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An acquaintance has never seen a David Lynch film. Without knowing anything about them, where do you start them on their journey?
10%Eraserhead
22%Twin Peaks: Pilot
46%Blue Velvet
22%Mulholland Drive
174 votes • Final results
In honor of the new year and turning over a new leaf, tell me about a film from the last 25 years - so since 2000 - that you’ve come around on in a significant way.
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Our friends at @filmspotting are celebrating 20 years of podcasting with Music Box screenings of BRICK, with writer/director Rian Johnson in person, and BEFORE SUNRISE!
February 28th & March 2nd
Tickets On Sale Now - More Info: filmspotting.net/filmspottin…
2:58am CT on Friday, December 20th
That's the earliest you'll finish listening to the entirety of Filmspotting's Top 10 of 2024 Roundtable
w/@philipstribune and @oldfilmsflicker if you start listening at midnight CT when the show goes live.
I strongly urge you to do this.
You can keep one movie year from the 2020s and take it to your desert island or whatever. Which one and, briefly, why?
This is big.
February 28-March 2, 2025.
Tickets on sale 12.20.
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Tell me about an actor you came around on and what film it was that made it happen. And did it make you re-evaluate the earlier stuff you didn't go for?
10 Favorite Performances of 2024
Tom Burke, Furiosa
Kirsten Dunst, Civil War
Aaron Pierre, Rebel Ridge
Jodie Comer, Bikeriders
Adria Arjona, Hit Man
Kristen Stewart, LLB
Eve Lindley, National Anthem
Maisy Stella, My Old Ass
Paul Mescal, Gladiator II
Vera Drew, People's Joker
What is your 2024 Film of the Year?
(Note that X only permits me to give you 4 options, so share your outrage via the "Other" option.)
22%Anora
20%Challengers
27%Dune, Part 2
32%Other
176 votes • Final resultsJust got upset that Baumbach's WHITE NOISE isn't on Blu-ray and maybe won't ever be. Also I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS. Also THE LOST DAUGHTER.
Who is on this beat? Is there nothing we can do?
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Lead performance by an actress, 2024:
49%Mikey Madison, ANORA
7%Kirsten Dunst, CIVIL WAR
24%Demi Moore, THE SUBSTANCE
20%Other
113 votes • Final results
This might be a niche question, but relevant to my weekend: you can see one film actor in a stage performance. Which one.
Gladiator II: Child of Gladiator.
What other 2000s movie infant do we need to see grown up in a movie all their own?
31%Child of Children of Men
49%Child of Kill Bill
16%Child of Juno
5%Other
111 votes • Final results