A charming, somewhat funny little factoid is that DiCaprio's whole interest in Climate Change and Environmentalism was sparked by seeing Princess Mononoke on a lark in the late 90s lol
Christopher Nolan says he doesn’t use ADR for his films, including ‘OPPENHEIMER’.
“I like to use the performance that was given in the moment rather than the actor revoice it later.”
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I kind of think its amazing in that way that truly bizzare things are that Spielberg took a 4 year sabbatical from making movies after Schindler's List, only to come back with this one lol
Would have normally thought this was fake had I not remembered actually seeing it on the TL, almost surreal lol you never see A-list, multi-millionaire directors publicly pile up on one of their own like this lmao
Kind of unbecoming to say worldwide and not include non-English language films. The third highest grossing movie of 2023 is Zhang Yimou's Full River Red, which clears Fast X by over $20 million
So silly how like now when you hear about potential Star Wars directors its like - Shaun Levy, Jon Watts, Taika Waititi lol. When George Lucas was running the franchise, he was pitching David Cronenberg, Steven Spielberg and David Lynch as potential directors
Shawn Levy says Kathleen Kennedy’s central mandate for his ‘STAR WARS’ movie is…
“I want a Shawn Levy movie. I want a story and a tone that reflects you and your taste and what you bring to your movies — with a ‘Star Wars’ story.”
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David Ehrlich donated (or is donating) the proceeds from his last year-end video to Palestinian Aid so I'm afraid I will not be going to war with this man
This is hilarious but it's also a legitimately great point lol, the classics are filled with comedy worked into drama, from Shakespeare to Cervantes..IMO only a few filmmakers ever really got this, John Ford for one and to a lesser extent Scorsese, and in an inverse way, Chaplin
Half a decade of Marvel garbage has fried peoples brains when it comes to how a mega-budget movie should look when it doesn't have absurdly high star & exec salaries + money laundering
DUNE: PART 2 having a 190 million budget is utterly insane to me. How does this movie look so epic and flawless for this price? What the fuck are the other studios and producers doing with their 250 mil+ budgets
George Lucas made American Graffiti with a budget of $700,000 and got a return of $140,000,000, which incorporating inflation today is $911,604,954 - after being told by six major studios the project was too uncommercial to make lol
Making movies is literally like, the coolest thing ever. You imagine a thing, write it down, then you make people act it out in front of you, and then in the edit you piece it together back into the way you imagined it, but now as a tangible thing that exists in reality lol
Glen Powell is a really likeable actor but he's gotta do a part that's akin to Steven Yeun in Burning, something that subverts the old-school charm and charisma he's a natural at
Kinda funny when you think about how the movies that probably had the biggest aesthetic influence on 2010s media were like, Tree of Life and Spring Breakers
Eisenstein and John Ford both believed that cinema was closer to architecture more than any other previous art form, Godard and Coppola believed it was closest to painting
2022: possibly last Godard, possibly last Miyazaki, Spielberg childhood autobio, finally new Cronenberg, another Scorsese, and rounded out by the return of Mr. Cameron in December, the old kings final stand
Challengers kinda (to me at least lol) confirms my theory that Luca G. is the closest thing we have to a Classical Hollywood journeyman...you don't necessarily go to see the vision (although he certainly has it), you go to the theatre to watch his talent
Scorsese's apprehension over his 2000s work (despite The Departed being his biggest commercial success at the time) in the GQ article is really interesting, says a lot about how difficult things really were back then for filmmakers trying to make serious work
Michael Mann getting a $100 mil budget even after the financial disaster that was Blackhat can possibly be explained by the amount of Chinese and Saudi names in the executive producer credits in Ferrari
No one ever talks about this movie but when I was like 9 or 10 I took Lynch's The Elephant Man out from the library cause I thought it was a superhero movie lol and I watched it and was shook as hell
Coppola, Spielberg, Scorsese & De Palma were for their time considered "ethnic white subgroups" and assimilation is a major part of all their work - there's a relationship to diasporic experience that still makes these feel modern to me compared to later US filmmakers
Imo the action in Matrix 4 looks amazing and kind of interesting given that one dude from the set who was like "Yeah Lana doesn't even storyboard or pre-plan anymore, she just makes it up on the spot now" lol
Crimes of the Future opening in June is exactly how festival launching movies should be treated: no 8-12 month long waits, capitalize on whatever hype there is, and best of all - have movies out in the summertime that are for actual adults
Don't wanna hate on this "not that bad" movie that much and some of the other picks here are good, but what on Earth is going on with Past Lives? Who is Celine Song connected too? What dirt does she have on the National Society of Film Critics?
Obama really stalling on dropping that movies year end list. Why? He's waiting on the directors cut of Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon. He doesn't know it's dropping in 2024
"Marty’s trying to make a movie that’s probably the last Western that would be made like this...I think it’ll be like nothing we’ve ever seen. And so this one is, to me, one for the ages.” Screenwriter Eric Roth teases Scorsese's
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MICKEY 17 being delayed to January 2025 has to do with BONG JOON-HO not getting final cut on the film and Warner Bros wanting to release a "more accessible" version of the film. (via
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I love how The Abyss is the work of a man who just went through a tough divorce, and then True Lies is the work of a man who just went through a second, even tougher divorce lol
"Certified Lover Boy? Certified Pedophile/Dot fuck em up, Ima do my stuff/Why you trolling like a bi*** aren't you tired? Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minor" is an insane bar lol
I'm incapable of watching Dune 2 now without thinking about this - actually an amazing insight that gets to the heart of why Dune 2 works as well at it does, balances the intimate and the epic and has each inform the other, makes you wish Spielberg wrote a whole book on film form
“There’s a tremendous balance… between wide establishing shots… and then going all the way into these tight studies, these super, super close ups… The film is all master shots and all close ups, and I’ve never seen anything like that before.” - Spielberg, on DUNE: PART TWO
A young Xi Xingping visits San Francisco, 1985. Xingping took a visit across America. He recalled once that "During my first visit to the United States, I stayed at the Dvorchaks in Iowa," he said. "I still remember their address — 2911 Bonnie Drive."
One fascinating little known tidbit is that Terrence Malick was friends with Ben Affleck's godfather, and Affleck would run to Malick for screenwriting tips. Through that Terrence Malick actually came up with the ending for Good Will Hunting lol
2022 is going to be insane:
The Batman
Doctor Strange 2
Halloween Ends
Scream 5
Black Adam
Jurassic World Dominion
The Marvels
The Flash
Aquaman 2
John Wick 4
Black Panther 2
Thor 4
Into The Spider-Verse 2
Bullet Train
Sonic 2
Mission Impossible 7
Babylon
Indiana Jones 5
WOW 😳
Heat probably is Michael Mann's best, but my favorite is actually Ali...but the one I enjoy watching the most is Miami Vice, but the one I think about the most is Blackhat...