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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
12 days
I respect the way they opened this lmao
@Variety
Variety
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Due to the sheer lack of compelling options, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is expected to top the box office in its sixth weekend of release.
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@NeilBahadur
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2 years
To this day I cannot claim to have seen a stranger cut in any movie
@kylebuchanan
Kyle Buchanan
2 years
People like to shit on THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK but this transition is still undefeated
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@NeilBahadur
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8 months
The Dark Night Rises (Nolan, 2012)
@watn_tarnation
Ayy-Jay (Formerly Wade) 🥥🌴🤠
8 months
BREAKING: NYC Mayor Eric Adams orders "every cop in the city" into the tunnels to "find their source"
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4 months
With the sudden defeat of Drake I think we can finally confirm that after 8 long years, the year 2016 has finally come to an end
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8 months
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
@DiscussingFilm
DiscussingFilm
8 months
Leonardo DiCaprio says he introduced Martin Scorsese to Studio Ghibli movies with ‘SPIRITED AWAY’ and ‘PRINCESS MONONOKE’. (Source: )
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Kinda hilarious to me how infamous Hollywood bisexual and anti-racist Paul Newman has randomly become a right wing style icon
@fasc1nate
Fascinating
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Paul Newman in Washington, D.C. attending Dr. King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech August 28, 1963.
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
6 months
He is a good man who is right
@IndieWire
IndieWire
6 months
Paul Dano Calls Superhero Fatigue a ‘Welcome Moment’ That Could Lead to Better Movies
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1 year
So much of the sound mixing in his last few movies makes sense now lol
@DiscussingFilm
DiscussingFilm
1 year
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.” (Source: )
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@NeilBahadur
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3 years
Disney has a what-now
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3 months
This guy doesn't give a fuck lmao. Goated individual?
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
10 months
I am literally obsessed with this video lol
@jason_howerton
Jason Howerton
10 months
Blinken's face after Joe Biden calls Chinese President Xi a "dictator" 😂😂😂
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
7 months
Gerwig referring to watching a movie and then talking about it afterwards as "a whole other life" makes her impossible to dislike I'm afraid
@Lulamaybelle
Courtney Howard
7 months
Greta Gerwig is correct: 10am and 4pm *are* the best times to watch a movie.
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
1 year
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade aka the best one (Spielberg, 1989)
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Neil Bahadur
4 months
Lol this is such an insanely good performance
@roccotthompson
Rocco T. Thompson
4 months
You. Just. Know.
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@NeilBahadur
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3 years
Kanye unfollowed all the Kardashians on twitter lol....album is gonna be a masterpiece
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@NeilBahadur
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1 month
Twisters possibly not breaking even is a plot twist I have to admit I didn't see coming
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@NeilBahadur
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3 years
It's safe to finally retire listmaking because nothing will ever top this one
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7 months
Thinking about how this is like one of those iconic twitter memes that somehow hasn't traveled to Instagram or Tiktok?? (As far as I've seen)
@flanthippe
flanthippe
8 months
Barry Lyndon × 21 Savage "a lot"
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2 years
The Fabelmans (Spielberg, 2022)
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Neil Bahadur
2 years
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
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Neil Bahadur
6 months
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
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
9 months
All but one superhero film massively flopping this year is fucking awesome and a massive win for the future of movies
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
8 months
**watches I Am Cuba** "This is bullshit propaganda!" **reads about String Theory on Wikipedia** "Ohhh...so this means there can be 20 Spider-Mans!"
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
3 years
Lol this was def Cry Macho
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Neil Bahadur
2 years
Recording sessions for John Williams final score before he officially retires, for Spielberg's upcoming "The Fabelmans"
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@NeilBahadur
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This is like, almost unparalleled swag
@TheCartelDel
Del Walker 🇵🇸
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The most "Main Character Energy" I've ever seen in my life.
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
1 year
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
@CultureCrave
Culture Crave 🍿
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Highest-grossing films at the worldwide box office (2023) 🍿 #SuperMarioBros 🍄 — $1.31B #GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3 — $806M #FastX 🚘 — $652M #AntMan3 🐜 — $476M #JohnWick4 — $428.2M #TheLittleMermaid — $414.2M #AcrossTheSpiderVerse — $390M
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
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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
@DiscussingFilm
DiscussingFilm
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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.” (Source: )
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
9 months
Secretly this is probably the funniest line of the year
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@NeilBahadur
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2 months
Lowkey are we officially hitting the end of the B-movie era?
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derek
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Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023)
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
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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
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
4 months
Love this little bit from Stephanie Zacharek's Megalopolis review
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
5 months
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
@JimmyTraina
Jimmy Traina
5 months
If you feel like laughing at any point this weekend, you must watch Conan O’Brien on the latest Hot Ones. The build here is incredible.
