I fucking love him. Blunt and to-the-point, doesn't have time for this shit. Respects the form enough to namedrop the directors first. He's so damn cool.
@gobiuxs
70s edition
Paul: I am happy making silly love songs with my wife
John: I’m happy living in New York with my hippie wife
George: I’m happy giving my wife away to Eric Clapton in order for me to find true love
Ringo: I will die if I can’t have another drink and I will hit my wife
In 1966-67, selected writings from Cahiers du Cinema were translated into English and published over 12 issues. Along with four volumes of texts from different eras of the magazine from the '50s through to the '70s, here they are.
Much like the Cahiers du Cinema issues I shared last week, here's a link to a folder with PDFs of quite a few of Pauline Kael's books, most of which now seem to be out of print or otherwise hard to obtain
@IndieWire
No offence to Viggo, but Titane wasn’t just about shock value and unconventional imagery; it was about two very broken, lonely people finding each other in fucked-up circumstances and how they formed a connection and sense of familial love for each other.
@arvofart
Also that the dirt in the Outback is far harsher, grittier, and of a darker colour than the sand dunes in the Middle East, and that really shows but isn’t something that is only noticeable because of colour grading
Coming soon—a conversation between Park Chan-wook and Nicolas Winding Refn. 👀
Park's OLDBOY returns to theaters remastered and restored on August 16th. Get tickets:
This movie that I've never heard of that only grossed $23,000 is suddenly being pushed by all these celebrities trying to get Andrea Riseborough a Best Actress nomination by tweeting the same copypasta, this is kind of weird.
@Variety
Maybe I'm becoming more politicised, but the payoff of the joke isn't even funny. It's just there because a "joke" has to have a payoff.
At this point, I'm certain that Merchant was the reason The Office and Extras worked. Because Gervais on his own is preachy and not funny.
Pretty impressive the people to have come out of NYU’s film school: Scorsese, Spike Lee, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and now Emma Seligman… but let’s not forget this master.
Nobody calls you that. You’re an app/website. Who would have an affectionate nickname for an app? Do you know anyone who calls Twitter “Twitty”? No. Stop it.
@InsaneMoviez
I remember an interview where he said that when he completed Strange Thing About the Johnsons, his mother loved it and was glowing with praise and his dad apparently just shook his head and said “Too weird, too weird.”
@justingaynor
That long pause after "horse" just screams of "Fuck, now they're going to find some way to claim this is me saying I've made another season of Twin Peaks."
@coopercooperco
If it were a stand-alone small-scale movie about Obi-Wan that wasn't focused on grossing a billion dollars, that would be great.
What isn't great is a dragged-out miniseries full of fanservice pandering to people who clap because they understood a stupid, obvious reference.
@crispinoblong
That's just how we talk in Australia. Pretty sure almost everyone on this continent has called somebody else, and themselves been called, a legend more than once.
@anjelikamuhe
Don't know why people would want to get film criticism from a reviewer who hates every single movie they watch. The success of YMS in the bleak world of YouTube film criticism is genuinely baffling.
So I’m not the biggest Cate Blanchett fan (I think she’s talented but I don’t have the love everyone else does), but seeing her in person I get it. I’ve never seen someone hold an audience in the palm of their hand like that. Insanely charismatic and funnier than I expected.
Look, I think Freddy Got Fingered is really funny, but all the "it's an ironic masterpiece of dadaist cinema" talk is getting very, how do you say, "soy and cringe"
Before we share I SAW THE TV GLOW writer-director Jane Schoenbrun's (
@sapphicspielbrg
) full closet video, please enjoy this shout out to a cult favorite film now playing on
@criterionchannl
! 😎
@TheTumboy
Not to sound too sensitive, but yeah, I really have a problem with going back and revising the words. Just put a damn disclaimer at the start of the book. If TV shows and movies can do it, publishers can do it too.
@KrangTNelson
The fact that The Creator looks as good as it does and only cost $80 million is something that the studios should learn from, but because it didn’t do gangbusters, they’ll ignore it and keep giving bloated budgets and wondering why they keep losing money
@Swordfish978
I doubt it will be. I feel like it'll take an objective view in portraying how those involved in the Manhattan Project *thought* it was a good idea and had good intentions, but I think Nolan is smart enough to show that it was also a bad thing and fucked the world up forever.
