@tvaziri.com Do you know about the Texas Switches they did with the cars in the river of hills sequence in One Battle After Another?

Thrilled to announce the film I directed 100 YEARS FROM HOME is streaming now on Amazon Prime Video! Check it out, leave a review, share it with a friend: www.amazon.com/100-Years-Ho...

What is a butterfly, if not the deadest caterpillar?

Grateful to be part of the Pre-WGA Mentoring Program. Thanks to @danabraziel.bsky.social @joemightliketv.bsky.social @jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social @slack2thefuture.bsky.social @jelenawoehr.bsky.social for putting this together! Shoutout to team Jeny Quine @arisdawdle.bsky.social @kirksays.bsky.social

This drives me crazy. The standing ovation arms race must end!

My top ten films of 2024:
1. Anora
2. The Brutalist
3. Dune: Part Two
4. I’m Still Here
5. Nickel Boys
6. I Saw the TV Glow
7. The Wild Robot
8. Challengers
9. Furiosa
10. Flow

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Must make watching Nancy Meyers movies a challenge.

So appreciate this response, Jared, & that you joined the IN CONVO. Totally agree the panelists brought such great insights to the discussion. Look forward to seeing you at the next one.

Thanks so much @aziedungey.bsky.social @brigliebs.bsky.social @chandrathomas.bsky.social and Lisa Muse Bryant for your thoughtful advice on today's TV Comedy Writers panel! I appreciated how helpful and hopeful you all were, while still keeping it real.

Thank you for your service.

Take back your attention.

not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff

“We live inside a dream.”

RIP David Lynch. One of a kind, and an inspiration to many, myself included. Time to rewatch Twin Peaks: The Return episode 8.

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Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...

This deep dive on Netflix purposely turning movies into barely distinguishable forgettable slop is so insightful, researched & brutally hilarious. A must read if you want to really know what’s happening to the business AND culture of movies.

Can’t stand movies that rely on persistence of vision to create the illusion of motion.

Writers Guild Calls on Studios to Take “Immediate Legal Action” Against AI Companies The union is arguing that tech companies "looted the studios’ intellectual property" while Hollywood's major companies stood by.

It’s time for the studios to come off the sidelines. After this industry has spent decades fighting piracy, it cannot stand idly by while tech companies steal full libraries of content for their own financial gain.

I’m down to give it a read.

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Yep, I’ve seen that statue while visiting family in Grand Junction.

Hollywood

“Hollywood”

Thanksgiving... a.k.a. the perfect time to stealthily turn off motion smoothing on your relatives' TVs.

“For as bleak as the world has become, there are still beautiful things, there are still stories.”

One of the best film essays I’ve ever read. Priscilla Page writes about Mad Max: Fury Road, diving deep into the power of mythic storytelling from Joseph Campbell to Aboriginal Songlines. A must read.

The Wild Robot screening at the Aero followed by Q&A with director Chris Sanders. Beautiful film.

Seems nicer over here.