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He's a hero of mine, a hero, and you know I don't use this word lightly.
And indeed, sometimes you only need *one film*.
Mr. De Sica would be very proud of his disciple.
And indeed, sometimes you only need *one film*.
Mr. De Sica would be very proud of his disciple.
January 13, 2026 at 12:14 AM
He's a hero of mine, a hero, and you know I don't use this word lightly.
And indeed, sometimes you only need *one film*.
Mr. De Sica would be very proud of his disciple.
And indeed, sometimes you only need *one film*.
Mr. De Sica would be very proud of his disciple.
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As a student and critic of Criterion Closet videos (I have considered creating a podcast where I just review Criterion Closet videos but I am too old, busy, and serious for such things), I hail this one as a masterpiece of the genre. youtu.be/SqH9WnGf-ns?...
Jafar Panahi’s Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
youtu.be
January 12, 2026 at 9:29 PM
As a student and critic of Criterion Closet videos (I have considered creating a podcast where I just review Criterion Closet videos but I am too old, busy, and serious for such things), I hail this one as a masterpiece of the genre. youtu.be/SqH9WnGf-ns?...
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I was thinking about him last week, I rewatched Alien the way I regularly do-- and the way he (with Giler) sets this perfect mechanism in motion, the sheer economy of means, the inevitability.
Truly an American master, cinema is lucky to have him.
Truly an American master, cinema is lucky to have him.
January 11, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I was thinking about him last week, I rewatched Alien the way I regularly do-- and the way he (with Giler) sets this perfect mechanism in motion, the sheer economy of means, the inevitability.
Truly an American master, cinema is lucky to have him.
Truly an American master, cinema is lucky to have him.
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Walter Hill turns 84 today.
a man in a black leather jacket is holding a gun in his hand .
ALT: a man in a black leather jacket is holding a gun in his hand .
media.tenor.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Walter Hill turns 84 today.
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Our WEEKLY LISTINGS for Friday 9th Jan to Thursday 15th Jan. What a week of movies!
January 9, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Our WEEKLY LISTINGS for Friday 9th Jan to Thursday 15th Jan. What a week of movies!
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What's truly astonishing is that not even Prince -- who was literally made of music, our Mozart -- managed to do what Bowie did, this constant rethinking, art as shapeshifting tool to interpret reality.
January 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
What's truly astonishing is that not even Prince -- who was literally made of music, our Mozart -- managed to do what Bowie did, this constant rethinking, art as shapeshifting tool to interpret reality.
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Make music for fifty years: constant evolution, constant exploration, and your final statement is a work that upends everything you've done up to that very moment.
Bowie ceases to be a sort of musical UFO once one stops considering him a musician -- look at him the way we look at, say, Picasso.
Bowie ceases to be a sort of musical UFO once one stops considering him a musician -- look at him the way we look at, say, Picasso.
January 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Make music for fifty years: constant evolution, constant exploration, and your final statement is a work that upends everything you've done up to that very moment.
Bowie ceases to be a sort of musical UFO once one stops considering him a musician -- look at him the way we look at, say, Picasso.
Bowie ceases to be a sort of musical UFO once one stops considering him a musician -- look at him the way we look at, say, Picasso.
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Ten years ago today, on his 69th birthday, David Bowie released BLACKSTAR.
January 8, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Ten years ago today, on his 69th birthday, David Bowie released BLACKSTAR.
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AD recently shot his personal home in Bel Air, an astonishing monument to his genius.
This old (Carter Era) Tyrnauer story in VF seems to me a fitting tribute to this American master:
www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009...
This old (Carter Era) Tyrnauer story in VF seems to me a fitting tribute to this American master:
www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009...
Glamour Begins at Home
Designer Robert Koch Woolf gave the Beverly Hills elite a new kind of home, as glamorous as any movie set.
www.vanityfair.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:14 PM
AD recently shot his personal home in Bel Air, an astonishing monument to his genius.
This old (Carter Era) Tyrnauer story in VF seems to me a fitting tribute to this American master:
www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009...
This old (Carter Era) Tyrnauer story in VF seems to me a fitting tribute to this American master:
www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009...
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John Elgin Woolf, the openly gay architect who came to Los Angeles to work in the industry but ended up pioneering the Hollywood Regency style, was born on this day in 1908.
January 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
John Elgin Woolf, the openly gay architect who came to Los Angeles to work in the industry but ended up pioneering the Hollywood Regency style, was born on this day in 1908.
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Experience the UK Premiere of William Friedkin’s white-knuckle jungle thriller SORCERER from a new 4K Restoration! Running Fri 9th Jan for five consecutive days - it's often hailed as Friedkin’s boldest and most underrated film.
🎟️: buff.ly/FV6Sv7M
🎟️: buff.ly/FV6Sv7M
January 4, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Experience the UK Premiere of William Friedkin’s white-knuckle jungle thriller SORCERER from a new 4K Restoration! Running Fri 9th Jan for five consecutive days - it's often hailed as Friedkin’s boldest and most underrated film.
🎟️: buff.ly/FV6Sv7M
🎟️: buff.ly/FV6Sv7M
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I still think about The Sweet Hereafter occasionally, and I've never rewatched it after it came out. It's the one that stayed with me. Holm, Polley, Greenwood -- pitch perfect performances. A tone poem, really.
He's a major director (the Russell Banks book is amazing as well)
He's a major director (the Russell Banks book is amazing as well)
January 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I still think about The Sweet Hereafter occasionally, and I've never rewatched it after it came out. It's the one that stayed with me. Holm, Polley, Greenwood -- pitch perfect performances. A tone poem, really.
