Chris O'Falt

Exec Editor, Craft & Special Projects @IndieWire, IG: host @toolkitpodcast email: chris @ indiewire

[Chris O'Falt @cofalt]

I love Tarantino. He has a way of pulling you into his distinct POV (to the point maybe you even question your perspective), and then the punchline is something like ‘and the only saving grace of 2020s cinema is THE RIP.’ God bless

[Auteur House @auteurhouse]

Quentin Tarantino recently told Sight and Sound magazine that he considers the current decade the worst period for cinema he has ever experienced.

The director said that many contemporary films leave him with a sense of "contempt" for the medium and admitted that he has lately found greater pleasure in reading books than watching movies. Here is his full statement:

“I loved going to the movies. These days, however, the concept of what is a movie is more inclined to inspire contempt in me than generosity. Which is fair enough, because by comparison the movies of the last six years make the ‘80s seem like the ‘30s. I’ve seen movies I’ve liked since then — “West Side Story (2021); “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 & 2,” a few others, but nothing that really held me in its grip, and swept me away fo to the magical land of enjoyment that I used to visit and was the reason why I loved movies above all artforms. These days I’d rather read a book. However, a new movie has now come out that did grab me and held me for its entire duration: Joe Carnahan’s “The RIP,” starring the dynamic duo of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.”

[Chris O'Falt @cofalt]

Even the Knicks social/video team is in finals mode. So well done.

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

This team. This city. It's got the look. #AlwaysKnicks

[Chris O'Falt @cofalt]

@RamiofTeaneck Rami, this is incredible. Great script, Clyde’s perfect, so well put together. I’m impressed

[Film at Lincoln Center @FilmLinc]

We hereby offer Mr. Wembanyama tickets to our Sunday, June 7 screening of Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning five-and-a-half hour epic 1900 when he is in the city later this week on a work-related trip...

[Nick Newman @Nick_Newman]

Had a long, candid conversation with Lilly Wachowski about the 30th anniversary of Bound, why she considers The Matrix's poster "early versions of AI slop," and her litany of filmmaking ambitions amidst "an ecosphere where fascism can thrive." https://t.co/G4qaGPdSAT

[Chris O'Falt @cofalt]

@Pacers Stay classy, Pacers

[Nancy Rommelmann @NancyRomm]

Where you watching the Knicks games?

[Chris O'Falt @cofalt]

@ValerieComplex Right back at you. Can’t wait to hear (and I guess watch!) what you’ve been up to.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Mitchell Robinson has undergone surgery on his broken right pinky finger -- and fully plans to play in the New York Knicks' Game 1 of the NBA Finals against OKC or San Antonio next Wednesday while wearing a brace on his hand, sources tell ESPN.

[IndieWire @IndieWire]

The Best Films of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, According to IndieWire’s Critics’ Survey https://t.co/rYAongN8vN

[Chris O'Falt @cofalt]

@atrupar Crowd chanting

Jeff-rey Ep-stein
Jeff-rey Ep-stein
Jeff-rey Ep-stein

[Chris O'Falt @cofalt]

@812filmreviews Getting inside why a film does or does not work is the job.

Interpreting (guessing, really) why someone likes or dislikes a film (intelligence, gender, race, beliefs, life experience, outlet) is not only a fool’s errand, it’s a cheap ploy to avoid the actual work.

[Joshua Rothkopf @joshrothkopf]

People at the festival called FJORD complex but I disagree: It’s actually a fairly straightforward story about a religious family flung into conflict with an overly sensitive branch of child protection services. As reactionary as that sounds, I was totally rapt by it.

[Bilge Ebiri @BilgeEbiri]

Cristian Mungiu now has his second Palme d’Or, which probably means he’s about to receive an irrational amount of hate from a certain type of cinephile.

[Chris O'Falt @cofalt]

I ❤️ those films, and 2026:

Fjord, AOS, Paper Tiger, The Unknown, Clarissa, & Harlem ALL exceeded my lofty expectations.

A bad bet on Kore-eda is understandable.

Last 100 minutes of HOPE is not for me, nor awards, but there’s a wide audience that’ll eat up this ambitious film

[Chris O'Falt @cofalt]

The NEON Palme streak has turned us into moronic sports commentators.

It’s not about chasing an award from an idiosyncratic, unpredictable jury.

2025 NEON turned an incredible slate of 5 international Cannes films into awards contenders and/or surprise arthouse B.O. successes

[Chris O'Falt @cofalt]

@NBA_NewYork Oakley should be there.

[Chris O'Falt @cofalt]

@ShamsCharania With the exception of Wemby (and maybe Thompson), I’m taking Second Team > First

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is an official government account in a democracy.

This is what Orbanism looks like. The president bragging, via AI video, that he forced a comedian who mocked him off the air and ‘into the trash’.