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#Podcast : @WatchWithJen - S5: E23 - Physical Media: Summer '24 This episode is a BIG one. Featuring films from everyone from Sergio Leone to Wim Wenders, I covered a dozen movies here: 9 solo + 3 more w/ @SeanMBurns & @OneBlakeMinute .

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Jen Johans

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10 months

"Forks" from THE BEAR & "Connor's Wedding" from SUCCESSION are 2 of the best episodes of television I've *ever* seen. (Also, you don't need to watch THE BEAR to appreciate "Forks," which plays like a standalone short film & moved me like nothing else in '23.)

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What's the best individual TV episode you watched this year?

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Your casual reminder when you're revisiting THE GODFATHER trilogy this week that in addition to Pacino, Caan, De Niro, Brando, Shire, Keaton, & Duvall, all the cool kids know that one of the very best actors of the 1970s was Mr. John Cazale.

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5 years

If you're going to come for Scorsese: 1) Don't. 2) Learn how to spell his name. 3) Watch his movies. Yes, more than just GOODFELLAS. 4) Look up the reaction to LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. He could give a shit about fanboys. 5) Stop stereotyping Italian Americans. 6) Just don't.

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1 year

I just discovered that a film exists called ROLLERCOASTER (1977) where it's up to amusement park safety inspector George Segal to outsmart a mad rollercoaster bomber played by Timothy Bottoms... & no, I am not making this up. What's more, it was written by the COLUMBO creators!

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Jen Johans

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8 months

Look, if your movie opens w/ Clive Owen breaking the fourth wall to quote HAMLET, you can stop selling, bc you've got me. But then Spike Lee adds Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Plummer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, & *twists.* INSIDE MAN is Lee at his most Lumet.

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3 years

22 years ago today.

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I'd forgotten Billy Wilder is a guy who got so mad @ an actor for refusing to do a monologue he scripted that he not only rewrote the film to make sure their co-star got an Oscar nod, he also decided to become a director on the spot to make sure it never happened again. Intense.

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Soulful, empathetic, & with a vocal delivery as powerful as it was rich in emotion, in the '90s, nothing was more thrilling than watching Andre Braugher's scenes in "the box" on HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET. A tremendous talent, he will be greatly missed. #RIP

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3 years

PSA: If you watch ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING on Disney+, you get the sanitized version minus the *very* well-earned f-bomb from Elisabeth Shue that thrilled me as a girl watching this in the 1980s. (It's yet another reason why physical media rules.)

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@baddestmamajama When I took my mask off as I exited a super crowded Ulta & went outside last September, an old woman stage whispered to her daughter, "She's SO BEAUTIFUL but men will have no idea because she's in her prime & hiding behind a mask!" Hall monitors of TF world.

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2 years

Although I dig many of the films he's made in the last 20 years, my most controversial Wes Anderson opinion is that he's NEVER topped the first 3 films he wrote w/ Owen Wilson. IMO, those pics had the most heart & universality; Owen's a vastly underrated screenwriter. (Pod-prep)

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4 years

Happy 25th Anniversary to the Amy Heckerling masterpiece CLUELESS. Still my favorite adaptation of Austen's EMMA (& I've dug most save for the new one), CLUELESS gave my generation the heroine we never knew we needed.

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3 years

CHINATOWN was released on this day in 1974. Way back when, I made this collage to celebrate its anniversary for @OnePerfectShot .

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5 years

So PARASITE: 1) Believe the hype. 2) The less you know going in, the better. 3) Absolute masterpiece.

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2 years

TCM is celebrating Ray Liotta tonight. 1 of my fave stories was when he dealt w/ this dude from my college paper who hadn't done any research & told Ray he only plays tough guys. Liotta ignored the narrow qs & instead talked nonstop about how much fun acting with the Muppets was.

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3 years

That time Kathryn Bigelow won the Oscar for Best Picture & Best Director for THE HURT LOCKER & beat her ex-husband James Cameron who was up for the same awards that night for AVATAR.

