Bilge Ebiri
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"A while longer still in this business."
NY/CT
Joined September 2011
America has *nothing but* food worthy of this reaction.
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This kid has cracked the code on modern celebrity. We’re living in his world now.
Here’s a clip of a *new* interview I did with Timothée Chalamet ! Check out the *FULL* interview at Doot doo !
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Helpful tip: One thing you might want to do before Jan. 20th is update all your vaccinations.
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The crypto ads this year are highly reminiscent of all the dot-com ads we saw in 2000, right before the market came crashing down.
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This must infuriate Nolan on so many levels.
A censored version of ‘OPPENHEIMER’ is being screen in several countries, with a CGI black dress covering Florence Pugh.
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Jesus Christ.
Just found out a stunt man actually ran on gators for the James Bond scene--
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It's not that any ads are attacking Trump. It's that Trump is so outside all norms of decency that basic, bland sentiments feel anti-Trump.
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Shoot on film, you assholes.
From 2000 to 2024, Gladiator returns. In theaters on November 22.
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Turkish authorities banned a screening of Luca Guadagnino’s QUEER, which was set to open MUBI Fest İstanbul. (The reason: “contains provocative content that will endanger public peace.”) In response, MUBI has canceled the entire festival.
Hazırlıkları aylar süren, haftalar önce duyurularına başladığımız ve günler önce biletleri tükenen MUBI Fest İstanbul 2024'ün başlamasına saatler kala, festival programında yer alan ve aynı zamanda açılış filmi olan QUEER'in gösteriminin yasaklandığını, İstanbul Kadıköy
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As I watch these stars doing the red carpet on TV while actual Oscars are being presented to their colleagues in a ceremony that ABC refuses to televise, Jessica Chastain’s decision to show up early & actually sit in that room feels more & more like the only correct one.
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It’s Jack, by a mile, and the rest of them would probably agree.
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No, it's every day.
.@NBCFirstRead: "It isn't every day when Ariana Grande displays more compassion and inspiration than the president."
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NEW: Barack Obama pops into Downing Street for a “courtesy” visit.
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Show the greatest “I’m about to die” moment in cinema.
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Meanwhile, in Istanbul…A beloved street dog named Boji, who became a folk hero for riding public transit, was slandered by some for pooping on the trains. Turns out, Boji is being framed, and video shows people planting the poop.
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At one point in TWISTERS Anthony Ramos yells, “This theater wasn’t built to withstand what’s coming!” and whoever decided NOT to put that line in the trailer should probably be tried and executed.
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I think that’s just called a staff meeting
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If this is true, somebody needs to die.
According to current rumours, Paramount has destroyed its 70mm IMAX prints of Interstellar. The September re-release could be scrapped or limited to theaters that still have a print to show.
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Hitler propagandist Leni Riefenstahl denied service at Hollywood nightclubs and studios in 1938. Leaves fuming, her feelings hurt.
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It actually is quite insane that Cillian Murphy is the first person born in Ireland to win the Best Actor Oscar.
im sobbing at these kids celebrating cillian's oscar win bless their little hearts 😭💗
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Christopher Nolan doing THE ODYSSEY with every actor in Hollywood sounds like a great idea and it also sounds like something that would happen in Season 5 of ENTOURAGE.
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It’s pretty great that Sebastian Stan won Best Actor for A DIFFERENT MAN. It’s pretty annoying that Adam Pearson wasn’t even nominated for Best Supporting Actor for A DIFFERENT MAN.
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The Oscars keep trying to manufacture these bland, dumb viral moments without realizing that the real viral moments are when shit goes incredibly wrong.
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I’m sitting in a backyard in Konya, Turkey, a city I haven’t visited in 42 years, with several relatives I’ve never met before. They ask me what I do for a living. I tell them I’m a film critic. “Tell me,” one says. “Do you like the film HEAT?” I’m home.
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Random Fact: In 1986, CBS premiered a sitcom called TOGETHER WE STAND, starring Elliot Gould, Dee Wallace, and Ke Huy Quan. It was a flop and was canceled halfway through its first season. It had 16 million viewers.
The series finale of #Succession has set a new viewership record — for itself — on at *just* 2.928 million.
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Season 4 of THE SIMPSONS might be the greatest season of any show ever.
i don't think i've ever watched a show with a good season 4.
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And that, my friends, is why movies will die if theaters die. It will all become this kind of horseshit.
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Not a day passes that I’m not reminded of these words from Ric Sluiter, art director of LILO & STITCH.
