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Back in my highly specific niche of writing boutique blu-ray extras about midcentury Italian cinema, you say? Catch me in this boxset on the wonderful road movie Il Sorpasso.

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Radiance Films

@FilmsRadiance

COMMEDIA ALL’ITALIANA is three biting satires starring Italy’s finest comedic actors Vittorio Gassman and Alberto Sordi director by master filmmaker Dino Risi

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Ben Crew

@BenjaminCrew1

Casablanca works so well because it's about a love triangle but there's also a 4th guy who would sleep with everyone in that love triangle and he is constantly saying some of the greatest lines in movie history.

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✨Imminently going to be a North London girly ✨

My goodness, an embarrassment of riches

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Reel Updates

@worldofreel

Martin Scorsese’s KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON will be screening at Cannes on May 20th at 7pm. It will be followed, that same night, by Todd Haynes’ MAY/DECEMBER at 11pm. tinyurl.com/33jcr32f

Paul Ridd

@PaulRidd

Nothing but cinema all night Sat 17th June

@CentralPictureH

. Seven screens. Seven programmes. New poster!

Jessica Kiang

@jessicakiang

My take on Twitter today: there is nothing to say about the coronation that is funny or scathing enough to warrant mentioning the coronation.

Love this film

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Film Forum

@FilmForumNYC

Five layabouts linger in a post adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure & escape from their sleepy seacoast town in Fellini’s I VITELLONI. Starring Alberto Sordi, Franco Interlenghi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, & Riccardo Fellini. Now playing: bit.ly/3NmgwJX

Florida Passes Bill Allowing Trans Kids to Be Taken From Their Families

Florida once again being the absolute worst:

newrepublic.com

Florida Republicans have sent the kidnapping bill to Ron DeSantis to sign.

Alice Duggan

@Aleece_Naomi

Scalarama Leeds and 9 others

✨Please share! ✨ Scalarama Leeds has places available to programme during our DIY festival. Paid flat fre (£150), and venue cost and film license covered by us! Application & Guidelines here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI Deadline 31st May 2023

Accidentally Barbiecore

Genuinely tempted to un-retire this fit for Cannes again this year

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Jun 3, 2022

‘Honey I love you, you’re a terrific girl, but you have clothes like a fuckin’ dickhead.’

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Notebook

@NotebookMUBI

A 20-minute film by Jean-Luc Godard, TRAILER OF THE FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: "PHONY WARS," will screen as part of the #Cannes2023 Cannes Classics program. festival-cannes.com/en/press/press

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Boxing History

@BoxingHistory

Jack Johnson, "The Galveston Giant," the first ever Black heavyweight champion, dressed to the nines.

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It’s only a short, but I would like very much to write about this 🫡

I caught 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her last weekend at

@closeupcentre

and have never been so convinced that JLG has been prodding at the same obsessions with a (impressive, cinematic) stick since then. Especially with this description of the new one:

Oh my god. Godard’s final film, Phony Wars, is premiering at Cannes. How fitting and also how emotional !

Amelia Tait

@ameliargh

The Blue Caftan is a tender gay love story full of beauty

I just accidentally uploaded this instead of my invoice on a company's invoicing portal and I can't delete it

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+ on lovely Moroccan film The Blue Caftan:

inews.co.uk

This movie is wonderfully emblematic of both the pains and the joys of building something to last

On latest MCU installment, for

@theipaper

. I actually had a pretty good time:

inews.co.uk

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is a surprisingly harrowing final instalment

This is an unusual finale to one of the most knowingly silly and pointedly adorable franchises in the MCU

Manuela Lazić

@ManiLazic

May 4

Enjoying this section of Paco Rabanne’s wiki page titled “eccentricities”

Paul Ridd

@PaulRidd

May 4

Proud to have programmed two of these. First up, there's the 'Cinema Speculation' screen, comprising five films featured in Quentin Tarantino's wonderful book: THE GETAWAY, TAXI DRIVER, DELIVERANCE, ROLLING THUNDER & DIRTY HARRY. All bangers. All the time. picturehouses.com/movie-details/

From Bond to Heroes: what was affected by the 2007 writers’ strike?

Charles Bramesco

@intothecrevasse

May 4

With the WGA on strike, I wrote about the last time this all happened, and how everyone loses when corporations refuse to look past their own greed:

theguardian.com

As WGA members put their pens down again, a look back on the last industry-shifting strike

I know it’s a nasty body shot, but all the real legendary battles come from fighters who kept it moving. A small sign the kid ain’t got enough scrap in him, imo.

