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@variety
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@indiewire
. “Do The Right Thing." "Sunset Blvd." "Iron Giant." Film lovers are sick people - Truffaut.
Christopher Nolan says TENET is "not all comprehensible" but you're "slightly missing the point" if you think his movies are just puzzles to be solved.
“If you are experiencing my film, then you are getting it. I feel like where people have experienced frustrations with my…
I've heard endless
#GameOfThrones
complaining this week. One thing I haven't heard? Miguel Sapochnik praise.
In six episodes, Sapochnik became one of the best directors working today. Here's a little tribute to his genius:
Greta Gerwig on her BARBIE Oscar snub.
A friend's mom told her, "I can’t believe you didn’t get nominated."
Gerwig responded: "But I did. I got an Oscar nomination [for writing].’ She was like, ‘Oh, that’s wonderful for you!’ I was like, ‘I know!’”
Lol so we're really giving "Joker" a cinematography Oscar nom over
#AdAstra
. I am ready to skip this madness and see Hoyte dazzle in
#Tenet
now.
also see: "Last Black Man in SF," "Little Women," "Lighthouse," "Midsommar," "Uncut Gems" etc etc
Take your Oscar frustration and get hyped for the
#IndieSpirits
. Best pic and best director are spot on
EIGHTH GRADE
FIRST REFORMED
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
LEAVE NO TRACE
YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
Debra Granik
Barry Jenkins
Tamara Jenkins
Lynne Ramsay
Paul Schrader
Best news of the day: Fury Road DP John Seale plans to come out of semi-retirement to shoot the FURIOSA movie:
"On ‘Fury Road,’ I told George, ‘If anybody else rings, I’m retired. If you ring, we’ll have lunch.’ And seven years later, he rang" he told NYT
#SpiritAwards
2019:
- 2 and 1/2 hour runtime
- Beale Street Best Picture
- Ethan Hawke Best Actor
- Wins for Suspiria, You Were Never Really Here, Eighth Grade, and Sorry to Bother You
- Strong monologue
THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE. good luck
#Oscars
Chris Pine says his directorial debut POOLMAN got so "f*cking panned" by critics that he started to think "maybe I did make a pile of sh*t. [But] I went back and watched it. I love this film so much."
“I fully own the deep hurt of that process.”
I fell for
#Parasite
four minutes in. This is the shot.
The camera pushes in on pizza lady as the Kim fam enter the frame one by one until they're circling her like vultures around their prey. Bong just told you everything you need to know about Kim fam.
It's so metaphorical!
Confirmed: THE BATMAN runs two hours and 47 minutes **without** credits (so nearly 3 hours with them).
That's 167 minutes sans credits, longer than "The Dark Knight Rises" and even "Zodiac." Get those butts ready: via
@Variety
Pablo Larraín + Kristen Stewart's Princess Diana film
#Spencer
is now filming. Here's your first look:
🚨!! THIS CREW !! 🚨
-Score: Jonny Greenwood
-Cinematography: Claire Mathon (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
-Costumes: Jacqueline Durran (Little Women)
David Fincher is "not responsible for how people interpret things."
He is aware FIGHT CLUB is "one of many touchstones" for the far right: "We didn’t make it for them...It’s impossible for me to imagine that people don’t understand that Tyler Durden is a negative influence.…
NEVER! DOUBT! JAMES! CAMERON!
The first press reactions to
#AvatarTheWayOfWater
are calling it "mind-blowing," "a visual masterpiece" and "phenomenal."
"I’ve never seen anything like this from a technical, visual standpoint."
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY has more
#Oscars
than...
- Roma
- Moonlight
- Phantom Thread
- There Will Be Blood
- Lost in Translation
- The Godfather
- Goodfellas
- Apocalypse Now
I could keep going but I'd rather not.
Jennifer Aniston says "Friends" is now deemed "offensive" by "a whole generation of kids."
"[In the past] you could joke about a bigot and have a laugh... it was about educating people on how ridiculous people were. Now we're not allowed to do that."
FACTS: The Best Picture winner at the
#SpiritAwards
has gone on to win the Oscar for the last four years: “Moonlight,” “Spotlight,” “Birdman” and “12 Years A Slave.”
#GetOut
was the winner this year. LETS FUCKING GO!!!!
This is wild.
Execs at AT&T (which owned HBO at the time) asked the GAME OF THRONES showrunners to shoot episodes vertically so viewers could watch them on their phones (!!!!!???).
AT&T also pitched "snackable mini-episodes of the series."
