I would like to see even just one example of a marriage or relationship that has survived the woman’s career skyrocketing while the man’s career stagnates or declines, because the stories I am hearing from my paired-up friends are painting a very bleak picture!!
Kind of insane there is literally a HALO streaming series and not a single person outside a couple critics who reviewed it have said a thing about it. Streaming literally just kills interest in stuff.
Apple literally beat Amazon and Netflix to Oscars by buying a Sundance film at $25 mil and outspending them through the marketing run. What a run for Silicon Valley. A+ no notes.
The reason you know WEST SIDE STORY is good is none of the Tik Tok dancers are trying to recreate the choreography like they do for every other recent musical.
Can’t find it but there’s a story Matt Damon told once that Soderbergh edited the entire film on his MacBook on Final Cut as they went and literally showed Damon he had pretty much the final cut already done at the wrap party.
personally i just hope the new exorcist movie is about trauma, it's my favorite subject for contemporary cinema but rarely explored, especially in the horror genre
Jesus, how many fucking strikes am I going to have to hear about?
Let’s just get convicted prisoners to write our shows and make our cars for a dollar a day and be done with it.
I think what makes the drone camerawork in AMBULANCE so impressive is most films seem to use drones as an easy replacement for helicopter shots or even Steadicam rigs, and the crew here actually looks at what you can do with a drone that you can't otherwise.
I recommend Pixar staff trying unionizing and then they can negotiate theatrical releases as part of their contract the way top talent is allowed to do.
Pixar staff are said to be “in shock” and “extremely disappointed” that yet another Pixar film, ‘TURNING RED’, is getting an exclusive Disney+ release.
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@dennisbhooper
Great tv is being able to sleep through 10 minutes and then just say “eh I’ll just watch the next one since everything worked out for everyone”
RRR is basically what a superhero movie would look like if it didn’t apologize for itself: breathtaking action, gloriously bloody, and most importantly sincere in its bromance and anti colonial politics. No irony necessary. Seriously: go see this in a theater this weekend.
@fancyoverture
you can put screens in places, but to move around like this guy you need to be carrying them with your hand tracking. So this guy is faking it:
Warner Bros cartoons went from basically advertisements to a creative and often avant-garde form thanks to the formation of the Screen Cartoonists Guild in 1938 and their Union fights against Fleischer Bros, Disney, and WB, and given strong creative protections. That’s history.
“Defend the sanctity of Space Jam” Twitter is dunking on this but it’s true. Looney Tunes were created to plug songs owned by Warner publishing, then as time went on plugged movies from Warner Studios. Sorry but from day one these cartoons were all about Warner IP
The last line here is like one of the most incredible line readings I've ever seen in a movie. Two Lovers is one of the greatest period pieces ever made (set in 2008, the year the movie was made).
If someone said there was a film that was essentially "APOCALYPTO meets PREDATOR" I'd probably be first in line at the movie theater but the only place you can see this is on your mediocre home set up with a lagging stream that will top out around 2K.
KELLY REICHARDT criticizes BARBENHEIMER as diluting cinema as an art form:
"They are part of a huge marketing machine but they are sold as art. This is just celebrated. As a filmmaker, I wonder what this will do to people's expectations for future films”
THE KILLER puts almost every digital moving shooting at night time in recent memory to shame: layered, actual contrasting, clarity thanks to physical lighting. An absolute shame no one will be able to see this thanks to the distributor’s garbage downscaling onto your television.
King Hu's film about striking Chinese workers during the building of the transcontinental railroad in the American West. Produced by John Woo and starring , Chow Yun-Fat. He did two decades of research.
what's your pop culture white whale? i mean unreleased/unrealized stuff like "the day the clown cried" - mine is the rumored jay-z blueprint 3 track "crispy benjamins" which supposedly sampled regina spektor's "chemo limo"
Netflix's biggest success of the last two years is to recreate the cultural relevancy of people randomly catching the TNT or AMC Sunday Afternoon movies.
found out the Irish have been hiding the ultimate hangover cure from us. The Spice Bag, Chinese takeaway salt & pepper chili fried chicken, french fries, fried onions and peppers, served with curry sauce for dipping. Vegan versions are made with fried tofu fritters.
I was kind of ignoring this silly thread but each one of these shots has a completely different lighting structure. Like each shot here is attuned to the emotional and narrative aspects of its scene, and each one of these highlights Reeves's face (the emotional core of the film).
To give you an idea of how bland the cinematography is, the bulk of the movie consists of simple shot/reverse shot dialogue scenes, almost always with reverse key lighting, and for some reason, Neo is usually positioned on the left side facing right, like four-fifths of the time.
Here's the thing about this article. The five or so tweets complaining about the black and white are pretty much the ONLY tweets complaining about it. None of those tweets have been RT'd or liked a bunch. This isn't a story; it's journalistic malpractice.
