Peter Mascuch
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English, American Studies, Cinema Studies Prof at St. Joseph's University of NY (Brooklyn & LI); Ben and Hannah's Dad; Happy Husband of Andrea. He/Him/His
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Karen Allen is utterly recognizable and remains beautiful
Must be nice to be Lillian Gissen and know you're never going to age.
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Could George Herbert Walker Bush in a few years demonstrate even more stupidly awful judgment than his choice of Dan Quayle? Sure he could.
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Which is your favourite movie that is set in New York?
I'll begin:
Taxi Driver (1976)
Director: Martin Scorsese
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@JuddApatow
It’s a bad joke that didn’t work. Haven’t most of us been there? “Empathy” includes not being so quick to make such a sweeping judgment and piling on.
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Which is your favourite actor-director collaboration in American movies?
I'll begin: Robert de Niro & Martin Scorsese.
Taxi Driver (1976)
Director: Martin Scorsese
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@DannyDrinksWine
@sunburnhaze
“Objectively speaking” is out of place for an inherently subjective choice like “greatest living filmmaker.” You have your choice, Coppola has his, and others have theirs. There’s no real “evidence” to prove one’s choice as correct.
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Great but somewhat overlooked 70’s classic is on TCM tonight in a can’t-miss double-bill with Mean Streets.
Theresa Russell & Dustin Hoffman in, Straight Time (1978)
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One of the greatest moments in sitcom history!
A remarkable thing about the character is her evolution over the series. Archie first meets her when she faints in his cab and he does mouth-to-mouth (thinking she's a woman). She comes to the house to repay him and offers a 50-dollar bill in thanks, and this happens:
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Ten favorite books (random ten novels, not necessarily top ten), no author repeats:
True Grit
Charlotte’s Web
Lolita
The Age of Innocence
The Long Goodbye
My Antonia
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Goodbye, Columbus
Rabbit is Rich
The Bluest Eye
Ten favorite books (random ten, not necessarily top ten), no author repeats:
PIECE OF CAKE
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA
AMONG THE DEAD
TAKE A GIRL LIKE YOU
FAT CITY
LONDON FIELDS
SAVAGE NIGHT
A HANDFUL OF DUST
CLOCKERS
PEACE
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@jaketapper
Does Grassley even realize that the beneficiaries of such estates haven’t done the investing? The deceased did that. Beneficiaries can spend all that money on booze, women, and movies, although — given the extraordinary amount of money involved — that’s a hell of a lot of all 3.
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@elektra6618
That just sucks and is so wrong. Is it worth it to you to look for an employment discrimination lawyer and try to get some revenge?
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Happy Birthday (Jan. 14) to Joseph Losey. His masterpieces are The Servant (1963) and Monsieur Klein (1976), but my favorite is one of the last films he made in Hollywood before being exiled to Europe by the Blacklist, The Prowler (1951), a hauntingly despairing amour fou.
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Who is your favorite lawyer from a TV show or movie?
(I know you'll all be shocked.)
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Belated Happy Birthday (March 18, 1932) to the one and only John Updike, one of the greatest fiction writers of the 20th century.
Photo: Yousuf Karsh
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@acroce66
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Certainly among Woody Allen’s best films; arguably his best. Cast of the multiple protagonist narrative is outstanding, jokes very funny, and the theme of love’s unpredictability is expertly delivered via surprising twists and turns.
And it’s a bona fide Thanksgiving movie!
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Marty speaks here for so many of us.
SCORSESE: A film like Umberto D. Which is on tonight at 4 in the morning on Turner Classic movies
ROSE: What's amazing about that is you know that
SCORSESE: Yeah, I check each day. Just in case. You never know. Some obscure B thing that one night a year from now you want to see
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Best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock didn’t make. Stanley Donen’s direction is superb, Peter Stone’s script is witty and suspenseful, and Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant are at their magnificently charming best (in spite of the age difference). Supporting cast is aces too.
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The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Brings the spirit of Cooper’s book to cinematic life while improving on its plot, characters, and character relationships.
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RIP to a great director, who also happened to be a terrific commentator/conversationalist.
Director William Friedkin, best known for his Oscar-winning “The French Connection” and blockbuster “The Exorcist,” died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 87.
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What is your favourite Hollywood movie from the 1970's?
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Bona fide coming of age classic. Better than American Graffiti, even better than Mean Streets, and as great as I Vitelloni. Besides which, it was the first date movie for my wife and me.
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Sad news. We’ve lost one of the most brilliantly prolific cinema scholars and thinkers that we’ve ever had.
