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Have enough people watched The Fabelmans now that we can talk about how brilliantly Seth Rogen is cast? The goofy dude trying to pull it together/hiding behind his own goofiness as a defense mechanism? I’m not seeing a single word about him, personally, and man, he’s GREAT.
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Last week, Adult Swim cancelled
@JosephPera
& co's miraculous "Joe Pera Talks With You." For
@Polygon
, I eulogized a work of art that has meant so much to me and so many people.
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Parents, please be sure to check your kids' Halloween candy. Last year I found Paul Thomas Anderson's rarely-circulated 2000 SNL short film starring Ben Affleck as an abandoned teenager and Molly Shannon as Anna Nicole Smith in my child's Snickers bar.
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In what I would say qualifies as "big news," my book "The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha" now has a cover, a release date of 4/25/23, and pre-order links at the
@WallflowerBks
website!
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Joe Pera just announced via his newsletter that Adult Swim won’t be renewing Joe Pera Talks With You, one of the most consistently excellent things I’ve seen since ever. A few selections from the devastating but predictably lovely note:
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@sepinwall
I’m sure will win no friends and influence no people with this choice but I do think this show is truly exceptional. There’s a line from the S3 premiere I can’t even think of without a lump in my throat.
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Paul Thomas Anderson is 52 today. I have written and spoken about him, uh, a couple of times, so here's a li'l thread in case you'd like to observe the day with me
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On what would have been Gene Kelly’s 109th birthday, why not take a look at the essay I wrote earlier this year for
@BWDR
on his enduring appeal and how watching his movies helped me and my daughter navigate an unexpectedly tough year:
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Coming 4/14 from
@OHMPods
, super-producer
@OneBlakeMinute
, and yours truly, with a murderer’s row of guests and excerpts from my
@WallflowerBks
book…it’s Pod Thomas Anderson.
Watch this space for more, and in the meantime enjoy a poster courtesy of the brilliant
@GMillsFineArt
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Waking up to another day without access to the Licorice Pizza trailer
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Elvis Presley Enterprises, 85% of which is owned by Authentic Brands Group, did not allow Sofia Coppola to use Elvis’ music in ‘PRISCILLA.’
“They don’t like projects that they haven’t originated, and they’re protective of their brand. But that made us be more creative.”
The
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A surprise early drop! It turns out my book The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha is available RIGHT NOW on Kindle, iBooks, and other fine purveyors of e-books! Paperbacks still won’t be out for a couple of months, but e-readers, go forth and check it out!
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I've seen Elvis six times this summer, handily the most times I've ever watched a movie in one year. So I wrote a little celebration/investigation as to why this movie has such a massive impact on me (plus stunning new
@haystackmanning
art as a bonus!)
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Doesn’t sit right with me that Henry Selick’s first movie since Coraline a decade ago, a movie with a major creative hand from Jordan fucking Peele, slipped onto Netflix with no fanfare and seemingly got watched by nobody. Doesn’t sit right with me at all.
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Thrilled to share the premiere of a project many months in the making: please enjoy episode 1 of Pod Thomas Anderson, featuring excerpts from my book, contributions from
@FilmIntuition
@isaacfeldberg
and
@modage
and art by the incomparable
@haystackmanning
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Did you know that 50 years ago, former collaborators of Zeffirelli and Powell & Pressburger made a weird, grotesque, beautiful, fascinating cinematic ballet out of Beatrix Potter's stories? It's true! And I wrote about it for
@BWDR
's 1971 issue!
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With so much Andrew Garfield in the news lately it's a good day to remember Under the Silver Like is one of the most fascinating movies in recent memory, a fact it seems more people are coming around to all the time, and one I wrote about for
@BWDR
in 2019
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Everyone: Paul, “Phantom Thread” doesn’t mean anything, you can’t just title your movies after random combinations of words, it confuses people.
Paul Thomas Anderson:
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Pitch a movie with two pictures. No captions.