He's a major director (the Russell Banks book is amazing as well)
He's a major director (the Russell Banks book is amazing as well)
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New collections on Criterion Channel you need to check out:
-Atom Egoyan (a chance to watch his hard to see masterpiece CALENDAR)
-2 shorts by Dwayne LeBlanc that I cannot recommend more strenuously,
-3 films by Med Hondo; the two I’ve seen are brilliant
-Atom Egoyan (a chance to watch his hard to see masterpiece CALENDAR)
-2 shorts by Dwayne LeBlanc that I cannot recommend more strenuously,
-3 films by Med Hondo; the two I’ve seen are brilliant
January 2, 2026 at 6:54 AM
New collections on Criterion Channel you need to check out:
-Atom Egoyan (a chance to watch his hard to see masterpiece CALENDAR)
-2 shorts by Dwayne LeBlanc that I cannot recommend more strenuously,
-3 films by Med Hondo; the two I’ve seen are brilliant
-Atom Egoyan (a chance to watch his hard to see masterpiece CALENDAR)
-2 shorts by Dwayne LeBlanc that I cannot recommend more strenuously,
-3 films by Med Hondo; the two I’ve seen are brilliant
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Nominees for Best Director, 1969:
Carol Reed – Oliver!
Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Gillo Pontecorvo – The Battle of Algiers
Anthony Harvey – The Lion in Winter
Franco Zeffirelli – Romeo and Juliet
Carol Reed – Oliver!
Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Gillo Pontecorvo – The Battle of Algiers
Anthony Harvey – The Lion in Winter
Franco Zeffirelli – Romeo and Juliet
December 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Nominees for Best Director, 1969:
Carol Reed – Oliver!
Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Gillo Pontecorvo – The Battle of Algiers
Anthony Harvey – The Lion in Winter
Franco Zeffirelli – Romeo and Juliet
Carol Reed – Oliver!
Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Gillo Pontecorvo – The Battle of Algiers
Anthony Harvey – The Lion in Winter
Franco Zeffirelli – Romeo and Juliet
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Coldest take possible: amazing stuff that the Oscars came down to MOONLIGHT vs LA LA LAND that year. The contrast!
December 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Coldest take possible: amazing stuff that the Oscars came down to MOONLIGHT vs LA LA LAND that year. The contrast!
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Non ho abbastanza ingrandimento e si vede proprio poco, ma voglio mettere comunque una mia foto, perché ci tengo 😉✨
Ammasso Albero di Natale, NGC 2264.
Passate un Natale sereno e grazie sempre per la compagnia e per gli abbracci 🎄
Ammasso Albero di Natale, NGC 2264.
Passate un Natale sereno e grazie sempre per la compagnia e per gli abbracci 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Non ho abbastanza ingrandimento e si vede proprio poco, ma voglio mettere comunque una mia foto, perché ci tengo 😉✨
Ammasso Albero di Natale, NGC 2264.
Passate un Natale sereno e grazie sempre per la compagnia e per gli abbracci 🎄
Ammasso Albero di Natale, NGC 2264.
Passate un Natale sereno e grazie sempre per la compagnia e per gli abbracci 🎄
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Masterpiece; the script is this perfect machine, absolutely riveting watch even if by now I have it committed to memory; we're lucky because if we're going to make a list of this young century's greatest films we can actually choose between at least two Spielbergs, this is one--and to me the greater
December 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Masterpiece; the script is this perfect machine, absolutely riveting watch even if by now I have it committed to memory; we're lucky because if we're going to make a list of this young century's greatest films we can actually choose between at least two Spielbergs, this is one--and to me the greater
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Steven Spielberg’s MUNICH, screenplay by Eric Roth and the great Tony Kushner, was released 20 years ago today. I rewatched it last night. boxd.it/cbysjX
A ★★★★½ review of Munich (2005)
Not sure what’s more impressive: that Spielberg made this film in the first place or that exactly 20 years later it still holds up, both as a stylistic triumph and as a deeply moral and deeply intelli...
boxd.it
December 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Steven Spielberg’s MUNICH, screenplay by Eric Roth and the great Tony Kushner, was released 20 years ago today. I rewatched it last night. boxd.it/cbysjX
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It's kind of insane how cool the 70s were, just look at them
December 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It's kind of insane how cool the 70s were, just look at them
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It’s Claudia Weill’s birthday today.
Melanie Mayron and Claudia Weill in Girlfriends (1978)
December 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It’s Claudia Weill’s birthday today.
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Steven Spielberg turns 79 today.
First trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day 👀
In theaters on June 12, 2026.
In theaters on June 12, 2026.
December 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Steven Spielberg turns 79 today.
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The precision, the way he made it look easy, natural. Pure class. I think in a way the enormous success of his first ten years as director obscured the enormous talent as actor that he still had in his old age. And thanks to Uncle Martin who rightly saw him as Max Belfort: immortal performance.
December 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The precision, the way he made it look easy, natural. Pure class. I think in a way the enormous success of his first ten years as director obscured the enormous talent as actor that he still had in his old age. And thanks to Uncle Martin who rightly saw him as Max Belfort: immortal performance.
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As flawless as comic relief in that movie as he was as a straight man in Spinal Tap.
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
As flawless as comic relief in that movie as he was as a straight man in Spinal Tap.
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Can't stop thinking about Rob Reiner in THE WOLF OF WALL STREET. So good.
December 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Can't stop thinking about Rob Reiner in THE WOLF OF WALL STREET. So good.