Exactly what you want to read with LENNY out on Criterion today, I just know it!

Bob Fosse / DavidFincher: An Unexpectedly Illuminating Auteurist Pairing By @marshallshaffer.bsky.social @crooked-marquee.bsky.social thefincheranalyst.com/2026/05/23/f...

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🎬 CANNES REVIEW THREAD 🎥

Why yes, I did pair all five Bob Fosse films with something in David Fincher’s catalog!

Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s first historical film THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER offers a master class in framing and blocking. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's #Cannes2026 review.

“The only real way to get ahead, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ argues, is to make it as far as you can following an older generation’s rulebook before chunking it out to chart your own path,” @marshallshaffer.bsky.social writes.

Niche post for anyone who has seen John Wilson’s THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE on the festival circuit: saw this local celebrity in the wild today

And @marshallshaffer.bsky.social on the phenomenon of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA and what it taught millennials about the workplace: crookedmarquee.com/20-years-ago...

“The only real way to get ahead, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ argues, is to make it as far as you can following an older generation’s rulebook before chunking it out to chart your own path,” @marshallshaffer.bsky.social writes.

You think this has nothing to do with you? Twenty years ago, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ became the unofficial onboarding manual for millennials in the white-collar workforce - and its sequel only builds on this legacy.

For @crooked-marquee.bsky.social, I wrote about THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA as the onboarding manual for millennials into the white-collar labor force (and what it still says about workism two decades later): crookedmarquee.com/20-years-ago...

Josh O'Connor, on the incredible performance note he got from Steven Spielberg while shooting Disclosure Day apnews.com/article/disc...

"My world's on fire. How 'bout yours?" -- a poet

"We wanted him to be as good as he possibly could [...] I never wanted him to be a bad dad. I wanted him to be dealt a bad hand of cards." Talked with one of my favorite actors, John Magaro, for @slantmagazine.com about his leading turn in OMAHA (out today): www.slantmagazine.com/features/joh...

Let’s see if this works… I’m in a bit of a rut with vegetable recipes, anyone have some favorites they’d be willing to share?

"I fucking hate boxes, I really do. I find it so boring that we live in a world now where people seem so keen to identify themselves by the tramlines that they think they must stay within." Chatted with Tom Blyth about his new film, WASTEMAN, and more: www.menshealth.com/entertainmen...

Cal McMau’s WASTEMAN illustrates why a powerful paradox about prisons makes them such a popular staging ground for psychodramas. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review.

Today marks 15 years since SOURCE CODE, one of the best time loop films - and one I wish had set director Duncan Jones on a different trajectory. I reflected on it a while back for Decider: decider.com/2018/03/09/d...

not a joke, not a drill: we've hired a new film critic! www.avclub.com/film-critic-...

Read our extensive interview with Lily Gladstone about Martin Scorsese's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, why learning Osage was so central to unlocking her character, and what she still carries from her experience playing Mollie Kyle. tinyurl.com/4cpk9ws2

"But the 'why,' I think, is the most important [...] It gives you another avatar for having big conversations that are a little bit more difficult when they’re lived experiences." Spoke to Lily Gladstone with KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON now out from Criterion: www.slantmagazine.com/film/lily-gl...

Gabriel Mascaro’s THE BLUE TRAIL, opening in NY/LA this Friday, is an empowering narrative of one woman who refuses to see age as a ceiling. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review. tinyurl.com/jaehbfvt

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

Tonight's newsletter: a little something for the start of baseball season on the joys of rewatching EEPHUS ⚾️ marshallandthemovies.substack.com/p/passing-ti...

The Epstein emails have had "a bipartisan impact on how people think about power and wealth in contemporary society,” @marshallshaffer.bsky.social writes, and “as screenwriters begin to process this shift, they’ll have a varied set of cinematic antecedents from which to pull."

The Epstein emails have had "a bipartisan impact on how people think about power and wealth in contemporary society,” @marshallshaffer.bsky.social writes, and “as screenwriters begin to process this shift, they’ll have a varied set of cinematic antecedents from which to pull."

"The phone is a party pooper, but the party is a decadent one. It’s a party where you dance on dead bodies, and the phone reminds you of the texture of the floor you’re dancing on." Talked to Nadav Lapid about his "sick" film YES for @slantmagazine.com: www.slantmagazine.com/film/nadav-l...

What would an "eat the rich" cinema inspired by the bipartisan outrage over the Epstein files look like? I tried to read the tea leaves by way of READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME (of all things) for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/ready-or-not...

Gianfranco Rosi’s POMPEII: BELOW THE CLOUDS leaves us with a haunting sense of life in Naples existing in a liminal state. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review.

Matt Johnson's NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE offers a joyous throwback to the optimistic feeling of the early internet creator era. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review.

Think I can officially call it a wrap on Sundance, 50 films later: marshallandthemovies.substack.com/p/sundance-2...

Beth de Araújo’s sophomore feature JOSEPHINE is a harrowing chronicle of a premature maturation. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's #Sundance review.

Gregg Araki's I WANT YOUR SEX, starring Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman, gets too caught up in concern trolling about the sexual timidity of today’s youth. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's #Sundance review.

ICYMI: ‘Chasing Summer’ Review: Josephine Decker Brings The Art, Iliza Shlesinger Brings The Heart To This Texan Tale [Sundance]

i haven't done this since twitter but at the request of 1 (one) person, OSCAR NOMINEES AS SIMPSONS SCREENCAPS THREAD

For anyone who's seen it: is the Baz Luhrmann Elvis doc worth waiting to see in IMAX, or is a press screening room fine enough to get the effect?

It’s started: Oliver Laxe said on Spanish television that THE SECRET AGENT is doing well because there are too many Brazilians in the Academy — “ultranationalists” who would vote for a shoe if it were Brazilian and now this is what the comment section on the SIRÂT Instagram looks like x 5,000.

Today's newsletter: a highlight reel from the 15 of this year's Oscar nominees whom I've interviewed 📬 marshallandthemovies.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...

Maybe a niche NYC post, but I feel like I should have seen the IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT nomination falloff coming when the showtimes became so minimal at Lincoln Center and Film Forum didn't even keep it until nominations

who knows a guy with a VIVA VERDI screener

Bubble burst!

Today’s newsletter 📬 Trying to understand what the new Oscar Achievement in Casting will entail? I chatted with a friend with experience in the field to break it down: marshallandthemovies.substack.com/p/what-does-...

Read our interview with Lav Diaz about his "acid trip" version of MAGELLAN, poking holes in mythmaking, working with Gael García Bernal, and more. tinyurl.com/nhd6e6zf

📝 FIRST PIECE OF 2026 Had a blast talking with Lav Diaz about making MAGELLAN (out starting Friday 1/9), which at *only* 160 minutes might seem like a diet meal for the Filipino filmmaker ... but is still rich to digest. Interview at @slantmagazine.com: www.slantmagazine.com/film/lav-dia...

Broke the Letterboxd odometer 😮‍💨

Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while. My top 10 movies of 2025: marshallandthemovies.substack.com/p/my-top-10-...

Can't think of any greater compliment for an actor than being called the modern-day Jack Lemmon NO OTHER CHOICE is Now Playing at the Music Box, presented in 35mm Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.

Sundancing friends, who do you use to get from SLC airport to Park City? My usual transportation service has DOUBLED their rates for 2026, so it's time to do what Gina Rodriguez would call "mama let's research"