Filmbrain (Andrew G) @Filmbrain Twitter profile

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

4 years

This movie is never not perfect, and is always the antidote to a shitty day.

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Found Hirayama’s house from PERFECT DAYS!

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@Filmbrain

2 months

Just a guy in a Tokyo subway station playing Ryuichi Sakamoto’s theme from Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence….

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1 year

@TheHyyyype To even suggest there was such a thing as “arthouse” films in 1960s Latvia reveals an almost impressive level of ignorance. So, congrats! You succeeded in being both a dick and a fucking moron.

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@Filmbrain

4 years

Robert Altman has...uh...thoughts about his peers.

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@Filmbrain

6 years

Bela Tarr's first words at the SATANTANGO Q&A - "Thank you for coming and watching this black and white piece of shit."

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@Filmbrain

7 months

Hong Sang-soo’s speech to the jury - “I don’t know what you saw in the film, but thank you.”

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@Filmbrain

2 months

…and the Yakisoba place he eats in.

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@Filmbrain

1 year

@aliarikan Because I’m 79 years old, I have to ask…how much time/effort does it take to make something like this? Does one simply say “Hey computer, make me a LOTR trailer in the style of WA” or does it require a great deal of 3D Modeling, getting the celebs faces in there etc?

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2 years

No disrespect towards nearly my entire feed who are hailing that new Tom Cruise movie as the rebirth of cinema, but for those of us who were of age in Reagan's era of shiny-white young republicans, TG means something quite different. @Glenn__Kenny nails it

The Problematics: Is 'Top Gun' A Fist-Pumping Paragon Of Patriotism...

Which side are YOU on?

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4 years

When I first moved to Berlin, I used to see him quite often in the neighborhood. An intense figure to say the least. Sad to read of his passing. If you haven't seen his performance in GEGEN DIE WAND (HEAD-ON), you really ought to. RIP Birol Ünel.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

10 years

KNIGHT OF CUPS: Flirtations w/ narrative, fragments of a life, and a portrait of Los Angeles that outdoes all others. A masterwork.

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@Filmbrain

2 months

@T_FUTURIST It’s actually just a few steps around the corner. They moved it for the film.

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@Filmbrain

4 years

From the Christoph Waltz interview in GQ: GQ: Nostalgia - What was the last film you saw in the theatre? CW: Tenet. GQ: That must have been here in Berlin during the distancing regulations. How was that experience? CW: I have no idea what the film was about.

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@Filmbrain

2 years

Found on a Berlin side-street today. LOVE the title. ( @selfstyledsiren do you know this one?)

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@Filmbrain

11 months

Last night, Aki Kaurismäki’s FALLEN LEAVES gave me a much-needed 81 minute reprieve from the madness of the world. See this film.

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@Filmbrain

2 months

CORRECTION: Had the wrong yakisoba restaurant. The correct one was a few doors down. Thank you, @asa_nisi__masa for pointing it out.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

11 months

This is unhinged. There’s no other word for it. The German Health Minister QTs a rabbi (!!!) who argues was that the Nazis still had a spark of humanity and that they were fundamentally opposed to the “actions” they were taking as opposed to Hamas. @Karl_Lauterbach should resign.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

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3 years

Here's a first for me: Today in a very small village in Germany I was accused of being a horse thief, and spent the better part of an hour convincing the villagers that I was not.

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@Filmbrain

2 years

If I was moderating this discussion it would be over by 5:01.

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@Filmbrain

5 years

"Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn." RIP, Neil Innes

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@Filmbrain

4 years

Shared this tweet with my imaginary 10 year-old daughter. After wiping away her tears, she begged me to start a gofundme campaign to get this poor filmmaker an editor so his films will be more palatable to hacks.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

2 years

I learned a few things today about the theme song from M*A*S*H, Suicide is Painless, that kind of blew my mind:

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@Filmbrain

2 years

Godard from "The Future(s) of Film, Three Interviews 2000-01":

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

5 years

This guy deserves a best supporting actor nomination. His pause after De Niro says "Me" is just f'ing perfection.

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@Filmbrain

1 year

@faceyouhate Bill...I really shouldn't have to explain this, but anyone who masturbates is a pedophile.

