1. God creates man
2. Man places 104% tariffs on China
3. Apple moves factories to US and employs higher cost US labor
4. iPhone prices increase
5. Consumers buy fewer iPhones
6. Apple cuts US labor and returns factories overseas
7. Economy eats man
8. Woman inherits the earth

Last 5 Palme d’Or winners ranked:

1. Parasite

[major gap]

2. Titane
3. Anatomy of a Fall

[gap]

4. Anora

[fifty feet of crap]

5. Triangle of Sadness

10 longest movies I’ve seen

1. Sátántangó (432 mins)
2. Trenque Lauquen (260)
3. ZS Justice League (242)
4. Hamlet (242)
5. Menus-Plaisirs les Troisgros (240)
6. A Brighter Summer Day (237)
7. An Elephant Standing Still (234)
8. Gone with the Wind (233)
9. Lawrence of Arabia (228)
10. Ben-Hur (222)

One of the most important, most innovative, and one of my most beloved filmmakers of the medium I love.

With Mulholland Drive, he changed the way I view cinema, when I first saw it at age 17.

Rest in Peace to the great David Lynch

Cinephiles after fighting over the quality of a movie, only to realize they gave it the same rating.

Four films I consider masterpieces.

Special Tip of the Hat to the movie I co-produced:

Worth a Watch

Abigail
Anora
Carry-On
La Chimera
Conclave
The End
The Fall Guy
Here (Devos)
His Three Daughters
Inside Out 2
Lisa Frankenstein
Maria
Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Monkey Man
Quiet Place: Day 1
Rebel Ridge
Robot Dreams
Transformers One
Trap
Woman of the Hour

More Good Movies

Blitz
Io Capitano
Challengers
Evil Does Not Exist
Hit Man
Immaculate
Kidnapped
Kinds of Kindness
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Look Back
Love Lies Bleeding
Made in England
My First Film
The Old Oak
The Promised Land
Smile 2
Terrifier 3
The War of the Rohirrim

Top 16 movies of 2024:

1. Flow
2. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
3. The Substance
4. Bird
5. Furiosa
6. Last Summer
7. Close Your Eyes
8. Pictures of Ghosts
9. Mars Express
10. The Beast
11. Nosferatu
12. Juror #2
13. Chicken for Linda!
14. Dahomey
15. Dune II
16. Promised Land

Bottom 10 Best Picture Oscar winners, from worst to least worst:

1. Cimarron
2. The Broadway Melody
3. Green Book
4. Crash
5. Driving Miss Daisy
6. CODA
7. Out of Africa
8. The Life of Emile Zola
9. Nomadland
10. Around the World in Eighty Days

Just as God intended.

#NowWatching / Now Seated

My most anticipated movie of the calendar year:

Nosferatu
Dir. Robert Eggers
2024

In one of only eight 35mm prints in the USA at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

I finally had the bird flu and it was even better than Covid.

Happy Noirvember.

These are 4 of my favorite Film Noirs.

What are some of yours?

Recently rewatched Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity for the first time in decades. The movie that propelled the film noir genre and created the femme fatale character; easily one of the most important and inspirational movies ever made.

Stanwyck is amazing. That dialogue cracks so hard.

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