Roger Avary
@AVARY
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Director, Producer, and Academy Award™-winning Screenwriter.
Joined October 2008
@Protokahn Easily one of the best experiences in a cinema I’ve ever had. I would go as far as saying it’s the reason cinema was invented.
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We had an absolute freaking blast on the show, and at the Comedy Mothership, laughing our asses off at humor that's probably banned in California. Thank you.
I had a great time talking to Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary @AVARY about how they met, how they got started making movies, their creative process, and all kinds of other cool shit. Episode is available now on @spotify and everywhere else. Also, check out their show, The
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Michael Mann is so on point.
Michael Mann initially wanted to cast William Friedkin as Hannibal Lecter/Lecktor in Manhunter. Friedkin: “I thought he was putting me on. I said, ‘You see me as Hannibal Lecter?’ He said, ‘I see you exactly as Hannibal Lecter. You don’t appear to be psychotic, but you are.’”
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@MostVertProduc It would have to be Megumin, because she shares my daughter Gala’s birthday. and I love explosions!.
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I was never actually that big of a fan of Rick Dalton, but seeing how upset Quentin is today and how inconsolable he is has me wanting to see The Fireman 2 again. My favorite Dalton film.
We are saddened by the news of the passing of actor Rick Dalton, best known for his roles in the hit TV series Bounty Law and The Fireman trilogy. Rick passed away peacefully in his home in Hawaii and is survived by his wife Francesca. RIP Rick Dalton 1933-2023
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@adamegypt We’ve all been in that latte situation, at one time or another, and it’s demoralizing.
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This is probably what we would look like after a teleporter accident.
In Westwood after seeing “Oppenheimer,” Quentin Tarantino walks across the street and buys a ticket to see “Barbie.”
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Absolutely one of the most important American independent films of all time.
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The Barbie showing in Westwood last night had such an amazing audience, literally cheering the movie. Many of them were larping. I haven't seen that in a while, and it was awesome.
So happy for cinemas having the busiest weekend in years. I saw ‘Oppenheimer’ in venue shaking 70mm IMAX, I couldn’t even get tix for ‘Barbie’ at my fav London screen. And you still have ‘Mission Impossible’ (and more) to dazzle your eyeballs out there. The big screen isn’t dead.
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The interview largely responsible for rekindling my friendship with Quentin Tarantino is currently out from behind its paywall.
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The Rules of Attraction was in theaters this weekend 21 years ago.
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I am so thrilled to have my hero @joe_dante on the @VideoArchives podcast! His pick, The Fool Killer (1965), opened my eyes to master director Servando González. A visionary.
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Another feather in the cap for cineastes living in or visiting Los Angeles!.
Quentin Tarantino’s Vista is set to reopen this year with “nice comfy new seating, new draperies, new everything." The plan is to run all first-run movies, all on 35mm or 70mm film.
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Professional dancers were cast to play the nurses, and their twisted movements are my favorite sequence after Pyramid Head ripping the skin from Anna.
Silent Hill (2006), directed by Christophe Gans, written by Roger Avary based on the game created by Konami, screens in 35mm this Saturday, September 30th, at midnight.
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Is it time to abandon the 16:9 container as inferior to 4:3 for restoration, preservation, and especially presentation? Digital cinema has more than caught up to full frame “Academy Aperture” so why are we still using a horrible numerological kludge averaged out by some Philips.
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Now available in Flin Flon!.
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Sound the siren, Darkness is coming….
Silent Hill (2006), directed by Christophe Gans, written by Roger Avary based on the game created by Konami, screens in 35mm Saturday, September 30th, at midnight. Tickets:
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And now I lament their disappearance.
"I'd sooner drink battery acid and stab a fork in my eye than walk into a Blockbuster.". - filmmaker and Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary to Roger Ebert in the 1990s, on the subject of Blockbuster only stocking pan-and-scan versions of Pulp Fiction.
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@joerussotweets @paulyrow1991 Any movie where one must watch a supplement short film in order for it to barely make sense has failed.
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@martinmchendry For me it’s Megumin, because she has the same birthday as my daughter Gala.
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@alecrobbins Deadwood is shot on film, and though no one wants to admit it, digital video and film are as different mediums as oil and watercolor paints. The physiological processes of production, preparation, and capture are diametrically different. This affects every department of.
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@baileylikemovie Kubrick took on an agent for the first and only time in his life, and that was CAA partner Kevin Huvane, who at the time represented both Cruise and Kidman. It was a strategic move by Kubrick to ally with Huvane who was the one who made it happen. Kubrick’s backup was Alec.
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The best way to understand the complex relationship between Labor and Capital is to watch Alexander Mackendrick's brilliant 1951 movie starring Alec Guinness, "The Man In The White Suit."
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My former landlord was a business affairs executive at Disney, and while I signed my overpriced lease the motherfucker confessed "You know, I really don't like movies that much.".
