Duncan Gray

writer, content manager, streaming media techie, formerly MUBI, currently Hulu, stranger here myself. opinions my own. words at @NotebookMUBI

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@theonlyjordan__ @maddiewhittle The real devils are the enemies we made along the way

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@NeilBahadur It will finish filming in 2027 and finish editing in 2034

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Digger online ad energy

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@SorayaSpaghetti The best argument for a spinoff

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@NeilBahadur I legit believe that future generations sussing out the political failure of 2010-2015 could do worse than consider that we gave Oscars to Argo, Spotlight, and The Imitation Game

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@LingoUnbound Yes, but maybe in life you can end up like George Clooney: present for about 30 seconds, exited unceremoniously mid-sentence, and still listed above the title on the poster.

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for @DissentMag i wrote what appears to be a review of mission: impossible (1996) but is actually (spoiler!) a review of digger (2026)

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@vitaphonezone "John Fitzgerald Kennedy, seen here enjoying a sunny ride in a convertible"

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@BohemiaStable Hopefully the much-appreciated blu-ray release, with Farran's essay, will help turn the tide!

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@BohemiaStable A pity! You could rebuild cinema with his films alone.

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@BohemiaStable And if you don't have the courage to, Julie Christie understands

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@BohemiaStable That's fascinating to know! Yeah, I'd love to be able to tear into Letterboxd's data by country/generation.
My games with Letterboxd Popularity started by trying to numerically quantify if Jean Renoir, for such a canonical director, is falling into neglect
https://t.co/Fj7ZwHmMJv

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@tnyfrontrow Using Letterboxd as an indicator among a generation/demographic of movie buff, here are how many user ratings have been logged for each director's "Most Popular" film...

Kurosawa: 452k
Bergman: 449k
Godard: 313k
Lang: 273k
Fellini: 270k
Eisenstein: 127k

And Renoir: 61k

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@BohemiaStable For what it's worth, BILLY LIAR has basically the same number of ratings as MINOTAUR, and MINOTAUR hasn't even opened yet

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@BohemiaStable I was surprised that those charted on here, ditto MYSTERIES OF LISBON. But the obscurity is Letterboxd's subjectivity, not mine...these are my "least popular" favorites, using their mysterious formula that combines user ratings, likes, and watchlists.

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@leucocrystal @firagawalkwthme As someone who's never come close to being on a film set, the reputation I've heard of him is that he's very intense about everyone needing to be on the same page to get the scene right, but he never pulls rank as the richest/most famous actor on the planet

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@LingoUnbound I've just been calling it Lucasing

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@redroomrantings It got replaced by "wowza" in a clear sign of the coarsening of culture

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What's the opposite of a jump-scare?

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@brofromanother Why would I wound his body with bullets, etc.