Can someone explain the distribution economics of releasing streaming before DVD/BluRay/UHD? It feels like the logical flow of release should be theater (with a run longer than a week so people can actually see it), disc, digital, then streaming. #filmsky

Gotta say: banner year for Stephen King adaptations. The quantity and consistency is remarkable. The best of them, THE LONG WALK, may not be SHAWSHANK or SHINING level, but it’s great and the weakest of them was still dang good. #filmsky

How’s everyone feeling about Danny Brown’s new album? I think his lyricism and delivery are as propulsive, bizarre and dynamic as ever and I’m down with the digital pop production but these featured vocals on the choruses are a hard pill to swallow.

I have a lot of thoughts about THE RUNNING MAN and all of them are spoilers. So I’ll just reiterate how wild it is that it’s coming out the same year as THE LONG WALK and how some of their choices of adaptation mirror each other in fascinating ways. #filmsky

If you’re in Houston come on down Cafe Brasil for my book signing starting at 5pm!

I like how in the original RUNNING MAN, they show us a work camp with several thin, starving prisoners then cut to Arnold, buff and big as hell, looking like he’s surviving on the rations of 12 men. #filmsky

Nothing I tried to watch was working for me so I put on PULP FICTION for roughly the millionth time. I don’t say it enough when beating the dead horse of praising this of all films but Travolta is genuinely transcendent here. I wish he and Tarantino would work together again. #filmsky

I wish folks would stop acting like subtlety is inherently better. Almost as if there’s a degree of self deprecation “well I understood the idea, so it must be too heavy handed.” There’s a reason both scalpels and sledgehammers exist.

I knew SUNSET BLVD was a favorite movie of David Lynch, with MULHOLLAND DR serving as something of a surrealist reimagining, but I never realized he got the name for his TWIN PEAKS character, Gordon Cole, from it. He’s the guy that from Paramount that wants to rent Norma’s car. Neat. #filmsky

Is this real or are they using bots to pump the numbers? Because companies using bots to listen to their robot music to give the appearance of success sounds more like our brand of dystopia than humans actually partaking. Not that I have high expectations for humans.

The word titan gets thrown around a lot but there’s not other word to describe the man’s presence in cinema.

We are excited to announce THE SCREAM LIST: the industry’s first real-time list of recommended short genre screenplays. Thank you @barbaracrampton.bsky.social, industry partners and @fangoria.bsky.social. Congrats Writers!❤️ www.fangoria.com/killer-short... #WritingCommunity #writersky #horrorsky

Still jazzed/honored that my short film was selected to play at the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday with a block of other, multinational short films. I get to officially call myself an “art film” director, right??? If you want to see my fine art, check it out: #filmsky youtu.be/buf1E3LdE34?...

John Alton didn’t shoot many of the best noir films. But many of the best looking noir films were shot by John Alton. #filmsky

A lot of folks who have never tried to create something and present it to the public have fallen into the trap of being real cavalier about the way they talk about other people’s art, because of how endemic click/rage bait is. It’s not a good look.

Look… There ARE issues of color grading and sound mixing trends in modern cinema that make home viewing problematic (especially on streamers). But most of y’all just don’t know how to calibrate your TVs and it shows.

Alright. The general rule of thumb is that shutter speed should be 2x the frame rate, so 24fps should be 48-50. Yet every time I see the monitor of a big production, like Frankenstein or Twin Peaks the Return, it says 24fps w/ 180 shutter. Can someone explain? Has the rule changed? #filmsky

If you loved FRANKENSTEIN as much as I did and you were nerding out like I was over all the amazing technical stuff, you need to watch FRANKENSTEIN: THE ANATOMY LESSON on Netflix. This 45 min. doc goes behind the scenes of making the movie and gives so much great insight. 🎥 #filmsky #frankenstein

When the person you’re giving a recommendation to has only seen The Straight Story, Elephant Man and Dune.

If you yell “radio flyer” every time the camera glides around gracefully, you get a proper sense of what a genius Bava was. #TheLastDriveIn @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social #DariovsMario

Bava wins for this credit sequence alone. #TheLastDriveIn @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social #DariovsMario

GdT's FRANKENSTEIN might be closer to the book than 99% of adaptations, but it still breaks from the text in various seismic ways. Like his PINOCCHIO, it's less about bringing a book to life than it is about GdT ruminating on what these texts and characters mean to him.

There’s something especially accurate and piercing about this one.

BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE dir. Dario Argento #TheLastDriveIn @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social

Cinema is not acknowledging this dude. #TheLastDriveIn @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social

Anyone have that video of Darren Aronofsky getting offended that he’d be inspired by Bava (whom he calls Baba) but admits to being inspired by Argento? Feels oddly relevant. #theLastDriveIn @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social

The real who did it better: Argento vs DePalma #TheLastDriveIn @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social

Calling this guy Martini Feldman. #TheLastDriveIn @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social

I call this one, “Oh no! I slip on my spaghetti!” #TheLastDriveIn @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social #dariovsmario

I can accept someone arguing that Argento does giallo better but anyone who tries to seriously argue he started it loses all credibility. #TheLastDriveIn @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social

Love both but… Just gonna say that Mario Bava pulls off his movies with a $10 budget, a fog machine, some light gels and a radio flyer wagon. Argento is great but could never. #TheLastDriveIn @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social

I spoke to @therealjoebob123.bsky.social in person and we came to the decisive conclusion that Jaws IS a horror. Anyone that says otherwise is wrong. Including IMDB’s genre listing. #theLastDriveIn @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social

I might, on occasion, search the profile of people clutching their pearls about ALIEN: ROMULUS’ digital necromancy and without failure, they think ROGUE ONE is the best Disney STAR WARS. #filmsky

Richard Linklater's NOUVELLE VAGUE is a visually stunning, beautifully told tribute to Jean-Luc Godard and French New Wave cinema. Zoey Deutch and Aubry Dullin are delightful to watch and Guillaume Marbeck is frustratingly charming as Godard. Loved this! On Netflix November 14th. #filmsky #fyc

PREDATOR: BADLANDS is basically RIDDICK. Not CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK. The 3rd film. With a dash of MANDALORIAN. Fascinating decision. I’ll watch PREDATOR: DAYS OF HEAVEN. #filmsky

Hey, given that Coverfly is dead, AFF is over for the year and NF only kinda exists anymore, where else is there that’s worth while to submit your scripts? I’m thinking about trying BLKLST but man, is that a steep entry fee. #scriptsky

I turned off the “rude” filter on here (yes, this is a real thing) and @audacityofdespair.bsky.social reappeared in my timeline. I think he’d wear that as a badge of honor.

I’m glad AFF reader notes are given to every script if only to remind us that it really is the luck of the draw and not a reflection of the quality of our scripts. #scriptsky

Almost all of the technical lingo I know is because I saw someone make a claim that I knew was wrong but lacked the specialized knowledge to disprove them, so I went down a rabbit hole far beyond anything reasonable. Then I don’t bother to retort. Anyway, the term is riff&run, not backup vocals.

All in all, a pretty good day.

Gonna need Wu Tang Clan to explain this one to me.

Watching the 4K of HARD BOILED and muttering “Hell yeah” to my dawgs* every few minutes. #filmsky *literal dogs but we’re friends too

It’s crazy that TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT can have two Pulitzer novelists involved, Bogie and Bacall starring and Hawks behind the camera yet all we get is a sappy, warmed over retread of Casablanca. THE BREAKING POINT superiority hive rise up! #filmsky

All these folks saying happy Godzilla day, when every day is Godzilla day

Remember that scene in VICE where they roll credits halfway through the movie on a beat where Dick Cheney could’ve withdrawn from politics after taking a stand for his daughter, with a respectable legacy, then the movie starts back up and… Well, ya know. That was a good bit. #filmsky

When you go log BUGONIA on letterboxd: #filmsky

Hot streak at the movies this 3 day weekend with NOUVELLE VAGUE, BLUE MOON and BUGONIA. Hard to take folks seriously about Hollywood not making movies worth seeing nowadays. People just don’t show up. Support the cinema you want to see! #filmsky

Maybe it’s just low expectations or a lack of familiarity with the Parker books (I’ve seen several of the movies) but I enjoyed Shane Black’s PLAY DIRTY. It’s him operating closer to LONG KISS GOODNIGHT and IRON MAN 3 than THE NICE GUYS but it’s a good time. Far better than THE PREDATOR. #filmsky

I just saw Nouvelle Vague and loved it--a movie about the creation of a great work of art that feels (aptly) casual, tossed-off, impolite, just as Blue Moon is a movie about theater that feels (aptly) like good theater. I don't think anyone in movies is having a better year than Richard Linklater.