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bts footage from ‘Blue Velvet’ (1986)

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In Fight Club, Tyler Durden secretly appears in single-frame flashes before the Narrator ever meets him. One of these blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments shows Tyler disguised as a hotel waiter—a detail most viewers never notice on their first watch.

Your subconscious already met Tyler Durden before the Narrator did.

In Fight Club (1999), director David Fincher deliberately inserted four subliminal flashes of Tyler Durden before the character is formally introduced. Each appearance lasts just a single frame—about 1/24th of a second—placing it near the threshold of conscious perception. The effect was designed to make audiences feel that something was off without immediately understanding why, reflecting the Narrator’s own fractured state of mind.

One of these hidden appearances shows Tyler briefly standing in the background of a hotel scene as a waiter, visible only for an instant. Most moviegoers never noticed the flashes in theaters, and it wasn’t until home video made frame-by-frame viewing possible that fans were able to track down all four of Tyler’s secret appearances.

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Betsy Russell in "Avenging Angel" (1985)

Godard: “All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.”

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It's insane to think just one guy (@ShingoTamagawa) spent 3 years on this 2min masterpiece while big studios with 30 people can't even make a single good episode in 6 years

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X-Men: Evolution (2001) /
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999)

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The Fall (2006) was filmed across 28 countries over four years, with director Tarsem Singh insisting the film contains no CGI. Despite its dreamlike imagery, every scene was shot in real locations with practical effects, using computers only for image correction.

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Hayao Miyazaki's reaction when a team of developers showed him a demonstration of using generative Al for animation:

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Bob Fosse’s performance in the 1974 film The Little Prince had a massive influence on Michael Jackson.

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Akira (1988), Katsuhiro Otomo’s cyberpunk masterpiece, has shaped animation for nearly four decades.

Here’s a compilation of every time the iconic “Kaneda slide” has shown up across films and animated series.

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Joaquin Phoenix never breaks character. 😅

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David Cronenberg's "Crash" (1996) won the "Special Jury Prize" award at the Cannes Film Festival. It was said that some people in the jury didn't support such recognition. Francis Ford Coppola, the Jury president that year, described the film as "original, daring and audacious".

According to David Cronenberg, it was Francis Ford Coppola who was totally against the movie. Cronenberg believed that the award was the attempt of the other Jury members to get around the negativity of Coppola, since they had the power to present such award without the president's approval.

Coppola did not hand over the award to Cronenberg. He made other Jury members to do it. Cronenberg didn't like it and felt it wasn't gracious.

Whenever Cronenberg met Coppola after the festival, Coppola would always say, “Remember, we gave you this award.” Cronenberg swore to himself that the next time Coppola said that, he would remind Coppola that he was not amongst those who wanted to give the award.

("Q-and-A: David Cronenberg reflects on ‘Crash’ and the future of COVID filmmaking", David Friend, Toronto City News, 2020)

P.S: On this day, 30 years ago, "Crash" (1996) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.

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David Lynch at Cannes in 2001, during the 'Mulholland Drive' press conference, talking about the importance of sound in cinema.

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For fans of outre cinema, any one of these will satisfy their want of the bizarre. Here are 10 very odd films that came out in the 2010s: https://t.co/qKNWZctGMf

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Martin Scorsese talks about the brilliance of STANLEY KUBRICK.

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@historyinmemes 13-year-old Magnus Carlsen gets bored against the Chess Legend Kasparov in 2004

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All movie references in Chainsaw man movie "Iris out" opening

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Martin Scorsese on the differences between 'Casino' (1995), "Goodfellas" (1990), 'The Godfather' movies & "Scarface" (1932 & 1983):

"I know that people who deal with traditional dramatic structures get very upset by 'Casino' (1995) and 'Goodfellas' (1990). They don’t like the breaking up of traditional dramaturgy. I’m talking about people I admire greatly, like Gore Vidal. We worked on a script together after I did 'Goodfellas', and he was quite firm about not liking the film. He was head of the jury that year in Venice, and he gave the Grand Prize to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead because of its use of language. Sure, you listen to 'Goodfellas' and every other word is ‘f**k’. There are grunts; there’s no dialogue.

It’s like “Stop!’, ‘Go!’ — that’s all. But it’s all attitude. I also read a capsule review by Pauline Kael, who in a sense made me critically in America in the early 1970s with 'Mean Streets' (1973) and 'Taxi Driver' (1976). She really liked those movies. But she didn’t like 'Raging Bull' (1980). To this day I have never read her review. I felt disappointed, like a child that needed encouragement.

As you get older, I don’t know if it gets worse or better. In her review of 'Goodfellas' she said, ‘It’s like 'Scarface' without Scar- face.’ She says that’s why it’s not a great film. I don’t know if it’s great — but I do know that it’s as honest as we can be about a lifestyle, about what it’s like to live in that life. That’s what 'Casino' is. I wasn’t trying to make a 'Scarface'; it’s one of my favourite movies — the Howard Hawks version — though it’s marred by very poor depiction of Italian-Americans.

The scenes with the mother are just embarrassing. It’s also marred by the overacting of Paul Muni. The real acting comes from George Raft. I was looking at it from a point of view of 1950s America, when the acting was so different: Marlon Brando had suddenly burst on to the scene, together with James Dean and Montgomery Clift. A look was enough, inarticulacy became something that was expressive of the time after World War Two, expressive of the younger generation.

Culture was changing- bigger cars, bigger things, wide-screen movies. There was a lot going on, and the people who expressed it for us were Brando, Clift and Dean. I have that criticism of Paul Muni’s performance because I’m looking at it from thirty years later, from what I judged to be the right way to act — which is like a documentary. I like documentaries. 'Goodfellas' is like a documentary, and so is 'Casino'. That’s the difference with the Godfather films — which I really like- because they are like mythological epics. They are beautiful films, particularly 'Godfather II' (1974). De Palma’s 'Scarface' is spectacle with a great ironic sense of humour; it’s outrageous, provoking cinema. 'Goodfellas' and 'Casino' are, if anything, like documentaries. But in 'Casino', we have main characters who really go through something. In 'Goodfellas' Henry Hill is like a guide through Dante’s Inferno — and he barely escapes by the end. He is annoyed that he has to escape!"

(Martin Scorsese's interview with Thierry Jousse & Nicolas Saada, 1995)

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Sad News. Terence Stamp has passed away (RIP)

Any fans or favourite roles?

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The good old days 😌

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Non-negotiable I’m afraid