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Therapist: “It’s okay. The A.I. Remastered I Love Lucy Blu-ray can’t hurt you.”. The A.I. Remastered I Love Lucy Blu-Ray:
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AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER might be James Cameron’s sweetest, gentlest, most personal film. Possibly even his most emotional. It revisits all his greatest hits, but it’s always totally sincere. He is never leaving Pandora. He loves this family. By the end, I did, too.
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If movies with gun violence were the problem, there would literally be nobody left in Hong Kong.
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I don’t know if this reply was meant to be a joke or what but it is *perfect,* right down to the misspelling.
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The closing ceremony of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics should feature Al Pacino and Robert De Niro chasing each other with guns around giant replica Olympic rings while a 200-piece orchestra plays Moby.
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Rest in peace, Andre Braugher. Seeing him do HENRY V at Shakespeare in the Park in 1996 remains one of the best theater experiences of my life.
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What if your definition of “success” includes “not having to get up at 4 a.m.”?.
The world's most successful people start their day at 4 a.m.
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Ridley Scott is 86 years old. He knows he can't take it with him.
The budget for Ridley Scott’s ‘GLADIATOR 2’ reportedly ballooned from $165M to around $310M. (Source:
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I guarantee you James Cameron considered this at some point.
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OPPENHEIMER is. incredible. The word that keeps coming to mind is "fearsome." A relentlessly paced, insanely detailed, intricate historical drama that builds and builds and builds until Nolan brings the hammer down in the most astonishing, shattering way.
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If Martin Scorsese loves cinema so much, why doesn't he create some sort of organization to preserve, restore, and re-release forgotten and neglected masterpieces from around the world? A "World Cinema Project," if you will?.
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THE HOLDOVERS was No. 7 at the box office this weekend, playing at less than half the theaters of any movie ahead of it. That’s a hit. Whoever decided to give this only a 6-week theatrical window is probably kicking themselves.
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If you’re wondering why so many movies and shows look like shit, consider the fact that 75 percent of the Art Directors Guild is currently unemployed.
Art Directors Guild Suspends Training Program: ‘We Cannot in Good Conscience Encourage You to Pursue Our Profession’
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They didn’t know it was a musical.
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1. It’s not a public space. 2. The theater owns the space and runs a pre-show vid *telling you to turn off your phone.*.3. It bothers other paying customers; there are more of them than there are of you. 4. If you need to use a phone just go outside; you weren’t watching anyway.
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I spent months digging into the absolutely crazy history of the craziest Disney animated film ever, a story filled with joy, heartbreak, failure, triumph, trampolines, spinach puffs, random '80s exploitation movies, and Sting.
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Just watched THE DEPARTED again. It is hilarious to me that there are people out there who hate this movie.
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These are the five nominees they picked over Ethan Hawke in FIRST REFORMED. Call the Hague.
Rami Malek won the 2018 academy award for Best Actor. Who would you have picked instead?
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So, a Sherlock Holmes movie?.
Netflix Reportedly Discussing Enola Holmes Spinoff For Henry Cavill.
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There are so many people out there who haven’t been introduced to the greatness of AMADEUS yet.
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Once the strike is over they should expand BARBIE and OPPENHEIMER back out to 4000 screens and then have their respective casts do full rounds of press. Surely there's another $500 million somewhere in these couch pillows.
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The trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS features a history of dismissive quotes from noted critics about the director's earlier masterpieces. There's one problem, however. The quotes appear to be made up.
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That sound you just heard was 10,000 future Trump biographers rushing at once to copyright the title "Unpresidented.".
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If Stormy can end this she deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The reason you don’t try to fix the Oscars is because THIS SHOW is what happens when you try to fix the Oscars.
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People predicted an armed incel rebellion and instead we got tourists taking pictures in the Bronx. I consider this a win:
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Jeremy Strong is definitely among the most thoughtful & responsive people I’ve ever interviewed. He let me do multiple follow-ups (was not part of the agreement), even texted some additional thoughts. The man has my infinite respect.
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R.I.P. Dean Stockwell, a great actor who never met a scene he couldn’t steal.
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They're gonna get JJ Abrams to direct it and it'll be all about how Ana de Armas WAS the real murderer all along.
A sequel to #KnivesOut is officially a go
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This man’s bad-faith BS is going to give me a heart attack. Yes, you can watch LAWRENCE OF ARABIA on a TV or a phone and still enjoy it. But in a world without theaters, NOBODY MAKES LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos argues that ‘BARBIE’ and ‘OPPENHEIMER’ would have been just as big on Netflix. “There’s no reason to believe that the movie itself is better in any size of screen for all people. My son’s an editor, he watched ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ on his phone”
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Think of the bravery of Turkish dissidents, journalists, politicians & citizens opposing a coup that's trying to remove a govt they despise.