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@Filmbrain

4 years

Watching Douglas Sirk's A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE and suddenly a beautifully lit Klaus Kinski appears....

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@Filmbrain

4 years

Breaking: Man who works for newspaper finds movie about newspaperman incomprehensible.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

1 year

Willy Wonka was a TERRIBLE PERSON. He was a TYRANT. He betrayed every ideal he ever claimed to stand for. He was a shameless pathological liar who killed children and enslaved people for his own insatiable vanity. He is literally one of the worst people in confectionery.

Letterboxd

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1 year

The official trailer for Wonka is here 🍫

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@Filmbrain

6 years

Needed to concentrate, so decided to work at the library seen in WINGS OF DESIRE. Now I'm just dreaming of angels...

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

6 years

Wandering through the swankiest part of Berlin this evening, I stumbled upon F.W. Murnau's house. Wandering into the back yard, I met the current residents, who regaled me with tales of Murnau's "homosexual orgies" which Riefenstahl knew about. Hmmmm...

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@Filmbrain

4 years

That someone took the time to make this is sad enough, but I'd love to have seen him struggling to find these descriptors. "... experimental cinema" 🤣🤣🤣

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@Filmbrain

11 years

@pattonoswalt http://t.co/mijz3POLC2

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

4 years

Quod erat demonstrandum.

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4 years

The defining move of this era is not the take itself, but the double down.

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@Filmbrain

9 years

New Twitter project: "I'm getting too old for this shit." 1 in a series of 87,392. (cc: @WilliamFriedkin ) http://t.co/JUAHHdRN46

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@Filmbrain

2 years

Claire Denis: “Aesthetic is a word…I don’t really trust.”

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@Filmbrain

2 years

@drjonty @MatthewModine Another Fawlty alumnus- David Kelly. The builder O’Reilly and then as Grandpa Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

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@Filmbrain

5 years

THE RISE OF SKYWALKER is really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really bad.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

2 years

R.I.P. Jacques Perrin. Amazing career that spanned over 60 years. Was great in the original adaptation of L'ÉCUME DES JOURS (far better than the remake), as well as Z, PEAU D'ÂNE, LES DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT...

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@Filmbrain

3 years

You know, with all the shit going on right now, especially here in Germany, it majorly warmed my heart to see almost all of Twitter bonding over THE BEATLES: GET BACK this weekend. Like a 72 hour reprieve from the madness. Thank you, all.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

10 months

No better place to spend a bitterly cold, grey, rainy Berlin afternoon than the WINGS OF DESIRE library.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

2 years

Heavy Chris Marker vibes in Marseille today.

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@Filmbrain

2 years

@derjavi This! On one occasion, the person seated lectured me about how it’s kind of my fault for not getting to the seat earlier and claiming it. 😂

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

3 years

TIL that my son is a co-owner of the world's first queer, anarchist Yiddish vegan cafe (based in Glasgow), which recently got into trouble for selling "F*ck the Police" tote bags. He was even interviewed on BBC radio about it! #prouddad

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

7 months

Poster for Hong Sang-soo’s A TRAVELLER‘S NEEDS. See the film….or just read the poster.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

4 years

THREAD: Here's an example of what racism looks like here in Germany. This incident took place a few days ago. (Special guest star: The police.) Vannesa H, an Afro-German woman born & raised in Berlin, was shopping at a Rossmann (Germany's 2nd largest drugstore chain) in Berlin.

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1 year

Today in procrastination: "Hey ChatGPT, generate me a fake Cannes Film Festival lineup." Personally most excited by the Wong Kar-wai remake of LIT.

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@Filmbrain

2 years

Wild Polish poster for VERTIGO:

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

3 years

Curious as to how the media will cover it, but what I’ve been witnessing at today’s peaceful pro-Palestine demonstration has been endless provocation by the police (especially if your skin isn’t white). It’s going to get uglier real soon. #b1505

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

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4 years

For the record, here's what I wrote to @mangiotto that resulted in him blocking me in 2 seconds. Really sick of people saying ignorant and provocative shit and then playing victim when there's fallout.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

2 years

BARDO's unchecked self-indulgences and narcissism aside, its greatest (and most ridiculous) offence is Iñárritu's belief that a documentary filmmaker could actually own such a luxury house, let alone two!

