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John Bleasdale

@drjonty

3 months

Italy now has a TV show called Miss Merkel which imagines Angela Merkel as a private investigator solving murders in North Italy.

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Cosa succederebbe se #AngelaMerkel diventasse un’investigatrice? #MissMerkel è la nuova curiosa serie di #Rai2 dove l’ex cancelliera tedesca, in pensione, si diletta a risolvere alcuni casi di omicido In onda da venerdì, in prima serata! #Series #Rai #Palinsesti #AscoltiTv

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The one I feel sorry for is Armie Hammer’s twin brother. I mean his career: it’s screwed and he did nothing

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4 years

Spot the difference #TrumpOut2020

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It’s weird how films have such a short cultural half-life these days. Midnight Sky lasted a day. Mank a week. There’s no real talk. Cinema has become tv. Without the theatrical experience and ancillary publicity and chatter, films last barely longer than it takes to watch them...

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4 years

Who did this?

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People talk about Tom Cruise being this great stuntman. For Eyes Wide Shut he was too scared to walk down a street.

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1 year

Post two pictures of an actor in two roles to show their range

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3 years

Start your day with art criticism

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Here’s a question #filmtwitter onscreen couples that had zero chemistry. Go!

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1 year

This is one of the best articulated responses to our present cultural anxiety

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This Richard Linklater answer, man.

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What’s your favorite British TV to Hollywood blockbuster move? I like the guy who orders Waldorf Salad in Fawlty Towers turning up to berate @MatthewModine in Full Metal Jacket

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@RufusTSuperfly @FilmMomatic I loved his voice. I loved everything in this film that everyone hated. The most underrated of the trilogy.

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7 months

Rewatching Birth. Jonathan Glazer’s second film. It’s almost impossible to categorize. A ghost story/psychological thriller. It channels Polanski and the Hitchcock of Marnie. It’s perverse and disturbing. Kidman is luminous and also fading. What if it’s a sequel to Eyes Wide Shut

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3 months

Nate Silver can’t even predict the end of his own sentence.

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4 years

In fact tv shows have more impact because it takes more time to watch them. I don’t know if this will be permanent. I doubt it. Everything changes. But I do know if I was a filmmaker I would hate my film to come out like this.

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3 years

This blows my mind. Kate Winslett from Mare of Eastown is the same Kate Winslett who was in Titanic. She’s just “acting” differently.

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4 years

Find someone who looks at you the way Klaus Kinski looks at Werner Herzog.

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Kevin Costner’s Horizon is an old fashioned western and there’s something so beautiful about taking out cliches, polishing them to a shine and wholeheartedly embracing them. I loved it. It’s unironic unrevisionist classic western with a wonderful sense of place and language.

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3 years

Positive vibes. Name two things that you’ve done that would have impressed your 13 year old self. I acted in a play in a foreign language and I went to China.

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5 years

Here’s a question dear #filmtwitter what film did you watch and while watching think “I am witnessing a masterpiece”?

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1 year

Tilda Swinton just disappears into roles

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1 year

Wait! What?

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4 years

Here's a question #FilmTwitter : what opening scene in a movie did you watch and in the cinema think: this might be the best film ever (regardless of the final outcome)?

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2 years

Colin Farrell has gone from being a failed lead actor to a triumphant character actor, one of the best working today, which makes me want to go back and watch all those early films because I suspect his performances have always been brilliant. We've just been watching them wrong.

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6 months

Who’s an actor who you expected to have a bigger career than they have had?

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9 months

Coming later in 2024

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6 months

I once asked Ben Mendelssohn if he worried about being typecast and he told me that he’s a taxi driver who knows the neighborhood. If that’s where he’s paid to go he’s happy to oblige. Happy Birthday Ben.

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It’s odd how a scene in a film can change when you view it several times. For instance that scene in Fight Club when Jared Leto gets his face punched in seemed way too long when I first saw it. But now it seems nowhere near long enough

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3 years

Start your day with Phil Lynott

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7 months

Dune Part 2: Surprised at how dark this was. Beautifully done.

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4 months

Sean Baker is one of the nicest guys in the business. He did a film club over Zoom for my film club when Italy was in lockdown. His speech dedicated the award to sex workers, past, present and future. He has also made endlessly fascinating funny generous and humaa work. Chapeau

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3 years

First movie of the festival

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3 years

Humphrey Bogart directed by John Woo.

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@paulduanefilm He jumped from the hotel window wearing his costume and Leone chased the ambulance to rescue the coat so he could shoot a double.

