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Bunuel x Wilder

Me when the Thos Chat Wills screenshots enter the TL.

Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)

Shot

Views of Mt. Fuji from Haneda Airport. Can't help feeling Lawson is missing a trick not setting up a convenience store on top of one of those buildings behind Haneda. www.sankei.com/article/2025...

"It's like Bailey's, but with pancakes." No wonder the place is falling apart before our eyes.

Movies you’ve watched more than six times, gifs only

Wow, amazing - all of these ideas sound absolutely shit.

“I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.” -Orson Welles Hell Bent (1918), directed by John Ford Citizen Kane (1941), directed by Orson Welles

My review for @theguardian.com of Callan Wink's fine novel, 'Beartooth', set in rural Montana. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Robert Altman on what McCabe & Mrs. Miller is actually about:

"HOUSE!"

"..the zeitgeist of the late 1960s – the war in Vietnam, political assassinations and the collapse of screen censorship – suited Peckinpah’s temperament and appetite for pushing boundaries." Helluva list. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

Light Red Over Black http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rothko-light-red-over-black-t00275

You can believe I will be on this as soon as it is out www.simonandschuster.com/books/Scene/...

The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride: Author experiments to draw readers in, not to keep them out. McBride’s style is utterly distinctive, a wholly original exploration of what is possible with language and fiction. Reading her is a schooling in attention. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...