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Mike X. Nichols

@mikexnichols.bsky.social

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Fought the void but the void won 🌀 Healthcare worker/writer 🩺 ✍️

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · Feb 20

here’s my business card

Mike X. Nichols. Genius.

Have brain. Will travel.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 4h

Rosetta (1999). A film directed by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 5h

he’s just like me

Cillian Murphy inside the Criterion Closet. He’s holding a movie. The caption reads, “It’ll make you cry. It’s exactly my type of film.”

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 5h

when i have to yell “human” and press zero over and over again to actually get a person on the phone

One Battle After Another. Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson. He's on a payphone and pissed off.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 11h

keep pressing the “SOS” button and hoping something will change lol

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 11h

Possession: A couple gets divorced and they decide to make it everyone else’s problem.

Possession (1981). Isabelle Adjani as Anna and Sam Neill as Mark.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 1d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 12h

“Crystal Lake Research Facility”

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 12h

i once met a guy who believed in the flat earth theory and when i mentioned the world turtle in mythology, he said, “that’s too far-fetched.”

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Preston @prestomit.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’m past the point of caring if older films and music “hold up” or not. I love it when art is a perfect product of its time.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 14h

You got this!

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 15h

No other film ending has ever gone this hard. Every time this rolls up on-screen I immediately think, “Damn right I have.”

Final shot of SUSPIRIA before the credits roll, which begin with the following:

You have been watching
"SUSPIRIA"

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 16h

Another great reason to see Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another!

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 17h

I read Peter Thiel’s essay on Alan Moore’s Watchmen and it unquestionably proves that piss poor media literacy is foundational to this recent rise of fascism.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 17h

Ernest: The great redneck hope.

Ernest Scared Stupid (1991). Ernest (Jim Varney) stands in dramatic lighting and looks up. The caption reads, “The great redneck hope.”

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 17h

the dynamic duo

Ernest Scared Stupid (1991). A man and dog ride in the front of a garbage truck. Ernest (Jim Varney) and Rimshot.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t know it was AI. Thanks for the heads up.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t know it was AI. Thanks for letting me know.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 1d

Legendary interview moment with the director of Morbius about Jared Leto’s behavior on the set of Morbius

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I heard a story about filming and I want to see if this is true. Someone told me that Jared Leto was so committed to playing Michael Morbius that even when he had to go to the bathroom, he would use his crutches and slowly limp to get to the bathroom. But it was taking so long between for pee breaks, that a deal was made with him to get him a wheelchair so someone could wheel him there quicker and he agreed to that. Is this true?

Yes.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1d

The one-word response cracks me up.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1d

Death claw machine meme. “Diane Keaton?? Is Woody Allen even in this thing?”

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · Jan 16

Charlie Brown saying, “My idols are dead and my enemies are in power.”

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · Apr 5

Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead was spot-on with his assessment

Colson Whitehead, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author:
I have no hopes for 2025. Humanity is disappointing. We killed the Earth. Villains triumph and the innocents suffer. I imagine these trends will continue.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1d

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2d

there’s only one way to find out

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