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#RIP Ryan O'Neal. Peter Bogdanovich's masterwork PAPER MOON is driven by the complex dynamic of its remarkable stars Ryan & Tatum O'Neal. Humanistic, bittersweet, tough, tender, & a tearjerker, it's a film where behavior dictates character & reactions tell us everything. See it.

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4 years

Hi. Don't do this to writers.

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2 years

Hey, who remembers Gary Paulsen's HATCHET? Discussing great writers from Minnesota just now, I started thinking about how much kids (myself included) treasured that book growing up. Just found the film adaptation A CRY IN THE WILD on YouTube that I know I saw but barely recall.

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Treat Williams was such a vital, effervescent screen presence. Last summer, I really enjoyed revisiting HAIR, which he's incredible in & the reason why that ending hits as hard as it does is because of Williams. This is a true loss. Condolences to those who knew & loved him. #RIP

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2 months

Temporarily breaking my no-politics rule to say that I think that AZ senator Mark Kelly would be a great running mate for VP Harris. He's a 🇺🇲 hero, a veteran, a naval captain, an astronaut, was chosen in a special election after we lost McCain, & AZ is a battleground state.

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Tom Wilkinson was 1 of my favorite actors. Understated, he'd inhabit characters on a molecular level, & disappear. 1 of his greatest & most complex turns was in Todd Field's remarkable IN THE BEDROOM. Smiling through the pain - it's up there w/ Sutherland in ORDINARY PEOPLE. #RIP

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4 years

And . . . all Gen Xers immediately reach for the tissues. This is just lovely:

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Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara have welcomed a healthy Baby Boy. They have named him, River 💙

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The moment you finally realize that this time Arnold's playing the good guy... nearly 30 mins into T2. It's such a brilliant first act of sustained suspense & it's also at this moment that you realize just how mind-blowingly subversive it is to have our villain pose as a cop. #nw

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11 months

I just want variety again: erotic thrillers, period pieces, romcoms, westerns, big budget historical epics shot on location, neo-noir mysteries or thrillers, comedies for grown-ups, musicals, car movies, talky indies, etc. I want it ALL.

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Which genre do u hope makes a come back now superhero movies are dying. Personally I hope it’s alien invasion films

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4 years

I first saw him on bootleg VHS tapes being traded in my high school - a gorgeous man protecting a blind woman, putting cotton balls in babies' ears, & burning money. Happy Birthday to my '90s Brad Pitt - Mr. Chow Yun-fat!

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2 years

Will always retweet this. One of the funniest ads ever.

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we don’t deserve martin scorsese 💖

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6 months

Less talk about Gene Hackman's fashion choices & more talk about the way in NIGHT MOVES, he's like, "You know what's great after sex? Fondue!" ;)

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2 years

I'm watching JFK again months after I revisited ORDINARY PEOPLE & KLUTE & my goodness, we really don't talk about Donald Sutherland remotely enough, do we? What he can do in a scene - even just a key line read like "what did *we* think?" in ORDINARY PEOPLE - wow.

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Something I love about THE FUGITIVE is how Tommy Lee Jones just shows up, his whole job is to try to put an innocent man back in jail, & we dig him anyway because he's Tommy Lee Jones delivering lines in rapid fire rhymes & he's the coolest cat in every single scene he's in.

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3 years

Re: film criticism. I turned down a staff gig at an online site that wanted me to include the redundant caveat of "but this is just my opinion so make up your own mind" in every review I wrote. Reviews ARE opinions - educated opinions but they're subjective by nature. 1/x

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My fave movie stars are the character actors - the dudes with 200 credits you can slide into any project & you know that - even if the film or show sucks - *they* will always hit a home run. RIP to a total movie star, Mr. M. Emmet Walsh (pictured here in the classic BLOOD SIMPLE)

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"I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking." - Gena Rowlands And that's precisely what I loved about her most. Ebert said the key to Cassavetes is knowing that she always played John. She was nothing less than 100% authentic. #RIP

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BLUE RUIN first put writer-director Jeremy Saulnier on my radar. Gritty rural noir filled w/ fully 3-dimensional characters whose complexities surprise us right along w/ nerve-jangling plots centered on law & disorder, his newest film REBEL RIDGE is outstanding (as is its cast).

