Walter Chaw

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Love Notes: FFC Interviews Todd Louiso and Philip Seymour Hoffman - FILM FREAK CENTRAL his role as one of John Cusack’s sidekicks in High Fidelity (star-struck employees hovered around us, hoping for a word), I was more excited to talk to him about his vocal cameo in the late, lamented ...

Was thinking today about Philip Seymour Hoffman and... fuck what an obscene, terrible loss. I interviewed him 23yrs ago. filmfreakcentral.net/2003/03/love...

Late to the show, but Liu Jian's ART COLLEGE 1994 is phenomenal.

I have bought @mangiotto.bsky.social's book on Walter Hill and a Taschen book of Frank Frazetta paintings from this bookstore, and can testify that their prices are fair, and they ship fast and carefully.

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

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Scream 7 (2026) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL */****starring Neve Campbell, Isabel May, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Courteney Coxscreenplay by Kevin Williamson and Guy Busickdirected by Kevin Williamson by Walter Chaw Follow me for a second: If you were ...

FFC review: SCREAM 7, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2026/03/scre...

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What stage of trauma is going back to the hospital to eat in the cafeteria?

I'm often warned against catastrophizing and it's good advice. Sometimes though [waves around like Kermit in a fire drill].

Top Ten Horror Movies:

The Thing from Another World (1951)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Mad Love (1935)
Lake Placid (1999)
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Halloween (1978)
The Changeling (1980)
Tremors (1990)
Hold That Ghost (1941)

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Thinking, for no reason, about the running gag where Darth Vader keeps force-choking his underlings to death for failing to carry out his ridiculous policies and how there's always another flop-sweaty meat bag to take their place.

Always proud to be associated w/men like @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social and @amuredda.bsky.social. No more so than today. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Chris Miller: Some clarification here: "no green screen" doesn't mean "no VFX". There were, in fact, thousands of VFX shots in the film (2018!) Green screen is sometimes used in lieu of building sets or figuring out locations/lighting in advance, which can be noticeable if not done carefully, and is something we didn't want to do. We built the entire interior of the Hail Mary ship - but within the ship, there were still wire and puppeteer removals and ceiling replacements, etc. When Ryan is outside on the hull of the ship, we shot him in front of a black background for space and a shifting hue background when he was up against the aurora of a planet which allowed for truer interactive light on him than a green screen would. The wide space exteriors and spaceship shots were entirely digital and beautifully done by ILM. Rocky was a seamless blend of puppetry and animation from Framestore. And other great work from many more. It really does take a village and we had the best of the best on our side.

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"Project Hail Mary" (2026)

My dear friend @luckymckee.bsky.social zooming into my class this morning.

Trans rights are human rights. This isn't a tough one.

I'm so very sorry for your loss. I lost my mom to the same malady. Fuck cancer, as they say.

The upcoming @filmsradiance.bsky.social 4K UHD release of CUTTER'S WAY--arguably the greatest/bleakestneo-noir ever made--features contributions from such killer hitters as @jordanharper.bsky.social, @meganabbott.bsky.social, @christinalefou.bsky.social, and more (including an essay by me).

GET IT.

After your splendid blitz of generosity, I am down to the last *3* of each of these prints! I can't thank everyone enough for welcoming my work into your homes, sharing it, and generally being cool.

Just in case you'd like to help get those numbers to zero:

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Once, in another lifetime, I was going down the street in Toronto and heard big bellowing voice say, "Billy!" I looked up, and it was Bruce Campbell. He said,"'member me?" (I had interviewed him.) Forever grateful to feel like I was pals with Fonzie for a couple of minutes.

What stage of syphilis is this?

prayers up for an all time great

The only people who need to be "cured" of what they are is Republicans.

You're gonna send me again.

RIGHT???????

Another rough month. Searching for my mojo & negotiating w/the new normal. 65 films in Feb for a 2026 total of 105. So exhausted now, all the time. Best first time watches: Borzage's MORTAL STORM, Kon Ichikowa's BURMESE HARP, Catherine Breillat's BLUEBEARD, Kiarostami's CLOSE-UP.

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Holy fuck.