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📣 Some
#screenwriting
News:
I am delighted to announce that I’ve signed an option agreement for my short film script. The development continues…
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Before I consume takes from people who disagree, I wanna say I loved the True Detective: Night Country finale. I cried more than once & enjoyed a real sense of female righteousness long missing from this genre. Reis and Foster were luminous.
The story felt important.
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@pjmaciak
@thijsbrandhof
It felt like pure meta-text on TV screenwriting
“I’m a grinder”
“I worry”
“High tolerance for pain”
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Don’t you just love it when TV is as riveting as True Detective?! Ep 1 of s4 was fantastic. There’s never enough Jodie Foster on our screens but at least with this and Nyad we’re getting our fix!
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Finally watching The Whale. I love everything Aranofsky has done and yet I always wonder why religion consumes him so much? Also, I am fascinated by Sadie Sink’s character, she’s so alive
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I just saw my film of the year. Sarah Polley is a gift to us all. Women Talking is simply stunning. My frequently used superlatives will not do justice to this work of art, politics, education and wit. Once my tears have dried I will see it again
#LFF2022
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@SethMSherwood
I find this very helpful, thanks! But I’m never giving up on my time loops.
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I find this very helpful, thanks! But I’m never giving up on my time loops.
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American Fiction - what a perfect movie! (Yes I laughed at this scene, yes the joke is very much on me 🤣)
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@DurgaOne
One of the time’s I cried! The other was anything to do with the Inupiaq name (and its meaning 😭)
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@stayawaysway
No more than any other crime drama, for example TD s1 where multiple people are murdered & it’s covered up by biker gangs or how neither s2 or s3 adequately deal with the Yellow King. I think all TV mysteries have flaws, but this one treated women like the human beings they are
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@mondo_tiki_man
There should be a whole series about Rose which would satisfy that craving. I think Fiona Shaw is an untouchable talent.
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The End We Start From has its flaws but it’s about time we had a dystopian drama where everyone didn’t immediately turn into a psychopath. A lower key Children of Men
#LFF
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I love that Promising Young Woman is trending. It’s a masterpiece.
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I suppose we’ll find out what’s happening with Paul Mescal, Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham by who Paul brings to the Oscars.
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If every film at
#LFF2022
is as accomplished as One Fine Morning, I may never leave the cinema! Anchored by a tender portrayal of a family dealing with the frailties of age, Lea Seydoux shines. Hansen-Løve expertly absorbs us into this modern drama. Loved it 🥰
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Show me the movie or television character you wanted to be growing up vs the one you feel like you became.
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Are you there God…?
What a kind, wholesome, palate cleanser (bearing no resemblance to my teen puberty experience, but that’s Judy Blume), so full of humour & nuanced performances.
(Psst didn’t think I could love Benny Safdie more but there’s no limit to my adoration)
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I might finally stop talking about Barbenheimer but if I can make one point that sticks it’s that these films should not be ranked against one another. They are phenomenal and singular - we desperately need both of them.
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The best thing about writing a time travel script is that I get to watch all my fave timey wimey films!
Do you have any obscure faves I could add to the watch list?
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PSA: the roundtable was several years ago & since then:
- everyone at the table has worked with a female director
- Dunst got an Oscar nom for a Campion film
- King directed a multi-Oscar-nominated film (albeit full of dudes)
…because they found women or did it themselves
watching this hollywood roundtable with kirsten dunst and they were talking about the lack of female directors and kirsten gagged them all she was like well actually i’ve worked with a lot of them n it’s bcs i try to look for them
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The Banshees of Inisherin showcases McDonagh’s humour & stunning vistas yet I was most entranced by the 2022 relevance of a dying friendship on an Irish island in 1923. Loneliness, toxic masculinity, mental health, religion, poverty, war all covered by 4 awesome actors
#LFF
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Is it weird that I want to watch DEVS again? Would be the third time.
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I still find The White Lotus cruel & difficult to sit through, but am trying to get on board with s2 because Mike White raises these fascinating issues about money, privilege & sex work. Also I can’t resist Aubrey Plaza, Haley Lu Richardson, Theo James & Will Sharpe in a show.
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Watched all of 3 Body Problem. People will love it, but I don’t care about most of the characters, only the sci-fi (so fascinating). Excited for season 2, yet still eternally sad that people didn’t get on board with The Peripheral (which walked so 3BP could staircase)
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@capwell6
Me too - from a lot of the comments I am getting, not everyone (read: angry men) felt the same as we did
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(This is old news but FilmFreeway said to tweet about it lol)
Amazing news! In a Hole was just selected by Gilbert Baker Film Festival via !
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Like a piece of extremely rich gooey cake I can’t digest too much Mrs Maisel in one sitting, but my heart sings at seeing spouses Rachel Brosnahan and Jason Ralph share a screen
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Starting my
#LFF
coverage today - on my way to the BFI to see One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin). I thought Bergman Island was a masterpiece so really excited about Mia Hansen-Løve’s next offering
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Found The Northman okay (so well shot yet kind of meandering) and honestly I think Eggers should have lower budgets for his movies, The Lighthouse was so much better
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@perpetua
@Gregster8626
Gonna both sides this. He’s clearly a master craftsman with a unique style & POV that speaks to dedication & consummate skill. His work is also increasingly elitist (doesn’t The New Yorker pride itself on being high brow?). Both opinions are valid & can run in conjunction.
