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aka Orrin Luc I have a YT channel that looks at the relationship between cinema and video games. (he/him)
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I have a new video essay on
@OutBlueGames
and their progressive vision for Lovecraft with Call of the Sea. Play this awesome game if you haven't.
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I know this sounds crazy, but sometimes it's worth financing art for art's sake to enhance our culture? Why do we have to be so capitalist-brained all the time?
Apple's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON has grossed $67M domestic, $89M overseas and $156M worldwide on a $200M budget.
The reality is, Scorsese films can't justifiably be greenlighted by traditional studios with price tags of this nature.
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I think the sign of a real creator is ignoring consensus and doing what you want to do. Imagine if David Cronenberg or David Lynch stooped to the masses just because they wanted to be liked? Chris Pine's a real one!
Chris Pine refuses to accept the negative reviews around ‘POOLMAN’:
“After the reviews in Toronto I was like “maybe I did make a pile of shit”. I went back and watched it. I fucking love this film. I love this film so much.”
Read our review:
(via
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Average prestige tv showrunner: I need five seasons of television to tell the story of a suburban dad going rogue and doing crime. I need enough episodes to show the fallout of his actions on his family.
David Cronenberg:
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In another timeline, the Zone of Interest would have been a cultural conversation-starter like Killers of the Flower Moon or Oppenheimer. A24’s distribution has been so terrible that it’s in danger of being relegated to esoteric art house object that only cinephiles care about.
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Ghostbusters fans are so funny in that they treat what was essentially an extended SNL skit as if it were this life-changing work of art that merits utmost reverence and nostalgia.
Surprise. (Not. And I haven’t seen it. But this happened with the last one too.)
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Top ten dad movies of 2023, ranked by how dad they are:
1. Ferrari
2. Air
3. Oppenheimer
4. The Killer
5. Asteroid City
6. Blackberry
7. The Iron Claw
8. Killers of the Flower Moon
9. Kandahar
10. Sound of Freedom (could go higher based on your dad’s politics)
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Quentin Tarantino (age 60): My career is ending. It's all over.
Wim Wenders (78):
PERFECT DAYS "was the first film I made after the pandemic. I saw it as a new beginning for me so I really wanted it to matter."
Director Wim Wenders on creating his Academy Award-nominated film, now playing in theaters:
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He has a right to feel this way, but the film doesn’t purport to be an adaptation of his life. It’s like accusing the Coen Brothers of not being faithful to Dave Von Ronk when they made Inside Llewyn Davis.
Vili Fualaau, whose case inspired ‘May December,’ speaks out against the film:
“If they had reached out to me, we could have worked together on a masterpiece. Instead, they chose to do a ripoff of my original story. I’m offended by the entire project and the lack of respect
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Uh…you forgot these ones
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There are three kinds of auteurs:
The Lynch: I will make my longest movie an 18 hour season of television
The Scorsese: I will make my longest movie a 209 minute epic without intermissions
The Cronenberg: I will make my longest movie under two hours.
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Martin Scorsese has a new movie, the Rolling Stones has a new album, the Beatles have a new song, William Friedkin’s got a movie, what is this 1970?
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I love how the universe spawned the ideal Cronenberg actor with Viggo Mortensen. Not sure there’s been another actor who has snapped into a director’s themes and vibes as perfectly as this guy did in this century.
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To combat this with a more positive outlook: I think the slow death of Marvel, the gradual rise of A24, NEON, and Letterbox’d, and the simple fact that people are itching to get to the theater post-pandemic have made original movies more popular than they ever were in the 2010s.
Jerry Seinfeld quips "the movie business is over."
“Film doesn’t occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives. When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it. We all discussed it. We quoted lines and scenes we liked. Now
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@ConnorMB_onFilm
I would have said “yeah, it’s not woke. It’s just a depiction of what actually happened.”
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That’d be hilarious if we got an EEAAO-level backlash in about two weeks.
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Sums up in a nutshell why Zone of Interest is a better film than Son of Saul
"Son of Saul" director László Nemes condemns Jonathan Glazer's Oscar speech
"When you make a movie like [Zone], there is a responsibility attached to it. Glazer has clearly failed to measure this responsibility"
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@Alex_Fedderly
Definitely.
People who consider box office gains to be the best signifier of whether a film is worth existing...just...what a way to view art.
