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incredibly bad news here. i've started talking about movies into microphones with my friends
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let's get one thing straight. i will never buy those stupid tech goggles unless they are sold by a man that looks like this, asks me if i've ever jacked in, offers to connect me to the switchboard of the soul, calls himself the the magic man, the santa claus of the unconscious
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Dennis Hopper based his villainous character in Land of the Dead on guess who...
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127 years into cinema and people are suggesting that it’s possible for something to “not happen” in a movie. If you are seeing an image and hearing sound something is definitely happening, I’m sorry
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watching a silent austrian film about riding a motorcycle thru the alps because i thought it looked cool and it is but you know what isn't cool? turns out this guy was a big time nazi
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fuck you
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Back in my day we didn’t follow Martin Scorsese on letterboxd, we followed him on A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
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Cinema is 127 years old and for 72 of those years JLG was it’s patron saint and little devil. The movies failed him, but he never failed us. A monumental loss
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im supportive of everyone having a hobby but there is no cool way to smoke a cigar. it always looks really dumb I'm sorry
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i have always told my students the unfortunate reality is that the ladder was pulled up years ago and the sooner they recognize this the better. you want to make films? make films. that's it. no need to be 21st century hollywood serf
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read “On the History of Film Style” by David Bordwell and unlearn everything you’ve ever been taught about film history and style so you can start to learn for real
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does anyone know when filmmakers or audiences are going to see any of that money saved cutting costs on the switch from analog to digital, it's been over 10 years, just asking
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Ridley Scott talking shit about Abel Gance is funny because Abel was a visionary who basically invented cinema and Ridley is a commercial hack who invented being the most overrated director of the last 40 years
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i have never once read in a screenwriting manual that you should open your film by having robert stack chugging liquor while driving a fancy car thru oil derricks
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the time Jim Belushi accidentally improvised a line during TWIN PEAKS
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cinephiles: I love Written on the Wind, so trashy and fun, the colors!, a classic!
sirk: I was thinking about hitler
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from 1950-1980 approximately 20% of every movie was shots of cars pulling up and driving away from various locations. this is what we lost
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"These cartoons were never made for children. Nor were they made for adults. They were made for me." -Chuck Jones
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it's the cops
Lightfoot: "It will be some time before we have a true understanding of the magnitude of the problem."
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you know you're deep in the genre mines when you look up a movie on lb and see this
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we all know gregg is a queer cinema icon but less acknowledged is his status as a legendary shoegaze supersoldier. love 2 see it, etc
Gregg Araki, Rachel Goswell of Slowdive and James Duval
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Guy that cries when 91 year old Clint Eastwood gently touches horses
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cinema doesn’t have to be sunny, but every film should open and close with a personal apology from the director
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might start a thread of classic 120 Minutes fits, like matt tablott from hum in jean shorts and huge glasses
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Ayoade invoking Fuller is absolutely grotesque. Scumbag piece of shit, Fuller would have hated all your bigoted British asses
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you're telling me they made a children's film and gave it the same title as a classic 60s film about doing a mass shooting at an english public school
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finally you can stream all the movies that almost made Disney a failed studio
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no one on Jeopardy today, including Anderson Cooper, had ever heard of Jean Renoir. just totally baffled
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guy that gets upset when he sees criterion has classified johnny guitar as a technicolor film when he knows it was actually trucolor which is not the same thing
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We all know black flag movies, Repo Man, Heat, Lost Highway
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If I was a cinephile I would simply watch lots of movies and create my own canon
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it's me, the person who has seen the works of david lynch but is surprised that he may be a weird reactionary that's terrified of the world
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was just reminded that after Siskel died Ebert invited Scorsese on to do a best of the 1990s top 10 and put Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Horse Thief (1986) as his
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finally, a movie that accurately represents WWI as a smooth and continuous experience of exciting thrills and action
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Hi
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read a motherfucking book, here’s Chicago in 1977. They must have felt emboldened by, uh, the carter administration?
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no movie made for $5 should look this good
Edgar G. Ulmer's Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
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watching joan crawford-clarence brown working girl pre codes and laughing until I die because clark gable is out here calling for the abolition of prisons in 1931 and people online want representation in superhero movies
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happy horse-in-motion day to all you motion picture fans out there!!
