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Vadim Rizov

@vrizov

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Shining a light on Eurozone docs, also the homeland, please clap

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Returning from @visionsdureel , @vrizov reviews six features, including Nellie Kluz's "The Dells," Nicole Vögele's prize-winning "The Landscape and the Fury" and Louis Hanquet’s "The Shepherd."

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Normal cinephile trajectory

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This is absolutely what I learned from Looney Tunes

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I missed this the first time round. God bless Jodie Foster.

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Like, if there’s no gay sex scheduled for that night or…?

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Trump is now the first president to be dissed by TJ Maxx.

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A fresh perspective enters the fray

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Having now learned about JEANNE DIELMAN, Breitbart readers wonder what the masculine equivalent would be

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Have JOJO RABBIT haters considered that they need to watch the film not just with their eyes and their minds...but their hearts?

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Wong Kar-wai's explanation as to why the two male leads in CHUNGKING EXPRESS are police is really funny

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4 years

This is one of the best articles about the making of ZODIAC I’ve read

How They Made It: The Terrifying Basement Scene in ‘Zodiac’

Robert Graysmith visiting the home of Bob Vaughn in ‘Zodiac’ may be the scariest scene in David Fincher’s filmography

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2 years

What on earth…

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3 years

Wow, what a generous response from Stanley Kubrick

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Taika Waititi’s “indie-style of capturing the nuances of real-life people”

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1 year

A good, accurate description of the notoriously unpopular song “Sympathy for the Devil”

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JACKASS hive: you’ll want to read this interview with the team’s set medic

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3 years

When Christian Petzold went to see PRETTY WOMAN

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them: THE KILLER is not a meta-text about David Fincher's work THE KILLER:

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4 years

Real Roy Andersson hours on the DNC roll call tonight

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The Brooklyn Paramount Theater, built in 1928 and converted by Long Island University into a gym in 1962. So rarely do you see a basketball court topped by an Art Deco theater.

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5 years

I have now seen audiences applaud, unprompted, at both the A24 and Netflix logos, and I feel like I may be going mad.

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10 months

I feel like the last decade I’ve been repeatedly told to stop watching old art movies and start watching TV or TikTok or whatever because the kids don’t care but a sea of undergraduates just sold out TOKYO STORY. “Fuck, I really wanted to see that!” the person behind me blurted.

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1 year

Frederick Wiseman is not planning on making another documentary at this time because he's too busy making 4K DCPs of his 16mm work. (via )

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From the new Cineaste: the room in Godard’s cellar where he and Fabrice Aragno edited for the last decade under the watchful gaze of Hannah Arendt

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7 years

Getting some stuff out of my system re: anti-art criticism, resistance; rhetoric, Trump etc etc

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5 months

Good Fincher story on using fake on-set smoke to create fake grain (via )

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3 years

I have to give completely unexpected thanks. I was walking on my way to get some chicken when I passed Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Garden on Malcolm X. Dudes were hanging outside and are like “we have food. It’s free and it’s good. Go get a plate.” So I went in. And...

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9 months

Uncle Vanya, Soulja Boy & More!

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2 years

RIP Peter Bogdanovich, for whom I was once an “intern” (i.e., bought cat food for his felines at Fairway).

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From that Ridley Scott profile, a whole mentality in one sentence. These people are *everywhere*, this is what they think "artistry" is ("sheen" is very much the applicable word), except now their reference points are much, much worse.

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4 years

A sadly typical example of what can make Film Twitter so unpleasant. Two movie fans should be able to have a civil debate about which boxing masterpiece is better, Franco Zeffirelli’s THE CHAMP or Martin Scorsese’s RAGING BULL, without getting ugly and personal.

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We’ve all worked for someone like Governor Cuomo. Type of person who is actively hostile to other ppl getting things done and makes it impossible to do so without getting permission first, which will only be granted after weeks of needless delay to remind people Who’s In Charge.

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What more could you ask for really

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6 years

I could be wrong (please direct me to any reading I've missed!) but written critical response to FIRST REFORMED has kind of punted on the fact that it's the only movie to date to point out how terrifying irreversible climate change in our lifetime is & how hard that is to process

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just like Napoleon’s real-life opponents, critics of Ridley Scott’s dramatic venture are being quickly struck down by battle cries of positivity.

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4 years

Look does it need more electricity or not, it’s a simple question

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1 year

Here are Guy Maddin and Kelly Reichardt in conversation

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Apex headline.

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Bong Joon-ho, 2010 (via this video h/t @eshynes )

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Bahman Ghobadi, of all people, has a cameo in THE IRISHMAN

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5 years

Holy shit

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Ed Lachman not bothering to conceal his annoyance while explaining why DARK WATERS is the first all-digital Haynes feature

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7 years

No, Dale Cooper, That's *Not* One Damn Fine Cup Of Coffee: What "Twin Peaks" Gets Wrong About The Labor Abuses Behind Your Java

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6 months

Feels like Miko Revereza pulling his film from IDFA is going around heavily on Instagram but not here, so...

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6 years

Unsurprising but still not great: AMC now officially has a no-masking policy and they're happy to say that.

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2 years

In an interview about the making of PREY (), DP Jeff Cutter offers a very succinct explanation of what Spielberg does:

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6 years

There are far worse movies young people could watch than THE DARK KNIGHT. When I was in college, my fellow film students were super into THE BOONDOCK SAINTS and SNATCH as aspirational formative influences.

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7 years

GOOD TIME: accurately named, funnier than expected. R. Pattinson has nothing left to prove.

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I’m always saying this

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2 years

Finally saw BELLY, which must set a record for sheer quantity of marijuana smoked onscreen minute for minute. Now reading up.

