Mark Dillon

Film & TV journalist Toronto and Hollywood @PlaybackOnline @AmericanCine @WGCtweet Author Fifty Sides of The Beach Boys; Co-host of

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@PhilNPPN @TheBeachBoys @ALANJARDINE @beachboyslegacy @HowieEdelson @davidleaf @BeachBoysFan59 @beachboyspod @thebeachboys2 About time somebody else said it!

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‘We Gotta Groove with Howie Edelson and James Saez - Part One’ is on #SoundCloud https://t.co/yxnlZDler9

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Today in Playback magazine I speak to leading creative tech firms Moonvalley and Runway AI about what's coming in Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI for film and TV producers. The functionality and cost-savings are staggering. https://t.co/W3yXmNrMZ5

[Film Noir UK @FilmNoirUK]

Check out the latest edition of #FilmNoir podcast Tipping My Fedora with host Sergio Angelini and guest @MarkGDillon talking about all things connected to Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly (1955): https://t.co/awnRdUaFsH

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In @AmericanCine and online, I speak to DOP Eric Steelberg, ASC and director @JasonReitman about Saturday Night, which imagines the chaos that went on in the 90 minutes before @nbcsnl first went to air in 1975. They shot on 16mm motion picture film! https://t.co/dm7s8QGmwf

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Opening today- Drive Back Home, directed by Michael Clowater. It's a road trip/family drama that makes you feel all the feels, with fine performances by Alan Cumming and Charlie Creed-Miles. Beautiful and moving. At Toronto's @ImagineCinemas Carlton. https://t.co/fByVI7kw9F

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I interviewed #Smile2 cinematographer Charlie Sarroff about the challenge of crafting a sequel that inhabits the same world as the first yet still feels fresh, creating the environment of a Gaga-esque pop star, and staging an immense concert scene. https://t.co/FOLZXZfO7c

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#Lee tells of WW2 combat photographer Lee Miller, and has modern resonances. Kate Winslet is fantastic. Cinematographer-turned-director Ellen Kuras and her DOP Pawel Edelman make us feel like we're there. In the new @AmericanCine they tell me about bringing this story to life.

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@sjurksztowicz All the best, Sophia! We look forward to your return.

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Congrats to Robert Elswit for his #Emmy win for best cinematography on @netflix's #Ripley. I got to speak with Robert for @AmericanCine while he was in Rome shooting the series, and then again after I saw a preview. My profile of his work: https://t.co/Ev31u0coL8

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RIP to the great #GenaRowlands. I took this pic at @TIFF_NET in 1996 when she was in town promoting Unhook the Stars, directed by her son, Nick Cassavetes.

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@maxxxinemov is 3rd in Ti West's X film series starring Mia Goth, in which our hero moves from adult films to mainstream Hollywood - and is stalked by a serial killer. In @AmericanCine I speak to DOP Eliot Rockett and West about making a film immersing us in the 80s. @miagothcrew

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In the July @AmericanCine I go behind the scenes on
@netflix series #ripley with Oscar-winning DOP Robert Elswit and director Steve Zaillian (screenwriter on Schindler's List) about shooting this wonderfully immersive crime drama series in beautiful black and white.

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New episode at Surf's Up: a Beach Boys Podcast Safari! I do a track-by-track smackdown between @TheBeachBoys' SMiLE and @thebeatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. (This is a longer version of a clip I recorded for the Apples & Oranges Podcast.) https://t.co/5CaLywkAOG

[luke fox @lukefoxjukebox]

Last time the Bruins beat the Maple Leafs in a series, Taylor Swift had the best-selling album of the year.

Last time the Maple Leafs beat the Bruins in a series, Miles Davis had the best-selling album of the year.

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@MichaelTacketts @TheBeachBoys @HowieEdelson @Spotify @ApplePodcasts @amazon @amazonmusic @audible_com Thanks for listening, Michael. Glad you liked it. I don't think Howie had much to do directly with the doc, but we're definitely keeping our eye on that one.

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@TheBeachBoys insider @HowieEdelson discusses new book The Beach Boys by The Beach Boys, to which he contributed, on latest ep of Surf's Up: A Beach Boys Podcast Safari. Available on @Spotify @ApplePodcasts @amazon alexa, @amazonmusic @audible_com and at: https://t.co/LRBiaNZzrN

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In the April ish of @AmericanCine I talk to #SHOGUN's four cinematographers (Christopher Ross, Sam McCurdy, Marc Laliberté, and Aril Wretblad), who impressively brought early 17th century Japan to life on Vancouver soundstages and in surrounding locations. @shogunfx

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The late Jean-Marc Vallée is the newest inductee into @PlaybackOnline 's Canadian Film and Television Hall of Fame, which launched when I was editor in 2007. And I'm honored to have been able to write about the director, who is so fondly remembered. https://t.co/EWFuqZnOfd

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Had BeachBoystalk Matt and Greg on for a multigenerational fan smackdown, covering such topics as: Why does Matt love MIU? Do different generations appreciate "Kokomo" and the later LPs differently? @TheBeachBoys Wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://t.co/gGf3Vev6WJ