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Chris Feil

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All this talk about food, I’m getting hungry, girls. Writer (Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast, Vulture, elsewhere). This Had Oscar Buzz cohost. Etc. He/him.

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · Dec 9

Thrilled to finally share this! For @vulture.com, Fran Hoepfner and I wrote about all of Mike Leigh’s films (yes, even the BBCs!) in all their tragic-comic genius. Enjoy!! www.vulture.com/article/mike...

A Guide to the Films of Mike Leigh, From Tragic to Comic

We chart Leigh’s films as the director views life itself: on a range from pure tragedy to pure comedy, and everything in between.

www.vulture.com

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 15h

Essential reading and an incredible portrait by @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social of Jafar Panahi and the movie of the year (imo!!), IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

Vulture @vulture.com · 19h

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

www.vulture.com

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 3d

www.interviewmagazine.com/film/diane-k...

Diane Keaton Takes Questions from 25 Famous Friends and Fans

The singular film star and fashion icon looks back on her life and career with the help of Steve Martin, Nancy Meyers, Al Pacino, Ariana Grande, Sarah Silverman, and more.

www.interviewmagazine.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 3d

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 3d

Since my mom’s death, my gut instinct to immediately text her about the death of a performer we both love has, I would say, generally not been making the grief thing any easier

Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 3d

Reds is streaming on Pluto fyi

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know man, this one really hurts

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 5d

When Betty speaks, everyone else needs to shut the fuck up

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 5d

Dear Tilly Norwood, https://bit.ly/3J4jNOk?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=3595fdbe-1ecb-4c91-9af4-e131186a6f3c&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

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Matt Jacobs @mattjacobs.bsky.social · 7d

Talked to Regina Hall about the “psychic” nature of One Battle After Another, screaming into the void, and whether Scary Movie 6 will be an A24 parody

www.vulture.com/article/regi...

This Isn’t Your Typical Regina Hall

Playing a revolutionary decades into the fight gave the One Battle After Another actress a new understanding of idealism.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 9d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 12d

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A ★½ review of The Smashing Machine (2025)

An embarrassing dress-up hanging on to its aesthetics for dear life. Been a minute since I’ve seen something that loathed its characters this much

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 12d

Ooh boy everyone is being way too kind to The Smashing Machine

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 14d

Here’s how I get them to screen The Savages (1/372):

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 14d

and to our enemies: FAFO

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Olt cutters

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 14d

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A ★★ review of A House of Dynamite (2025)

CBS Fridays 8e/7c

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 14d

big huge hell yeah

Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 15d

Anyway, OBAA has me listening to Steely Dan, which is nice

Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 15d

A House of Dynamite

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17d

I saw a special film at the #NYFF: Peter Hujar's Day, Ira Sachs's meditative recreation of a 1974 interview with the photographer. Vividly evocative of a lost gay New York, and Ben Whishaw, using only a transcript, goes so deep; he does the kind of work that should be up for awards but rarely is.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 15d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 15d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 16d

Happy Sunday from Ben Whishaw

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 17d

An usher intro’d our 70MM IMAX screening and asked the audience how many folks traveled in from out of town (as I did) and about 90% raised their hands

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 17d

Well, One Battle After Another is an unflaggingly vivid, wacko, emotional Exhibit A of the genius of essentially everyone involved

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 19d

🚨SPOILERS🚨: I wrote about the ~ENDING~ of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER; what it says about the past, present, and future of this country; and how beautifully it envisions an "I have friends everywhere" mode of resistance. again, SPOILERS. at @vulture.com:

www.vulture.com/article/one-...

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 18d

So true