Miles

film & TV writer-producer // host of the Cinema Retro Podcast

[Miles @mvsteph1]

@RealJamesWoods Mr. Woods telling me his great Gene Hackman story from Night Moves (1975)

[𝔊𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 @_GVNTHER_]

Goths crossing a river — Evariste Vital Luminais

[Miles @mvsteph1]

@kunley_drukpa He calls her a cod

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

The Best 'Exposition Dump' in Film History. In 5 minutes, Spielberg lays out the characters, mythology, locations, artifacts and the entire narrative engine of the film. The audience discovers everything alongside Indy + each detail pays off later. A masterclass in storytelling.

[Jonathan Demme Dickrider @decoyrobot]

The Four types of directors:
1. Auteur and I like them
2. Auteur and I don't like them
3. Journeyman and I like them
4. Journeyman and I don't like them

[Miles @mvsteph1]

@bryan_johnson @tomaskenzgaila @SamCharnizon what kind of zinc do you take for this? zinc bisglycinate?

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
The best day-for-night shot in cinema history. Cinematographer Freddie Young underexposed the film and used military aerial reconnaissance filters + ND filters to help craft this shot.

[sam. @suddenxfear]

year of the dragon (1985) michael cimino

[Immortan Joe Mazzulla @normal_jake_]

Gotta hit em with the

[Miles @mvsteph1]

@zachflipspages the best asoiaf book

[Miles @mvsteph1]

@notarikon let’s see it angelika. tell me which screening u wanna go to

[Miles @mvsteph1]

check out my friend Mendel’s new film RETURN POLICY, playing at Angelika

[Mendel @notarikon]

Return Policy directed by Amos Efrat from a screenplay by Leo Silverstein and produced by Julian Cosma and yours truly has been selected by Katra Film Series. Tickets for the Thursday night slate are still available:
https://t.co/RwHCVTcHa3

[Remnants of the Past @remnantsofpast]

Drive-in movie theatre screening The Ten Commandments, Oat Hills, Utah, USA, 1958

Photo by J. R. Eyerman

[Miles @mvsteph1]

Peter O'Toole and David Lean

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David Lean and his cinematographer Freddie Young line up a low angle shot in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

[Miles @mvsteph1]

will be working on the novel this weekend

[pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot]

Gene Hackman can give gloriously jaunty, unpredictable performances...He can be the best we've got. (1985)

[Miles @mvsteph1]

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Sinners wins. Again. I think this is one of the strongest categories of the entire night: BLUE, MARTY, and VALUE could all have won this. But in my ideal world, I’d give it to Jafar Panahi’s minimalist, gripping thriller IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

[Miles @mvsteph1]

OSCARS 2026 recap: a year in movies, what won, and what should've won in each category. Marty Supreme revanchists and Sentimental Value appreciators welcome

[Miles @mvsteph1]

At the heart of the terror in this story of missing children in Norman Rockwell suburbia is Madigan’s villain. It’s her maniacal, clownish expressions and voices which sell the idea of a psychopathic witch who has cursed the town. I see slivers of Bette Davis in BABY JANE