Manuela Lazić
@ManiLazic
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Manuela/Mani/Manu // Film writer & actress & filmmaker // [email protected]
London but from France
Joined October 2012
I wouldn’t have the career I have if it weren’t for this platform, but maybe we wouldn’t have the mad world we have (or at least not as awful) if it weren’t for this platform, so I’m leaving. I’m on Bluesky at the same @ but my hope is that I won’t use it too much. Bye bitches!.
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Martin Scorsese discovering the expression “hits different” with the example “seeing a film on 70mm hits different”… pure bliss.
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These fancams of old Hollywood guys with modern music are exactly what this platform should be all about.
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Is it just me or does Francesca Scorsese’s dog look a bit like her father
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Rewatching GONE GIRL because I can - lost it when Affleck says “I’m so sick of being picked apart by women” right after his sister found out about his 20yo mistress.
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How blessed we are that his odd but mesmerising face, his crazy eyes, his strange, deep voice, his lanky body, and his surprising talent were ever put to use in cinema.
After his 1st film audition, the writer and producer called Donald Sutherland to tell him he didn't get the part. The role was for "a guy next door sort of guy," they told him. “And to be absolutely truthful, we don't think you look like you ever lived next door to anybody.”
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For @guardian, I wrote about the state of film criticism today, as influencers have better access to press screenings than, well, the press, & how the devaluation of criticism is related to the devaluation of cinema by streamers.
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The most popular “review” of MEAN STREETS on Letterboxd 👍👍👍
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Scientists have discovered after careful calculations that this is, in fact, one of the best pictures ever taken
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This is obvs sad but isn’t there also something so hopeful & exciting about it? That you can live a long & fulfilling creative life and still find that you have more to say, more than ever, even? That your love for your craft has only grown stronger and stronger? It’s beautiful!
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Did anyone mention BEAU IS AFRAID in the sex scenes discourse? That one “advances the plot” alright.
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Ok be serious if you want to play this game
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The reason why everyone is going crazy over Swann Arlaud and Jeremy Allen White is because they’re interesting-looking as well as hot, and it’s maddening that the film industry at large isn’t better suited to discovering real, weird, unique-looking and talented actors like those.
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It's easy (and logical) to get cynical about these award ceremonies but moments like this one are just too beautiful.
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2 years is a pretty standard if not little amount of time between 2 films
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This is a brilliant articulation of why a varied cinema offering guarantees a healthy film industry - and therefore a real film culture.
james gray on hollywood's failure to preserve the cultural influence of cinema in their pursuit of endless profit.
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Michelle Williams can go from playing Steven Spielberg's mom to doing this, and that's called talent baby.
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I implore you to stop posting clips and screenshots from MAY DECEMBER which has barely just come out.
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When I saw that RDJ and Ruffalo had done an Actors on Actors video together I thought “oh that’s right they were together in ZODIAC!” and completely forgot about the decade of superhero movies lol.
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I’ll stop talking about Glen Powell but I genuinely believe that if the world were fair, he’d get nominations for his work in HIT MAN - esp in the crucial scene where reality catches up to him & his character’s various personas all blend into one. Such detailed & deranged work.
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MAI DÉCEMBRE (Todd Haynes, 2023).
Brigitte Macron says her ‘head was in a mess’ when she dated future French president when he was 15 and she was 40
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All these euphoric Spielberg tweets make it clear that people just aren’t seeing that many new well-made Hollywood films these days.
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He’s still in character!!.
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I hope all of Francesca Scorsese’s TikToks of her dad end up in an archive to then be screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato in 30 years.
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One of the worst sentences I’ve ever read.
Darren Aronofsky to direct Elon Musk biopic for A24
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I was so looking forward to PAST LIVES but found it annoyingly thin and uncomplicated - this piece explains and contextualises this really well
For @ArtReview_ I wrote a dissenting opinion on Past Lives, a film so insistent on making its characters relatable, decent and sympathetic that it forgets to make them into real people
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Chiara Mastroianni as her father in Honoré’s MARCELLO MIO - my god!
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Claire Denis feeling like a “failure” anytime she thinks about Howard Hawks
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it’s kinda crazy how little good art has been made about electricity, one of the most important things of all times.
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THE SUBSTANCE is the best thing I’ve seen at #Cannes2024 so far - Hollywood’s ban on ageing & its consequences pushed to their logical, extreme conclusions, with plenty of horrifying & hilarious gore, some devastating moments, & a De Palma-esque palette (my) dreams are made off.
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If you can hear this picture, you’re Harry Caul
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Boris Johnson's dad can't believe his son did this and condemns him on TV, we are now officially in some kind of Greek tragedy.
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my favourite moment in YESTERDAY is when the dude is trying to sing "I Saw Her Standing There" but as soon as he starts with the lyrics "well, she was just 17, you know what I mean" the crowd starts booing and throwing tomatoes and bottles at his face and screaming "cancelled!".
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Jean-Luc Godard is on IG live right now smoking a cigar and dropping truth bombs (and rambling)
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Over the weekend I learned that Kubrick used rear-projection for one (1) shot in EYES WIDE SHUT, with Tom Cruise walking on a treadmill!!!
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RIP Piper Laurie - I believe her incredibly committed and believable performance in CARRIE was one big reason why my mom wouldn’t let me watch it for years; she was also just as chilling and real in TWIN PEAKS! Iconic in so many ways.
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Learned several insane things about Glenn Ford yesterday
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It also could make you terrified of sex, so the anti-sex scenes people might like it!.
