One of the great pleasures of watching the entire James Bond series and their associated publicity materials is 50 years of actresses gamely telling interviewers they are playing “a new type of Bond girl.” Now we get a new type of Bond!

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s going to be really different’

‘We are being really, really methodical,’ Bond producer said of finding next 007

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Co-sign on food, I lived in Italy in 1994–1995 and my experience of history since then has been slowly watching those ingredients arrive in America. Also home theater!

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 23h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

At least part of it is available here www.criterion.com/current/post...

Matthew Dessem@matthewdessem.bsky.social · yesterday

If you have the Criterion “His Girl Friday,” you should watch the special feature about the restoration of “The Front Page” even if you don’t care about watching “The Front Page” because it is genuinely uncanny.

If you have the Criterion “His Girl Friday,” you should watch the special feature about the restoration of “The Front Page” even if you don’t care about watching “The Front Page” because it is genuinely uncanny.

Today marks a very special day in science fiction literature. May I present to you, "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury:

Today is a good day to read Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains,” but it is *not* the date featured in the original story. That was April 28, 1985. A few months later it was republished as a chapter of The Martian Chronicles with the date changed to fit the book’s timeline.

The Front Page is nowhere near as good as His Girl Friday for 99% of its runtime but somehow its closing gag is better.

There should be Criterion editions of Aftersun and The Zone of Interest. Thank you!

The adjudication committee is, unfortunately, correct. Charlotte knew the rules!

Tom Gauld@tomgauld.bsky.social · 3d ago

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Finally got around to watching Aftersun on Blu-Ray—I think I saw it streaming on HBO before?—and it is as great as I remembered but it looks and sounds maybe ten times better than I remembered. Also an extremely precise period piece without making a big deal of it. A perfect movie.

The Louvin Brothers are ridiculous for all kinds of reasons but those harmonies redeem the whole operation.

Paramount+ should stripmine the catalogue for more IP. We need a BLACK SUNDAY series where every week a deranged Goodyear blimp pilot tries to kill everyone at a different sporting event

If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.

Are the “Make it Make Sense“ talking heads better known for other work or something? I understand what is happening with 60 Minutes taking a flyer on people like Douthat who are not camera-ready but have familiar names; I don’t understand what WaPo is doing at all.

Rogue AI Agent Autonomously Carries Out Cyberattack https://theonion.com/rogue-ai-agent-autonomously-carries-out-cyberattack/

CHEERS! to the photo editor who illustrated a story about the bad optics of Anthropic scanning and pulping rare books with a rare book about optics! JEERS to AI companies and their destructive book-scanning projects!

They blew up the chicken man in Philly on Sunday, March 15, 1981. So the guy singing “Atlantic City” wants his girl to get all dolled up to go to Atlantic City on a Monday night, between the Sunday casino buffets and St. Patrick’s Day events the next day. The only live entertainment I could find:

It turns out the chicken man was a real guy, Philip Testa, with a real house, 2117 W. Porter St, Philadelphia, PA, which they really blew up on March 15, 1981.

Matthew Dessem@matthewdessem.bsky.social · last wk.

Did they mean to blow up the chicken man’s house too or was it just collateral damage from blowing up the chicken man? How big an operation was this?

Did they mean to blow up the chicken man’s house too or was it just collateral damage from blowing up the chicken man? How big an operation was this?

There is one and only one qualification needed to be a film critic: Leave behind a series of newspaper clippings suitable for an Act II ”the mystery deepens” microfiche montage. Everything else is just product reviews.

It’s Stanley Kubrick’s birthday today, what is YOUR favorite Kubrick classic? 🎥

No reflections of the actors in this shot, one of my favorite uncanny bits of blocking anyone ever pulled off.

Criterion Channel@criterionchannl.bsky.social · 2w ago

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Andrzej Żuławski's POSSESSION, starring the late and beloved Sam Neill in one of his most unforgettable performances alongside a haunting Isabelle Adjani. Žuławski's stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other.

Recently watched “Interview With the Vampire,” with its horrible Guns N’ Roses cover of “Sympathy for the Devil,” and just watched “Fallen,” which ends with the Stones’ version sounding *terrible* (Netflix compression? 1998 surround? Dunno!) so now I’m rolling the original. Good song, unadulterated.

The best part of this image is the implication that Nolan would give a shit about any of this. He won!

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 2w ago

New levels of crashing out are being witnessed

If Alamo had announced a “no service inside theatres” approach to the ArcLight space they would have instantly become the conquering exhibition heroes of Los Angeles for the next several years. Instead they just created a massive opportunity for everyone to talk about how annoying they are

If you really want your moviegoing to have that analog magic, that inimitable sense of light passing through celluloid, of imperfections and flaws and battle scars and history inscribed into each and every print, you gotta start watching those 9.5mm prints where the sprocket hole is between frames.

Here’s something I wrote for The Dissolve about premium exhibition formats back in 2013, when the Chinese Theatre took out its film projectors for digital IMAX. Photochemical film was not as dead as it seemed then, but movie theaters have always been one format gimmick after another.

Film distributors hyping new exhibition formats, from Fox Grandeur on down, is not “fetishization,” it’s just part of the carny atmosphere of the movie business (and entertainment in general). There is no shame in being a popcorn salesman unless you keep insisting you’re a priest.