The behavior at theaters issue is partially because Hollywood can only convince people to go to movies *as an event* where going is clearly more important than the movie itself. The studios / marketing essentially encourage the behavior, while the conglomerate theaters ignore it.
All the problems here are literally what you get at every AMC Theater since they haven't done a single thing to even preserve a decent quality moviegoing theater experience in years.
You could read dozens of articles on Ozu without anyone pointing out this. But this was the first and foremost issue alongside all the repercussions on interest in David’s book.
What’s your favourite type of specialty shot that a director is known for? ie: De Palma’s split diopter, a long Godard’s Weekend type tracking shot, Wes Anderson’s overhead, Tarantino’s trunk, obvious one but Hitchcock’s vertigo…..
me this morning: "lol who would ever fall for a scam"
me also this morning: "i heard there was free nba and i ran to my computer and clicked any link i saw and entered my credit card info without checking"
Congrats to last night’s audience belly laughing at what must be the funniest shot of all time: Midge slowly walking down the hallway in Vertigo. They laughed *more* as it continued on. I was genuinely shocked.
The "problem" with Nolan's politics is that many of his films try and make you think the film is smart because they address politics and end up making all these contradictory and muddled statements. This is why TENET-a film about "what if go backwards"-is much better.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD, first rewatch in 15 years. The detractors declare White Elephant but this remains propulsive and layered through its characters, absolutely gorgeous (35mm looked stunning) in period detail and a sense of time. Also genuinely comedic and fun scene to scene.
Craven prompt tweet: what was the last genuine cult film? Not pre-packaged as a cult film w/ the required signifiers, but one that truly came out of nowhere and became a cultural phenomenon? (Mind went here cos I'm listening to Songs From The Big Chair & thought of Donnie Darko.)
The digital restoration of NAPOLEON, based on one of the most extensive attempts to create Gance's original vision (and for the first time accessing his archival production notes), will premiere in July:
I’ve seen VERTIGO in a theater before and was ready for a bit of snickering in Scottie’s insistence on the makeover but the audience’s laughter this time became open contempt. Just an awful experience with an artwork I love.
The emotional climax of THE FRENCH DISPATCH is between two POC who just witnessed the utter chaos of state violence, whispering about their émigré desires to find home. More so the moment is bookmarked by a white desire to package the story with this seemingly trite observation.
IATSE has petitioned for 50 on set VFX workers inside Marvel Studios for a union. Extremely proud of my colleagues for helping get this major step toward a more balanced industry for all workers:
A legacy and set of films honestly too overwhelming, varied, complex, and decisive to ever sum up in a tweet. I’ve adored, hated, found new meaning, rejected, and grappled in so many unexpected ways. RIP Jean-Luc.
Announcing some personal news: This summer I’m returning to Los Angeles to work a new position as a researcher for the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600 (
@ICGLocal600
).
Truffaut remarked there was cinema before Godard and cinema after Godard. The academic discipline of Film Studies could be said to have its own Godard in David Bordwell. RIP to someone who really meant a lot to me. Here was my 2015 interview with him:
Netflix out here releasing movies that people make fun of *and* capitalizing on people making fun of those movies by releasing a parody of those movies
Now don’t jump me but sometimes it feels like some of y’all don’t love film simply because you truly love it. You like it for the social capital you feel it can give you over other people.
Love being at an old movies film festival and overhearing comments like “well she wasn’t responsible for the content of the movies…plus Goebbels gave her carte blanche! Who would turn that down.” Buddy fritz Lang got a one way ticket after being offered the job
When I was taught Intro to Film as an undergrad, I was not really taught to ever think about the production of film, so I wanted to end my class on having students consider the actual labor of movies.
This thread has some very good energy and history but I feel it kind of misconstrues some critical points that should be addressed. As someone who published on this for years + been consulted by the gov on this very issue, let me try and parse some ideas.
I'm a little tipsy and explaining to a friend how Hollywood is essentially crumbling for profit and it's interesting so I'm going to make it a thread.
Strap in.
Bankruptcy Goes to Hollywood: A Thread
Probably the most fascinating element of TOP GUN MAVERICK is how all the dialogue is written and directed as an 80s film. One liner after one liner but slowly delivered and without the Whedonesque smugness. It’s a total albatross in how it just sounds coming out of actors.
James Gunn has created 600 unique versions of ‘GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 3’ with aspect ratios that best maximise various types of cinema screens.
“Wherever you go to see it, you’re gonna see the best version,” says Evan Jacobs.
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What made Bordwell so special is while everyone was he finally asked the question, "What is a movie?" "how do we actually follow from shot to shot?" "How do directors make choices?" He wanted to actually understand the base and not make any assumptions about anything.
LA eating culture is like "hey come check out this place rated in the top 10 all time restaurants by every major food critic" and you pull into a strip mall to see this sign