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This is blowing my mind.
kristen Stewart doing an impression of herself to remember her own lines lmaoooo
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some people have instagram face, glen powell has eroll flynn face
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READY PLAYER ONE (Steven Spielberg, 2018)
thinking about shit that i Recognize and smiling.
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Finally saw THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY on the big screen and do you ever get emotional just thinking about how perfect and smart and profound and rich a movie is?.
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If Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles ever have a child it could have the last names Wilde-Styles.
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Lola Kirke getting back at Anthony Lane for his superficial and outdated view of her character in GEMINI, published in the Mail section of the latest New Yorker 💫
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A while ago my acting teacher told me that you build self-esteem by doing estimable acts and I think about that all the time; also, it works!.
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The most kingly of all kings. RIP.
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I think this might be one of the highest compliments you could pay a film?.
BARRY LYNDON is a masterpiece in every insignificant detail. Kubrick isn't taking pictures in order to make movies, he's making movies in order to take pictures. (1975).
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Americans being mad at full frontal male nudity in films but not shocked by guns is the sign that transference is now complete: guns are no longer phallic symbols, they are the phallus itself.
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Van Gogh’s ‘Prisoners Exercising’ / Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
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What if we kissed under the rhino in the il cinema ritrovato bookshop surrounded by film books and posters
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ICYMI I wrote about what a shame it is that most people will have to watch HIT MAN through a link later.
A movie from the director of ‘Dazed and Confused’ starring one of Hollywood’s rising stars—sounds like box office magic, right? Alas, ‘Hit Man’ is headed to Netflix. @ManiLazic: .
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After spending a weekend watching films with very respectful audiences at the BFI, it’s quite a shock to go to another cinema where people act like they’re in their fucking living room
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so in 20 years all physical media and movie theatres will have disappeared. Richard's film will thus be sent to viewers as a link later. .
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Not trying to blow anyone’s mind but I’ve recently realised that telling myself that I do, in fact, deserve to be happy, makes a world of difference? More of that this year.
Today's card. Pay attention to how you feel as you tell stories about your life & what's going on w/ you. Do the swords you're carrying make you feel peaceful, connected, expansive, isolated, afraid, helpless? What will be the impact of carrying tales that make you feel this way?
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This has a Lynchian quality that I have to respect.
Its a shame the Fast and Furious franchise never properly further explored Hobbs’s superhuman ability to shift in size at his own will
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when I restrain myself from subtweeting the shit out of some morons
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I finally did it - I wrote about PHANTOM THREAD! I discussed how Alma is a terrible model & how PTA's camera shows us that she understands Reynolds so well! It's my @ebertvoices debut!
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I don’t want to say too much about Andrew Haigh’s ALL OF US STRANGERS - just know that it’s wildly original, tender, often funny and definitely good for your heart, and go see it as soon as you can. #lff
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uh oh.
“Desire is a really powerful human emotion and if you don’t use it the right way, it can eat you away.” - @armiehammer #CallMeByYourName
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The fact that so many people don’t know whether critics writing reviews would be scabbing says so much about the state of film criticism today. We are not PR people or advertisers?!.
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IndieWire in a few months when THE IRISHMAN comes out and turns out to be one of the best films of the decade
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hi, I'm a character in a movie. on paper, i'm not as complex as a real person because cinema employs genre tropes & has its own language, made of visual codes that suggest rather than directly, unequivocally, signify. actors also bring more to me with their physicality & persona.
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just realised that 1970 was almost 50 years ago and not 30 like it used to just yesterday.
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One of the key foundational pleasures of cinema is that it gives us the chance to observe an intriguing face in close-up, and from different angles, to admire its oddness and its mysterious and imperfect yet satisfying geometry.
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Isabelle Adjani closing Gianfranco Ferré's last show for Dior RTW SS 1993
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Only just realising that the Beale St soundtrack is good writing music 🥰.
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I watched almost all of Sharon Tate's movies ahead of seeing Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME. IN HOLLYWOOD, which made the experience even more moving. For @ringer, I wrote about how peculiar, difficult yet promising her short career in the movies was.
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Beyond thrilled to have written about the brilliant films of Claire Denis for @ringer! She’s one of our greatest filmmakers, finally getting the international love she deserves thx to her new film HIGH LIFE & with a retro at @BAMfilmBrooklyn!
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Btw one thing I don’t miss from Cannes is getting called “monsieur” about 5 times a day by distracted security guards who have never seen a woman with short hair. Vive la France!!.
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LICORICE PIZZA is good because it’s about a young woman who’s allowed to be free and herself - mad concept I know!!.
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It would be cool if I could one day see the movie SHOWING UP by Kelly Reichardt (which premiered in Cannes in May 2022) in a London cinema.
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The last duel between people who’ve seen RASHOMON and those who’ve only heard of its narrative device.
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Rewatched CERTAIN WOMEN again; I love how cinema, in the hands of someone like Kelly Reichardt, can perfectly capture the way regular life, with its slow rhythm and daily awkwardnesses, can sometimes be totally riveting.
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Apparently Jean-Pierre Léaud and his wife are going through tough times financially and a fundraising campaign has been set up to help them. There isn’t much info out there, but the little we know seems to come from Serge Toubiana, director of the Cinémathèque Française.
SOUTIEN À JEAN PIERRE LÉAUD !. On parlait de lui hier, aujourd'hui Jean Pierre Leaud a besoin d'aide. Alerté hier par @draftycuriosity, j'ai vérifié l'info auprès de Serge Toubiana, la cagnotte suivante est bien en soutien à l'artiste.À Partager
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