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Film Essayist (MUBI, Polygon, etc). GALECA. Co-author of "Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema" (out now!)
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I am very excited to officially announce that we have a book coming out this July called CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS. It is a critical and historical re-examination of transness in cinema in the vein of "The Celluloid Closet". You can pre-order the book now through bookshop.
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I am thinking about the association for women who love Godzilla
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The best movies are
*six guys have to rob a bank
*vampires (gay) are hanging out in a castle
*a woman with bad mental health
*italian movie from the 1970s about sex
*It's nazi killing time
*french actors smoke cigarettes
*cursed object causes the death of so and so
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David Lynch and Mark Frost somehow did not fuck up their introduction of a trans woman character in their tv show in the 1990s and then declared 25 years later that if you don't roll with trans women then you're a shitty person, and I still think that's pretty fucking cool.
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The bit where Homer buys a trampoline in The Simpsons is as good as anything human beings have ever created. Right up there with Moby Dick, Jeanne Dielman, Purple Rain and indoor plumbing.
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Don Draper fucking ruled because he'd be disassociating hardcore and then go into meeting like "SNICKERS...It's there for you" and then all his ad buddies would be like holy shit.
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Wishing a happy birthday to John Carpenter. He made a dozen incredible movies and then retired to play video games, record heavy metal music and watch basketball. We should all aspire to such a life
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I am thinking about the scene in JACKIE BROWN when Robert Forster goes to the movies in the middle of the day and ignores his job.
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BATMAN RETURNS is truly the best Batman movie, because everyone is a giant perv. You've got Danny DeVito clapping his flappers saying "I'd like to fill her void" with fish guts all over his mouth. Michelle Pfeiffer is purring and licking Batman's face. Christopher Walken is there
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Francis Bacon's influence on Twin Peaks s3 cannot be overstated.
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The fun thing about David Lynch's "announcement" is that it could plausibly be anything. He has made a candle, he is shaving his beard, he has found a nest of bees, Twin Peaks season 4? All of it on the table.
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Rewatched Carpenter's HALLOWEEN last night. Carpenter understands that horror movies often live and die by geography, space, architecture and blocking. Every slasher film kind of has the same structure, but none have as strong a form as this one.
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It's worth sticking around for the credits in a Mad Max movie because you'll realize all the guys with one line of dialogue have names like "Canniballsack"
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Jordan Peele's movies are marketed very well, and it always makes me a little happy to know that a film can still be sold on the basis of a director's style being recognizable.
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My favourite Sam Raimi memory was seeing DRAG ME TO HELL in a nearly empty theater and mid-movie we were crashed by a Christian minister waving a flashlight warning us that by watching the film we would in fact go to hell.
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Criterion Channel is amazing. You can just type a year into their search bar and then every movie from that year will be listed and there's usually a ton of films you can watch. A bounty of riches. The only streaming service I consistently use
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Bob Clampett's strategy with Daffy Duck was that with each frame Daffy would have a different facial reaction. You can literally pause it frame to frame in his shorts and each Daffy is completely different from the last and each image is its own little comic device.
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I think the thing that's getting lost in all of this Seven Samurai talk is that Toshiro Mifune was incredibly hot.
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Ray Liotta was totally unique in that era of American cinema. Everyone is rightly going to point out Goodfellas, & they should, but I was always impressed that he challenged himself. He was always learning as an actor. Should have gotten as much praise as Dern for Marriage Story
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Laura Dern stated in an interview today that there's a twinkle in David Lynch's eyes lately and he's up to something radical and fantastic. I can't wait to see the new shelf he's built.
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I feel like framing this. Fuck that evil book and long live Corpses, Fools and Monsters.
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Vibe of Texas Chainsaw cannot really be tapped into anymore because there are foundations in place to never repeat that kind of aesthetic or the circumstances of its production. You can make a million Halloween clones. Chainsaw is different.
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Eyes Wide Shut is hilarious, no seriously, the whole movie Tom Cruise is headed to fuck city, but he wasn't ready for fuck city and it's all played deathly straight.
