Find me on BlueSky under @ rafiews dot com 👋 Film programmer and writer seen on Variety, Little White Lies, Letterboxd & more. For work: rafiews@gmail.com
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Back here for a brief minute to say I am working towards moving entirely to the other app, where you can find me under the same handle. I will try my darnedest not to peak into this godforsaken corner of the internet anymore, so if you need to reach out, my email is in my bio.
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Obsessed with the fact that, because Rebeca Andrade doesn’t speak English and Simone Biles doesn’t speak Portuguese, the vast majority of their interactions consists of giggling, enthusiastic nodding and variations of this:
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Margot Robbie had the chance to do the greatest fashion press tour ever and lord did she take it
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We already have the next Julia Roberts
Daisy Edgar-Jones Is the Summer's Breakout Star. Can She Be the Next Julia Roberts? variety.com/2024/film/news/d…
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Marketeers have taken years to create branding as strong as Stephen Nedoroscik did in a week
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I wish there was a way to track the person who buys the ticket that takes it to a billion so they could receive a Wonka-looking golden pink ticket to watch the film next to Michael Cera and one (1) Sex Education star of their choice
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I don’t watch Only Murders in the Building so I thought this was real for a minute and what a beautiful minute it was
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Do you guys ever think about how, despite paying for six different streaming platforms, the film you want to watch is never available on any of them?
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Yeeeesh, IT ENDS WITH US is out today and Justin Baldoni is finally talking…
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Love Lily but just a small reminder that she is the first Indigenous American actress, as from the United States, to be nominated for Best Actress. The first Indigenous North American to be nominated was Yalitza Aparicio for ROMA as Mexico is, of course, in North America.
Lily Gladstone on being the first Native American to be #Oscar-nominated for Best Actress.
“Why am I the first? Why did it have to take this long for me to be the first Indigenous North American? Most of the films that show up in these categories are shot on Indigenous land in North America, and it’s taken this long.”
(Source: Deadline)
Community note
The first Indigenous North American to be nominated was Yalitza Aparicio for ROMA.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalitza_A
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I am obsessed with the Glasgow Wonka Experience and this picture of a kid dressed as an Oompa Loompa giving the whole immersive event two thumbs down
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Calling it now: the plot twist is that Florence Pugh beats cancer and Andrew Garfield dies at the end of WE LIVE IN TIME
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Both Ryan Gosling and Cillian Murphy went booby for London and I think that’s beautiful
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Forever haunted by The Weeknd’s pronunciation of “carte blanche” on THE IDOL
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That’s so American of you to assume everyone is American. I’m Brazilian and Rebecca herself has said she doesn’t speak English.
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“I was wrong”
- weak
- defeatist
- implies lack of knowledge
“this benefits me in ways you can't imagine”
- mysterious
- confident
- implies eerie foreshadowing powers
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Reposting this, now more than ever.
The Hollywood Reporter
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech. bit.ly/43pma3T
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Forget BARBENHEIMER, tonight, for one night only, we get to do BARBIECIDES
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Matthew Macfadyen and Jeremy Strong neatly explaining what an actor’s job is
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Obsessed with how happy Willem Dafoe is with his newly inaugurated star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 😭
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Dakota Johnson really said
Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin Have Not Split, Despite Report: 'They Are Happily Together' (Exclusive) people.com/dakota-johnson-ch…
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I muted this ages ago but just to be clear: Rebeca herself said she doesn’t speak English. I speak a handful of sentences in French. Would I say I speak French? No. Rebeca may know how to say a few basic things and still claim she doesn’t speak the language. That’s all. Goodbye.
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The POOR THINGS design team is knocking this release campaign out of the park
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Sometimes it really is just great cinema when you know exactly what a character is about to do and then they go on and do it
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Babe wake up a new iconic Isabelle Huppert headline just dropped
‘I never really learned anything from anybody’: Isabelle Huppert on 50 years in film theguardian.com/film/2024/oc…
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If I send you this picture it means I’m dodging your uncomfortable question
Joaquin Phoenix when asked about exiting Todd Haynes gay romance feature:
"If I do [answer], I would just be sharing my opinion from my perspective and the other creatives aren’t here to say their peace and it just doesn’t feel like that would be right, I’m not sure how that would be helpful,”
"So I don't think I will" #Venezia81
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I am much more interested in a Danish remake of The Wolf of Wall Street starring Mads Mikkelsen
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But today, the flowers in the park have bloomed, and the woman is back. Same old faithful purple gilet, but a brand new puppy in tow. She looked so happy to be back with her friends, that I found myself welling up. The flowers, the chatter, the pup. How precious. Made my day. 3/3
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I truly hope this dog can rest now
Messi's clapping at the #Oscars was pre-taped after he proved to be too excitable.
