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Best First Views of February-

Time After Time
River of Grass
Safe (Haynes)
Up, Down, Fragile
Black Snake Moan
Laggies
Colossal

Important to remember there was no reason WB had to sell. They had a very successful year on all fronts. The shareholders just want that bag. That’s it.

Nonprofessional Actors Are the Heart of the Movies This year’s leading Oscar contenders are invigorated by performers notable for their personalities and wider-world accomplishments.

A word on the prevalence and prominence of nonprofessional actors in some of the year's best movies, with a look back at precedents distant and recent (including Licorice Pizza):
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Smoking on that shit that made Robert Wise

for Season 6 Premier the cast were scheduled to appear on CBS' The Early Show and The Rosie O'Donnell Show on September 11, 2001; due to the terrorist attacks, the latter was cancelled, and the cast remained at their hotel in New York. Romano later stated that in the afternoon the cast went for a walk in Central Park and met someone who had been at the World Trade Center and was unable to get home so they decided to take them back to the hotel gave them a room and invited them to dine with them that evening.

somebody out there survived the 9/11 terrorist attacks and then bumped into the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond in Central Park

Up, Down, Fragile is so good. My new favorite Rivette.

Great movie. Hope you liked it!

Headline: Quentin Tarantino is convinced no one actually likes 'Vertigo': “I don't believe anybody"

Douchebaggery aside, it would be pretty funny if all cinephiles were gaslighting Tarantino about their love of VERTIGO. A global conspiracy just to make him crazy.

Was not prepared for how much I loved this. Just exquisite.

Seated for The Secret Agent.

Between this and Femme Fatale coming to 4K, we’re so back!

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? Anton Chigurh here for FanDuel,

Still find Twentieth Century pretty annoying. Minor Hawks.

Best First Views of January:

Underworld Beauty
Elegant Beast
The Passenger
Hopscotch
Phenomena
Blind Date
Two Evil Eyes
A Tale of Winter
Malice
Affliction
Oki’s Movie
Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
Experimenter
Passing

Love this one. Very underrated!

Seated for The Testament of Ann Lee.

“Counting or not counting gun violence?”

Accidentally did a double feature of movies from 1993 that have Tobin Bell and Joshua Malina in minor roles: Malice and In the Line of Fire.

If you don’t like Licorice Pizza, you don’t deserve PTA.

Punch-Drunk Love and Licorice Pizza, his best films.

The big beautiful pizza! They said it couldn’t be done, but we did it.

Edward Everett Horton and Charlie Ruggles in 4K!

Loved Cloud.

I love on set photos and this is wonderful from Remember The Night (1940).

No idea what's going on. Are Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray ducking director Mitchell Leisen or are they bobbing for apples??? Onlookers include Beulah Bondi, Spencer Charters and Sterling Holloway.

Since there's a lot of Benicio Del Toro love tonight: He told me a few years back that he had his own interpretation of the Cat in the Hat, developed while reading bedtime stories to his daughter--a Mexican hepcat rascal called "El Gato." I would love to see him in that part.

The ending of No Way Out (1987) is so stupid. Love it.

Just watched A Tale of Winter. Charlotte Véry… hello.

I can't even be outraged by this guy anymore. If Congress wasn't a joke, with roughly half its members consistently putting party over country, he never would've made it to a second term.