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

1 year

When people ask me why I still haven't seen BARBIE.

Rob Henderson

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1 year

Arthur Schopenhauer on avoiding the Current Thing:

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7 years

It's -20c, my phone died in less than a minute from the cold, my hands went numb, but managed to capture this amazing fog in the Ran Fjord...

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3 years

Not only does @aliarikan have some lovely words to say about The Beatles and GET BACK, he manages to bring Curtis "Booger" Armstrong into the fold. Reason #453 why we love Ali so much.

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@Filmbrain

5 years

That last scene of THE IRISHMAN...

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

1 year

Happened to walk by this movie theatre (whose existence I was unaware of) and in a few minutes they’re playing LOVE IN THE CITY, the 1953 Italian omnibus film (Fellini, Antonioni, Lattuada et al.) which I’ve never seen. Hooray for happenstance!

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

8 years

Anti-Trump rally happening right now at the Brandenberg Gate.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

7 years

When I protest, I go large. #whoswithme ?

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@Filmbrain

2 years

The last person I expected to run into at this rather small Norwegian cocktail party at the Berlinale was Marisa Tomei….but she’s here.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

1 year

Couldn't agree more with Peter. Really looking forward to hearing @selfstyledsiren 's commentary on this one.

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1 year

If you only have one movie starring Anna May Wong in your collection, this is it. Coming next month. Commentary by Farran Smith Nehme.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

10 years

What few people realize is that the boy in BOYHOOD was actually portrayed by Andy Serkis.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

3 years

I'll take 'Things That Are Utterly Pointless And Unmeasurably Stupid That Somebody Somehow Remarkably Got Paid For"' for $500, Alex.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

2 years

16 years ago (!!!) @cmasonwells donned a yellow t-shirt, climbed on @Glenn__Kenny ’s roof, and posed as @JenniferLoeber captured this image for Benten’s first release. So excited for both him and Nathan!

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I co-wrote THE PRIMA DONNA with my dear pal Nathan Silver — starring Toni Collette & Odessa Young, and shooting this summer with a truly amazing team.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

12 years

Auteurs! Get yer auteurs here! I gots Antoniyoni, Woddy Ellen, Quantum Tarantino, Yaszuro Uzo and many more… http://t.co/SkFdP0ugcQ

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

11 months

Friday night showing of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON. Large cinema, sold out, not even a hint of rustling, talking nor a single person getting up. Film was mesmerising.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

2 months

Found a cocktail bar on an otherwise dead and lonely street in Asakusa. Patrons (and we were the only ones) get to choose the music (from an insanely extensive vinyl collection) and which Laser Disc to project.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

4 years

@mangiotto Here's the thing - she didn't just proclaim "I don't like old movies." She made sweeping, insulting and quite frankly embarrassing & reductive comments about the films themselves ("racist and sexist af") & the people who defend them as pretentious elites with film school degrees.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

3 years

Well, it's happened...starting tonight we Berliners are not allowed out from 10pm to 5am. So....along with a special someone (whose birthday it is) we're going to eat Korean BBQ, drink all of 7 of these and star in our own Hong Sang-soo film. (What can possibly go wrong?)

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

2 years

@faceyouhate Yeah, fuck all those "classic" straight cis Western white men I had to read in high school like Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin, Harper Lee, Virginia Wolf, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Emily Dickenson. All suck.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

4 years

Well that escalated quickly.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

3 years

I learned 2 things today: 1) The German title for JESUS' SON is JESUS' SON: THE FUNNY LIFE OF FUCKHEAD. 2) There is no Blu-Ray of JESUS' SON, under any title, as far as I know, and this is criminal.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

10 years

BREAKING: New Yorker film critic David Denby to be replaced by Lights Camera Jackson.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

2 years

There are MANY more of these types, and I pray they all remain silent today.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

2 years

In the early 80s, there was a short-lived mag called Vidiots, aimed at video game and arcade enthusiasts. I *vividly* remember this article, which, even at 16, seemed ludicrous. (I regularly broke fashion rule #1 , see below.) Join me in a look at how to pick up girls at arcades:

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

5 years

Back in the days when you could basically count the number of film blogs on two hands (hi @selfstyledsiren & @AaronOOF ) I ran a little site called Like Anna Karina's Sweater. My dear friend @adriancurry made several banners for the site over the years, including the one below:

