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OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
To honor the 35th anniversary of DO THE RIGHT THING in June—and his birthday today!—our June 2024 issue will celebrate and explore the cinema and vision of Spike Lee.
Deadline: 5/1/24
Details:
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It will always be amazing that Scorsese played Van Gogh in a Kurosawa film.
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“I’ll tell you this, when I left this country in 1948 I left for one reason only...I didn’t care where I went...on the theory that nothing worse could happen to me there than had already happened to me here.”
-James Baldwin on The Dick Cavett Show, 1968
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The transcendent opening sequence from THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO
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“He loved basketball & was good enough to be recruited to play college ball. But during his junior year, a boy on his team was shot & killed. Boseman coped w/ the tragedy by writing a play in response to the incident, which he called Crossroads & staged at his high school.”
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"Tarkovsky drank a lot of vodka and...turned off the speaker in the restaurant & began to sing the theme of samurai from Seven Samurai at the top of his voice.
As if to rival him, I joined in. For I was at that moment very happy to find myself living on Earth."
—Akira Kurosawa
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When someone says they love movies but they don't like old movies
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Scorsese is a gate *opener* btw. He wants you to see movies, make movies, love movies, live movies. It’s kinda been his whole thing for 50 years.
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For this week's Sunday Twitter focus, we want to see the best examples of celebrities playing themselves within a fictional world. Share your favorite scenes with the hashtag
#TheyPlayedThemselves
and we'll RT our favorites throughout the day!
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jeff bridges
-served in the coast guard reserve
-has been married to the same person since 1977 (“sticking with a marriage, that’s true grit man.”)
-takes photos on all his film sets
-released an ambient/spoken word record
-played a show w/ neko case
-is the best
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If you start watching Phantom Thread at 3:14pm today and then watch it on repeat for the next 4 days and 8 hours, you will get to spend New Year’s Eve with Reynolds & Alma
#nevercursed
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A few of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ images, from Treacle (2019), Hidden (2015), Sunday’s Child (2021), and The Secret of Joy (2015).
R.I.P.
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Writers! We know it’s really tough out there right now & also that a lot of you are looking for places to pitch. So: pitch us!
We’re raising our freelance rates effective immediately & accepting more off-theme submissions as well, provided they’re related to movies in some way.
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anybody complaining about the lack of new movies to watch during the pandemic apparently has zero idea that there are literally thousands of great movies that have already been made just patiently waiting for you to finally watch them send tweet
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Scarecrow (
@ScarecrowVideo
) is the best video store on the planet. And if you need further proof, how about this:
“The store has more than 132,000 titles, many of them not available on the internet, or anywhere else. ‘We will fight to the death to keep this open.’”
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Cate Blanchett gets bonus points here, because she not only plays herself in Jim Jarmusch's COFFEE & CIGARETTES, but also plays her own (fictional) cousin, Shelly.
#TheyPlayedThemselves
#AndAlsoTheirCousin
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“The Safdie brothers, they’re crazy. I saw them in Telluride at a dinner & it was like they were mugging me. They look like 2 bandits. They would come on the set of The Irishman & hang out. There’s still an aspect of me that has an affinity w/their ferocious manner, so to speak.”
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Hey! For our Sunday Twitter Focus this week we’re looking at scene stealers—actors who show up in small roles and steal the show. Send us your favorite scene stealing moments & we’ll retweet some of our favorites throughout the day!
#SceneStealer
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“What touched me the most deeply was that after the film came out, when people recognized me, their eyes opened wide and they said: ‘It's the guardian angel.’...In some way I became an angel, and who except me has experienced that in his lifetime?” - Bruno Ganz
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Paul Newman’s performance in THE VERDICT. That’s it, that’s the tweet.
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Are people not realizing the oasis it is to be in a place where you’re not *allowed* to use your phone? Where you have permission to be unconnected from the world for two hours? How many places like that are even left anywhere any more?
A lot of people are defending their in-theater phone use by saying they get bored during long movies. I get that. But here's the thing — boredom is a part of life. Movie theaters are shared spaces. You aren't entitled to distract other people from the art because you're bored.
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Marielle Heller has made 4 films and they have all been fantastic.
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"I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit."