Canelo agrees with me, Garcia shoulda got up

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Michael Benson

@MichaelBensonn

Canelo Alvarez on Gervonta Davis KO7 Ryan Garcia: “Good fight. I thought it was gonna be a little more action, but Gervonta's too good. That [body shot] hurts a lot, but we are fighters, we need to get up.” [@FightHubTV]

Steve Bunce

@bigdaddybunce

Blood, beers and tears: What to expect from Canelo’s homecoming

In Mexico right now for the Canelo homecoming - the scene is set:

independent.co.uk

The undisputed super-middleweight champion defends his belts against John Ryder in Guadalajara – 12 years after last fighting in Mexico

Get these two a Cartoon Network show, stat

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h a r r i e t h a l l

@Harri_Grace

Most people’s dogs at daycare: looking cute, playing, napping, generally behaving normally. Mine:

Radiance Films

@FilmsRadiance

*NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS* We are delighted to present two new releases, a Hong Kong heroic bloodshed classic and three comedies from the misunderstood commedia all’italiana. radiancefilms.co.uk for full details

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Paul Ridd

@PaulRidd

Sundance London to Close With ‘You Hurt My Feelings,’ Feature Gregg Araki Retrospective (EXCLUSIVE)

Thrilled with the line-up for this year's #SundanceLondon at

@CentralPictureH

. A pleasure to work with the PH &

@sundancefest

crews on this. Particularly psyched for special guest Gregg Araki, THE DOOM GENERATION remaster + mini retrospective. Cinema!

variety.com

The Sundance Film Festival: London 2023 will close with the U.K. premiere of Nicole Holofcener's 'You Hurt My Feelings.'

lauren o'neill

@hiyalauren

The original megafan has shaped pop culture since the 1970s – but our ideas of sex, power and fame have radically changed. Is her legacy still alive?

I really really loved writing this

@NewStatesman

piece on the somewhat mythical figure of the groupie: who she was, how she impacted rock music, and whether – in her popular conception, anyway – she actually really ever existed ✨

newstatesman.com

The death of the groupie

Well this is exciting

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Festival de Cannes

@Festival_Cannes

Michael Douglas, Honorary Palme d'or of the 76th Festival de Cannes

The Festival de Cannes will pay a tribute to the American actor during the Opening Ceremony on Tuesday, May 16 saluting his brilliant career and his engagement for cinema #Cannes2023 ► bit.ly/3p1NGER

Michael Douglas © Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images

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Jason Schreier

@jasonschreier

Very silly that Hollywood thinks it can outlast a Writers Guild strike when Zelda comes out next week

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TV’s Streaming Bubble Has Burst, a Writers Strike Looms, and “Everybody Is Freaking Out”

Joy Press

@Joypress

May 1

“Everyone in the industry is freaking out": on the eve of a potential writers strike,

@natjarv

& I talked to dozens of Hollywood insiders about the current streaming TV mess

vanityfair.com

Billions in losses. Sweeping layoffs. The party’s over, and Hollywood is waking up with a splitting headache.

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The New York Times

@nytimes

May 1

Breaking News: Vice, the brash digital-media disrupter that has struggled to find a buyer, is preparing to file for bankruptcy, according to two people. nyti.ms/3HtKW9s

‘It’s Jared Leto’ is never a good surprise, let’s be real

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Marlow Stern

@MarlowNYC

May 1

this is such a bad surprise

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Phillip Iscove

@pmiscove

Let it be know that the #wga proposed: "Regulate use of artificial intelligence on MBA- covered projects: AI can’t write or rewrite literary material; can’t be used as source material; and MBA-covered material can’t be used to train AI." and the studios rejected the proposal.

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Lee Jameson

@Lee_Jameson

Writers Guild of America West

From Charlie Kaufman’s WGA speech: “We are trained to believe that what we do is secondary to what they do…they’ve tricked us into thinking we can’t do it without them. The truth is they can’t do anything of value without us”

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@WGAWest

The Board of Directors of the @WGAwest and the Council of the @WGAeast, acting upon the authority granted to them by their memberships, have voted unanimously to call a strike, effective 12:01 AM, Tuesday, May 2.

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Film Updates

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