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I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played tennis with another Gene—Gene Wilder. And that Gene told him about a little role called The Blind Hermit in our movie YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN…

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Gene Hackman (1930-2025) 💔

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NEW EPISODE ALERT! We talk to @coldwarhost.bsky.social all about Cold War air power. It's military history on film as we watch 4 movies of... varying quality... and look at what they tell us about air strategy and the role of the armed forces in Hollywood. #HoFCast shows.acast.com/the-history-...

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A major figure in mid-20th century German-language cinema, Konrad Wolf (1923-1982) spent his whole career working in East Germany under strict censorship and within propagandist modes dictated by cultural authorities. That much of his work is nonetheless so distinctive is a tribute to his talents.

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Why do 'brave' nude scenes always mean 'boring'? This week I'm contrasting a celebrity misfire with two films that actually understand human desire. Come argue with me! 🎬" susiebright.ink/p/naked-doll...

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Eigentlich könnte man jetzt schön paar Serien oder Shows zeigen und erst ab 20 Uhr wieder in die Wahlberichterstattung gehen, wenn man ein bisschen mehr weiß und nicht über Dinge reden muss, die noch nicht feststehen. (Was man ja eigentlich die letzten Wochen zur Genüge getan hat.)

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Too late for a "Goldfinger" (gold obsessed madman tanking US economy for profit) re-make. But it's still time for a re-do of "Moonraker", about a rich, fascist madman with his own fleet of shuttles. There could even be real shuttles. And even a real rich, fa....ehh ;-) variety.com/2025/film/gl...

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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

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"In recent months she has been targeted on social media because her character Esrin wore a uniform considered similar to that of the Syria-based Kurdish militia YPG, designated as a terrorist group in Turkey." bbc.com/news/article...

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Wow, Disney was so "done with" Chloe Zhao after 'ETERNALS' they demonstrated their displeasure by... ...retaining her first-look deal this whole time at Searchlight and tapping her to run Gellar's 'BUFFY' revival; one of their biggest incoming projects at Twentieth 👀 deadline.com/2025/02/buff...

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Tyrone Power and Linda Christian pause to greet a napping city cat on a windowsill. Night-night, Bluesky.

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TCM is showing Conrad Veidt films all day tomorrow. Most of them are anti-Nazi. Go figure.

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In honor of his birthday, a very young Jim Jarmusch 📷 Lucy Sante, 1976

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The best newspaper ad in the history of movie marketing?

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A friend of mine took this photo yesterday

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oh wow The Library of Congress has a trove of images “free to use and re-use” that are in the public domain - and they’re fantastic

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These people are your enemies

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#Musik zum Tag youtu.be/XS29gl3FwNQ?...

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I finally got the wife to watch The Sparks Brothers. This is the reply she sent.

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Gym Installs Confusing New Equipment To Mess With Anyone Joining In January

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I think the key to Statham is that he never sells the ludicrousness of a scene. There's no winking self-awareness. Everything is approached at the right level, a blue-collar "Sometimes you have to get up in the morning and fight a prehistoric shark and that's just that" attitude.

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This week on the blog: closing thoughts on Gladiator II and how it treats the city of Rome, the Colosseum and gladiators and the Severan dynasty. In particular, we look at why the real, historical Caracalla is history's crushing rebuttal to this film's own themes. acoup.blog/2024/12/13/c...

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Podcast today: the juice and my extremely judicious opinions on the best movies of the year. 2024 Best Movies: A Study in the Old Masters & Ruthless Young Scamps susiebright.ink/p/2024-best-...

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Dick Van Dyke is 99. ‘While I was making Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cubby Broccoli called me in & asked me if I wanted to be Bond. I said to him ‘Have you heard my English accent?’ & he said ‘Ohhh that’s right - let’s forget it.’

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Gee, can't they just drop the burdensome Star Trek label (and the associated fan-service) and just have a fun space opera about a flamboyant ex-empress doing spy work for a galactic republic? arstechnica.com/culture/2024...

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“To this day, I don’t know what that film is about.” —the great Mexican star Silvia Pinal on THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel, 1962). She died Nov. 28, age 93, or was it 94? This is a gift link to her obituary in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/m...

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This week on the blog, Gladiator II nitpicking! There was so much to grouse about that wouldn't fit into a review, so this week we're looking at dates, equipment and battles (next week is Rome, gladiators and emperors). acoup.blog/2024/12/06/c...

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All I want for Christmas is to feel Satan's presence in the theater.

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According to what I was told by Warners, they reached out to Alan but were, as usual and as expected, rebuffed. Dave on the other hand was very excited about it, since this would mean taking his artwork and making it live, right down to the pencil strokes, so he came right on board.

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Each December, we do a themed issue. In 2019, our first year of publication, we tackled Star Wars and history.

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In A Fistful of Dollars, "Joe" uses a piece of metal as a makeshift bulletproof vest. Did anything like this ever happen in the actual Old West? Yes. Here's a brief 🧵 on "Deacon Jim"...

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"Monday again, by Crom," growled the bleary-eyed barbarian as he struggled to free himself from the serpentlike embrace of his sleeping furs. "Tis but one weapon potent enough to slay this most degenerate of days," he continued, staggering towards the kitchen. "Coffee."

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a contender for my favorite behind-the-scenes photo: The Hunt for Red October crew built their submarine set(s) on top of a hydraulic gimbal, 45 ft above the stage floor, capable of tilting 45 degrees to mimic a sub's movements - Sean Connery said it made him seasick. even the gauges inside worked.

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It's finally here! Happy Women in Physics Day! Throughout the day I'll be adding to this thread, sharing info about amazing women in physics, why we're still under-represented in the field and what can be done to change that. 🎢 👩🏻‍🔬🧪⚛️

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Guten Morgen!

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"Der extreme Karrieredruck, dem K-Pop-Idole ausgesetzt sind, spiegelt den umfassenden Leistungsdruck wider, der die südkoreanische Gesellschaft durchdringt." taz.de/Popkultur-au...

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#Musik aus Gründen: Quincy Jones - "The Dude" youtu.be/qHDny3772ww?...

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Hey folks: Be careful out there tonight. I bought a razor blade and it had a Snickers in it.

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The computers "were small computers – by standards of that time – about the size of a refrigerator." bbc.com/future/artic...

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I finally read the 404 Media article about the downfall of Jezebel. It's really good. I'm sure it's obvious if you stop to think about it but I didn't realize the size in $$ of the digital advertising industry. Yikes. www.404media.co/advertisers-...

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Ein bisschen lustig ist es schon: Andere Männer in seinem Alter wollen nochmal was ganz anderes in ihrem Leben machen. Stefan Raab will anscheinend alles nochmal machen, was er schon gemacht hat.

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Gefunden auf X. Aber das erklärt meinen Gemütszustand perfekt.

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THE BEAR has become one of my favorites, but Season 3 of is a complicated endeavor. At times, it's the great show we've come to love. At others, it feels like it's punting crucial moments down the line. I finally caught up with it and wrote all about it here www.patreon.com/posts/114601...

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"When Blizzard was founded, the video-game industry had not yet become the $200 billion business it is today." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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