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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

8 years

Let's just get this fucking money and go on spring break.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

All this talk about PREY and its narrative change of venue and very welcome representational aspects and not enough discussion of the best movie dog in years.

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

I don't care if anyone thinks Doctor Strange is too scary but I weep for going on two generations now of kids who weren't actively trying to watch R-rated movies, sneak cigarettes, and bust into the liquor cabinet. Pathetic.

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

You know what's a total masterpiece that entirely deserves its reputation is SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

LOL one of the first lines in that GODFATHER show is a guy saying "Leave the cannoli." How do these people live with themselves?

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@colonelmortimer

1 year

Even if you think it sucks I'd bet you EEAAO has a more lasting relevant footprint than say THE ARTIST or fuckin GREEN BOOK.

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@colonelmortimer

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

John Woo on Nic Cage

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@colonelmortimer

1 month

The staff at my local got these trivia flash cards because they thought it would be fun to quiz me but I got every single one of them right, often before they finished asking the questions, and they just got mad.

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

LOL these guys are absolute bozos

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@colonelmortimer

1 year

In film school I had a screenwriting teacher who I mostly didn't like but who crucially had a background in documentary, and she gave me one huge critical question that to this day I find myself asking whenever I watch something: "So what?"

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

MOONFALL is the thinking man's DON'T LOOK UP.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

1 year

Is this a bit or have you simply failed to see a movie before, ever

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@vulture

1 year

They let her bring the sword on the plane? is this another alternate history and 9/11 never happened?

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

You know what's a great movie is THE LAST JEDI, the only Star Wars thing since 1980 that isn't for babies.

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

I genuinely CANNOT believe that there are people complaining about this CGI. I can’t wrap my head around it. You find it ‘horrifying’ or don’t want Star Wars or film/tv to go this route, you do you, but I am eating. it. up. My hero is back.

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

I just want to see Spielberg do his God-tier car chase, I don't care what IP nonsense it takes.

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2 years

EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell Deadline Steven Spielberg is attached to direct a new original story revolving centered on Frank Bullitt, the iconic character played by Steve McQueen in the 1968 thriller, ‘Bullitt’

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

6 months

Sorry but this idea that George Miller is engaging in some weak sauce desperation as opposed to being one of the great narrative and visual stylists in western cinema history is stupid and if you think it you are stupid. It's just a trailer.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

1 year

What if Tarantino's secret Cannes screening is this alleged long Netflix cut of HOLLYWOOD to coincide with the "death" of Rick Dalton?

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

Chris McQuarrie deserves sainthood for what he's done for studio tentpole action filmmaking over the last decade-plus.

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@colonelmortimer

1 year

In my view GHOST PROTOCOL is only the third or fourth best MISSION, but man when I'm watching it it's just a total facemelter. You can see why it revitalized a franchise that had been a little given up on. Insane that they ever thought they could "pass the torch" from Cruise.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

8 months

I promise you this will be bad.

Variety

@Variety

8 months

Letterboxd has been acquired by Tiny, a Canadian holding company, in a deal that values the popular social site for film fanatics at about $50 million.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

4 years

RIP to God-King Wilford Brimley. Enjoy Valhalla.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

1 year

Sorry Darren Aronofsky, the only whale I'm interested in this holiday season is subtitled in papyrus.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

3 years

It's $7.99 a month but you can stream all the Covid you want

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

Final shot of Twitter

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

10 days

Others have already said this but Warner is nuts to not have FURY ROAD in rerelease right now, and what's more they should be selling tickets for double features that have it playing *after* FURIOSA.

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@colonelmortimer

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I will entertain arguments about its script, but DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE is one of the most confidently and effectively directed action movies of all time (as of course befits its legacy and McT's)

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@colonelmortimer

11 months

LAST CRUSADE prologue an all-timer. Even if you think it sucks as a precursor to shitty easter egg culture it's a flawless Spielberg setpiece. God-tier.

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@colonelmortimer

10 months

You know what's still a fucking great movie is ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

Is Robert Forster in JACKIE BROWN the greatest movie performance of all time?

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

3 years

Todd Phillips goes to the whiteboard in the room and simply writes the word JOKER. Then he adds an 'S' to make JOKERS. Dramatically, he draws two vertical lines through the 'S', JOKER$. He turns around and grins.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

1 year

Lately when I watch a movie without Payakan I find myself wondering "Where's Payakan?"