"Hours before the show, we brought him in and he barked a lot in the dress rehearsal. It wasn’t his fault, I think he was confused," says Oscars producer Molly McNearney. bit.ly/3wWXcg6
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Since the pandemic, I’ve developed the habit of going for a daily walk around my neighbourhood dog park. I usually go around the same time, and for the past four years have seen the locals day in and day out with their dogs. 1/3
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I don’t know why but I thought the kid in BEAU IS AFRAID was CGI and have just got a shock from seeing him with the rest of the cast
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Important development
Josh O'Connor is not a dickhead. But he learned how to be one for 'Challengers.'
The English actor talks to Rolling Stone about short shorts, sexual tension, and getting cocky for the Luca Guadagnino tennis drama.
Interview: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/t…
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Eemeli
Please help: I can’t stop watching Adam Driver’s “so go back to the claaaaaahb” line delivery from the motion picture MEGALOPOLIS
coffee
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Don’t want to give this piece any traction but, my lord, what a cruel take. Having worked in a cinema, I’ve seen firsthand how vital an escape going to the movies is to those socially isolated. I had people tell me at the ticket booth I was the 1st person they spoke to in weeks +
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On top of all the obvious great things about Scorsese joining Letterboxd, there is also the fact that it is literally this meme come to life
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I’m currently rewatching Nolan’s THE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY and was pleasantly surprised to see a young Glen Powell get choked by Tom Hardy’s Bane:
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What in the world is this image
Zac Efron plays a Hollywood star who hooks up with his assistant's mother (Nicole Kidman) in the first trailer for Netflix's new romantic-comedy "A Family Affair," streaming June 28. Joey King co-stars.
Watch the trailer: variety.com/2024/film/news/a…
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No other film will top #dunepart2 for me this year. But as a fan of Luca Guadagnino, and the music of Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross, I'll go see Chani/Zendaya play tennis in #ChallengersMovie on Sunday. My film review will be posted late Sunday at my Letterboxd.
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Thinking back to that precious time in the early 00s when you knew that, if this guy showed up, things were about to get weird
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Lily Gladstone not only picketing but sharing videos of herself picketing on the day KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON goes on general release worldwide, therefore bringing flocks of people to her socials: a baller
The solidarity is real.
Sound on 📣❤️🚛
Your union, my union!
#UnionStrong
#SagAftraStrong
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My husband just texted me a Kate Middleton meme out of the blue and the joy I felt nearly moved me to tears
Rafa Sales Ross
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If Megalopolis is the worst film you’ve ever seen, boy, do you have some work to do.
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The even funnier part of this is how the camera crew didn’t expect the announcement to be so swift and then had to scramble like an episode of The Office
I’m obsessed with the way Al Pacino announced Oppenheimer as Best Picture. couldn’t have been more chaotic or confusing lol
“Best Picture…uh, I have to go to the envelope for that. And I will. Here it comes. And my eyes see Oppenheimer?”
#Oscars
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There’s a group of around 8 women who come most days with their little bundle of shih tzus & poodles and chat merrily along the park. Last year, one of the women began bringing her shih tzu in a pram and the little thing looked quite frail. Then she stopped coming altogether. 2/3
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Ethan Coen's #DriveAwayDolls is only 83 minutes, has "a lot of sex stuff," and is the first in a trilogy of queer B movies he'll direct: bit.ly/3CKSp18
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Fascinated by this new wave of trailer launch events. Is it just a whole lot of talking followed by two and a half minutes of a trailer on the big screen? Are there activities? Is this a networking thing? How long is the whole shebang?
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Me telling all my friends that MAY DECEMBER is the writing debut of Samy Burch, whose follow-up project is… COYOTE V. ACME
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I wish all the many of you (rightfully) thirsting over Wagner Moura were able to watch him go full PRETTY WOMAN in this great Brazilian novela where he’s a piping hot greedy entrepreneur who falls for an equally hot sex worker who doesn’t fit in his moneyed circles.
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🚨 This is not a drill: Paul Schrader is looking for a new assistant via Facebook 🚨
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A timely reminder that the definitive film about Amy Winehouse already exists and was made by the great Asif Kapadia a whole nine years ago.
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