Bret Easton Ellis
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Did I just watch Dave Chappelle save America from itself in 65 minutes on Netflix?
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Just back from a dinner in West Hollywood: shocked the majority of the table was voting for Trump but they would never admit it publicly.
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"I just reject your hypothesis." New favorite response to every dumb question asked.
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We. Are. Doomed.
Sony Pictures released a statement saying "food allergies are a serious issue" & the film "should not have made light" of a character being allergic to blackberries "even in a cartoonish, slapstick way"
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Kanye on Twitter this week has been the most exciting thing happening in this cultural moment: an example for everyone to express themselves without fear. If you have a "problem" with Kanye's tweets then YOU are the problem.
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LOVE, SIMON and MY FRIEND DAHMER: two recent gay-themed high-school movies, one ends on a Ferris Wheel with two boys kissing while friends cheer below; the other ends with the murder of a hitchhiker by a murderous teen. One feels like liberal fantasy. One feels like awful truth.
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Why do I find Stephen Miller completely compelling and want to write a novel about him? Why do I not want to write a novel about Jim Acosta?
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Not having political discussions with anyone anymore. Done. Too much insanity. Another dinner ruined. People are fucking crazy. Get a grip.
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Instructive and troubling double feature this past weekend: JOKER and JUDY. Two movies about lonely deranged narcissistic entertainers with damaged childhoods, drug-addled and wearing too much make-up. One lives, the other doesn't. Both actors playing them win Oscars.
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Watching TIGER KING is like doing bad cocaine for six hours: you know it's bad but there's nothing else to do and you get mildly high for awhile but then you start coming down and beat yourself up while you're crashing and wonder: why in the hell did I just do that?
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Cancel culture is essentially about dumb people who feel so bad about themselves that they need to exclaim: "I have to call out someone worse than me, I have to call out someone worse than me, I have to call out someone worse than me, I have to call out someone worse than me."
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Defending the American voter I'm yelled at in Sunset Tower for being a Trump apologist and colluding with Russia. Is the Left fucking NUTS?
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Lately, I've found myself getting interested in drunk tweeting again.
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A digital series I wrote and directed THE DELETED is now available with a new episode dropped daily all this week...
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Watched MAGNOLIA for the first time since 1999. American moviemaking at its most exciting: unabashedly emotional, over the top, poetic and funny, technically brilliant, amazing score, at 188 minutes a sustained riveting epic. Boogie Nights is great but this is PTA's masterpiece.
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And this is the most regressive and boneheaded reaction to Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood. Sorry comrade that QT didn't follow your list of progressive rules in terms of creating a work of art. Dear God.
"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is a masterwork of nostalgia porn and we really have to stop mooning over a past that never was.
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Ari Aster's HEREDITARY is not only the movie of the year but one of the scariest, most upsetting horror movies ever made--a true freak-out. It's a great debut, novelistic in scope and a polarizing, brilliant, beautiful nightmare. Toni Collette and Alex Wolff are magnificent.
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If you're "distracted" and "bothered" by the thrilling technical virtuosity of 1917 and the achievements of Sam Mendes and DP Roger Deakins and lead actor George MacKay because you think it's all "too artificial" then I guess my only advice is: Stop. Watching. MOVIES.
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And "Breaking Bad" is the most overrated TV series in the history of television. Even though I want to bang the kid with cerebral palsy.
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Just watched SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER for the first time since January 1978 when I was 13. It has aged better than ever. A key 70s movie: crude and messy, sexy and profane; a completely hypnotic, ecstatic experience. John Travolta: amazing. Nothing today compares.
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A statement about last week:
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This sequence in 1917 is peak cinema 2019. When you arrive here in the film's final movement you're thrilled and moved in equal measure. Amazing work from Roger Deakins and Sam Mendes and George MacKay. See it in a theater.
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Tonight rewatched Robert Altman's masterpiece The Long Goodbye (1973) and it's not only a breathtaking reminder of what American movies could be but also makes everything released in 2020 seem like a tiny joyless smudge.
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Another dinner with the Hollywood liberal establishment defending HRC, fake news, intersectionality, identity politics, PC virtue signaling.
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Season
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is the best year of GIRLS so far: great episode after great episode. Beautifully written, shot, directed.
