@AlanMattli

Critic (Filmbulletin, @MaximumCinema, @swissinfo_en, @ofcs, @AsjcSVfj). AmLit post-doc. Cat person. Will rate your Werner Herzog impression. Any pronouns.

 Switzerland
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Joined June 2009
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red schuy at night, sailor’s delight@pacific_zephyrOct 27
can someone explain to me why this is the official photo of the Swiss Federal Council
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Everytime I watch a classic horror film I think. Why isnt this 8 hours long with a cliffhanger every hour?
DiscussingFilm
@DiscussingFilm19h
HBO is officially developing ‘THE BIRDS’, a new series inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's film. Starring Sarah Snook, the series is a modern-day reimagining of the film set in Alaska with a murder mystery at the center. (Source: Deadline)
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Last night I gave a lecture on La Jetee to a prison classroom and basically everyone in the class loved the movie. People who try to tell you that difficult or experimental art is only for educated nerds are wrong, that’s just shit that giant corporations want you to believe.
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Late to the party, I know, but that's how it goes sometimes. Anyway, today I learned these are all the same actor.
Bum in "Mulholland Drive"

ALT Bum in "Mulholland Drive"

Joy von Troken in "The Princess Diaries"

ALT Joy von Troken in "The Princess Diaries"

Valak in "The Nun"

ALT Valak in "The Nun"

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Will Sloan@WillSloanEsqOct 26
RIP Eric Bauza, one of the greatest of all time. Did almost every single one of those voices in Coyote vs Acme. Someone who clearly loved these characters so much that he wasn't just doing Mel Blanc, he made them his own. xitter.cf/TunesClips/status/1484…
Looney Tunes Cartoons Clips@TunesClips22 Jan 2022
This just might be Eric’s best performance of the whole series.
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Ch1c@Ch1canerousOct 26
These people seem to think Kurosawa was making indie arthouse films and not well crafted populist cinema lol. Same thing with spaghetti westerns, our standards for blockbusters have gotten so low people think its impossible for something to have mass appeal and also not look shit
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I would say having not seen the film yet but loving documentaries that the death of doc filmmaking came when we taught audiences that documentaries only exist as an extension of journalism and not a legitimate branch of the art of moving pictures. The only rule is to document.
Akilah Hughes@AkilahObviouslyOct 18
Replying to @AkilahObviously
I cannot articulate why it feels fascist to destroy the art of documentary filmmaking. Another institution that kinda wasn’t a problem. Partially think it should’ve been a reality show??
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As good an opportunity as any to give a shoutout to Werner Herzog's THE WHITE DIAMOND – a blatantly embellished documentary that doubles as a commentary on the imperialist filmmaking tradition it's operating in.
this that me represso 💖@ultra_kitschOct 19
the idea that documentary has always been objective and has never been used as a fascistic tool is like actually laughable
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Lilly@lilly_of_valleyOct 17
While it’s true some people dismiss astrology on misogynist grounds, I’m afraid that Le Guin said it best.
pannekook 🫶@pannekookOct 17
anti-astrology is always a veiled misogyny
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this must go so hard if you’re dumb as fuck
Sawyer Merritt
@SawyerMerrittOct 16
OMG the Tesla Roadster just flew in the air!
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"We'll fix our failing infrastructure with flying cars" is such an American train of thought.
Umesh Kumar
@itsumeshkOct 16
The Roadster could genuinely be a lifesaver in situations like these.
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Thinking about this bit from AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS for no particular reason.
But a number of the passengers were at once attracted by the engineer's proposal, and Colonel Proctor was especially delighted, and found the plan a very feasible He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers without bridges, by putting on full steam; and many of those present avowed themselves of the engineer's mind. "We have fifty chances out of a hundred of getting over," said one. "Eighty ! ninety !" Passepartout was astounded, and, though ready to attempt anything to get over Medicine Creek, thought the experiment proposed a little too American. " Besides," thought he, "there's a still more simple way, and it does not even occur to any of these people! Sir," said he aloud to one of the passengers, "the engineer's plan seems to me a little dangerous, but--"

ALT But a number of the passengers were at once attracted by the engineer's proposal, and Colonel Proctor was especially delighted, and found the plan a very feasible He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers without bridges, by putting on full steam; and many of those present avowed themselves of the engineer's mind. "We have fifty chances out of a hundred of getting over," said one. "Eighty ! ninety !" Passepartout was astounded, and, though ready to attempt anything to get over Medicine Creek, thought the experiment proposed a little too American. " Besides," thought he, "there's a still more simple way, and it does not even occur to any of these people! Sir," said he aloud to one of the passengers, "the engineer's plan seems to me a little dangerous, but--"

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jon drake@DrakeGatsbyOct 16
“In situations like this” what the fuck are you talking about. Are you Wile E Coyote
Umesh Kumar
@itsumeshkOct 16
The Roadster could genuinely be a lifesaver in situations like these.
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Brian Tashman@briantashmanOct 11
On the one hand, Israel says NAZA is a totally fictitious “blood libel” On the other hand, Israel says the soldiers in NAZA revealed “highly classified information” and “a breach in information security” Which one is it?
Haaretz.com
@haaretzcomOct 11
PM Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's military, Shin Bet and attorney general on Sunday to reveal the identities of soldiers and officers interviewed in the documentary "NAZA" and prosecute them for "serious information security offenses, criminal defamation and harm to Israel's diplomatic and security interests." In his letter, Netanyahu wrote that "there is concern that those involved in the defamatory film committed serious criminal offenses by exposing highly classified information and creating a breach in the information security of a highly sensitive intelligence unit." | @jonathanlis1 🔗Read more: haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…
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my most "pretentious" take is that i kinda don't wanna listen to you talk about films if you haven't watched any made before the 1980s
ْ@y6zzcOct 11
i hate when people act like watching older movies automatically makes their taste superior.
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the Catholic Church racking up PR wins by saying shit like “we shouldn’t bring back public executions” and “your Claude app isn’t sentient”
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What exactly does AI make people see that they could not see without it?
Decider
@deciderOct 9
Ava DuVernay explains why AI was used in new documentary '14th:' "People should see this" trib.al/1ybSWqF
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Every movie headline now is like “Respected filmmaker explains why they used AI in new film” and it’s a pic of them going
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Audio commentary on every. single. episode.
Corey Atad@CoreyAtadOct 9
we used to have [The Simpsons seasons 1 to 7 on DVD] in this country
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Favourite first-time watches in January: Midnight (39) Ten Skies (04) Pickpocket (59) To Each His Own (46) 3 Bad Men (26) The Circle (00) Marty Supreme (25) The White Balloon (95) The Man from London (07) The Fugitive (47) The Trial of Joan of Arc (62) Eephus (24)
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Fav first-time watches in Aug A King in New York (57) Thieves' Highway (49) Nowhere to Lay My Eyes (06) Paper Tiger (26) The Young One (60) A Day in the Life of a Consumer (93) Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (06) Magic Atlas (26) Yankee (66) On the Waterfront (54) D.E.B.S. (04)
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Favourite first-time watches in September: My Wife Cries (2026) Possible Love (2026) NAZA (2026) The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) Light Pillar (2026) Bucking Fastard (2026) To Kill a Velofahrer (2026) Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Summer Wars (2009) Nobody (2025)
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