A different lens on film. No hot takes, lots of long reads. An independent online film journal since 2013.
Jun 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
It’s actually incomprehensible how many good movies were released in 1999, nearly all of which still hold up 24 years later. Let’s do that again.
give us your top 5 1999 movies: go! (which, yes, Go is deserving of some votes)
May 2, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
busby berkeley friday night quarantine medicine
Jan 18, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford, a thread...
In 1881, Jesse James was in the twilight of his career as one of the most famous men in America, mythologized in his own lifetime as a model of the heroic bandit. Stories of his adventures were told across newspapers, pulp novels, ballads.
Aug 31, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“I decided that we were going to call him Rip Van Marlowe, as if he’d been asleep for 20 years, had woken up & was wandering through this landscape of the early 1970s, but trying to invoke the morals of a previous era.“
-Robert Altman
“Bob called me and told me the whole opening of the film as he was envisioning it, the whole sequence with Marlowe and his cat. He loved that. He said, ‘This is what the picture is about!’”