-Stanley Kubrick
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New today on the site: Ethan Warren's Grand Yuletide Theory that The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best adaptation of A Christmas Carol (with new art by
@brianna_ashby
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“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
-Carl Sagan, Contact
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the female editors at BWDR have started compiling a list of their favorite films where women rage (bc, well, catharsis). please send in your recommendations & gifs so we can scream together
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just your annual reminder that in the original screenplay for ETERNAL SUNSHINE, Joel & Clementine erase each other from their memories like 15 times throughout their lives & the final scene is this & it’s brutal
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We all miss going to the movies, but what little idiosyncratic thing do you miss most about the experience of going to a movie theater?
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It's Laura Dern's birthday, and she is quite possibly the Very Best Swearer, so let's just celebrate that all damn day.
#GodDernit
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tfw someone tells you they love movies but they don’t like “old movies”
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In 2003, though not nearly enough people remember it,
DOWN WITH LOVE, a pitch perfect Doris Day-Rock Hudson homage/parody was released.
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"It was, above all, the speed with which he [Mifune] expressed himself that was astounding. The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression; Mifune needed three feet."
—Akira Kurosawa, on Toshiro Mifune
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What’s the movie you have the highest success rate with when recommending to friends?
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"So I want you to watch this movie & think only about staging, how the shots are built and laid out, what the rules of movement are, what the cutting patterns are."
- Steven Soderbergh, on his silent (w/ music from Trent Reznor) B&W edit of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
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"I don't like the idea of 'understanding' a film. I don't believe rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn't. If you are moved by it, you don't need it explained to you."
- Fellini
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"I am 77 years old and am convinced that my real work is just beginning. Let us hold out together for the sake of movies." - Akira Kurosawa, in a letter to Ingmar Bergman on his 70th birthday
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Remember that one time when you loved a movie with all your heart, and then someone came along and told you it sucked so you changed your mind?
Yeah, us neither. Love what you love, watch what you want to watch. Your taste is *your* taste and you don’t have to defend it.
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OK, people with
@letterboxd
accounts: your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help us create the most obscure movie recommendations list ever. Instructions in the screenshot:
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“When the kids are in shot, the camera is at their eye level. There isn’t a single moment on screen where we’re looking down on them. I wanted them to be big—kings and queens of their domain.”
-Sean Baker on THE FLORIDA PROJECT
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One more time, Hollywood:
Do this more. Bring art back to posters. There is literally no downside.
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Q: Do you like it when powerful women go toe to toe with you?
Paul Thomas Anderson: Who doesn’t? I’ve always dreamed that Myrna Loy is gonna come walking in the room and smack me across the face. [Laughs.] That’s my secret fantasy.
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"Back in [the 1980s] if you were young & kinda cool, you wouldn't be embracing anything that was just so brazenly commercial. You know, like, that was a bad impulse. And now every person under 25 lines up to see AVENGERS or whatever."
-Richard Linklater
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“If we look at A Ghost Story in this way, as a poem of a film in a world full of prose, it becomes necessary to talk about it in a different way, too. Not as something that needs to be wrestled to the ground, but instead as something to be experienced.”
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Humans lived for 199,874 years before movies existed. Be grateful you lived in the 126 years when they did!
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What film in the past decade *meant* the most to you?
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an actual memo posted by an arthouse theater when THE TREE OF LIFE was released in 2011
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Hulu - $6
Netflix - $12
HBO NOW - $15
Disney+ - $7
Prime - $9
CBS All Access - $6
iTunes rentals of Phantom Thread - $4,369
Apple TV+ - $5
Over $4,000 a month.
Cutting the cord was supposed to save us how much?
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Some of you don't love and respect Brian de Palma's Phantom of the Paradise and it shows
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The bio page for Chadwick Boseman’s 2014 play, Deep Azure. A man who truly contained multitudes & never stopped creating.
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We had such a blast doing
#MovieYellows
a few weeks ago, so for this week’s sunday twitter focus we're going with a color again. Send us your best
#MovieGreens
& we'll retweet some of our favorites throughout the day!
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"People need to understand that not all images are there to be consumed like fast food & then forgotten."
-Martin Scorsese
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If you want to write about movies, you should definitely...watch movies. There’s no shortcut, and if you don’t, it shows up in the work one way or another.
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It’s been almost 20 years since one of the very best dramas of this millennium was released. And it’s still amazing.
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It’s actually incomprehensible how many good movies were released in 1999, nearly all of which still hold up 24 years later. Let’s do that again.
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when people talk about 1999 being one of the best movie years but they don’t mention TOPSY TURVY
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