Nuanced Film Takes
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My reviews: https://t.co/uNkdB3DalJ My podcast: https://t.co/FXPFHbGBdq he/him I have a YT channel that looks at the relationship between cinema and video games below.
Joined November 2020
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I know this sounds crazy, but sometimes it's worth financing art for art's sake to enhance our culture? Why do we have to be so capitalist-brained all the time?.
Apple's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON has grossed $67M domestic, $89M overseas and $156M worldwide on a $200M budget. The reality is, Scorsese films can't justifiably be greenlighted by traditional studios with price tags of this nature.
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I think the sign of a real creator is ignoring consensus and doing what you want to do. Imagine if David Cronenberg or David Lynch stooped to the masses just because they wanted to be liked? Chris Pine's a real one!.
Chris Pine refuses to accept the negative reviews around āPOOLMANā:. āAfter the reviews in Toronto I was like āmaybe I did make a pile of shitā. I went back and watched it. I fucking love this film. I love this film so much.ā. Read our review: (via
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The guy who has made a career out of ākeep politics out of my moviesā apparently likes politics in his movies when itās conservative propaganda.
Whether you like or dislike the people who made it, I think this movie is worth watching all the same, if for no other reason than having the balls to tackle the most contentious subject of our time with different perspectives, surprisingly revealing insights into what's become a
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We need to bring back directors who publicly hate films. Whereās the current Welles, Bergman and Godard?.
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People calling David Lynch a quack just because he promoted transcendental meditation to address mental health issues is unbelievably bad faith.
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Tight 90 bros, we're losing.
āSmile 2ā final Runtime is two hours and 12 minutes
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Iām not going to say Wolf is Scorseseās best film, but itās insane how it was right about literally everything America would be about in the ensuing years: the allure of mega capitalism, bro culture, and toxic individualism and how they continue to irrevocably damage our country.
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I think it's cool that Coppola thinks Dracula is his third masterpiece worthy to be mentioned alongside The Godfather and Apocalypse Now.
The new trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, in theaters September 27 via @lionsgate.
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Average prestige tv showrunner: I need five seasons of television to tell the story of a suburban dad going rogue and doing crime. I need enough episodes to show the fallout of his actions on his family. David Cronenberg:
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Favorite tight 90s of all time (films under 100 minutes)
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In another timeline, the Zone of Interest would have been a cultural conversation-starter like Killers of the Flower Moon or Oppenheimer. A24ās distribution has been so terrible that itās in danger of being relegated to esoteric art house object that only cinephiles care about.
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Cronenberg is correctly identifying an issue that has become very prominent in the YouTube era of film criticism, which is taking things too literally. The movie isnāt about the conspiracy in itself, but rather indicative of the main characterās desperate search for answers.
David Cronenberg calls out "ignorant, stupid" reviewers who didn't get the conspiracy aspect of #TheShrouds. "The idea of a conspiracy theory is a grief strategy, it's a strategy to cope with grief."
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Something I love about Scorsese's late style is how any charisma or allure of the bad people he's portraying is completely gone. The excitement of Goodfellas and the Departed is replaced by a deep sadness for senseless violence and the people and institutions that perpetuate it.
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I still think about this
Watching YMS dunk on M. Night Shyamalanās Trap is like going to a Ricky Gervais stand-up set for all the sweet sweet atheism jokes.
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Ghostbusters fans are so funny in that they treat what was essentially an extended SNL skit as if it were this life-changing work of art that merits utmost reverence and nostalgia.
Surprise. (Not. And I havenāt seen it. But this happened with the last one too.)
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Top ten dad movies of 2023, ranked by how dad they are:.1. Ferrari.2. Air.3. Oppenheimer.4. The Killer.5. Asteroid City.6. Blackberry.7. The Iron Claw.8. Killers of the Flower Moon.9. Kandahar.10. Sound of Freedom (could go higher based on your dadās politics).
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I think Southland Tales, Cosmopolis, Annette, and Megalopolis should be its own subgenre. Like 21st century American digital post-postmodernism or something.
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Guy who alternates between watching Thief and Heat
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Quentin Tarantino (age 60): My career is ending. It's all over. Wim Wenders (78):.
PERFECT DAYS "was the first film I made after the pandemic. I saw it as a new beginning for me so I really wanted it to matter.". Director Wim Wenders on creating his Academy Award-nominated film, now playing in theaters:
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We should probably normalize calling Sidney Lumet once of the best to ever do it. Maybe his style isnāt as distinctive or *auteur* as Scorsese or Kubrick, but he averaged a timeless masterpiece or two a decade. Heās maybe the greatest actorās director.
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He has a right to feel this way, but the film doesnāt purport to be an adaptation of his life. Itās like accusing the Coen Brothers of not being faithful to Dave Von Ronk when they made Inside Llewyn Davis.
