cY
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A searcher. An Ishmael Type. A New Wave Snob
Bulworth (1998)
Director: Warren Beatty
Screenwriter: Warren Beatty, Jeremy Pikser
Revisions: James Toback, Aaron Sorkin
Director: Warren Beatty
Screenwriter: Warren Beatty, Jeremy Pikser
Revisions: James Toback, Aaron Sorkin
January 18, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Bulworth (1998)
Director: Warren Beatty
Screenwriter: Warren Beatty, Jeremy Pikser
Revisions: James Toback, Aaron Sorkin
Director: Warren Beatty
Screenwriter: Warren Beatty, Jeremy Pikser
Revisions: James Toback, Aaron Sorkin
The Anxiety Of Influence literary theory is as accurate as auteur theory is for film
January 18, 2026 at 8:11 PM
The Anxiety Of Influence literary theory is as accurate as auteur theory is for film
BULWORTH. Masterpiece. Don’t think there’s any greater dissonance in music than Warren Beatty’s rhyming, which while I find funny barely qualifies as music in categorization, and Ennio Morricone’s score which is spiritually ravishing
January 18, 2026 at 6:41 PM
BULWORTH. Masterpiece. Don’t think there’s any greater dissonance in music than Warren Beatty’s rhyming, which while I find funny barely qualifies as music in categorization, and Ennio Morricone’s score which is spiritually ravishing
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it's also very goofy that people can comprehend the time/impact at the club meme or the dead character haunting the movie trope but not part of the underlying logic
January 18, 2026 at 6:07 AM
it's also very goofy that people can comprehend the time/impact at the club meme or the dead character haunting the movie trope but not part of the underlying logic
Directors I read about on letterboxd then feel bad because I don't watch their movies or read anyone else watch their movies
Mika Kaurismaki
Lodge Kerrigan
Šarūnas Bartas
Milcho Manchevski
If I was a director, I would like to be this kind of director
Mika Kaurismaki
Lodge Kerrigan
Šarūnas Bartas
Milcho Manchevski
If I was a director, I would like to be this kind of director
January 17, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Directors I read about on letterboxd then feel bad because I don't watch their movies or read anyone else watch their movies
Mika Kaurismaki
Lodge Kerrigan
Šarūnas Bartas
Milcho Manchevski
If I was a director, I would like to be this kind of director
Mika Kaurismaki
Lodge Kerrigan
Šarūnas Bartas
Milcho Manchevski
If I was a director, I would like to be this kind of director
A problem with a lot of film discussion on here is the "they only had 5 minutes of screentime. They were barely in the movie." 5 minutes is an exceptional amount of time, people regularly don't really know how long a minute is
January 17, 2026 at 8:57 PM
A problem with a lot of film discussion on here is the "they only had 5 minutes of screentime. They were barely in the movie." 5 minutes is an exceptional amount of time, people regularly don't really know how long a minute is
There's a shot that abstract represents a workplace injury that is so beautiful and poetic, it makes you treat so much other kitchen-sink British cinema like shit in comparison
DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES (Terrence Davies, 1988)
January 17, 2026 at 7:19 PM
There's a shot that abstract represents a workplace injury that is so beautiful and poetic, it makes you treat so much other kitchen-sink British cinema like shit in comparison
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A foundational text to understanding the last decade
January 17, 2026 at 4:50 PM
A foundational text to understanding the last decade
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in all fairness, is there a human alive that is as lucky as trump? the guy has some dark gods on his side
people are spinning out scenarios that they can imagine seeng in movies and then asserting that trump will absolutely accomplish this because, as you know, he holds the infinity stones
January 17, 2026 at 4:32 PM
in all fairness, is there a human alive that is as lucky as trump? the guy has some dark gods on his side
Love this part of the Mad Men season 3 finale where Don gets really Eminem with it
January 17, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Love this part of the Mad Men season 3 finale where Don gets really Eminem with it
Hannah Einbinder has hot girl nepotism (her mother was the hottest woman to ever be on Saturday Night Live).
Also her name sounds like a secondary Fassbinder character actress which only adds to the appeal
Also her name sounds like a secondary Fassbinder character actress which only adds to the appeal
January 17, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Hannah Einbinder has hot girl nepotism (her mother was the hottest woman to ever be on Saturday Night Live).
