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Always loved this poster.

@CinemaTweets1 @TheAcademy I sort of agree about Apocalypse but the opening scenes of Kramer vs Kramer are a masterclass in acting, directing and efficient world building and pace. It’s truly a tremendous piece of work. I’ve always thought it deserved the Oscar but I wish they both could win it!

Kramer vs. Kramer won the Oscar for Best Picture over Apocalypse Now in 1980. I don’t think the @TheAcademy got this right- I think Apocalypse Now needed to win this award for so many reasons. But I’m not sure I’ve ever seen better on-screen acting than in this film. Have you?

A quick music post. This I think is one of the best songs of the 80s. Represents the time and feel of 85. Cool, effortless performance by lead singer Claudia Brücken. This was a one hit wonder but only because the band broke up in 87 after legal battles with their record company. Surprised this isn’t heard more as it’s a bona fide 80s classic IMO.

@CrowMagnumMedia Haha yes! We were watching Naked Gun last night and there she was!

@CinemaDailyHub I was today years old when I learned this. Now I'm imagining her saying to Tony: "Sexual assault with a concrete dildo?!" 🤣🤣🤣

Lt. Frank Drebin’s nemesis is also Tony Sopranos nemesis!

All this talk about AI. In the scene in Heat when De Niro confronts Ashley Judd “Clean up, go home. CLEAN UP GO HOME!” Judd is equally brilliant, stumbling over her lines. AI will never replicate a scene or a moment like this.

@Deckard20191 @KyleLeeWriter Guilty humour?

@KyleLeeWriter @CinemaDailyHub But it's a special sort of dark humor.

When I saw Fargo in the cinema I was the only one laughing. Don’t people realise this is a comedy? I could feel the looks of disapproval. In the picture, that’s me on the right and the rest of the audience on the left. Anyway, this is my favourite Coen brothers film. Very funny!

@KyleLeeWriter Except for Intolerable Cruelty. Didn’t laugh once on that one!

@CinemaDailyHub Every Coen brothers movie is a comedy, when you really get down to it. Even No Country has plenty of laughs.

@spaceodds1985 @Variety They both turned out really well for everyone!

@CinemaDailyHub @Variety How about the three million for Showgirls?

Renny Harlin says that Michael Douglas was supposed to have the lead role in "Cutthroat Island" but “dropped out right before production for personal reasons.” "I was left there with my then-wife Geena Davis. We were both attached to the movie and tried to get out. The part went to the great actor Matthew Modine, and all due respect to him, but he wasn’t at the level of Michael Douglas. All signs said we were doomed. I spent $800,000 of my own money having the script rewritten by Marc Norman ('Shakespeare in Love'). Some things don’t work out." variety.com/2026/film/news…

@GangsterCinema Yes and also Ashley Judd is superb in this scene, the way she fumbles her lines.

One of Michael Mann’s favorite Robert De Niro moments in Heat, comes right after he confronts Ashley Judd’s character and tells her, “Clean up, go home.” "There's a brilliant Robert De Niro moment here in the way he repeats “clean up, go home”. That is pure De Niro. It is genius. It is the genius of Robert De Niro. And you can't analyze why it's there, how it's there, how it's expressed. It's spontaneous and it's truly in character. And It's from the small moments that you see that just explode out of an actor sometimes, that to me, they demark genius. And you know it when you see it - and that's one of them." Quote is from Michael Mann’s director’s commentary on the Heat DVD

In The Verdict, the image of the Polaroid pictures slowly developing is the perfect visual representation of what the character is thinking. These slow, thoughtful moments are so rare in modern movies. Beautiful.

@TheCinesthetic The dog at the end is a superb touch.

If anyone thinks comedy is easy, Top Secret! (1984) literally staged an entire scene in reverse and flipped it in post, one of the smartest visual gags ever done.

@WriterMcG Yes but a very long time ago. I went through a Capra phase and love pretty much all that I’ve seen. It Happened One Night my favourite though.

@CinemaDailyHub You have great taste. New director — have you see Meet John Doe (Capra) ?

Sidney Lumet’s career is almost untouched. Network, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, 12 Angry Men, The Hill, Fail Safe… the list is long and illustrious. One of my favourite but less well known is The Pawnbroker. It’s about a Holocaust survivor who runs a pawnshop in a Harlem slum. A haunting study of trauma, guilt and the struggle to reconnect with life, it affected me deeply as a kid and remains a special film for me.

@WriterMcG I love it too. Also forgot to mention the magnificent The Verdict.

@CinemaDailyHub 12 Angry Men is one of the greatest films ever made. I watch it at least twice a year, always seeing a new moment.

@mikemoviez I believe it wasn’t in every print of the film, so you may have only seen a version without it happening.

I've seen Psycho probably five or six times, it wasn't until a few months ago someone here pointed out that you see a faint shape of a skeleton in Perkins's face just for a moment at the end as it fades out.

@Rob_Motto Pretentious, why? Isn’t it about war?

Saying “it’s about war itself” has got to be one of the most pretentious things you could write.

What’s interesting about Apocalypse Now is that it’s not really a film about Vietnam in the way Platoon or others are, it’s about war itself. It’s also an incredible piece of filmmaking that in some ways has never been bettered. Coppola quite literally but his life and his soul on the line to give us this vision. Maybe the brutality of filmmaking is, in the end, the real and ultimate subject of this masterpiece.

@KyleLeeWriter Ironically my word is intelligent. Unless it’s autocorrected I always leave an L out!

Words I almost always misspell: Sheriff Convenience Publicly Millennium Cemetery (can thank Uncle Steve for this one) What about you?