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This is quite genuinely one of the greatest films ever made. It was on my sight and sound ballot. If you're lucky enough to go see it then go for it. The only thing you need to get acquainted with before you watch is the Book of Revelations in the Bible.
"The End of Evangelion" animated movie in U.S. theaters on March 17 & 20 (limited release via GKIDS).
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Folks act like Nic Cage hasn't been in a million good movies and it's always annoying.
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I am thinking about the gown that Kirsten Dunst wore for the premiere of The Beguiled again.
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Been rewatching old Nirvana concerts and I really love the 16mm photography at the Paramount show.
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Credit to a24 for getting I SAW THE TV GLOW out in front of trans critics so that we could have a say in how the film would be perceived prior to its wider release. That almost never happens.
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sometimes twitter gives us such gifts. Translate this tweet
Баран Шрек oднажды сбежал с фермы и 6 лет скитался пo гoрам. Пoсле пoимки с негo сoстригли 27 кг шерсти. Егo выгнали с гoр волки, кoтoрые не смогли прoкусить шерсть, а oн хoдил у них на глазах немым укoрoм их беспoмoщнoсти.
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The scene in Twin Peaks where Charlyne Yi crawls across the floor of the roadhouse and then screams her lungs out.
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Best version of DUNE would be directed by Takashi Miike, because he'd totally ignore the text and use the entirety of his $30 budget to make the worm very gross.
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Well, that's an insane way to describe FWWM.
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It's happening again
The fun thing about David Lynch's "announcement" is that it could plausibly be anything. He has made a candle, he is shaving his beard, he has found a nest of bees, Twin Peaks season 4? All of it on the table.
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I am against Cocaine Bear in theory, because it looks ironic and tryhard. If it were made in 1981 it would have a budget of $40, be directed by a secretly amazing Roger Corman guy and it would probably rip.
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Watch for the very good argument, stick around for the seamless Marlon Brando impression.
#Cannes2022
‘Armageddon Time’ Director James Gray On Why Studios Should Be Able To Lose Money On Art Specialty Divisions
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In an interview for the Enter the Dragon dvd the set designer said after working in the hall of mirrors for more than an hour or so he felt like he was losing his grasp of reality, and dude had to go home and stare at a wall to come down. I get it. Shit's wild.
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The last image we'll see of CM Punk in aew is him hugging a fan holding a sign that said "Trans rights are human rights", and 30 minutes earlier he tipped a monitor over on his boss. Legend.
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One of the cool things about watching old VHS tapes or DVDs is sometimes you'll get trailers beforehand for movies that basically do not exist anymore and feel made up.
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or we could not make a movie about Hulk Hogan because there's no way they'll be honest enough to portray him as a piece of shit racist who killed any notion of a union happening in professional wrestling
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I hope all four of those Beatles movies contain the moment where they masturbated together but it's from a different perspective each time.
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horror movies are cool. The only genre of cinema where a shitty one is still kind of a good time.
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The beauty gap between women and men in old Italian horror movies is so fucking vast. 15 of the gnarliest looking dudes ever and the most beautiful woman you've ever seen in your entire life. It's amazing.
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*Nirvana's "Something in the Way" begins playing in the batman trailer*
Ah yes, the era of grunge batman is upon us.
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hate the word "cinephile". Going to pivot to "movie babe" going forward, because that's more accurate for me personally.
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I personally think the resurrecting of actors/public figures/etc for the sake of movies through CGI or voice technology is one of the very worst developments in cinema. I find it disgusting. They're dead. They had no say. It feels wrong to me.
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The Big Lebowski is not a chill movie. It's about a stressed out guy who keeps getting more stressed out.
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I genuinely feel like Matrix Resurrections has somewhat restructured where stories of transness in movies might go in the next ten years. If the original trilogy was about becoming, which is what a lot of trans movies obsess over, then this one is about survival and sustaining.
