braxton pope
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braxton pope
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🎥 producer ‘the basics of philosophy,’ ‘the card counter’ (best of year ny times, new yorker, cahiers du cinema). oh canada | arcadian | the canyons.

#ProjectHailMary directors showed a nearly four-hour cut of the movie to fellow filmmakers, "which was embarrassing." They received a unanimous note: "Get it way shorter." “Our first official test screening went great, but we do a lot of earlier screenings for friends and family and other filmmakers and writers,” Chris Miller explained. “This movie was massive. When we finally got the assembly cut down to under four hours long, we subjected some filmmaker friends of ours to a three hour and 45 minute cut of the movie, which was embarrassing.” Phil Lord added: "You just don’t know how the scenes are going to land with an audience. We thought everything was charming, but some of those charming things didn’t land." (via Happy Sad Confused) variety.com/2026/film/news…




You're making 3 movies. Which directors are you hiring to make them?

Kneeled and prayed for G Amato at the altar of Big Bird last night


PEPE LE MOKO (1937) Superb entertainment. A classic romantic melodrama of the 30s, and one of the most compelling of all the fatalistic French screen romances, yet seen by few Americans because it was remade in Hollywood two years later as ALGIERS.

What rangers called a once-in-a-decade wildflower “superbloom” in North America’s hottest, driest and lowest-elevation place has come and gone — another consequence of an intense, early heat wave in the American West. STORY: lvrj.com/post/3729523

My favorite films over the last decade: 2025: One Battle After Another 2024: Queer 2023: Perfect Days 2022: Crimes of the Future 2021: Annette 2020: First Cow 2019: Parasite 2018: Suspiria 2017: Phantom Thread 2016: The Handmaiden












