Peter Raleigh
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Yeah, you could say I'm a cinephile*
*claps like a seal every time a genre movie has color grading emphasizing green or blue
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Not to get too corny about this but it's got to feel so good to have your guy, whom you've known since you were both kids, at the top level of this industry with you. No drama, you've both made it, and now even at these weird rarefied events you can just run into your boy
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It is simply not possible to share a society with people like this
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This is it. This is the funniest thing he ever did. I realize there were other very serious contenders but in my heart this is the one
Donald Trump, answering phone call from 7-year-old on Christmas Eve: "Are you still a believer in Santa? Because at seven it's marginal, right?"
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Very notable that while your classics like "lol" and "lmao" have hung around there's no longer any real use case for "brb" or "g2g". Where are you going to go. We're all here. Everywhere is here
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"The Amazon package I overnighted for free arrived too quickly and so I had to castle doctrine the delivery driver" is a pretty elegant snapshot of where America currently stands in its broader social trajectory
America is so poisoned man. saying you were ready to ice the delivery guy in writing is intensely deranged
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We are seeing levels of dork behavior previously only theorized
This has to be the hardest, most futuristic exit of a Cybertruck owner anyone has ever seen thus far 🔥
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As a millennial with student debt I am prepared to unkill one industry for every ten thousand dollars of forgiveness. We can do Zales, fast casual dining, whatever everybody decides
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No shade to this guy, I'm genuinely very happy to have this info from an expert, but the "Sigh" here is very funny to me. "Yeah, I GUESS you'd think these animals were weird if you only know mammal species from the Cenozoic era, IDIOT"
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The official Netflix corporate account cannot stop thinking about this
Can’t stop thinking about this disturbing scene from DAHMER where one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims finally manages to escape... and the police actually bring him back inside the apartment.
Now on Netflix.
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Real tragic arc to J.J. Abrams's career. He made a Star Trek movie that made you think "this man should really be making a Star Wars movie." Then he made a Star Wars movie that made you think "this man should really be in prison"
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A lot of people are dunking on this woman because they think she is an American mad about affirmative action and I'm here to tell you she is actually a South African mad about the end of apartheid
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Irregular scheduling is under-discussed as one of the most vicious forms of modern class warfare. Retail and service employees with some of the lowest wages in any sector also live with levels of schedule uncertainty and sleep irregularity no white-collar sector would ever accept
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Hi all! Historian here,
Also, Nazis "only" wanted Jews of Europe dead. Hamas's exterminationist ambitions are global.
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If we are being honest Dr. Seuss really freaked it when he named the Grinch
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He really is the most incredible worm. The slightest on-camera nudge at management and you can watch his blood freeze in real time
Real which side are you on moment for Fallon, god he's so slimy
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Guy got every nickel he was owed and he's whining because he couldn't make somebody homeless instead
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Younger people won't remember this but they used to regularly make "comedy movies" that released in theaters and the stars of various situation comedies and sketch shows could sometimes parlay these movies into long and rewarding film acting careers
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It's killing me that the argument of this thread about how Starship Troopers fails as a parody of fascism is just "I myself am a fascist"
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Underrated funny thing about Harry Potter is that it attempts to infuse a sense of awe and wonder into the institution of the classic British boarding school, which is otherwise almost universally depicted as a horrifying gauntlet of abuse and psychosexual torment
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I don't want to sound too unkind here but it is very important that these people understand they are not writers and what they produce is not writing
as an architecture critic, this, from the Verge AI writing piece, makes me so sad :(
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It remains very funny that Matthew McConaughey was so good on a television show that they gave him an Academy Award
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Instant Trump all-timer just dropped
I honestly wouldn’t have thought this was real if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes
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Dead hearts. Empty souls. No sense of the good. An earnest desire to create the Hobbesian world they believe they already inhabit
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I'm sorta fascinated by the youth culture on Letterboxd. There are movies absolutely no one has seen except every Letterboxd user under 24. Whole parallel ecosystem
Bottoms debuts in the Letterboxd Top 250 at number 158, seven spots below Fight Club 🥊
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Can't believe there used to be a guy who made movies that looked like this and he had trouble getting the money and creative freedom to do it
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Just found Paul Newman's official Navy portrait. Imagine you're in the Navy with this guy