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"It is of no consequence to you what other people think of you. What matters is what you think of them." Gore Vidal
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"A book isn't a mirror, it's a door." Fran Lebowitz.
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Just another Sunday thinking about bathtubs in Stanley Kubrick movies.
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This kind of ideology is another example of how people don't care about movies or art anymore. Movies should only be made by a PC democracy! It will hopefully not take years for a generation to rid itself of this kind of mindless, regressive, identity politics groupthink. Resist.
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BRET EASTON ELLIS PODCAST. 3 hour+ conversation with QUENTIN TARANTINO covering everything: novelizing OUATIH, the death of movies (1920-2019), Vertigo to Something Wild, Kubrick issues, the last rock star director, retirement and Despicable Me 2. Listen
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"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story..." Orson Welles.
http://t.co/d5nvrxlfbZ
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Top Ten 2019
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Little Women
Marriage Story
Midsommar
1917
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (1)
Parasite (2)
Toy Story 4
Under the Silver Lake (3)
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Kirsten Dunst looked a lot sadder when I ran out of coke at an Oscar party 5 years ago than at the Von Trier press conference at Cannes...
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Cultural low-point for Gen-X in 2020? In Beastie Boys Story Ad-Rock apologizing for the lyrics in "Girls." Hope everyone feels better.
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10 Favorite English-Language Movies 2017:
A QUIET PASSION
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2)
THE DISASTER ARTIST
DUNKIRK (3)
THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
PHANTOM THREAD (1)
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
WONDER WOMAN
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Best 2016 films so far: TALE OF TALES Garrone; GREEN ROOM Saulnier; THE INVITATION Kusama; BATMAN V SUPERMAN Snyder.
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It happened: HBO's brilliant THE NIGHT OF effectively eradicates the notion of the 2-hour American theatrical movie.
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My favorite movie-viewing experience of 2017 so far might just be rewatching BREAKING AWAY for the first time in over thirty-five years.
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Whitney Houston: Yes, somewhere tonight Patrick Bateman is weeping, shocked but not surprised, and ordering three hookers instead of two...
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Bulky mitts Paul Schrader sent me with a note suggesting that if I ever get the urge to drunk-tweet wear these instead:
http://t.co/1xhe3Yg2
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Actors nominate actors. THE "ACADEMY" DOES NOT NOMINATE ACTORS. Actors nominate actors. Remember this
#OscarsSoWhite
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There was a time when people were fans and had opinions and could like things and dislike things and it was all OK. But those days are over.
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I miss the masks. I looked better with them on.
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Verhoeven's ELLE is the best new narrative movie I've seen in 2016 so far. Totally hypnotic, violent, funny. Definitely not for snowflakes.
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Best American Movies of 2019 so far: ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD (Quentin Tarantino); UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (David Robert Mitchell); MIDSOMMAR (Ari Aster); CRAWL (Alexandre Aja).
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Clearing out my storage space today and found this photo from 30 years ago. At a cocktail party in NY where moments earlier I just found out my book was definitely going to be cancelled.
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Not a popular opinion: David Robert Mitchell's UNDER THE SILVER LAKE is the most interesting, ambitious and funniest American movie of 2019 I've seen so far, with a great performance by Andrew Garfield. An LA-by-night comic-conspiracy noir. Hypnotic, silly, sexy, right-brained.
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VILMOS ZSIGMOND (1930-2016). One of the greatest cinematographers in movie history and defined the look of 70s film.
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Tom Petty's WILDFLOWERS. What a revelation. Dismissed in 1994 as minor. Maybe everyone wanted Full Moon Fever 2. But listening to it over and over this past week for the first time in 25 years, it's obviously Petty's masterpiece.
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If anyone needs cheering up during these dark times I recommend watching SAVAGE STREETS starring Linda Blair in a vigilante thriller from 1984 that's so over the top, dumb, nasty and un-PC that it plays as delirious comedy. A slab of pure 80s sleaze. Available on Amazon Prime.
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#FivePerfectMovies
Chinatown
E.T. The Extraterrestrial
The Godfather
Manhattan
The Silence of the Lambs
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The most entertaining new movie I've seen in months is Argentina's WILD TALES: a hilarious, hypnotic, violent blast.
http://t.co/BjiyC1N36r
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Paul Walker was probably the most beautiful American movie actor of the past two decades.
