fran hoepfner
@franhoepfner
Followers
15K
Following
111K
Media
12
Statuses
588
๐ senior news writer @vulture ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป + fran magazine dot substack dot com ๐๏ธ
๐
Joined January 2011
RIP Catherine OโHara, who was only funny when speaking, or walking, or sitting still, or doing anything.
11
579
8K
i loved David Wain's new movie GAIL DAUGHTRY & THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS which had got the biggest laughs of any movie by a long shot at this year's Sundance
vulture.com
David Wain movies are best experienced with an audience โ and not on YouTube five years later.
0
0
13
WORRIED premieres at sundance next week!!!!! @franhoepfner @vulture <33333333333
In its last year before the move to Boulder, the Sundance Film Festival is more influential than ever. Here are the 16 movies (and one TV pilot) our writers are lining up for in the snow.
3
3
66
one night in Bushwick...
vulture.com
Bars around the city are welcoming Shane and Ilya fans for communal sing- and cry-alongs.
1
2
37
these videos have raised more than $180,000(!) for a variety of urgent causes over the last few years. this year i'm once again supporting the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, whose work is tragically as vital as ever. please consider giving if you can! https://t.co/tsO8fzDyDI
gofundme.com
Hi, my name is David, I'm a film critic, and every year I cut togetheโฆ David Ehrlich needs your support for Help Support the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!
24
428
3K
would be great to see Kleber Mendonรงa Filho (who won while on the red carpet at Critics Choice & got played off at the Globes) give a full speech at some point as he's one of few filmmakers who has been consistently & outspokenly anti-fascist in a time where that bears repeating
1
457
5K
Not only a must-read interviewer & critic, but a must-read editor who has made the work of many writers I love that much more clear & sharp. Rare talent!
Some news: I'm being laid off! After 11+ years and 48 issues, Friday will be my last day. I'm 100% looking for work and definitely not married to being in film. I have many transferable corporate/organizational skills. Email in bio.
1
0
21
At @ScreenSlate I interviewed the great @kmendoncafilho about his latest film, THE SECRET AGENT https://t.co/xZnq72rrfL
screenslate.com
The risk a period piece runs is that any immaculate reconstruction of the past, however distant, will always feel like a different reality than the present one. History is only recoverable insofar as...
9
49
414
๐จ top 10 of 2025 pod is up!!! ๐จ thanks to @swen_ryan @ethanves @franhoepfner @sweetxpalma @ty_landis @responsiblerob for making cameo appearances!
New Episode - The Best Fims of 2025 Per tradition, we counted down our top ten films of the year, with a little help from our friends.
0
6
16
Maxwell was instrumental in helping me get this long-in-the-making reported piece off the ground. His work at Notebook was essential.
For @mubinotebook, I contributed supplemental reporting from the picket lines of @nycalamounitedโs strike, with amazing photographs by @eleanorpetry.
1
1
11
vulture.com
What are we meant to take away from the story of Martyโs coach at Auschwitz?
you guys all see that holocaust honey thing in marty supreme? what the fuck was that
5
10
731
MARTY SUPREME is the monoculture. It is Great Entertainment, a black hole that consumes all of American cinema. Went long on its virtues and vices for @LAReviewofBooks
https://t.co/h2m6U3Ca7p
lareviewofbooks.org
Josh Safdieโs โMarty Supremeโ and the mythmaking around a monoculture masterpiece.
58
172
2K
โ ๏ธ THE TULKUNS HAVE CLOTHES NOW โ ๏ธ
vulture.com
Who is piercing the ears (?) of the Tulkuns in Avatar: Fire and Ash?
0
1
29
For the latest issue of The Yale Review, I wrote about Terrence Malick's massive influence on modern American filmmaking.
yalereview.org
Bilge Ebiri explores filmmaker Terrence Malickโs vision of grace and his far-ranging influence on American cinema.
23
138
1K