Wim Wenders captured Isabella Rossellini and Martin Scorsese during the filming of Paris, Texas (1983).

The death of generative AI has finally started, and it's going to be so unbelievably satisfying to watch it all burn. #FuckAI

Best wedding pic ever. Isabella Rossellini and Martin Scorsese on their wedding day, 1979.

The greatest movie that was never made?

The Straight Story has aged beautifully. A humane and heartfelt story. The film still has glorious David Lynch moments, the woman who keeps crashing into deer, but on the whole, it is a rather sweet, but sentiment-free, film about quotidian life, through the eyes of a stubborn, ornery man.

Cleese may be a comedy legend but now he’s also just another moron getting his brain fried on Twitter.

Very good interview. Gift link. What the 'Project Hail Mary' Directors Learned From a Firing www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/mo...

Yesterday was the anniversary of the premiere of a new kind of action cinema: cinephiliabeyond.org/matrix/

Watching LAWRENCE OF ARABIA remastered on the big screen at the VIFF centre in Vancouver was one of the greatest theatrical experiences of my life.

The Beauty of David Lean (all DoP: Ernest Day, Freddie Young, Jack Hildyard, Guy Green, Robert Krasker & Ronald Neame)

Dive into David Lean’s unrealized epic Nostromo, a haunting final chapter in the master director’s legacy. Archival insights, storyboards, screenplay, TCM-produced documentary, and more. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cinephiliabeyond.org/david-leans-...

Remembering the legendary David Lean on his birthday.

Jafar Panahi 💯

America in one video:

Cannes boss Thierry Frémaux says Iñárritu’s Digger with Tom Cruise and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey are simply “not ready” for the 2026 festival. Spielberg’s Disclosure Day will depend on “many strategic factors," such as timing.

What does OpenAI killing Sora mean for their $1 billion deal with idiot suckers Disney who sold out all their beloved characters for cheap?? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Shut the fuck up, Donny; Somali pranksters posing as Iranian authorities deceived you.

March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make it clear that America rejects the regime’s brutality at home and abroad. app.sosha.ai/s/mRxQpjOM

I was just talking last night about film directors who don't know how to use foreground and background together to make a shot that does or says something. Well, here is an example of a shot that does.

I can't recall a time when more talented reporters and writers on movies and culture who have real skill and knowledge are struggling to find a foothold. We live in an "Everyone's an expert" era. But everyone isn't. Editors: Please take a chance on folks you haven't tried before. Read their clips!

Daddy Ellison's empire is collapsing. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates currently have enough of their problems, and they won't give them a penny. We can expect the Chinese to follow suit. In the end, the regulators will deliver the final blow.

The Paramount-Warner Bros. deal will ultimately fail spectacularly. Zaslav is a twisted evil genius.

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

Rest in peace, Valerie Perrine. cinephiliabeyond.org/wonder-lyric...

It was fun tonight laughing at all the things in a 50 year old film that are mirroring almost exactly what's going on now. The only thing is that television isn't really our great evil. It's the internet that's turning into the corporate-controlled medium with little redeeming value left in it.

This thread shows a director who understands front & background action in composing shots for film which are rare these days (a notable exception being THE SECRET AGENT) because a lot of filmmakers can only focus on one point of action at most. This makes the newsroom feel like a real workplace.

March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make it clear that America rejects the regime’s brutality at home and abroad. app.sosha.ai/s/mRxQpjOM

You are living in the Truman Show.

On Paul Verhoeven's 'Basic Instinct,' released on this day in 1992 (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/m...

If I had known Chuck Norris was so politically bad, I would have mindfully not watched his movies instead of just never seeing them.

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This is not a drill. He’s saying right out loud what he would like to do. Research suggests that nuclear war involving the US would kill 5 billion people. I’m sure there are scenarios where it kills all of us. If you want anyone you know to live, stop enabling this malignant fool. #auspol

On this day, 61 years ago, Sidney J. Furie's The Ipcress File (1965) was released in the U.K. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cinephiliabeyond.org/spies-like-u...

There will be no money to buy food or fuel until March 28. There will be no next paycheck either. They will also wipe your bank accounts. The entire planet is collapsing, and we are all in it together. Now is the time for massive protests.

Why aren't tens of millions of Americans in the streets in peaceful, mass protests and a general strike against the deranged Trump and his evil administration?

This is like those $200 million movies that start shooting without a script.

The Iran war is looking so bad for Trump and Israel right now. They may need to release the Epstein files as a distraction.

Current mood:

On this day in 1975, Night Moves premiered—Arthur Penn’s haunting neo-noir starring Gene Hackman as a detective lost in a maze of secrets. A film that only gets richer with every viewing. Dive into it: cinephiliabeyond.org/arthur-penns...

I think about how much the franchise/IP junk that's dominated studio movies the last 25 years was designed to cater to the most adolescent jagoffs like Harry Knowles or Devin Faraci. Their ultimate legacy was influencing the movie business to make mostly garbage.

Only if you're a suicide bomber.

Happy anniversary to the worst movie review ever published, which slithered onto screens on this day in 2002. For @slate.com:

Just fuck off already!

Revisiting the then-27-year-old director's 20 Questions interview in honor of his Best Picture win.

Trump just after the press conference

“Why are they all together enjoying themselves. They should be home alone where I can monetize it.”