Ben Croll

@redroomrantings To the film’s credit, that’s kind of the point tho

I think I was retrospectively a bit harsh on Mile End Kicks. The mistake is to think of it as a Montreal film when it is a Toronto film.

Mile End Kicks cashing in pre-emptive good will by casting half the city’s cool kids as extras. Genius move.

@WillSloanEsq With the deepest of reverence: no other country could have sprung Treed Murray.

Obviously Jon Kay is beneath contempt and not worth acknowledging, but this post makes me sad. I love this ridiculous country’s rich film heritage, and am sad for anyone whose heart is closed to it. Only we could have birthed Guy Maddin. Only we could have generated Things (1989)

@saeedtaji She was saying to a heckler in the crowd, while defending the filmmaker. It's right here: youtu.be/VhQOIBw8vW0?t=…

@eventualforever Check the date

@redroomrantings Haven’t fully lived till you’ve got to town on a tub of saag paneer with three white seeds at 1am

y’all know I’m Montréal down

@rilaws I sure will

@becroll Thank you! You going to be in town?

I’m going to the Berlin film fest for the first time next week! Would love any recs for food, sights to see, and of course gay bars owned by the Cenobites from Hellraiser

@WillSloanEsq i always had faith.

Very exciting Oscar results. Congratulations to 2023's GOLDA for its record-breaking 16 nominations! A few years late, but very much deserved.

@JimJarmuschHair The subtext, metatext, and grand unified message of her many articles and tweets is always the same: “I am deeply unhappy, and here’s why it’s everyone else’s fault.”

Why even publicly speculate on this?

She really is a disgusting piece of shit

@jakebackpack Is… Rahm Emmanuel le désiré ?

Imagine if you will a filmmaker who starts in late style and ends with a promising final feature

@dimension__tide saw it at a nyff screening at the zigfield. Soderbergh looking like Sean Penn in Carlitos Way, probably right from the set of the girlfriend experience. Some guy on the corner canvassing for Obama — gave me a pin and asked if I was registered to vote. The World of Yesterday.

@TheAlexSylvian He wasn’t even an actor. Just looked so much like his old man they had to get him before the camera lol

@TheAlexSylvian Not quite the same but Dick Powell Jr played his dad in Day of the Locust

are there any actual cases of an actor taking over their deceased parent's role

@marshlands France had a few a generation ago — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(2011_f… m.imdb.com/title/tt105190…

looking for recommendations of transgressive and/or sexploitation type stuff made in the last ~15 years. i.e. who and what, if any!, are the (broadly speaking) heirs to Waters, Franco, Oshima, cinema marginal, Kern, Wishman, et al

@davidehrlich busting out the good stuff in anticipation

ZOHRANNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!! LET'S FUCKING GO!

@filipefurtado @sohamncheese The Gingerbread Man -- now *that's* been memory-holed.

@sohamncheese It is interesting how memory-holed it is, because at the time it was treated as minor comeback after three movies barely anyone liked.

@NickPinkerton Dipping just enough into Iberia for the Goofus and Gallant of northern Portuguese sandwiches, and not a step more. Ça, c’est la classe américaine.

@becroll Not to speak of the humble bifana.

Pretty glaringly obvious H is the true gourmand's choice. Beef and weck, Dick's Drive-In, Mackinac Island fudge, Nut Goodie bars, Montréal smoked meat, Mom's Spaghetti in Detroit, Utica chicken riggies, whoopie pies, whatever the fuck they eat in Alaska... x.com/preta_6/status…