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5 years

If you're new to Anna Karina, PIERROT LE FOU & BAND OF OUTSIDERS are terrific but my absolute favorite film she made with Godard is A WOMAN IS A WOMAN. A candy colored charmer, it features an irresistible scene where she & Belmondo wordlessly hold up book titles to fight.

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3 years

"Now go home & get your shine box!" Fellow GOODFELLAS nerds, on this day in 1970, Tommy DeSimone took out John Gotti's pal William "Billy Batts" Bentvena of the Gambino crime family.

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Rather than attack a celeb for saying something dumb, as a woman who wrote a huge paper on masculinity in the '50s western, let me just continue to bang the drum for the genre as 1 of the most historically subversive ever when it comes to sex & gender. It's ALWAYS been that way.

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2 years

Happy 50th Anniversary to the incredible "Étude in Black" ep of COLUMBO where John Cassavetes - playing a murderous conductor - cannot hide his amusement at Peter Falk's ad-libs. It's utterly adorable watching them nearly break - putting their hands in front of their mouths, etc.

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These three broke & then warmed my heart. I'm a sucker for tales of students/mentors & misfits realizing they belong where they least expect. Alexander Payne's THE HOLDOVERS sneaked up on me & by the time it was finished, it became one of my favorite films of the year. See it!

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4 months

Look, man, if you're making a movie about counterfeiting money & the US Treasury Department *isn't* investigating you, you're doing it wrong.

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William Friedkin recounts how the counterfeit money made for "To Live and Die in L.A." (1985) ended up in circulation & how one of the crew members was interrogated by the US Treasury Department multiple times.

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Over the weekend, I saw THE BIKERIDERS, which was good, but Jodie Comer was ridiculously great. Any film writer ripping on her accent hasn't spent any time in the Midwest. She sounds so much like my relatives, it's unreal. Right from her first scene in the bar, she stole the show

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4 years

We need more women to write about film, we need more men to amplify our voices, we need to be given more opportunities to continue in this field, & we need readers to send a strong, clear message that they value our insights. We're here, we're ready. Are you?

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4 years

Women Represent Just 35% of Film Reviewers, According to New Thumbs Down Report

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2 years

Happy 80th Birthday to Our Beloved Scholar of Cinema, Master Filmmaker, Dude Who Openly Adores His Parents, Patron Saint of Sick Movie-Obsessed Kiddos Everywhere, & My Absolute Favorite - Mr. Martin Scorsese! A Select Celebratory Thread:

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3 years

"Why do men chase women?" #RIP to the tremendous actress Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for her performance in one of my favorite movies - MOONSTRUCK.

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7 years

From Switzerland to South Korea, parents of Swiss freestyle skier Mischa Gasser traveled to the #Olympics by bicycle (& it *only* took them a year). Love these stories. #FreestyleSkiing

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1 year

1 of the greatest thrills & terrors of my life was when William Friedkin started following me & sharing my work. After Scorsese, the most professorial of all '70s filmmakers, in addition to his car chases, I dig the way he infused masculine suspense w/ surprising sensuality. #RIP

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It's Dennis Farina's bday & I love what he does in this OUT OF SIGHT scene, which cleverly reveals all. Keaton enters like cock of the walk & Farina has his number & calls him out wearing grandaddy readers from a relaxed seated position & suddenly HE'S the coolest cat in the room

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2 years

Hey, it's the official day of Hoskins, Mirren, & one of the greatest endings in crime movie history. Might need to revisit this one later.

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2 years

Bring back extreme trailers.

