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A group of filmmakers from the 62nd New York Film Festival have written a letter calling on NYFF to end its partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies and end complicity in Israeli war crimes
One thing I dislike about ALIENS is how Ripley was asleep for 57 years— and she has zero problems adjusting to the new present. Austin Powers was in cryostasis only 30 years and he had a harder time adapting.
Argylle had more than twice the annual budget of the National Endowment for the Arts and stands to lose approximately more than twice the annual budget of the National Endowment for the Arts
Israel executed them for cooking meals. On BBC Newshour this am someone explained how aid workers provide extreme detail to the IDF before moving & wait for the IDF to confirm the info. The strike was made with extraordinary precision. They're just murdering humanitarian workers.
🚨Zomi & Chef Oli's last video shows them cooking meals for Gaza's hungry in
@WCKitchen
.
They were killed today by Israeli warplanes in
#Gaza
, in disregard of international laws, echoing the daily killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza over the past 177 days.
#GazaGenocid
Killers of the Flower Moon has the most vile, rapacious pieces of shit to be found in all of Scorsese's project exploring systemized American greed and crime, deftly weaving togerher the noir & western strands of filmmakers like Anthony Mann.
Israel trying to use the Super Bowl as cover to intensify its bombing of Rafah--where it directed more than a million people it violently displaced--is one of the most cynical, cowardly, vile, and unspeakably evil acts it has committed to date. Historic levels of supervillainy.
BREAKING: Israel is now bombing a million civilians trapped in Rafah, the last place of refuge in Gaza.
This is the most violent and unprecedented bombardment of Rafah to date.
We’re witnessing a holocaust. Plain and simple.
According to this story, projectionists at an NYC Alamo Drafthouse (unclear which) filed a petition to unionize Weds
On Fri, Alamo sent an email notifying of its intention to eliminate the projectionist role and replace with with "technical engineer"
Spyglass and its co-founder Gary Barber are also behind Eli Roth's Thanksgiving, and clearly there's no issue with the inflammatory and violent things Roth has been posting in his stories (activists are "Nazi Jew haters," he encourages followers to "name and shame" them, etc.)
Spyglass, the production company behind ‘SCREAM,’ released this statement following firing Melissa Barrera for her support to Palestine:
“We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing,
After a run of health scares and reckoning with mortality in the upcoming "Oh, Canada," Paul Schrader says he's feeling quite well now and working on a "post-dying film" about sexual obsession
From our screening of Patty Hearst at
@RoxyCinemaNYC
last night
I still believe TCM should be seized from Warner Bros. and nationalized, an event which would be a watershed first step in achieving full communism throughout society.
Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson will help guide programming decisions and curation at TCM as advisors after IndieWire first reported that the trio called David Zaslav about their concerns following a string of recent layoffs.
Rights to John Woo's films are currently being held hostage by a hotel chain that purchased a large library of films and has no interest in negotiating reasonable fees with the (many) distributors who are trying to release them. Set them free! 🕊️🕊️
Charlie Kaufman accepts WGA Laurel Award: "We writers are trained to believe that what we do is secondary to what [executives] do. We are trained to do the bidding of people who are motivated not by curiosity, but by protecting their jobs."
Full speech:
Studios have “come to recognize that having an exclusive theatrical window is the best way to maximize profits instead of releasing everything simultaneously on demand,” says analyst Eric Handler.
Easily one of the greatest, most significant, truly visionary experimental filmmakers. At the same time her legacy has been hamstrung by her litigious family’s attempts to withhold her work & erase some of her essential collaborators. Seek it out however you can.
We have 364 days to prepare ourselves for the fact that next year Martin Scorsese will probably lose the Best Director Oscar to a battle-hardened veteran of CollegeHumor .com
Michael Mann is one of the cinema's consummate perfectionists. When he opens his movie with stretched out 240p footage ripped from YouTube with poor frame rate conversion, it's because he wants to contrast the garish digital present with the exactingly machine-engineered past.
Once the SAG strike is called members will not be able to participate in any promo, including premieres, interviews, and social media, meaning that within the next hour or so it will literally be scabbing to tell Letterboxd your Top 4.
I can't believe "I fucked some nerd while watching an Alex Ross Perry movie, and then he asked me to unfollow him on Letterboxd" is an NYT story. It's like reverse Cat Person.
I would also add "laid off their restoration team" on the left and "maintains a massive climate-controlled archive of lovingly rehoused vintage pornography" on the right
Boogie Nights made today at the same time gap would be set in 2004, putting it squarely in the disruptive, industry-shaking upstart years of Bang Bros, Naughty America, and Brazzers.
Isabella Rossellini says she stays in touch with ex-partners Martin Scorsese and David Lynch:
“I think David and Marty love me, and I love them. There’s a part of you that never really stops being in love with them. You’re not in love in the sense that you want to be together,
Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.
Has free speech in Germany deteriorated to the point that defending your programming and artist colleagues needs to be couched in so many morally repugnant platitudes, deferrals, equivocations, and both-sides-isms? Or do they actually mean all of this?
It's me, the even keeled center-left arthouse filmgoer who only see Paul Schrader's neo-Nazi movie if he abstains from posting further screenshots of his texts with Rob - Huge Cock/pasadena
Former MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe pleaded guilty Monday to a securities fraud charge, admitting that he conspired to deceive the public and investors about the sustainability of the company’s $9.95-a-month movie subscription service.
Columbia giving a "shelter in place for your safety" order when calling in the NYPD says so much. They just gave a bunch of psychopaths a green light to beat up their students.
I worked in digital media art preservation for years in close collaboration with major video artists and institutions — I cannot stress how little sense this makes, and how this is also 100% something a Real Artist would do.
Paul Reubens and his collaborators did something that now feels impossible—bringing together brilliant improv actors and underground artists to create a pop culture phenomenon that primed a generation of kids to get genuinely weird.
Focus on Caruso.
Pull focus to window.
Walken draws perfect shorty.
Pull focus back to bloody window.
Walken lowers gun.
Walken drives away perfectly.
You are in the hands of fucking professionals.
As with Roald Dahl this is just about profiteering IP holders maintaining their ability to milk dollars from dead authors without risk of the brand being damaged by people actually reading the writers' words. Cynical survival strategy masked as "sensitivity."
The bourgeois critic class has been completely silent about the fact that there have been three wide releases this year, including one of the year's highest grossing films -- Beetlejuice 2, Lisa Frankenstein, and The Substance -- inspired by Frankenhooker.
On the contrary: every product released by the Criterion Collection is ideologically subsumed and conscripted as propaganda for the profit-driven neoliberal arthouse distribution model. Therefore cinematic infrastructure must be destroyed so truly radical Kino may bloom. ☭
@Criterion
I Am Cuba for all its formal and historical influence is a distorted Soviet propaganda piece and really needs to be presented with proper context. A much better and more important film is MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (d. ALEA) which was made by an actual Cuban filmmaker.
The fact that David Lynch is 78 and merely has emphysema despite being a lifelong lights-each-cigarette-off-the-last-one smoker is yet more proof of his superhuman genetics