Eric Mattina

Movies, literature, Grateful Dead, teaching, rants

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

@smhrbst I glossed over that you saw What Can't Be Mentioned. I'm glad you did! Dan is a friend of mine and I was really blue I couldn't make his premiere.

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

@smhrbst I get to see six of these in the coming days. I'm really packing them in, but still hoping to see The Dreamed Adventure encore screening, which will not budge with availability.

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

Me when I read half the Wheel of Time
novels, and then when I switched to audiobooks for the last few going “who the fuck is that?”, paging through my copy, finding that part, and going “ah yes, Plernickbocker, of course!”

[Dev Latimer @DevinRN88]

Reading a book and coming across a character's name that you don't know how to pronounce, so for the rest of the book, every time you see it, your brain just goes ‘skdjfkskakfk.’

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

NYFF (and adjacent screenings) week marathon.

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

@smhrbst On it, a block away from Walter Reade.

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

Back at it at NYFF where I’m apparently working alternating shifts with @smhrbst

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

Me from the future

[James F. Thomas (of IDLEWILD) @james_f_thomas]

at the Angelika they played a trailer for a new movie starring Juliette Binoche and when it ended, an old man’s gravelly voice reverberated through the theater: “That Juliette Binoche. She’s somethin�� else.”

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

@txsinatrafan FASCINATING release

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

The responses to this are absolutely insane

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Why must a film make money? What is this obsession with earning back its budget? Sometimes a visionary work should be allowed to exist for its own sake. This fixation with profits above all other aesthetic considerations will be the death of art.

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

Dylan’s Love & Theft album was released

[ivan pussypalmer @theantlerqueef]

what else happened in september 2001 that gets overshadowed by 9/11?? you guys ever wonder that

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

@DuncanS21 @HotshotsBurner There were reports of him struggling to remember lines for Woody Allen’s Cafe Society, and he was replaced with Steve Carell. At the time there were linkages with that and him being “difficult”, but it certainly aligns with the above.

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

WOW

[Variety @Variety]

Eva Marie Saint, 'North by Northwest' Star, Dies at 102 https://t.co/EQJP9J8Q5z

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

Not too worried about the Skydance merger as I still own hotels on Mediterranean and Baltic.

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

I really want to know how it's impossible for NYRB Classics to ever keep to a release date, sometimes by months, even over a year beyond the announced date.

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

I’ve theorized for years that lots of contemporary novelists tried to get into screenwriting, couldn’t break in, and saw this as the tactic.

[Ben Crew @BenjaminCrew1]

We are kinda in an epidemic of books that read like the instruction manual for a movie adaptation rather than an actual novel

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

1. Bob Weir
2. Bowie
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman

[Sonder 🌹 🌟 @Sonderisfon]

A celebrity death in your lifetime that hit you the hardest.

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

It's really amazing how much of a movie can get spoiled for you by 4pm on the day a movie comes out if you just scroll through Twitter enough.

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

@TheNYFF @mubi @mubiusa @FilmLinc Can tickets just release for The Dreamed Adventure on 10/10 at the exact moment where I'm available to look?

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

Ok, real talk: What's the TCM plan?

[Eric Mattina @TwoDjinnCorrina]

@GentleDoofus @ShellGameJake Clockwork really puzzled me. Same with that Warner Animation banner they had, or something similar. I couldn't figure out why they would build these active sub labels with a merger coming soon. Especially as directors were signing up with them?