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I don’t think these Sam Mendes Beatles films will happen because I suspect Peter Jackson will kill him first.
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You could not come up with a parody this good.
Trump: Silence of the lamb! The late great Hannibal Lecter. It is a wonderful man.
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The movie is doing really well. It was never supposed to recoup its budget through theatrical release. It’s already made $102 million globally. Onward.
#KillersoftheFlowerMoon is expected to earn around $6.4 million in its third weekend of release. Martin Scorsese's epic has earned $46 million in North America so far — not close to matching its massive $200 million production budget.
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So, here's a fun little thread that I hope won't bore you guys to tears, but it's quite special to me.
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I refuse to believe this is real.
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Hearing that the eventual VOD-only release of TENET will involve Christopher Nolan personally coming to each house/apt in a HAZMAT suit and projecting the film on 35mm.
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TIL that Paramount is being run by the guy who directed NORBIT.
Paramount CEO Brian Robbins says they are moving away from releasing original animated movies in theaters & instead will focus on IPs. “We’re not going to release an expensive original animated movie and just pray people will come.”. (Source:
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Steve Bannon looks like someone Patrick Swayze had to kill in three different movies.
Very generous of Steve Bannon to take time away from selling brass knuckles and old Playboys at the flea market to give an interview.
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Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.
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If Martin Scorsese had followed his original intention of becoming a priest, he would have enjoyed this part so much.
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oh my god.
Zack Snyder says "more people probably saw ‘Rebel Moon’ than saw ‘Barbie’ in the theater, right?”. "Say right now it's almost at 90 million views, right? 80 to 90 million accounts turned it on, give or take. [Netflix] assumes two viewers per screening. That’s like 160,000,000
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“I believe we did.”.
What movie line was delivered so perfectly that it deserved an Oscar?.
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Fun fact: POWER OF THE DOG is shorter than 7 of the 10 Best Picture nominees.
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Some say AVATAR has “no pop cultural footprint.” But that criticism plays into the hands of IP overlords who have stuffed us full of second- and third-rate Star Wars and Marvel and DC offerings. Rewatching AVATAR, one realizes just how special it is.
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Yet again Ridley Scott appears to have made the greatest movie of all time.
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Wait till the folks angry about John Wayne get a load of Walt Disney.
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Kidman saying Scorsese doesn’t make films with women is just her coping with the fact that he’s never offered her a part.
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That 24-hour, 9-movie STAR WARS marathon apparently begins at 8pm and kicks off with the prequels, which means you'll be watching THE PHANTOM MENACE at a perfectly reasonable hour and the og STAR WARS and EMPIRE STRIKES BACK at like 4 and 7am or some shit.
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@JohnDiLillo @mavericksmovies I sympathize 100 percent but “tron legacy star cillian murphy” is an objectively hilarious thing to say.
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In case anybody forgot, Scorsese's THE AVIATOR begins with 8-year-old Howard Hughes learning to spell "quarantine," and it ends with him as an adult, having locked himself away from the world, terrified of germs, repeating over and over, "It's the way of the future. ".
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Hollywood’s obsession with smash-and-grab opening weekends needs to stop.
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“This is really Orwellian,” said the dude, as he banned 1984.
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If you watch all the Best Picture winners, you'll see a lot of very good movies.
what's your most normie film opinion.
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Farewell, Vixen. Thank you for being there for me all those years. I hope I gave you a good life.
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wow if only someone had warned them.
DANIEL CRAIG and RIAN JOHNSON are "not happy" over their KNIVES OUT movies not getting proper theatrical runs, which led to Craig having a "testy exchange" with Netflix co-CEO TED SARANDOS over it:. "F*ck your business model!".
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Four stills from a movie you believe is a masterpiece, no title.
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Remaking Hitchcock. One of those can't-miss ideas that always works out well for everyone involved.
Gal Gadot will star in the remake of Alfred Hitchcockʼs classic thriller 'To Catch A Thief' for Paramount Pictures with Eileen Jones set to write. The original film followed a former thief who must prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
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(I feel like a lot of people didn't get that this was partly a joke about the use of CGI.).
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The people who asked why Wim Wenders didn’t make PERFECT DAYS in his native country — you have your answer.
German politician, Martin Neumaier, has gone viral after he filmed himself licking public toilets
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Richard Linklater's HIT MAN is the best thing he's done in nearly two decades. And Glen Powell is a star. A big, bright shining star.
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Here's a weird little thread about movies and pets. (1/9).
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Quite possibly the most accurate description of Megalopolis yet.
Megalopolis is a lot of things, and one of them is like if Baz Lurhman made a Batman movie but lost the rights half way through production.
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