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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Jan 28

Thinking about Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise pitch to Ethan Hawke on its 30th anniversary

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Jan 27

Cassavetes ass answer (the highest compliment)

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Jan 20

That was solid gold, buddy

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Jan 17

Mel's reaction 😭

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Jan 17

Love the Mel Brooks/David Lynch friendship so much

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Jan 17

Charles Bukowski gets cable, first thing he happens to see is Eraserhead, assumes all things on cable will be that weird and wonderful, then never enjoys another program again

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Jan 17

David Lynch runs into Steven Spielberg at a party

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Dec 27

Shakespeare must have been strutting around town like Tony Manero after inventing the word swagger

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Dec 23

They were operating at an unprecedented level of being Italian

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Dec 23

The night Scorsese screened The Last Waltz, Coppola made sauce for everyone, taping a wooden spoon to a running projector and placing it over the pot so it stirred the sauce while they were gone watching the movie. When they returned, the sauce was perfect. This is the highest level of being Italian

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Dec 10

Guy in a 1970s Sidney Lumet movie

Pop Base @popbase.tv · Dec 9

The mugshot of Luigi Mangione has been released.

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Dec 4

Love this guy's mask choice in Eyes Wide Shut, zero backstory needed, you just know this is the sickest freak fuck in the room

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Dec 4

I like that even in a Superman comic, Orson has zero fucking chill

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Dec 4

Just learned that there was a Superman comic in 1949 where the plot is Orson Welles has been abducted by Martians, but no one believes him because of War of the Worlds lol

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Dec 4

Very funny that it's one of Ratner's best movies and that it also absolutely sucks shit

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Dec 4

Just found out Matthew Yglesias makes a million dollars a year on Substack

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Nov 29

Is is once again that time of Thanksgiving night

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Nov 27

True pain

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Nov 25

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Nov 22

Laughing picturing Jack Nicholson in a movie theater watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off, just doing the Kubrick stare while everyone around him is laughing and having a good time

A New York Times excerpt from 1986 that reads: Nicholson complains about ''conglomeration'' narrowing the studio's vision. ''Do you feel like a creative person trapped in an uncreative age in the industry?'' ''Well, you know, last night I saw - what's that movie -'Ferris' something," Nicholson answers. '''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'?'' the interviewer asks. ''Well, that movie made me feel totally irrelevant to anything that any audience could want, and 119 years old," Nicholson answers. He sighs deeply and continues: ''Believe me, everyone else watching it liked it. And you know, I literally walked out of there thinking my days are numbered. These people are trying to kill me.''

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Nov 21

Every Denzel headline this promotional tour is a gift to humanity

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Nov 21

Found $20 in a jacket I haven't worn since last spring

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Nov 18

Michael Corleone is not a cool answer, but feels right

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Nov 18

Not that it was ever in play (I don't think), but Jimmy always felt like a Buscemi role to me

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John Frankensteiner @jfrankensteiner.bsky.social · Nov 18

Tarantino desperately wanting to be an actor while having the worst screen presence of all time is so much funnier every time Scorsese strolls into a role and just nonchalantly nails it

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