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I was moved to read Samantha Morton talk about getting fired from the Spike Jonze movie Her in this piece. She was on the set when I was there reporting a story--her work as the voice was done live, and her commitment to what she was doing on the film was extraordinary. deadline.com/2026/08/sama...

Samantha Morton On Why She "Hasn't Worked For A Year" Since 'The Odyssey' & Why She Was "Sad" & "Hurt" After Getting "Fired" From 'Her'Samantha Morton is opening up about not working after filming Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.deadline.com

For this week’s Silent Sundays I interviewed London-based graphic designer Angelo Trofa about his new clothing line Gilded Stars and its first collection with pays homage to the late great Rudolph Valentino. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/silent-fil...

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For those in UK, hourlong BBC investigation into Leto now available. in US/elsewhere, 15 min version of the film on YT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XW5... The hope is that the full documentary will be available internationally some time soon, will post if that happens. I worked with this film's team +

Hollywood’s darkest open secretYouTube video by BBC deepwatchwww.youtube.com

This is great and the T-shirts are very cool, too.

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

Myrna Loy in Rouben Mamoulian’s LOVE ME TONIGHT (1932). Loy was particularly fond of this movie, the one in which she realized she could be funny (according to her autobiography).

I spent some time with Oscar winner Javier Bardem to discuss his take on Max Cady in the new CAPE FEAR series for this LA Times piece. He also talked about the joy of showing his work to his kids, and about his vocal support for Palestine: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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Must-Watch Indies is back at @facetschicago.bsky.social starting August 8th! All three films — Elliot Tuttle’s BLUE FILM, Olivia Wilde’s THE INVITE, and Guy Maddin’s CAREFUL (4K restoration) — are about desire! Tickets and showtimes: facets.org/portfolio-ca...

Bay Area folks, silent movie nerds, female director stans — filmmaker Valerio Ciriaci will be in Santa Cruz on Sat Aug 8 screening his new documentary on early Italian filmmaker Elvira Notari. I’ll have the pleasure of speaking with him on stage afterwards. Join us www.eventbrite.com/e/elvira-not...

ELVIRA NOTARI: BEYOND SILENCE Film ScreeningElvira Notari: Beyond Silence traces the legacy of Italy's first woman director and the artists now bringing her vision back.www.eventbrite.com

Barbie made 1.4 BILLION dollars .

An officer reported other cops for using racist, sexist and homophobic slurs at work, filed an Internal Affairs complaint & submitted recordings of the other cops being bigoted as evidence b/c otherwise nothing would be done about it. He’s now charged with 16 felonies & could get 13 years in prison.

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"I realized at the end of the day that I was never going to make reality, because reality doesn’t work like that. So I decided to make unreality my canvas" At Cannes I spoke with Nicolas Winding Refn about his new film HER PRIVATE HELL (and silent film) for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

Cinema is My Calling Again: Nicolas Winding Refn on "Her Private Hell"An interview with the director of Drive, Only God Forgives, and this week's Her Private Hell.www.rogerebert.com

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this was so much fun and very stressful but I'm really happy with the films we landed on.

In this week's Guide: a gruesome Finnish fairytale about new motherhood, a doc about Flaco the owl, Agnieszka Holland at the Academy, an esoteric film series at the Metrograph, Sally Potter, Barbra Streisand, and a short Palestinian film about water rights in the Occupied West Bank.

It felt like something out of a dream.Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guideoldfilmsflicker.substack.com