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This is what people now want from movies: Either blatant fantasy (superheroes, over-the-top action, horror) or “stringently based on a true story.” Nothing in between.
(DECISION TO LEAVE and THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN are both expanding this weekend. Support the in between.)
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I've been on Twitter for 10 years and have never before taken part in any attempt to get anything trending, but
#StopPresidentBannon
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I assume this is Photoshopped, as I actually possess (thanks to a friend who still works there) a copy of the actual headline.
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Rewatching MARRIAGE STORY and while I still quite like it I’m kind of startled this time by just how much it’s the story of a man who really really does not want to move to L.A.
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Random reminder that Adam Driver has only been making films for 7 yrs and has already worked with Eastwood, Baumbach (x3), Spielberg, the Coens, Jeff Nichols, Jarmusch, Scorsese, Soderbergh, Rian Johnson, Spike Lee, and Gilliam. With Carax forthcoming + more Baumbach & Jarmusch.
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Tom Hanks was a big deal but hopefully people will take note of the fact that Idris Elba is infected but asymptomatic (at least for now). You can be spreading this all over town and have no idea. Stay home.
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Today is the one-year anniversary of the greatest moment in Film Twitter history.
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People have marveled recently that Yorgos Lanthimos went so speedily from DOGTOOTH to mainstream appeal, but really there’s nothing crazier than someone making his feature debut with ERASERHEAD and then getting eight Oscar nods including Best Picture for his sophomore effort.
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Liking movies by Scorsese and Fincher and Tarantino and etc. is not a problem. Liking *only* movies by Scorsese and Fincher and Tarantino and etc. may signify a problem.
There, I solved it. The end.
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@TheWillThe
You didn’t write an entire article about it, though? That’s really the part that alarms me.
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@GuyLodge
I try to see major films tabula rasa when I can, so that doesn’t seem off. And I can understand assuming TÁR to be a biopic, given the specificity of its milieu. But turning your surprise into an entire piece? (And I didn’t even note the part that most depressed me.)
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With the KNIVES OUT premiere underway, think I’m finally cleared to gush that it’s the best damn film I’ve seen all year. (Throw in last year, too.) Not just the crackerjack mystery I’d hoped for, but also deeply cathartic in ways I’d never have anticipated. Final shot is pure 🔪
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Shout-out to whichever of John Oliver’s writers described COP ROCK as “If PITCH PERFECT crashed into THE WIRE and there were absolutely no survivors.”
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Let’s just replace Person of the Year with Expression of the Year.
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While you were sleeping:
- Sandra Bullock rescued Peter Gallagher from muggers
- Bullock got mistaken for the comatose Gallagher’s fiancée
- Bullock fell in love with Gallagher’s brother, Bill Pullman
- Gallagher woke up, proposed marriage
- Bullock did not know *what* to do
While you were sleeping:
- Trump/Kim talks broke down, prompting cancellation of working lunch and joint agreement signing ceremony
- Trump held presser, arguing “sometimes you have to walk” away
- Trump boarded AF1, leaving Hanoi two hours earlier than originally scheduled
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I am unreasonably angry that INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK is now the film’s official title on IMDb.
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My parents were best friends with another couple when I was very young. Both couples divorced; my mother then married the man from the other couple and within less than a year my father married the woman. (One of those second marriages is still going, 46 years later.)
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The Senate had an opportunity to remove this obviously dangerous and incompetent sociopath from office four months ago. Every Republican except Mitt Romney refused to do so.
Let them be forever stained by their craven capitulation. They all know who Trump is. They don’t care.
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GOTTI is now on Amazon Prime with its original wackadoo needle drops, including my absolute favorite.
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In very much related news, I have decided to stop writing for the A.V. Club, my primary freelance home for the past 12 years (apart from the too-brief period when The Dissolve shared joint custody). Thanks to
@AADowd
for running a first-rate film section for as long as he could.
UPDATE: The seven A.V. Club workers in Chicago have decided to take their union-contract-protected severances rather than move to L.A. without a cost-of-living adjustment. A statement from the union (1/X):
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Listened to John Goodman’s WTF episode and the one role he thinks he screwed up and wishes he could do over is Charlie in BARTON FINK, which I consider the single greatest performance of the ’90s. Nobody is a good judge of their own work.
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I had forgotten that Seinfeld was so well established years before SEINFELD that SNL felt comfortable doing a sketch that’s just three simultaneous Seinfeld impressions.
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"You never give the financially successful films any awards."
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Man, you can just pause THE CONFORMIST at random (I genuinely did here, was briefly interrupted) and get a stunning composition.
