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film journalist / filmmaker | “Desert Window” | words @thefilmstage @pastemagazine @polygon etc | luke.hicks.writes @gmail

Brooklyn, NY
Joined September 2013
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I sat down with Albert Serra to talk his opus-to-date PACIFICTION, lensing, waxing poetic in screenplays for investors, Jerry Garcia dosing his camerapeople with LSD, and why lingering on faces is “the pleasure of cinema.” for @PasteMagazine
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sacred image
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still thinking about this woman in a onesie at the beverly hills hotel bar that tried to convince management her dog was a service dog (wait for it)
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thinking about her this morning
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seeing Dune in a theater (where the projectionist plays two scenes at the same time), as Villeneuve intended
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5 years
AD ASTRA // SKYFALL // BR2049
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heck yeah
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had a moment of overwhelming clarity on the train that Inglourious Basterds is Tarantino’s best
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4 years
:52 mark. you won’t regret it
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all of us on sunday
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This year’s Oscars set design:
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5 years
2020 is fuckin staaaaaaaaaaaaacked y'all: -Wes Anderson -Sofia Coppola -David Fincher -Christopher Nolan -Dee Rees -Denis Villeneuve -Mia Hansen-Løve -Edgar Wright -Joanna Hogg -Charlie Kaufman -Leos Carax -Paul Verhoeven -Sally Potter -Mike Mills -Josephine Decker -David Lowery
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4 years
i think about this way too much
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on my way to see the gf (The Godfather)
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2 years
still watchin sundance movies
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4 years
EXCLUSIVE: 'Moonlight' sequel in the works with Jon Favreau set to direct
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what’s the sweetest, most adorable romance ever captured on film? the one you can’t help but swoon over- i’ll start
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james corden getting a nomination for anything
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kween of dead marriages
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Michelle Williams, Oscar Isaac to Star in ‘Scenes From a Marriage’ Limited Series at HBO
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Coen, Chan-wook, and Cronenberg on the same day
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goldmine at the bookstore
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when a fly lands on my criterion collection
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it’s a fire of love spooktacular
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4 years
WHERE WAS THIS CASUAL CHATTY BEHAVIOR WHEN AGNES VARDA SHOWED UP AT YOUR FRONT DOOR BITCH
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Jean-Luc Godard's Instagram live masterclass—in which the filmmaker discusses his Cahiers du Cinéma peers, the role of the auteur and producer, and his new film—is now available to watch with English subtitles via @ecal_ch :
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breaking: Terrence Malick says his next film will be about “god stuff”: “And it’s a drama as well … blended with philosophy, but I would overall call it a drama.”
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Adam McKay says his next film will be about “big, dirty money”: “And it’s a comedy as well … blended with drama, but I would overall call it a comedy.” ()
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4 years
remember when PARASITE won and everyone in the audience went fucking bananas and there was world peace
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I won’t give context but I wanna let the Schrader heads know that there’s a man writing at a desk in a dark room in this one. And he’s got a lamp on.
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stranger: oh, so you write about movies? me: yep stranger: then you probably love [their favorite movie] me, sometimes: ah, not the best, in my opinion stranger: YOU THINK YOURE A FUCKING GOD DONT YOU
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4 years
dakota johnson double-fisting coffee in oversized clothes- i feel seen
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looked up the Inherent Vice screenplay to see how PTA wrote the Doc and Shasta romance in the rain sequence, fully expecting the language to woo me..
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How do some of y’all take 30 minute plus showers? Do y’all not get bored?
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4 years
between The Tree of Life, Killing Them Softly, True Romance, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Meet Joe Black, Ad Astra, and Fight Club, Brad Pitt might have the most impressive career in box office flops
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this can’t be real
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brad pitt sitting at desks: a thread
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4 years
the cultural impact of i think you should leave is immeasurable
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the irony of the "JOKER is problematic/dangerous" crowd is that they seem to have missed marvel's glorification of the u.s. military industrial complex in 30+ films over the past 11 years. if anything, shooters are inspired by cpt. america types that tout american exceptionalism.
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2020 is officially the first year without any MCU movies or TV shows since 2009.
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that spectral image of pitt is easily one of my favorite shots of the year
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Darren Aronofsky's NOAH is streaming its ass off. you go girl
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@nealbrennan he's talked about this so much
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3 years
every boom in Memoria
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overheard on the subway: “I walked out of the new Tilda Swanson movie. She made it with some Colombian director in the jungle, and, like, I have a pretty high tolerance for that shit, but this was like, ‘What?’”
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4 years
Agnès Varda's ENTIRE CAREER on criterion????
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5 years
believe it or not, this is INCEPTION in all of its color. chronologically, from left to right, each skinny line is the full color palette of the scene it represents. courtesy of Dr. James E. Cutting.