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

1 year

It's Cameron's PRINCESS MONONOKE.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

Me this 4th of July

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

5 years

Last shot of HOLLYWOOD has that "Miss Lily Langtry" music cue from JUDGE ROY BEAN over it. Here's a title card from that movie.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

Was just reminded of the time Thelma Schoonmaker asked me if ICHI THE KILLER was any good. She goes "Marty says this'll kill me." What a thing to happen.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

6 years

Rewatched WAR OF THE WORLDS and holy shit it is still terrifying. Also I would like it if Spielberg made a holy shit this is terrifying movie again. Only your movie dad knows how to scare you like that.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

8 months

Rewatched ASTEROID CITY, as usual Wes Anderson is even better after a night in the fridge.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

8 months

One of the greatest moments in the history of cinema.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

11 months

No spoilers but Shea Wigham has a line in DEAD RECKONING that rivals Baldwin's "Ethan Hunt is the manifestation of destiny" bit in ROGUE NATION.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

1 year

Watched TOP GUN MAVERICK again and stand by my assessment of it as the most tremendous piece of mainstream pop art of the last decade or so. There have been bigger, better blockbusters, but I don't think there has been anything, maybe not even AVATAR 2, so perfectly engineered.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

9 months

Hang on to your physical media, folks.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

I hope everyone is sufficiently stoked to see Michael Bay's COLLATERAL.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

1 year

Look let's be honest. Cameron has always had problems grounding his truly awesome tech fetish and command of spectacle and design with relatively cliched emotional stories, but literally nobody -- ever -- has been able to make the kinds of movies he makes, at any level of scale.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

3 years

Surgery scene in PROMETHEUS still an all-timer, just one of the gnarliest things in a movie ever.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

I for one remain excited to get nuked by AVATAR 2. Cameron is not to be fucked with.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

4 months

Pure Spielberg madness.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

3 years

JURASSIC PARK still awesome, a total artifact of a time when the promise of a convincing illusion was enough to get everyone into a theater. Flawlessly directed by a master. They truly don't make them like this anymore. Also astonishingly stupid and barely makes a lick of sense.

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@colonelmortimer

11 months

Look I don't usually worry about something like this but I'm seeing a few complaints about McQ crossing the 180 line during the some of the more expository dialogue scenes in DEAD RECKONING...do you really think that's a mistake?

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@colonelmortimer

1 year

The answer didn't have to be universal, or important, or even nice. But you had to have one or shed rake you over the coals in front of everybody.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

11 months

Hayley Atwell with further proof for my insistence that DEAD RECKONING has been at least in part conceived as a caper comedy.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

This February...Let him get that for you.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

Rewatching THREE KINGS for homework purposes. Still electric. If you'd told me in 1999 that I'd reflexively hate David O. Russell and Mark Wahlberg one day I'd have been shocked but here we are and also they both fuckin earned it.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

3 months

Hot take, this is perfect, he'll be a terrific traffic cop and it'll actually look like something.

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

3 months

Gareth Edwards is set to direct the next ‘JURASSIC WORLD’ movie. (Source: )

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

Very encouraging seeing the heads all out in support of MATRIX 4, a really good movie we sort of don't deserve.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

3 years

Look I've known Tarantino has fairly awful taste for a long time but to hear him describe JOKER as "profoundly subversive" and "above most viewers' heads" is depressing.

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@colonelmortimer

1 year

Live footage of a BEAU IS AFRAID screening

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

I was there for this and I've never seen someone more obviously coked out. Merchant was actively trying to chill him out.

Fantastic Fest

@fantasticfest

2 years

Reminder: @TaikaWaititi doesn’t need shoes to give a good Q&A. Photo Credit: Jack Plunkett, #FantasticFest2019

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

6 years

SUSPIRIA is my favorite movie of 2018, it's not even close.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

I don't want to get anyone too worked up but MAVERICK might be the best stealth masterpiece Dad movie since DEN OF THIEVES.

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

You know what's still a fucking rad movie is MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

8 months

Brian De Palma says his best film is CARLITO'S WAY. With all due respect, I mostly disagree. Except when I'm watching CARLITO'S WAY.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

1 year

James FUCKING Cameron everybody

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

Rolling

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@colonelmortimer

3 months

I rewatched THE TERMINATOR tonight and I reiterate my opinion that it is as formidable a debut as CITIZEN KANE. The work of a born filmmaker.

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@colonelmortimer

4 years

Do the right thing and put those Coca Cola student films online

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@slashfilm

4 years

Regal Closing All U.S. Theaters Due to Coronavirus

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@colonelmortimer

3 years

Bring back repeating the same stunt/explosion from 4 or 5 different angles instead of cutting them all together.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

1 year

Said this before, I know some of you will disagree and I don't care, the OG De Palma MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE is the greatest pop masterpiece of the 90's after PULP FICTION.

