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Dad, Filmspotting, NH native, Kenyon grad, wants your music/book recommendations.

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What movie moment made you laugh hardest in 2024?
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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…
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Watch this space at 10am CST tomorrow (12/10) for our 2024 nominations!
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If you are starting to plan out your holiday shopping, check out my Directed By Women Holiday Gift Guide for all kind of gift ideas, including Blu-rays, art prints, tote bags, posters, and more. 🎁 🎁 🎁 oldfilmsflicker.substack.com…
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Wonderful new releases on @criterionchannl such as Med Hondo's West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty; Blake Edwards's Experiment in Terror; Catherine Breillat's Sex Is Comedy; films noirs incl. The Man I Love and Murder by Contract; and, just in time, Inslde Llewyn Davis.
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Happening this weekend!
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‘JANET PLANET’ is coming to Max on November 1st.
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I DON'T MEAN TO CAUSE ALARM BUT TODAY IS YOUR LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR THE MOVIES FANTASY LEAGUE! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? DRAFT YOUR TEAM HERE: vulture.com/movies-league/
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Tarsem Singh’s sweeping 2006 epic ‘The Fall’ is finally streaming for the first time, and the director says a blu-ray is on the way, too. trib.al/g6NVOTP
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Now playing on @criterionchannl: PICKPOCKET AU HASARD BALTHAZAR MOUCHETTE THE DEVIL, PROBABLY L'ARGENT A MAN ESCAPED and more! criterionchannel.com/directe…
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To celebrate final delivery of REBEL RIDGE in Feb, I bought myself a 1st edition of CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF (which first piqued my interest in genre storytelling). I join my 9 year-old self in freaking tf out. 🙏🏼
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For people wanting to revisit some of Jame Earl Jones indelible performances, Youtube has his full performance of King Lear in 1971 uploaded, with bonus Paul Sorvino and Raul Julia co-starring.
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My audio review of GOOD ONE, a small movie that creates little ripples which eventually coalesce into something shattering. Opens Friday @filmcenter in Chicago.
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LA CHIMERA is streaming on Hulu. Alice Rohrwacher’s rhapsodic, tactile tapestry of love, loss, and time’s abiding mysteries, about excavating the past that permeates one’s present, contains multitudes—as does Josh O’Connor, never scruffier or more beautifully melancholic. See it.
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This is one of my favorite scenes in any movie. That moment in “A Woman Under the Influence” when Gena Rowlands picks her kids up at the bus. Probably one of my favorite portrayals of motherhood onscreen. I love all her “mom” scenes so much, I have them saved on my phone.
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[THREAD] 1. RIP the magnificent Gena Rowlands. I was so fortunate to get to do a long interview with her in 2016 in which she discussed her amazing career, and especially her collaboration with her husband, John Cassavetes: rogerebert.com/interviews/tr…
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I SAW THE TV GLOW coming to Max September 20, just in time for spooky szn 🎃 📺 😎
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Filmspotters, I encourage you to follow the show over on Instagram for episode video content (new!) and updates like these!
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Wow! If you've never listened to @filmspotting before, this week's episode is definitely the one to jump in on! Haven't heard a fight that bad since Siskel and Ebert's brawl about Baby's Day Out (below). youtube.com/watch?v=b822HW7g…
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