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Joined May 2008
Hi all, we're winding down our Twitter presence – we will be more active on The Other Site, and hope it's a more fun (and less fash) place to chat about movies. Find us on there with the same handle!
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Here’s a first look at Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe in Robert Eggers’ fantasy horror The Lighthouse, shot on 35mm black-and-white stock using equipment from the 1920s and ’40s
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RIP Shelley Duvall, one of the most unique and expressive actors in all Hollywood history, seen here in (arguably) her greatest role as Millie Lammoreaux in 3 Women (1977).
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Robert Eggers next film will be a “dark” and “unusually violent” Viking revenge saga, starring Willem Dafoe, Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicole Kidman
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On this day 33 years ago we lost John Cassavetes, pictured here with his wife Gena Rowlands. Here’s a short thread of some gorgeous international posters featuring his films
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Slightly obsessed with the new international poster for Parasite
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Joint Xmas/Birthday gift ideas: this Japanese Batman Returns poster:
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RIP William Friedkin, 1935 - 2023. A legend among filmmakers.
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Happy 85th Birthday to legendary composer Angelo Badalamenti!
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We’re thrilled to reveal @LaBocaDesign’s stunning new poster for Bong Joon-ho’s #Parasite. See the film in cinemas from 7 Feb
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RIP Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933-2021), the undisputed king of cool
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Argylle: Matthew Vaughn does it again! How do we make him stop
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RIP Tom Wilkinson. Amazing, versatile actor gone too soon.
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As Colin Farrell creeps closer to a potential Best Actor Academy Award, it's time to revisit a stone cold classic
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Studio Ghibli have released concept images for their 500-hectare theme park, which is set to open its doors in 2022. Take us there now 😭
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La Pointe Courte.Cléo from 5 to 7.Le Bonheur.Lions Love… and Lies.Daguerréotypes.Vagabond.Kung Fu Master!.The Gleaners and I.The Beaches of Agnès.Faces Places.Varda by Agnès. All masterpieces.Agnès Varda: 1928-2019
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Timothée Chalamet is the youngest Best Actor nominee since Mickey Rooney in 1940. James Ivory is the joint oldest nominee (w/ Agnès Varda) in any category EVER. #CMBYN #OscarsNoms #Oscars
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IT is a damn scary teen horror that delivers on multiple levels. Our ★★★★ review:
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Big day for all you Rick Dalton fans – Quentin Tarantino is planning to direct five episodes of a Bounty Law spin-off
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Agnès Varda.Mati Diop.Lynne Ramsay.Claire Denis.Desiree Akhavan.Ava DuVernay.Patty Jenkins.Haifaa al-Mansour.Joanna Hogg.Dee Rees.Mia Hansen-Lɵve.Andrea Arnold.Céline Sciamma.So Yong Kim.Lucrecia Martel.Kelly Reichardt.Amma Asante.Greta Gerwig.Maren Ade.Sofia Coppola.#IWD2018.
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No directors, no actors - hit us up instead with some of your favourite below-the-line craftspeople and their stellar work from the films of 2022.
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If you can believe it, Lost Highway was released 25 years ago today. Where would you rank it in David Lynch’s filmography?
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It's Hayao Miyazaki's birthday! Seems like the perfect time to enjoy a Studio Ghibli classic.
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On Hugh Grant’s birthday, a reminder of one of the greatest shots in cinema
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We have a bonkers new poster for Yorgos Lanthimos' forthcoming Poor Things. 🤯
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18 years ago today, a little film named Spirited Away was released in Japan…. Here's the gorgeous poster designed for the Chinese release last month 🐉
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It's two years to the day since Alan Rickman died. Here's a photo from the set of Die Hard, which was Rickman's first feature film role.
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A moment of appreciation for the reigning king of posters, Pedro Almodóvar 🔥🔥🔥
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Very sad news: Sir Alan Parker, the veteran British director and tireless champion of film culture, behind such beloved favourites as Bugsy Malone, Angel Heart, Midnight Express, Fame, Shoot the Moon, Mississippi Burning, Birdy and many more, has died. You name it, he did it. RIP
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In praise of My Neighbour Totoro, the beloved Studio Ghibli classic which hit cinemas 30 years ago today!
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Doris Day - that million dollar smile on the set of fizzing 1959 rom-com Pillow Talk. One of the all-time greats. RIP
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With the forthcoming Martin Scorsese film set to run at a compact 80 mins, what're everyone's favourite films that land in the 75-85 min bracket? 82 mins, of course, being the perfect runtime for a motion picture. (Below: Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue – 81 mins)
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RIP Bill Gold, one of the all-time great movie poster artists. Here are some of our favourite examples of his work
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Colour is an essential part of the filmmaker’s toolkit – and few use it better than #PortraitofaLadyonFire director Céline Sciamma
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RIP Anouk Aimée. Seen here as the tragic muse in Jacques Demy’s Lola (1961).
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Ennio Morricone 1928-2020. A giant of film and television composing – prolific, versatile, iconic. RIP.
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Back to the Future was released on this day in 1985 – check out these unused alternate posters by Drew Struzan
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pour Agnès ❤️This poster for the 2019 Cannes Film Festival is a gem
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Happy Birthday to genre legend John Carpenter! His cult classic They Live turns 30 this year – here’s a rather cheery photo from the set.
