Paul Giamatti is a spectacular comic actor.

#TheHoldovers #paulgiamatti

Christmas movie time: Home Alone or Elf?

#Christmas Movies #Christmas

#Killersoftheflowermoon should have an #intermission ! Dr Zhivago, Seven Samurai, and 2001 (an hour shorter) had intermissions. They're great! It's like theatre. It only increases the sense of communal watching. And you can pee! We can't allow ads but otherwise, why not?
#cinema

#silenceofthelambs is all about the tension: if we get inside the head of a psychopathic killer, will they get inside our head right back?

At the midpoint: #Hannibal 's reflection looks like it belongs to us. The real horror is the question: Is he inside us?

#cinematography

Mark overanalyses — that is his nature — as he wonders what makes Silence of the Lambs so unsettling, how its cinematography expresses theme, & why we prefer a cannibal to a guy with his own gold pen.

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#silenceofthelambs #hannibal #clarice #filmanalysis

Some men just want to overanalyse films as Mark wonders what makes #TheDarkKnight so propulsive, why its use of theme is a bit wonky, and how Batman kidnapping a Hong Kong businessman isn't a major international incident.

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#batman #Joker #ChristopherNolan

Stop Making Sense is a tonic for the soul.

The most I've ever associated with any film character is when Andrew McCarthy gets fired at the start of Mannequin for spending too long placing pepperoni on a pizza with extreme care. I've loved the man ever since.

#mannequin

Podcast charts are weird, and in no way seem to reflect reality. But still, take it Kermode!
#overanalysefilm #kermode #podcastcharts #filmpodcast

Mark's mind is going, there's no question about it, as he wonders what makes 2001: A Space Odyssey possibly the greatest film ever made, how it did and did not change the form, and if he associates with HAL a little too much.
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#HAL #kubrick #scifi #2001

I don't know about you, but I'm not confused about which one of these is Indiana Jones really on a horse.

Hell, I don't even believe Indy is in a subway. Why so much CGI?! I can't pretend Indy'll defeat the Nazis if you can't convince my brain he's in the world.

#IndianaJones

Mark's no suburban bridge-player as he wonders what makes His Girl Friday so exciting, how its 2 plots relate to each other, and what Albany ever did to deserve this.

#hisgirlfriday #filmanalysis #screwball #hildy #walterburns

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I feel Wes Anderson films have a Beatles album trajectory. Bottle Rocket is Rubber Soul, Rushmore is Revolver, Royal Tenenbaums is Sgt Peppers, and everything after is The White Album. How experimental do you wanna get?

#wesanderson #TheBeatles #rushmore #royaltenenbaums

Mark feels like grabbing a couple of burgers and hitting the cemetery as he wonders what makes The Royal Tenenbaums so cathartic, how it uses its novelistic framing device, and why nobody Wes Andersons like Wes Anderson.

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#WesAnderson #theroyaltenenbaums