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@colonelmortimer

4 years

Surgery scene in PROMETHEUS still a banger

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

1 year

What a shot

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

3 months

You know what's a great movie is AMBULANCE

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

3 years

Fantastic title, congratulations

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

1 year

I wasn't always privileged to have free, unfettered access to the biggest physical video archive on Earth. Don't shame folks relying on streaming curation / torrents. I grew up with only UHF TV afternoon movies and VHS and *craved* the sort of insight and access people have now.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

5 months

I've spent the better part of 25 years talking to regular-degular people about movies and let me be the one to tell you that the problem here is you. Stop being bummed about their taste, good or bad, and start trying to help them find something that they'll like.

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I know it shouldn’t be as annoying as it is for people to want to engage with your passions but talking to non-film people about film is such a burden lmao. I fundamentally don’t think about the medium the same way

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

3 years

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA 4K looks tremendous, forget about your GREEN KNIGHTs, this is your super horny revisionist folk/fantasy/horror epic.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

Umpteenth viewing of the Coppola DRACULA, every time I watch this it's the best movie I've ever seen.

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

The real achievement of the Boba Fett show is that Robert Rodriguez had access to all that money and ILM VFX tech and somehow still triumphantly managed to make it look like it was shot in his basement in front of a green curtain.

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

We will adopt your baby

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@colonelmortimer

6 months

Rewatching DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE. Total monsterpiece, transcendently yucky, hilarious, the cruelty is the point.

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@colonelmortimer

4 years

JJ Abrams is a producer (and a very good one), Rian Johnson is a director (and a very good one).

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

BLACKHAT remains rad, ain't nobody else making this movie.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

3 years

Someone on Lboxd described IN THE HEIGHTS as "a Target commercial" and just chef's kiss, thank you stranger.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

MATRIX 4: Could never hit the original's shock of the new. Still a quintessential Wachowski huge swing: idiosyncratic, defiant of expectation, cluttered but meticulously constructed, unabashedly dorky. Like the other sequels it'll probably take another decade to really sink in.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

1 year

MUNICH is not Spielberg's best movie except for when I am watching it, which I am doing right now.

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

Adam McKay is the fossil fuel of directors for a little while he was essential but for a long time now we've known about all the damage he's doing and nobody is willing to stop him.

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@colonelmortimer

3 years

How old were you when you stopped believing in Mank?

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@colonelmortimer

3 years

BRINGING OUT THE DEAD: Scorsese's SATYRICON, as much of a masterwork as any of his more frequently acknowledged ones. Beautiful and terrible.

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@colonelmortimer

4 years

Jon Favreau blissfully unaware of bittorrent

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@colonelmortimer

3 years

I've said this before, and I'm not the only one, but the best thing about GHOST PROTOCOL is how none of their gear works.

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

1 month

The REBEL MOON 2 embargo is up one minute before the movie hits Netflix lol

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@colonelmortimer

1 month

Sorry, this sound a shitty brag, but the questions were so easy like What year did TITANIC come out or What movie did the Every Time a Bell Rings quote come from. It's not my fault!

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matt lynch

@colonelmortimer

2 years

The movie sucks but anyone arguing that it's too yucky is a fucking narc.

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@colonelmortimer

3 years

The part where Cyborg visualizes the global financial system as a giant bear fighting a giant bull in front of a building full of literal skyscrapers of floating cash is just next level ridiculous, I can't tell you how much I love this.

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@colonelmortimer

2 years

There should be a movie where Coco from PREY and Sayuri from HOLLYWOOD are buddy detective dogs.

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@colonelmortimer

3 years

Four stills from a movie you believe is a masterpiece, no title.

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@colonelmortimer

3 years

Poor Marty always trying to drum up some press

Cinelimite

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3 years

Martin Scorsese, speaking out against the Brazilian Government's treatment of the Cinemateca Brasileira.

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@colonelmortimer

5 years

If you want to see a darkly comic movie about a sad clown made vengeful by a grimy city and the miserable society that despises and ignores him along with the rest of the downtrodden who finally acts on his worst impulses, watch QUICK CHANGE.

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@colonelmortimer

6 months

This smacks of "AVATAR has no cultural footprint" nonsense. If you don't think Miller has it in him to top FURY ROAD you aren't paying attention. Also he's got nothing to prove to you.

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@colonelmortimer

3 years

Someone was saying that Spielberg should be sweating over the direction of IN THE HEIGHTS but I assure you he should not.

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@colonelmortimer

5 months

THE THIN RED LINE came out in 1998, when I had just turned 20 and I was about to make my senior thesis film in college. I had never seen a Malick film before but I was weirdly obsessed with the trailer. When I finally saw the movie I thought it was the best one I had ever seen.

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@colonelmortimer

10 months

Zack Snyder (of whom I remain a fan) being politely sanguine about his interviewer's earnest enthusiasm (which I don't wish to mock, I just think this quote is funny).

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