Chris O’Falt
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VP, Features Strategy & Host of the Filmmaker Toolkit @ IndieWire
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April 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
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At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
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Check out guest editor @knguyen.bsky.social's SLR featuring @theuniverse.bsky.social, @vermontgmg.bsky.social, @adamentous.bsky.social, @mckenziefunk.com, @cofalt.bsky.social & more! mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...
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April 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Those surprised by MINECRAFT’s box office clearly do not have a 12-year old son.
April 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Those surprised by MINECRAFT’s box office clearly do not have a 12-year old son.
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March 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We are looking for a new Weekend Editor! (As seems to often happen, our current WE superstar is being promoted within to a new role at IW.) Happy to answer any and all queries, but here is the official posting: www.pmc.com/join-our-tea...
Steve Jobs to Rupert Murdoch:
“The axis today is not liberal & conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot w/ the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society. U can b better, and this is going to b ur legacy if u r not careful”
“The axis today is not liberal & conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot w/ the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society. U can b better, and this is going to b ur legacy if u r not careful”
February 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Steve Jobs to Rupert Murdoch:
“The axis today is not liberal & conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot w/ the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society. U can b better, and this is going to b ur legacy if u r not careful”
“The axis today is not liberal & conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot w/ the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society. U can b better, and this is going to b ur legacy if u r not careful”
The 3 Sundance 2025 films I loved:
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
Train Dreams
Zodiac Killer Project
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
Train Dreams
Zodiac Killer Project
February 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The 3 Sundance 2025 films I loved:
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
Train Dreams
Zodiac Killer Project
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
Train Dreams
Zodiac Killer Project
For me, what differiated David Lynch as a filmmaker was sound — not his incredible sound design, but that so much of his cinema and emotions and ideas were conjured more from sound.
January 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
For me, what differiated David Lynch as a filmmaker was sound — not his incredible sound design, but that so much of his cinema and emotions and ideas were conjured more from sound.
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In general, the contemptuous "How dare the biz proceed with awards" thing in some corners of social media is dumb. People affected by the fires need help. Money, aid, resources, homes. They don't need performative demonstrations of air-quote seriousness. > www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Report That Oscars Are “On Verge of Being Canceled” Is False, Film Academy Sources Say (Exclusive)
The U.K. tabloid The Sun posted a story to its website on Tuesday evening suggesting that the Academy is consulting a committee of A-listers about whether to proceed with the ceremony on March 2.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In general, the contemptuous "How dare the biz proceed with awards" thing in some corners of social media is dumb. People affected by the fires need help. Money, aid, resources, homes. They don't need performative demonstrations of air-quote seriousness. > www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Love the Monsour pick here.
Best Editing, Winner (TIE): Nicholas Monsour, NICKEL BOYS, and Hansjörg Weißbrich, SEPTEMBER 5 #LAFCA
December 8, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Love the Monsour pick here.
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woke up this morning to see (& write) about this www.indiewire.com/news/box-off...
Shocker — Barely Released ‘Juror #2’ Is Immediate #1 at iTunes
Warner Bros. Discovery has a hit on their hands, despite themselves, with 'Juror #2,' now number 1 at iTunes.
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December 4, 2024 at 3:50 PM
woke up this morning to see (& write) about this www.indiewire.com/news/box-off...
Not even going to look up who was nominated or won Best Actress in 2016, Amy Adams (Arrival) was robbed.
Complex thought and emotions translated effortlessly, often w/o the aide of dialogue & movement.
Credit is due to Denis, Young, Johansson, Bellemare, & Walker, but that’s only part of it.
Complex thought and emotions translated effortlessly, often w/o the aide of dialogue & movement.
Credit is due to Denis, Young, Johansson, Bellemare, & Walker, but that’s only part of it.
December 1, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Not even going to look up who was nominated or won Best Actress in 2016, Amy Adams (Arrival) was robbed.
Complex thought and emotions translated effortlessly, often w/o the aide of dialogue & movement.
Credit is due to Denis, Young, Johansson, Bellemare, & Walker, but that’s only part of it.
Complex thought and emotions translated effortlessly, often w/o the aide of dialogue & movement.
Credit is due to Denis, Young, Johansson, Bellemare, & Walker, but that’s only part of it.
My Top 2024 has already changed twice since yesterday, but who cares I’m not a critic.
November 26, 2024 at 8:20 PM
My Top 2024 has already changed twice since yesterday, but who cares I’m not a critic.
I like Babygirl, but maybe the biggest surprise is it’s fairly wholesome.
November 20, 2024 at 12:28 AM
I like Babygirl, but maybe the biggest surprise is it’s fairly wholesome.
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Bob Dylan wrote dialogue for Timothée Chalamet in ‘A Complete Unknown’ – and also insisted on at least one totally inaccurate scene www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Bob Dylan wrote dialogue for Timothée Chalamet in ‘A Complete Unknown’ – and also insisted on at least one totally inaccurate scene www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Post a picture you took to bring some zen into the zone
November 17, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Post a picture you took to bring some zen into the zone
I ❤️ ‘An Almost Christmas Story’ (now on Disney+), but also what it means for the state of CG animation. www.indiewire.com/features/ani...
‘An Almost Christmas Story’: David Lowery Believes We Are at a ‘Sea Change Moment’ for CG Animation
David Lowery goes behind the scenes of how his short honors traditional stop motion puppetry, but is actually CG animation.
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November 16, 2024 at 6:42 PM
I ❤️ ‘An Almost Christmas Story’ (now on Disney+), but also what it means for the state of CG animation. www.indiewire.com/features/ani...
It’s hard to imagine Anora without that (oligarch’s) house. I talked about the heavy lifting it does & building it into the film’s language w/ Sean Baker & production designer Stephan Phelps. www.indiewire.com/features/int...
Inside the ‘Anora’ House: The Story Behind the Year’s Most Essential Movie Location
Sean Baker and production designer Stephen Phelps on the glass mansion overlooking Mill Basin, Brooklyn that became the year's best movie location.
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November 16, 2024 at 6:27 PM
It’s hard to imagine Anora without that (oligarch’s) house. I talked about the heavy lifting it does & building it into the film’s language w/ Sean Baker & production designer Stephan Phelps. www.indiewire.com/features/int...
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There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc
November 16, 2024 at 3:38 AM
There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc