Corey Atad

Freelance writer @DefectorMedia, @thebafflermag, @esquire, Air Bud admirer. [email protected]. subscribe at

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a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich https://t.co/dJN7Bi2rUW

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@DanielGorman20 i gotta get that Anderson book

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the saga continues

[alison foreman @alfaforeman]

The Bruin Theatre reopened on Friday with “Wildwood.”

Now Laika and Fathom say they’ve taken legal action to stop the screenings, citing concerns about operator Rui Pereira.

The film was still playing as of Sunday afternoon. My latest for @indiewire: https://t.co/dvpC2bGhNr

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@perpetua the documentary calls attention to and exposes elements of its own artifice, but i think some people are taking the implications of that too far. all documentaries are constructed, and this one's no different in that sense.

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folks got a little too invested in the "you can't believe anything you see" aspects of You Can See Everything and have mistakenly convinced themselves it's a fiction film with no attempt at journalism in classic documentary fashion

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@alexamargorian okay but i kinda want that

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when someone tells you they're a mark

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I think they needed a woman or two in the crew. Elizabeth was postpartum, still nursing, tears swimming in her eyes because she was days away from missing a huge part of her kids’ childhoods. She was in a state of complete ego loss.

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@JoyceCarolOates Joyce, have you seen the wonderful film Blue Heron from this year?

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@rob_rubsam Rob, i don't think my substack is *that* popular or influential

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@KyleAnderson99 and now we, as an audience, know that fact, and that they chose not to profit in the end, and we are able to judge and/or speculate accordingly. this is how journalistic disclosure works.

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@redvineski @SophyRomvari @misterminsoo Dumb and Dumber should’ve won Best Picture (not a joke)

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@KyleAnderson99 because they no longer have a financial stake in it

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@RVoronaCote and in fairness, quite the d

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@almostflmcritic i don't give movies ratings

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@eroscestlavie_x yeah, i've gotten to a place with this one where i see it as a documentary about a situation these filmmakers got themselves in, which could be a whole category of documentary with a long tradition. just not usually so meta. but sometimes even more meta!

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as with anything like this, there can't be hard and fast rules; different documentaries have different aims, and thus demand different standards

what *is* true is that believing documentary subjects should never be paid is outdated and similarly too absolute

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the thing about the "should Evans and Holmes have gotten paid?" issue is that, in fact, the studio and filmmakers agreed to pay them!

real question is, why were they so uncomfortable with that arrangement (i think the answer is in the scene where Billy shuts down an interview)

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many people have already accused Fielder and Oppenheim of basically being duped by Holmes and Evans into doing a reality show publicizing them (something the filmmakers clearly do *not* want to do), could you imagine if it also came out those two were sharing in the profits?

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@eroscestlavie_x i think there are some people who've gotten into their mind that the message of the film is it's all fundamentally fiction. i don't think that's right. now, what *kind* of documentary is it, and what is its real subject? very open questions imo

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@KyleAnderson99 when it's all disclosed like it is in the film, then yes, yes it does, very definitely

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@metaplexmovies and actually to run with this a bit, consider that this is the first of Fielder's "reality" works to not have narration, but he still manages to narrate in the second half via intercutting (how Nolan-y, btw). it's deconstruction to reconstruct.

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@metaplexmovies they also literally do reenactments, but then so have documentarians from time. the film opens these questions up about itself, but it's still doing the thing. Blaine still sticks an ice pick through his hand.