Nick Newman
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I've been laid off. Need a job and can do many things, including:
• Basically everything in film distribution and home-video production
• Programming and curation
• Great interviewer and critic
• Clean prose and copy-editing
• Decent onscreen actor
DMs open, email in bio.
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Do you ever feel like you’ve been placed at a uniquely bad moment in history.
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Lydia Tár belittled a pangender BIPOC student. She groomed young women. One of them committed suicide.
This morning she got multiple Oscar nominations. Please tell me again how cancel culture is real.
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Imagine watching Girls 10 years ago and being told the guy with a Greyhound-shaped skull shooting his load on Lena Dunham's back will basically save movies for adults.
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Lindsey C. Vickers’ The Appointment with the most surreal car crash I’ve ever seen.
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Coppola using Instagram exactly as I would with his profile: bullying directors into resurrecting movies I want to see.
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One of the greatest routines from one of the funniest people who’s ever lived.
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Beatles biopic runtimes:
Paul: 176 minutes
John: 168 minutes
George: 131 minutes
Ringo: 49 minutes
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At the dawn of the 21st century this was the absolute coolest a man could look.
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It’s cool that the Curb Your Enthusiasm team found all their music cues during the first episode and never ever ever ever tried something new.
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My favorite Letterboxd reviews are just a single line of dialogue from the movie. I always crack the faintest smile and go “Yeah. They did say that.”
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Younger generations will never know who this man is. It breaks my heart.
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I’m so old I saw Michael Bay go from consensus pick for Death of Cinema to “I’m rooting for his new movie because we rarely have studio films by real filmmakers.”
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Can’t ever totally adjust to Curb Your Enthusiasm in crystal-clear HD with traditional shots. Wish it still looked like a hostage video.
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Okay here’s the pitch: Across the Universe-style musical about the Obama years set to Animal Collective. Opens with an a cappella rendition of “My Girls” as a young man walks home from 2008 election party. It is the worst film ever made and I face actual criminal charges over it.
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Burying the lede that Dune: Part Two has Christopher Walken's first major role in a Hollywood movie since 2014's Jersey Boys. Can't believe he's gonna be in IMAX wearing some ridiculous costume. This should be the
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If I'm ever feeling down I repeat what David Lynch told me —
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Friday mood: Harry Dean Stanton at the premiere of The Avengers
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I love Ethan Hawke because there’s probably nobody with his exact ratio of fame, pretension, and affability.
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Oliver Stone: I've planned a long, formally ambitious movie indicting the US government for killing its leader just three decades prior. I want you to lead it.
Kevin Costner: Can I deliver every line like Huckleberry Hound running out of breath?
Oliver Stone: Absolutely.
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Favorite Michael Bay story: Bill Hader gets introduced to him at the Playboy Mansion as “Michael, a director.” Hader doesn’t recognize him, asks if he’d know anything he’s made. Bay spreads his arms and goes “come on.”
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Had a straight, no-frills Coca-Cola for the first time in years. I know Diet Coke and probiotic sodas are trendy but oh my God — no replicating that experience. Two sips and you understand why it basically rewrote the material world.
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"Dune doesn't look fun" — GOOD. Dune isn't fun. It's long, you're unsure why you're reading it, you're checking words from a literal dictionary of fucking gibberish its insane author put at the back. Dune is for grown-ups who've given up pleasure.
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Often think about Ryuichi Sakamoto hating the music in his favorite restaurant so much he pro bono made them a replacement playlist — inspirational.
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Every Michael Mann movie is about having so much swag it drives your enemies insane and makes them want to kill you.
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I love James Cameron so much. He has a hundred deficiencies as a filmmaker and does most things better than anybody. He's kind of dumb and without question one of the 15 smartest people alive.
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Do you ever think about how Maggie Cheung shot a role for Inglourious Basterds and we will never see so much as a still image from it.
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Crazy that this is the first shot of Wong Kar-wai's career, like he immediately knew what the whole thing was going to be.
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Pynchon once considered a novel about the insurance adjuster who assesses damage wreaked by Godzilla, forever settling what unproduced work of art I want more than any other.
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Soderbergh on why Kubrick would’ve gone digital. I think he’s right.
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Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)
The awkward cut makes it look like Dakota Johnson is rushing to the car to save Dakota Johnson who’s already in the car.
#MadameWeb
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Hey, Netflix — Richard Linklater here. Thanks for buying my movie. Can you please make it look like a 2003 Labor Day release.
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If Philip Baker Hall hadn't entertained the whims of a dorky production assistant and agreed to star in his no-budge short film we wouldn't have Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Rodrigo Prieto’s post from the Killers of the Flower Moon set 👀
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Rewatched Chinatown... final scene's rep should have less to do with easy descriptors like "cynical" or that catchy line and more that the expression on Katherine's face as John Huston pulls her into the black of night is, perhaps, the most satanic image ever achieved in cinema.
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Good anecdote from Laura Dern on the new Inland Empire release: "Steven Spielberg, who worships David, screened Inland Empire. Steven was like, 'I cannot believe he's made this quintessential film about death and dying and the fear of that journey.'"
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Finally saw Knock at the Cabin… M. Night Shyamalan is the only American director using his camera to tell stories.
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Never expecting America’s greatest living actor to get a nomination.
Now that Emily Blunt is finally an Oscar nominee, who is *that* actor who you can’t believe doesn’t have an Oscar nom yet?