@Darren_Mooney
@bornposting
It felt like they were trying to wish a shooting at a Joker screening into happening, and were then solely disappointed when it didn’t happen and all that happened was people pretending the movie was a masterpiece
@HitFactoryPod
If people get their heads out of their asses and realise they can enjoy movies without having to do mental gymnastics to have it fit their spot on the political compass, then they might actually enjoy the art form more.
Don't give a shit about the Logies, but Sam Pang, especially on Have You Been Paying Attention, is one of the few funny things left in Australia IMO, and seeing him belittle Tom Gleisner every Monday night is one of the highlights of my week.
How many times does it have to be said, by absolutely everyone, that Sam Pang is a genuine comedic talent, before the Australian Entertainment Industry gives him more work?
#Logies2022
Abe Simpson is one of my favourite characters, and I always loved this moment. Beneath the senile ramblings and belligerent stories, that he gets such a beautiful, poetic, and romantic piece of dialogue, I think it’s wonderful.
@nodrectionhome
One of my favourite Hollywood stories: Kevin Feige being shocked and mesmerised that Chloe Zhao shot an actual landscape shot, asking how she did it without green-screen, and then boasting to the Marvel Studios board about how realistic it looked, just like a green screen
@LingoUnbound
The original post seems to forget that not everyone wants to write jokey reviews for clout, and that sometimes one finds themselves unable to give a movie a rating.
@KaiserBeamz
@fiendformojitos
Wes Anderson doesn’t get enough credit for how much pure empathy he has for his characters, despite the dry humour and flashy style. He just knows how to write them in a way that makes them feel too real and makes us connect to them through our own flaws and failures.
@darylandfilms
I love that there’s pretty much no such thing as a bad movie shot in Technicolor. Even average 3/5 movies still make your jaw drop at the visuals if they’re Technicolor features.
@esmesayss
Dude named Dark City the best movie of 1998 when the studio dumped it and no one saw it. His endorsement is probably the reason people kept seeking it out and I’m forever grateful, otherwise I may have never found one of my favourite movies.
Refn will call Copenhagen Cowboy the greatest TV show ever made and Park Chan-Wook look at the camera with a little smirk, then shout “Who gives a shit?! It’s not even a year old! It’s not even a pimple on the ass of television history!”
✨ Molly Ringwald’s Closet Picks! ✨ The actor and writer shares her love of the literary qualities of Eric Rohmer’s cinema, recalls the thrill of watching Bruno Dumont’s LA VIE DE JÉSUS, & selects films by auteurs she has worked with, including Jean-Luc Godard & John Cassavetes.
@BrettThousand
Damn he’s cool. I don’t care that he’s a “3 takes and done” director, he just seems to love the experience of making films and creating a good atmosphere for the cast and crew. So what if his work’s been a bit lacklustre lately, he’s a legend, he can do what he wants
@KrikkitMotel
George would be upset they’re spending his future inheritance on courses. Frank and Newman sing the praises of Scientology to Kramer. Elaine argues with a co-worker and becomes an SP. Jerry would likely have a new girlfriend with an annoying, unrelated habit.
@metaplexmovies
It’s amazing how despite being a movie star, a 4-time Oscar nominee, and one of the best actors of his generation, he always comes across like a cool, normal guy. The energy he exudes is that of the high school English teacher I always wished I had (and instead got for art).
@poddtadre
One of my favourite moments in all of Seinfeld. I can't pick the funniest moment: is it his delivery of the Nazi line, the man comforting the crying woman, his nonchalant remembrance of his dead fiancee, that lady's howl of sadness, or George waving goodbye to the old guy?