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Unchain yourself from this. Be free
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For my entire adult life it's been possible to say this about any given Muslim population and basically expect to get away with it
"I think we should kill them all." -Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) on Palestinians in Gaza
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There's absolutely nothing wrong with watching movies with your parents but the fact that every single anti-sex scene poster treats this as the normative viewing scenario might be a clue about where this discourse keeps coming from
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All respect and admiration for Messi but Jed in this movie is still the greatest dog performance of all time. That dog knew what he was playing. He read the screenplay. He made character choices
Last minute decision to post up for a packed 35mm screening
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Little Free Libraries are a lovely little community feature and also a fun snapshot of the very worst books to have ever entered your neighborhood
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"when I have to go out in public" is a great little detail from the world's scaredest little murderer
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There were things in the big "I got scammed" piece that I think I'd have fallen for and things I think I wouldn't have, but if an ostensible law enforcement officer tells me I cannot get a lawyer I am getting a Triple Deluxe Lawyer
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This is like the movie you would make if you just realized this was somehow the only part of the IP not covered by copyright
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I used to think the whole thing where Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle as a socialist call to action and American audiences were like "ew!!! In our FOOD?!" was just sort of darkly funny but with the passage of time I think it might be the single perfect American anecdote
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One thing about the first season of True Detective is that it had really fun names to hear repeated 8000 times. Dora Lang. Reggie LeDoux. I could listen to Matthew McConaughey drawl these all week
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The phrase "learned nothing" here suggests that the police currently feel pressure to behave better, when in fact they clearly feel pressure to brutalize until their power to do so unchecked is even more clearly established
Holy shit police have learned absolutely nothing this is how they’re treating protesters outside the White House right now.
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Learning that Daniel Dae Kim *produces* The Good Doctor after buying the rights to the South Korean original has completely transformed the complexion of the Dr. Han situation
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It's pretty insane to have been a guy in his early 20s with some aspirations of becoming a culture writer and then it turns out 15 years later they just canceled that job. That's not a type of guy anymore, I was graduating college with the very last ones
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A not-insignificant percentage of the fan base thinking this is fine and even cool is why studios think they can hold the line against actors and writers btw
This scene of glowy cgi Luke Skywalker and unweathered cosplay Ahsoka looking like they're in two different environments woodenly discussing baby yoda and namedropping the Mandalorian sums up the current direction of the brand to me
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It's very funny that a longstanding critique of Spielberg is that he couldn't help bringing a little Hollywood popcorn razzle-dazzle to inappropriate filmic situations and then in The Fabelmans he was like "yeah, man, I know. It's fucked up. I literally cannot turn it off"
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Before a movie the other day the theater ran one of those "magic of the movies" ads juxtaposing iconic cinematic moments with shots of movie characters rapturously watching movies. This was one of the shots they used
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What's great about this one is that it was instantly mortifying even in the moment
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Starting to harbor a suspicion that the 90s-2000s studio rom-com was a historically situated genre and modern attempts to recreate it are almost always going to be Off in some ineffable way
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This is honestly the most on-the-nose snapshot of the American bourgeoisie I have ever seen. I am in awe
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I feel very normal when I hear this. It's fine to me. I'm in a really good place with it
Paul Thomas Anderson was 26 years old when he directed Boogie Nights, which was released in theaters 26 years ago on this day.
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Wes Anderson backlash stems from the fact that his style is discernible to people who cannot normally recognize style
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I make a Matrix reference in one of my lectures and it's simply now a fact of life that not one single student in any of my classes will ever have seen the Matrix. Zero, every time, no exceptions. Obviously I'm old and washed but damn
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For fifty thousand dollars of forgiveness I am willing to bring back social pressure to write thank-you notes. I'm not happy about it but I'm prepared to show I am negotiating in good faith
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The core principles of the horror genre have sometimes proven difficult to articulate,
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Variety actively shaping the 'news' they're ostensibly reporting on in order to steer public opinion against Glazer (and thus Gaza) is as shameless as anything I've seen from the Hollywood trades, which is saying a lot
Over 1,000 Jewish creatives and professionals have now denounced Jonathan Glazer’s "Zone of Interest" Oscars speech in an open letter.