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3 years
made for some nice images, like this one where stephen mckinley henderson has a nose mouth and one (1) big oscar isaac eye 👍
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4 years
was in a writing groove yesterday up until Oscar Isaac and Elvira Lind sat down and i forgot how to breathe for the rest of the day
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FF Coppola on the right side of history on CRASH
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give the safdies $25 mil to direct a live action Ed, Edd n Eddy. the chaos.
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alexa where does Apichatpong Weerasethakul sleep
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🐐
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wild hawke sighted ballin in brooklyn
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"my parade money"
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happy pride from Sidney Lumet
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📍cousin greg | | | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | 📍flirting | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _| | | | 📍pretending to be a cowboy
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4 years
HOLY FUCK SPIKE LEE JUST SHOWED UP TO THIS BK PARTY TO SHOOT THE CELEBRATION THIS IS NOT A DRILL
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3 years
the thing about AFTER HOURS is that other films aren’t as good
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Claire Mathon's water/beach/horizon cinematography in Atlantics haunts me and i invite it to continue
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rt if you know who the *real* victim is
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turturro comin in hot
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let's not go, girls
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my plans // 2020
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BROKER: a tender continuation of Kore-eda’s career fascination with alternative families and the legal, social, and philosophical values that paint such complicated ethical portraits of them, this time through a soon-to-be abandoned baby. funny, lovely, and sad.
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out of context WORLD OF TOMORROW wisdom
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👯‍♀️
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and then they left and everyone was OK
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ANNIHILATION came out 2 years ago this week. i wrote about how it's been swirling around in me ever since—tapping on the glass of my perspective with the express purpose of challenging my worldview and how i perceive others—and how that's hard to navigate.
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somebody tell him
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or this one, where phantom Paul eavesdrops on his parents
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thinking of him
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nw in 70mm
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roommate saw ethan hawke working out at the gym, said he was watching inside llewyn davis on the elliptical. just a cool normal guy
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ANNIHILATION (2018) dir. Alex Garland
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THE LIGHTHOUSE comes out today. i've wanted to watch it a 2nd time more than most movies a first time in 2019. believe the hype. if nothing else, it teaches imperative life lessons, such as (and perhaps only) do👏not👏fuck👏with👏seagulls. my cannes review
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@KBTXRusty wow, what a joke. if ever my non-Texas friends doubted my cultural criticisms of A&M, here's all the proof you need. a city so devoid of culture and self-awareness that it's "traditions" are merely a lapse into a white-powered past (i'd still be saying this if there was no video)
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criterion color coding project complete in the sense that every time i pass the shelf i will rearrange a few, never find the perfect order, and remember how sad and complicated life is
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@vellichorprodz @dunwaIl keanu is an enigma
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never has a man played it so cool after killing his gf's dad
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thinking of her
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this tweet should’ve been on the frontlines
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finally seeing THE CARD COUNTER. alone late at night as a man in a nearly empty AMC as Paul Schrader intended
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things that actually happen in DOLITTLE • dolittle goes down on a squirrel • dolittle’s animal friends forcefully drug him with anesthesia while he’s seriously yelling at them to stop • dolittle gets shoulder deep in a dragon’s ass hole and pulls out human remains kid stuff!
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i got arrested last night at a protest in brooklyn: a thread
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71 screenings of dr strange at AMC times square today hold your loved ones close
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brianna and i went to the royal tenenbaums house. no dalmatian mice but still cool
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Cate Blanchett is in some bonkers upcoming casts
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here’s how mank can still win best picture
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love how pta/tichenor overlay a third shot of snow into this dissolve. it doesn't exist in either scene, but feels like it's fully in both.
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film journalists get generalized as one type of person too often, but we are many: celebrity junkie, history dweeb, awards goon, franchise whore, critic prick, grammar stiff, basement dweller, and other such cool stereotypes
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that was a 3 and a half star steven soderbergh movie
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THE LIGHTHOUSE: hOooOOOoOly fuck WHAT. truly truly unbelievable. i’m in shock. absolutely bewildering, the least predictable a movie can be. eggers is as good as they get. filming must’ve taken years off of dafoe/pattinson’s lives. do NOT fuck with seagulls. #Cannes2019
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Robert Pattinson is on a fucking roll and cannot be stopped directors of his next 5 films: 1) Robert Eggers 2) David Michod 3) Ciro Guerra 4) Antonio Campos 5) Joanna Hogg of his most recent 5 films: 1) Claire Denis 2) Zellner bros 3) Safdie bros 4) James Gray 5) Brady Corbet
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strong contender for greatest weed scene in cinema
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lmao
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got the Official sign off
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the masculine urge to slip past Lieutenant Detective Christian F. “Bigfoot” Bjornsen in plain sight knowing you will get your ass stomped
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MEGALOPOLIS: a goofy, ambitious film that reflects a great artist having lost much of the creative sensibility that made him profound. a silly, salacious, at times beautiful, at times entirely fake looking surface level dive into what amounts to Coppola’s Southland Tales.
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isaac doing quite the stuhlbarg here
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Benedict Wong in sci-fi movies appreciation tweet
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"This is my son and my partner, Nestor Plainview"
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