@anjelikamuhe
I do credit him for trying to watch pretty much everything and uncovering some real "so bad its good" gems, but his ratings system is bizarre. He loved 3 Billboards and said "I would give it 10 but Lucas Hedges is in it and I didn't like him in Manchester by the Sea, so it's a 9"
@PunishedLobster
Sad to see you posting this on the timeline, because you’re going to get crucified for saying that you liked some movies and they’re just fine
@WillSloanEsq
@responsiblerob
I agree that Cruise is in the right. Even though I think he's got those soulless eyes, I believe that he does want the best for Nicole (that or he's that good of an actor). But it's an Australian interview and over here, the media treat Kidman as a goddess. He was doomed.
@fiendformojitos
One of the best parts is Kitchen Nightmares IMO is the servers being chaotic good and either trash-talking the food or tricking Ramsay into ordering the worst shit so he can see how awful the food is (thinking of the sushi pizza)
@KevKoeser
Studios thinking it's smarter to spend $360 million on something viewed only on TVs, instead of financing a bunch of $15-20 million movies that could bring in decent returns or even be a sleeper hit: that is the best summary of the modern film industry that I've ever seen.
Had to walk out of Triangle of Sadness. The movies not bad, there’s still an hour I haven’t seen, but I cannot stand the audience. I felt like Daniel Plainview, the amount of contempt I had for them
@LazlosGhost
This is also partly why Todd Field still made money even when he didn’t make anything for 16 years. Scripts got brought, went into development, never got produced, but he still got paid.
Happens more than people think.
The applause for Glazer turning into a mere smattering once he mentioned Palestine is this year’s equivalent of the Elia Kazan achievement award speech, except Glazer’s in the right
@ViceApologist
There’s also the fact that those viewing numbers aren’t accurate. It’s the total number of minutes viewed divided by the runtime of the movie, and it still includes people who never finished it
@imnotjuIes
When I realised where they were going with Ken, I found myself thinking “Holy shit, this is hilarious and clever.” And it only works because of how ridiculously committed Gosling is to the role
@McR1B69
This is why Adam Friedland is the Dick Cavett of our era. Letting these wonderful voices speak up and surprise us all. One of a kind generational talent.
First clip from ‘THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE’
The first-ever fully animated Looney Tunes feature-length movie releases in theaters later this year.
@femaleuncle
It’s part of this trend of white hipster dudes claiming to be sensitive because they aren’t visibly macho and listen to indie music, but never actually talk about their feelings, are manipulative and calculating towards many people, and still objectify women to a shocking level
Well, guess what? I'm starting a bracket of Best Picture winners from 1958 to 2021 (because 32 seemed too short for me, and 64 was the only other large option I could think of because I'm lazy). I'll start dropping the polls tomorrow at around 10:30 EST. Start spreading the news!
@Variety
We need a movie of David Harbour as the boisterous, pompous, Brian Blessed-esque owner of a railway monopoly in the 1800s. It's the best thing Hollywood could do for the human race.
Somehow curiously reading articles about Leos Carax led me to this fascinating rabbithole of this compulsive liar/career fraudster-turned-arthouse director, CS Leigh, whose films are impossible to find and who may or may not have faked his own death.
So Peter Griffin wore this in a Family Guy episode, and I'm convinced this is a reference to Death in Venice (a movie I haven't seen, but I know what Dirk Bogarde looks like in it, and I'm dying on this hill that it's an intentional reference).
Marty is getting more and more pissed off, and he’s 100% in the right. He seems to have more faith in ordinary moviegoers than the studios and theatre chains do. They think ordinary viewers are idiots and don’t want to take a chance on giving them something different.
Martin Scorsese told IndieWire while at the “Killers of the Flower Moon” NYC premiere last night that indie films belong in theaters as much as blockbusters; however, the label of an indie film makes it easier for theater chains to shrug off including movies in their lineups.
@ViceApologist
One of those things where, if you haven’t seen the movie, it’s difficult to understand the connection, but once you see it, it’s kind of all over the thing.
Well there goes Netflix’s tiniest little possible remnant of artistic credibility, rejecting a film from one of the greatest directors, not just living, but to ever live.
EXCLUSIVE: Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director David Lynch tells us he is hoping to find backers for his under-the-radar animated project Snootworld, even if Netflix recently “rejected” his “fairytale” pitch
@THR
Why put it in there in the first place if it's apparently not relevant enough to the plot that you have no problem removing it to appease certain markets?