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

7 months

Hong Sang-soo is a one-man-band these days, but A TRAVELER’S NEEDS is his richest film in quite some time. Isabelle Huppert remains the coolest motherfucker to grace the screen.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

4 years

Highest recommendation to check out Abel Ferrara's audio commentary on DRILLER KILLER. The number of times his reaction to a shot is "What the fuck is this!?!": 742

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

4 years

And now I learn that the above quote is from a fictionalised biography of Tarkovsky by Lyudmila Boyadzhieva.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

8 months

Well, all those years of intense hard work paid off. Judith has been shooting this film for ten years, and I’m proud to have taken that journey with her for the last five. Winning the audience award at the @MaxOphuelsPreis means the world to us!

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

7 years

Coded message in this week's TWIN PEAKS:

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

2 years

@selfstyledsiren Thanks for this, Farran. Guess this means the stories a few months back about him living in more or less poverty conditions in Paris weren't true?

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

4 years

Spent most of the day in bed reading Charlie Chaplin's autobiography, which then led me to read about silent movie star Marie Doro, and how nearly every film she appeared in is lost. Schade. (Seen anything with her, @selfstyledsiren ?)

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

2 years

“Sensitivity reader” is just a less threatening expression for “censor”. One question I haven’t seen asked: was there pressure to censor Dahl’s books? Why did Netflix feel the need to hire these people?

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

7 years

In any year, a film like LUCKY would be a blessing. But in the midst of this dark, ugly time we find ourselves in, it serves as a powerful antidote. Just beautiful. Film of the year. Thanks, @noahgittell , @mattzollerseitz , and @BohemiaStable for the encouragement.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

5 years

Wow, #Joker is just god-awful. But even worse than the film itself is people like Billington actually believing the film is dangerous, deep, relevant, and/or has anything whatsoever to say. A masterwork of vapidity.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

3 years

Saddened to hear about Robert Downey Sr.'s passing. Indulge me a bit while I share 2 interesting stories about him. I met him through @cobblehillis back in '09 when we approached him about releasing several of his films on DVD.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

2 years

As a film producer, I can, without any hesitation, tell you that THIS IS NOT HOW IT WORKS! This kind of flippancy annoys me to no end.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

7 years

Wow wow wow! Our film CAUSE OF DEATH: UNKNOWN just won Best Foreign Documentary at the Traverse City film Festival! Thank you, @TCFF !

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

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6 years

The first film I saw at this year's Berlinale features a shirtless @cmasonwells , so.... everything from this point forward can only be a disappointment.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

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1 year

Even more pointless and ludicrous than creating AI portraits of what dead rock stars would look like today is the mere suggestion that Jim Morrison would ever step foot in an Olive Garden.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

6 years

This paragraph..... Bless you, @sheilakathleen

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

5 years

I fixed the ending of UP WITH SKYWALKERS, or whatever it's called. Spoilers, I guess, though can one spoil what is already rotten? (Inspired by my heartbreak over @aliarikan loving it.)

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

10 years

MAPS TO THE STARS - 110 minutes of unrelenring antihumanism set in a petri dish of misanthropy. It goes without saying that I LOVED it.

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

7 months

@Geniusbastard It’s as if the film is saying “Take a look at me now…”

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

1 year

Thrift store find - 2€, original single from 1963…

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

3 years

@Glenn__Kenny @paulduanefilm @JimJarmuschHair At a NYFF screening of one his films (can't recall which -- it was right around the time Matti Pellonpää died), someone asked, "Did Matti Pellonpää's death affect you at all?" His response: "He was only my best friend. So, no, not at all."

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

@Filmbrain

4 months

It was a wonderful sense of solidarity, and peaceful. But now the police have had enough. They confiscated the truck with the PA system, and are now making arrests.

Abir Kopty

@AbirKopty

4 months

One of the biggest marches for Gaza in #Berlin since the beginning of the genocide. Never been in massively diverse events as in Palestinian protests. All colors, religions, ethnicities, backgrounds, identities are here. This is why they fear us. They can’t defeat us. #NakbaDay

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Filmbrain (Andrew G)

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4 years

@Glenn__Kenny Born in 47 more likely....

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