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On a new episode of @thepinksmoke podcast I had the pleasure of talking with the wonderful @nostalgiaphile about pixies, pirates and Peter Pan on film! This is one of my absolute favourite podcast episodes I've ever been on, and you can listen to it here:

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The practical effects being erased from The Thing prequel is a straight up shame.

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Faust (1926) dir. F. W. Murnau

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"How to Save a Billion-Dollar Franchise"

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I miss Brittany Murphy more than I miss video stores.

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The hero's big moment at the climax of the original Star Wars trilogy vs. the hero's big moment at the climax of the sequel Star Wars trilogy

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I found it pretty frustrating. There're some wonderful flourishes of creativity and action, but also so much of it is explaining and elaborating on things in Fury Road that were much more powerful as insinuations or hints of backstory that provoked the imagination.

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Okay, going to go see Furiosa...

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I've always really loved this bit in Hellbound: Hellraiser II, where Pinhead doesn't take Tiffany, even though she opened the box.

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Oppenheimer (2023) dir. Christopher Nolan

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The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick The Lighthouse (2019) dir. Robert Eggers

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Admittedly the 90s Judge Dredd movie wasn't great to begin with and even a lot of what was good about it at the time hasn't really held up, but god that ABC Warrior is just so cool.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) dir. Steven Spielberg

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There's a point when there's so much going on in a frame that my brain stops taking any of it in. It just turns into visual white noise for me. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) dir. Peter Jackson

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@phillip_jeffry Hey, when you get to the Emperor's age, once it starts flowing it can be hard to stop.

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Sonatine (1993) dir. Takeshi Kitano

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Die Hard (1988) dir. John McTiernan Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) dir. Adam Wingard

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Harakiri (1962) dir. Masaki Kobayashi

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Martin Kessler

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Finally got around to watching Ridley Scott's Napoleon, and I think the most generous possible interpretation would be that as a patriotic Brit, Scott decided to assassinate Napoleon's legacy by portraying him as the most boring person ever.

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I wish there was a whole film of these two just going on a nice pleasant date and nothing else.

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Love the blocking and the use of the mirror in this shot. Natalie Portman squished in-between two Julianne Moores. May December (2023) dir. Todd Haynes

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Rest in peace Martin Landau. Ed Wood (1994) dir. Tim Burton

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) dir. Steven Spielberg

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@PeterSciretta I mean that is also a terribly dumb moment.

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Milicent Patrick touching up her creation, The Creature from The Black Lagoon

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Martin Kessler

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They should bring back "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" type movies, but instead it should be like "Eric Andre & Lil Rel Howery Meet Freddy Krueger"

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Martin Kessler

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8 months

I think sometimes Natalie Portman can come across as insincere in her performances, but that was very well utilized in May December. On one level the film is basically about two manipulative people, who are manipulative in different ways, trying to out-manipulate each other.

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Juliette Binoche giving a Michael Haneke anecdote

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This is my favourite bit in Mad Max: Fury Road. Being a shoulder to lean on pretty succinctly sums up what makes Mad Max a great movie hero.

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2 years

Pretty great how an attempt to chase the success of Batman '89 led to a comic book film that looks like this. Dick Tracy (1990) dir. Warren Beatty

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5 years

Scatman Crothers' delivery of this line in The Shining is underrated.

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) dir. Lotte Reiniger The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

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In the Mood for Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar-wai Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) dir. David Lynch

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"You gotta' be fucking kidding." The Thing (1982) dir. John Carpenter It Chapter Two (2019) dir. Andrés Muschietti

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3 years

Whenever my passion for cinema needs a pep talk, I just watch this Jodorowsky clip.

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This stunt is amazing Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) dir. Steven Spielberg

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@etkralicesi I really feel like Film Twitter formed an echo-chamber on Furiosa, and that the vast majority of people outside that bubble who loved Fury Road and Theron as Furiosa, took a look at the trailers for Furiosa and knew it wasn't the follow-up that they would have been interested in.

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Martin Kessler

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10 months

It's going to be funny when a sequel to Barbie is inevitably pushed through and they can't get back Gerwig or Robbie or Gosling, just Simu Liu, and it's directed by like Seth Gordon and called "Barbie 2: Rise of the Kens" or some shit.

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Martin Kessler

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4 years

This scene pretty much made my jaw hit the floor. Andersen. Life Without Love (2006) dir. Eldar Ryazanov

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2 years

Joker grabbing the bologna sausage over the knife in Mask of the Phantasm.

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Name a small moment/detail in a superhero movie that you absolutely love. I'll start:

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7 months

Also, if you hated Rebel Moon you should check out Seven Samurai if you haven’t seen it.

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If you liked Rebel Moon you should check out Seven Samurai if you haven’t seen it.

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We always talk about classic Christmas movies, but are there any classic New Year’s movies? Please advise.

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Young Woman With Daisies (1914) by Josef Čapek Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott

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Alicia Witt and David Lynch during the making of Dune

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For those not counting, this will be the third Halloween 2.

