiles on their faces.
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a lot about Sean Baker's mysterious politics can be explained by the fact that despite being a bit baby-faced, he is in fact a 54-year-old Gen Xer
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i keep seeing people say Bob never does anything heroic in One Battle After Another, which misses that he does the most heroic thing of all: put himself on the line over and over just to be there for his daughter
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almost forgot what non-period piece PTA looks like
#OneBattleAfterAnother - Only in theaters September 26.
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crazy how Hollywood killed its own business
Seth Rogen: "When I was young and we were making films like ‘Superbad,’ Sony bought the script, then they hired a director. They believed in this movie. If that movie existed now, we would have to get the director and the entire cast attached beforehand.” wp.me/pc8uak-1lFAfq
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PTA shut down production and ballooned the budget on this movie so he could cast Benicio del Toro, and the very first shot of him instantly proves it was worth it
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y'know what, just gonna keep posting this until Universal decides to sue me or something (pls don't sue me, Universal)
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don’t be that person who gives like Mulholland Drive or Eraserhead 4.5 stars on letterboxd. have shame.
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film twitter may not like it, but you wouldn’t believe how often normies in my life mention this as one of the best movies they’ve seen in years
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totally, he pushes it so far here, and it's so real, specifically how that upset doesn't stop him from actually saying any of it
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Jon Watts Explains Demise Of George Clooney & Brad Pitt 'Wolfs' Sequel After Streaming Pivot: 'Apple Didn't Cancel...I Did, Because I No Longer Trusted Them ... deadline.com/2024/11/wolfs-s…
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that the quality of his performance transcends even my general dislike of the film
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amazing thing about this performance is that unlike most actors, whose false accents retreat when they get shouty, Howerton sounds more Canadian the angrier he gets
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in 2006, Conclave would've made $300 million
Arthouse films that have exceeded $20 million domestically in 2024:
- “Conclave” ($26.5 million)
- “Longlegs” ($74 million)
- “Civil War” ($68 million)
- “Terrifier 3” ($53 million)
- “We Live in Time” ($21.8 million) bit.ly/3Zb35C4
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"If you do not have the ontological necessity of vision that these masters have, the way in which they see the frame, and at the same time they way they see reality and the political aspect of that, it all becomes empty."
Guadagnino on Carpenter, Hooper, Romero, and Cronenberg
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"Fargeat was clearly trying to make deep, disturbing commentary about misogyny and womanhood, but she's a mediocre mind who failed at expressing the depth of her ideas."
Fargeat's script: WEEEEOOOOWEEEEOOOOW BURPING FARTING NOISES SPLURGE OUT OF THE HOLES WHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
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"What's happened's happened. Which is an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world. It's not an excuse to do nothing."
one of the more beautiful ideas in a movie in recent memory
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even a single drop of AI is too much, says person who’s been watching movies with algorithmically generated effects for 25 years
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talent like this used to go into music videos and then land a guy a gig directing a Charlie Kaufman script
Nothing against this content creator in particular (they are an outcome of a social system, and are one among millions) - but like wow, this is a lot of “skilled labour” going into this type of work - but to what end exactly?
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there are people who will tell you that this is just because of modern trends toward natural lighting and that you should calibrate your TV and watch in the dark
in fact, it’s because most filmmakers today are absolutely shit at the most basic artistic aspects of their jobs
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some people are trying to tell me that actually a lot of music sounded like that in 2003, and then cite music that doesn't actually sound like that, not really.
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Comrade Josh heard Bob getting belligerent and started taunting him with wokeisms, incredible shit, OBAA, what a picture
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if you'd like to understand how modern visual effects are destroying mainstream movies, check out this before-and-after of an effects shot in Wolfs
we're so fucking cooked you guys
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the shot from The Brutalist i’ve though about the most, for reasons i’ll have to get into at a later date
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Bill Maher saying he’s seen Lawrence of Arabia a couple of times and can’t figure out what it’s about is sending me
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“Spielberg wanted the kiss.” - Lee Isaac Chung, at this screening of Twisters in Toronto
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the fact that we don't see why Perfidia first shoots the guard is maybe the key formal choice in One Battle After Another
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i feel like if i killed someone, even if i felt it was an accident, and that i was doing it for the right reasons, i'd probably have at least some regrets, just a few
JUST IN: Daniel Penny says he has zero regrets, says he couldn't live with the guilt if someone was hurt on the subway by Jordan Neely.
Penny is an even better person than I thought.
The Marine said he would do a million court appearances if it meant saving someone on the subway.
"I'm not a confrontational person... this type of [interview] is very uncomfortable. All this attention and limelight is very uncomfortable. I would prefer without it."
"I didn't want any type of attention or praise or. And I still don't."
"The guilt I would have felt if someone did get hurt, if he did do what he was threatening to do, I would never be able to live with myself."
"I'll take a million court appearances and people calling me names and people hating me just to keep one of those people from getting hurt or killed."
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i love how many times Anne Hathaway in Interstellar says Dr. Mann was "the best of us," sounding less and less like she means it each time, cause deep down she probably knows
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it actually crazy Brian Jordan Alvarez was still posting TikTok dance videos yesterday, surely knowing the article was about to drop
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the fact that people don’t seem to understand that the machine learning tools used on the voices in The Brutalist were for the spoken Hungarian, not the accented English, is enough to confirm for me that the hubbub around this stuff is largely reactionary, rather than thoughtful
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