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"I don't expect you to be as depressed as I am, but I don't think your happiness is quite appropriate."
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bilgeebiri.bsky.social @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · Dec 6
INTERSTELLAR is back in theaters, so of course I wrote about it. www.vulture.com/article/inte...
Interstellar’s Most Enduring Quality Is What People Used to Hate About It
Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi spectacle is fascinating precisely because of what so many pegged as its fatal flaw in 2014: its unabashed emotionality.
www.vulture.com
bilgeebiri.bsky.social
This is great. "'Peanuts,’ Christmas, and Jesus: 30 years of returning to Bethlehem with Charles Schulz." greydanus.substack.com/p/peanuts-ch...
‘Peanuts,’ Christmas, and Jesus: 30 years of returning to Bethlehem with Charles Schulz
[LONGREAD: Linus the prophet, the ‘Peanuts’ gang, and the Gospel infancy narratives, 1958–1988]
greydanus.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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sepinwall.bsky.social
🎶 We gotta pod a little deeper… 🎶
December 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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mattsinger.bsky.social
[Johnny Depp in Black Mass voice]

THEY GAWT THE FECKIN LAWBSTUHHS IN TAWNTON
December 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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robdelaney.bsky.social
Another way AI leads to suicide is that hearing people talk about it makes you want to jump into a jet engine
December 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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anonajn.bsky.social
i agree we're at a kind of crisis point for advertising. nobody wants to be advertised to. most adults now grew up being advertised to and grew to hate it and have worked to minimize how much of it they see. and there's more Stuff that wants to be advertised than ever before.
December 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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tvaziri.com
wow this is a good piece

“Despite the fact that we all appear to be drowning in movie marketing, fewer viewers are aware of what’s coming out and when.”

Movie Marketing Used to Be Fun. Now It’s Just Inescapable. By @bilgeebiri.bsky.social

www.vulture.com/article/movi...
December 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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davidlfear.bsky.social
From my man @bilgeebiri.bsky.social's great piece on movie marketing:

