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co-host of Wiseman Podcast https://t.co/ljbPupl3Wk
Joined February 2011
🚨WISEMAN POD 35🚨 A BIG ONE! we talked to the man himself, Fred Wiseman, about the second era of his career, why he's never made the Wiseman casino film, how he deals with witnessing harrowing events and the moment he saw the Chicken Man in Neiman-Marcus.
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have never been shushed or anything at a movie until last night when, during the first trailer for a shitty doc, someone nudged me and asked me if i plan on talking during the entire movie. feel like LD, but arent trailers fair game for mumbling to your neighbor?.
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now watching one of my favorites: The Soulmates: The Gift of Light.
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a movie completely lost to the annals of history. has a single person watched this since 2016?.
THE NICE GUYS 4K UHD / Blu-ray Limited and Standard Editions in the works!!
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hope this doesn't have anything to do with that deer I hit last August
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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (2023): I know Scorsese is no stranger to using anachronistic music (eg. Gabriel on Last Temptation), and I mostly appreciate that he's still trying new things at this age, but I still thought it was strange to use almost wall-to-wall Taylor Swift here.
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how do you open?.
Audrey Hepburn was born on this day in 1929. Read Sean Hepburn Ferrer on his mother's legacy:
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one of the coolest things about David Lynch's work was growing with it, from being mesmerized by its textures as a teenager to understanding the emotional current under them as an adult, and seeing so many others share a similar experience.
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Hi, tenured Professor of Hitler Studies here! 👋 Just wanna clear up some things before the premiere of White Noise, a film adaptation of Don DeLillo's "satirical" portrayal of a Hitler Studies prof who doesn't know German. A thread of harmful misconceptions it has caused🧵.
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people on here resent Sean Baker so much bc he represents someone who does things that were totally cancellable online once upon a time but dont translate at all to real-life issues, so we'll keep getting microwaved leftovers about IG following. this is all some people have.
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been thinking about the Killers of the Flower Moon trailer all day. dont wanna put the cart before the horse but it just looks so fresh, like the world has opened up for Scorsese, even at age 80. reminds me of something Kurosawa said at the Oscars when he was around the same age.
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this is literally the "they dont know I. " meme.
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Ari Aster and Alex Garland may be the last two brave filmmakers we have left. unlike PTA, Wes Anderson, Nolan (mostly), Tarantino, Malick, Coens, etc., Aster and Garland are not only unafraid to make contemporary-set films, but fearlessly try to make sense of our current times.
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it's crazy that PTA, Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson -- three contemporaries of the 90s indie boom who have gone on to experiment with evolving ideas of distinct & personal filmmaking -- still haven't topped their debut films. just magic in a bottle.
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[trying to usher in a new discourse] okay, i realize i'm a couple years later on this but i just watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino and. i have questions. was everyone just. okay??? with the depiction of Bruce Lee in this?.
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watching deleted scenes from The Social Network (2010) and i have no idea where Fincher thought this would fit in the film
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what is this? camera too close to faces, sometimes underlit, sometimes overlit, cheap camera usage. i thought David Lynch was a professional, but I guess, as hard as it is to admit, even the best need to be put out to pasture eventually.
A WOMAN IN TROUBLE . Trailer for @DAVID_LYNCH's newly-remastered INLAND EMPIRE. Opening @IFCCenter 4/8 before expanding:
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enjoy these images one last time, because after this week, they will vanish into the ether
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guy who watches three shows a year calls the latest one "the best show on TV," says "simply no show is doing it like this one".
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a Force Majeure situation but a guy who took his family to see Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat and ran out of the cinema without them.
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I was fortunate enough to attend a preview screening of BARBIE (2023) last night and. hoo boy, this is not the movie you think it is. This is Greta Gerwig's POPEYE (1980). submerged in sensory, Gerwig is using this IP as a playground for aesthetic ideas that verge on subversive.
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which one is supposed to be the good one.
A quick re-grade of WICKED reveals a vibrant and beautiful film hidden under all that sludge.
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always loved the story of Robert Altman's first time meeting Shelley Duvall
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My gf and her friends have spent years trying to figure out what film/show this is from. Dozens, maybe even hundreds of people have seen this image but nobody knows what it is from. If you recognize this man, please tell me.
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unreal swag on Sebastian Stan in A Different Man. looks familiar but can't quite put my finger on it
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the way people talk about Tarantino these days makes me sad bc i realize he's becoming only known for 21st Century work. fewer and fewer people even know about what I, some days at least, consider his best work, Jackie Brown, which features some of De Niro's most underrated work
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looks like Tarantino discourse is going on again so just gonna put this out there again no matter how many followers i lose but Jackie Brown is his most underrated film, and some days, maybe even his best.
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THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS (2021): uh yea, very clearly the work of Lana Wachowskis, not Lilly. could tell almost immediately, soon as it only said her name.
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(Seeing a guy that is so hot but I’m straight) yeah his juice level is off the charts.
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i'm sorry, a professor of what studies???.
Noah Baumbach’s WHITE NOISE is the opening film at the 79th Venice Film Festival. The satirical follows Jack (Driver), a professor of Hitler studies, and his fourth wife Babette (Gerwig), both extremely afraid of death when an “airborne toxic event” suddenly disrupts their town.
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okay how did I not know about this absolutely bizarre 90s Brad Pitt movie.
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Close Your Eyes (Erice, 2023) - genuinely dont know the last time a movie has made me feel the way this one has. one of the true artists of our lifetime
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"hey, can you keep it down? i don't wanna have to get the manager involved"
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Anyone disappointed with David Mamet, check out the work of Aaron Sorkin instead, a reserved yet revered filmmaker who according to his crew is nothing but one of the nicest & humblest director.