#BlackMirror
SEASON 6 is official. The new season is expected to have more episodes than Season 5 (which ran just three eps) and each installment is being treated as an individual film.
@manori_r
has the scoop:
Pawel Pawlikowski and Alfonso Cuarón.
Both Oscar nominees for Best Director for making intensely personal black-and-white, foreign-language dramas about their maternal figures. I love love love this.
Key Huy Quan ended the
#Oscars
by reuniting with Harrison Ford on stage as "Everything Everywhere" won best picture.
Ford championed his "Indiana Jones" co-star Quan all awards season: “I’m so happy for him. He’s a great guy,”
🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
Sooo
#BigLittleLies
hired Andrea Arnold to direct Season 2 and NEVER told her that Jean-Marc Vallee would come in to edit and do away with her voice/vision
#JusticeForAndrea
Pablo Larraín on casting Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in new movie:
“Kristen is one of the great actors around today. Kristen can be many things, and she can be very mysterious and very fragile and very strong as well, which is what we need."
Before FRENCH DISPATCH at NYFF, Wes Anderson intros from Spain on the set of his new movie. Brief first look at the set.. old timey desert town done up in Wes style.
Bradley Cooper says "there's no chairs" on set when he directs: "I’ve always hated chairs on sets; your energy dips the minute you sit down in a chair. There's no video village."
He's also adopted Christian Bale's acting method: "I had heard stories about Daniel Day-Lewis. I…
Jim Carrey says "I was sickened" by the standing ovation for Will Smith's best actor win: "Hollywood is just spineless en masse...I’d have announced this morning that I was suing Will for $200 million because that video is going to be there forever."
AVATAR 2 has grossed $955.1M in 11 days, way above “Black Panther 2” ($800M), “The Batman” ($770M) and “Thor 4” ($760M). It'll pass “Doctor Strange 2" ($955.7M) and probably $1 billion today.
But please tell me again the Avatar franchise is irrelevant.
Not only is Charlie Kaufman back, but he has teamed up with the brilliant "Ida" and "Cold War" cinematographer Łukasz Żal.
The first trailer for "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" is a surreal knockout:
You know what.... ppl just arent interested in a Han Solo prequel film, clearly
When “Boba Fett: A Star Wars Story” bombs at the box office ...people just don’t care about a young Boba Fett movie.
Rogue One was new, exciting, fresh, perhaps all non-Skywalker films should be
#Euphoria
creator Sam Levinson shot a "Marriage Story"-like drama in secret with Zendaya and John David Washington
Filming took place June 17-July 2 at an isolated location with a quarantined cast/crew.
Give me "Malcolm & Marie" right now:
10 FILM THINGS I LOVED IN 2017
1. PhantomThread Score
2. CMBYN Final Shot
3. mother! Third Act
4. GetOut police fake out
5. Beanie in LadyBird
6. Haley Lu in Columbus
7. FloRoProj Ending
8. Dunkirk in IMAX
9. KStew Texts in PersonalShopper
10. Ghost Story Time Travel
I swear if we have to spend the next two months watching award shows where Timothée Chalamet keeps losing Best Actor to Gary Oldman my heart will literally shatter.
🚨🚨 According to two well-informed sources, there will even be a David Lynch feature film which has been completely off the radar and stars Laura Dern — either as a cameo or a supporting role — along with some other Lynch regulars. 🚨🚨
Anya Taylor-Joy auditioned for
#Furiosa
by recording herself on an iPhone reciting the "I'm mad as hell" speech from "Network."
George Miller sent the recording to the studio: "It was so persuasive that we didn’t need to talk. The studio said, ‘Tick.’"
A toast to 22 great movies the
#OscarNoms
completely rejected this year. Zero nominations, all of them: via
@Variety
Pig
Zola
Passing
The Green Knight
Red Rocket
The French Dispatch
The Card Counter
Titane
C'mon C'mon
and many more!
Wes Anderson's production designer says over 125 sets were used for
#FrenchDispatch
.
Oh, and they made a movie studio out of an abandoned felt factory (peak Wes!)
Some new details here:
- JOKER 2 will exist outside the cinematic universe that James Gunn/Safran will build out
- THE BATMAN 2 doesn't have a finished script/ won't hit theaters until 2025 at the earliest
- Henry Cavill's SUPERMAN movie is now soliciting pitches from writers
LOVE THIS: Christopher Nolan on
#LadyBird
“It felt like a part of life that I knew and had experienced. It felt like memory...that’s not a relationship you ever see in films, but it feels like you’ve seen it before. It’s so complete, in the telling."