RIP the legendary David Bordwell, who has died at 76.
His blog is one of the greatest resources on film criticism, analysis, and history:
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The Rules of the Game (1939)
Which is the one movie you consider to be perfect from the beginning to end?
I'll start:
Seven Samurai (1954)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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@acroce66
Jaws and Star Wars are great. But the blockbuster, “tent pole” franchise mentality they ushered in came to rule the studio system in the 80’s, and it nearly ruined the output of innovative commercial movies made for adults. American cinema recovered, but the damage remains.
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Peeping Tom (1960)
Director: Michael Powell
Which is your favourite movie about 'voyeurism'?
I'll begin with:
Rear Window (1954)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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@acroce66
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Urban nightmare masterpiece that’s now iconic. Anti-vigilante message is clear as a cleanly polished rear-view mirror, but the ambiguous ending leaves many wondering.
One of the 70’s greatest and one of Scorsese, DeNiro, and Schrader’s best. Everyone involved also stellar.
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Terrific adaptation of a modern classic. Taylor and Burton at their very best, Segal and Dennis are also superb, and Mike Nichols’s debut film is one of the main reasons he became a legend. And the B&W cinematography of Haskell Wexler brings it all to great cinematic life.
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Although his books got too gossipy, I’ll always be grateful to Donald Spoto for his New School classes on Hitchcock in the 70’s. They were wonderfully enlightening experiences guided by a great teacher for those of us starting to appreciate movies as an art form.
Donald Spoto, a prolific biographer best known for his books on Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and other high-profile entertainment figures, some of which made news with startling claims, has died at 81.
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Saw this excellent film Friday night, followed by a lively discussion with the more than half of the audience who wanted to stay and talk about it (even with its 2.5 hours runtime). See it if you can.
🍿🎥 Now playing—ANATOMY OF A FALL—top prize winner at the 2023 Cannes Films Festival! For showtimes and tickets, go to .
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@mrbrianrowe
It’s going to be a pretty remarkable race in that category among RDJ, De Niro, and Gosling. My money’s also on RDJ, because I think his seriously dramatic performance as a grown up villain who has his reasons is the most unexpected of the three.
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Blanchett deserved the win, but I thought Bullock gave the performance of her career in Gravity. (Much better than her work in The Blind Side.)
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Double Indemnity
The Killers
Out of the Past
In a Lonely Place
Touch of Evil
My stone cold favourite top 5 classic American film noirs:
KISS ME DEADLY (1955)
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)
WOMAN ON THE RUN (1950)
NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950)
FORCE OF EVIL (1948)
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What are yours?
#Noirvember
#NoirvemberChallenge
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One of the most egregious examples of many last night They do such a shitty job of it lately that it would be better not to do it at all. And I like Lenny Kravitz, but the musical accompaniment should be background not foreground.
Last night the Academy Awards Memoriam segment neglected to include BO HOPKINS, who appeared in the Wild Bunch, American Graffiti, The Day of the Locust, Midnight Express, The Killer Elite, The Getaway, Monte Walsh, The Rockford Files, etc.
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@acroce66
Opie has certainly been better over the long term with a more impressively consistent filmography, but Meathead’s run in the 80’s — This Is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, and more — holds up as the height of what either has achieved.
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Four great films starting with the first letter of my name (and covering the swinging Sixties just for fun)
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What's your favorite first film from a director? My vote's below.
PS please don't everyone say Citizen Kane.
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Maureen Dowd makes one wish there were term limits for columnists, but the next best strategy is to ignore her. She’s been irrelevant for at least the past 15 years.
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Masterpiece of the highest order. One of the best Hollywood movies ever made. Billy Wilder was a genius and the cast and crew were all at the top of their game, especially Gloria Swanson, who gives one of the greatest and bravest performances ever captured on film.
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@acroce66
Movie is a 7.5 as a pretty good and quite stylish thriller.
But Diane Lane gets a 10+.
Similar to her performance in A Walk on the Moon, she’s sexy and beautiful, of course, but also authentically vulnerable and forgivably wayward in a role that she plays brilliantly.
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What a pretentious and pedantic prick and poser JLG was. Truffaut continued to tell stories, yes, because he made movies for people to enjoy and to think and to feel. JLG went on to make movies that lectured people about how beneath him they and everyone else were.
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What supporting performance in a movie steals the whole show???
I'll start with this example:
T.L. Jones as U.S. Marshal Gerrard in the classic crime movie The Fugitive(1993). 😉😊😊
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