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[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightOnCinema goes to Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979).

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[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

@ecto_fun Agreed! https://t.co/r9gr4hF0uH

[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightOnCinema goes to Tarsem's The Fall (2008).

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[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightOnCinema goes to Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977)

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[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightOnCinema goes to Bernardo Bertolucci's La Luna (1979)

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[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

@sbodrojan Then the time is now to toss out a link to my piece on their Tim's Vermeer doc:

https://t.co/crXQC1zdZK

Because now that you’ve reached "disconcerting amount of P&T’s Fool Us," you are in prime position to enjoy such things as my "Penn's Amazed Face" collage:

[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightOnCinema goes to Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman’s Loving Vincent (2017). @LovingVincent @DorotaKobiela

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[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightOnCinema goes to Penn & Teller's (@pennjillette and @MrTeller) Tim’s Vermeer (2013).

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[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightOnCinema goes to Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk (1985).

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[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightOnCinema goes to Ruth Leitman (@ruthlessfilms) and Carol Weaks Cassidy's Wildwood, NJ (1994). #WildwoodNJ

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[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

@ecto_fun Tarsem... Eiko Ishioka... ✊

Up next: The Fall! -->

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[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightOnCinema goes to Tarsem's The Fall (2008).

Subscriptions to this newsletter are free 🥳 so all are welcome/encouraged to check out this or any other Spotlight write-up here --> https://t.co/x3SfIBFbY9

[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightOnCinema goes to Tarsem's The Fall (2008).

Subscriptions to this newsletter are free 🥳 so all are welcome/encouraged to check out this or any other Spotlight write-up here --> https://t.co/x3SfIBFbY9

[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

#SpotlightOnCinema has transferred itself to Substack and is planning to recommence during the first part of next month. https://t.co/dVo6zAJbL2

Here are all 26 write-ups from "Season 1" nicely laid out on a Letterboxd list: https://t.co/YoHFXJ4RfF

Welcome to the new. 🎥🎞️

[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

@Lexi61227488

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.@Bibibourelly @susie_dent
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@TerrenceHunter As a fellow certified member of The Last Seduction Society, thank you for doing your part!

(This thread contains a link to my write-up appreciating the film and Linda Fiorentino, in case there's interest in some reading! ⬇️)
https://t.co/bgJIvouAv4

[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

Fans of The Last Seduction (1994) have a duty to tell people they are fans of The Last Seduction (1994). #IAmWendyKroy

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@Solondzcast From one Solondz fan to another, I’ll leave here my write-up and ensuing thread in case there’s any interest!
https://t.co/1SH2odnhWS

[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightOnCinema write-up goes to Todd Solondz's Dark Horse (2012).

Feel free to give 'er a read here --> https://t.co/VsrG4cr1Zl

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Plots to kill an apparent ‘loved one’ whilst out boating…

[Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), A Place in the Sun (1951), A New Leaf (1971)]

[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightonCinema write-up goes to John M. Stahl's Leave Her to Heaven (1945).

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Martin Scorsese has acknowledged using Leave Her to Heaven (1945) as a reference point for, specifically, his New York, New York (1977) and The Aviator (2004), whose “Everybody works for you, Howard” line delivery was directly inspired by Heaven's "Ellen always wins":

[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

Plots to kill an apparent ‘loved one’ whilst out boating…

[Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), A Place in the Sun (1951), A New Leaf (1971)]

[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightOnCinema write-up goes to Elaine May's first feature film, A New Leaf (1971).

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A New Leaf (1971)
//
A Kiss Before Dying (1956)

[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

6) It is in this way that, say, on Bewitched, Dick York could be replaced by Dick Sargent (as he was in season 6) and the show's reality isn't completely disturbed - or, at least, not anymore 'disturbed' than it already was (Solondz has called The Brady Bunch 'deranged')...

[Meryl Anady @MerylAnady]

This week's #SpotlightOnCinema write-up goes to Todd Solondz's Dark Horse (2012).

Feel free to give 'er a read here --> https://t.co/VsrG4cr1Zl

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5) This technique, however, does not feel like the work of some sort of 'provocateur.' Solondz presents everything in a straightforward manner, within orderly, sanitized worlds that lean into sitcom/soap opera aesthetics (an unsettling polish audiences are happy to accept)…