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Our writing team:
@bec_bebop
@JustJen_02
and myself were longlisted in a comp for our comedy script!
This victory tastes so sweet.
Onwards and upwards!
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“Ideas live forever”
I now think not only is it a good thing but that it’s essential to watch this and Oppenheimer in a double bill.
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It’s a great time to be a MUBI subscriber. Two of my top films of the year are available to you: Decision to Leave on home viewing and White Noise at the cinema. Both innovative, cool and fun
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Last night I watched In The Cut and even being aware of the furore around its release it was still a lot.
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After deliberation & taking this far too seriously, here are my top ten TV shows of 2022:
1. The Bear
2. Severance
3. Russian Doll s2
4. Westworld s4 (RIP🥹)
5. The Patient
6. Succession s3
7: The White Lotus s2
8. The Peripheral
9. We Own This City
10. House of the Dragon
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Had a great time at the
@IGNUK
podcast recording, laughed my socks off! Muppets with scissorhands unite!
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When I began to openly weep, I knew Causeway had taken hold. A grounded, devastating study of internalised trauma, its measured pace reaps dividends. Without raising voices Lawrence & Henry set the screen alight. Lila Neugebauer knows exactly what she’s doing. Remarkable
#LFF
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Evil Does Not Exist is one of my films of the year so am delighted to learn that it has won Best Film at
#LFF2023
Full review coming soon. Hamaguchi made a movie that surprises in its narrative and artistic intent.
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Made it through. Understood the narrative, the female roles & perhaps the man himself, a lot better. The movie seeds in the applause so early. Everyone should watch it twice, but that ending is the most depressing thing ever. And guess what, folks? THAT’S OUR REALITY
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It’s my birthday today and for a present from the universe (specifically from
@A24films_
) I’d like a UK release date for Showing Up pretty please. It’s only fair.
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So far am mainlining The Patient. Remember being blown away by Steve Carell in Foxcatcher and find him better here. He’s so expressive. Also as a person who has written a novel & screenplay about someone chained in a room I’m preprogrammed to lap this up!
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Ah twitter. An actor who revitalised cinema throws himself out of a plane for our entertainment, gets 106,000 likes but the top comment will always be “what wasted potential” 🤣🤣🤣
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Really informative pre-production meeting about my short tonight. Shout out to all the films about time travel that engage the viewer without making them think “whaaaa?” It’s harder than it looks to make a good loop movie
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Get the Tories out. Our government is an embarrassment. It’s 2022!
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White Noise premieres today on Netflix. A film that I loved, full of high drama, visual spectacle and Baumbach’s linguistic finesse. I wrote about it for
@filmhoundsmag
(issue
#14
) so please buy a copy to read all of the 2022 recommendations
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I’ve played 205 hours so far(!) and still not found the Master Sword. Which got me thinking, maybe rolling credits on
#TOTK
might not be the real aim of the game. Thoughts and jokes about rocket koroks here:
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Feeling fondness towards the twitter fam today. Hope you’re all doing well and treating yourselves kindly 💜
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Never been more of a film twat than right now pacing around the Southbank lamenting that there are no decent coffee places nearby!!
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I’m calling it now. I’m Just Ken is going to win the Best Song Oscar. That tune is undeniable. It is literally the musical distillation of the film. And if this doesn’t happen, know that we’ll all be worse off (blow softened by what is going to be the best live performance ever)
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She Said @
#LFF
was riveting. Considering it’s about an important, sensitive issue, Schrader handles it with immaculate care while keeping it moving at pace (with help from Lenkiewicz‘s script). I cried. Mulligan & Kazan are great {watch Schrader’s I’m Your Man, it’s amazing}
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I’m lightly intrigued. No French accents. Stunning battle scenes. Vanessa Kirby as Josephine.
Joaquin Phoenix is Napoleon in the trailer for Ridley Scott’s new film
#Napoleon
#JoaquinPhoenix
#RidleyScott
#film
#VanessaKirby
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- Always a treat
- Better than trailers
- world cinema came through
…
- initial worries that MM3 was in his Top 25 eventually dissipated.
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I’m sorry to have become the embodiment of Film Twitter this weekend. AND YET
When has anyone ever said “this is the highest grossing film DIRECTED BY A MAN?”
Christ, Mary, all the saints and the little donkey will people STOP gendering success.
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I’m devastated, but hoping they’ll be allowed to wrap things up maybe in a few years. Truly one of my all time favourite shows, there’s nothing like Westworld. It is clever, strange, ambitious, cool and thought-provoking.
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It’s so Shyamalan to launch his daughter’s pop career by casting her as a Taylor Swift-a-like showcasing her own original music in his new horror movie.
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Not how I look now after 2 hours of crying - emotional wreckage photo not coming to a tweet anytime soon..