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I’m unbelievably excited that we have some new artists joining the
@BWDR
squad this month, so while we wait to share their new work, I thought I’d post some portfolio stunners that put them on our radar. More from
@vmenendezb
and
@studioralston
coming very soon to a BWDR near you
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So amped to share that I'm back in the Paul Thomas Anderson business! I'm under contract with
@upmiss
to edit the PTA volume of Conversations with Filmmakers, one of the absolutely priceless film studies resources. Thanks to
@emsandems
for her faith. Time to go PTA mode (again)
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For
@BWDR
, I reviewed Licorice Pizza, the ninth film--and kind of the uber-film--by Paul Thomas Anderson, a luminous and precious thing that represents huge leaps in his artistry while maintaining some of his worst habits:
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Hey! Was two minutes of trailer not enough Licorice Pizza for you this morning? Well, as it would happen, I'm writing a book about Paul Thomas Anderson, so I have A LOT of thoughts concerning how this movie is already in conversation with his filmography!
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Good morning, this tweet is an appreciation of Joan Micklin Silver’s 1977 masterpiece Between the Lines, the most low-key movie to ever also be perfect
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( me after seeing two guys in any context whatsoever) Well well well if it isnt the Blowjob Brothers
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I'm only a few hours into COVID isolation and I'm already bored and lonely. But I do have a 760-page document of Paul Thomas Anderson interviews. So like this tweet and I'll reply with a random PTA quote I have highlighted.
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A few months ago, three words came to my head: Pod Thomas Anderson. I sent them to
@OneBlakeMinute
who had a vision. We ran it by my publishers,
@WallflowerBks
and
@ColumbiaUP
. Today, as our Thanksgiving gift, please enjoy a trailer for something wonderful
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OK, it’s time: Some professional news that can’t help being personal news. After the best 6 years of my life I am sadly no longer a member of the Bright Wall/Dark editorial staff. This is my decision and it’s amicable, though it hurts. And I’m so excited for what the future holds
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Let's make it official then.
CALL FOR PITCHES: Broad Sound, the print-only journal of arts and culture, is looking for pitches for Volume Two.
Pay: $100, plus an equal share of proceeds after expenses.
Topic: anything "arts and culture"
More info:
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ICYMI: For
@BWDR
, I dove deep on the ecstatic excess of SOUTHLAND TALES from as many angles as I could fit in one essay—including early script drafts, the “prequel saga,” literary analysis and theology—and I still feel like I barely scratched the surface
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TL's rough today, so if I may: a few years ago for
@BWDR
, I wrote about why The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best adaptation of Dickens' novel. This piece has my whole soul in it. Might be more fun than reading the TL. Art by the inimitable
@brianna_ashby
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As of tomorrow I’m six months sober, and I’m ready to use the word “sober” rather than “haven’t had a drink in [x] months.” I bring it up today because…
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Who is a character that had roughly 15 minutes or less in a film but had a huge impact on it ?
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If any young/emerging writers feel my feedback is worth anything, please don’t hesitate to send me pitch drafts, essay drafts (not BWDR ones—conflict of interest), book proposals, whatever. Giving notes and helping people get a leg up gives me such joy. DM or email, don’t be shy.
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The first day of fall is a great day to binge Over the Garden Wall—and then why not chase it with my
@BWDR
essay on the show’s roots in New England folklore? I mean, as long as you’re watching it anyway…
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I have no idea how to tweet about my new essay, so I’ll just say: it’s about some stuff that happened to me last year surrounding the release of C’Mon C’Mon, it’s as raw as anything I write could ever get, and I’m going to log off now. Love to everyone. Even you. Especially you.
New today on the site:
@Ethan_Warren_
with a personal essay on Mike Mills' C'MON C'MON, making the world comprehensible for children, and what happens when things beyond our control get in the way
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With the screener binge complete, I'm pretty comfortable calling it. This is 2023.
