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excited to announce i’ll be doing freelance coverage of NYFF this year!
editors: i can do reviews, features, interviews—i’ll mostly be trying to cover some of the lengthier films and ones more experimental in form. my DMs are open!
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conservatives are so cooked that they like hippies now
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every time this era JGL pops up all i can think about is he finally set up his career to be the next big thing and immediately directed a movie where he cast himself as a guido who can’t stop jacking off
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Martin Scorsese at the Oscars leaning over to Francesca and saying:
This shot from I’m Just Ken is a reference to a Busby Berkeley number from Dames (1934), btw!
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“doing yoga for the hostages” sounds like something Conner O’Malley would blurt out while bleeding on the side of a bridge
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there’s two paths for the mumblecore generation: direct Barbie or run an illegal VHS rental shop out of the back of a pizza restaurant
Here’s Joe Swanberg with his traveling black market VHS rental store that the city of Chicago keeps trying to shut down
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the domesticated Russian bear i follow on IG just had a very big day
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@metaplexmovies
@swen_ryan
he had a vision and he had to share it with the world—the artist will not be talked down
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You gotta be a sick individual if you attracted to women over 30
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knowing that Godard always returned to this moment, i feel pretty confident in saying that i could spend decades searching through cinema and not find a better scene than this
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feeling compelled to watch the entire filmography of a director i think sucks
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losing Bogdanovich is losing such a link, one of the first people to bridge the old Hollywood with the new. he showed that all this wasn't just separate generations, but one big continuity. can't but help feel like thats been getting severed, but hopefully that legacy can live on
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hearing reports that Megalopolis is both Southland Tales (compliment) and Southland Tales (derogatory)
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what it feels like to contemplate ordering McDonalds at 2:30am while blackout drunk
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need to feel like this so bad
Meditation...Female head, terracotta, h. 6,2 cm, Moravian culture, 4800-4500BC. descovered in Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou, Moravia, Czech Republic, currently in the Moravian National Museum, Brno
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of course, that’s not to say that there wasn’t a reactionary current running under hippiesm all along…
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do film twitter people that live in cities with big reparatory scenes just run into each other constantly
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you know what would make the Amalfi Coast truly beautiful? American style 8-lane highways
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I once dated a communist. He was a joyless person who felt profound guilt in anything that wasn't liberating the working class. He refused to get a job because it meant he'd be taking a job from an immigrant, which meant I was working 15 hours a day to try to keep us off the
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Tesla recalls some Model Ys over risk of steering wheel falling off while driving
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The Dunes here are amazing, and they're how I learned about geomorphology, which is the study of movement landforms. We've had a great trip
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when the Revolution comes, disrespecting Cook Out will get you sent to the re education camps
The South has some of the most horrifying things I’ve ever heard of
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another day…
no matter how hard i try i can’t go a day without listening to that AI Homer cover of Born Slippy
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@SaraGhaleb
My history of philosophy prof made sure we all understood that a symposium involved a lot of alcohol and sex before we read the dialogue and I thank him for that
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reading the first line of The Iliad: “oh man this seems to be celebrating the wrath of Achilles, hope there’s nothing in the second line that would ruin this interpretation”
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when i was a film student, i wanted to get into Soviet Cinema but had a hard time knowing what to watch outside of the big filmmakers that everyone talks about. after a decade of diving in, i’m proud to present my guide to Soviet film beyond the basics
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Romain Grosjean crashing out of the Indy 500 in solidarity with his old buddy Kevin Magnussen having to retire out of Monaco
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Pollsters have commented on a potential “Muppet shift” in late returns
For the first time since polls opened, [4] The Muppet Movie has pulled ahead of [1] Goodfellas.
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huge W for the Prometheus heads
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Obama is emailing me like i’m bisexual brunette Marxist at Occidental College in the early 80s
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damn it’s really happening
The Papa Johns closest to the Pentagon is far busier than usual
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harsh noise set at a small wine bar that inexplicably does experimental shows for audiences of ~20 every couple weeks
Taylor Swift has mastered all 4 genres of music. What else is there for her to do?
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if you’re looking to watch something decidedly un-4th of July today, i compiled a list of films to scratch past the surface of Soviet cinema for AV Club—and most of them are on YouTube!
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studios should learn the wrong lesson from this and start cranking out high budget court procedurals about mid-century academics
‘OPPENHEIMER’ has passed $900M worldwide.
Will become the highest grossing biopic of all time this weekend.
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Why is no one talking about how the kid in this pic looks exactly like Mitch McConnell
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@abs_sweetmarie
broke: anti sex scene Zoomers
woke: anti sex scene Spielberg
bespoke: Spielberg invented anti sex scene Zoomers
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Contempt is one of those classics that pretty much every cinephile has seen—but if it is ever one of someone’s favorite movies, invariably that person had a week where they watched it at least once a day while going through some wack relationship stuff
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instead of giving the police a mandate to harass teenagers all summer, the mayor should be focusing on more pressing issues in Baltimore, like building a sandwich shop within walking distance to every home in city limits
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not a huge fan of the reworked version generally but John Cale’s is way better than Buckley’s take imo
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Everyone talking about Jojo Rabbit but here's the movie that's really gonna take on fascism
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you’re telling me we owe Cameron’s film career to the Golden Fang?
More people should pivot careers by doing exactly what James Cameron did
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damn i’m gonna be more careful when i see a big rock in the road while going 300mph now :/
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this and the scene where he randomly gets mad about homeless people are so funny
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the budgetary inflation has to be almost entirely the director + talent proving this franchise is profitable and asking for actual money up front, right?
‘KNIVES OUT 3’ reportedly has a $210M budget.
The first film only cost $40M
(Source: )
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Cannot stress enough how good of a job grocery store workers have been doing despite the chaos customers might wreak; maybe they’re the front line of society functioning and should be treated/compensated as much
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when my local blockbuster closed the whole town spiraled into poverty because it was the largest employer and provided union-protected middle class jobs that could support the whole family
I’ve always found it interesting that, at its peak, Blockbuster video employed over 84,000 people—more than twice the number of coal miners in America—yet I’ve never heard anyone bemoan the loss of those jobs.
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big one for me—for my Paste debut I wrote how a Sony digital camera helped push the boundaries of what was possible with cinema, on one side with a Star Wars movie and another with a one-take Russian art film
Cinema entered its digital era 20 years ago with two Cannes movies, shot with the same high-tech camera, that couldn't be more different: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Russian Ark.
@alexL_E_I
explains:
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Heat 2 by Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner— good fun, a sprawling airport novel epic. feels like 5 different Michael Mann movies mashed into one. thumbs up!
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for
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@MEMORYpresents
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incredible lead in
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had to stop the car and pull over when i saw this on my way home last night
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i’ll follow you anywhere
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Netanyahu if he stayed in Philly
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Yevgeny Prigozhin before boarding RA-02795:
Michael Mann: “The thing is, I don’t think about mortality. I’m busy.”
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“separating art from the artist” always read as a deeply uncurious stance to me
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WHY DOES THE CHURCH BAR APOLOGY VIDEO HAVE THE MUSIC FROM THE BILL HADER DANCING MEME?!?!!
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incredible matte painting of Baltimore at the end of Hitchcock’s MARNIE (1964)
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Gene Jones hive rise up
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watching my regular lime scooter into the night after serving him 5 Malort and sodas
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this has the mise-en-scene of a late era Jodorowsky or even that Iñárritu from a couple years ago
President
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THIS IS AN URGENT QUESTION: if you could live in one fictional character’s apartment, whose would it be? Go! THE STAKES COULDN’T BE HIGHER FOLKS
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