Neil Nawaz

@andersleehere Yeah. If she wanted a wholesome representation of Italian Americans, she could have flicked the channel to Everybody Loves Raymond

@NeilNawaz I genuinely don't think the show would be as good but yeah, by the early 2000's Italian-Americans were white who gives a shit?

As Paglia would know if she watched more than 30 seconds of The Sopranos (which she admitted elsewhere she hadn’t) is that the some of the show’s most accurate and biting portrayals were of people exactly like her.

@KlassicalKat_88 This guy @spclsmthin

@NeilNawaz @StephenWhitty C’mon now — whomst are we talking about here?

I’m all for contrarian opinions, but when your tweets consist of asserting Grace Kelly was a bitch and Ginger Rogers a no-talent, that Audrey Hepburn lied about nearly starving under the Nazis and that “North by Northwest” looks like crap — well, blocking never felt better.

@LloydLegalist Who’s on first?

Nothing in the the English language starts with an N and ends with a G.

@moorehn You know nothing of my field jackets

This is how men should dress btw

@DonaldClarke63 Boy does this tweet need context

We’ve legit lost the plot. I honestly have zero idea what people are looking for these days, we needs a major shift in criticism. The movie I saw was well written, well directed, beautifully shot, insanely well performed & the sound was amazing. Are we “film” critics or not?

@DKThomp And the second headline isn’t softer than the first

I have so much disdain for the lazy armchair conspiracy theorizing that so reliably goes viral among some ideological groups. The Atlantic a/b tests its headlines. All the time. The headline below was already changed to the one on the right by the time I first read it, days before the absurd Kash Patel lawsuit. Also calling a public figure’s flagrantly weird public behavior “Erratic” in a headline isn’t within 10,000 light-years of defamation.

@SeligerGrants @spclsmthin Redford’s vanity undermined more than one movie. He wore that anachronistic hair in most of his period pieces (The Natural, Out of Africa), although not The Great Gatsby, for some reason

@spclsmthin The way we were is hilariously unintentionally funny the Streisand playing the loopy liberal and Redford wearing his feather 1970s hair starting in 1930s hard to believe why this movie is so well regarded

Thank gawd…it was one of the most pretentious films ever conceived w/Streisand playing Streisand through the entire dreary slop.

@WatchMyReview Who knew they were so dominant in 1974?

This is pretty shocking. The Leafs were sooooo bad in the 80's too. Look at last 2 seasons.

@Cornelius_3401 @DannyDrinksWine Well both movies involve swimming pools in suburban California settings and implicit critiques of American consumerism and the emptiness of middle class life. I’m sure Nichols would have done a good job, although none of his movies have the kind of dreamy vibe that Burt wanted

@NeilNawaz @DannyDrinksWine Didn’t know that, so thanks. Still, it kind of made me think it was cut from the same cloth. Given the same cast and locations, what could Mike Nichols have made of this story?

Burt Lancaster on why Frank Perry was the wrong choice to direct "The Swimmer" (1968) & the directors he felt would have handled it better: "'The Swimmer' (1968) is certainly one of my favorites. It's a John Cheever story and there was the very difficult problem of translating a literary work to the screen. Cheever speaks in the short story of how a man is walking through a lane and he smells a fire, it's an autumn fire; he describes it as the smell of autumn in the air. Well, that kind of thing in writing is lovely, especially in Cheever's phrases, but when you try to get this quality onto film, it requires some kind of approach. I'll say that I don't think Frank Perry was able to do this, and I don't know that any other director would have been. But you certainly need someone like a Fellini or a Truffaut, or someone with that kind of imagination to let the camera also tell your story. Film has its own particular life—regardless of what's actually going on in a film. And it needed some kind of strange, weird approach to capture the audience and make them realize that, in a way, they were not looking at anything real. In talking about the script we would say, "I don't know why two men in white coats don't come take this guy away." It should have been obvious that this man was going through something that was not quite real; it was all part of his imagination. But it was played in a realistic sense—so when you come to the end of that film, instead of being sympathetic and heartbroken for the man, you were surprised and shocked." ("Take 22: Moviemakers on Moviemaking" Judith Crist, 1984)

@Cornelius_3401 @DannyDrinksWine It was filmed in 1966 but not released until two years later. So not influenced by The Graduate.

@DannyDrinksWine Watched it for the first time a few weeks ago. Definitely had the look of a film made in 1968. At the start I thought they were trying - unsuccessfully - to ape The Graduate. Cringeworthy and uncomfortable, but it stayed with me.

@martycon73 @martynware Absolute banger. Never failed to fill the floor

Heaven 17 (We don’t need) That Fascist Groove Thang @martynware

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@wjcarter Love that clip, especially Ed slapping the desk

One the greatest late-night jokes of all time, and perfect counter to "clapter" -- semi-forced applause for even mediocre jokes. This was a KILLER joke that compelled applause from an audience brought to hysterics. The only kind of joke that should be accompanied by clapter.

@jasonc_nc @colbycosh Sale-leaseback classic PE move though

I know everyone likes to make every story about their pet thing but Red Lobster went bankrupt under the ownership of Thai Union, a seafood supplier who bought into them in 2016, then acquired a controlling stake of in 2020 to sell their product to a resulting subsidiary. They directly controlled supply chain choices, resulting in no bid exclusivity and lots of resulting operational dysfunctions. Did a stupid sale/leaseback strategy by PE put them on worse footing? Sure. But that was known and quantified a decade ago. The bankruptcy was a combination of declining revenues and a disastrous promo program that put the final nail in the coffin, after rotating through CEOs, with the last being the general counsel for Thai Union. Sometimes business fail because the owners make bad calls. Not because private equity “broke” them.

@johnsemley3000 Up here we like our fightin’ men scrawny

a truly fun Faulkner fact: he was not allowed to enlist in the military during the First World War, because he was so scrawny, so he forged some paperwork and joined the RAF in Toronto, Canada--home of friggin' Timmies!

not only did he "see electricity," he wrote his early novels while working at a power plant, using an overturned wheelbarrow as a table.

@mcclxskey They don’t need a president; they just need a competent GM. Two cooks spoil the broth, as we saw in the Shanahan/Dubas era.

There are two positive takeaways from yesterday’s press conference. 1. It’s the first time in a long time Leafs fans unanimously agree on something, albeit that ‘something’ is Keith Pelley’s clueless and missed the mark entirely. 2. It seems like the Leafs are open to hiring a President again and there’s at least a chance they get that right, which means we’ll likely never have to hear from Keith Pelley again.

@mcclxskey Toronto is supposed to be the train

We didn't see the train coming that is Montreal and Buffalo?? This guy's talking about Michael Hage right now?! Nah, I can't do this. Keith Pelley is off his fucking rocker.

@Karaszewski @am_cinematheque Those two look great. Too bad Richard Thomas wasn’t there

One more pic from the incredible screening of LAST SUMMER with stars Barbara Hershey and Bruce Davison. Unseen in its original theatrical cut for over forty years - the new restoration is a revelation. The sold out Cinematheque audience was blown away.