Also her name sounds like a secondary Fassbinder character actress which only adds to the appeal
Also her name sounds like a secondary Fassbinder character actress which only adds to the appeal
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After the Hunt randomly being the best movie out of Venice this year
January 17, 2026 at 3:51 AM
After the Hunt randomly being the best movie out of Venice this year
Cinephile on twitter: Alfred Hitchcock is my favorite director of the 1950s, I'm such an infidel
Regular joe: Dinner For Schmucks round 50, let's go
Regular joe: Dinner For Schmucks round 50, let's go
January 16, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Cinephile on twitter: Alfred Hitchcock is my favorite director of the 1950s, I'm such an infidel
Regular joe: Dinner For Schmucks round 50, let's go
Regular joe: Dinner For Schmucks round 50, let's go
DON'T LOOK NOW has an insanely hard Italian title.
Translates to: In Venice... a shocking red December
Translates to: In Venice... a shocking red December
January 16, 2026 at 10:41 PM
DON'T LOOK NOW has an insanely hard Italian title.
Translates to: In Venice... a shocking red December
Translates to: In Venice... a shocking red December
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Newsom is truly the worst of all worlds, a California liberal that sucks at governing and also moderates in the most evil ways possible. American Starmer
January 16, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Newsom is truly the worst of all worlds, a California liberal that sucks at governing and also moderates in the most evil ways possible. American Starmer
People will say ABBA songs make no sense in English translation, then cry-twerk to a native English pop song with as bad grammar and worse melodic joy
January 16, 2026 at 9:09 PM
People will say ABBA songs make no sense in English translation, then cry-twerk to a native English pop song with as bad grammar and worse melodic joy
If I could curate a Criterion release, I'd do one for commercials and ads by either big directors, or just ones that are cool or feature a really hot person
January 16, 2026 at 8:53 PM
If I could curate a Criterion release, I'd do one for commercials and ads by either big directors, or just ones that are cool or feature a really hot person
What’s a normie movie that has a scene you could put in a Lars Von Trier movie? I’m obsessed with how About My Father has a scene where Robert De Niro butchers the family’s beloved pet peacock, cooks it, and they unknowingly gorge upon it
January 16, 2026 at 7:01 PM
What’s a normie movie that has a scene you could put in a Lars Von Trier movie? I’m obsessed with how About My Father has a scene where Robert De Niro butchers the family’s beloved pet peacock, cooks it, and they unknowingly gorge upon it
Roger Ebert said this in 1988. LOOK OUT ROG. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW BAD IT'S GONNA GET
January 16, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Roger Ebert said this in 1988. LOOK OUT ROG. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW BAD IT'S GONNA GET
Hate to say it considering nuclear weapons are the great evil of humanity but: Iran needs a nuke.
Brazil needs a nuke.
Egypt needs a nuke
Brazil needs a nuke.
Egypt needs a nuke
January 16, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Hate to say it considering nuclear weapons are the great evil of humanity but: Iran needs a nuke.
Brazil needs a nuke.
Egypt needs a nuke
Brazil needs a nuke.
Egypt needs a nuke
Not that this shit matters compared to genocide or war, but what if she gives it to Trump anyway. What are they going to do about it, force him to give it back, he kidnapped the president of Venezuela
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
January 16, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Not that this shit matters compared to genocide or war, but what if she gives it to Trump anyway. What are they going to do about it, force him to give it back, he kidnapped the president of Venezuela
Crazy that the Cheerleader Effect doesn't apply to men because French movies will have the most beautiful women in the world and yet everyone tweets about how all the men look like a slime vomited them out
January 16, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Crazy that the Cheerleader Effect doesn't apply to men because French movies will have the most beautiful women in the world and yet everyone tweets about how all the men look like a slime vomited them out
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talk about failing the bechdel test
I read an interview today where Alison Bechdel talked about using chatGPT for a panel of her recent comic -- she prompted it and copied the results -- and I still don't know what to do with that. It genuinely feels in moments like this like so many of our art elders are failing us.
Catching up with what James Gurney, the Dinotopia artist, is up to these days. Pathetic.
January 16, 2026 at 2:58 AM
talk about failing the bechdel test