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This should be a unique experience. The 4k scans by @NCseventeen are from release prints with an attempt to preserve the original theatrical experience, grain, change marks, dust & damage, warts and all.
Just announced: Killing Zoe will be screened on Feb 27th, 2025 at the @TexasTheatre with a live Q&A from @AVARY moderated by Gala Avary. Tickets on sale now:.
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This is fabulous news and I for one am absolutely thrilled to see Mme Huppert boldly supporting the vision of one of cinema's greatest artists.
ISABELLE HUPPERT set to star in DARIO ARGENTO’s next film:. “Dario is a major filmmaker […] I am happy to finally be making this film with him. He’s such a strange and original artist, but I cannot say too much about this project”.
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THIS.
Every choice has led to this. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. May 23, 2025.
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The Gala Show premieres October 26th, wherever you get your podcasts (!!!). https://www.thegalashow.
While Quentin and Roger are shuffling tapes and preparing the line up for Season Two of Video Archives, they've sent Gala on a mission. Join her every Thursday for The Gala Show, where a new guest brings an entirely new topic to the mic. Starting 10/26.
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So happy to join Gala with my very own Arrow Selects!.
Academy Award™-winning filmmaker Roger @AVARY from THE VIDEO ARCHIVES PODCAST has hand selected his favourite titles on ARROW 🎙️. Head to the channel to discover the director's essential watches:
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We’re back on October 29th with all new episodes of The Video Archives Podcast, with additional material & content available on Patreon!.
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Shudder seems to have awesome taste themselves. 👍.
Academy Award winning writer Roger Avary championed this film. Even did a commentary track for the 2003 dvd. #DayOfTheDead @Shudder
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This would make an excellent poster for a re-release. The green color is very on-theme. The absence of "ATTRACTION" is definitely a post-modern touch. I also like "PAID BY: Credit".
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My @VideoArchives producer-daughter @GalaAvary has made an awesome list of her official April Selects for the @ARROW_Player. Be sure to order out some vegan Pad Thai for full Gala-mode immersion. Which film do you pick?
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By far the best film I have seen this year, which should absolutely be an awards contender, is Tarsem Singh Dhandwar’s tragic and gut wrenching fable, Dear Jassi. The film is currently running the festival circuit, playing Toronto & Santa Barbara and I urge everyone to see it.
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I, Roger Avary, hereby assert the moral right of authorship over my screenplays Killing Zoe, Beowulf, and Lucky Day.
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@Variety I feel for the guy. For what it’s worth he breathed life into those words, and when I think back on them, like for example Chris in Northern Exposure hilariously having a mid-life crisis over a dental exam, it’s John’s face and emotions I see and feel cemented in my memories.
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Here comes Red Pyramid. .
Silent Hill (2006), directed by Christophe Gans, written by Roger Avary based on the game created by Konami, screens in 35mm next Saturday, September 30th, at midnight. Tickets:
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Carol of the Bells is the holiday music of nightmares.
RULES OF ATTRACTION is a SEMINAL Christmas movie. Emotionally depraved social ritual against a season of morally depraved holiday ritual bookended by this bleak festivity imbues the whole film with familiar melancholy A CHRISTMAS CAROL or IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE made standard.
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This may be the most exciting cinematic grammar usage in decades.
Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are de-aged by decades in Robert Zemeckis' "Here." The filmmaker reveals the camera is in a fixed position for the movie's 104-minute runtime and never moves. “The single perspective never changes, but everything around it does. It’s actually never
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It’s Thursday, and American indie auteur (and dear friend) @DonCoscarelli is on The Gala Show! I’m both terrified and honored to discover Don is telling stories about me. 😳
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Happy Solstice! The Sun will be at 33 degrees today, the shortest day of the year.
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Apparently, Part One of my podcast interview with Bret Easton Ellis is a Memorial Day Freebie.
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@joerussotweets If they had just given me a nickel instead of that stupid water bottle on each meeting I took like the aforementioned then I'd be a wealthy man today. What a waste of time. Parasites.
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Hey, look everyone! It's The Gala Show, and she's interviewed Master of Horror @MickGarrisPM about book to film adaptations!.
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@joerussotweets Says the guy who used four periods more than necessary to complete a simple sentence. 😉.
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The Gala Show has a new episode! This week Gala talks with playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks about the complexities involved in dramatically adapting real world subjects.
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Day of the Dalton Part Two!.
Join us in concluding our memorial to actor Rick Dalton as Quentin Tarantino + Roger Avary cover three of Dalton's Italian films: OPERATION NAM, BLASTFIGHTER, and JUNGLE RAIDERS. LISTEN ALONG NOW:
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A new French poster for Lucky Day!.
Découvrez l'affiche de #LuckyDay, avec Luke Bracey, Nina Dobrev et Crispin Glover !.Le 18 septembre au cinéma.
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Look what I found between the couch cushions: @CasperVanDien and @vanderjames in a DELETED BATEMAN BROTHERS SCENE from The Rules of Attraction (2002).
