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alex lei

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every time this era JGL pops up all i can think about is he finally set up his career to be the next big thing and immediately directed a movie where he cast himself as a guido who can’t stop jacking off

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Joseph Gordon Levitt stuns in new video

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Martin Scorsese at the Oscars leaning over to Francesca and saying:

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This shot from I’m Just Ken is a reference to a Busby Berkeley number from Dames (1934), btw!

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“doing yoga for the hostages” sounds like something Conner O’Malley would blurt out while bleeding on the side of a bridge

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there’s two paths for the mumblecore generation: direct Barbie or run an illegal VHS rental shop out of the back of a pizza restaurant

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Here’s Joe Swanberg with his traveling black market VHS rental store that the city of Chicago keeps trying to shut down

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the domesticated Russian bear i follow on IG just had a very big day

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@metaplexmovies @swen_ryan he had a vision and he had to share it with the world—the artist will not be talked down

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alex lei

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knowing that Godard always returned to this moment, i feel pretty confident in saying that i could spend decades searching through cinema and not find a better scene than this

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feeling compelled to watch the entire filmography of a director i think sucks

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alex lei

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3 years

losing Bogdanovich is losing such a link, one of the first people to bridge the old Hollywood with the new. he showed that all this wasn't just separate generations, but one big continuity. can't but help feel like thats been getting severed, but hopefully that legacy can live on

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alex lei

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hearing reports that Megalopolis is both Southland Tales (compliment) and Southland Tales (derogatory)

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what it feels like to contemplate ordering McDonalds at 2:30am while blackout drunk

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alex lei

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need to feel like this so bad

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Meditation...Female head, terracotta, h. 6,2 cm, Moravian culture, 4800-4500BC. descovered in Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou, Moravia, Czech Republic, currently in the Moravian National Museum, Brno

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alex lei

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typa shit i’ve been on lately

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alex lei

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do film twitter people that live in cities with big reparatory scenes just run into each other constantly

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alex lei

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1 year

you know what would make the Amalfi Coast truly beautiful? American style 8-lane highways

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She is fucking fed up

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this is why Marty looked so happy in that video

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I once dated a communist. He was a joyless person who felt profound guilt in anything that wasn't liberating the working class. He refused to get a job because it meant he'd be taking a job from an immigrant, which meant I was working 15 hours a day to try to keep us off the

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couples costume idea

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vindicated

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@TheMessenger

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Tesla recalls some Model Ys over risk of steering wheel falling off while driving

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this is what i’m always worried my writing sounds like

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The Dunes here are amazing, and they're how I learned about geomorphology, which is the study of movement landforms. We've had a great trip

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alex lei

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when the Revolution comes, disrespecting Cook Out will get you sent to the re education camps

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The South has some of the most horrifying things I’ve ever heard of

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alex lei

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6 months

THE CHINESE BEAVER IS A CLIP FROM A BETTER TOMORROW??!?!

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alex lei

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@ecto_fun “Lana Del Rey for men” uhh that’s clearly Leonard Cohen

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alex lei

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another day…

alex lei

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no matter how hard i try i can’t go a day without listening to that AI Homer cover of Born Slippy

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@Srirachachau the way to make friends is have people fill out ideological questionnaires

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Zoe Kazan logging on to defend Jonathan Glazer

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alex lei

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@SaraGhaleb My history of philosophy prof made sure we all understood that a symposium involved a lot of alcohol and sex before we read the dialogue and I thank him for that

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alex lei

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hearing the news about Angelo Badalamenti

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its time

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@LingoUnbound counterpoint: why does Spongebob use the Burroughs font

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reading the first line of The Iliad: “oh man this seems to be celebrating the wrath of Achilles, hope there’s nothing in the second line that would ruin this interpretation”

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The first line of the Iliad celebrates the wrath of Achilles Meanwhile the Bible tells you to turn the other cheek The entire morality of the western world had to be flipped on its head to go from Greek glory to Christian meekness. Master morality to slave morality

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Romain Grosjean crashing out of the Indy 500 in solidarity with his old buddy Kevin Magnussen having to retire out of Monaco

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

4 years

Pollsters have commented on a potential “Muppet shift” in late returns

F♯A♯∞, fka ☕️

@coopercooperco

4 years

For the first time since polls opened, [4] The Muppet Movie has pulled ahead of [1] Goodfellas.

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alex lei

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when i was a film student, i wanted to get into Soviet Cinema but had a hard time knowing what to watch outside of the big filmmakers that everyone talks about. after a decade of diving in, i’m proud to present my guide to Soviet film beyond the basics

Beyond the canon: Soviet cinema

There are countless Soviet films and filmmakers worth exploring outside the big names you may stumble across in film school.

www.avclub.com

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happy Maryland day

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alex lei

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huge W for the Prometheus heads

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Obama is emailing me like i’m bisexual brunette Marxist at Occidental College in the early 80s

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alex lei

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reject modernity, embrace tradition

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

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damn it’s really happening

lyndon b johnson fancam workers cooperative 🌹

@lbjfancamcoop

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The Papa Johns closest to the Pentagon is far busier than usual

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

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harsh noise set at a small wine bar that inexplicably does experimental shows for audiences of ~20 every couple weeks

Hot Take Safe Space

@YourMusicTakes

1 year

Taylor Swift has mastered all 4 genres of music. What else is there for her to do?

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god i love film twitter

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

10 months

studios should learn the wrong lesson from this and start cranking out high budget court procedurals about mid-century academics

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10 months

‘OPPENHEIMER’ has passed $900M worldwide. Will become the highest grossing biopic of all time this weekend.

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if you’re looking to watch something decidedly un-4th of July today, i compiled a list of films to scratch past the surface of Soviet cinema for AV Club—and most of them are on YouTube!