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With the release of I SAW THE TV GLOW, THE PEOPLE'S JOKER and T-BLOCKERS, we are living through what increasingly feels like a significant moment in the history of film: the emergence of a definitive trans authored cinema.
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Watching foreign movies is sometimes just as much about learning about other cultures, people and histories.
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God bless Chris Jericho for being extremely Y2J and relating to Nyla's journey as a trans woman by stating the following: "No, I get that. They said you couldn't be a girl and you didn't listen to them. I was like that. When I was a kid everyone said I couldn't be a rock star."
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Michael Cimino was trans. What a day for the pictures.
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People keep asking me if this is a real, and yes, it is.
Thinking about how David Lynch DVDs come with a special feature to help you calibrate your TV so it looks great, and how I have used them for every TV I've ever owned.
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There's a whole section in Mulholland Drive about a guy who keeps accidentally shooting people with an "oh god, oh god, I'm trying to delete it" mindset about the problem he finds himself in and I still think it's like the funniest shit.
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Sure is a trip that Francis Ford Coppola still has to rummage around for funding and basically bet on himself considering he's made a half dozen or so of the greatest movies ever made.
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James Spader and Sailor Uranus are the same person.
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What movie changed your life this decade? What movie have you not been able to stop thinking about this decade? What movie have you come back to again and again these last ten years? I think these are better questions to ask critics than what movie was the best?"
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Vast majority of people I know who torrent are also the same people who break their bank accounts when boutique dvd labels decide to have sales. idk.
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We are not talking enough about the lesbian drill assassins in Crimes of the Future
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I can't be on here all day tweeting about this, but I want to say one last thing, if a child knows they are trans, and are forced to endure a puberty that is wrong, it damages them in such a foundational way. I speak from experience. It is agony. It is torture.
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They always say TV didn't become great until Twin Peaks or the Sopranos or whatever, but TV peaked in the 70s because talk shows would bring Orson Welles on to tell stories and talk shit for an hour and everyone tuned in.
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Don't be shitty about the way people choose to explore their own cinephilia. It doesn't matter if they're using Criterion Channel, to**enting, youtube, libraries, rep cinemas, physical media, w/e. It's all cool. Go get laid instead of being weird about this.
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The cover art on the first edition of Ballard's CRASH really fucking goes there.
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Wolf of Wall Street to Silence to Irishman is an absolutely absurd streak of movies. If you wanted to argue this is his best decade ever as a filmmaker you could.
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Major Briggs rules because he's a guy who says things like, "this reminds me of a feeling once occupied in the soul of my grandest days as a child..of innocence and breathtaking beauty.", and he will be talking about like a 75 degree weather day.
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My love for Martin Scorsese is synonymous with my love for movies. He's acts as this symbolic figure of cinema, and I get really overwhelmed sometimes thinking about how much his movies and his own love for film have influenced how I try to live my own life.
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Criterion uploaded the reconstructed film that Lynch made out of Blue Velvet footage that he didn't end up using. It's a fascinating little thing that more clearly underlines that MacLachlan's character is a pervert and ends on a dreamy note of thunder and lightning.
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I wrote about the movie months ago, but the fundamental issue with Promising Young Woman is that it eventually asks you to have faith that cops and the justice system would give a damn, which is an insane fantasy that's offensive considering everything we know.
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I still think it's fucked up mad genius shit that on the last episode of the OG Twin Peaks run Laura tells Dale "I'll see you again in 25 years", and then they brought the show back 25 years later and ended it THAT way.
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I get the vibes these days that folks aren't into horror, but rather an aesthetic they associate with horror, that's tied up in things like edited for TV movies, Halloween (the holiday), and like, the idea of sharing "spooky" things on social media.
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I am thinking about the scene in ANNETTE when baby Annette is performing at the Super Bowl halftime show and the man over the intercom asks politely to give her some time "she is a baby after all"
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I SAW THE TV GLOW is a major film. Jane Schoenbrun is a visual stylist who has captured something specific about how transness actually feels as a bodied experience. I am haunted by it and excited that it is going to touch others who are going to realize cinema is theirs too.
