Nicolas Pierce

Probably watching a John Ford movie.

[Filipe Furtado @filipefurtado]

On late Spielberg, his shifting critical reputation and Disclosure Day: https://t.co/dGRI5wwyN9

[Nicolas Pierce @NicolasPierce1]

@dogshit95 Sounds like he needs to work on his media literacy skills if that was his reading of OBAA

[Brandon Streussnig @BrndnStrssng]

You don't have to go see the Star Wars TV movie. That's not a thing you need to do

[Nicolas Pierce @NicolasPierce1]

@maddiewhittle Personally, I’d argue that what we’ve seen in the last year re the close relationships between various senior members of the Trump administration and various online alt-right influencers and neo-fascist weirdos makes the Christmas Adventurers sub-plot seem remarkably prescient.

[Nicolas Pierce @NicolasPierce1]

@maddiewhittle The film is very clearly expressing a political perspective: that fascism and racial hatred in America can be found lurking in fringe sub-cultures and also on full view in the militarised apparatus of the state - and that in the post-MAGA US both spheres are closely interrelated

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Frederick Wiseman changed the way we see the world.

From the classrooms of High School to the corridors of Hospital, he turned his camera on the institutions that shape us — inviting us to look closer, sit longer & confront truth with empathy. 

May his memory be a blessing.

[Adam Nayman @brofromanother]

RIP Frederick Wiseman. I used to go through TITICUT FOLLIES shot by shot with journalism students to show how documentary style can fuse objectivity and rhetoric; looking forward to reading /re-reading great pieces on an actually great filmmaker.

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

In memory and honor of Frederick Wiseman, who took hold of a still-young format and, guided from the start by an unyielding sense of principle, made a body of work so original, idea-rich, and unified that it seems foreordained—a historic fusion of investigation and the inner life

[The Film Stage 📽 @TheFilmStage]

Frederick Wiseman (1930—2026)

[David Hering @hering_david]

RIP Frederick Wiseman. Possibly the best documentary maker who ever lived. We are losing them all today…

[Nicolas Pierce @NicolasPierce1]

@NeilBahadur Delroy is a great actor, but no. Del Toro’s performance is more lived-in (and funny), Penn’s more memorably bizarre.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Yep. Brits were going to pay billions for a deal tailored to Washington’s interests.

And Trump still blew it up.

As a wise man put it: our prosperity and security can’t depend on voters in Wisconsin every 4 years.

[Capel Lofft @CapelLofft]

Trumpism doesn't even make sense on its own terms. If you want to compete with China as a cynical power-mad 'civilizational state', then you don't do that by proving a totally fickle and treacherous 'ally' whom no-one can trust from one moment to the next. China doesn't do so

[Nuanced Film Takes @BadFilmTakes1]

I think people on here really, really want One Battle After Another to be this didactic agitprop that's more of a political pamphlet than a thorny, contradictory work of art.

[Sight and Sound magazine @SightSoundmag]

Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍

[Nicolas Pierce @NicolasPierce1]

@hering_david Do you think they play the full version of The End over the opening titles, like in Apocalypse Now?

[Nicolas Pierce @NicolasPierce1]

@brofromanother On some level, you've got to love and admire the fact that Cameron's career has been one long effort to realise onscreen every goofy idea he ever had whilst stoned in college.

[Nicolas Pierce @NicolasPierce1]

@hering_david Great movie. Apparently it had a budget of 25 million dollars, which is crazy for a film of this type in 1985. All that money is onscreen though.

[Nicolas Pierce @NicolasPierce1]

@WillSloanEsq Remember revisiting Rush Hour 2 as an adult a few years back and hoo boy. Ratner really lets it all hang out in that one.

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

RIP Udo Kier, one of the all time great oddball character actors who always brought something wolfish and perverted to every role.