The A.V. Club

@TheAVClub

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Beyond the canon: Soviet cinema

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alex lei

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@TheOnion Why is no one talking about how the kid in this pic looks exactly like Mitch McConnell

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Contempt is one of those classics that pretty much every cinephile has seen—but if it is ever one of someone’s favorite movies, invariably that person had a week where they watched it at least once a day while going through some wack relationship stuff

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alex lei

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instead of giving the police a mandate to harass teenagers all summer, the mayor should be focusing on more pressing issues in Baltimore, like building a sandwich shop within walking distance to every home in city limits

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Barbie (2023)

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@abs_sweetmarie not a huge fan of the reworked version generally but John Cale’s is way better than Buckley’s take imo

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happy 406 Day to Greg Gianforte who has COVID

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lovers in the alley

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

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Everyone talking about Jojo Rabbit but here's the movie that's really gonna take on fascism

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

1 year

you’re telling me we owe Cameron’s film career to the Golden Fang?

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1 year

More people should pivot careers by doing exactly what James Cameron did

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@SalamiTaylor ahead of its time, in a sense

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alex lei

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@justbrizigs these people want the production code back so bad

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1 year

damn i’m gonna be more careful when i see a big rock in the road while going 300mph now :/

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Everyone should see this

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@alex_orlov_ Johnny Guitar!

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how it started / how it’s going

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not my problem

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@PoorOldRoloTony this and the scene where he randomly gets mad about homeless people are so funny

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

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@SlayerofCis People who don’t cry when James plays “Just You” in The Return are fake fans

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

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when my local blockbuster closed the whole town spiraled into poverty because it was the largest employer and provided union-protected middle class jobs that could support the whole family

Paul Sherman

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I’ve always found it interesting that, at its peak, Blockbuster video employed over 84,000 people—more than twice the number of coal miners in America—yet I’ve never heard anyone bemoan the loss of those jobs.

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alex lei

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2 years

Heat 2 by Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner— good fun, a sprawling airport novel epic. feels like 5 different Michael Mann movies mashed into one. thumbs up!

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

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big one for me—for my Paste debut I wrote how a Sony digital camera helped push the boundaries of what was possible with cinema, on one side with a Star Wars movie and another with a one-take Russian art film

Paste Magazine

@PasteMagazine

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Cinema entered its digital era 20 years ago with two Cannes movies, shot with the same high-tech camera, that couldn't be more different: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Russian Ark. @alexL_E_I explains:

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alex lei

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Cannot stress enough how good of a job grocery store workers have been doing despite the chaos customers might wreak; maybe they’re the front line of society functioning and should be treated/compensated as much

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alex lei

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for @IDAorg ’s Documentary Magazine i profiled @MEMORYpresents , the elusive, always interesting 2-man producing pair and how they spent the last 10 years trying to build an alternative model of low-budget independent filmmaking

Making a Production: Memory

Making a Production is Documentary’s strand of in-depth profiles featuring production companies that make critically-acclaimed nonfiction film and media in innovative ways. These pieces probe the...

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@ecto_fun Agent Cooper patiently explaining the proper way to pronounce Versace

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alex lei

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had to stop the car and pull over when i saw this on my way home last night

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incredible lead in

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wrote about a bad tv show

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i’ll follow you anywhere

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1 year

Follow me to the cinema ⁦ @popes_exorcist ⁩

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alex lei

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Netanyahu if he stayed in Philly

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I love the youth

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Yevgeny Prigozhin before boarding RA-02795:

Variety

@Variety

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Michael Mann: “The thing is, I don’t think about mortality. I’m busy.”

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@Ceilidhann @dasstooshie “i wrote the Paste review of Tortured Poets Department!”

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alex lei

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haven’t shaved since my last time in Harpers Ferry

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reading the ingredients on the back of my avocados

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alex lei

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Gene Jones hive rise up

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Computer, enhance

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incredible matte painting of Baltimore at the end of Hitchcock’s MARNIE (1964)

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@ldrinkh20

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@abs_sweetmarie the haters mindset is as much a grind as any other

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

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watching my regular lime scooter into the night after serving him 5 Malort and sodas

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

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WHY DOES THE CHURCH BAR APOLOGY VIDEO HAVE THE MUSIC FROM THE BILL HADER DANCING MEME?!?!!

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THIS IS AN URGENT QUESTION: if you could live in one fictional character’s apartment, whose would it be? Go! THE STAKES COULDN’T BE HIGHER FOLKS

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alex lei

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possibly the greatest image i’ve ever taken

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alex lei

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@therealaaronk we’re gonna get to see ejaculation on a molecular level, done with practical effects & shot on IMAX

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this fit / caption goes crazy

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

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if you’re a film director and don’t have a page like this what’s even the point

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

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this has the mise-en-scene of a late era Jodorowsky or even that Iñárritu from a couple years ago

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President @realDonaldTrump is greeted by local high school band at Trump International Golf Course prior to Super Bowl kickoff!! 🏈

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new for @PasteMagazine : took a look back at PUBLIC ENEMIES, one of Michael Mann’s most self-examining films, and the last of his masterpieces that has yet to get the love it deserves

Public Enemies at 15: Michael Mann's End to the Wild West

One of the last Michael Mann movies to be reassessed, Public Enemies is the filmmaker grappling with transforming technology.

www.pastemagazine.com

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alex lei

@alexL_E_I

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when did they decide animated films should just look like boring normal movies

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alex lei

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at a bar a number of my friends work at there’s a regular who pisses himself all the time. they had to ban him because he pissed himself so much. he said he got medication for his condition and they let him back in. he pissed himself again and they had to re-ban him