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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 4d

My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.

New York Times bestselling author and film & TV critic at New York Magazine Matt Zoller Seitz's LEADING MAN, the definitive biography of Jack Nicholson, casting Nicholson as the complex main character in an era of American culture spanning six decades, while shining a light on the actor’s crucial role in shaping modern masculinity, both on and off the screen, based on new interviews and original reporting, to Amar Deol at Grand Central, in an exclusive submission, by Ethan Bassoff at WME.

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 6h

My piece on the Pordenone Silent Film Festival is up. Enjoy.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

The festival that shows why silent films still speak loudly

The reels from Palestine and Italy might be a century old - but they feel shockingly of the moment

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Vulture @vulture.com · 6h

Since his 2010 imprisonment, the director has been in an endless game of chicken with the Iranian regime. In his defiant new film, ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ a group of Iranians consider killing the man who tortured them in prison.

Jafar Panahi’s Cinematic Rebellions

Since his 2010 imprisonment, the director has been in an endless game of chicken with the Iranian regime. In his defiant new film, ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ a group of Iranians consider killing the man who tortured them in prison.

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social · 1d

I will be introducing Orson Welles' wonderful THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social on 9 November www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/the-ma...

The Magnificent Ambersons + introduction

Orson Welles’ second feature chronicles the fall of a wealthy Indianapolis family during the American industrialisation boom of the early 20th century. Isabel Amberson’s spoiled son stands in the way ...

www.glasgowfilm.org

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🚃💦The Midnight Skeet Train🚃💦 @banjeaux.bsky.social · 2d

yes. through a hilarious string of accidents and misunderstandings

boomer posthumous @boomerhumor.bsky.social · 2d

would Mr. Bean (the character) be on the Epstein flight logs?

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Craig D. Lindsey @unclecrizzle.bsky.social · 2d

My cousin opened up to me once — thanks to Diane Keaton. #RIPDianeKeaton medium.com/@unclecrizzl...

ME, MY COUSIN AND ‘MARVIN’S ROOM’

So, my cousin Dorian Johnson died a couple weeks ago.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 2d

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway, I love TRAIN DREAMS. Please see TRAIN DREAMS. And for the love of all that's holy (for example: TRAIN DREAMS), see it big.

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 6d

I had an absolute blast speaking to michael sheen about TRON: LEGACY. garrett hedlund's costume burning him! daft punk being french as hell! sheen describing castor as being a little "fash-y" with all those cabaret-inspired high kicks! a good time. at @vulture.com:

www.vulture.com/article/mich...

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Jen @junipergal.bsky.social · 9d

Absolutely wonderful article: Wes Anderson's Impossible Dreams.

And a true example of the utter irreplaceable value of film criticism. Gorgeous read over at Criterion by Bilge Ebiri on Anderson's film catalog from the first 25 years of his career. www.criterion.com/current/post...

A wide shot of a movie set with a miniaturized practical set from THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU in the background. In the foreground, slightly off centred Wed Anderson sits behind a camera on a crane lift. He's slightly turned and looking over his shoulder, offset and out of the photo. He's dressed in muted browns with a light coloured scarf wrapped around his neck.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Aug 29

{yakov smirnoff voice} In Fascist America, Robert F. Kennedy commit grisly public murder of YOU!

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 6d

I’m letting myself reread Against the Day as a treat in advance of the new one and I cannot stress enough that this right here is the mud I want to live and be buried in, sorry in advance for how annoying I’m about to become

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 7d

Third paragraph is weird, beautiful, allusive, funny. Pynchon heads we are so fucking back.

Loitering in the alleyway in back of Pasquale's Bella Palermo, Hicks can hear sounds of noodle-flexing sociabil-ity, smell spaghetti sauce and garlic frying and sfinciuni bagherese baking over an olive-branch fire, and it's making him hungry, though this close to payday his lunch menu is a thermos of coffee and a buttermilk cruller stashed in a pocket someplace.

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bilgeebiri.bsky.social @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s my introductory essay for @criterion.bsky.social’s new Wes Anderson Collection: www.criterion.com/current/post...

Wes Anderson’s Impossible Dreams

Made with a formal control unparalleled in modern American cinema, the films of this utterly distinctive auteur seek to contain and understand an uncontainable, unknowable world.

www.criterion.com

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bilgeebiri.bsky.social @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · 7d

Oh god, I’m so sorry. That’s a lot to process for anybody. Sorry for your loss and hope your mom is doing okay.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9d

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 10d

So honored to be doing a Q&A with the incredible director Adrian Lyne after a screening of the new 4K restoration of one of my all time favorite movies JACOB’S LADDER Sunday 410pm at NYC’s @ifccenter.bsky.social tickets here www.ifccenter.com/films/jacobs...

IFC Center - Jacob’s Ladder

35th Anniversary 4K Restoration! Sunday, October 5 at 4:10: Q&A with director Adrian Lyne, moderated by Aaron Stewart-Ahn (co-screenwriter, Mandy) Lyne followed his 80s blockbusters Flashdance, 9½ Wee...

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 14d

Bilge Ebiri asks Jim Jarmusch a question we've always wondered about when it comes to indie filmmakers: “How do you pay the bills?”

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 11d

I'll say it again. Our horror at the Gaza genocide and at the atrocity in Manchester comes in both cases from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity in the face of both these evils as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: Home secretary Shabana Mahmood urges pro-Palestine protesters to consider not taking part in marches this weekend.

"Imagine if you lost a loved one to a terror attack in this country ... sometimes a little unity, a little solidarity, some love to other people is required"

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 11d

No one, and I mean NO ONE, in Hollywood is talking about Tilly Norwood except over drinks for a chuckle. Actors are such an important part of the creative process - you want an actor who can surprise you every take, not one whose performance you dial up and down on a laptop. This is an ad campaign.

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Vulture @vulture.com · 11d

The finest comic actor working today is Leonardo DiCaprio. His hilarious performance is the glue that holds ‘One Battle After Another’ together — as it does so many of his films these days.

The Finest Comic Actor Working Today Is Leonardo DiCaprio

The finest comic actor working today is Leonardo DiCaprio. His hilarious performance is the glue that holds ‘One Battle After Another’ together — as it does so many of his films these days.

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bilgeebiri.bsky.social @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · 11d

In praise of Leonardo DiCaprio, our finest comic actor: www.vulture.com/article/in-p...

The Finest Comic Actor Working Today Is Leonardo DiCaprio

DiCaprio’s hilarious performance is the glue that holds One Battle After Another together — as it does so many of his films these days.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 13d

Wes Anderson “has located the great paradox of our era: that we are all forever out of step and out of touch with our rapidly changing times.”

@bilgeebiri.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Wes Anderson mans a camera on the set of THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (2004)

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bilgeebiri.bsky.social @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · 13d

Shane Black's PLAY DIRTY feels like something from an alternate universe where the ultraviolent American studio action movie got crazier and crazier until we wound up with something as insane as PLAY DIRTY.
www.vulture.com/article/revi...

Play Dirty Is Just Stupid Enough to Entertain

Shane Black is back from movie jail with a gonzo action extravaganza starring Mark Wahlberg.

www.vulture.com

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