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Reiner
Before I was an MTV kid, I was a Nickelodeon kid. And like Cartoon Network turns into Adult Swim like a Pumpkin, Nick would become Nick at Nite. I loved Lucy, but I loved Archie Bunker. I knew he was always wrong. But I also new Meathead wasn’t always right. Years before Maron would argue…
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100 Best Movies of the 21st Century
Shared this list a few weeks ago on Substack: “Between streaming services and superhero blockbusters, the way we watch and think about movies has changed dramatically over the past 25 years. But through that period of upheaval, which films have truly stood the test of time? To find out, we embarked on an ambitious new…
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Spike Lee’s Essential Cinema
Just over a decade ago, Lee posted this list of other people’s joints online. 400 Blows (François Truffaut) 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini) Ace in a Hole (Billy Wilder) American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli) Apocalypto (Mel Gibson) Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara) Badlands (Terrence Malick) Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo) Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus) Black Rain (Shōhei Imamura) Blue Collar (Paul Schrader) Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn) Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton)…
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David Lynch is Gone
David Lynch, “maker of florid and unnerving films,” passed on the 15th at the age of 78. He was truly one of one. Peerless. “Like Frank Capra and Franz Kafka, two widely disparate 20th-century artists whose work Mr. Lynch much admired and might be said to have synthesized, his name became an adjective.” “He’s one…
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Roger Ebert Passed 10 Years Ago Today.
Before the Internet, or at least any Internet I knew of, Siskel & Ebert was my best resource for what was coming out. By the time I hit the age where I wasn’t supposed to be seeing certain things but wanted to, those two were a gateway drug. Very few things sounded more interesting to…
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Herzog’s Advice for Filmmakers
Apparently this list is on the back cover of A Guide for the Perplexed. Need to pick this up ASAP. (Via Kottke)