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(Btw, it was Himmler who was the chicken farmer of the bunch.) .
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I was friends with Jules Bass when we both lived in the south of France, he in Villefranche and I in Cap d’Antibes. He once had me and my wife over for dinner and made us an amazing Frozen Pear for dessert, and subsequently I sang “I’m Mr. Freezemiser” to him. RIP, Jules.
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@DavidAyerMovies This is so true. The screenplay is a blueprint document for a planned construction. Begins on a napkin and has many revisions towards construction, with input from clients, budgetary alterations, material & site tweaks, etc., all on its way to the planning commission for.
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I'm ready now for a sequel.
🎬MOVIE HISTORY: 15 years ago today, October 11, 2002, 'The Rules of Attraction' opened in theaters!. #JamesVanDerBeek #ShannynSossamon
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It's Thursday! Master of the Matinée, and director of Matinee, @joe_dante, waxes nostalgic with Gala about the wonders of the Matinée in today's episode of The Gala Show. The lights dim. the curtain opens. the screen illuminates. an afternoon dreaming.
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@VideoArchives The very first laserdisc I ever bought was Joe Dante's Innerspace, which I treasure to this day.
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The very best Silent Hill collector's tome, for which I had written the foreword, has been out of stock for the last two years, but is now back in a deluxe edition! And it will soon be translated into English, Russian and Chinese! This is a truly beautiful edition.
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@tylerthewretch Bret Easton Ellis caught someone pouring gasoline into the storm drain next to his place and lighting it on fire.
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THIS!.
Who needs Netflix when you can watch Kanopy with your library card? .#CancelNetflixAndChill #WGAStrong
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Gala is wrapping up her favorite films of 2023. She’s seen a ton of films this year!
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This is where The Rules of Attraction (and Bubba Ho-Tepp) was shot.
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New Lucky Day trailer from France!.
Accrochez bien vos ceintures et découvrez la bande-annonce de #LuckyDay, le nouveau film de Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction - Killing Zoe), avec Nina Dobrev et Luke Bracey. Rendez-vous en salles le 18 septembre.
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@electrancy If you don’t dispute then you’re condoning their false claim on your artistic expression.
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Day of the Dalton Part Two:.
Join us in concluding our memorial to actor Rick Dalton as Quentin Tarantino + Roger Avary cover three of Dalton's Italian films: OPERATION NAM, BLASTFIGHTER, and JUNGLE RAIDERS. LISTEN ALONG NOW:
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@DonCoscarelli The day after that trailer hit screens me and every other kid at my middle school playground were excitedly talking about the flying silver spheres and what the hell was this wild madness of a movie. There was nothing else like it.
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Winnipeg is the geographical center of the North American continent. Built against all logic on a floodplain. The home of Canola Oil. Doubles well for Chicago. Beware the biting flies. It gets as cold as -38.8 Celsius. It holds many secrets.
New sync video featuring clips of @AVARY and @VideoArchives about the mysterious Franklin Brauner and my home city of Winnipeg. Winnipulp
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Put @SnoopDogg in charge! He makes sense!.
Snoop Dogg breaks down why streaming residuals is a huge issue for SAG-AFTRA & WGA. Well said!
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I was Stuart Gordon’s projectionist at Empire Films during his run at the studio, screening dailies on From Beyond & Robojox, and he was an absolute inspiration. I just heard of his passing which has brought back a flood of fond memories. #RIPStuartGordon, Master of Horror.
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(310) 555-1212.
Watching Lucky Day (2019) for the third time this year. It's friggin bonkers, bloody as hell and fast paced! Why this wasn't the talk of the town is beyond me. And for god's sake, get me Nina Dobrev's number! #actionmovies
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@DannyDrinksWine No matter how many times I see this clip posted I watch it repeatedly over and over. It never gets boring and I always want more. I could watch an entire television series about this moment in time.
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My daughter @GalaAvary and I had an amazing time talking about some of @TheMoviesMadeMe (and Gala) with our friends @joe_dante and @joshuarolson.
Our pod @TheMoviesMadeMe returns! From @VideoArchives, writer/director @AVARY & writer/producer Gala Avary discuss a few of their favorite films with @joshuarolson & @joe_dante. The end of Darby O'Gill & The Little People is discussed. Don't
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Take note all you unsubscribed out there:.
I’ve just started listening to the Video Archives pod and am loving it.
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🇺🇸.
As featured on Season 1 of @VideoArchives! STEEL (1979) screens in 35mm next weekend, Friday & Saturday November 22nd & 23rd, at midnight!
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Thank you, @MickGarrisPM.
Part Two of DAY OF THE DALTON on the VIDEO ARCHIVES PODCAST with Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, and Gala Avary is every bit as brilliant as Part One. I think my favorite Rick Dalton movie has to be NEBRASKA JIM after giving this a listen. Kudos, Team Archives! @AVARY
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