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Head of Film Strategy & Development @EDGLRD . NYU prof. Cinema. New media. Space. Ex-IndieWire. Texan/Colombian/Seattleite/New Yorker. Former Blue Check.

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One of my favorite moments from the #Oscars last night was when SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSE won and somebody in the row in front of me kept shouting “YES” throughout the speech and it turned out it was @terrycrews .
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Yalitza Aparicio and her mother enjoying the #oscars red carpet
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Is it possible that ROMA might win best picture because...it's the best movie nominated?
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Spike Lee: “I’m 61. How old are you?” Ryan Coogler: “I’m 32.” Spike Lee: “Man! I’m passing it to you!” #oscars
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The Will Smith moment. #oscars
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Alfonso Cuaron: “How old are you?” Ryan Coogler: “I’m 32.” Cuaron: “...How do you do that, man?” #IWHonors @alfonsocuaron
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“How do you tell the Safdie brothers apart? Well, Josh looks like a yeshiva student who might shoot you, and Benny looks like a friendly dentist.” Adam Sandler #NYFCC
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5 years
Will Smith could host the Oscars from his Instagram.
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2 years
Yes, #RRR was snubbed today by India, which did not select it as its Oscar submission. But the awards season journey for the movie is just getting started: via @indiewire
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4 years
Revisited PARASITE tonight with a rapt audience in Williamsburg. When a certain character’s head hits the wall, someone in the audience yelled out, “CINEMA!”
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6 years
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY: That Live Aid performance gave me chills. The rest of the movie...
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“When asked to confirm his casting at an Amazon Studios party celebrating ‘Beautiful Boy,’ Chalamet threw his hands in the air and giggled.”
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Wes Anderson Is Shooting ‘The French Dispatch’ in France — Exclusive
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#RRR director @ssrajamouli says he started out making films for Indians and their reactions in theaters. “With RRR I saw the same kind of reception in the West…they were reacting the same way that Indians did.” Praises “the pure joy of watching the film in the theater.” #NYFCC
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Spoke to #RRR director @ssrajamouli about colonialist bad guys, finishing his action-adventure epic during COVID, and why he wants to make a Hollywood movie. This Best Picture contender gets a big IMAX screening tonight in LA: @IndieWire
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Kudos to this year’s NYU cinema studies majors. I was happy to record a message to this year’s grads, as did Christopher Nolan, @rianjohnson , @edgarwright , Karyn Kusama and others. Well deserved! Go change the world.
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Willem Dafoe on the distinction between TV and "cinema"
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Spielberg is wrong about the theatrical thing ≠ Spielberg sucks in general. Come on!
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“I need to hug this cabron!” Alfonso Cuarón finds Guillermo del Toro at the Governors Ball
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Wes Anderson, honored at Venice, says Spike Lee is one of the reasons he became a filmmaker. “I tried my best just to follow his roadmap, which didn’t work.” He adds “my movie today is only 40 minutes long so as soon as it gets rolling, it’s almost done.” #Venezia80
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Nice, searing ⁦ @BarryJenkins ⁩ speech at #NBRawards : “Literally right fucking now the president is talking about walls and borders...Fuck him.” He cites immigrant filmmakers Bing Liu, Chloe Zhao, and ⁦⁦ @AlfonsoCuaron ⁩.
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READY PLAYER ONE feels like Spielberg watched a ton of Luc Besson movies and decided to outdo them. In terms of pure spectacle, it’s the most astonishing thing he’s done. Never underestimate Steve. #SXSW
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3 years
I spoke to Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau (!!!) about a bunch of stuff, but this may be the highlight. #cannes
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“I think we have to question if we’re arguing about the size of the screens or the size of the ideas.” Guillermo del Toro kicks off this two-day symposium on the future of filmmaking for the 75th anniversary of #Cannes2022 . @RealGDT
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The whole damn world was talking about GAME OF THRONES, but the real masterpiece from this past weekend is the stunning Bill Hader-directed episode of BARRY.
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6 years
ROMA is superb — devastating until it's life-affirming, gorgeous and enigmatic, loaded with so many subtle details that it actually makes sense to have it on Netflix so you can revisit it many times over. But at least try to see it on the big screen once.
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4 years
I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS is loaded with mysterious references — film, literature, theater galore — so I asked Charlie Kaufman to help explain it all. Watch this fascinating, cryptic movie first, then circle back for this primer on what it all means:
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5 years
Wow, the screenplay for A QUIET PLACE is not big on subtlety.
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2 years
Taylor and Luca.