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whatre some of your favorite movie posters of the decade? ill start
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what are some of your favorite "lightning in a bottle" films? movies where the filmmaker achieved something rare and special and on a level they were never able to reach again?. ones that come to mind for me: The Royal Tenenbaums, North By Northwest, Breathless.
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then maybe he should spend less time shitting on marvel and more time trying find the goddamn things.
“Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation said that basically half of all American films made before 1950 are lost, & none of the major distributors are looking for them. Even worse, they said that more than 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever.”.
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Martin Scorsese, seen here asking Hou Hsiao-Hsien for advice on how to make movies
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why are all the people who are *really* into cinematography also really into that overly processed vignetted aesthetic that looks like shit?.
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Free Guy is the last chopper out of Saigon. I said that.
Shawn Levy told Insider he's concerned studios will never release a non-franchise based movie like #FreeGuy again: “They’re predominantly betting on franchise titles. Someone called Free Guy the last chopper out of Saigon. I hope that's not the case.". (
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all white men 🙄.
Chloé Zhao’s inspirations for #Eternals includes films by Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick, Christopher Nolan, and of course, Denis Villeneuve.
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I know it's early but can we just give Carey Mulligan the Oscar already
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finally get to see Drive My Car tonight. I'm so excited, I just know I'm gonna love right from the opening credits, which presumably appear in the opening minute or two just like any other movie.
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i know i'm gonna get raked over the coals for this, but sometimes I think Inherent Vice is one of PTA's best films. .
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who is a filmmaker whose filmography has been a perfectly sequenced series of diminishing returns? . i''l start: Paul Thomas Anderson. he'll never hit the highs of Hard Eight, it seems.
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Megalopolis (Coppola, 2024): Coppola has made the first post-Vulgar Auteurism film, as if to suggest every personal expression is vulgar in our increasingly streamlined and austere contemporary culture. Not everything here works but I appreciate the big swing.
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virtual film festivals were groundbreaking. they penetrated not only international barriers but the classist gatekeeping structure of the festival system. and now we're just gonna go back to normal like we didn't learn a damn thing. how.many likes can I get on this?.
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very telling that some people on here will not excuse Will Smith despite happily excusing Clint Eastwood's actions at the 2012 RNC [I've not seen anyone do this but it's really fun to tweet stuff like this].
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The Banshees of Inisherin is the classic movie that gets called gorgeous bc it's shot in a beautiful location but has no memorable compositions.
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this movie won Best Picture at the 2022 Academy Awards, yet no one has talked about it since
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this clip from Siskel & Ebert At the Movies, covering Public Housing (1997), is a great 20-seconds of TV
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degenerate coastal mutuals have now seen Licorice Pizza so many times they're talking about the latest showing like it was a rep screening. I hate you all.
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wish this movie was real. would love to see what Marty could do if he left the crusty period pieces or eastern religion pics behind and looked at mob life.
MARTIN SCORSESE's brilliant cameo in Curb Your Enthusiasm, where he directs Larry David in a gangster movie.
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for me, it's because I haven't seen the movie yet. just came out. might see it in the next week or so and then maybe I'll talk about that.
Why aren’t we talking more about the sassy chair umpire in Challengers. I need to queen out with him.
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The Academy is reaallllyy telling on itself this year. telling on itself in some verrryy interesting ways. havent seen telling on one's self like this in a looonnnggg time. am i surprised? no.
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@Thatoneguy64 me too! totally get being nervous, like "are they gonna keep talkign when the movie starts?" but not during the first trailer.
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while I wasnt a fan of Banshees of Inisherin, I am heartened by all the Oscars attention it's receiving. I think it'll encourage many people across the country to dig deep into Scotland's rich and underappreciated film history.
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elon fucked this site up so bad i've had Nice Guy bots in my replies all day.
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Jeanne Dielman is so unchallenging that I watched it while playing Xbox and understood it still.
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why would the assistant be telling M Night what the crux of the film was.
Assistant: Ok Mr. Shyamalan these news broadcasts need to convince the main characters and the audience that the apocalypse is actually happening, which is kind of the crux of the film, so maybe they should look somewhat convincing, or at least like a news broadcast.M. Night: No.
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i predict that Chazelle's Babylon (2022), while largely considered a critical and commercial failure, will go on to be reclaimed in the future, once the 19-year-olds who think it's a masterpiece are all grown up.
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DUNE (2021): this is the moment Quebecois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve has been working towards for the last 20 years - nay, that cinema has been working towards for the last century-plus. A new dialect of the form has been forged, and its as valuable as spice. #Venezia78.
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the thing i like about Alex Garland's films is that he forces you to put down the popcorn and put on your thinking cap.
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just got thru the first three eps of Tokyo Vice and ep 3 might be the best thing Mann has ever directed.
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so funny to read Cannes reviews of the new films by Scorsese, Erice and Kaurismaki -- three unique & real artists. u think I give a shit if "the first half is uneven", whatever that means.
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thanks to the eagle-eyed viewers on letterboxd, I was able to see the gay subtext of Rope (1948) this time around 🧐🧐.
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I haven't seen All Quiet in the Western Front but I suspect it doesn't have a shot that equals the beauty of this frame
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is it just me or is Jackie Brown super underrated? sometimes, I might even *whispering* consider it my favorite Tarantino. .
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very cool. question: what performance are you most excited to replace with another actor? . i'll go first: Travis Bickle as played by Taika Waititi.
this is unbelievable. Hunyuan AI’s video-to-video model can now replace actors in any film scene, and capture even the subtle expressions.
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what a dream career Sean Baker has. watching Jess Franco blu-rays in between making successful indie films that inevitably upset a bunch of film-adjacent people who are remote from both you and the general concept of success.
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