David Jenkins @daveyjenkins Twitter profile

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David Jenkins

2 years

Pals, as my Twitter experience is resembling the image below (moreso than usual), a note to say I'll be going largely ambient on here and shifting over to: Letterboxd and Insta

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

2 years

The greatest single moment in the history of American art bar none.

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@daveyjenkins

3 years

I asked Guillermo del Toro his thoughts on the intersections between noir and horror (w/r/t Nightmare Alley) and, for context, he threw out this amazing definition of noir…

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David Jenkins

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3 years

When a filmmaker drops the opening credits at the 40 minute mark

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1 year

Is this the only actually funny moment in a Nolan movie? (Haven't seen the new one, but assuming laffs not high on the agenda)

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 years

*Harvey gets shiv'd in the yard* Giant tattooed inmate: "Wong Kar-wai sends his regards."

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

So disappointing…

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

1 year

With The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer makes a film as completely disturbing and conceptually brilliant as Salo. I’m shaking. Banjaxed. Walked out of the screening in a state of catatonia. Major and then some. #Cannes2023

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

1 year

Scene of the year

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

4 months

Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light is a late-festival stunner, and it signals the birth of a major filmmaker. I have everything crossed that it wins the Palme.

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David Jenkins

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5 months

Please take a moment to read this review. At this outlet we encourage writers to cultivate a personal voice, to not muffle emotion, to try and identify how and why movies can converge with Actual Real Life, and try to write as if you're talking rather than telling. Thanks X

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In an age where studios encourage filmmakers to make their action films quickly and cheaply, Furiosa proves that a better world is possible, one where a film exists with greasy, dirty fingerprints all over it

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David Jenkins

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4 years

Phantom Thread is such an incredible movie, and for me it all comes together in its final scene. I realise that's quite a banal thing to say, but I wish more films did that. Not shock rug-pulling twists, more a grace note that enriches everything that has come before it.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 years

Someone, please, invent a word stronger than “masterpiece” so I can amply describe Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. More-than-a-masterpiece?Masterpiece 2.0? (sorry!) The full package. Big Meet Me In St Louis energy. One of the most pleasurable cinema experiences of my life. Swoon…

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 years

Who wore it better?

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

6 years

Am I allowed to say that Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Wild Pear Tree is a masterpiece and the best film in Cannes?

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

4 years

If you want to emulate the Cannes experience right now: - put on a lanyard - wait in the street for 2.5 hrs - run inside and sit down - look around the room and wave for 20 mins - switch off lights - play Saint-Saëns’ Le Carnaval des Animaux - watch 3* film - drink carafe of rosé

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 years

The shit Bong went through with Snowpiercer – this victory really is most satisfying as an ear-splittingly loud fuuuuuuuuuuck yoooooooouuuuu to Hollywood's I-know-better middle management class. Cinema won indeed…

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

1 year

It's the delivery more than the line that makes this funny.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 months

What a vile thread this is. Shame on everyone involved in the pile-on.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

4 years

It’s time...

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

6 years

Saw The Mule yesterday and shared a row with an elderly couple. They commented on the film very loudly throughout, mainly explaining plot points to one another. At one point, the woman says to the man, “Did you hear that Ron? He hates the internet too.”

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

1 year

There are an ungodly amount of great movies - new and old, from countries across the globe - playing in cinemas every week. While the studios fiddle with their big releases, take a chance on something that may not have the marketing budget to all-but-railroad you into your seat.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

8 years

new auto email response

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 months

Desole haters… Megalopolis rules.

Megalopolis – first-look review

Ignore the haters – this is the kaleidoscopic, enriching, Wellsian vision of a grand old master with nothing to lose.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

Old (Shyamalan, 21)

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

1 year

The original Oppenheimer

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

4 years

S/O to programmers, cinema workers, film distributors and anyone else in the sector forced to alter plans despite herculean efforts to roll with the punches of pandemic life. Your creativity and stoicism has been inspiring. Anything lwl can do to help, just shout.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

2 years

Amazing interview with the maestro @donhertzfeldt by @sopharsogood , on the occasion of It's Such A Beautiful Day's 10th birthday.

Don Hertzfeldt on It’s Such a Beautiful Day at 10

A dialogue with the humble, perspicacious and very funny director of one of the film masterpieces of the 21st century.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

2 years

It's conspiracy-level strange how reliably BAFTA snub the actual best British filmmakers (Davies, Hogg, Leigh, et al) whose work is going to be celebrated in years to come. Realise those filmmakers likely don't care, but as a celebration of the Brit film industry, it's maddening.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

1 year

Jeanne du Barry is the stinkiest French cheese sculpted into a piece brazen, panto-level César bait with minus-infinity chemistry between Maïwenn and JD. Staggeringly dire on just about every level. #cannnes2023

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

Always had time for Keanu Reeves since seeing him beast out at the BFI shop circa 2012, cradling armfuls of arthouse DVD boxsets, including the entire Fassbinder corpus.