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“I know De Niro is nervous around me now. Bobby, you’ve done some good shit but the Sandman is here now.” Adam Sandler at #NBR
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3 years
Bong Joon Ho staying cool at #Cannes ! (With THE CLIMB director Michael Covino)
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6 years
#InfinityWar may be the most expensive Hollywood movie ever designed to mess with its audience. People sure are going to sit through a lot of credits!
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5 years
JOKER doesn’t reinvent the comic book movie, but it’s certainly the scariest one — a taut psychological thriller w/a few horror movie twists. Joaquin Phoenix, though, yikes: Looks like he stepped out of THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI, or maybe he’s still trapped there. Astounding.
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CAPERNAUM, a Lebanese drama from last year's #Cannes , grossed $1.6 million in the U.S. It made over $12 million in China LAST WEEKEND. WTF? As the industry descends on #Cannes2019 , I took a look at China's potential for arthouse cinema: via @indiewire
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2 years
Two sides of the #Cannes coin.
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6 years
Janes Baldwin’s IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK is a staggering achievement in lyrical storytelling loaded with ravishing visuals and rich with ideas. It’s impossible to read it without picturing a sumptuous cinematic experience. Barry Jenkins has made that movie. #TIFF18
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6 years
A STAR IS BORN is an endearing, sweet puppy dog of a movie, but Lady Gaga charges through it like a nuclear bomb. #tiff
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2 years
#RIP Jean-Luc Godard, maestro of cinema, eternal badass. He challenged the world with images and chronicled its decline. He WAS the movies, and they will live forever.
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“I don’t really understand what’s going on. Lady Gaga is here and now Jim Jamusch is giving me award. I’m in disbelief.” -Hamaguchi accepting #NYFCC for best film/DRIVE MY CAR. Says NYC birthed his favorite filmmaker, Cassavetes. Singles out Marshall Fine for his Cassavetes book!
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Yeah, THE IDOL has the EUPHORIA vibes you might expect but it’s really more like somebody put BLACK SWAN, SUCCESSION, and SECRETARY in a blender and let it rip. Prepare yourself for quite the discourse… #cannes
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6 years
@Wendys Need to know your favorite movie of the year.
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5 years
MARRIAGE STORY is an astonishing showcase for Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, a terrific step up in ambition for Noah Baumbach, and a dark/funny/poignant evocation of the divorce process as a conduit to the paradoxes of life itself. via @indiewire
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Spike Lee gets his #Oscar engraved. Tonight’s biggest victory.
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Yes, yes, Adam Sandler rules. But the nerve-rattling fun of UNCUT GEMS is how it synthesizes every Safdie bros movie before it, from GOOD TIME to DADDY LONGLEGS to LENNY COOKE in a mesmerizing chronicle of desperate schemes...think MEAN STREETS meets Preston Sturges. #Telluride
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Saoirse Ronan is next-level great in LADY BIRD, and Greta Gerwig's a killer filmmaker. 2002 nostalgia never felt so sweet. #telluride
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3 years
Willem Dafoe on the superiority of the theatrical experience
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"We are living in a massive deforestation of film culture." Guillermo Del Toro on saving FilmStruck, with additional input from Edgar Wright and Alicia Malone: @RealGDT @EdgarWright @AliciaMalone
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Guillermo says “I love certain pirate entities. I am sorry. There are certain films we have to go to them to see because they are not available on Blu-ray.” Gaspar Noé: “Now it’s platforms or piracy.” #Cannes2022
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4 years
PARASITE didn’t just materialize in America. It took strategy and vision to get this movie as far as it did. At last night’s #Oscars ceremony, as the momentum picked up, I asked NEON co-founder Tom Quinn to explain things a bit:
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Johnny Depp gets a considerable response once inside the theater at #Cannes
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5 years
Fox Searchlight just delivered a cake and an 18th century page boy with a “summons” to my office. Peak marketing season? Whatever. Go see THE FAVOURITE.
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Gyllenhaal x Gaga #nyfcc
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At the Austin Film Society’s Texas Film Awards, Timothée Chalamet says he’s got “four unused speeches” from awards season. Tonight he presents to Armie Hammer. #AFS
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Stop counting the minutes of film festival ovations! Just stop!
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At a #Telluride party last night, director Bong Joon Ho revealed his two favorite movies at the festival — the Safdies' UNCUT GEMS and Kelly Reichardt's FIRST COW: "And they're so different!"
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Has anyone ever explained what Mary Poppins...is? Does she come from another dimension? Is she an alien? How the hell does she have a cousin?
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“I am a product of public arts funding.” -Timothée Chalamet #afs
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Park Chan-wook is happy that DECISION TO LEAVE is the Korean Oscar submission, but is even more keen on getting nominations for his cast.
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BARBIE/OPPENHEIMER
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@Wendys Not too shabby but for whatever reason I had you pegged as a PARASITE stan.
