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Keith Calder

@keithcalder.com

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Film and TV producer. Internet oldie. Credits: It Ends, One Night In Miami…, Blindspotting (film and tv), Anomalisa, The Guest, The Wackness, You're Next, and more at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2096462/

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Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 8d

I will be online a lot less over the next three months. Going to take some time to rebalance my relationship with computers, smart phones, and social technology. I will still check DMs every now and then, but otherwise see you in 2026!

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 10d

"Fisk" (ABC Australia) is very very good.

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Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 10d

I love it! Gives me Stath Lets Glats vibes

Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 13d

Movies! Some absolute bangers that I’ve seen recently: One Battle After Another, Wake Up Dead Man, Sentimental Value, Sirât, The World of Love, and Left Handed Girl. I recommend all in theaters if/when they are available near you!

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Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 13d

My friends made a game to play with friends!

sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 13d

our new game, in brief! friend 1 gets a card with say ★★ on it, friend 2 pulls a ★★★★ card. then you draw a topic, maybe “animal,” and pick one (1) animal you think friend 1 would rate ★★ and friend 2 would rate ★★★★. guess right and win their card(s)! on KS soon: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

Coming soon: Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks

A play-anywhere fusion of Wavelength, Letterboxd, and Apples to Apples, for friends and strangers alike.

www.kickstarter.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15d

This is one thing giant movie studios can still do--the crazy big swing that costs a lot of money and is not tied to an algorithm or concern about "viewer retention rate at minute three"--that no other entity can. It is one reason the film ecosystem still needs them.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 18d

if you're a person who doesn't see the unalloyed good in Warner Bros spending $150 million on a loose Pynchon adaptation by Paul Thomas Anderson, we simply do not occupy the same reality

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Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 16d

A few months ago I had a chicken poutine dish at Ma Poule Mouilée in Montreal, and I have thought about it almost every day since then. One of the most delicious things I’ve ever eaten in my life. If you’re ever in Montreal, I highly recommend stopping by.

Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 16d

While I agree with you overall, I was SHOCKED when I re-watched the Cheers pilot recently and saw how much better the look is than most modern comedies (single or multi cam)

Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 17d

How wonderful! Congratulations!

Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 18d

Should I be concerned that I’m a 45-year-old white man and I don’t have a podcast?

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Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 18d

I’m hearing from high up confidential sources that the rapture DID actually occur today, but the big G decided to leave all of us grimy worms to our squirming wriggly mortal lives.

Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 19d

if the pilot was a baby no wonder the plane crashed

Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 21d

The perfect technology for a generation that seemingly refuses to age with grace.

Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 22d

Uninterrupted time.

Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 22d

I have been following the pace of development of video AI products, and I think we are a couple years away from blockbuster quality VFX trailer shots being cheaper and easier to do than a close up of a good actor doing good acting.

Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 23d

PREDATORS is coming out in a limited release this weekend! A smart, powerful, and unsettling documentary.

Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · Aug 7

Paramount have an incredible documentary called PREDATORS that they picked up at Sundance, all about the complicated legacy of To Catch A Predator. I hope it doesn’t get somehow lost or forgotten in the Skydance merger.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 24d

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

As the man who made All the
President’s Men, how did you feel
when Nixon died?

I had no remorse. I did not think he
deserved the kudos he got in death
— there was this weird revisionism
that went on. You feel for the
family. There’s some sympathy for
that. But for me it was not the
passing of a great man. He was a
man who dealt us some pretty
undignified blows. He did not
symbolize the better part of
ourselves at all.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 25d

Now more than ever, we need to support Mexican restaurants because their sheer existence is an act of resistance in these times.

Read L.A. TACO’s full list of the 43 Best Mexican Restaurants in Los Angeles, Ranked: lataco.com/best-mexican...

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Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 26d

Alien Earth is so fucking good.

Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 29d

Mine was Blindspotting.

Kevin Smokler @weegee.bsky.social · 29d

Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.

What's yours?

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · Sep 7

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone.

Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking.

[Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Sep 6

Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”

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Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · Sep 7

I loved the new Knives Out! Rian dunnit again!

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Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · Sep 1

TIL there was a film that premiered at the Venice film festival over a decade ago that hasn’t ever been reviewed or released because its standing ovation is still going.

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Gary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · Aug 30

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons.

thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

Five rescaled maps of Minnesota on a Mercator projection map, covering 1) a large part of northern Greenland, 2) a large part of northern Scandinavia, 3) a part of central Europe, 4) a region of southern India, 5) a region of southeastern Australia.

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Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · Aug 27

I'm flying back to the US this weekend, so for clarity I want to make sure everyone knows that this post contains a typo and I obviously meant to say "run on time" but I don't know how to delete posts on Bluesky.

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