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Zach Schonfeld

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Freelance writer and editor. Contributor to Pitchfork, Paste, Vulture, etc. Author of new book "How Coppola Became Cage." Still sitting in a room. Email: [email protected].

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · Nov 17

My book is finally out now. I spent three years researching Nicolas Cage's early years, studying his formative performances, and interviewing more than 120 people who worked with him and shared untold stories with me. I hope you find it interesting.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2h

You would've seemed like a crazy alarmist a year ago if you predicted that Trump 2.0 would brazenly abuse the courts to get revenge on his enemies and send the National Guard into Portland and Chicago, right

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 6h

Went to see One Battle After Another again and I had some thoughts about how Jonny Greenwood's incredible score shifts and mutates with each distinct section of the film

A ★★★★½ review of One Battle After Another (2025)

Watching this a second time—in IMAX 70mm this time, for which I booked it to AMC Lincoln Square before 9 a.m. on a Sunday—I was captivated by how the musical score shifts and mutates with each distinc...

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote about the 90th anniversary of Bride of Frankenstein, a film that's one of the last gasps of both an era of horror and of Universal Pictures. It's a gorgeous, tragic story of a world populated by "gods and monsters." www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

90 Years Later, The Most Important Sci-Fi Horror Sequel Ever Just Got A Huge Upgrade

For its 90th anniversary, the iconic horror sequel 'The Bride of Frankenstein' just got a 4K upgrade.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 11h

Happy birthday to PJ Harvey. Here's some incredible footage of her performing at a festival in Germany in 1998

PJ Harvey - Bizarre Festival 1998 [partial concert]

YouTube video by 90`s Live Archive

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 1d

no no, that's the Connecticut-based jam band Juice

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 1d

Confusing and upsetting everyone at the party by insisting that her name is pronounced "Lucy Da-COOS"

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 1d

to be fair, I don't know if he was a right-winger back then but he definitely is now.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 1d

Skill issue. PJ Harvey fell in love with a right-wing freak and then made Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

Is Taylor Swift Too Happy to Make Good Music? by Tyler Foggatt

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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 3d

CBS News has been renamed Passion of the Weiss

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2d

Some of us have been meaning to read Upton Sinclair's "Oil!" since 2007

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2d

A man who witnessed the Lincoln assassination lived until 1956 and could have theoretically listened to the first album by Harry Belafonte, who in turn lived long enough to hear "WAP"

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2d

My "Kaputt-core" essay has migrated to a new link. Here's the working link for perpetuity:

Kaputt-core

Zach Schonfeld on the Toronto indie scene that's making smooth-jazz sound radical.

www.magazine.dirt.fyi

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2d

Try this link: www.magazine.dirt.fyi/p/kaputt-core

Kaputt-core

Zach Schonfeld on the Toronto indie scene that's making smooth-jazz sound radical.

www.magazine.dirt.fyi

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 2d

You're telling me Josh Safdie made a movie about a ping-pong champion and somehow failed to call it "One Paddle After Another"?

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 3d

I kinda disagree! There was never doubt that she'd make another album, but there used to be longer pauses between albums and more room for silence and anticipation

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 3d

Are teenagers the target audience? Taylor is 35.

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 3d

Would love her to make something as weird and polarizing as Zooropa

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 3d

Look, Prince was insanely prolific too, but he also did stuff like withdraw an album at the last minute because he had a "spiritual epiphany" that it was satanic to keep everybody guessing.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 3d

Sort of? She disappeared for a while in between 1989 and Reputation and I remember a lot of uncertainty about what she was up to and whether/how she would mount a comeback.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 3d

The thing about Taylor Swift is: there's no mystery left. She tells us everything. She releases every outtake and every alternate take. She floods the market with behind-the-scenes content. She self-mythologizes herself so much, there's no myth left for the rest of us.

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · Jul 22

Every woman in a 70s Italian film looks like a goddess sent from heaven and every man looks like they've had a year long hangover and at any moment could cough their lungs out.

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 3d

"Weiss [is] someone blissfully captured by the richest people alive, and invested in smashing the last vestiges of liberal power in this country: universities, civil servants, and the media. She has a cop's heart and a tadpole's brain."

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah. I saw Oppenheimer in the same format and it was pretty special.

Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 4d

Saw the film again today, this time in IMAX 70mm, and felt like I was levitating during the whole car chase sequence. Cinema!

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