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I was up late watching The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover when I recognized the music from Won't You Be My Neighbor? So I stayed up even later and rewatched that one, and around 2 AM I realized they're basically the same movie, as I wrote for
@BWDR
:
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If the jury will allow one hack post-screening tweet: Anderson has always been distinguished by (among many other things) his deep fascination with the world. This is the first time a movie of his feels motivated by a deep LOVE of the world. And the difference is breathtaking.
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I still have four author copies of my book sitting in my car, I’m tired of giveaways and fundraisers, anyone just want a free signed copy mailed to them? My treat, I don’t want them and it would be nice to think someone else does
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I'm talking to a lot of people about Paul Thomas Anderson for ~*~a thing~*~ and anecdotally, it's pretty interesting how often they say "I walked into [the first movie of his I saw] and I walked out changed." That might account for some of his popularity. It's possible.
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Honored to have my book on PTA excerpted at
@CrimeReads
today!
This selection features some of my favorite stuff in the book, including some analysis of how PTA’s movies are constructed, and the effect those choices have on their overall feel
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Just signed the papers, so I think it's finally a good time to share the news that I'll be reteaming with
@WallflowerBks
and
@ColumbiaUP
for a new book to be titled "When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan on Film."
Anyone up for a couple years of Dylanposting?
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The movie that dares to ask: how much movie can you fit in before the opening credits hit? (cue yodeling)
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My favorite movie of 2021, and maybe this decade, NINE DAYS, is finally out to rent and seemingly nobody is doing so! This is the rare genuine cult classic waiting to be culted folks, put it on your weekend plans. More via my 2020
@BWDR
Sundance dispatch:
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Well hey, my
@BWDR
essay on C’Mon C’Mon and the year (or decade) I spent grappling with my psychiatric diagnosis, is now cross-posted at
@ebertvoices
. The highest honor, especially on one as raw as this. All my gratitude to
@ChazEbert
and the whole team.
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If a new Paul Thomas Anderson new music video has you interested in reading about his music videos writ large, I have a book recommendation. First taste of the music video chapter's free.
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Deeply grateful to
@zosham
for taking a flyer on the very emotional "Somebody has to WRITE something!" pitch she got immediately after the news broke.
And
@adultswim
, it's not too late to do the right thing, otherwise...
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@franhoepfner
Hey just wanted to touch base real quick and see whether Chris Nolan has done it again - and, further, if Tenet is the best action film ever, feel free to circle back at your leisure
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Anyway weird how The Lego Movie and Magnolia have essentially the same message
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Reupping my Licorice Pizza review for the weekenders—almost feel like I need to update it to more clearly say: this movie really isn’t a romance! It’s being advertised as one but talking about it too much that way risks having a conversation about a movie that doesn’t exist.
For
@BWDR
, I reviewed Licorice Pizza, the ninth film--and kind of the uber-film--by Paul Thomas Anderson, a luminous and precious thing that represents huge leaps in his artistry while maintaining some of his worst habits:
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Looks like The Humans has snuck onto Showtime today—sleep on this movie at your peril. If the pitch “like if Chekhov was done as prestige horror” appeals to you, this is the movie to make you fall in love with movies all over again. (And if it doesn’t…well fix your heart)
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You can save 20% off your copy of my book The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha if you order through the
@ColumbiaUP
site and use promo code CUP20 - be a big bright shining star and pick up a copy today!
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If you’re still in line for a May December sweep STAY IN LINE
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Over at
@lithub
, I wrote about my favorite author—for kids or adults—Robert McCloskey and how his trilogy of Maine stories can function as an antidote to life in 2023
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Feel like waking up and giving away some more pre-orders of my book, why not, who wants their copy taken care of?
So let's say this: reply with a really deep-cut favorite quote from a PTA movie, and in the morning, I'll pick one from each movie. 9 quotes, 9 copies. Sound good?