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4 months

Revisited MANHUNTER for a pal & this shot might just be the most Michael Mann of all Michael Mann shots. It contains everything: the night sky, existential heaviness, the promise of an oceanic paradise away from the concrete city mouse trap, reflective surfaces, barriers, & neon.

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3 years

Ranking films you haven't seen has the same energy of the guy in my 9th grade English class who did his book report on ROMEO & JULIET (but watched the Luhrmann version instead of reading Shakespeare) who said with complete conviction, "the play opens at a gas station."

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1 year

A thing to know about me is I think Tim Curry gives 1 of the greatest comedic performances of the '80s in CLUE. His tongue-twister, pratfall-filled one man show style 3rd act sequence where he reenacts the entire film & does his impressions of every one of his co-stars is genius

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Beyond brilliant icon Alain Delon's most famous films like PURPLE NOON, LA PISCINE, L'ECLISSE, ROCCO & HIS BROTHERS, LE SAMURAI, LE CERCLE ROUGE, & THE LEOPARD etc., I highly recommend his deeper cuts like THE SICILIAN CLAN, ANY NUMBER CAN WIN, MR. KLEIN, & FAREWELL, FRIEND. #RIP

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#RIP to Eleanor Coppola. In addition to her indispensable documentary HEARTS OF DARKNESS on the making of APOCALYPSE NOW, her impact on FFC & her children is everywhere. Diane Keaton has said that she modeled Kay on Eleanor - her warmth, grace, heart, class, & beauty.

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3 years

Happy Birthday to Peter Falk, pictured here having a full-on chat with Kermit the Frog.

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1 year

Who else remembers director Michael Apted's THUNDERHEART? Yesterday at the movies, the KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON trailer reminded me of how great this 1992 film was w/ Val Kilmer, Graham Greene, Sam Shepard, & Fred Ward. Haven't seen it since then! #nw

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1 year

The arts are crucial to our well-being. What I find most alarming about the end of @DVDNetflix , the massive cuts at TCM, & the rise of AI in creative fields is that we're living in a world that is increasingly losing its curiosity, artistry, humanity, empathy, & ability to think.

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This is 43.🎈 Here's to another year filled with laughter, creativity, discovery, art, opportunity, adventure, inspiration, conversation, & most importantly, more time with the friends & family I love. 🌺

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1 year

Happy Sept. I'm private but feel a responsibility to share that I spent Aug. going through my 3rd & most stressfully drawn out cancer scare. I'm incredibly grateful that my news was good but want to encourage you & your loved ones to get your routine screenings & pls take care.💕

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4 years

30 years ago today, NORTHERN EXPOSURE premiered. 1 of the first TV shows I remember being obsessed with as a girl - not only because I had a mad crush on "Chris Stevens" at the ripe old age of 9 - I started revisiting this humanistic series during quarantine & it's such a balm.

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3 years

Basically? They fucked with the babysitter!

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3 years

@ellie_maybe @baddestmamajama In a factory downtown!

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The intellectual equivalent of a tap dance, my fave thing to watch onscreen is sharp, passionate people working around the clock to figure things out. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN is the ultimate; it inspired the biggest boom in journalism school admissions in the US. #nw for the pod.

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3 years

I feel like the Academy is 5 seconds away from telling us about an exciting opportunity in crypto.

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2 years

Seriously, if you guys haven't seen LOCKE, see LOCKE. It's one of the best films of the 2010s, Tom Hardy is phenomenal, & it was actually recorded live like a play. If memory serves, he did this same 90 minute-ish drive 3 nights in a row w/ actors ready to phone in. Dynamite.

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i have never in my life been so invested in the pouring of concrete

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A portrait of a writer who loved what she did for 15+ years & 2.5K+ reviews, but is, officially, as of this week, blissfully happy to no longer be a film critic. Right now, I prefer the research, writing, & collaborative process of podcasting too much & am excited to continue! 💙

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Sam Elliott in ROAD HOUSE is essentially Mercutio in ROMEO & JULIET, right? Like at some point, the screenwriter realized, "oops, he's the most interesting & charismatic character for miles; he's got to go."