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Favorite Lead Actor Performances 2017: TIMOTHEE CHALAMET: Call Me By Your Name, DANIEL DAY-LEWIS: Phantom Thread, COLIN FARRELL: The Killing of a Sacred Deer, JAMES FRANCO: The Disaster Artist, ROBERT PATTINSON: Good Time.
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Watched MEGAN IS MISSING. Undeniably creepy and effective. Barely released in 2011 it's more disturbing than any movie I watched in 2020. A reminder that the most frightening horror movies are the simplest with no backstory to explain the fear away. The bf walked out, disgusted.
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An appreciation I wrote for the NYT about Joaquin Phoenix.
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Sometime over the weekend of March 22nd 2019 the American mainstream media officially died, effectively killing itself after two long years of repeated suicide attempts.
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1981. An aspiring writer recounts his senior year at a prestigious prep school in Los Angeles when a serial killer began stalking teenagers throughout the city--he and his friends, including a mysterious new student, among them. Now available to pre-order:
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THE NY TIMES: Bret Easton Ellis on LIVING IN THE CULT OF LIKABILITY.
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Bret's "Come over at do bring coke now" tweet is now up for auction.
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The most entertaining theatrical experience so far in 2016 is the Brian De Palma doc DE PALMA. See it in a theater.
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This afternoon while waiting for the light at Benedict Canyon and Sunset Boulevard "Fairytale of New York" starts playing on satellite radio and halfway through it I find myself unexpectedly bursting into tears.
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Indie Arthouse Horror is becoming my least favorite new genre: It Follows, Goodnight Mommy, The Babadook, The Witch.
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Lisa Kudrow in THE COMEBACK achieves a tragic-comic grace that is unlike anything I've ever seen on TV. Overwhelming.
http://t.co/kaiIqIgRQn
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GIRLS is the best show on television right now.
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I binge-watched THE NIGHT MANAGER today and could only think that the theatrical experience of the movie is so OVER.
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To everyone who called me out on this omission: yes, if I had posted a Top Eleven instead of just a Top Ten list the Safdie Brothers UNCUT GEMS would have been on my best of 2019. Just FYI for anyone who cares. And Adam Sandler gave one of the great performances of the year.
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THE WOLF OF WALL STREET is so obviously the best movie of 2013 by a landslide I don't understand why we're giving awards to anything else...
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RIP: Adam Schlesinger, probably the greatest pop songwriter of his generation. Created at least three seminal records with Fountains of Wayne. Welcome Interstate Managers is the masterpiece.
All Kinds Of Time via
@YouTube
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In order to become a great artist of any kind you have to be completely open to the idea of totally deluding yourself. Logic means nothing.
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I've never seen anything quite like this before: This Is How All The Bret Easton Ellis Novels Fit Together
http://t.co/012nYiLozC
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My thanks to Irvine Welsh and his generous new introduction for American Psycho at Picador Classic. Best Wishes.
http://t.co/JMV3WvQVe7
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But really My Chemical Romances's "Disenchanted" is the best power-ballad of the last ten years...
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In May 1977 I was 13 and liked Robert Altman's 3 Women more than I liked Star Wars. Both were New Hollywood movies made by idiosyncratic artists but none of my classmates knew what 3 Women was. My point? I guess I wish that The Rise of Millie Lammoreaux was opening this weekend.
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Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same--Marcel Proust.
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Thanks, Chuck.
Among my favorite books is the
@BretEastonEllis
collection 'The Informers'. Don't ask why. I'm not sure why, but I just love this book. Join me for a discussion of the stories tomorrow, March 15th, 6PM PST here >>
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2017 has been a really interesting year for movies with more good ones than usual. I could easily whip-up a 10-best list--even with December still to come. The first time this has happened in many years.
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Let audiences applaud during the IN MEMORIAM segment. This should be a joyous tribute and not so grim. No more goddamn covers of Hallelujah!
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know..." Ernest Hemingway.
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We all need a dog to worship us and a cat to bring us back to reality.
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Karyn Kusama's THE INVITATION is a scary slow-burning L.A.-set thriller and the most effective movie of 2016 so far.
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