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The word “toolkit” is a red flag for indie film grindset grifters. If someone is selling you a toolkit - especially a “digital toolkit” - run!

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@alexL_E_I Discourse cycle can be exhausting and preemptively deflating, especially when the algorithms seem tuned to relentlessly hammer us. Gamifying movie watching on LB makes it even worse. It's liberating to accept that moviegoing is your own trip and you can do it however you want 😎

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MOTY Primate came out in January

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Too many movies coming out on the same weekend. Spread them out! They don't all have to come out in October.

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@wallsallaround Gotta juice those open rates

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If you're in the mood for some live-action Saturday afternoon cartoons, see Freaked at @RoxyCinemaNYC with an intro by Funny Pages director Owen Kline

Screening in 35mm as part of our Screaming Mad George retrospective: https://t.co/n6JHZZoAxN

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as a faithful Screen Slate reader I've come to accept NYC's place as the greatest film city despite great loyalty to L.A. where I spent my 20s, but respectfully, neither place has anything on Newark Public Library tonite, shorts on abandoned movie theaters & haunted hospitals!

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@whitstrub Wow!

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@ImUrHuckleJordy Stay safe Brother Jordy

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Recently took some measures to address bots, listings scraping, and AI training. It's been a few days and not seeing any real problems, but give me a heads up if you notice any issues accessing the site!

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Annual appreciation post for Clive Barker’s pants

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Looked through the archives and discovered that our upcoming shows of Big Trouble in Little China Nov. 3 & 4 at @RoxyCinemaNYC are the first 35mm screenings in nearly 10 years. (Last was in 2017.) Don't miss it! https://t.co/6khCdfeXWO

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They also did the restoration right. Everything I read about the careful, respectful choices they made checked out—vs the aggressive tinkering & 3D post-conversions of T2 and Pan's Labyrinth. It also outgrossed T2 and will probably overtake Pan.

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The Devils re-release doubled the box office of Digger on a fraction of the screens, and it's biggest marketing cost was allegedly the $600 billboard (which is probably not true, but...). Even with the costs of the restoration, striking prints, staff overhead, it's a big win.

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Also significant that this is not Casablanca or Singin' in the Rain, but a movie that was considered a stain on the WB's reputation. As a result I think we could more studios mining their back-catalogs for niche (by Casablanca standards) titles w prestige restoration treatments.

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@smhrbst @daniel_lefferts Please don’t expose me to hate

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20 years from now there's gonna be a "Fall of '26" series that shows Harlem, Concrete, Digger, Primetime, YCSE, NAZA, The Devils uncut, and Resident Evil, plus The Social Reckoning, which misguided young people will for some reason argue is the true misunderstood masterpiece.

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Also in The Devils lore: opening week of @SpectacleNYC in Oct. 2010 was Ken Russell's The Devils with Andrzej Żuławski's The Devil