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Sophy Romvari

2 years

I can hardly believe my eyes -- nearly everything I've ever made is now available on the @criterionchannl and I'm just so so happy!!!✨❤️

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2 years

Hilarious and conceivable that Cate Blanchett may have done Hot Ones and The Criterion Closet in the very same day/outfit

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2 years

Isabella Rossellini's life tho

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2 years

10 years ago I dropped out of McGill to go to film school, and being the first of my family to go to university, my mom would joke that she never got to use her “my daughter goes to McGill” bumper sticker — I finally made it up to her and got this one printed instead 😎

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Sophy Romvari

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7 months

Always good to keep in mind that this is what *most* people are actually like:

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

Visited my parents 😎

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Sophy Romvari

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10 months

Simply one of the best frames to exist.

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

He said it best:

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3 years

Film-bro-dude at the table next to me just said to the woman he’s sitting with: “you dunno know kurosawa??? classic chinese filmmaker” 🤡

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

Just read a thread that starts "the film industry is fucked for us little guys" and ends with "disney is a truly special place" lol

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

The weirdest(?) thing cinephiles do is feel or project shame around not having seen certain movies yet, as if that is not just a gift to still have important work to discover, it's weird ya'll. Watch at your own pace.

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

On a more petty note; ?????????

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Sophy Romvari

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7 months

Say what you will about Wes Anderson, but Asteroid City being snubbed entirely over some (most) of those BPs is truly horseshit lol

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Sophy Romvari

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7 months

If Emma Stone wins for some strange reason…………..she should give it to Lily Gladstone, it’s what’s right.

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Sophy Romvari

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1 year

Started when making a low budget festival hit was enough to secure your next film, closes up shop as IP driven content make it impossible to be financed. Good for you brother.

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1 year

Quentin Tarantino will be filming his final movie ‘THE MOVIE CRITIC’ in Los Angeles. “I started directing movies here and it is only fitting that I shoot my final motion picture in the cinema capital of the world.”

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1 year

Barbie and Oppenheimer are both pretty much the best case scenario movies for the subjects they are based on this is my final answer.

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

Happy Halloween, I’m not going on a date with you – you’re twelve. 🍕

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Sophy Romvari

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8 months

The arguments against Wes Anderson often just read like “he’s really good at what he does 😡”

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

The Assistant is the best film to come out of the “MeToo” era by a landslide and it really never got its due respect…..which is entirely not surprising, sadly.

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Sophy Romvari

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7 months

It’s undeniable that watching a movie in a dark room full of other people changes the experience, and it’s usually for the better. This type of viewing is sacred and should be protected at all costs.

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

After years of putting it off, last night I watched PARIS, TEXAS -- I knew it was going to be great, but I didn't know it would have one of the best shots I've.....ever seen?

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2 years

I feel like actor blocking is really undervalued in most modern films, its maybe the most important role of any director outside of camera placement.

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

Can't stop thinking about the line of the year: "She's rather attractive, in a bureaucratic way."

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Sophy Romvari

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9 months

Dare I say, there seems to be an influx of surprisingly interesting roles for women on screen recently — complex, cunty, intelligent, and morally ambiguous women.

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Sophy Romvari

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1 year

Benny Safdie was doing a HUNGARIAN accent???? ☠️

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

Taylor Swift and Babylon feel like............similar. I can't explain more, for my safety.

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Sophy Romvari

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1 year

“Letting creatives focus on the more creative aspects of their job” is so insidious in this context, what a load of burning trash.

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1 year

Netflix has already used Machine Learning based on their content library to train an AI to do match cuts. They are very excited about it.

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2 years

Anyways, there are not enough conversations that validate rather than minimize instinct driven filmmakers (who more often than not identify as women.) People want to intellectualize decisions and intentions when art so often comes from a place much deeper than thought.

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Sophy Romvari

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7 years

Film Twitter

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Sophy Romvari

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1 year

Apparently Kelly Reichardt teaches a class where each student gets a 10 minute chunk of an already existing feature film to recreate (cast however they want, pick the style, etc) + then they stitch it all together to watch at end of term?!

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3 years

recently heard someone shorthand mental breakdown to having a “menty B”

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2 years

Shooting on film is obviously very cool, very hot, we love it — But I’m also sure that given the option, filmmakers who never had it in the past would have absolutely fucked with digital in interesting ways. Evolution of technology in film aesthetics/options is exciting, not sad.

