Stay til the end to discover the absolutely hilarious career trajectory of Saw II auteur Darren Lynn Bousman

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There’s no possibility of a big breakthrough in movies—a new release of energy, like the French New Wave, which moved from country to country and resulted in an international cross-fertilization—when movies are financed only if they fall into stale categories of past successes. (1980)

celebrate 20 years of Chicken Little with this tremendous thread of beautiful images

One pretty good thing about not being particularly online the past 10-15 years is just never needing to know wtf people are/were talking about when they casually referred to “Dasha”

this mf gets Kevin Smith better than anyone

You mean the "dump all the small films into 1500 AMCs for a week and let God sort 'em out" strategy isn't working? Shocking.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQfj... probably like a top ten video on youtube dot ocm

While I'm ranting: It takes time, nurturing, strategy, and deep knowledge of release patterns and regional idiosyncrasies to nurture a film from, say, October deep into awards season. That's how smaller movies used to make money. And I'm not seeing a lot of distributors eager to put in that effort.

Anyway, yes, there is a huge problem getting adults to go to the movies post-pandemic. In 2016, 98 movies grossed $25M domestically; this year, about 60 will. You can't make moviegoing into a weekly habit again with so little product. But "People hate stars/dramas/comedies now" isn't the lesson IMO.

Another issue: The gap between who media and the internet thinks is a big star and who normie moviegoers think is a big star is widening. We can talk about Sydney Sweeney all day long, but say her name to a lot of people over 40 and I promise you, you will be greeted by a blank stare. >

One unacknowledged story of this fall's awful box office might be that every star seems to have decided to do their "This one's for me" movie at the same time. There is, honestly, no universe or financial environment in which Die My Love--one among many examples--would ever have made real money. >

My new short film is here...built from footage of an Austin, TX parking garage I shot two years ago on my JVC Camcorder, I built a kind of mise-en-abyme/perpetual canon indebted to the video work of teacher and filmmaker Peter Rose. Complemented by my reading of a story about perception. Enjoy!

"stars don't sell movies" means little when the movies are abrasive/challenging etc...Anyone But You was a hit, but Sydney Sweeney has made zero (0) films like that since and surprise, they're not hits! Die My Love is not exactly JLaw's most mainstream move! OBAA is R-rated, weird and very long!

I know this is kinda mean-spirited but I honestly find this so funny

convinced this man is using a hammer in the worst and dumbest possible way while wearing an Adopt Don't Shop hoodie as a favor to the Dog Breeding Lobby. Only thing that makes sense of holding and using a hammer this way

Can’t wait to spend 51 dollars and 99 cents plus tax on a steelbook for the brand spankin new satire Of the moment, The Running Man

No War of the Worlds or Jerry Maguire; Letterboxd users stay losing

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Playing the Harris tomorrow tonight with Three Rivers Film Festival. I’ll be intro’ing repping @pghsoundandimage.bsky.social; say hi!

much respect to the band Kurt Cobain taught little dweebs like me about by writing FUHGAWZ on his shoes (which you better believe I ripped off as a 12 year old with my own Chucks) but BLEACH would be my album of '89 if not for Disintegration and this isn't one of best Fugazi records

the earth is a cold dead place and I am no longer afraid to die, is this anything

last four friday 🎞️ great program of Cameraless Animation via @pghsoundandimage.bsky.social Monday; Four Nights of a Dreamer restoration downtown on Tuesday; finished and dropped my new film WINDOWS on Wednesday. Let's not talk about the 45 minutes of Chicken Little that I watched last night...

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There are just so many movies out there. You’ll never run out. It’s great.

Leaf blowers are a scourge and they must be destroyed.

My podcast cohost @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social made a rad little tone poem called WINDOWS (FOR PIET AND PETER) that he put on YouTube and I think is quite hypnotic and compelling and I think you should watch it too! youtu.be/XNrJzb_a9fY?...

New @junkfilterpod.bsky.social: a comparison between two nuclear war thrillers - Sidney Lumet’s FAIL-SAFE and Kathryn Bigelow’s A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, a real “Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby” scenario. My guests are @robrubsam.bsky.social and @coreyatad.com podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/j...

Then Birdo did lay with Yoshi, and knew him.

The nostalgia Facebook groups are so weird

normal people probably love that 90% of reception for The Running Man talks about the larger Skydance/Paramount context. audiences love to think about this. "Critic please tell me about the current political situation involving one company that produced this multi-year industrial production"

expanding upon my work on the film, its inspirations, etc. boxd.it/bGSzGZ

heartbreaking: the worst person you know just drafted one thousand of the funniest emails you have ever seen in your life

what FB messages from my mom look like

It’s November so it’s Oversized Polar Express Mug with 3D Train Season

LOL. honestly more movies should do this, it would be so fucking funny

If Criterion was evil enough they'd use this opportunity to put the new Eyes Wide Shut blu on sale for like $10 and make enough money in one fell swoop to get invited to whatever the new Epstein island is

Robber Baron von Bathory: I never knew about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, I only consorted with him for his exceptional financial and intellectual prowess Jeffrey Epstein emails: i m eith my gf rn whom is underage bc m a pedofike

hello michael wolf,f ple ase , to reschedul tomorro'ws "p̸e̷d̷.̴o̷p̵h̷i̷l̶e̷ ̵a̶c̴t̶i̷V̴I̶ ̷T̴I̸E̸S̴" as we have repeatedly discussed at length .in writing

(WAKE ME UP) Nothing's fine, I'm torn (I CAN'T WAKE ME UP) I'm all out of faith (SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE) I am shamed and nak-ed on the floor

I wish every single movie release did this

I saw someone asking why on earth one would need these versions; it’s actually a brilliant bonus feature once you’ve seen the doc, which mines its subjects’ memories of seeing the film in various degraded and disreputable formats. A great idea. I hope someone gets me this for Christmas 🤞

Nora Ephron responding to political doomers (from the intro to WALLFLOWER AT THE ORGY)

oh man imagine if Harry Anderson in Mother Goose Rock N Rhyme got his hands on this bad boy 😮‍💨😱🤘

I think we're gonna have a new Barbenheimer on Feb 13. Nirvanna Good Luck The Band Have Fun The Show Don't Die The Movies

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an interesting quirk of some people is saying "Robert" instead of "Rob" when I exclusively go by Rob and they see me sign my name and otherwise get addressed as Rob. Not offensive or anything but just a curious inexpediency and lack of attention to detail I suppose..."not into the brevity thing"??

Gentle reminder that I am going to be on TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES (!!!!) on Monday for an evening of programming that we put together. I hope you'll be able to tune in. Love y'all.

Neil Young’s Trans album is good, sorry haters youtu.be/WoczMhj6bm8