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Scorsese discourse is always uniquely jarring because my brain sort of refuses to accept that some people actually feel genuine personal animus towards Martin Scorsese
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We've been approaching the AI issue mostly from labor and creative directions so far and I think it's very nice of Netflix to provide us with an example that is comprehensively and unambiguously evil
Netflix using generative AI images in a true crime doc is extremely irresponsible and exactly what archivists are telling documentaries not to do
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Morally a real contender for the most challenging moment in the movie. Got a laugh in my theater, and I think it's played for one, the way absolute psychopathy can be in a Scorsese picture - but then you're forced to really *think* about what you're laughing at
This fucking guy in Killers of the Flower Moon
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No set days off every week. No assurance of two consecutive days off in a given week. No assurance that a closing shift won't be immediately followed by an opening shift. No predictability, no stability, no way to create a sleep schedule. It's simply no way to live
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Is that not just Paul Schrader
Quentin Tarantino describes his final movie, ‘THE MOVIE CRITIC’, as “Travis Bickle if he were a film critic.”
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Episode titles are a tremendously underrated component of TV as a distinctive art form
One of the big missing ingredients for the new True Detective season is the lack of episode titles. Makes everything feel interchangeable
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Talking to a seven-year-old like they're at Peter Luger working out a city building contract. Incredible
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mass nuclear war would be fine. >90% of the country unaffected. america is just a really big place and even with a lot of nukes its hard to destroy much of it
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This is a myth. Jordan Peterson got famous for making YouTube videos about how he was going to be sent to a gulag for misgendering his students. Only *subsequently* did he publish his hit book about how you should clean your room because lobsters are competitive or whatever
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That Joe Russo video is genuinely one of the most desperately undignified things I've ever seen
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I'm rooting for Cillian but honestly if biopic leads were to be banned entirely from Oscar consideration I think that would be an unambiguous positive
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I had a friend a number of years back who used the term "Oscar bait" to describe an absolutely mystifying array of movies. No apparent rhyme or reason at all. Gradually it emerged that what he meant was "trying in any way to be good." Now I see him everywhere I look
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Just to be clear this isn't even a presidential poll. Young voters are being scolded simply for having the temerity to think that something is bad
Young voters, sitting in the car, ready to floor the accelerator over the cliff
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Makes sense. This is one of the classic works about the wonder and magic of six-episode streaming series
Oscar-winner Giuseppe Tornatore is set to adapt his 1989 classic film “Cinema Paradiso” into a six-episode streaming series. He will write and direct the TV show, produced by Marco Belardi, and is set to land at a prominent U.S. streamer. More details:
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Competition is fierce but I think these arguments might be making me feel more insane than any other aspect of all this
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This is genuinely insane. Hot people are sorcerers
‘ANYONE BUT YOU,’ starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, has grossed $200M at the global box-office.
Also produced by Sweeney, the film carries a $25M budget.