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2 years

I mean, yes

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

Why pick a film to watch when instead you could just reside in roku city, I always say

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Sophy Romvari

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4 years

So many female and/or BIPOC filmmakers get labelled as "someone to watch" with their first feature, but never get funding or support to make their second. I hope to see that change.

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Sophy Romvari

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11 months

Once again, there is no such thing as "once you get to _______ point in your career as a filmmaker you'll be fine, funding will be easy. It just....doesn't ever come. For anyone.

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11 months

Sofia Coppola reveals that the production budget for ‘PRISCILLA’ was so “strained” at times that she considered raffling off a pickleball game with her star Jacob Elordi to raise funds for additional shooting days.

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

A Woman Under the Influence being high on the directors poll and nowhere on the critics is........interesting.

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Sophy Romvari

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11 months

*takes first deep breath in nearly two years* I’m officially going to shoot my first feature 🥳

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

The Tree of Life -- screenplay preface:

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

The word is officially out and I can't even *begin* to describe what this means to me ---- 8 of my short films are coming to the CRITERION CHANNEL in March!!! ❤️

Criterion Channel

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2 years

✨ Announcing our MARCH 2022 Criterion Channel lineup! ✨

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

Oh my GOD there is a person in my neighborhood I need to befriend

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

“That period in your life where you *really* know what you wanna be doing, but you aren’t doing it and it burns. And that burning is so generative, when you can’t possess something, and you just have to live in desire.” - Michelle Williams 🙏😭

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

Interesting framing + blocking is much more important than shooting on an expensive camera. They don’t tell you this.

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Sophy Romvari

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1 year

People saying we need more real indie movies — what do you think an “indie” movie is? Most of the time they are films built on budgets scraped together by any means possible where nobody gets paid. What we need are systems that allow independent ideas to be financed.

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

disgusting, mean spirited, hate crime behaviour

The Hard Times

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3 years

We Sat Down With M. Night Shyamalan and Asked Him Not To Make Another Movie

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1 year

Caught my neighbour watching the end of The Irishman 😪

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

Just remembered Baby Driver, the cringe film of the decade.

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

It's interesting how almost every year a fake movie "comes out" and this year its The Eyes of Tammy Faye, congrats guys, on yet another "film that exists"

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4 years

Why did we make it embarrassing to admit you haven't seen certain films? So dumb.

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3 years

thank you metaverse for this blessing

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3 years

She’s one tough cookie.

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2 years

Kelly Reichardt on how she spent the *decade* between her first and second feature.

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1 year

What is the most beautiful film shot digitally from the last 10 years? Plz not the obvious fincher/mann, dig a little deeper. Extra points for descriptions on what you enjoyed about it, composition, colour, etc.

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3 years

Who would you say is a really great CHARACTER in a film from the last decade? Not based on just performance, but rather a truly novel and iconic fictional being.

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3 years

Hey question: if you like a film, but someone else doesn’t like that film, do you die? Seems to be unclear to some.

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

Spielberg's West Side Story gave me goosebumps and made my eyes water with joy. I never thought I'd see a modern musical come anywhere close to meeting the standard of old Hollywood but this just about does the damn trick 💃

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Sophy Romvari

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5 years

Thelma + Marty ✨

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1 year

This is not even worth saying but: Cocaine Bear is bad in a whole new type of way that I don't think I've ever seen before -- ChatGPT era filmmaking, something insidiously inept going on w/ this one.

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3 years

Sign me up, let’s goooooo

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3 years

I simply cannot register that this has been the homepage of MUBI all day today.

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3 years

Literally 2 minutes later he said “yo you wanna head back to my place tho?” sir it’s 10:33am and you have some film history to revise

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3 years

between that wack clip from cruella, and now the one from black widow, can we collectively acknowledge that hundreds of low-mid budget films made with that money instead would have been at the very least been less embarrassing?

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5 months

If a film festival cannot function without financial backing that is in supposed direct opposition with its own moral position on human rights then it should not exist.

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2 years

people looking at films and criticizing them for having characters that are not morally/societally ideal……..especially one called the worst person in the world (???) lol

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2 years

Everyone's like "oh, all of a sudden every movie is about mommy/daddy issues" yeah so, what in life isn't??

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2 years

I said what I said.........

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7 months

What’s your favourite type of specialty shot that a director is known for? ie: De Palma’s split diopter, a long Godard’s Weekend type tracking shot, Wes Anderson’s overhead, Tarantino’s trunk, obvious one but Hitchcock’s vertigo…..

