John Frankensteiner

Thinking about Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise pitch to Ethan Hawke on its 30th anniversary

Cassavetes ass answer (the highest compliment)

That was solid gold, buddy

Mel's reaction 😭

Love the Mel Brooks/David Lynch friendship so much

Charles Bukowski gets cable, first thing he happens to see is Eraserhead, assumes all things on cable will be that weird and wonderful, then never enjoys another program again

David Lynch runs into Steven Spielberg at a party

Shakespeare must have been strutting around town like Tony Manero after inventing the word swagger

They were operating at an unprecedented level of being Italian

The night Scorsese screened The Last Waltz, Coppola made sauce for everyone, taping a wooden spoon to a running projector and placing it over the pot so it stirred the sauce while they were gone watching the movie. When they returned, the sauce was perfect. This is the highest level of being Italian

Guy in a 1970s Sidney Lumet movie

Love this guy's mask choice in Eyes Wide Shut, zero backstory needed, you just know this is the sickest freak fuck in the room

I like that even in a Superman comic, Orson has zero fucking chill

Just learned that there was a Superman comic in 1949 where the plot is Orson Welles has been abducted by Martians, but no one believes him because of War of the Worlds lol

Very funny that it's one of Ratner's best movies and that it also absolutely sucks shit

Just found out Matthew Yglesias makes a million dollars a year on Substack

Is is once again that time of Thanksgiving night

True pain

A New York Times excerpt from 1986 that reads: Nicholson complains about ''conglomeration'' narrowing the studio's vision. ''Do you feel like a creative person trapped in an uncreative age in the industry?'' ''Well, you know, last night I saw - what's that movie -'Ferris' something," Nicholson answers. '''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'?'' the interviewer asks. ''Well, that movie made me feel totally irrelevant to anything that any audience could want, and 119 years old," Nicholson answers. He sighs deeply and continues: ''Believe me, everyone else watching it liked it. And you know, I literally walked out of there thinking my days are numbered. These people are trying to kill me.''

Laughing picturing Jack Nicholson in a movie theater watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off, just doing the Kubrick stare while everyone around him is laughing and having a good time

Every Denzel headline this promotional tour is a gift to humanity

Found $20 in a jacket I haven't worn since last spring

Michael Corleone is not a cool answer, but feels right

Not that it was ever in play (I don't think), but Jimmy always felt like a Buscemi role to me

Tarantino desperately wanting to be an actor while having the worst screen presence of all time is so much funnier every time Scorsese strolls into a role and just nonchalantly nails it

Netflix (2018): Thanks to stock value and a head start on streaming, we have more money than anyone to finance the white whale projects of Martin Scorsese and Orson Welles, where box office receipts won't matter, only the art.

Netflix (2024): Wanna watch a YouTuber fight an old man?

Thank you, brother

Bluesky helped me birth a younger and hotter version of myself, who will be hosting a network New Year's Eve show for some reason, I really fucking hate him

The Mastodon House right now

[Dreyfuss voice] On January 6th, Chris entered a fast food restaurant in Washington DC. Just ahead of him, two insurrectionists got into an argument. One of them pulled a knife. Chris, who had always made the best peace, tried to break it up. He was stabbed in the throat. He died almost instantly.