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more people would like silent films if they knew you could just put on heavy metal during them. or whatever you want really. but metal usually works
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looks like
@Chicago_Reader
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every time hollywood jerks off about “dreams" i think about this utterly chilling David Cook preface to history of narrative film
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here's some (but not all!) of the neo-noir remakes of the 80s/90s. what a goofy time to be alive
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Gary Cooper, via communist screenwriters Albert Maltz and Ring Lardner Jr., has some thoughts about Bobby Oppenheimer's project
from Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger (1946)
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godard living rent free in people's heads while he has been openly admitting he's a failure who makes unpopular movies no one likes for decades is honestly the funniest thing
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killer films to watch with the killer: blast of silence, murder by contract, the mechanic, limits of control, ghost dog, le samourai, the killer, grosse point blank, collateral, the hit, branded to kill, fallen angels, the day of the jackal, the american soldier, violent city
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the implementation of digital cinema projection needs to be understood as a neoliberal/silicon valley style "disruption" process in which owners lined their pockets while destroying a 100+ year old tradition, not unlike the taxi medallion
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not sure that i agree with ya 100% on your policework there kelly
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people think letterboxd is bad but it’s actually a machine that quickly tells me what
@filipefurtado
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there's a 10-minute stretch of Thief that includes the film acting debuts of Farina, Prosky, Petersen, and Santucci, and that's awesome
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Yeah in like 1989
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quitting my job to become a memoria roadie in order to write a memoir in the style of almost famous
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And yes it would be helpful if more people understood the difference between plot and story or at the very least had an open mind to the (potentially unlimited) varieties of narrative form but lol
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Pontecorvo, on making political cinema in a mainstream context
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weird that democrats insist we vote for joe biden when joe biden has publicly said not to
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"Most films lost money in theatrical release, and many of those - perhaps 60% - were financial disasters." -Bordwell & Thompson, Film History an introduction, on the post-1980s Hollywood business model
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cut rate studio run by the biggest piece of shit in Hollywood history
Today marks the centennial of Columbia Pictures, and throughout 2024
@criterionchannl
will be celebrating with highlights from its extraordinary library—featuring films from across its history as well as collections focused on some of its finest moments. 📽️
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i will never not be obsessed with that part in ROOM 666 where Godard wants to watch tennis instead of doing the interview
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"Yang's Comedy: On the Set of 'A Confucian Confusion'" by Tony Rayns (Sight & Sound July 1994)
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Here’s a good story about IP: Warner Brothers took 30 years of Chuck Jones’ work and lit it on fire on purpose
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i've kept silent for too long. i'm bringing back spielberg negativity
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Here’s some Chicago antifascists, who shut down the stupid nazi rally
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i'm so old i remember this
@NickPinkerton
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reading about how janus films ruined nyc repertory booking and that led lionel rogosin to shift the bleecker to a rep/first-run combo that gave a platform to new/independent films, which happened to be some of best american films ever made
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truly depressing that the twitter/lbxd generation of cinephiles has yet to discover or embrace the work Peter Watkins. yeah the world sucks but what if we had Culloden memes
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no it's actually awesome that one of best playwrights hasn't produced a single work worth a damn for 20 years because he spends all his time going on radio shows to say shit that is indistinguishable from a gop operative or fox news grandpa
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making up film students to get mad at because only 99% of films conform to the industrial mode of representation
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abolish the concept 'foreign language film' because there is no such thing, you fucking idiots!
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if everyone that raved about tadanobu asano in shogun watched his real movies they would see films by k. kurosawa, miike, obayashi, oshima, tsukamoto, hou hsiao-hsien, k. ishii, kitano. imagine if that happened
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some of you could learn a thing or two about cinephilia from our former president movie star
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this person is describing STARING INTO AN ABYSS
there is no such thing as a movie without how it looks and sounds. what the fuck man. get real
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fact: the published text of the Last Year at Marienbad (1962) scenario contains the original virgin/chad meme
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the fight for $15 has been going on so long that it is explicitly referenced in the film SET IT OFF (1996) as a desirable amount of money to make per hour
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in order for Michael Mann to reach peak Late Period it is imperative that he film the battle of Agincourt on iphones as soon as possible i'm sorry i do NOT make the rules
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Shouldn’t you be in school
Earlier today, I tested positive for COVID-19. I am experiencing cold-like symptoms but otherwise feel fine which I credit to being vaccinated and boosted. I will continue to work from home while following the CDC guidelines for isolation.
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