Vili Fualaau, whose case inspired āMay December,ā speaks out against the film:. āIf they had reached out to me, we could have worked together on a masterpiece. Instead, they chose to do a ripoff of my original story. Iām offended by the entire project and the lack of respect
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Uhā¦you forgot these ones
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There are three kinds of auteurs: . The Lynch: I will make my longest movie an 18 hour season of television. The Scorsese: I will make my longest movie a 209 minute epic without intermissions. The Cronenberg: I will make my longest movie under two hours.
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If you think The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon are bad movies, thatās a skill issue on your part.
@netflix Its 30 years since Robert De Niro made a decent movie. The odds are this is not going to change that.
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Maybe there are better horror films in terms of craft and precision, but if we are talking films that feel like they spawned out of hell, nothing has eclipsed the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
number 1 ??????
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Martin Scorsese has a new movie, the Rolling Stones has a new album, the Beatles have a new song, William Friedkinās got a movie, what is this 1970?.
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I love how the universe spawned the ideal Cronenberg actor with Viggo Mortensen. Not sure thereās been another actor who has snapped into a directorās themes and vibes as perfectly as this guy did in this century.
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To combat this with a more positive outlook: I think the slow death of Marvel, the gradual rise of A24, NEON, and Letterboxād, and the simple fact that people are itching to get to the theater post-pandemic have made original movies more popular than they ever were in the 2010s.
Jerry Seinfeld quips "the movie business is over.". āFilm doesnāt occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives. When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it. We all discussed it. We quoted lines and scenes we liked. Now
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@ConnorMB_onFilm I would have said āyeah, itās not woke. Itās just a depiction of what actually happened.ā.
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Itās OK to dislike late style Cronenberg, but the most popular Letterboxād review of the Shrouds is basically the reviewer insisting that David Cronenbergās way of grieving his wife is ādisgustingā and ādisrespectfulā. As if he has any business telling Cronenberg how to grieve.
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I think if weāve lost the ability to satirize or even scrutinize the president through art because of career repercussions, wellā¦historically thatās not a good place to be in.
So, Sebastian Stan wonāt be doing Variety Actors on Actors, even though he was invited, because no other actorās publicist wanted them to do it with him. This beyond reprehensible.
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Thatād be hilarious if we got an EEAAO-level backlash in about two weeks.
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Sums up in a nutshell why Zone of Interest is a better film than Son of Saul.
"Son of Saul" director LĆ”szlĆ³ Nemes condemns Jonathan Glazer's Oscar speech. "When you make a movie like [Zone], there is a responsibility attached to it. Glazer has clearly failed to measure this responsibility".
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Iām just gonna say it: we should have given De Niro the oscar.
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Ready Player One energy if Iām being honest.
Mike Flanaganās DOCTOR SLEEP was released on this day in 2019.
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Netflix is fundamentally anti-art. They did this with Cronenberg too ā leading a great artist on for years before dropping the ball and producing another trashy reality tv show instead.
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos reveals that David Lynch was working on a limited series with the streamer that āwould have been his last project.ā. āIt was a David Lynch production, so filled with mystery and risks but we wanted to go on this creative ride with this genius.ā
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@Alex_Fedderly Definitely. People who consider box office gains to be the best signifier of whether a film is worth existing. just. what a way to view art.
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"Oldboy is a great film that inspired an even greater film, Only God Forgives" -NWR, leading off the conversation.
Coming soonāa conversation between Park Chan-wook and Nicolas Winding Refn. š. Park's OLDBOY returns to theaters remastered and restored on August 16th. Get tickets:
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When a filmmaker goes "God Mode"
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Hey guys, I have an idea for a Criterion box set
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@SChristofalo At the end of the day, a creator making the film they wanted to make is more important to the culture than whether I liked it or not.
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It's time: hereās my ranked top 12 films of 2024. It's Xmas, and it's never *truly* going to be locked, so here it goes. I decided to do it in the form of a Twitter thread, so I can jot down some thoughts on why I love each film. Honorable Mentions are after the number 1 pick.
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Slightly related: I think itās cool that Ridley Scott is 86, but he acts like heās still got 20-plus more years of moves in him. Pretty inspiring.
Ridley Scott when asked for his thoughts on Quentin Tarantino retiring after his next film:. āI donāt fucking believe that bullshit. Shut up and go make another movie.ā. (Source:
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I know Letterboxād ratings are made up and consensus is dumb, but itās wild to me that Paul Verhoeven doesnāt have a single film with a 4.0+ rating average. Shame to see the film community drop the ball there.
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To anyone who has Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me as Lynchās worst movie.
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Heās right. Also, Mulholland Drive wasnāt truly hailed as an all-time masterpiece until, like, 2010.
I am just old enough to have seen Inland Empire when it came out, and given how quickly it has become an era-defining classic you younger folks may not believe me when I tell you that at the time it was greeted by official film culture as basically a non-event.
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Average film critic watching Kevin Costnerās Horizon: that was a pretty long and meandering part 1. Hopefully part two picks up the pace. Popular Letterboxād influencer:
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@IAmThatWiz I also just think heās a conservative posing as a reasonable centrist who āwatches movies as moviesā. He also likes sound of freedom and defended it for the same reasons.