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David Jenkins

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5 months

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

7 years

Someone's been watchin' Touki Bouki…

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4 years

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 years

A bad, bad, bad, bad film. Some reasons why I think that:

Joker first look review – This epic misfire is no laughing matter

Todd Phillips’ wannabe edgy comic book origin story falls flat on every conceivable level.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

6 years

This is Ivy. She's seen five Claire Denis films: White Material, L'Intrus, No Fear No Die, US Go Home & Let the Sunshine In. I've just handed her the new issue of @LWLies on High Life and she's excited at the prospect of seeing it. She can't yet read, I told her what's inside…

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

9 months

We must try, in 2024, to elevate this film to the masterpiece status it deserves. Kondō was a genius the equal of Miyazaki and Takahata, and there just aren't that many films which meld gooey teen soap opera with full-bore existential shutdown in such a coherent and profound way.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

2 years

RRR snub by BAFTA makes me think members saw the film as a personal critique ; )

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 years

Netflix need to have an option where you can skip to Robert Pattinson with The King.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 years

From the imdb “goofs” section for Malick’s The New World.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

7 years

Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled is a straight-up masterpiece. #Cannes70

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

We, as a civilisation, did the dirty on The Card Counter. And we need to pay for that.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

Franz, for me, is the most interesting actor working today. Could literally watch the guy chopping veg…

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

New Almodovar on this screen in 10 mins. Greetings from Venice.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

1 year

More scintillating magnificence from Nuri Bilge Ceylan in About Dry Grasses. Screenplay-wise he’s on another plateau. Not a wasted syllable/frame. One extended dinner-table confab an all-timer. #Cannes2023

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 months

Scénarios is proof that Jean-Luc Godard was innovating, challenging, fusing, truth-telling and mining the archives of his soul until almost the point of his final breath. Culminates in a shot – beautiful but haunting – of him writing the voiceover the day before his death.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

Hosting an on-stage Q&A is really difficult btw. You need to prep. You need to have questions in the chamber. You need to be ready for "wild" audience Qs that need to be translated/paraphrased. You need to be ready if the person you're interviewing is not in a good mood.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

7 years

In praise of flying solo to the cinema.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

Just been to see Ambulance presented in person by Michael Bay who forgot his producer’s name when he brought him up to the stage, then shut the film off after it had been rolling for 2 mins because he decided he wanted to watch it again but was just “doing something.”

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

My daughter’s first film at the cinema (aged two-and-three-quarters) was Peter Rabbit 2 and she loved it. Completely rapt end to end. (If she asks me later on what her first film was I’ll say Ordet or something)

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

4 years

Films with credits at the beginning >>> Films with credits at the end.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

1 year

On current evidence, AI-generated bot "journalism" is existing material that's been inelegantly re-worded to the exact point it can avoid plagiarism claims, and then SEO'd to death. Don't just avoid clicking on this stuff, don't click on sites that employ this insulting practice.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

6 months

Support print media!

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

4 months

More to come, but I found David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds to be an incredibly moving picture.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

6 years

It's true: Claire Denis' High Life is fucking glorious.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

2 years

Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up is Ordet in a liberal arts college. Michelle Williams stunning as after-hours sculptor with a naughty cat. An ambient “portrait of an artist” movie like no other, and surely as close to KR autobiog as we’ve had thus far. Funny too.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

Hi! I wrote a book and it's out April 7. Watched loads of films, read loads of books and tried to capture the creative essence of 50 filmmakers I love. New interviews with @Isabelvsandoval , @DesOpProduction , @kickthemachine , Pedro Costa & Mia Hansen-Løve:

Filmmakers on Film

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www.orionbooks.co.uk

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

4 years

Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things is the closest an American director has come to making an Alain Resnais movie. (High, high, high, high compliment)

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

6 years

Thread – Pls RT!! – I love making @LWLies . It consumes my waking life and, too often, my dreams/nightmares/daymares. My colleagues are amazing. With each issue we try hard to produce something lively, original and creative. We want to offer a surprise with each turn of the page.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

6 months

My interview with Victor Erice for @LWLies

Victor Erice: 'Cinema is a form of destiny'

On the occasion of his highly anticipated and long-awaited fourth feature film, we receive an audience with the master of Spanish cinema, who reflects on the long journey that Close Your Eyes had.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

2 years

@intothecrevasse I can see how the empty brutalist industrial hellscapes of Red Desert influenced their work tbh.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 months

I was floored by Jia Zhangke’s new one, Caught By the Tides, maybe my favourite of his films. Zhao Tao greatest of all time. #Cannes2024

Caught by the Tides – first-look review

The Chinese maestro delivers he greatest film in this cut-and-paste jukebox musical melodrama.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 years

1917 is a film that feels like it should have Coldplay’s Yellow playing in every scene.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

4 years

What are people’s favourite performances in Hitchcock movies? Only ask because they’re seldom spoken of. Mine’s probably Novak in Vertigo (the most ethereal performance ever) and Clift in I Confess.