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This prompt goes around every few months and my answer is always the same. Sharon Stone in Total Recall
Here's a fun question. What is the best an actor has ever looked on screen?
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I sometimes wonder if Rob Zombie knows there's a small group of film critics who consider his directors cut of Halloween 2 one of the finest films of the 21st century.
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"Chris Jericho lost the AEW belt in a Longhorn Steakhouse."
I'm just going to marvel at this sentence for a while.
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Takashi Miike recalling Tobe Hooper's reaction to AUDITION.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 begins with Patricia Arquette swallowing a spoonful of instant coffee, taking a big sip of Coke and blasting Dokken's "Into the Fire", and it is genuinely one of my favourite horror movie openings mostly because I like the riff in the Dokken song.
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My favourite thing about LADY BIRD is everything we see has a life beyond what we're shown in the film. A suggestion that if camera were to drift into the life of another character, or another home, or even a shop, it would be just as rich.
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Anyway, I'm reminded of Abel Ferrara once saying he liked people torrenting his movies because at least they'd fucking see them.
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Shout out to Rita Hayworth's extremely cursed beach doll
Actress Rita Hayworth eating a hamburger at the beach, photographed by Bob Landry for the Aug. 11, 1941 issue of LIFE.
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Genuinely depressing bit of information here from Scorsese in the great new Sight and Sound interview with Marty.
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So many original reviews of Fire Walk with Me from 1992 show a willful disinterest in engaging with the text, and an inability to think beyond linear plot structure. Additionally there's just an immense about of victim blaming directed at its lead character. Bad vibes.
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IN THE LINE OF FIRE Clint Eastwood plays a secret service agent and includes a scene where he looks at the Lincoln memorial and says, "wish I could have been there for ya, buddy."
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Zack Snyder's the kinda guy who probably had a "parental advisory" sticker on the outside of his bedroom door as a teenager.
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my favourite thing about art is when they tell me before the movie comes out if the people in the movie are bad and whether or not i should look up to them, because i'm very susceptible and can't tell the difference between a cool guy and a jerk
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I'm excited for Barbie because it looks ultra-feminine and fun and was made by a director with a good track record. This is not complicated.
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Crash your cars and masturbate in the wreckage, my friends, because it is Cronenberg season once again!!!!
David Cronenberg is finally set to shoot a new film this summer. See the first details:
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man, if there really is a new David Lynch film around the corner that's going to do so much to lift my spirits.
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I've watched Mare of Easttown grow in popularity from week to week on my feed as a point of discussion. It's almost like this is how TV is supposed to be released or something.
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The God Tubi reigns supreme.
BARCLAYS: “Disney+ growth has slowed significantly.. In order to get to its long term streaming sub guide, $DIS needs to more than double its current pace of growth to at least the same level as $NFLX.. Long term streaming guidance could be at risk.”
Cuts to equal-weight, $175
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Wild that ALIEN just had Ian Holm and Harry Dean Stanton and John Hurt in the supporting cast. No big deal.
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Many of these short films from Akerman have never been available before on physical media. One, in particular, has never even been traded around on the internet among fans. This is a major release.
✨Announcing our JANUARY 2024 Criterion Collection titles!✨The evolutionary first decade of a singular filmmaker, an American tragedy set in the Mississippi Delta of the '40s, a '90s British indie phenomenon, & a neowestern mystery in a Texas border town.
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I can't imagine being a film director and wholesale dismissing an entire era of filmmaking, but w/e.
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Following Bob Dylan through his entire career must've been a trip because he was the protest guy and then the sellout and then the country music guy and then the jesus guy and then he was alive in the 80s and then a whisky blues guy and then a sort of crypt keeper of history.
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Caden Mark Gardner and myself (we are the two trans film writers) are mentioned in the newest email newsletter for Quentin Tarantino's Video Archives Podcast. Surreal. Shout out to Jessica as well who wrote a great piece!
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