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Phantom of the Paradise, A History of Violence, Night of the Hunter, La Chinoise.
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Iām seeing a lot of pieces that do the whole āif you love this movie, you kind of support grooming, misogyny, white perspectives, etcā¦ā Even if a movie has ideological flaws, Iām not sure why thereās this tendency to put that responsibility on the viewer.
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I donāt buy the āGodzilla Minus One is nationalist propagandaā arguments. It works on a more allegorical level of the Japanese overcoming the trauma of the atom bomb and the war. The story makes a point that the Japanese government valued dying for oneās country over life.
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Whenever I hear people insist youtube influencers are better critics than actual critics, I think of this thumbnail.
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Part of why Lynch is so great is that he valued collaboration with talented people. Twin Peaks would not have been Twin Peaks without Mark Frost.
While thereās a lot of Blue Velvetās DNA in Twin Peaks, you donāt really get Twin Peaks without Mark Frostās fascinating with paranormal conspiracies and background in procedures like Hill Street Blues. Heās as key of a figure as Lynch.
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Cinephiles whenever they watch five minutes of a tv show thatās not Twin Peaks or Evangelion
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āIām flattered that James Gunn likes my movies. Itās too bad he makes movies for babies.ā.- David Cronenberg in an interview with Variety
it's great how easy it is to engagement bait by just posting something a director said that's vaguely critical of superhero films.
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@JFrankensteiner A few other chads: Cronenberg writing a pretty solid novel (Consumed), David Lynch publicly campaigning for Transcendental Meditation, and John Carpenter spending his Twilight years as a composer.
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āBoogie Nights is lower tier PTA because he was just aping Scorsese and he hadnāt found his voice yet.ā
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Not to say Goodfellas and the Departed are bad (they are not), but it's fascinating seeing him continue to reconfigure his art so late in his career.
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Iām just imagining a white Letterboxād user awkwardly explaining how Birth of a Nation is āobjectively a five star masterpieceā to a black person.
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@allowedtohit I hate it when critics 1) make cultural criticisms that they unfairly project onto the film and 2) implicate the audience as part of the problem. This review does both.
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What I mean by toxic individualism: āIām going to get rich even if it means screwing over othersā.
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@Alex_Fedderly I'd add to it that they have an irritating sense of self-reverence that the original movies were never going for.
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The only thing I ask is for the MPA to require filmmakers to disclose AI use in their rating, because thereās no way Iād pay to see this.
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What slept-on film do you wish more people would see?.
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The irony of this post is that Lynch didnāt really become beloved until this century. He was fighting the mainstream and traditional criteria of āgood cinemaā his entire life. The same people praising him as one of our few geniuses probably would have panned him in the 90s.
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Howās your top 16 films of the decade so far lookin?
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Luca Guadagnino is a pretty great filmmaker with virtually no misses over the past 10 years if you just watch his movies without *the film twitter discourse* whispering in your ear.
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Wrt Perfect Days: Sometimes the best criticial analysis come from random youtube comments
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What kind of Cronenberg fan are you? What are your thoughts on his 2012 film Cosmopolis?
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This is a horrifying and shocking act of violence. My thoughts are with Brian Thompsonās family and loved ones and all those working at United Healthcare in Minnesota.
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Do film people like this actually exist? Usually guys who look like this will just tell me to watch Interstellar or Fight Club.
I saw this scrolling through my camera roll and itās probably the worst thing Iāve ever seen
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@Benny_Profane_ Smile 2 screams 85 minute runtime. There's just no way they're gonna justify 132 minutes.
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Saw Memories of Murder at the Academy Museum in glorious 4k with Steven Yeun and Song Kang-ho present. Seeing Song aerial kick that guy on the big screen was a dream come true.
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@Variety Robert Downey Jr. using casual racism to defend Marvel was not on my 2022 bingo card.
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I do love whenever Del Toro talks about other artists. He has such an intuitive understanding of artistic intent.
āHe really has the two things ā the weirdest mind, and the most wholesome mind.ā. @RealGDT wasnāt ābrave enoughā to approach the late David Lynch when he saw him, but he beautifully breaks down the paradox at the heart of his films.
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My estimation that Killers is one of Scorseseās best keeps rising with time.
"But then you what happens? People forget. They don't remember. They don't care"
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Honorable mentions:.Napolean.Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning.
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@brianchaley Maybe Iām insane, but my Llewyn Davis rewatches are always life-affirming. It felt like the first time someone made a movie about the brutal reality of failure in a way that was very cathartic.
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I need people to throw money at David Cronenbergās next project. I need something to keep me going after today.
david cronenberg i swear to god if you don't take your multivitamins.
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As someone who grew up in the 90ās golden age of Disney, Pixar and Miyazaki, I think 8 year-olds deserve better.
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@PoorOldRoloTony I think Luca Guadagnino could potentially be the guy who bashes popular faves, but it might take another decade for him to get there.
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