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Matt Prigge

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Senior Editor at The Week plus NYU prof. Bylines: Village Voice (rip), Uproxx, Vulture, Guardian, Metro (rip), Philly Weekly. mattprigge at gmail dot com https://www.mattprigge.com

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 14h

One of her finest line readings

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 21h

Easily my favorite celebrity encounter ever. RIP to a queen

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 22h

Shout-out to the apparent relatives of Jo Ann Harris who rolled out for Don Siegel's The Beguiled last night at Metrograph, who hooted when her name came up, and also to the dude who then shouted "Your grandma's hot!"

Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 2d

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: I don’t like weighing in on movies in terms of topicality or personal shit, but I and a number of people I know and love have been going through some shit from several angles at once, so this kind of got to me. I also laughed my ass off

Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 5d

Fond memories of watching Ken Jacob’s’ Star Spangled to Death over a winter break, watching it in fits when I could, lugging the discs around like Charlie Brown in that special where has to read War and Peace. RIP to one of the masters

Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 11d

Watching The Great Waldo Pepper, which isn’t great though it’s much better than its non-reputation, but it has *genuinely* jaw-dropping aerial footage with Redford and Bo Svenson cruising around in vintage aircraft while endangering their lives to entertain. Impressive!

Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 15d

How did I not know that there’s a 1985 TV movie called John & Yoko in which Peter Capaldi plays George Harrison

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 19d

Watching The Way We Were for the first time and Young James Woods as a Marxist student protester who gets cucked at a university dance by Redford is simply beautiful stuff

Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 25d

I met Robert Redford twice. Once I was thrown into a room with him and Cate Blanchett, and when they both turned to look at me for my first question I somehow managed to speak. I have nothing original to say about him except he was incredibly kind and lovely and rest in peace man

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 25d

From Hyde and Go Tweet, in which the usually more conservative Friz Freleng briefly leans into Tex Avery/Bob Clampett territory

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Sep 8

Things funnier than the “Surrender Dorothy” story from Martin Scorsese and Joseph Minion’s After Hours:

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Sep 2

I had one of my shittest ever summers — underwent emergency spinal surgery, doctors forbade me from cycling and even fucking swimming, was in lots of orthopedic pain, foot and leg torn up by an uncomfortable brace — but it did end with me seeing Oasis, and goddamn

Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m “only” between 15 and 20, though possibly more

Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Aug 28

Still trying to score cheapish Oasis tickets for this weekend. In the meantime enjoying this presumably complete list of songs of theirs that feature “sun,” “shine," "shining," and/or "soul" www.tumblr.com/playmixt/978...

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💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 6 · Preposterous list of Oasis songs which use the words "sun," "shine," "shining," and/or "soul" · Use of the words 'sun, shine, shining, sunshine and 'soul' in Oasis songs, 1994-2008…

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Aug 27

Sold!

Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Aug 26

One of the tightest sections of my bookshelves, all heaters

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Aug 20

Per J. Hoberman’s Everything is Now, I’ve learned that city activist Jane Jacobs wrote this song with Bob Dylan to protest Robert Moses’ thankfully aborted highway that would have destroyed the Village — a detail not included in The Power Broker m.youtube.com/watch?v=9c09...

Listen, Robert Moses! (By Bob Dylan and Jane Jacobs)

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Aug 16

I almost cried when after an hour of digital Highest 2 Lowest abruptly switched to 16

Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Aug 8

Been informed that I’m not allowed to get on my beloved bicycle till at least the end of August because of my Emergency Spinal Surgery from earlier this summer, but when I finally do, after two maddening months, I’ll look like this

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Aug 3

An excellent frame from Naked Gun 2 1/2

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Jul 21

Finally some good news: I wrote an essay about Neil Jordan for his once-hated, actually interesting escaped con priest movie We’re No Angels for its new blu-ray release by Cinématographe

Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Jul 3

Good movie

Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Jul 3

Do you mean the dolly around Valli as Jourdan enters the courtroom behind her?

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Jul 3

I’ve never seen Andy Tennant’s Hitch!

Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · Jul 3

Crossing off my biggest unseen Hitch. Hitch and most everyone had a miserable time making it, Gregory Peck said it was the only picture he made that he’d like to have seen burned, its rep has long been that it’s the rare boring Hitchcock. How bad could it be?

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