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#RIP to the maestro, the master, Ennio Morricone. From Leone to De Palma & beyond, it's impossible to select just one composition out of his entire filmography to call a favorite but I've always been moved by the way that the strings on his CINEMA PARADISO score sweep & soar.

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This is the example I always give: The Mercutio Problem. Mercutio is 10x more interesting & vivacious than Romeo. Shakespeare had to kill him off because he's the one we want to watch. This isn't even my favorite adaptation of the play overall, but Harold Perrineau was incredible

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main character stole the show

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If you're stunned an intelligent, well-prepared, professional woman had much less speaking time but much more of substance to say than some bellowing dude just ranting... welcome to the internet. It will blow your mind.

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As a woman who loves car chases, Mamet-speak, & killer ensemble casts of character actors, I can't tell you how thrilling it was in 1998 to see Natascha McElhone behind the wheel vs De Niro in one of the greatest cases ever filmed in John Frankenheimer's RONIN. #nw for the pod.

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His beef with Charles Boyer following HOLD BACK THE DAWN was so legendary that he even wrote a joke about Charles Boyer hating women in his Hollywood directorial debut THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR.

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Confession: I *love* Peter Falk & remember enjoying Columbo reruns & TV movies back in the '80s & 90s but have never actually sat down & watched the full series from start to finish. Time to remedy that! #NowWatching

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As much as I love this, it's such a true gift for film lovers everywhere that Coppola saw this & thought no, what I want is De Niro to play the quiet, more introspective Vito in a performance almost entirely in Italian.

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Robert De Niro's audition for the part of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather

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"Grab your flunky & dangle." Revisiting my fave Coen movie (along w/ NO COUNTRY) as research for an upcoming pod. Every single time, I get lost in the tongue-twisting language, the performances, Albert Finney's voice, the moving camera, & Marcia Gay Harden's necklaces/wardrobe.

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My favorite Michael Mann motif is the idea that all of his characters are stuck in concrete, trapped in cities, & yearn to take that chance to get to the paradise of sea, sand, & sky that's inevitably either temporary or just out of reach.

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his job is beach

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If you're a fan of the "alcoholic disgraced ex-cop in an existential funk stumbles onto a convoluted mystery" neo-noir subgenre (& I mean, who isn't?), check out the indie SMALL TOWN CRIME on HBOMax. Role-wise, for John Hawkes, it's up there with his Teardrop in WINTER'S BONE.

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The haunting legacy of MYSTIC RIVER (released #OnThisDay in '03), as featured in a collage I made for @OnePerfectShot a few years back.

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This is 42! The best thing about getting older is knowing who I am & what's important to me. I'm so grateful for all of the wonderful people whom I'm fortunate to have in my life. Here's to another year of making memories... in a largely retro &/or floral wardrobe. ;) ✌️🌸🩵

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This is the face of a v. happy Jen! Been in a health scare but just learned I only need 1 more 6 month check & if all is well, I can transition back to annual cancer screenings. I'd normally keep it private but want to pay it forward. Please stay on top of your health! ✌️💜

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Martin Scorsese: "John Ford made westerns. I make street movies." Whenever someone complains they hate westerns, I always say, "you must hate crime films too then," before dropping the hammer, "because building block wise, they're the exact same thing." Don't trash the western

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#RIP William Hurt. When I was 15, I saw BODY HEAT & 1 wknd when bored, I wrote a thriller script w/ Hurt in mind for the villain, entered it in a screenwriting contest w/out telling anyone & won. My parents were shocked when I said I needed to go read @ the Library of Congress.💙

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2 years

You know who's a stealthily great actor? Greg Kinnear. Revisited a few w/ him this year for research & when he moved away from the bland lead roles he'd been given to show us the pathos & panic behind that smile in AUTO FOCUS, THE MATADOR, & LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, it was awesome.