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The American Office is really interesting to me in that they had to significantly dial down the soul-crushing tragedy of the British original so that it could run for ten seasons, whereupon it kind of accidentally became soul-crushingly tragic again
i feel like The Office did a couple really interesting things with Pam, like making her artistic work objectively boring and giving her a limited willingness to even pursue her ambitions, both things which are characteristics of real people which are never reflected in fiction
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To frame this as a nostalgia exercise is to do the work of companies that have so far largely succeeded in ensuring that video games as an art form never develop a genuine archival tradition or sense of history
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Wild to me to remember how much Bloom County I read as a kid. Hundreds and hundreds of strips with punchlines built around Caspar Weinberger and tight-money Fed policy, no Wikipedia to look any of it up. Just cheerily marinating in Reagan-era gibberish
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The fact that other comedians can come on his show and just completely poleax him like this is incredible. Remember John Oliver bringing up Amazon strike breaking and sending him into a panic? He doesn't even work for Amazon, except inasmuch as he works for anybody with money
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All this simply downstream from the fact that they don't want to hire enough workers. That's it, that's all it is. They don't want to hire enough of you to cover all their shifts in a consistent way and so you live this half-life to lower their margins
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"That thing that looks like a duck-bill is actually soft and pliable" is also just a very funny way to reduce the overall weirdness quotient here
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Your shift ended at 10pm and after commuting and some time to decompress you didn't get to sleep until 2. Your next shift is late too, so you sleep a little later because you can. But now your next two shifts start at 7am, then a day off, a closing shift, and an opening shift
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If you see parts of your book as obligatory filler and not opportunities to produce enriching and evocative prose you shouldn't be working in prose. There are innumerable ways to evoke a space you'd rather not describe minutely, you can be impressionistic, you have total freedom
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These jokes have officially moved from being about Sátántangó to being about Oppenheimer
me when I only watch a 3 hour long black and white movie about how Isaac Newton took his first poop because I don’t think fun superhero movies are “real cinema”
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This is literally the horniest movie ever made
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I'm sorry I can't get my head around the idea that SNL would expect its audience to get a joke built around Dennis Hopper's character in Blue Velvet. We used to be a proper country
had no idea Dennis Hopper hosted SNL, played Frank Booth from Blue Velvet hosting a gameshow, then introduced Roy Orbison who played “in dreams” directly after. wild
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The reason I can't shake my antipathy to the November 1st start date for Christmas season is that it is a 100% retailer-driven change that occurred largely within my lifetime. I don't get the sense people realize how recent and top-down a change it is
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Broad swathes of this country have just been rendered totally and defiantly unfit for community life. Unrelenting siege mentality, unquestioned reliance on a class of app slaves whose physical presence is viewed with suspicion and contempt. Antisocial in the most literal sense
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Bad news for the WGA, the first AI-generated feature film has already been released
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@BenShh1
One of the brilliant things about The Leftovers was that the percentage of people who disappeared was small enough to prevent societal collapse, everybody just had to go on living as best they could. Extremely funny to try this with 50% lmao
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Every single Cormac McCarthy excerpt or quotation circulating right now is an insane heater. Just a guy full of passages that make you put the book down and stare out the window for five minutes
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We used to make movies...
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When this show was cooking there was nothing else like it
its not my fav joke but its efficiency in set up of stale banter (intentionally) to punchline gets me everytime
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Psychopathic filmmaking. Never seen so much physical reaction from an audience before; hands over mouths, slumping down in seats; groaning, cynical laughter at every new wrinkle
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Have the "watching older/non-American movies is inherently pretentious" crowd considered that those are where almost all of the violence and nudity is
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They bullied the king at school! The actual king! They sent this kid to school like "here is the heir apparent, the king-in-waiting, one day to be crowned in majesty at Westminster" and the culture of casual sadism was so institutionalized that this status did not protect him
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@TheTumboy
I assume that since he's got a residency there and is famous they just extend him more or less unlimited credit. So this is the size of his "tab" so to speak
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You get this with Hitchcock too. So many of his best-known movies are pure popcorn entertainments but people who haven't been exposed to them are often expecting highbrow tedium
one of the worst pop cultural crimes of the last 100 years is multiple generations being convinced that citizen kane is some kind of film school homework instead of a massive crowd-pleaser, RKO wasn't paying welles to make a stan brakhage movie or something
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I'm sorry but Elon just changing the UI to make legacy blue checks invisible because there is still no way to actually mass unverify is so, so, so funny. We are in like month 6 of a continuous Yackety Sax YouTube loop
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How is Vincent Cassel catching a bullet here. What stereotype is that
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Honestly my favorite part of awards season is when those anonymous interviews with Academy voters come out and we're reminded that the median Oscars vote is cast by somebody who hasn't watched more than two nominees in a category since 1988
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Mentally I've got a lot riding on this being good
Willem Dafoe says Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” is visually incredible: “It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen before”
Nosferatu was shot with a look reminiscent of 19th century Romanticism. An entirely new filter was engineered by Eggers just for the film.
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