𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐨𝐠𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐡…
"When Orson was low on funds he lived with me. I never got used to living in the same apartment as him. I’d get up in the morning & there’d be the director of Citizen Kane sitting in my kitchen.“
This might be one of the single most important statements on the current state of American #censorship by, of all people, Peter Bogdanovich (who once went to war with Hugh Hefner because he couldn't handle his own reality). It's only three minutes. Take a listen => www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5o...
La Porte du Paradis de Michael Cimino, le plus grand Flop du cinéma américain. Il a brisé la carrière du réalisateur et ruiné le studio United Artists fondé par Charles Chaplin / Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, the biggest flop in American cinema. It ruined the director's career and bankrupted the United Artists studio founded by Charles Chaplin.
#BlueZicos
#MusicChallenge
Une magnifique semaine cinématographique grâce à vous. Merci beaucoup / A wonderful week at the movies thanks to you. Thank you so much.
Je passe le relais à @lagrume.bsky.social pour une semaine dédiée aux Flops commerciaux.
one big advantage of online lectures is that students can speed them up … and if they watch mine at 1.7x speed, I sound exactly like martin scorsese
“No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.” ― Martin Scorsese
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📚🎬 Ah the color coding on the Coppola chapter ✨
👁️🎬 Behind every new born book is a village...
#KennethBurke. ✨
✍️ How distant Cimino differed in his PR from, say, Coppola and Scorsese
- was in his determination to keep his family background out of the public eye. That gate was shut.
Mark Rufalo warns Congress against the Paramount-WBD merger:
"You don't have to watch 'Citizen Kane' or read '1984' to understand that the concentrated oligarchic control this merger represents is a threat to a free press, an informed populace & democracy itself."
www.youtube.com/live/xETe83T...
✍️ How distant Cimino differed in his PR from, say, Coppola and Scorsese
- was in his determination to keep his family background out of the public eye. That gate was shut.
T-shirt with Recipe for Catherine Scorsese's The Sauce.
Taxi Driver: Catherine and Martin Scorsese outside a taxi cab. Robert DeNiro sits in driver's seat.
Goodfellas: Joe Pesci, playing her son, kisses Catherine Scorcese on cheek at dinner table.
On set of CASINO, Catherine Scorsese laughs with her son, Martin.
A legend births a legend!
Catherine Scorcese, BOTD 4/16/1912. Martin's mama was true original; could listen to her for hours!
Appearance in documentary ITALIANAMERICAN (1974) got world excited about "The Sauce." Even printed recipe on T-shirts
Cameos in most of Scorsese's classics!
#filmsky 📽
Happy Birthday to Thomas Hart Benton, born 137 years ago today
👁️ Where New Hollywood rubs shoulders with New Rhetoric. 🎬📚👀 #worldbookday
#filmstudies
#KennethBurke 👁️
👁️🎬 Behind every new born book is a village...
#KennethBurke. ✨
Reminder!
for my money, the blankest checks in cinema history, in no order
1. Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino)
2. PlayTime (Jacques Tati)
3. Reds (Warren Beatty)
4. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
5. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
6. War & Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk)
[November 20th, 1980] In this letter, director Michael Cimino requests that the film Heaven's Gate be withdrawn from distribution to allow for revisions, citing the pressures of an accelerated schedule and the lack of public previews as factors that may have affected the final product.
Then he turned Poe-etic with several films using Vincent Price and late-career Boris Karloff--and a young Jack Nicholson. But as a producer he excelled, launching the careers of New Hollywood directors incl. Coppola (Dementia 13), Bogdanovich (Targets-Karloff again) and Scorsese (Boxcar Bertha).
New York Daily News, Easter Sunday, 1975. Speaking of Bogdanovich, I take some pride in being among the relatively small number of people who has seen his megaflop AT LONG LAST LOVE in a theater, tho about three decades *after* it was the feature at the Radio City Music Hall's Great Easter Show.
Any sign of...?
Martin Scorsese hanging with a peep
Hoppy Easter
🍿 Favourite first-time watches in 2026! 🍿
March, ordered by preference:
🎬 A Hidden Life (Malick, 2019)
🎬 New York, New York (Scorsese, 1977)
🎬 Dead of Winter (Kirk, 2025)
🎬 Days of Thunder (Scott, 1990)
“To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'”
Happy 87th birthday to the great Francis Ford Coppola!
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Simon Baker has been popping up on my feed as “an Australian actor” 😮
I was a fan of The Mentalist but before he became Patrick Jane, he starred in a Freixenet cava ad directed by Martin Scorsese in a homage to Alfred Hitchcock and in the spirit of NORTH BY NORTHWEST.
🍾 youtu.be/jwh-zub7iTU?...
Leonardo DiCaprio says Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘VERTIGO’ is a “reference point” for his upcoming film ‘WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT’ with Martin Scorsese, co-starring Jennifer Lawrence.
(https://youtu.be/AOhHIK4Emtg?si=8DfKJcjOxIJTbiyb
Isabelle Huppert in HEAVEN'S GATE 1980◾Director
Michael Cimino◾Cinematography Vilmos Zsigmond◾
Few rites of passage as a film buff are like having read and heard a thousand times that “Heaven's Gate” was a horrible failure and truly awful movie... and then seeing the film and discovering that it is one of the most beautiful pieces of art ever made.
Even something like McCabe & Mrs. Miller is not devoid of "tropes". Its central thesis is, "what did all of the 'tropes' we see in Westerns look like in reality?" And most of the "tropes" we see in Westerns are rooted in some kind of reality. Old West history books are lousy with "tropes"