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THERE WILL BE BLOOD isn't just the best PTA movie, it's 1 of the best movies of the 21st century. When I saw it in the theater, they oversold the auditorium, added folding chairs, & allowed ppl to stand (what fire code?) & you could still hear a pin drop. #nw for a PTA-DDL pod ep

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3 years

On #NationalSunglassesDay , here's Paul Newman at the March on Washington in 1963.

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9 months

We're watching DIE HARD 2 for the 1st time in years. The film suddenly cuts away from Bruce Willis to an ultra intense William Sadler doing naked tai chi in his hotel room. My relative suddenly goes, "Jen, I *think* he's the bad guy." Lol, I think the wardrobe was our 1st clue.

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10 months

Happy 45th anniversary to the greatest film about friendship ever made - Michael Cimino's THE DEER HUNTER. Yes, that's right. If you think it's just a war movie, you really need to push play again ASAP.

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7 months

Let's pop our collars, throw some poker chips in the dryer for a new batch of funny money, drive backwards, base jump off a bridge, & Wang Chung because, it's time TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. with 2 of our best badass boyfriends on both sides of the law. #nw my most watched Friedkin

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1 year

There's a lot of convenient amnesia happening this wknd in Gen Xers forgetting how fun it was to sing & dance at ROCKY HORROR & STOP MAKING SENSE who are criticizing teen girls for singing & dancing at TS: ERAS. I'm not even a TS fan; I'm just happy kids are happy @ the movies!

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4 months

@baddestmamajama Obv, all of the coolest girls have low potassium (lol, I do too). I take supplements but never pass up the chance to have potatoes - definitely the best diet!

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4 months

#nw THE RIGHT STUFF, which is a film about ingenuity, bravery, ego, hubris, passion, & how the real test of one's character is what we do & how we act even if no one's watching. It's also about Sam Shepard walking out of the smoke into frame in the goddamn hero shot of all time.

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3 years

Once more I say, God, I miss a majority of films & TV shows being in actual gorgeous, vibrant color.

Katie Stebbins

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3 years

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Jen Johans

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6 months

Happy 30th Birthday to @TCM ! The channel gave me 1 of my most vivid early ambitions, which was to be Robert Osborne, who seemed to spend his days impeccably dressed, just hanging out in comfy rooms while talking & watching great uncut movies 24/7! (Shirt by @kategabrielle )

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Jen Johans

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4 years

Podcast Tip: Invite WOMEN on your show! Every week, I receive messages from guys wanting to be on (that's cool & I'm flattered) but I have *never* had this happen w/ a woman. Too many insightful, funny, valuable female film minds aren't being heard. Diversify your guest list!

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10 months

Re: the dad movie prompt. There are so many films I associate w/ my dad but I think my fave "meet my dad" story is the time he hit the video store after my first spine surgery & decided that the best way to cheer up his 14 y.o. daughter was w/ the prison flick PAPILLON. ;)

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Jen Johans

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2 years

Adapted from a Danish crime novel by screenwriter Curtis Hanson (who wound up finishing the film for director Daryl Duke), #nw the underrated '78 Canadian thriller THE SILENT PARTNER for pod-prep. It stars Elliott Gould in quieter cerebral mode & a v. sinister Christopher Plummer

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Jen Johans

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3 years

I'm honored to have been asked to co-host a podcast episode for Slate this month on sex, gender, & masculinity in classic westerns. I have a dozen films in mind but I wanted to crowd-source & ask you all to weigh in. Which films should I consider covering?

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Jen Johans

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3 years

#nw Sergio Leone's underrated, entertaining as hell, explosively edited, Ennio Morricone inventive AF scored Spaghetti western FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE. With artful shot composition, scene stealer Van Cleef, & that terrifying villain, it's even better than A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS.

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