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FilmStruck lasted almost exactly as long as The Dissolve. Like, to the day.
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Hmm should I see the ANT-MAN sequel or the HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA sequel or the INCREDIBLES sequel or the JURASSIC WORLD sequel or the MAMMA MIA sequel or the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE sequel or the EQUALIZER sequel or the UNFRIENDED sequel or the PURGE sequel or the SICARIO sequel or
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The moment when “Laura Palmer’s Theme” downshifts from yearning crescendo back to ominous drone chills my blood like no other. Just a hair less transcendent than Herrmann’s cue for Judy emerging dressed as Madeleine, which is the highest praise I can give.
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It took courage. It took courage to climb into that machine every night, not knowing if I'd be the man in the box…or the prestige. Do you want to see? What it cost me? You didn't see where you are, did you? Look.
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Maybe the sex scene made you horny, and you want to jerk off. Hey, why not? It's all about you.
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None of the pandemic movies prepared us for our insane current reality in which roughly 35% of the population simply refuses to believe that it’s actually a crisis, to own the libs. None of those characters ever said “Fake news!” or “I do what I want because this is America!”
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ATTENTION FELLOW PATRONS OF THIS SCREENING OF “PADDINGTON 2.” THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. I AM NOT CREEPING ON YOUR CHILDREN. PEOPLE ON TWITTER SAY THIS MOVIE WILL SOLVE ALL OF THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS VIA FUNDAMENTAL DECENCY + MARMALADE JOKES AND I AM A GULLIBLE SORT. THAT IS ALL.
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Loved PHANTOM THREAD the first time but it felt a tad formless/repetitive, only really clicking for me retroactively at the end. Second viewing revealed its intricacy and was glorious start to finish. This is PTA’s best film.
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Okay, now that we’re nearly four months into the new decade, and nobody cares anymore, it’s finally time for me to count down my 100 favorite films of last decade. It will be a highly idiosyncratic list that includes numerous movies you don’t like and omits many movies you love.
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“If Joe Biden wins, lids of jars will become much harder to pry open.”
“If Joe Biden wins, folks, you’re gonna start getting even more calls from telemarketers. Your phone will never stop ringing!”
“A Joe Biden victory will mean we only get 40 minutes of sunlight per day.”
In Carson City, Nevada, Donald Trump says that if Joe Biden wins, “the Christmas season will be canceled.”
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Welcome to Switzerland, where you can enjoy the DOCTOR STRANGE trailer while you pee.
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Finally saw HARDCORE, in which George C. Scott attempts to find his missing daughter via Marc Maron cosplay.
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GOODFELLAS will understandably be the lead item but I’m old enough to have witnessed Liotta show up from out of nowhere midway through SOMETHING WILD. Can still feel that terrifying rush, the way he single-handedly wrested the film’s tone in a radically different direction.
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Just watched what someone deemed “one of the most magnificent, sublime, monumental, extraordinary scenes in cinema history.” It was the Joker dancing down some stairs to “Rock and Roll Part 2.” The fuck is going on?
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This still now looks like the Elephant Man checking his email.
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Nothing I’ve seen reported thus far from the report itself is as disturbing to me as Barr this morning telling bald-faced lies that he knew perfectly well would be exposed as lies just an hour or two later.
You only do that if you feel confident that the exposure won’t matter.
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Translator (to Kim): He says it is all red. He invites you to marvel at the amount of redness this map shows. Where it is red he is loved.
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Hey young people: Older people expressing surprise that you’re unfamiliar with stuff we grew up with (rotary phones, darkrooms, etc.) doesn’t always mean we’re ridiculing your ignorance. Most of the time it’s just “Whoa, fuck, I’m ancient apparently.” Don’t jump to conclusions.
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Oh FFS Chris Langan. He also believes W. staged 9/11. Walking proof that high scores on IQ tests are meaningless when it comes to rationality.
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Favorite films of the century directed (solo) by women:
1. Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
2. Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
3. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
4. The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
5. Home (Ursula Meier)
6. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
7. The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
(cont’d)
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Shots from the opening 5 mins of IT FOLLOWS | Shots from the opening 5 mins of UNDER THE SILVER LAKE. In neither case is this ever referenced again. Seems unlikely to be coincidental. (I’d completely forgotten about the IT FOLLOWS moment, despite having seen the film twice.)
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No author of dystopian fiction has ever been remotely creative enough to think up “A pandemic shuts the world down for over a year, yet so many delusional people refuse to take the eventual vaccine that states offer to give $5 million to randomly selected vaccinated citizens.”
