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Watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This is one of my favorites of all time, probably my favorite Spielberg. Some times other ones eclipse it for a while, but then I watch it again and think "No, this is it. This is everything he's about."

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George C. Scott and director Stanley Kubrick behind the scenes of DR. STRANGELOVE (1963)

I think Dracula could defeat Frankenstein but I don’t think Count Chocula could defeat Frankenberry and that speaks to the richness of the characters

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SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

"Steve Lockjaw" really is the kind of name Terry Southern and Kubrick would've given a dipshit military character -- made me chuckle every time it was said out loud.

stop posting AI slop, even to trash it. please.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Once Upon A Time In The West | Trailers From Hell Sergio Leone's 1968 masterpiece gives the lie to the term "spaghetti western". In a hastily shortened version it was a box-office disappointment in the U.S.but it played in the same theater in Paris f...

We’re still Remembering Claudia Cardinale this week on Trailers From Hell! Tune in to TFH Guru John Landis’ epic trailer commentary for the epic Sergio Leone Western, Once Upon A Time In The West.

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One Battle After Another. Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson. He's on a payphone and pissed off.

When I once again have to enter the two-factor authentication code to log in

Fabulous.

And of COURSE she did.

"consequences shmonsequences, as long as I'm rich." -- Daffy Duck

This kind of chicken-brained logic misunderstands the act of writing fundamentally. ALL YOUR STUPID PLAGIARISM ENGINE CAN DO IS STEAL AND REMIX. If you see all art as "product," this makes sense, but that's also a dogshit world view that we should mock at every opportunity.

Fuck AI.

I have never met an artist who's said "sigh, I wish a computer could do this for me." Not artists? sure, all the time.

ICYMI

Marvel Comics panel: Moondragon looks on in awe with mouth agape as Thor earnestly intones "What is a god -- to a COWBOY?"

Deep thoughts

The Candidate | Trailers From Hell Michael Ritchie’s acerbic satire on the backroom maneuvers of political campaigning seems like a soothing bedtime story compared to the surreal finale of the 2016 campaign. Robert Redford found his pe...

We’re celebrating the cinema of Robert Redford all week on Trailers From Hell! First up, tune in for Jessica Bendinger’s The Candidate trailer commentary.

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Robert Redford’s Impossible Cool Handsome, fit, smart, and savvy, the actor and director defined our ideal of the American man.

All right, here we go: an appreciation of Robert Redford's acting, his undeniable beauty, and how he leveraged both to become a legendary figure in cinema. Great photos, selected by the @vulture.com art department! www.vulture.com/article/robe...

MGM Stories Part Four: John Gilbert and Greta Garbo — You Must Remember This Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts . Rising romantic lead John Gilbert signed with MGM in 1924 and the next year he starred in King Vidor’s The Big Parade , the studio’s biggest hit of the ...

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American Movie | Trailers From Hell What should be a comedy of errors about a hapless filmmaker's efforts to complete a low, low budget horror film becomes instead a poignant tale about dodging life's slings and arrows in order to follo...

We’re Playing With Reality once again with the Ti West trailer commentary for the classic 1999 documentary American Movie, the tale of writer/director Mark Borchardt and his merry band of moviemaking Midwest dreamers.

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A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

b&w photo of Robert Redford in a cabin by the fireplace, looking very handsome with shaggy blonde hair, dark mustache, wearing black slacks and a white turtleneck. he's smiling, looking down, with his arm around a very small cardboard Paul Newman in his Butch Cassidy fit

Robert Redford with a tiny cardboard cut-out of Paul Newman, photographed by John Dominis, Utah, 1969

Showing my freshman class "Nothing in the Dark" (s03e16, The Twilight Zone) in an hour or so because I guarantee you 99% of them don't know who Robert Redford is. That changes today.

He was a great actor and so much more.
So sad to lose a tireless champion for the environment.
R.I.P. Robert Redford.

Rest in Peace to the immensely talented actor, director, movie star & founder of Sundance, Robert Redford, who l loved in just about everything. He often made it look so easy - which isn't always easy - a complex actor and so very cool. Very sad. Feels like an end of an era.

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