@A24
🚨🚨FLEE ON HULU! the best film of 2021. The first movie ever nominated for animated feature, documentary and international feature at the Oscars. You’ll never forget it.
Bradley Cooper has spent the last 4 and 1/2 years prepping MAESTRO, his directorial follow-up to "A Star Is Born"
He now confirms filming starts this May (backed by Netflix). Cooper stars as Leonard Bernstein opposite Carey Mulligan.
More here:
@Variety
LOL if you’re telling me you watched “Personal Shopper” and “The Master” and still consider Kristen Stewart and Amy Adams bad actors please lose my slack, Gmail, and phone number. Also block me on all social media. Thanks.
Lol “Bombshell” really about to have more Oscar noms than “Ad Astra,” “Last Black Man in San Francisco,” “Clemency,” “Midsommar,” and “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” combined
#IndieSpiritAwards
tomorrow! You know, the awards show where..
- Three Women are Best Director noms (Granik, Ramsay, Jenkins)
- Beale Street is Best Picture nom
- Ethan Hawke is Actor frontrunner
- Toni Collette could win over Glenn Close
- You Were Never Really Here has 4 noms
The power of THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT. eBay chess inquiries up 250%, Goliath Games chess sales up 170%, Google chess searches at 9-year high.
The International Chess Federation says there's now "significantly higher interest in next year’s world championship":
STUDIO GHIBLI ALERT: Japan announces 2020 opening date for Ghibli theme park in Nagoya, Japan. The park will include rides and "forest trails" inspired by Miyazaki's classic films.
New details and concept art photos here:
What is the best shot of Christopher Nolan's career? In celebration of the director's 50th birthday today, here are 30 amazing contenders:
@OnePerfectShot
Is today the single greatest day in Marvel film history? I think yes.
#BlackWidow
standalone movie confirmed:
#BlackPanther
outselling all other Marvel films in advanced tickets:
Jenna Ortega: “I don’t think I’ve ever had to put my foot down more on a set" than I did on
#Wednesday
...I just started changing lines."
“Everything she does did not make sense for her character at all. Her being in a love triangle? It made no sense."
Remember the Oscars in 2016 when
#MadMaxFuryRoad
won editing, costume, makeup, prod design, sound editing/mixing. Every time it won LIVE I thought “Holy shit can it actually beat Spotlight for best pic?”. That thrill is what makes the Oscars great. Now that’s gone
Sooo Robert Eggers' next movie is a Viking drama in 10th Century Iceland that reunites him with Anya Taylor-Joy/Willem Dafoe plus Nicole Kidman and... maybe BJORK!?!?!?
Sign me up right goddamn now
The decision **not to cut** away from Paul Raci's Joe after he cuts ties with Riz Ahmed's Ruben, allowing the camera to watch him sigh through his heartbreak, was maybe the best editing choice in 2020. So happy
#SoundOfMetal
won the Best Editing Oscar:
Started my morning with "My Neighbor Totoro," what's next?
21 Studio Ghibli films are now streaming for the first time ever in the U.S. (via
@hbomax
). Here are 7 to start with:
Very, very grateful
@edgarwright
said yes to breaking down some of the British 1960s films that inspired LAST NIGHT IN SOHO.
This is one hell of a list!
25 Films from the 1960s That Inspired
#LastNightInSoho
(Exclusive):
.
@ReginaKing
is now the second Black woman nominated for Best Director in
#GoldenGlobes
history.
@ava
was first with "Selma."
King also becomes the fifth Black director nominee in the category after DuVernay, Spike Lee,
@BarryJenkins
and Steve McQueen:
Left: Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides in David Lynch's "Dune"
Right: Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve's
#Dune
Our first look at Villeneuve's epic has arrived:
🚨🚨 NEW ARI ASTER 🚨🚨
First "Hereditary." Then "Midsommar." Now comes DISAPPOINTMENT BLVD., a "decades-spanning" film starring Joaquin Phoenix and backed by A24.
Is this the four-hour nightmare comedy Aster spoke of last year? Let's hope! Full details:
David Fincher is sticking with his Oscar-winning "Mank" and "Mindhunter" cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt for new assassin movie THE KILLER, starring Michael Fassbender and written by "Se7en" scribe Andrew Kevin Walker. Filming begins this fall in Paris:
Watching Kristen Stewart having a fucking blast in
#CharliesAngels
is infectious... Laughing, dancing, kicking ass. A side of her we don't always see and I'm ready for it