Max

MA at Warwick Film+TV.
Trained projectionist, failed guitarist. (he/him)

[rules-based international zachary @TomKhruisehchev]

Uncle Boonmee. A movie so good they've given it the Palme 17 years in a row.

[Max @maxking_24]

@JoyceCarolOates The foundations - poetry, architecture - are there in Il Grido too: stark melodrama that prefigures the road movie aspect of Red Desert.

[Max @maxking_24]

@aaminahinfilm The Stranger is ravishing, especially if you can still find it in a cinema! Wish people were talking about it more tbh
https://t.co/aWBxVsLox9

[Max @maxking_24]

So you wait your whole life for a horror film about liminal corridors with lots of yellow, and then two come along at once?

[A24 @A24]

Everything must go. Experience BACKROOMS, a Kane Parsons film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve. In Theaters 05.29.26

Get tickets – https://t.co/zxO6nlTEfY

[rose 🐭 @roselikesremy]

seeing the backrooms film in the odeon in Manchester would be absolutely terrifying

[Max @maxking_24]

The father imposing a robot child on his wife, and then getting mad when she starts feeling maternal towards it... A.I. anticipated so many elements of the techbro mindset, discovering it this week was essential for me

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

just saw Spielberg's AI for the first time in theaters. buddy. that was the saddest movie i've ever watched ever. i loved it

[Max @maxking_24]

@ChrisG_TSU Having seen it for the first time this week (in the cinema) A.I. is the film we all need right now. Nationwide re-release would have been lovely

[Max @maxking_24]

Last week I saw A.I. for the first time (at an Odeon, coincidentally) and it completely broke me. Turns out this Spielberg guy is pretty good

[ODEON @ODEONCinemas]

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[Hit Factory @HitFactoryPod]

Ad Astra remains the best (and most overlooked) space movie of the century. the vast expanse of space reflected within the depth of the human psyche. feels like a world worth saving. dazzling, but never ostentatious. optimistic, but schmaltz-free; never mistaken for "hopecore".

[Max @maxking_24]

Realise I haven't been posting about my time at Manchester Film Fest yet, so here's yesterday's round-up: my two favourites so far, both on the same day
https://t.co/qeqIK8febu

[Max @maxking_24]

@zaaaarbi still waiting for the pendulum to swing back on Silver Lake, excellent list

[Max @maxking_24]

See also: A COCK AND BULL STORY. Criterion box-set when?

[Bilge Ebiri @BilgeEbiri]

I was a huge fan of Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, and Michael Winterbottom’s THE TRIP films, but now I’m watching the full TV series versions of them on the @criterionchannl, and it is dawning on me that this is one of the great artistic accomplishments of the century.

[Max @maxking_24]

@AdequateEmily I wrote my undergrad dissertation on almost exactly this subject! Seen together with Amour, it's a career-spanning culmination (not a retread) - and Rogowski rules so hard

[Max @maxking_24]

Or: an adaptation of the Kate Bush song, rather than the book (and none the worse for it)

[vox lex @gretagerwigflew]

“wuthering heights” is a blast if u watch it from a more 10 things i hate about you, she’s the man, etc perspective rather than the literal original material 😭

[Max @maxking_24]

@inoelshikari @vuecinemas And for £18 you can get a whole month of films at HOME. Surely (beyond the IMAX) this will just drive people elsewhere?

[Max @maxking_24]

Once again searching for a hopeful future for cinemas, in @indie_pendent:
https://t.co/l4wCEKoGmq

[Max @maxking_24]

I think it's time for a moratorium on Orpheus and Eurydice parallels in art movies

[Max @maxking_24]

By extension, I'm bemused by people saying the latest is the best because it's the most about the humans; the infected have always been a backdrop: a catalyst and a threat, but not the dramatic centre of any of the 4

[jimmy ace ☣🫀🦴 @baptizedbones]

I think the people who say 28 Years Later is boring only want to see zombie kills and hype moments and don't realize that that's never what the franchise has been about

[Max @maxking_24]

No no no... it's clear now, there's a curse on early January. Devastating

[Sight and Sound magazine @SightSoundmag]

Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Any film which features a Christmas party as a significant plot point is a Christmas film.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy? Christmas film.

Goodfellas? Christmas film.

LA Confidential? CHRISTMAS FILM.