Two weeks from tonight on May 26th, we will announce a winner of a separate drawing for adults who have received at least their first dose of the vaccine. This announcement will occur each Wednesday for five weeks, and the winner each Wednesday will receive one million dollars.
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Fun fact for Gen X: If you wanted to cast today’s equivalent of Norma Desmond, the ideal choice—same exact age Gloria Swanson then was, height of her career three decades ago—would be Winona Ryder.
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Fun fact for people my age: The gap between THE INCREDIBLES and INCREDIBLES 2 is only two years less than was the gap between CHINATOWN and THE TWO JAKES.
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@rianjohnson
@rianjohnson
I look forward to seeing this last data point trumpeted in 70,000 breathless articles approximately 18 minutes from now.
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Colbert and Mulaney had what genuinely looked to me like an impromptu encounter session tonight, which kicked off with one of my favorite reactions ever to an interview question.
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The older I get, the more VERTIGO turns into an unfinished tragedy about Midge.
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Rewatching PAPER MOON and half an hour in my primary thought is “Why aren’t movies entertaining anymore, that was a first-rate approach, we should go back to that.”
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This is pretty much the ending to THE TRUMAN SHOW. “What else is on?”
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Fall 1994.
“I was thinking about seeing a movie tonight, you interested?”
“I dunno. Anything good playing?”
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I feel instant affection for any film, old or new, that includes copyright information on the same screen as its title card.
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Blown away by the relentless verisimilitude, not just in how it actively unfolds (though that’s amazing) but e.g. the kids starting to reminisce before the plane even lands. “I thought it was Dad, but I said Mom? Right?” “Yeah. You asked if it was Mom.”
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Obviously those who live near actual rep houses should frequent them, but I like the idea of the Criterion Channel serving as a nationwide at-home equivalent. Everyone I know is watching the Columbia noir films. That never really happened with FilmStruck (that I saw).
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My dad fashioned a spare room in his house into a “man-cave” (his word), complete with giant 4K tv. He also bought and framed the movie poster that no man-cave should be without.
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Also the argument against impeachment is “It’ll energize his base.” Maybe, but those folks turned out at an historic rate last year and still got swamped by equally energized Democrats. They are significantly outnumbered. All we need is a nominee who inspires passion.
So you’re a House Dem. You’re not sure impeachment is electorally smart but you ARE sure impeachment is constitutionally warranted based on the facts, what is the right thing to do? Isn’t duty > political speculation? Especially since everyone has basically sucked at the latter.
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Now this was a surprise. First time I've seen it in 20 years, the name didn't stick with me. (Way too long and probably unethical to post in full, but you may be surprised to hear that he took exception to my praise for IRREVERSIBLE, calling the violence "excruciating."
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I mean “name a De Palma movie” is fewer characters.
Name a superbly directed movie with a terrible screenplay
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Hey everyone just wanted to pop my head in the door and point out that a movie made today looking back at high school from the same distance that GREASE did should be set in the year 2000. Also it should have a title song written by Harry Styles but performed by Kid Rock.
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Rewatching COMPULSION. Now *this* is how you indicate that several hours have passed.
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Yes. Also you should show up wearing the DONNIE DARKO bunny suit.
There is currently 1 seat sold for the 4AM screening at this Regal.
Should I buy the seat directly next to this guy?
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This is the single most amazing pause I’ve ever seen.
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Vince Gilligan wrote this X-FILES episode and must have known somebody with this name at some point.
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Honestly I think it was more fun finding out like this than it would have been seeing it happen.
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Murtaugh’s tweet to which this referred has now been deleted, suggesting that he either didn’t know the image was faked or somehow mistakenly believed that nobody would uncover the truth.
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Sondra Locke’s final performance was in RAY MEETS HELEN, Alan Rudolph’s first film in 15 years. It’s a deeply flawed movie, but seeing her in a sizable role again was lovely. Still a little disappointed by how few of my cinephile pals sought it out.
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I like TENET more than most people I know but this is honestly better than TENET.
Genuine question: Was there *literally anything* on Quibi as well constructed as this kid’s zero-budget TikTok
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Any time a movie shows someone looking through the phone book, there’s ~90% probability that a page gets ripped out. I might be lowballing that, frankly.
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“What am I working on? Uh. I’m working on something that’ll change the world and human life as we know it.”
“Change it a lot or just a bit? You’ll have to be more specific.”
Those are the *opening lines* of THE FLY (’86). Lose the scene-setting, filmmakers. You don’t need it.
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Rewatched GAME NIGHT on my flight to Toronto. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this much affection for a mainstream comedy. I can foresee myself eventually knowing it verbatim, like the FERRIS BUELLERses and GHOSTBUSTERSes of my youth.
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