Walter Chaw

Walter Chaw

@mangiotto.bsky.social

I write about movies. Sometimes I talk about them. Usually just write. http://walterchaw.com

18,047 Followers 619 Following 3,257 Posts Joined May 2023
1 hour ago

Look - the only thing stopping you from shoving your hand down that drain is that the garbage disposal is on.

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2 weeks ago

it's genuinely concerning how many of you refuse to allow grey areas to exist. a person is not wholly, ontologically evil because they have bad opinions, informed by their own experiences. a person is also not wholly good because they have opinions you regularly agree with. he's just some guy.

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2 hours ago

I'm kind of dreading THE BRIDE after hearing more about it. Also, I'm mad at Maggie about the scarf.

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14 hours ago

Aw thanks.

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16 hours ago

Hell yeah! πŸ™Œ

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18 hours ago

Showing IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY and ALL THAT JAZZ to my Film II course tonight. Existential blues.

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22 hours ago
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NO OTHER CHOICE: LIMITED EDITION DELUXE 4K & BLU-RAY Welcome to NEON

I contributed to the hardbound booklet for this: www.neonrated.com/product/no-o...

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The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk by David Hughes Paperback (PRE-ORDER – OUT MAY 11) **OUT MAY 11 – PRE-ORDER NOW** "Yeah, that's probably what happened!" From David Hughes, author of The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made and Tales from Development Hell comes the unbelievable true sto...

🚨 OUT MAY 11 🚨 PRE-ORDER NOW 🚨

The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk: How a $200m Action-Comedy-Romance-Adventure Went From Being One Of The Most Notorious Flops In Hollywood History To A Cult Favourite by @davidhughesbluey.bsky.social Introduction by @mangiotto.bsky.social plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...

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1 day ago

That thing where a place I worked years and years ago still hasn't changed their emergency numbers so I get alerts regularly including a revelation that they haven't paid rent in over a year. I don't hate it.

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1 day ago

Since it's Liza Minnelli's birthday, allow me to stump for THE STERILE CUCKOO, an Alan J. Pakula joint every bit as good as his conspiracy thrillers, featuring a pretty fearless and devastating performance from La Liza.

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1 day ago

Incredibly honored to be receiving the David Shepard Career Achievement Award at the Denver Silent Film Festival next month. (And guess which film I’ll be introducing! πŸ˜‰)

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1 day ago

How much you wanna bet AI was consulted on the legality of it and gave the proverbial thumbs up?

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Second time through Linklater's NOUVELLE VAGUE and though I loved it the first time, I think I'm *in* love with it now.

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1 day ago

Into the garbage bin they go, right next to Target.

We don’t need your shitty brands! You’re expendable but trans people are not.

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1 day ago

NOSFERATU - seconded!

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1 day ago

I would like to third the FRANKENHOOKER is amazing.

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2 days ago
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a man with a beard and long hair is making a surprised face with his mouth open . ALT: a man with a beard and long hair is making a surprised face with his mouth open .

Me listening to Taylor Swift's "All Too Well" 10min version for the first time.

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2 days ago

😬

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2 days ago
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Body of Evidence 2026 Subscribers: This is included in your subscription package. This special limited edition 2-disc 4K UHD/Blu-ray set comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + slipcover combo (designed by Adam Maida)

I contributed to this release: vinegarsyndrome.com/products/bod...

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3 days ago
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an older woman says can i speak to the manager netflix Alt: an older woman says can i speak to the manager netflix

I am not seeing enough of @mangiotto.bsky.social in my feed.

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3 days ago
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WarGames (1983) [25th Anniversary Edition] + Saturday Night Fever (1977)/Staying Alive (1983) [Double Feature] - DVDs|Saturday Night Fever [30th Anniversary Special Collector's Edition]- Blu-ray Disc ... War Games ***Β½/**** Image B Sound C Extras A starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy screenplay by Lawrence Lasker & Walter F. Parkes directed by John Badham SATURDAY NIGHT ...

"Staying Alive is a stunted, staggering monument to extravagant emptiness." @mangiotto.bsky.social's zero-star review is a thing of beauty: after reading this evisceration, I just *had* to own a copy! filmfreakcentral.net/2009/05/warg....

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3 days ago
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Ah shit.

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3 days ago

This is all I have ever wanted.

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4 days ago
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Music to write to

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4 days ago
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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...

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

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5 days ago

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.

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6 days ago
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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6 days ago

For the Saturday crowd.

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6 days ago

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