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3 years

This is the best laid out argument against the culture of film festival submission fees ("tax on the poor and unconnected") and the many predatory festivals on Film Freeway that I've seen. If you're a filmmaker trying to play festivals, read this:

How To Spend $10,000 on Film Festival Submissions…

…and how festivals, many of them bogus, make millions

filmfestivalfever.substack.com

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Sophy Romvari

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8 months

Parker Posey crush for life

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7 months

It’s us, we are the freaks

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3 years

"uhhh, I'm making a movie"

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

Making a film is hard no matter how you slice it, always has been, always will be. Making a *profitable* film is nearly impossible, always has been, always will be. Will that stop people from making them by any means necessary? No. Never has, never will.

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7 months

A lot of talk about distribution on here and it’s true it really is where the wheels stop turning in the life of most films — it’s brutal to witness how many great films come out at festivals that are never seen again. There’s a dire need for creative and consistent distribution.

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2 years

There will be great writing on The Fabelmans, and then there's the very boring "self mythologizing/navel-gazing" take that ignores the fact that almost ALL cinema is personal, but sometimes memory trumps metaphor.

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5 years

I met Agnes Varda ever so briefly after a screening of Cléo when I first moved to Toronto. Wide eyed & flustered I asked if she had any advice for a filmmaker starting out, she clasped my hand and said "if you don't feel you absolutely must make films, just stay home"

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

Kiarostami is the only filmmaker to make the limitation of shooting in cars look so good/work so well.

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Sophy Romvari

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5 years

A little over a week ago I spoke vaguely about my experience of abuse during my relationship with Adam Cook, the current senior programmer at Sheffield Doc/Fest. I did not plan to speak out in that moment, so I wanted to clarify some facts.

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

The pushback against Shyamalan has *always* felt like a fear of addressing what is real and earnest when it's so much easier for people to engage with cynicism and irony.

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

This is completely unreal to me, but STILL PROCESSING is now streaming exclusively on @mubi -- I'm so grateful for the chance to share this film on such an amazing platform for cinema, what an absolute dream come true!

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Sophy Romvari

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6 years

Teaching students in film school that filmmaking is "storytelling" is literally the problem. Especially with short films. Its incredibly limiting and often leads to broad and generic films.

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

There has been so many wonderful responses to this film, but perhaps, this is the best of them all...

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

Every time someone tweets "I got the jab" I immediately think they are saying "I got the job" w/ a Boston accent

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

Pasolini’s birth place…………..

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Sophy Romvari

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5 years

I liked the fight scene in Marriage Story, because I too have been with a guy who threw a temper tantrum, yelled horrible things in my face, and then cried expecting to be comforted by me 🤷‍♀️

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Sophy Romvari

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4 years

I’m very excited to announce Exquisite Shorts, a new platform for short films and filmmakers. I have been developing this concept for about a year with the feedback and help of many other filmmakers. Follow this thread for more details!

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

Crazy to think there was a moment during the pandemic where we were like "oh no, how will we ever make movies again" -- cockroach of an industry, film is.

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Sophy Romvari

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3 years

Every time I scroll through MUBI for something to watch I’m still low key stunned this is real.

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

Yesterday while the internet was down I watched The Truman Show on VHS (still a banger) and the trailer for this came on and absolutely sold me, now watching:

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Sophy Romvari

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9 months

Not that I was waiting for people to be a little more honest in their criticism of Past Lives after seeing it be broadly acclaimed……but it’s another one of those films that left me baffled/fascinated when I heard how many people had intense emotional reactions to it 🫣

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Sophy Romvari

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2 years

Hi uhhh just taking a moment to fully register that I have films streaming on Kino Lorber, MUBI and The Criterion Channel…………and I’m just getting started so sorry to the haters I hope you have a great day 😘

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2 years

I will also just say........Blade Runner is boring as hell, both directors and critics are wrong for this

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I recognize this is nearly 35 year old news to most but………. Soderbergh being only 26 making Sex, Lies and Videotape as his feature debut is simply insane.

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@BrndnStrssng but didn't you hear???? he's jus a widdle baby boi 🥺

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2 years

The famous actress who works in the film industry for decades to director pipeline seems like a nice little loophole to get the support and recognition many first time male directors get :)

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2 years

So many Canadian filmmakers make 1 feature film then disappear (or) move to the US -- *of course* we don't have a "national cinema" there's no infrastructure to have a career. Even when people do scrape it together to make something, the distribution falls apart and nobody sees.

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