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@daveyjenkins

1 year

Pals… our next printed missive to slide down the chute is @LWLies ISSUE One Hundred!!! It's taken nearly 20 years, but we're close to hitting our century. Nerves are frayed, anxiety levels are through the f'kin roof, and I'm all over the shop tryin to make this one v. special…

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

2 years

Celebrating at home with friends (just out of shot)

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

6 years

There is an absolutely astonishing film on MUBI at the moment called Happy Hour by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi. See it, or die.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

2 years

Unknown actor: “The concept of the movie star as we once knew it is dead.”

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

4 years

Gotta admit... I’m excited.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

1 year

The new Victor Erice film, Close Your Eyes, is extraordinary. Addresses his absence from film, updates themes from his previous features, postulates with gentle lyricism on the past/present/future of film and, eventually, pays rousing homage to Carl Dreyer.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

1 year

Can just say one thing… Poor Things is extraordinary. Emma Stone can never go back.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

My long-held ambition of interviewing the filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar has now been fulfilled.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

7 years

PTA’s Inherent Vice holds up magnificently on a rewatch. A vortex of purple haze puppy love, soaked in Rivettian paranoid conspiracies and post ‘68 malaise, with violent political conservatism framed as an inexorable American pandemic. And slurring JP owns.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

11 months

A big, hearty, double-grip handshake and thanks to everyone who went out and bought a copy of @LWLies issue 100. In a nightmare financial climate, it has become one of our best-selling issues.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 years

Just… sorry

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

Monica Vitti (1931-2022)

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

6 years

Heading to see the new Lars Von Trier movie

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

2 years

Here's my ballot (alphabetical) for the #SightAndSoundPoll . No film or director overlaps from 2012. Animation! TV! Docs! Horror! It's all there!

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

4 months

My 11th edition of Cannes wrapped, juggling movies, meetings and daily dispatches with early mornings and late nights spent working towards a looming mag deadline, hence a less-than-stellar sociably rating this year. A final count of 35 films, best in show - Jia; worst - Audiard.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

No mask / mask

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

4 years

Chantal Akerman would've been 70 today. Just thinking about her 1977 film News From Home makes me teary-eyed. A natural, provocative, questing and vital filmmaker – I hope someone is currently tinkering away on a set of her complete screen works. 📸Raymond Depardon

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

I'm looking for pitches on/stories around the theme of subversive blockbusters from across the globe. Films with significant budgets that connected with audiences but are discernibly odd/eccentric/auteurist follies rather than flatpack franchise features. Email in bio.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

Waiting for results of a Covid test in Venice and jotted down my ten favourite American films, as you do…

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 years

UPDATE - Best of the decade: =1. The Tree of Life =1. To the Wonder =1. Knight of Cups =1. Voyage of Time =1. Song to Song =1. A Hidden Life

David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

5 years

Best of the decade: =1. The Tree of Life =1. To the Wonder =1. Knight of Cups =1. Voyage of Time =1. Song to Song

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

4 years

Love something like Ozu loved the aesthetic possibilities of orangeade.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

3 years

🤫 @LWLies

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David Jenkins

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3 years

Fixed it

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David Jenkins

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A very simple, convincing and poetic take in praise of the photochemical process of film and its relative artistic merits when compared to digital from Victor Erice. Full interview

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

2 years

This would be ideal: Nina Hoss gets best supporting actress for Tár, but it’s actually belated unspoken acknowledgment for her performance in Phoenix (2014).

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@daveyjenkins

2 years

A troubling amount of glee being taken in the fact that the world’s greatest living filmmaker is (possibly) getting her commendably odd, unwieldy, completely sincere and classically romantic new film slightly brushed aside by its distributor.

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David Jenkins

@daveyjenkins

1 year

This has been floating around in my head for so long I almost can't quite believe it's now out in the world. Bearhugs to everyone involved and the whole @LWLies extended fam. Everyone who has ever created anything for this magazine is thanked in this issue.

Little White Lies

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1 year

Announcing #LWLies100 ! 🥳 18 years, 93 cover films, 6 themed issues and the work of countless incredible writers and illustrators have led to this: a unique celebration of print, design, journalism and, of course, filmmaking…

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@daveyjenkins

1 year

Terence Davies RIP

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David Jenkins

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4 years

At the risk of sounding unpopular, I'm with Marty on this one. The term "content" is an evil little codeword that doesn't so much transform art into gruel, but identifies a multitude of people who see art as gruel.

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