www.vulture.com/article/movi...
December 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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mrbeaks.bsky.social
A great piece on the most frustratingly relevant film of 2025. I think about THE INSIDER every day.
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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pierregaultier.bsky.social
“Our writing was held to the same kind of standard that Lowell Bergman uses in journalism, which is that it wasn’t authentic unless it could be corroborated at least a couple of times,” Mann says. “Every line of description in the script was subject to the most rigorous kind of fact-checking.”
December 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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thehighsign.bsky.social
Next up, @bilgeebiri.bsky.social on what I agree is among the best & most original films of 2025, Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent, a political thriller that, as Bilge writes, creates a world so full that for 2 hours & 40 minutes the viewer loses all sense of time. slate.com/culture/2025...
The Dark-Horse Best-Picture Contender I Still Can’t Shake
Nothing quite encapsulated life in 2025 like the surreal opening of this great movie.
slate.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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edwinjdavies.bsky.social
Lovely stuff from Bilge Ebiri
At the end of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, decades after the central events, it is remarked of M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), the film's exceedingly courtly and crafty concierge hero, that "his world had vanished long before he ever entered it." On its surface, the movie has, up to this point, shown us how Gustave's old-world manners and code of honor were destroyed by the rise of totalitarianism and twentieth-century political violence. Now, this touching line suggests that these values had perhaps disappeared even earlier, and Gustave was merely living in their ruins without quite realizing it. Looking at the broader arc of Anderson's career, however, we can perhaps understand these words as intimating something even more haunting and profound: that Gustave's world was never really there in the first place. Like all of Wes Anderson's protagonists, his compass points in a direc- tion that may have never existed. FIN.
December 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
bilgeebiri.bsky.social
My latest entry in the Slate Movie Club: on defending THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB, how we’re all living in the opening 10 minutes of THE SECRET AGENT, and the importance of movies that aren’t just about telling stories. slate.com/culture/2025...
The Dark-Horse Best-Picture Contender I Still Can’t Shake
Nothing quite encapsulated life in 2025 like the surreal opening of this great movie.
slate.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
bilgeebiri.bsky.social
The best part of this is discovering that Michael Biehn has a podcast.
December 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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louispeitzman.bsky.social
If you are celebrating the holiday by seeing Song Sung Blue, I broke down the truly wild (and fact-based!) ending.
The Craziest Thing About Song Sung Blue Is That It Happened
The tragic story of a Neil Diamond tribute band is mostly accurate, even that ending.
www.vulture.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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michelle-buchman.com
I have SO MUCH I would like to say about Bilge’s piece from my POV but unfortunately I cannot state them publicly because I am NDAed to death.
December 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
bilgeebiri.bsky.social
Timothée Chalamet is so electric in MARTY SUPREME that it takes a while before you realize that he’s playing a total shit. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
Timothée Chalamet Gives His Best Performance to Date in Marty Supreme
Josh Safdie’s film is enormously entertaining — and also maybe a little empty and unconvincing.
www.vulture.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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nymag.com
Despite the fact that we all appear to be drowning in movie marketing, fewer viewers are aware of what’s coming out and when. Hollywood is starting to realize this situation is unsustainable.
Movie Marketing Used to Be Fun. Now It’s Just Inescapable.
Despite the fact that we all appear to be drowning in movie marketing, fewer viewers are aware of what’s coming out and when. Hollywood is starting to realize this situation is unsustainable.
www.vulture.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
bilgeebiri.bsky.social
Movie marketing is kind of a mess right now. www.vulture.com/article/movi...
Movie Marketing Used to Be Fun. Now It’s Just Inescapable.
Stunts and promos and merchandising have infiltrated every last corner of modern life, and yet fewer viewers are aware of what’s coming out when.
www.vulture.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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thehighsign.bsky.social
Movie Club continues w/ @alisonwillmore.bsky.social pushing back on my distaste for the "Safdie school," while also championing some of the smaller movies that tend to get lost in the end-of-year rush, like Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind and Ira Sachs's Peter Hujar's Day. slate.com/culture/2025...
Yes, Timothée Chalamet’s Latest Creation Is Loathsome. I Loved It.
Sometimes, you just need to wallow in the discomfort.
slate.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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thehighsign.bsky.social
Round 2 of Movie Club starts with me working through my resistance to what I call the Safdie school of filmmaking, though it isn't limited to the movies made by those two brothers, together or apart. slate.com/culture/2025...
Timothée Chalamet’s New Movie Is Part of a Trend I Can’t Stand
Marty Supreme is one of the year’s most acclaimed movies. But aren’t there higher goals than just stressing you out?
slate.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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midcenturycinema.bsky.social
12/23/55: Max Ophüls w/Lola Montes
Not peak Max for us, but essential & a visual feast
More:
Laura Mulvey: lolajournal.com/7/lola_monte...
@bilgeebiri.bsky.social: www.villagevoice.com/revel-in-the...
Chris Wisniewski: reverseshot.org/features/152...
Lola Montes
Articles written on films showing in the Museum of the Moving Image's SEE IT BIG series, co-programmed by Reverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert
reverseshot.org
December 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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kateholterhoff.com
“He shoots incessantly, improvises constantly… and then spends months in postproduction... This approach is inviting not just because it is unusually creative and collaborative but because it is rooted in the nature of cinema itself.” @bilgeebiri.bsky.social yalereview.org/article/bilg...
Bilge Ebiri: “Why Terrence Malick Is the Most Influential Director”
Bilge Ebiri explores filmmaker Terrence Malick’s vision of grace and his far-ranging influence on American cinema.
yalereview.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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alanzilberman.bsky.social
BREAKING: I obtained a 1945 letter written to director George Stevens and producer John Ford expressing concerns about Nazi Concentration Camps, the documentary film they plan to release.
Hi all, I’m writing with specific guidance on what I’d like for us to do to advance George Stevens’ Nazi Concentration Camps documentary. I know you’d all like to see this run as soon as possible; I feel the same way. But if we run the film as is, we’d be doing our viewers a disservice. 1. Many of our nation’s armed services, most notably United States Army Signal Corps, exposed the horrific conditions at Dauchau, Buchenwald, and others. Our film presents more of these powerful testimonies—and putting those accounts into the public record is valuable in and of itself. But if we’re going to run another story about a topic that has by now been much-covered we need to advance it. Among the ways to do so: does anyone in Nazi high command or anyone prominent who defended the use of the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor now regret it in light of what these Jewish men and women endured? That’s a question I’d like to see asked and answered. 2. At present, we do not present the German argument for why it sent millions to the camps. What we have is Hitler’s soundbite claiming they are evildoers in Germany (enemies of the race-based state, etc.). But isn’t there much more to ask in light of the torture that we are revealing? Adolf Eichmann and Hermann Göring don’t tend to be shy. I realize we’ve wrote the Schutzstaffel spox, but we need to push much harder to get these principals on the record. 3. The data we present paints an incongruent picture. Of the 13 million victims of Nazis, we say nearly half are not Jews. In other words, more than half are real enemies of Germany. We should spend a beat explaining this. We then say that only 50,000 of them have been sentenced for violent homosexuality. But what about charged? My point is that we should include as much as we can possibly know and understand about these individuals. 4. Adolf Eichmann trip to Auschwitz. We report that he witnessed a mass execution, with no comment from him or his staff about what his goal on that trip was, or what else he saw there, or if he had or has concerns about the treatment of detainees like the ones in our piece. I also think that the ensuing analysis from Nuremberg Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson is odd. The pictures are alarming; we should include them. But what does his analysis add? 5. We need to do a better job of explaining the legal rationale by which the administration detained and deported these Jews to Dachau. It’s not as simple as Hitler invoking the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor and being able to deport them immediately. And that isn’t the administration’s argument. The admin has argued in court that Jews are creating “racial defilement”—and we should explain this, with a voice arguing that Hitler is exceeding his authority under the relevant statute, and another arguing that he’s operating within the bounds of his authority. There’s a genuine debate here. If we cut down Adolf Eichmann analysis we’d have the time. My general view here is that we do our viewers the best service by presenting them with the full context they need to assess the story. In other words, I believe we need to do more reporting here. I am eager and available to help. I tracked down [prison] cell numbers for Eichmann and Göring and sent those along. Please let me know how I can support you.
December 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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alissawilkinson.bsky.social
Really pleased to see my interview with Library of America about my book WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES and what Joan Didion has to say about Hollywood and American politics on LoA's end-year round-up:
libraryofamerica.bsky.social Library of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social · 7d
In 2025, the tapestry of American literature was on full display at Library of America, both in the books we published and in our online content exploring this vast living legacy. Enjoy a retrospective of our top essays, interviews, videos, and podcasts, and we’ll see you again in the new year!
Year in Review: a look back at our best online content of 2025 - Library of America
American literature is a tapestry, its lineage of great writers the strands that weave it together. In 2025, this interconnected multiplicity was on full display from Library of America, both in the b...
www.loa.org
December 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM