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Bryan Cogman

@bryancogman.bsky.social

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Writer/Producer/Once and Future Actor (Game of Thrones S1-8, LOTR: RoP S1, Red Water, a couple upcoming things I can’t discuss)

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 4d

I’m absolutely heartbroken.

Along with Olivia de Havilland, my favorite screen actress of all time.

(Pictured here in 1981‘s REDS)

Rest in Peace.

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 4m

All of them! The Exorcist. The Nightmare series. Okay, SCREAM. The continuity in SCREAM is good. That's one.

Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 10m

I am trying to think of any horror franchise where the continuity is air tight and I'm drawing a complete blank.

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 11m

Eh, I couldn't care less. When has continuity in horror franchises ever been consistent? All I care about is if the movie's good.

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 18h

a woman is standing in front of a door with the words i 'm here written in red

ALT: a woman is standing in front of a door with the words i 'm here written in red

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 22h

Seconded!

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 3d

good morning. watch Reds.

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when there were TWO big studio Christopher Columbus movies released the same year? That was weird.

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 3d

This is a lovely interview of Tim Curry from @michaelschulman.bsky.social.

Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 3d

I am only just learning that Tim Curry has a memoir coming out? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Tim Curry Does the Time Warp

The actor and singer discusses the origins of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” his relationship with David Bowie, and the joy of working with Miss Piggy.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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Vidiots @vidiots.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton was always a genre unto herself. On and off screen, she was effortlessly funny, achingly honest, and unafraid to mirror back to us what it means to be human in an impossible world. We love you, Diane, and we’ll celebrate you on our big screen and in our video store til the end of time.

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 4d

One of her finest line readings

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 4d

I’m absolutely heartbroken.

Along with Olivia de Havilland, my favorite screen actress of all time.

(Pictured here in 1981‘s REDS)

Rest in Peace.

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 6d

LOL jfc

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SCREAM Drafts @screendrafts.bsky.social · 15d

This will be an easy one, right?

'70s COMEDY mini-MEGA

Drafted by @bryancogman.bsky.social, @oriananudo.bsky.social, & @drewmcweeny.com, with Official Sponsor @bigmoviefan.bsky.social

Listen everywhere!
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NPR @npr.org · 15d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15d

Every time the subject of Jimmy Fallon’s spinelessness comes up, I think of this passage from Tina Fey’s Bossypants

66 Amy Poehler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeenth-floor writers' room, waiting for the Wednesday night read-through to start.
[...] Amy was in the middle of some such nonsense with Seth Meyers across the table, and she did something vulgar as a joke. I can't remember what it was exactly, except it was dirty and loud and
"unladylike"
Jimmy Fallon [...] turned to her and in a faux-squeamish voice said, "Stop that!
It's not cute! I don't like it." Amy dropped what she was doing, went black in the eyes for a second, and wheeled around on him. "I don't fucking care if you like it." Jimmy was visibly startled. Amy went right back to enjoying her ridiculous bit.
With that exchange, a cosmic shift took place. Amy made it clear that she wasn't there to be cute. She wasn't there to play wives and girlfriends in the boys' scenes.
She was there to do what she wanted to do and she did not fucking care if you like it.

Tina Fey, Bossypants

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 15d

Wonderful discussion!

Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 17d

Wait, is... is this your first time?

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 18d

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 20d

Okay, for funsies:

Best LAW & ORDER cast?

For me, it's Season 5: Orbach, Noth, Merkerson, Waterston, Hennessy, Hill

Yours?

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 22d

Oh! And The Scarlet Letter and The Red Pony. And The Yellow Wallpaper.

Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 22d

Ah! Their Eyes Were Watching God. We read that too, I forgot.

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 22d

I envy your high school!

That said, for me: Ethan Frome, Lord of the Flies, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jane Eyre, The Stranger, Animal Farm, The Screwtape Letters, Leaves of Grass, Heart of Darkness

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Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social · 22d

(swoons) Rest in peace.

a black and white photo of a woman wearing a scarf and earrings

Alt: Claudia Cardinale footage, smiling, 1960s

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 22d

We may have to, begrudgingly, accept certain behaviors in first run multiplex screenings now. But it’s wild to me how pervasive those same behaviors are at film festivals now, let alone press and industry screenings which should be, frankly, populated by the very people rallying against that.

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