John Bleasdale
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writer of The Magic Hours, biography of T Malick @variety Host: Writers On Film:
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The one I feel sorry for is Armie Hammer’s twin brother. I mean his career: it’s screwed and he did nothing
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It’s weird how films have such a short cultural half-life these days. Midnight Sky lasted a day. Mank a week. There’s no real talk. Cinema has become tv. Without the theatrical experience and ancillary publicity and chatter, films last barely longer than it takes to watch them...
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People talk about Tom Cruise being this great stuntman. For Eyes Wide Shut he was too scared to walk down a street.
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Post two pictures of an actor in two roles to show their range
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This is one of the best articulated responses to our present cultural anxiety
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What’s your favorite British TV to Hollywood blockbuster move?
I like the guy who orders Waldorf Salad in Fawlty Towers turning up to berate
@MatthewModine
in Full Metal Jacket
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Rewatching Birth. Jonathan Glazer’s second film. It’s almost impossible to categorize. A ghost story/psychological thriller. It channels Polanski and the Hitchcock of Marnie. It’s perverse and disturbing. Kidman is luminous and also fading. What if it’s a sequel to Eyes Wide Shut
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In fact tv shows have more impact because it takes more time to watch them. I don’t know if this will be permanent. I doubt it. Everything changes. But I do know if I was a filmmaker I would hate my film to come out like this.
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This blows my mind. Kate Winslett from Mare of Eastown is the same Kate Winslett who was in Titanic. She’s just “acting” differently.
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Find someone who looks at you the way Klaus Kinski looks at Werner Herzog.
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Positive vibes. Name two things that you’ve done that would have impressed your 13 year old self. I acted in a play in a foreign language and I went to China.
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Tilda Swinton just disappears into roles
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Here’s a question dear
#filmtwitter
what film did you watch and while watching think “I am witnessing a masterpiece”?
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Here's a question
#FilmTwitter
: what opening scene in a movie did you watch and in the cinema think: this might be the best film ever (regardless of the final outcome)?
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Colin Farrell has gone from being a failed lead actor to a triumphant character actor, one of the best working today, which makes me want to go back and watch all those early films because I suspect his performances have always been brilliant. We've just been watching them wrong.
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Who’s an actor who you expected to have a bigger career than they have had?
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I once asked Ben Mendelssohn if he worried about being typecast and he told me that he’s a taxi driver who knows the neighborhood. If that’s where he’s paid to go he’s happy to oblige. Happy Birthday Ben.
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It’s odd how a scene in a film can change when you view it several times. For instance that scene in Fight Club when Jared Leto gets his face punched in seemed way too long when I first saw it. But now it seems nowhere near long enough
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Dune Part 2: Surprised at how dark this was. Beautifully done.
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@paulduanefilm
He jumped from the hotel window wearing his costume and Leone chased the ambulance to rescue the coat so he could shoot a double.
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Murray Melvin died yesterday. He's probably best known for his work in Barry Lyndon and The Devils. But his role in Tony Richardson's Taste of Honey was genuinely ground-breaking and beautiful in providing a real human portrait of a gay man. Watch the film if you haven't already
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Netflix isn’t competing against cinema, its competing against tv. Cinema is competing against restaurants, bars, theatre and live music.
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Something I’ve noticed -via a conversation- most of my favorite filmmakers make period films. Who is your favorite filmmaker who is making films set in the right now?
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Can’t get enough of Mr Bronson from Grange Hill commanding a Star Destroyer in Empire Strikes Back (Waldorf Salad was manning the rebellion outpost on Hoth)!
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A bit of personal news. Earlier this year I signed a contract to write a biography of one of my fave directors, Terrence Malick, provisionally titled The Magic Hours: The Hidden Life of Terrence Malick - I can’t wait for you guys to see it but it will take a little time.
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If I were to say “why is he always wearing that fucking hat?” Would you immediately know who I was talking about?
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I loved The Last Duel. Brilliant epic filmmaking with a genuinely fascinating insight into history and storytelling. There’s a Rashomon like structure but this is also its own thing. Best Ridley Scott since Gladiator.
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My favourite
#Cannes
memory of all time: meeting my hero Werner Herzog. I told him I was a great fan and apologised for interrupting him. He asked what i did. I told him I was a writer. And he said *Werner Herzog voice* "Then you are not a fan, you are a colleague."
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Oscars are about marketing not quality. Marketing is truly important and so the Oscars are important. But they’re not important in terms of assigning, defining or indicating quality and never were.
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Rigsby turning up in 2001 a Space Odyssey will always be the capper.
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Guess who just got a book contract. To write a book. On film.
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Just saw Christopher Nolan at my hotel having breakfast. No entourage. On his own. Weird he ate a bowl of dry cornflakes then drank a glass of milk then ate a spoon of sugar. Not how I would do it but oddly compelling.
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In the 1970s Sterling Hayden went to live on a houseboat for 17 years in the middle of Paris
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Modern posters get a bit of stick, so it's worth celebrating one that does the job. Hats off!
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Finished and submitted my final draft of the Terrence Malick biography. Book due 2024.
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McCabe & Mrs Miller (1971) Altman’s western influenced Deadwood, Once Upon a Time in America and The Shining. It’s a tale of progress and defeat, capital and poetry. Songs by Leonard Cohen, cinematography by Zsigmond, weather by God. Altman’s best?
