Filmmaker, writer, adventurer and world citizen currently residing in Brooklyn. WGA East✊🏽
Brooklyn, NY
Joined May 2009
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A sneak peak for my new doc coming next year ☮️✌🏽🌎
youtu.be/dMHVsEZUOac?is=Dbn6…
Texans, don’t let @elonmusk and the Silicon bros (who arrived 5 min ago in Cowboy Hats and boots) divide you. As a Longhorn 🤘🏽I’ll say plainly what @McConaughey didn’t, VOTE BLUE. The only way to become “Independent” is to swing the pendulum back to when Ann Richard’s was Gov. @jamestalarico @GinaHinojosaTX Let’s Go Texas!!
He was born and raised here and went to my alama mater 🤘🏽…on his worst day @jamestalarico is more Texan than you’ll ever be. You’ll find out quickly apartheid tactics don’t go over well with real Texans.
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You could bookend the last 50 years of American movies with Albert Brooks “Real Life” and Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder’s “You Can See Everything”.
Two of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
A few feet away during this Q&A and I remember thinking Nolan was tweaking comparing Nathan to Lynch…oh how wrong I was…and now they’re both the front runners for best picture and director. 🫡
Really enjoyed You Can See Everything. Might be most meta documentary ever.
No spoilers but will say this interview Christopher Nolan did with Nathan Fielder about his show “The Curse” — explaining his creative process — really comes through in Holmes film:
▫️setting the tone is his top priority, even moreso than narrative (“when you have the tone right, everything falls into place”)
▫️Fielder says he “stumbles into ideas he gets excited about” without a master plan and “just piles things on and it grows” (for the Holmes doc, he had an agreement with A24 to scrap the project even after years of shooting if he didn’t think there was a film)
▫️the musical score is crucial in setting the tone (the sound doesn’t even have to match action on the scene, it can float above just setting mood)
▫️he doesn’t want to rush scenes; let them develop to the point where audience is expecting any action to be consequential and it builds the tension (inspired by old detective TV show Columbo)
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Full interview here (Nolan really is a Fielder Stan): youtu.be/etoG2I6gaHE?si=SPNz…
Halfway through YCSE Elizabeth’s Dad basically gives the plainest and most succinct answer to the whole film but then he quickly clams up the rest of the film because of how mad Billy gets.
You Can See Everything feels like a seminal moment in documentary film, easily one of the best theater experiences I’ve had in years. Compelling, sad, funny, meta and no easy answers…it’s everything any film, regardless of genre, hopes to be and more.
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Is it time to nationalize Starlink? No CEO should have the power to make strategic wartime decisions like this that could cost our allies their lives.
No matter how many hundreds of millions he donated to the President.
Unconscionable if true. Need confirmation, as this would mean Musk essentially was directly responsible for deaths of Ukrainians. No laughing matter. Obviously a response from the company is required. Suspicions in Kyiv running high after US threats to withhold intel (which we apparently have not done, it is still flowing). This, though, is a twist. So an investigation is in order, need to get this right. Was starlink purposefully restricted? Was this at the request of the US side? Musk needs to respond to all of this. Congress and the media needs to demand answers. Gang of 8 should request a briefing from CIA and DoD asap.
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Robert De Niro: “They can’t get support from the voters, so what do they do? They try to take our votes away. Keep your fucking hands off our vote. When that coward, that fucking piece of shit Donald Trump tries to take our voice and power away, what do we tell him? Keep your fucking hands off our vote”
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Guillermo del Toro: “Be very angry about how the world is being fucked, how your craft is being pulled away from you, how people are trying to move you away from the arts and tell you they’re not important. Be angry that things are being controlled by socially barely functional people that have a lot of money. Be angry about something. Be enraged about something” (Video: anakinspadawan / TikTok)
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Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas2
Cowards, go full mask off and name it Skynet
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Seeing #GodzillaMinusZero being compared to T2, The Dark Knight and The Godfather Pt 2 holy fuuuuuuuuck