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The films of Wes Anderson, ranked:.1. 👑👨🏻🦱👱🏻♀️🧔🏻.2. 👨🏻🎓🏫.3. 🏩🛎️🧑🏾.4. 🌟🦊.5. 🧬⛴️🦈.6. 🏝️🐕🐩.7.🌛🏰.8. 🍼🚀.9. 🇮🇳🚃.
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First look images from David Fincher’s MANK, starring Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried - coming to @NetflixFilm this year
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Behold the first teaser for David Cronenberg’s Cannes-bound Crimes of the Future, starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart
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Here are the iconic shots of Nick Cave and Jonny Greenwood bumping into each other in New York in 2014 for you to enjoy this sunny Friday afternoon ☀️ 😎
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😍 New poster for Kelly Reichardt's excellent Showing Up, a stand out from this year's Cannes. Coming 2023! (Hopefully to the UK too. )
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Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver was released 46 years ago today. A defining moment in American cinema 🚕
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Robert Redford has announced that The Old Man & the Gun will be his final screen performance. So many iconic roles. Which is your favourite?
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Happy Birthday Montgomery Clift, born on this day 100 years ago
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Calling all Tarantino fans! To celebrate the release of #OnceUponATimeInHollywood, we’ve got a special set of Rick Dalton poster prints to give away. To enter, just follow us, like and RT this. We’ll announce the winner on Monday – Good luck! (UK+ROI only)
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Announcing LWLies 92: The Licorice Pizza issue! We’re celebrating our third Paul Thomas Anderson cover film in style, with a beautiful illustration of leading lady Alana Haim by Tim McDonagh
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It's a horrible wet July, so we've got a giveaway to cheer you up – a bundle of Criterion Collection's UK summer releases! Simply follow us and RT to enter. (UK+ROI only, sorry!) The Criterion Collection 4K UHD and Blu-ray titles are available at HMV, Amazon, Rarewaves & Zavvi.
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We're excited to launch the first poster for Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light, starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha and Chhaya Kadam and premiering In Competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. The first Indian film In Competition in 30 years, it's not to be missed!
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Chungking Express was Wong Kar-wai’s international breakthrough, but it wasn’t a one-way crossover event. Here Cocteau Twins and The Cranberries reflect on the film’s musical legacy
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Filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi has died at age 82 following a long battle with lung cancer. He's notorious in cult circles for his gleefully unhinged debut HAUSU, but he had a prolific career stretching decades. SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS, for one, exemplifies his unpredictable style.
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RIP Michael K Williams (1966-2021), consistently the standout performer in whatever he was in
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The future of South Korean cinema looks very bright – and we’re not just talking about Bong Joon-ho.
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Studio Ghibli was founded on this day in 1985 – what’s your favourite film by this beloved animation house?
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Happy birthday to queen of our hearts, the supremely talented Saoirse Ronan 💕
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Alain Delon RIP, a paragon of screen beauty whose best characters were often ugly and immoral. An iconic mainstay of European cinema of the ’60s and ’70s: L’Eclisse, Rocco and his Brothers, Le Cercle Rouge, Le Samouraï, Plein Soleil…
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On his 50th birthday, here’s every single Matt Damon cameo – including the ones you probably missed
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RIP the great Gena Rowlands, an actor and muse who left everything up on the screen. She perhaps more than anyone before removed the safety net of self-consciousness from acting. Her performances exist between a place of thrilling rawness and supreme precision.
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Comment: why we should use the term "lesbian" when referring to art about lesbians. By @elbirdilara .
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The maestro Isao Takahata, director of such burnished animated gems as Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko, The Tale of Princess Kaguya and more, has died at the age of 82.
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Behold the poster for Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. Due out in South Korea mid June, so a safe bet for #Cannes2019
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Anna Karina 1940-2019.Watch/re-watch Vivre Sa Vie today if you want to witness one of the all-time great screen performances. Look to the screen and gently weep. RIP
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MINDHUNTER returns 16 August. Check out these exclusive images from Season 2 of David Fincher’s crime thriller
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The world loses a mythologically talented performer today in Donald Sutherland. One of the all-time greats
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Today is Denis Lavant’s birthday. Let’s all take a moment to appreciate his hell-raising performance in this (banned) Cadbury’s Flake ad from 2010, directed by Jonathan Glazer
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Huge news out of London today – we're finally getting a new Mike Leigh film. Hard Truths reunites the writer/director with actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who received an Oscar nomination for Secrets and Lies!.@StudiocanalUK and Bleeker St to release later this year.
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Timotheé Chalamet.Bill Murray.Frances McDormand.Saoirse Ronan.Tilda Swinton.Willem Dafoe.Léa Seydoux.Owen Wilson.Adrien Brody.Jason Schwartzman.Elisabeth Moss.Benicio del Toro.Kate Winslet.Christoph Waltz. And that’s not even the full cast list.
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Announcing Little White Lies 78: The If Beale Street Could Talk issue. We’ve been fans of @barryjenkins for a long time now, and we couldn’t be more excited to celebrate his latest film. Here’s what’s in store… 🌺
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