#FilmTwitter
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Leonardo DiCaprio has earned the trust of our two most powerful filmmakers, and in recent years Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese said "You're the center of my work... I believe only you can play the roughest fucking rube with a literally historic lack of personal control."
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Some good news: Wong Kar-wai finished shooting Blossoms, on which he is sole director, and the first episode is complete.
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Absolutely psychotic when Broadcast News has Jack Nicholson walk into frame at the 101-minute mark. Imagine watching a new movie tomorrow and with only 30 minutes left it goes “also here’s Leonardo DiCaprio.”
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Every director should have to pose on the poster like this.
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Watching Bogdanovich's Directed By John Ford and constantly reminded that film history is insane. Spielberg tells a story about getting directing advice from Ford. A guy got filmmaking advice from John Ford (first movie debuted 1917) and used that to direct Ansel Elgort.
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I confess intense curiosity about Jamie Foxx’s directorial debut that shot five years ago, was supposed to come out four, and does not have a listed distributor.
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If you watch Abel Ferrara’s Fear City on TUBI the first four seconds are a DVD menu.
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Oppenheimer has: the greatest scene Christopher Nolan's ever directed, the most guffaw-inducing sex scene ever, Florence Pugh making history as the first actor nude on IMAX 70mm, Josh Hartnett giving the world's smartest man his Rosebud, and a silent non-cameo from James Urbaniak
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Tomorrow night Drive My Car will compete for Academy Awards, the final step in a historic journey that began last July when I watched it high out of my mind with a laptop resting on my stomach.
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Always just a little stressed when I'm watching a Criterion Closet video and someone grabs a DVD instead of the Blu-ray.
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This is just a tragic thing to find in a used-books store.
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Today John Carpenter turns 74, the age he has looked for 50 years.
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"Superhero movies let directors make smaller, independent projects" is the perfect pop-culture stance for our post-truth era: everybody knows it's false, nobody actually wants to put up the argument, it's convenient as a façade the other person would just waste time dispelling.
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Jack Nicholson wearing his Harry Dean Stanton shirt to a memorial dinner for Harry Dean Stanton — the perfect vision of friendship.
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Always shocked if somebody hasn’t seen every episode of Seinfeld because I just assume they, like me, had seen them all by age 11 and also inflicted irreparable damage on their personality.
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Almost every superhero movie this year is underperforming. Even the biggest hit cost more than its predecessor only to make less. Keep your feet wet and your powder dry we're gonna win this thing 🙏
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Vincent Gallo with Barbara and Jenna Bush, daughters of then-U.S. President George W. Bush, at Olympus Fashion Week (2004)
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Which Heat actors are reading the book? De Niro 100% will not. Pacino might. Val Kilmer will. It is unclear if Tom Sizemore is alive.
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Watching Death Proof in 2022 you realize it’s Tarantino’s first revisionist-history movie because:
a) It’s so obviously about guilt over the Kill Bill car crash
b) Stuntman Mike is his subconscious acknowledgment of Harvey Weinstein
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Perfect author photo, perfect author bio… and you know what? A perfect author.
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Happy birthday to Terrence Malick who has mastered the funniest ways to be a recluse.
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Johnnie To at Berlinale today: “The regimes will strangle the freedom for creativity. The films are impacting the souls directly. I think for Hong Kong… no, sorry, every country and individual fighting for freedom, they should back movies."
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Girls will be like “this is the hottest fucking thing I’ve ever seen” and it’s just a photo of Paul Giamatti.
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Nice to see one of our best filmmakers, the man behind a movie for which 2019 will be remembered, posing with Bong Joon-ho.
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Often think about Larry David going to the premiere of Twilight
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Often think about Richard Linklater showing Dazed and Confused to Samuel Fuller who suggested reshoots that show the bullies being murdered
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Somebody found Claire Denis' thesis film Le 15 Mai and... Claire Denis made Groundhog Day in 1969? An unbelievable discovery:
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Thinking again about David Cronenberg and Robert Pattinson promoting Cosmopolis at the New York Stock Exchange
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David Lynch will do one interview for The Fabelmans where he calls Steven Spielberg “a great American surrealist” and you’ll need to stay away from this site for weeks as if it’s Chernobyl.
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So upset learning Zack Snyder stole a couple Seagate hard drives from a trillion-dollar megacorp and shook down their meritless, garbage-peddling executives the equivalent of a tax write-off so he could make his movie. Just awful. Doesn’t make me like him even more.
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Estimated runtime is 25 hours, longer than all of Wong's previous features and shorts combined.
After three years of filming, Wong Kar-wai’s
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Watch the final trailer:
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This is how I learned there's an 88-minute Richard Linklater-directed documentary about Texas prisons that just premiered on Max.
Hometown Prison is immeasurably better than The Zone of Interest; Richard Linklater shows what The Zone of Interest could have been if directed by someone who cares more about the experiences, the people, the subject, and the history than about posturing.
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Why did Richard Dreyfuss spend his entire Club Random appearance like this.
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Happy 20th anniversary to the greatest event in Sundance history: the premiere of Masked and Anonymous
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The recent Harmony Korine press cycle is an obvious turn for a guy who spent years infusing his body with drugs we’ve never even heard of and hitting his head skateboarding finally reaching his breaking point (50-year-old man discovering TikTok).
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