Matt Prigge

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Revisiting Taxi Driver for the first time in an awfully long time and instead of taking Betsy to the dirty Swedish movie (at the Lyric Theatre, which now houses the Harry Potter play), Travis, had he been smart, could have taken her across the street to Clint’s The Eiger Sanction

A long time ago I swore I saw Tom Noonan in the East Village but I wasn’t sure it was him. A friend said, “If you think you saw Tom Noonan, you saw Tom Noonan.” RIP

Frederick Wiseman spent 1967 on, some six decades, wandering America and the world filming how it works (and, often, doesn’t), retreating to an editing room, then going back out and doing it all over again. What a life! RIP to one of the actual greatest

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Phil Collins solo albums are wild because they’ll have a minimalist, menacing, anguished masterpiece followed immediately by the lamest, most vanilla track ever recorded. I’m especially thinking of “Do You Know, Do You Care?” into “You Can’t Hurry Love” off Hello, I Must Be Going

Someone do a rep series of W. Somerset Maugham film adaptations and call it Mars Needs Maughams

I liked Marty Supreme a lot but preferred the one where someone hates living a panic attack existence over the one where someone thrives with it

An absurdly mixed bag year! Emergency spinal surgery over the summer made it an ordeal, but I still managed to watch new movies and cross off plenty of oldies off my to-see-list. Thanks to all who helped me get through 2025 and may 2026 be considerably less garbage

TIL: We could have gotten David Lynch’s American Beauty

Revisited Broadcast News and the part where the news head jokes to Nicholson that the layoffs would be less brutal if he shaved a million or so off his salary, then spends a solid 30 seconds apologizing to him and swearing he was just kidding, is my new favorite part

Belatedly made Metropolitan a staple of my holiday movie repertoire starting in 2022 and it’s become one of my favorite Yuletide traditions

Once I interviewed Rob Reiner and asked about his incredible work in Wolf of Wall Street. He said, "I don't know what was more unbelievable: that I was DiCaprio's father or that DiCaprio was a Jew." An incredibly lovely and funny man. This news is beyond awful

This is arguably the wildest aspect of David Lynch’s Dune

Because of their Marty Supreme getup in the big window of AMC Lincoln Square 13, New York finally has the giant head of Abel Ferrara looking down upon it

My half-filled theater included a row of people who snickered throughout at this movie from a bygone era, but then enthusiastically discussed how it was unusually insightful about specific concerns plaguing us today, so I don’t know what to think! (I mostly liked it)

Ella McCay: I enjoyed this kooky movie and its plethora of faults and its far more plentiful pleasures. Very nice seeing a comedy in the year 2025 that repeatedly pauses so characters can cry while sad music plays. That Soike Fearn guy is intense

Is it good

Is “chicken bake” even a thing or a CostCo invention? Also never been here before and was horrified/impressed by five pounds of Hershey’s and 50 pounds of powdered sugar

Would watch a sitcom about Roberto Rossellini bringing a kangaroo home to Ingrid and the kids

Trier has this annoying habit of mercilessly tackling specific-to-me anxieties, this one hitting two of them

I didn’t buy it either, but that’s because Gustav is actually not that terrible a person, even if he’s forever flighty with people, which makes for an overall stronger movie (that I had problems with too, but the thing got to me)

Was heartened at my UWS screening of Sentimental Value when a little jokette about Gaspae Noé’s 23-year-old Irreversible got the film’s biggest laugh

Stoked to never have to think about Andrew Cuomo again for the rest of my days

Caught up with Pret-à-Porter before it skedaddled from Criterion Channel and this crash zoom into Stephen Rea doing a face is among the wackiest shots in the Altman canon

Look what the fuck someone did to my lock to steal my bike. I’m almost impressed

Fuckin’ A

No one has ever wanted to steal my shitty bikes!

Every other cyclist in the world after I finally have a bicycle stolen