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My boyfriend & I are gearing up to play Elden Ring. He said he wanted a quick play of Bloodborne to refresh if combat skills. 45 minutes later, you guessed it, he’s still building his character, giggling & keeps looking at me. JFC.
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Yesterday I was happy about famous people, today, weirdly affected by Sinead O’Connor’s death. She wasn’t afraid to ask the hard questions, I hope she found some answers.
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I’ve just about processed Oppenheimer. This film, by my favourite living director, was not made for me, as I simply can’t understand man’s desire for war & power. What I do understand is humanity’s desire to unravel the mysteries of atoms. What I love about
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One ep in to s2, tears streaming, thinking, Good Lord it’s gonna be show of the year two years running, isn’t it?
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As a child of divorce, Zeller’s film stung. So well observed, it deliberately keeps the viewer removed from the action. The Son is mannered, anguished & layered. What does it mean to be a father, a son or suffer depression? Not for the faint of heart, yet worth your time
#LFF2022
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Watched Ambulance and Bay did that thing again where he’s a maniac with a drone and no scenes longer than 3 seconds for 2 hours and then he knifed me in the feels in the dying moments. Eiza González was fantastic.
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In true Contrarian style I watched Bardo & absolutely loved it. I’d put it off for for 3 months because I’d heard such bad things. It’s audacious in scope. Dealing with how it feels to live between liminal spaces in art, history and nationality. This is mind-blowing filmmaking…
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Just saw God’s Creatures (starring Emily Watson and Paul Mescal). It was…intense (I say this about a lot of things but that’s A24 for you)
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Fashionably late to the party, but I loved John Wick 4. It’s melancholy, wistful tone was a breath of fresh air (after Parabellum). May I ask those who sit at the table, is that it, then (bar, Ballerina)?
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If you’re looking for something different at the movies I recommend Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry. It’s Georgian magic stayed with me.
I’d like to see more from director Elene Naveriani (& star Eka Chavleishvili).
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Nothing in this piece will equal seeing the film, but I tried 🕷️♥️💙
Review – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a Gwen Stacy Story. Read it here
#review
by
@contrarah
#SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse
#SpiderMan
#SpiderGwen
#SpiderWoman
#SpiderMan2099
#Multiverse
#Marvel
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THAT was a lot to unpack. Initial thoughts are that Todd Field spent 16 years watching European cinema, looking in mirrors and playing Monster Hunter World.
Time well spent
#Tar
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Your girl did it! After refreshing the site every day for more than a month of course almost all the BFI London IMAX Fri 21st tickets went before I woke up.
I got the last 2 in Row A - 8.15pm not even sitting together!!!
But I GOT EM! NOLAN HERE I COME!
Who’s the absolute madman who booked a singular front row ticket to
#Oppenheimer
in
@IMAX
70mm Universal CityWalk on the opening preview night? 🤣🤣
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It has been a banger of a
#LFF2022
already! Nestling with ease between The Favourite & Marie Antoinette, Corsage was a riveting period study of Empress Elisabeth. Vicky Krieps continues to astound. Well done to Marie Kreutzer who makes the biopic fresh again.
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Up and at em early for Bill Nighy. Heard from sources (incl
@FilmFan1971
) that I don’t want to miss Living so heading to the Odeon Leic Sq for this screening. ngl also thinking about the pastries between films at
#LFF2022
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How many days will it take me to remember that Twitter defaults to For You every time?
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Had the honour of telling Mia Hansen-Løve how much I loved her work at her screen talk today (yes, I’m that saddo). She was very generous with her time and insight into her method (she advocates for script outlines). Good day!
#LFF2022
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Cillian drops the atomic dong
‘OPPENHEIMER’ has been rated R for some sexuality, nudity and language.
This marks Christopher Nolan’s first R-rated film since ‘INSOMNIA’ in 2002.
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I love screenwriting,
I love making new friends.
But I just read a thread that said the way to get screenwriting work is to become friends with everyone and that’s made me feel 😭. So, it’s not what you know, but who you know? Figures.
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Watched Babylon, fully expecting it to suck. And it was not to my taste. But, beneath the tonal oddities, Scorsese/PTA homage, strange casting and unnecessarily relentless pacing I could see how much effort had been expended. Would make an interesting double bill with Mank
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These films are amazing & nothing like each other, bar the doubling. The film world is richer for having them both. One is based on a Dostoyevsky novella & the other is about Brutalism & gynophobia. The Double is virtually all set at night, Enemy is a sunshine noir.
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There are at least 20 lines of dialogue in this first Succession ep that are all-timers, it’s almost annoying it’s so good!
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I support Greta Thunberg. I believe in Global Warming & that Andrew Tate should feel the full force of the law for his disgusting actions. I only ask that we stop perpetuating the archaic myth that a man’s worth is determined by the length of their dick.
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First film at
#LFF
was Hit Man. Mood in the room was high energy with applause. A real people pleaser. I was a bit more muted. I thought it had its moments and Glen Powell was so watchable, he really got to show his chops.
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Please let this win Best Song at the Oscars
LCD Soundsystem and Noah Baumbach on Embracing Death and ’80s Glam for the ‘White Noise’ Theme Song
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When we can talk about Succession can we please talk about Succession?
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