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"Oldboy is a great film that inspired an even greater film, Only God Forgives" -NWR, leading off the conversation.
Coming soon—a conversation between Park Chan-wook and Nicolas Winding Refn. 👀
Park's OLDBOY returns to theaters remastered and restored on August 16th. Get tickets:
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@SChristofalo
At the end of the day, a creator making the film they wanted to make is more important to the culture than whether I liked it or not.
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To anyone who has Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me as Lynch’s worst movie.
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I’m seeing a lot of pieces that do the whole “if you love this movie, you kind of support grooming, misogyny, white perspectives, etc…” Even if a movie has ideological flaws, I’m not sure why there’s this tendency to put that responsibility on the viewer.
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Whenever I hear people insist youtube influencers are better critics than actual critics, I think of this thumbnail.
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I don’t buy the “Godzilla Minus One is nationalist propaganda” arguments. It works on a more allegorical level of the Japanese overcoming the trauma of the atom bomb and the war. The story makes a point that the Japanese government valued dying for one’s country over life.
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Cinephiles whenever they watch five minutes of a tv show that’s not Twin Peaks or Evangelion
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“I’m flattered that James Gunn likes my movies. It’s too bad he makes movies for babies.”
- David Cronenberg in an interview with Variety
it's great how easy it is to engagement bait by just posting something a director said that's vaguely critical of superhero films
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@JFrankensteiner
A few other chads: Cronenberg writing a pretty solid novel (Consumed), David Lynch publicly campaigning for Transcendental Meditation, and John Carpenter spending his Twilight years as a composer.
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I’m just imagining a white Letterbox’d user awkwardly explaining how Birth of a Nation is “objectively a five star masterpiece” to a black person.
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@Alex_Fedderly
I'd add to it that they have an irritating sense of self-reverence that the original movies were never going for.
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Luca Guadagnino is a pretty great filmmaker with virtually no misses over the past 10 years if you just watch his movies without *the film twitter discourse* whispering in your ear.
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Wrt Perfect Days: Sometimes the best criticial analysis come from random youtube comments
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What kind of Cronenberg fan are you? What are your thoughts on his 2012 film Cosmopolis?
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Saw Memories of Murder at the Academy Museum in glorious 4k with Steven Yeun and Song Kang-ho present. Seeing Song aerial kick that guy on the big screen was a dream come true.
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@Variety
Robert Downey Jr. using casual racism to defend Marvel was not on my 2022 bingo card
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Honorable mentions:
Napolean
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning
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@brianchaley
Maybe I’m insane, but my Llewyn Davis rewatches are always life-affirming. It felt like the first time someone made a movie about the brutal reality of failure in a way that was very cathartic.
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@Bjorksbxtchduo
This whole “protagonist = sympathetic ” deal that even intelligent people espouse is so concerning. Feel like Disney has killed our media literacy.
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I didn’t really connect to Past Lives, but I also think it’s fine that a lot of people love it. It can get kind of alienating on here when people act like it’s a mark of shame for enjoying a movie. People should be allowed to connect to art and not be bullied for it.
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@Srirachachau
It kind of fits his character to have a vaguely transatlantic accent. He’s a midwestern social climber posing as a ny socialite
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Nathan Fielder should go to jail for his crimes, but also he should receive the Nobel Peace prize. This is my reaction after watching episode 4 of the Rehearsal.
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@Burt434347
literally any time a black person appears in Taxi Driver: *Travis stares menacingly*
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@strangeharbors
Really looking forward to the release of the new Scorsese, which will be deemed as niche arthouse by many of my acquaintances
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Guy who has seen one Kubrick film: Denis Villeneuve is the Stanley Kubrick of our time
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Can’t believe we gave this bozo two Palmes
Ruben Östlund Proposes Requiring Licenses to Use Cameras: ‘You Need One for a Gun’
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@IndieWire
Of course the Russos say this garbage take conveniently after their Marvel run, which forced a lot of great, better movies out of the theatre.
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So many people be like “wow, Cronenberg’s so pretentious” when the reality is John Carpenter’s a whiny hater.
JOHN CARPENTER talks about DAVID CRONENBERG and how horror directors take themselves too seriously now.
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@tnyfrontrow
I prefer Spike Lee over Park Chan-Wook as a director, and even I don’t agree with this
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@worldofreel
He’s only saying this because he knows he never made a movie as good as John Wick 4
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When a Carpentercel says something so Cronenphobic, you hit them with that Spader stare.