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I first saw Threads when I was a 12 years old. It was September, 1984 and the next day that's all anyone could talk about at school for a week. It affected me hugely, viscerally and politically. I watched it again today and its power has not diminished. What an unbelievable film
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Happy birthday to Sigourney Weaver. Spotted here at the Hollywood Bowl watching the Beatles, aged 14
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I know this is an odd thing for a critic to say but I think we should admit more about the films that flummox us; that we don’t have a properly formed opinion on. There’s value in being baffled, in the complex reaction that doesn’t fit into a hot take or a tweet.
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RW: Sexy Beast (2000) Jonathan Glazer's film came out during a glut of Brit Gangster pics, but it's a masterpiece. Channelling Pinter and surrealism, a bold eye, true economy and a sense of genuine empathy, even for monsters. Gal & his wife & surrogate son. Winstone's best
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Start your day with the original poster art for Eyes Wide Shut
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Start your day with Ingrid Bergman looking at Isabella Rossellini
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Was I the only person who as a kid felt really cheated when the Pink Panther animated title sequence finished and then a normal film began?
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Here’s an idea for making films interesting. Give your characters real jobs. What’s a film where the protagonist has a job you don’t usually see a protagonist do? Like Adam Driver driving a bus in Patterson
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Start your day with a thread of actors reading books they’re going to star in
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Gian Maria Volonté deserves to be better known internationally. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, The Mattei Affair, Many Wars Ago and Sacco and Vanzetti are just a few I would advise you watch.
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In Italy - ITALY - we've been wearing masks for months in shops, stations, on public transport and supermarkets (
@sainsburys
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My daughters set their alarms so they could get up and watch the first woman president win. I snuck up and turned them off.
#ElectionNight
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Start this morning with a picture of Harrison Ford "accidentally" punching Ryan Gosling in the face while make Blade Runner 2049!
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@mattzollerseitz
I loved the use of sealing wax. It's that retro SF vibe that Dune does so well
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@daveyjenkins
The Prestige and Memento are witty as fuck. His Batman films have a healthy sense of their own ludicrousness. This critical truism about Nolan’s lack of humor is inaccurate and kind of tedious. No guffaws perhaps but so what?
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I just had a huge nostalgic rush for Play. Com I lived on their homepage for a while.
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Michael Gambon had a whole career and was an amazing actor. Stop calling people Harry Potter stars. RIP.
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I don’t usually announce family stuff here but my daughter today passed her entrance exam for university. She has also won a three year scholarship to pay for it. I’m so happy I could shit.
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I know this is probably so obvious but Brad Pitt is actually a really good actor. Don’t you concur?
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Italian writer Elsa Morante was asked what was the line that most epitomizes love and she replied: “Have you eaten?”
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Rewatched The Zone of Interest:
This is a film about the Holocaust that isn’t cathartic. It hasn’t any need for your tears or pity. It is darkness domesticated. It is the sort of film that you don’t want to lessen with talk.
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Jeez. You all slept on Underwater guys. You can keep Color Out of Space. This is the best Lovecraft movie for decades. Chapeau
@superswift
tentacley chapeau.
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The days of Netflix attempting the prestige acquisition/production are over. We got The Irishman, Roma, Marriage Story, White Noise, The King, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Power of the Dog, and Other Side of the Wind. Was it a good haul?
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Xmas Miracle: having disappeared on the 19th of November, Atticus is back. Skin and bone and obviously traumatized but alive and now back with us!
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Start your day with Richard Burton and Sophia Loren sharing a fag
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Tim Burton is what people with little imagination think imagination looks like
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I don’t think he’s underrated at all. I think EVERYONE thinks he’s underrated. If everyone thinks you’re underrated then you’re rated.
Jesse Plemons is an underrated actor, and I hope that changes
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First time Read: Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood by
@officialDannyT
and
@donallogue
From the most killed man in Hollywood comes a memoir that reads like a true crime novel. Not your usual celebrity memoir. Deliriously entertaining but also moving and funny
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When Sinead O’Connor tore up the photo of the Pope on SNL, her own manager didn’t talk to her for days and NBC banned her for life. At a gala gig she was booed and so sang Bob Marley’s War before leaving the stage. Kris Kristofferson was one of the few to console her…
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It’s been exactly a year since I decided I didn’t want to drink no more. It was one of the best decisions I ever made. I’m healthier and happier and it hasn’t in the least impeded my ability to be a daft twerp. Thanks for the support everyone
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Can we retire vaccine hesitancy as a phrase? You’ve had almost two years of a global pandemic. You’re not hesitant, you’re a prick.
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Discovering Jean Luc Godard at 18 was like discovering there was a whole new level of cinema, a whole new way of looking at life. Witty, ironic, cynical and above all romantic. RIP Maestro.
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Four films. You get to keep them all. You don't have to make any decisions. You're welcome.
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Today is another huge day of celebration. 17 years ago we bought this house. Today we made our last mortgage payment.
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Agree or disagree with Martin Scorsese the man has dedicated his life not only to making cinema but restoring and preserving cinema and educating and supporting upcoming filmmakers. In other words. Fuck off.
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Accompanied my daughter for her second jab and I have to say the Italian organization for the vaccinations has been exemplary. Courteous, cheerful, efficient, safe. All those stereotypes that the world and the UK have can go jump in the sea.
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Pedro Almodovar’s new film Parallel Mothers seems to be dividing critics along the lines of if you love PA this is a disappointment. If you’re not so keen this is a pleasant surprise. I really liked it.
#Venezia78
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