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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5h

Here's Diane Keaton at Warren Beatty's AFI tribute, talking about a perfect (no exaggeration) scene in Reds--taking the mystique out of filmmaking and then putting it right back in, in just two minutes. She was exquisite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_RS...

Diane Keaton on making REDS with Warren Beatty

YouTube video by American Film Institute

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 18h

The movie theater was the work of an art collective that tries to reinvigorate historic spaces. One of its members now makes his living overseeing a giant clock that they restored without government permission

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 18h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll never forgive him for cat on a hot tin roof.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

Yes and stuhlbarg was in a show at the Atlantic (where Ethan’s plays are often performed) like two years before a serious man came out. Was also on broadway in the pillowman and played hamlet in the park.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

They’re theater nerds is i think the answer

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s kinda bummer that she ended up in the taupe prison of Nancy Myers‘s filmography but even in those movies she shines!

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

Few actors exemplify the delightful wildness and mess that was the hallmark of Meisner technique better than Diane Keaton. What an incredible actor and career. impossible to imagine Reds, Godfather II, or Annie Hall, three of the best American films of the new Hollywood era, without her. RIP!

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

Life is a roguelike
I wanna die
and improve incrementally
All night long

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 1d

Foreigner's first album was titled "Ennh! Excuse please! Can you tell me where is to find the, eh, station of buses?"

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

also like succession, the wire and deadwood were relatively low rated shows obsessively covered and championed by the media.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

i Can’t remember the last time anyone who wasn’t a tv critic while it was on mentioned deadwood. My students don’t know what the wire is, and my friends In their 30s mostly havent seen it.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

The show was definitely over-covered, I’m not disputing that.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

actors need to work, and pay right now across the board is very bad.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

… as someone who works at least part time in theater, I am not ready to concede that artistic worth and discourse longevity are the same thing. i mean… all my studenys watch friends, are we really going to say that friends is a more meaningful / important / good show than succession?

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

i feel a couple ways about this… first off, whether people talk about game of thrones specifically, lots of its images, lines, ideas, plot points etc have entered our collective imagination and language. And 2…

John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · 1d

nobody really talks about Succession anymore. or Game of Thrones. sort of confirms my thesis that, with rare exceptions, television does not really matter.

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Adam B. Vary @adambvary.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I was surprised that Deadline claims it asked questions that were actually asked by me and other journalists at this James Gunn press conference. No one from Deadline even *submitted questions* for it (and I know, because I moderated). This is just brazen and sad.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

I’m also not sure if it’s possible to assert that a writer whose work you’ve only read in translation has “beautiful” prose. Ex: the only Han Kang book I’ve really liked is The Vegetarian, and apparently its translation is very inaccurate. The more faithful translations are… much more boring!

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

This is admittedly a pet peev of mine but if we are going to describe writing as beautiful as part of an argument we are making, we must describe what makes it beautiful. There is no such thing as objectively beautiful writing.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not that he can’t do comedy (DDL is frequently hilarious) it’s that he doesn’t appear in comedies very often, which is too bad.

Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 2d

in TWBB he has machine-tooled comic timing and S-tier face-pulling. whoever is saying he can’t do comedy is picking your pocket

Aaron Hammond @aaronhammond88.bsky.social · 2d

Could not disagree more with the Big Picture folks on their assessment that Daniel Day-Lewis “can’t possibly do comedy.” He’s fucking hilarious in ROOM WITH A VIEW *and* THERE WILL BE BLOOD! I feel like I’m going insane.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

I mean sure it’s one of the better looking borderline unwatchable films out there

Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing says “America First” like letting a foreign power set up a military base in Idaho.

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Hegseth says US will host Qatari air force facility in Idaho

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday the U.S. will host a new Qatari air force facility in Idaho, where pilots will train to fly F-15s. Hegseth said the Trump administration has signed …

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

All the Americans in this film are doing terrible English accents and then Natasha Richardson is doing a terrible American one?

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

Really tough to spot the uncredited Stoppard rewrite too. there isn’t an ounce of intelligence in this screenplay.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

Watching sleepy hollow with my kid. Terrible film but it looks like citizen Kane compared to much of Burton’s work after.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

i mean she made a propaganda film with the secret cooperation of the cia so…

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