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Richard Linklater’s APOLLO 10 ½ has been ruled ineligible for the Best Animated Feature Oscar. Linklater is appealing the decision, which he sees as both a bias against rotoscope and animation that isn’t just for kids. Exclusive deets:
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4 years
Good lord, this is tragic news. RIP Lynn Shelton, a truly original filmmaking voice whose latest work suggested she was just getting started.
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#BladeRunner2049 is essentially NO COUNTRY FOR OLD REPLICANTS. Astonishing neonoir candy. For once, believe the hype.
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While some Oscar nominees are at home worrying about Sunday, @questlove is doing this. #Oscars
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LA LA LAND's Jordan Horowitz & Barry Jenkins. Photo by Telluride's Julie Huntsinger, who showed both films. #Oscars
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Another #Cannes guy!
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Spike Lee turns to the camera with a message during the ecstatic standing ovation for #Blackkklansman at #Cannes
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Peak #Cannes fashion
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THE IRISHMAN is like a greatest hits album from a master of the medium. Yes, that’s a positive. The artifice of de-aging is more feature than bug. It’s not “slow.” It often moves like lightening & elsewhere it’s downright Bressonian. This is not a review! Those are embargoed.
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Guillermo Del Toro leading mariachi band in song at end of #Cannes70 dinner. Sorrentino vapes.
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Dylan Marchetti, who ran the theatrical campaign for DRIVE MY CAR, sees potential for #RRR in categories ranging from Best Picture to Best Original Song
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It’s hard to imagine what words could possibly encapsulate the tragedy of losing a cultural icon like Chadwick Boseman, but Ryan Coogler found them.
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Paul Thomas Anderson! We spoke about a bunch of LICORICE PIZZA stuff, his secret social media presence (fyi ⁦ @letterboxd ⁩), AMERICAN GRAFFITI, Daniel Day Lewis, dead actors he wants to work with, etc. ⁦ @licoricepizza ⁩ ⁦ @IndieWire
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TITANE is an absolutely wild and gratifying joyride, the Tarantino-meets-Cronenberg car-fucking father-son bonding movie you never knew you needed. Instant Palme d’Oil contender. Cinema with bite, and bonus points for resurrecting the Macarena. Good take below! #Cannes
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#Titane Review: Julia Ducournau Follows ‘Raw’ with One of the Wildest Films to Ever Screen at Cannes #Cannes2021
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I spoke to Nicolas Cage about #MANDY , a movie that’s amazing to watch on the big screen but is also on VOD like so much of his work. He knows that, and has accepted it. Also, he’s really not a fan of all those internet memes.
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Weird package show up from @neonrated today. It needed a crowbar to open it. And if you haven’t seen PARASITE, this 180-pound gift will make zero sense. If you have...man, that actor had some serious upper body strength.
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Flight attendant just told everyone on this Delta flight out of Key West to watch THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS. These recommendations should be mandatory for all airline staff
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BABYLON sure bathes in the bacchanal of Old Hollywood. My eyes were never bored; my brain is still catching up. But it has the best ending of the year, one of the all-time hat tips to the cinema.
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“The last time I heard my name called aloud to receive an award was in grade 4 for the Peewee Bowling League.” -Brendan Fraser at the #TIFF Tribute Gala
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Lady Gaga time! And of course it’s…⁦ @RealGDT ⁩ presenting from afar! #nyfcc
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BEAUTIFUL BOY doesn't go anywhere unexpected as it travels through various stages of addiction and family estrangement, but Timothee Chalamet and Steve Carell elevate the material in deep, haunting ways. A #TIFF18 review:
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"We need women writers. Men don't know what we're doing when they aren't there." -Greta Gerwig #Sundance
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Werner Herzog is celebrating his birthday at #Telluride but doesn’t want any well wishes. “Let’s not jinx it, my birthday is tomorrow! I could kick the bucket tonight!”
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Oh my. I don’t remember a movie with this much “Big Cinema Energy” since HOLY MOTORS. #beauisafraid
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5 years
Hey. MONOS is one of the best movies opening this year. Go see it if you care about movies. That is all.
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#Monos opens this Friday in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Get Tickets:
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Timothée Chalamet thanks the #NBR , notes it was started in 1909, “when I was negative 87 years old...there was no grapefruit technique.”
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There's a long take fight in #AtomicBlonde that's the best since CHILDREN OF MEN & it's a highlight of Charlize Theron's career. #SXSW
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MANK is a peculiar labyrinth of a movie, a thrilling & unpredictable approach to deconstructing Hollywood history in its own language. No, you won’t get a definitive CITIZEN KANE backstory (& Orson emerges relatively unscathed); you’ll get a remarkable window into what it means.
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