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4 years

The intellectual stimulation of engaging with the monoculture appears to be increasingly limited

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"'Jordan Peterson on "Baby It's Cold Outside"' In Exclusive Breitbart Video Interview Clip" is 2018 bingo

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11 months

Apparently it's time to share this again

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4 years

If SÁTÁNTANGÓ is hitting VOD this Friday (Vimeo+Lincoln Center Virtual Theater+additional platforms to follow), it must be time to repost the Béla Tarr interview

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This is parked at the bottom of the IMDB trivia page for HANNAH AND HER SISTERS

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"Mr. Blume, this is my father, Bert Fischer."

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It’s like 15 year old post-rock album covers are being directly converted into craft beers

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Wiseman on subjects doing due diligence on him

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spoke to the legend Frederick Wiseman for @FilmmakerMag about MENU-PLAISIRS, not watching food shows, chefs vs filmmakers, and more @ZipporahFilms

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When I was 17, I went to see DEMONLOVER and, for once, a friend came with me. Afterwards he said, “Wow, I can see why spend so much time alone if you watch movies like that.”

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Congratulations to the Cannes “Film Festival” for their clever ploy—pretending to be a real entity that exists, inventing an elaborate faux history, luring people here, creating a website that doesn’t work, all to increase tourism revenue.

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I only get to make this dumb joke one day in my entire life and today is the day.

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Film Forum's imminent Billy Wilder retrospective wreaking havoc on the subway system. "False auteur!" Sarris-ites snipe and sneer while darting out of the cars. "Structural excellence!" his passionate defenders cry out.

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3 years

Donald Trump emulate Mishima’s final day challenge

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Editing an interview with John Sayles, laughing at his description of a certain kind of can't-miss arthouse audience: "These people will go to anything about climate change, anything with French food in it, whatever it is."

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Paid a visit to the SERENE VELOCITY hallway

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“Nolan”

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@ScreenSlate Isn’t there oil on his family’s land?

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In SHOWING UP, Michelle Williams keeps trying to do what she needs to do and everyone’s like “That’s nice, but you have to deal with this dumb bullshit instead” while she gives 50 kinds of long suffering looks. Great movie!

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Like most people, I often am reductive in characterizing Common as “yet another Oscar-winning performer.”

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Trump railing against Mueller’s "48 million dollar" investigation, honestly we should be supporting more mid-budget productions, the kind of movies for adults we just don’t see anymore.

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I do give this account a lot of credit for throwing constant curveballs.

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When the woke take is not fact-checked

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Robert McKee is now writing film reviews, and as you might expect they crystallize a whole new terrain of mediocrity

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Friday must-read, unlocked from our most recent issue: a staggeringly detailed, erudite and enlightening piece by Bingham Bryant on color trends in digital film restoration. Why do so many things look anachronistically blue or yellow? He has answers!

Seeing Eye to Eye: Color Correction Styles Across Today’s Film Restorations - Filmmaker Magazine

Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.

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1 year

Why are blockchain robots trolling Janus Films about EIGHT DEADLY SHOTS?

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5 years

Having a garbage day but just got off the phone with Béla Tarr, who said he enjoys Tarantino movies (!), so that’s something.

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INFINITY POOL cinematographer Karim Hussain discusses his beloved lens, Lucky Pierre, who has "a lot of fungus in his rear element [... but] a really interesting fungus" (via )

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They don’t value 35mm repertory cinema

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What is a subtle sign someone isn’t a good person?

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Four months in, I’m no longer getting emails from corporations letting me know that I’m part of their family and they care about my safety. I feel like Haley Joel Osment in A.I., abandoned in the forest by my parents. I thought these were forever relationships!

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After about two months of Festival Films, very refreshing to watch Friedkin's THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL, featuring Lots of Acting, great coverage, lotta acting styles and heated voices and absolutely zero in the way of minor epiphanies.

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The first thing that’s made me laugh all day

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David Lynch, 2000, expressing precisely how I feel about movies generally but basically everything

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Bruno Dumont’s FRANCE: probably a difficult movie if you believe movies should focus on things like “generating empathy for characters.” Probably the year’s most deliberately inscrutable movie on just about every level. I’m impressed! (These are all compliments.)

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I had 20 minutes with Mia Hansen-Løve and, per my usual wont, used them to ask oddly specific questions

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Rather quietly, UniFrance has posted the original short of ATLANTIQUES to watch for free through Dec. 10

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I laughed at Jennifer Kent’s explanation of how she made sure it would be very hard to change THE NIGHTINGALE’s aspect ratio as contractually mandated. (Via: )

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John Carpenter on his movies' reevaluation & growing stature: "It’s great. It’s better than people calling me a piece of shit all the time."

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This is my fifth (!) annual round-up of last year's 35mm-based feature theatrical releases, annotated, with quotes, links etc.

The 24 Films (More or Less) Shot on 35mm Released in 2018 - Filmmaker Magazine

Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.

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Longing for the days of pre-woke entertainment like CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

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10 years

So yes. News filtered down thru the net already, but I'm the managing editor of Filmmaker Magazine now. I'm really happy about this.

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2 years

Happy 25th to LOST HIGHWAY. Digging in the archives, I find this eminently characteristic exchange

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All across America employees are saying the same thing ("please pay me a greater fraction of the considerable revenue I generate") and bosses are responding ("we hired a DEI consultant in the summer of 2020, what more do you people want").

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Film Twitter, such as it is, spends an unbelievable amount of time bitching about bad pieces and saying we should promote good ones, but I've seen the analytics on how many people read my more ambitious stuff and the follow-through is weak.

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“Our little movie has found its forever home,” I say when announcing my content’s acquisition by a large streamer.

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