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My top 20 films of all time has a a new addition given recent events
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Ngl Josh O'Connor has a lot of Jean-Paul Belmondo energy that I’ve been craving this century. Guy’s a star.
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The main character’s arc starts with “I should die for my country” and ends with “I must live for myself and the people I love.” It honestly couldn’t be more obvious.
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@Screenotes_
I also just think that Jonathan Glazer drawing parallels between the Nazis in Zone of Interest to Israel's occupation of Gaza is way more brave than anything Nemes did with Son of Saul.
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Cronenberg’s gonna present a heartfelt swan song about the death of his wife at this year’s Cannes, but he’s going to lose to another zeitgeisty “rich people are kinda the worst” satire made for the people it pretends to lampoon. You heard it here first.
I still get annoyed about the 2022 Palme d'Or going to Triangle of Sadness, especially when 2021's winner was Titane, one of the most daring films in recent memory, and Triangle of Sadness was just so fucking basic. Should have gone to Crimes of the Future or Decision to Leave.
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@CombRazor
I think it's a childhood nostalgia thing. People who grew up in the 80's and 90's probably associate it with cozily watching it on vhs tape with the family, and getting dressed up for halloween as a ghostbuster. It's everything surrounding the movie I think. I still don't get it.
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@afterglow2046
Terry Gilliam has fallen off so bad in the past 25 years. Really been a sight to see
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With the multiple film discourses that have occurred this year (May December, Poor Things, etc) there has been a rise in judging films purely on a moral framework. It’s a very reductive way to view art. Artistic expression should be allowed to be whatever it wants or needs to be.
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Something I learned watching the Untouchables on 35
@musicboxtheatre
is that you haven’t truly lived if you haven’t seen the Union Station shootout on the big screen. Pure De Palma magic.
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Tired: Did you see those amazing wide shots of Arrakis in Dune Part. 2?
Wired: DID YOU SEE these Medium Close ups from the new Cronenberg!!!??
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I think the consensus big four for Cronenberg right now are Videodrome, The Fly, Crash, and A History of Violence. Seems like those are the essential hits at this point.
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I think the worst part about this is how people rush to these pieces’ defense with “you may not agree with it, but it’s very well-written. 🤓” Honestly, that’s a moot point when the central thesis or implication is “you are kind of a groomer for liking this movie.”
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The *objectively correct* ranking of David Cronenberg’s 21st century filmography:
1. Cosmopolis (best movie ever)
2. A History of Violence
3. Crimes of the Future
4. Eastern Promises
5. Spider
6. Maps to the Stars
7. A Dangerous Method
All bangers
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Depressing that CNN rushes out a conveniently four-month late review full of gaslighting talking points just because they want to smear Jonathan Glazer.
‘The Zone of Interest’ — a Holocaust movie without Jews – Read more from Peter Rutland here:
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@ThisIsCreation
These guys have probably only seen 45 minutes of the Irishman at a holiday family gathering before going to another room to play with action figures.
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Me, a normie: Snyder’s Rebel Moon Part 2 was a a pretty goofy Star Wars/Seven Samurai hybrid made by a guy who probably loves Xbox games.
Enlightened Snyder fan:
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Feeling vindicated after so many people on here were like “wow, Zhao really showed me that poor people exist” in 2020.
Chloe Zhao Directs Horror Trailer For Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo IV Video Game
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1. Perfect Days
My favorite movie in 10 years. A character study about finding peace of mind and beauty when the cruel realities of the world threaten otherwise. One of the few times in my life where I was actively dreading the end of the movie, because I was so taken by it.
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Paul Schrader’s next movie is writing itself
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ROBOCOP Rogue City: one of those rare games that gets better as it goes on. A great companion piece to the first two Robocop films, while scratching the F.E.A.R. itch of head-exploding, slow-mo gunplay. Just a good Robo-time top to bottom.
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David Cronenberg rushing to cast Billie Eilish in his next movie:
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@billieeilish
tells Rolling Stone she likes to masturbate in front of a mirror.
"Partly because it’s hot, but it also makes me have such a raw, deep connection to myself and my body, and have a love for my body that I have not really ever had."
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In addition to making great movies, Luca Guadagnino also has elite tastes.
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Something inspiring about a 78-year-old man still treating his life as full of possibility.
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