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Neil Bahadur
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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
@MichalDraker
Michal Draker
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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
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
2 years
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
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
3 years
The Matrix Resurrections, West Side Story & Dune are late-Hollywood classics
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
3 years
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
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
3 months
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
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
2 years
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
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
2 years
This is actually one of the craziest things I've ever seen
@hardfightvideos
Fight Videos That Go Hard
2 years
Muhammad Ali dodges 21 punches in 10 seconds (1977)
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Neil Bahadur
1 year
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
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Neil Bahadur
1 year
All the gems in the Ben Affleck interview are when he's talking about being a producer and running his production company, very bright dude
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
3 years
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
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Neil Bahadur
4 months
Cronenberg ♥️
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Goodbye to Language by Jean-Luc Godard, 2014
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Neil Bahadur
3 years
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
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Neil Bahadur
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With Challengers I was expecting like pretty good, Luca in for hire mode, I wasn't expecting a fucking MASTERPIECE LOL
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Neil Bahadur
3 years
What the hell
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Neil Bahadur
1 year
The way this is probably something Paul Schrader actually did and it went plop right into the script lol
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Neil Bahadur
5 months
Challengers is really, truly a modern classic wow
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Neil Bahadur
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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
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I do not think Luca Guadagnino is a genius, nor do I think he's a hack. I think he's talented and reliable
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Neil Bahadur
1 year
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
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
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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
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
2 years
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
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@NeilBahadur
Neil Bahadur
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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
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No clue what the heck she says here until the end where she says that The Wind Rises is her favorite anime and that's what matters most
@badpostseydoux
best of léa seydoux
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léa seydoux’s interview for konbini videoclub was interrupted and that was her reaction 🥺
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Neil Bahadur
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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
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Neil Bahadur
3 years
Holy shit. Devastated
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Neil Bahadur
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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
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Neil Bahadur
3 years
Brian De Palma, 2020
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Neil Bahadur
3 years
Kanye has deleted many tweets but none as important as this
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Neil Bahadur
2 years
It appears the homies have been reunited (via Caitlin Cronenberg's IG)
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Neil Bahadur
8 months
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?
@TheNSFC
National Society of Film Critics
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Best Picture: PAST LIVES (51 points) Runners-up: THE ZONE OF INTEREST (49 points) OPPENHEIMER (44 points)
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Neil Bahadur
3 years
"I MAKE MUSIC AND PRODUCTS IN THE REAL WORLD"
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Neil Bahadur
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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
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The Godfather Part II by Francis Ford Coppola, 1974
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Does anyone else feel like this is just cover for nobody wanting to fund his movies anymore?
@worldofreel
Reel Updates
1 year
Xavier Dolan says he's retiring from filmmaking because “the world is burning, our civilization is coming to an end”
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Neil Bahadur
1 year
Vaguely moved by this image
@zwlws
Z. W. Lewis
1 year
Harmony Korine exiting what I can only assume is the Mario movie
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Christopher Nolan wants you to know that Menswear is best acquired at Uniqlo
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This man is suffering
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Neil Bahadur
3 years
This is gonna go so hard
@IndieWire
IndieWire
3 years
"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 #KillersOfTheFlowerMoon :
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@GentleDoofus Not a bad year! But one that overplayed it's hand, stretched itself out for far too long
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Neil Bahadur
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Worth noting also that Ballard himself considered Cronenberg's adaptation of Crash superior to his own novel
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For someone whose last film won the Palme d'Or and was the first non-English film to win Best Director and Best Picture Oscars, this is so insulting
@worldofreel
Reel Updates
3 months
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 @DanielRPK )
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One could argue that this doubles as an announcement of sorts but it's a very promising year for movies IMO
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Neil Bahadur
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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
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The Gospel According to Saint Matthew by Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964
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"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
@kendricklamar
Kendrick Lamar
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Not Like Us
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Ferrari (Michael Mann, 2023)
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Challengers is alot of things but among them is maybe the best sports movie I've ever seen?????
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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
@JohnnySobczak
Johnny Sobczak
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“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
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Chronicle of Liam Gallagher's cat, Sid
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Godard’s legacy is a body of work devoted to almost childlike bewilderment: “Why is there so much suffering in the world?”
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A Woman Under The Influence by John Cassavetes, 1974
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Neil Bahadur
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A Jia Zhangke directed movie about Xi Jinping's stay in Iowa would be so sick
@StatisticUrban
Hunter📈🌈📊
5 months
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."
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Neil Bahadur
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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
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Neil Bahadur
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The way this would be a throwaway early 60s throwaway French studio film and not like a auteur-for-hire semi-tentpole release lol
@rsantana2024
Ronaldo Sosa
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Challengers but it’s made in 1960s France starring Catherine Deneuve, Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo
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Neil Bahadur
3 years
This is gonna be unbearable lol
@BlackMajikMan90
The Moonlight Warrior 🌙
3 years
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 😳
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If you ever want to know why modern cinema has sucked so bad for the last like decade you can literally just point at Joss Whedon and JJ Abrams
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Neil Bahadur
7 months
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...
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Neil Bahadur
1 year
Honestly one of the most romantic videos I've ever seen on this website lmao
@goldiehawn
Goldie Hawn
5 years
Happy birthday my honey! I love you ❤️
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