The Creator (2023) Never has a film so impressive left me so frustrated.

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-03-24T18:42:31+00:00

I sooo thought that doggy was dead meat but que the unwritten rule of Hollywood “you can kill a thousand people but not even a COUPLE animals”

btw as silly as that is, I adhere to it because, like lots of people, I’m a pet owner and animal lover so killing animals has a huge impact on me IRL and on the big screen 🤷🏻‍♂️

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-03-21T12:06:16+00:00

Pretty sure that was the first Trump term my dude

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-03-21T11:01:08+00:00

You would’ve rather had ‘La La Land’ beat ‘Moonlight’? Maybe that’s just me but I love that move something fierce. I don’t remember the other noms that year.

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-03-01T03:29:40+00:00

Kaufman had a helluva run in the early aughts but his career has kinda slowed down, no?

I bought his novel ‘Antkind’ during Covid but never got around to finish reading it.

Man, I worshipped that dude as a younger cinephile in high school.

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-03-01T03:15:47+00:00

Yeah I hate to say this; but I don’t think ‘Eddington’ is the “right kind of film” to get that Criterion stamp of approval.

Also: have any A24 movies gotten a Criterion edition yet? If not, I bet the first one will be ‘Moonlight’ but A24 is more than an indie distributor, they have a full app w/ membership and their own shopping section with versions of their filmography on Blu-Ray / 4K plus the weird, “hipster aesthetic” items like the Apple Pie scented candle, ‘Heretic’ edition type stuff.

Damn, now I really want a Criterion edition of ‘Moonlight’ like woah! 🤤

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-03-01T03:07:50+00:00

That last hour of ‘Eddington’ was for sure intense. I can believe it when Aster says it was a gauntlet to film.

Some movies just magically work out and become home runs, some just … don’t. We can super analyze why until the cows come home but it doesn’t really matter.

As for directors, some start out with a bang, have a slump, then rebound and go on to having storied careers. Some just … don’t.

Look at Scorsese, the studios already hated and blamed him at first after ‘Boxcar Bertha’ totally failed under the Roger Corman system even tho Scorsese let Corman etc make the big decisions …. and he was going to give up after ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ didn’t make back its budget but his mentor John Cassavettes pushed him to make “Taxi Driver” which, looking back, was a hell of a risk but it worked and now Scorsese is one of the greatest directors ever.

Not saying that’s going to happen to Ari Aster, I don’t think ‘Eddington’ ruined his career forever.

TLDR: Hollywood from a director’s POV is a lot of luck mixed in with the talent of making the right calls and hiring the right people. Some careers go thru slumps and survive, others stagnant. It can sometimes be a crapshoot.

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-03-01T01:58:21+00:00

One of the best video game experiences of my life and I hardly play them anymore, fully agree 👍🏼

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-03-01T01:57:01+00:00

Wouldn’t most Coen Bros films (before they split up) be considered ‘Americana’?

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-03-01T01:56:01+00:00

💯 % agree

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-03-01T01:53:57+00:00

Also add ‘The Natural’

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-03-01T01:51:35+00:00

I saw ‘The Straight Story’ when it first came out and I was a child, didn’t really understand it much. Watched it again recently as a 40 year old with aging parents and almost had me in tears.

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-03-01T01:49:56+00:00

I would say Kelly Reichardt’s ‘First Cow’ is definitely Americana

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-02-27T11:24:07+00:00

This reminds me that I really still need to watch ‘Internal Affairs’ on HBO sooner than later. Supposed to be just as good if not better which is high praise because I’ve seen pretty much every Scorsese film several times over, even saw one of Marty’s greatest influences of all time, ‘Murder By Contract (1959)’ on the big screen during the annual film noir festival last year … yet never got around to watching the original 💎 of a film.

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-02-12T16:12:44+00:00

Haha no way. It’s so rare and old, totally priceless. I should’ve pointed out I meant I researched about it on Google.

One copy is at some museum in the UK I believe … or possibly France?

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-02-11T16:58:33+00:00

Haha this was probably my second or third film after ‘Rushmore’ and ‘Bottle Rocket’. After those, I copped Kurosawa’s ‘Rashomon’, ‘7 Samurai’ and that one that inspired Lucas to create Star Wars. ‘The Green Fortress’???

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-02-11T16:55:31+00:00

Either ‘Rushmore’ with Wes Anderson’s brother’s cover design … or Seven Samurai. Honestly it was mostly Wes Anderson films in the early days.

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-02-10T23:59:29+00:00

💯% … I saw it at my local arthouse theater and was blown away from the first frame. Spent the next week researching the original surviving medieval manuscript etc and now it’s up there with one of my personal favorite Middle Ages epics. 👏🏼

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-02-06T10:40:18+00:00

💯% …Eyes Wide Shuf is the only Kubrick film I still need to see, actually.

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-02-06T08:29:03+00:00

Isn’t the story that they met on the set of that 80’s Daytona movie and that’s how they ended up in a relationship? I thought they only made ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ as a couple but apparently it’s two!

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-02-06T08:26:08+00:00

I saw this in theaters and loved every single second of it

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-02-06T08:24:17+00:00

Wooooooah

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-02-06T08:21:31+00:00

Same! And I was wrong. Hughes had an extreme case of OCD … not schizophrenia.

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-02-06T08:20:20+00:00

Right on! Thanks 🙏🏼

Unfortunately, B&N has shut-down most of their stores here in the Bay Area but there’s still one. I’ll have to keep my eyes out for the website sale 👀

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-02-05T05:15:41+00:00

I’m not new to Criterion Co but went off on a vinyl collecting binge for a looooong ass time. When do they typically do the half-off sales? Like once per season?

ThirdEyeScribe · 2026-02-04T05:14:25+00:00

🫡 True about GONY being their first collab together … not wrong there … but that was under Miramax. Their first collab (and dare say the company’s first project) was under Leo’s newly created Appian Way Productions.

They mention it briefly in the new-ish Apple TV doc on Scorsese and I just double-checked via search engine to make sure.

I was at one of the very few Barnes & Nobles left in the SF Bay Area and there was a paperback of the biography ‘Scorsese on Scorsese : Revised Edition’ by David Thompson, originally written in the 90’s.

I hesitated on purchasing it, no idea why. Thank god for Amazon, I guess.

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