Lou Thomas

Lots there as usual but new Julia Ducournau, Kelly Reichardt and Jafar Panahi of most interest to me. #cannes

You know what’s good? A really long, tiresome pre-amble.

That’s impossible to choose. https://t.co/0mIKJHViBl

cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic

Best dance scene in a movie?

Forgot to post these pics from the fun European premiere of spy thriller The Amateur on Monday. Rami Malek introduced the screening with Laurence Fishburne, the latter dressed immaculately as you can see. https://t.co/xeOOaK4T8k

Do any New Yorkers out there (maybe @intothecrevasse) know if the bar Doyle wakes up in and walks out of in The French Connection is still there? I suspect the answer is no and the neighbourhood is way gentrified now. https://t.co/VMtiNTYkCE

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Life has been insane this week so I’ve not posted clips of my Mickey 17 interview with director Bong. Here’s one where he mocks Arsenal and I follow up with my usual endorsement of Tottenham and Bong’s fellow superstar countryman Son Heung-min. https://t.co/UmLsqqbv6Q

Black Bag: I’ll shoot you or shag you, slag, and maybe rinse out a witty retort in stunning clothes under beautiful lighting. 4/5.

Greatly amused by the press drop for Marching Powder (out today). I’ve been called worse. https://t.co/FzI40dh2YL

Re-watching Crimson Tide. It’s diamond hard. Feel like I should be wearing Kevlar overalls in case it leaps off the screen and gives me a dig. https://t.co/MT9NknZbJL

My choices: Brutalist (fine if Anora wins) Baker (fine if Corbet wins) Madison (fine if Moore wins, Jean-Baptiste should’ve) Brody Pearce (Culkin will win) Jones (Saldana will win) Sacred Fig (though I’m Still Here fine) Flow (though Memoir fine) Crawley Straughan Eisenberg

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For those in the UK looking for a Gene Hackman fix who are sadly without physical copies of his films, Get Shorty is on ITVX (expires tomorrow) and Mississippi Burning is on Amazon Prime (everything else has a rental cost).

Re: Bond news. Amazon have already destroyed the world’s high streets, put millions out of work and forced thousands more into terrible jobs. They probably don’t give a toss how they treat a fictitious character, no matter how beloved he may be. But we can still boo them. Booooo.

Whatever one thinks of Mark Wahlberg, I have never empathised more completely with another human as much as the moment during his career-best performance in The Departed when he says, “I’m the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.”

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