How can I ever go back from VistaVision? 😭

Use the Netflix subgenres of a tv show or movie to describe yourself.

This is my favorite part of that greatest books website

Uhhh why didn't anyone tell me Mamdani's mom is Mira Nair? Am I the last to know?

Did people who read a ton of contemporary books hate the NYT book list as much as I hate the movie list so far?

They didn’t even have La Flor as a movie to add to my ballot.

I’m the last person to tell anyone to read a novel as I haven’t read an adult novel in literally decades but I decided to read Pride and Prejudice to break out of my non-fiction habit and it will surprise no one who reads to learn that it is in fact incredible.

I saw Brian Wilson perform Smile the day after W was reelected. It helped carry me through what seemed then like the darkest political moment in my life. I'll never forget that feeling art can give you at its most transcendent, and how it can carry you through evil times like now.

Choose Me - what a deliriously odd little movie, like a scrappy little brother to Coppola’s One from the Heart. Sort of staggering in this moment to think of a major studio releasing anything like it.

One of my favorite things about Andor is how stupid and pointless all the deaths are. No big "top of the world" moments, no heroic sacrifices. Just people getting shot by idiots and in the back trying to run away.

Hoping they call the third one M3gan E

If you overlay AI backers over former NFT backers do you get a circle

Not enough people are talking about Conclave’s PG rating

Defining cinema with an image is like defining books with a letter

This is absolutely fucking evil.

Have people figured out Vampire Weekend's Father of the Bride is about Tr*mp, yet? Now is a good time to do it.

The only objectively correct win this year was for Dune for sound, thank you and good night.

If the Brutalist had won for production design they would have gotten all three of the good things about the movie right.

Wicked winning for production design over Brutalist and Dune should be a criminal offense.

Poor Doja Cat.

The best part of the oscars are the technical award speeches and in particular those when the people they worked with are so thrilled because they genuinely love the people.

I haven’t seen the nominee list, how many Oscars is Hot Frosty up for?

Do bad golfers get to park in handicapped spaces?

Kneecap started out rough but settled into a real nice groove. It inspired me to start a list of non-US movies about hip hop, which I'm sure is a bigger category than the two I currently have. letterboxd.com/mattheweg/li...

Remember they do stuff like this because they know the people they hate will call them stupid and clueless of the meaning and people that support them will laugh because it's funny and fun and pisses off the people they hate and then no one will pay attention to what they are really doing.

I know this won't happen because there's always a scab out there willing to sell their soul, but every filmmaker asked to make the new documentary should simply refuse until Edelman's film is released.

Strong “the teachers said not to run in the halls” vibes from democrats these days.

This is the best negative review of Dune I've read yet.

Just finished The Apartment only to realize Sheldrake is president.

What artist has the best uses of their music as needle drops in movies? Minimum 3 needle drop examples required.

I can think of a 78 who should die and it's not David Lynch. Fuck you, universe.

Finally saw Anyone But You and really impressed with Sydney Sweeney as a physical comedian, had no idea she had it in her and I hope her dip into romcoms is not a one-off.

Dylan fans:Beatles fans::Star Trek fans:Star Wars fans

What do we lose when corporations embrace camp?

Do you think anyone who designed a brown sugar bag ever tried to close a brown sugar bag?

The most suspenseful shot in all of cinema

Here are some of my favorite music discoveries of 2024, starting with this incredible solo debut from Little Feat's Lowell George. He died a few weeks into the tour promoting it. No idea why this isn't better known, it's a country rock masterpiece (with a perfect cover and title).

I think every day people should have to sit and think for five minutes about how good Fetch the Bolt Cutters is.

I watched the Hallmark Christmas movie A Biltmore Christmas from last year expecting to enjoy it in its awkward terribleness as usual but it actually had me heavily invested in the love story and complications of the plot. Still looks like shit but quite the surprise!

I hit 25 4★+ new-to-me watches for the year, which makes me a satisfied film viewer. It could still shift if I get in a good viewing this month, but here are my 25 favorite new watches for 2024 so far. letterboxd.com/mattheweg/li...

Sad we never got a Steely Dan cover of "Baby It's Cold Outside" with a rare Walt/Don duet.

One of the unexpected pleasures of being an older Millennial is showing your children ancient memes, like the "Friday" video I showed my music-obsessed daughter this morning. Happy Friday! funfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfun www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVs...

Planning my sabbatical so I can fit in The Brutalist.

Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets. Vertigo Jimmy Stewart

Tell me a @criterion.bsky.social movie you like and I'll recommend a pre-code film to pair it with.

Possibly my favorite Lubitsch silent - still unavailable on home video - is streaming on Max. Deliciously amoral and wacky. play.max.com/movie/368be2...

It’s funny that John Hughes, a director known for movies about teenage life in the 1980s, will almost certainly forever have all of his movies about teenagers overshadowed by a family comedy remake of Straw Dogs.

There should be a word for a canon film that will always be there for you to savor even decades after you last saw it. A cineconstant or something, I dunno.

What is everyone’s favorite @criterion.bsky.social packaging to eat on Thanksgiving?