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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 12m

Can Sussman suck? Sussman can't suck. Can Sussman fuck? Sussman can't fuck.

Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 6h

I'm glad that Cloud is getting fresh eyes due to its rotation on the Criterion Channel but what I really want to show cinephile heads is his self-remake of Serpent's Path.

Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 6h

as with everything that's fucked up about England I blame The City of London. some building in there probably has something to do with it. it's like the Vatican but Vatican-ier

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 6h

uwu I’m just a smol beer

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 6h

I can’t blame anyone for torrenting, good grief

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 6h

Criterion's done 4Ks for No Country and Blood Simple, Blus for Llewyn Davis and Miller's. Tho I hear tell Criterions are cost-prohibitive for many non-US buyers, given VAT taxes and so on.

I've got the Lebowski, Fargo, and No Country 4Ks, they're quite spiffy and no complaints.

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 7h

Griffin on Blank Check decried the Blu-ray for O Brother but I thought his complaints were a bit exaggerated. Granted I watched a 1080p file not the disc, but still, I thought it was quite acceptable. And talk about a tricky film to get "just so" for the 4K era. The pioneer in digital intermediates!

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 7h

the t-bone cut of their career straddles nascent DVD format AND the nascent Blu-ray format - both periods where even the most totemic films got a cursory release and where rights-holders will go "Didn't we just release that?" nigh on 25 years later.

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 7h

too right. like the (probably embellished) account of Fritz Lang throwing a snit when an interviewer brought up AMERICAN GUERRILLA IN THE PHILIPPINES (which is good!), denying having ever made it, that it was insulting even to suggest the great Fritz Lang would deign to have anything to do etc

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 7h

the Coens' films really need more 4K releases - and, needless to say, good ones. for ex. the brights on the A SERIOUS MAN Blu-ray are really blown out, the definition sometimes a bit waxy

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 7h

Argylle rating as high as 11% of players, like wow

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8h

When someone buys your pitch and you realize you have to actually write it

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 7h

(If I had to pick only one truism to make a Commandment of cinephilia, it's that you have to take a filmmaker's esteem of their own work with a big grain of salt. Economy size. A salt lick, really.)

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 7h

You know how we're like "Blood Simple, holy shit, a masterpiece right out of the gate" but the Coens are like "Eh, we kinda whiffed that one, we didn't really know what we were doing". I wonder if WA feels like that about everything pre-Grand Budapest, maybe even pre-Isle of Dogs.

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 7h

But then again this was the last film of a kind for Wes Anderson. Such an unusually (now) high frequency of hand-held camera, for starters.

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 7h

I am a dues-paying member of the "Bruce Willis is so great in Moonrise Kingdom, it's a shame Wes never used him again" and this takes nothing away from that but it still takes some adjustment to process seeing him in the Wes-o-Sphere.

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 7h

- what happened to your hand?
- I got hit in the mirror
- how'd that happen?
- I lost my temper at myself

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 8h

what wasn't included in the audio was that Trump clarified that he's going to somewhere better than heaven, where all that glitters is gold, and if the stores are all closed, with a word he can get what he came for

onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

genuinely trumps funniest bit ever for him to admit that he knows he’s a grifting piece of shit who’s going to hell lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 8h

if you Like this because you recognize the citation you get a kewpie doll

Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 8h

was just thinking about this, listening to Ghost Stories for the End of the World's most recent episode, which covers football hooliganism, firms, uniquely English fascism, and Tommy Robinson.

(full episode on Patreon, but this is a v. pleasing abridged "teaser")

The Devil's Whore ii

A stroll through the suburbia at twilight takes an unexpected psychological turn; the werewolf approaches ever closer; we talk football films and football fascism; fascism as a weapon of the ruling cl...

www.podbean.com

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 8h

One Fine Day (1979) | dir: Stephen Frears | wr: Alan Bennett

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 13h

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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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 8h

I bet that guy's a vegetarian

Nelson Carvajal @nelsoncarvajal.com · 8h

‘Mortal Kombat III’ – Warner Bros. Already Developing Third Installment in Movie Franchise

Ahead of the release of Mortal Kombat II in theaters on May 15, 2026, writer Jeremy Slater (“The Exorcist,” “Moon Knight”) has announced at New York Comic Con today that Warner Bros. has already hired...

bloody-disgusting.com

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 8h

here's me grid

middle tile for Howard and Gleeson took the longest

a real "were they asked to return in such-and-such sequel?" mental barrier for me, who has proudly eschewed many lega-franchi-quels and such

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 8h

I have a theory that it gave David Gordon Green permission to commit his various franchise atrocities