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As we get closer to the release of my book (The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha - pre-order now wherever you get your books!) I thought I'd re-share the list of every movie I mention in the book, in case you want to brush up.
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RIP to Robert Downey Sr, a mad genius (and a prince) in so many respects and director of one of the true underappreciated masterpieces of the ‘70s, “Greaser’s Palace.” To quote Jonathan Demme, “it didn't just raise the bar...it threw the fucking bar away!"
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Yknow what, I’m feeling pretty mushy about my departure from
@BWDR
, so forgive my sentimentalism, but I’d like to spend the rest of the day working down the masthead and threading my favorite piece by each member of the editorial staff, some of the best people I’ve ever known
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Watched it once before I was married and it rolled right off my back; watched it again between the birth of my first and second kids and cried so hard I had a headache for 24 hours
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@JosephPera
Joe! Thank *you* from the bottom of my heart. I can't wait to see what comes next.
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How can that be profitable for BWDR? Not your problem! Get on this miraculous deal!
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Until 11:59pm, any *new subscriber* can purchase a subscription to BW/DR for just $5 for the first year—which includes full access to our 125 issue archive!
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NEW TODAY! A brand new journal of arts and culture that I've had the privilege of putting together with words from
@KateBlowers
,
@cm_crockford
,
@sarahjaeleiber
,
@RoninonEmpty
,
@AdamMembrey
,
@ChloeNumberIII
,
@BCWallin
, and
@lilbirdliv
. Order your copy here:
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People who ordered my book in paperback through the
@WallflowerBks
/
@ColumbiaUP
website are starting to get them in the mail, well ahead of the scheduled release date! Head on over and pick one up!
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It’s BOOGIE NIGHTS day on Pod Thomas Anderson over at
@OHMPods
, featuring brilliance from
@Gabrus
,
@812filmreviews
, and
@itismitchell
, plus some thoughts on PTA’s relationship to his influences from my
@WallflowerBks
book!
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One of my favorite movies of Sundance ‘22, “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande” is available today on Hulu! I was shocked by how deeply moving I ended up finding this one—as I wrote about in my
@BWDR
Sundance dispatch:
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Wouldn’t Paul Thomas Anderson’s birthday be a wonderful day to order a book on his life and works, and maybe even save 20% with a convenient promo code? I think today would be a wonderful day to do that.
You can save 20% off your copy of my book The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha if you order through the
@ColumbiaUP
site and use promo code CUP20 - be a big bright shining star and pick up a copy today!
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Roger Ebert: Labyrinth began with a real inspiration…yet there's something missing. It never really comes alive…the movie is too long…it doesn't have a story that does justice to the production. ⭐️⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Labyrinth DVD:
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My kids always want to hear about the last movie I saw, and the basically comprehensive but entirely G-rated version of Babylon I just delivered while stuck in traffic may be my crowning achievement as a storyteller
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Stretching the definition of “a movie” I guess but there’s an old PBS broadcast of Gary Sinise and John Malkovich doing “True West” on YouTube that’s painfully low-res but still more impactful than a good number of movies I’ve watched lately
OK
@letterboxd
users, let’s help each other find some long weekend watches with a round of the
#BestUnderseenMovies
game. Your instructions are below, and we’ll curate a list over at our Letterboxd account as the recommendations pile up!
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For
@BWDR
’s Paul Newman issue, I returned to the world of Larry McMurtry adaptations to talk Hud, and why Pauline Kael called it “possibly the most completely schizoid movie produced anywhere anytime” (and how about that art from
@studioralston
😍🥵)
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Among the talk of masterpieces today, spare a thought for the Last Picture Show sequel Texasville, one of the least essential movies of the 90s but a fascinating oddity, the rare grownup version of that weird new term “legacyquel”
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As everyone remembers the classics, spare a thought for William Friedkin's adaptation of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, one of the best stage-to-screen adaptations ever and almost certainly my favorite. The stuff a lifetime's worth of nightmares are made of.