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Blumhouse Confirms 2020 Release For HALLOWEEN 2! -

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Matador (1986) dir. Pedro Almodóvar

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This is one of my all time favourite dialogue exchanges in any movie ever. The Long Goodbye (1973) dir. Robert Altman

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) dir. Steven Spielberg

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It's a week shy of the fifth anniversary of its release, but I just feel like watching Under the Silver Lake now. It's gradually turned into a favourite of mine from the past couple years. #NowWatching

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3 years

James Cagney performing a death on screen is really a cinematic spectacle unto itself. The Roaring Twenties (1939) dir. Raoul Walsh

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In a way Jodorowsky’s Dune remains the best film adaptation of Dune because is was never shot, and instead exists entirely in the realm of imagination. A better place to experience Dune than even on the giant silver screen.

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Toto, not a fan of the steam whistle... The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

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1 year

Honestly, seeing movies cancelled for insurance and streaming shows pulled and tossed into oblivion feels like a natural consequence of them being called "content" instead of being thought of as art.

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9 months

Folks should stop shitting on The Suicide Squad. That movie rules and actually knows how to tap into Elba's charisma.

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idris elba has one of the worst batting averages for an actor of his stature

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Conan the Barbarian (1982) dir. John Milius The Northman (2022) dir. Robert Eggers

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Saturn Devouring His Son (1636) by Peter Paul Rubens

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) dir. Dean Parisot

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The Colour of Pomegranates (1969) dir. Sergei Parajanov

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I love all the technical detail that you see in a lot of 80s/90s sci-fi anime.

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It's funny seeing Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain imitated for an ad to sell trendy jackets.

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Bresson

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I see a lot of recent films going for the dark, desaturated look and I think they end up being visually kind of bland or ugly, but I think Sleepy Hollow is a film that has a beautiful version of that look though. I suspect it has to do with being pre-digital colour grading.

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"The Outer Limits" The Galaxy Being (1963) dir. Leslie Stevens

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It's too bad Noomi Rapace didn't really catch on as a blockbuster star. I really like her. She's still rocking it in smaller movies and direct-to-streaming stuff.

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Akira Kurosawa & George Lucas

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3 years

Hoping this dude has a good birthday.

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5 years

It's constantly debated, so I can't really call it straightforward, but what was going on in Kubrick's The Shining always seemed relatively clear to me; The ghosts seen aren't really 'spirits of the dead' so much as they are a lingering impression left on the hotel...

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The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward Sedgwick #BusterKeaton

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Boiling Point (1990) dir. Takeshi Kitano

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I still think Brian Dennehy got what he was doing on Knight of Cups better than anyone else in the film.

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3 years

“Chaplin... I think he was so gifted that he himself didn’t know what he should do with his own talents. Well, Beat Takeshi reminds me a little of him.” - Akira Kurosawa

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4 years

Kim Cattrall is genre movie royalty.

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5 years

It's Alejandro Jodorowsky's 90th birthday today.

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3 years

Please stop putting the Iron Giant in movies that aren't the Iron Giant.

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1 year

The first movie that comes to mind when you think of a swimming pool is

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The first movie that comes to mind when you think of a swimming pool is

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Imagine making all of these films back to back.

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Kagemusha (1980) dir. Akira Kurosawa Kundun (1997) dir. Martin Scorsese

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4 years

It's not too late for someone to make a crime film where Takeshi Kitano and Harvey Keitel hangout and wear Aloha shirts together.

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Honestly though, the first act of Terminator Genisys isn't half bad, when it feels like it's just going to play out like a twist on the first movie.

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George Lucas showing how a police robot should walk into a wall while malfunctioning, during the filming of THX 1138

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Anjelica Huston's eye acting here just kills me. The Addams Family (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

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The best live action casting of all time.

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I'm loving Copenhagen Cowboy, and also would probably not recommend it to anyone.

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The Birds (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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4 years

@masterbearjedi The moment Luke threw away his lightsaber is the moment he defeated the Emperor, not physically but spiritually.

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Check out how the shadows are used to sell the physicality of the effect...

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The Irritating Gentleman (1874) by Berthold Woltze Wonder Woman (2017) dir. Patty Jenkins

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3 years

Whenever people talk about old movies feeling slow or boring, I just think of how the original Kong Kong movie remains the fastest and best paced of any movie with King Kong in it.

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Federico Fellini during the filming of Satyricon.

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For me, one of the biggest things this movie has going for it, is that it's a Hollywood Blockbuster in 2023 that doesn't look like grey puke.

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5 years

Touch of Evil (1958) dir. Orson Welles

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2 years

"Mad Max in Fury Road is the kid from Road Warrior all grown up" is a top 5 fan theory for me.

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Martin Kessler

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2 years

Lynch (one) is a pretty remarkable documentary for having David Lynch be so open and non-mysterious about his artistic process and his thoughts on his own films. I always think that it's like getting a rare glimpse of Lynch "out of character."

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Martin Kessler

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3 years

The original Texas Chain Saw Massacre is still such a tremendous work of art. Very beautiful in its own particular way.

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4 years

I like the floaty move they gave to the gremlin in Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. It's so much more eerie and unnatural than if they tried to make it look like it could fly in any conventional sense. Designed as more of a cloud monster than a bat-like creature.

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Martin Kessler

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For a masterclass in nonverbal acting, just watch Harvey Keitel in the opening scene of The Duellists:

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Mother (2009) dir. Bong Joon-ho

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Ladyhawke (1985) dir. Richard Donner

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Part of what made Fury Road great was that you could tell that everyone and everything had a thought out backstory even though it was never explicitly stated, and that you were just plonked into that world and had to piece together what you could through context as it went along.

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