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1 year

Murray Melvin died yesterday. He's probably best known for his work in Barry Lyndon and The Devils. But his role in Tony Richardson's Taste of Honey was genuinely ground-breaking and beautiful in providing a real human portrait of a gay man. Watch the film if you haven't already

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6 years

Netflix isn’t competing against cinema, its competing against tv. Cinema is competing against restaurants, bars, theatre and live music.

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1 year

Something I’ve noticed -via a conversation- most of my favorite filmmakers make period films. Who is your favorite filmmaker who is making films set in the right now?

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2 years

Can’t get enough of Mr Bronson from Grange Hill commanding a Star Destroyer in Empire Strikes Back (Waldorf Salad was manning the rebellion outpost on Hoth)!

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2 years

A bit of personal news. Earlier this year I signed a contract to write a biography of one of my fave directors, Terrence Malick, provisionally titled The Magic Hours: The Hidden Life of Terrence Malick - I can’t wait for you guys to see it but it will take a little time.

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7 months

If I were to say “why is he always wearing that fucking hat?” Would you immediately know who I was talking about?

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3 years

Start your day with cinema

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Fede Alvarez should get his own fucking ideas

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Fede Álvarez should make a new The Thing film.

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7 months

Hey @film4 and #A24 your boy’s being smeared. You got anything to say?

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3 years

I loved The Last Duel. Brilliant epic filmmaking with a genuinely fascinating insight into history and storytelling. There’s a Rashomon like structure but this is also its own thing. Best Ridley Scott since Gladiator.

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2 years

John David Washington is not a great actor. Discuss

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4 months

48% of British people identify as working class. 8% of actors come from working class backgrounds I can’t name hardly any recents examples. Who are your favorites?

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4 years

My favourite #Cannes memory of all time: meeting my hero Werner Herzog. I told him I was a great fan and apologised for interrupting him. He asked what i did. I told him I was a writer. And he said *Werner Herzog voice* "Then you are not a fan, you are a colleague."

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Drugstore Cowboy is a wonderful film. One of Matt Dillon’s best performances and a wonderful cameo by William S Burroughs as William S Burroughs. An underrated or slightly forgotten film I fear.

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2 years

Rigsby turning up in 2001 a Space Odyssey will always be the capper.

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3 years

Oscars are about marketing not quality. Marketing is truly important and so the Oscars are important. But they’re not important in terms of assigning, defining or indicating quality and never were.

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3 years

Some people hated it. Some people fucking hated it.

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A Thrusting James Corden Stops Traffic in ‘Cinderella’ Stunt, Divides Social Media

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9 months

Just saw Christopher Nolan at my hotel having breakfast. No entourage. On his own. Weird he ate a bowl of dry cornflakes then drank a glass of milk then ate a spoon of sugar. Not how I would do it but oddly compelling.

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3 years

Guess who just got a book contract. To write a book. On film.

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1 year

In the 1970s Sterling Hayden went to live on a houseboat for 17 years in the middle of Paris

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3 years

Modern posters get a bit of stick, so it's worth celebrating one that does the job. Hats off!

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1 year

Finished and submitted my final draft of the Terrence Malick biography. Book due 2024.

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3 years

Don't know who did this but you win

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5 months

Also this film like Southland Tales, Showgirls and Inland Empire will be reassessed as a masterpiece within the decade.

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5 months

Megalopolis is the Spruce Goose of films, often stupid, barely functional, rarely airborne but I’m kinda glad it exists. Like Ayn Rand tripping balls. Adam Driver continues his tour of dream projects of aging directors. Coppola has had fun and proved why Zoetrope failed.

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10 months

McCabe & Mrs Miller (1971) Altman’s western influenced Deadwood, Once Upon a Time in America and The Shining. It’s a tale of progress and defeat, capital and poetry. Songs by Leonard Cohen, cinematography by Zsigmond, weather by God. Altman’s best?

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4 years

I first saw Threads when I was a 12 years old. It was September, 1984 and the next day that's all anyone could talk about at school for a week. It affected me hugely, viscerally and politically. I watched it again today and its power has not diminished. What an unbelievable film

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3 months

Tonight the screening of Love Lies Bleeding @KVIFF a champion woman body builder came on and led the whole audience through a routine. The woman next to me shouted “You don’t get this at Cannes!”

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2 years

I know this is an odd thing for a critic to say but I think we should admit more about the films that flummox us; that we don’t have a properly formed opinion on. There’s value in being baffled, in the complex reaction that doesn’t fit into a hot take or a tweet.