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I keep harping on this movie's resemblance to Jonathan Demme, and this quote from the book What Goes Around Comes Around really gets it: “You never see a Demme film without emerging from it feeling that it was created by someone who loves life and all of its funny occurrences.”
Today on the site:
@Ethan_Warren_
reviews Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, “a film distinguished not merely by Anderson’s characteristic fascination with the world but by a deep love for it.”
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Remember how good Kieran Culkin was on that one episode of Fargo like six years ago? I remember how good Kieran Culkin was on that one episode of Fargo like six years ago, and I think about it a lot.
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I had a no-requests policy for the Criterion giveaway fundraiser yesterday, but somebody requested stuff they could watch with kids, so I did have fun putting this little package together…
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I’ve been off Twitter the past couple winters so I never got to say: hey, I wrote this essay, and it’s my favorite thing I’ve ever written.
A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol
-
@Ethan_Warren_
(art by
@brianna_ashby
)
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Thrilled to have my first piece at
@LAReviewofBooks
today, looking at the recent anthology Rags and Bones: An Exploration of the Band and last year's Criterion remaster of The Last Waltz
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Eight years on and we still haven’t seen the deleted scene from Inherent Vice where Doc meets Thomas Jefferson. That bothers me. I would go so far as to say it bothers me a lot.
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For
@BWDR
, I tackled one of the movies that made me who I am, a movie that’s always felt too big for one essay—so call this a concept album of mini-essays on the theme of Almost Famous.
Today on the site: it’s all happening - our Desert Island Movies issue continues with
@Ethan_Warren_
on Almost Famous (or, untitled: the bootleg cut). Plus new art by
@studioralston
!
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In The French Dispatch, the line “He received an editor’s burial,” and the reveal of what that meant, got a truly embarrassing scream-laugh out of me in an otherwise quiet theater.
Ok time for a timeline lift:
What’s the single funniest line of dialogue you’ve heard in a 2021 film or tv show?
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It made a ton of sense when I learned the Over the Garden Wall team based their background paintings on the Hudson River School, one of my favorite eras in art because I'm a corny b*tch who lives for sublime awe in the face of the natural world
@Ethan_Warren_
"For the most part, Over the Garden Wall is not a Halloween story in the classic sense. Rather, it’s a distinctly *autumnal* story, and it’s this unifying mood that’s made the series a new seasonal staple."
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Apropos of discourse, some thoughts I wrote for
@BWDR
last year: “If Wes Anderson’s characters tend towards the wistful and nostalgic, their longing for the past is borne less of yearning for a happier time than for a time of possibility.”
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Honored to have my Almost Famous piece up at
@ebertvoices
(alongside
@studioralston
’s stunner of an illustration) as this month’s
@BWDR
excerpt. This one’s very special to me, and I’d say more, but there are plenty of words on the other side of this link
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For the evening crowd: over at
@BWDR
I wrote about Almost Famous, and Lester Bangs, and the cultural waves of 1973, and what it means to be a critic and a fan, and 18th century theories of the sublime, and plenty more…
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I also make a heartfelt plea to check out my beloved
@of_rude
, a "rude, crude, and socially unacceptable" actual-play podcast that's also "one of my favorite works of art to come into my life in the past few years."
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Maybe some day I’ll get over visiting my own book when I visit the library, but today is not that day
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The important thing to keep in mind when making a best of the year list is to take it really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really not that seriously
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If I did a 2024 edition of Broad Sound, the new print-only journal of arts and culture, would you be interested in pitching for that?
Pay: $100, plus an equal share of any proceeds after expenses.
Topic: literally anything you want if it fits under the term “arts and culture”
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Five months without a drink tonight. Was thinking I’d make it to like six months or a year before a tweet about it, but if that’s not necessarily an option, here’s my “I quit drinking” tweet now. I quit drinking, seemingly for real this time. So far so good…
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