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3 years

Happy birthday to Sigourney Weaver. Spotted here at the Hollywood Bowl watching the Beatles, aged 14

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9 months

RW: Sexy Beast (2000) Jonathan Glazer's film came out during a glut of Brit Gangster pics, but it's a masterpiece. Channelling Pinter and surrealism, a bold eye, true economy and a sense of genuine empathy, even for monsters. Gal & his wife & surrogate son. Winstone's best

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4 months

Great news everyone. New book deal signed. Coming in 2025.

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3 years

Start your day by opening a window like Jimmy Cagney

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2 years

I love this film.

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3 years

Start your day with the original poster art for Eyes Wide Shut

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3 years

Was I the only person who as a kid felt really cheated when the Pink Panther animated title sequence finished and then a normal film began?

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3 years

Start your day with Ingrid Bergman looking at Isabella Rossellini

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3 years

Here’s an idea for making films interesting. Give your characters real jobs. What’s a film where the protagonist has a job you don’t usually see a protagonist do? Like Adam Driver driving a bus in Patterson

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4 years

Start your day with a thread of actors reading books they’re going to star in

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3 years

Gian Maria Volonté deserves to be better known internationally. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, The Mattei Affair, Many Wars Ago and Sacco and Vanzetti are just a few I would advise you watch.

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Happy Outland day to all who celebrate

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2 years

Best film directed by the lead actor. Go.

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4 years

In Italy - ITALY - we've been wearing masks for months in shops, stations, on public transport and supermarkets ( @sainsburys ?). The thing polices itself. All those stereotypes of the law abiding English compared to the relaxed continentals is utter bullcrap.

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I have an honest question. Not engagement bait honest. Has this been an exceptionally poor year for films? We’ve had a few good ones; maybe even a great one or two. But it feels pretty drab so far. I’d have a job compiling a top five. Or is it just me?

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2 years

No way the film can be as good as this poster

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8 years

My daughters set their alarms so they could get up and watch the first woman president win. I snuck up and turned them off. #ElectionNight

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1 year

@daveyjenkins The Prestige and Memento are witty as fuck. His Batman films have a healthy sense of their own ludicrousness. This critical truism about Nolan’s lack of humor is inaccurate and kind of tedious. No guffaws perhaps but so what?

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@mattzollerseitz I loved the use of sealing wax. It's that retro SF vibe that Dune does so well

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4 years

Start this morning with a picture of Harrison Ford "accidentally" punching Ryan Gosling in the face while make Blade Runner 2049!

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3 years

I just had a huge nostalgic rush for Play. Com I lived on their homepage for a while.

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1 year

Michael Gambon had a whole career and was an amazing actor. Stop calling people Harry Potter stars. RIP.

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2 years

“An opera in which the arias aren’t sung; they’re stared”

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2 years

I know this is probably so obvious but Brad Pitt is actually a really good actor. Don’t you concur?

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4 years

I don’t usually announce family stuff here but my daughter today passed her entrance exam for university. She has also won a three year scholarship to pay for it. I’m so happy I could shit.

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1 year

Italian writer Elsa Morante was asked what was the line that most epitomizes love and she replied: “Have you eaten?”

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2 months

Elon Musk has released a deep fake video of Kamala Harris saying she is a diversity hire. I don’t know where this white South African diamond heir could have got his racism.

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5 years

Sigourney Weaver at a Beatles concert. Aged 14.

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8 months

Rewatched The Zone of Interest: This is a film about the Holocaust that isn’t cathartic. It hasn’t any need for your tears or pity. It is darkness domesticated. It is the sort of film that you don’t want to lessen with talk.

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2 years

@compboy1972 What sentimentality?

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3 years

Jeez. You all slept on Underwater guys. You can keep Color Out of Space. This is the best Lovecraft movie for decades. Chapeau @superswift tentacley chapeau.

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4 years

What are the chances of a sequel?

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1 year

The days of Netflix attempting the prestige acquisition/production are over. We got The Irishman, Roma, Marriage Story, White Noise, The King, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Power of the Dog, and Other Side of the Wind. Was it a good haul?

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9 months

Xmas Miracle: having disappeared on the 19th of November, Atticus is back. Skin and bone and obviously traumatized but alive and now back with us!

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5 months

The reaction in #cannes2024 to Costner’s Horizon shows the bias that has developed over the years towards horror and social realism away from the western. Critics who would applaud and hoot at the lamest horror met this with scorn. I like horror AND westerns btw

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Kevin Costner’s Horizon is an old fashioned western and there’s something so beautiful about taking out cliches, polishing them to a shine and wholeheartedly embracing them. I loved it. It’s unironic unrevisionist classic western with a wonderful sense of place and language.

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Tim Burton is what people with little imagination think imagination looks like

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