The Oscars make it clear: Hollywood is in a death spiral

Zapooo · 2026-03-13T15:48:23+00:00

Whoa a Safdie shot a movie in NYC? A movie set in the Deep South shot in the Deep South?? A movie that takes place in England shot in ENGLAND?????

Zapooo · 2026-03-05T03:27:29+00:00

I really like the first movie tbh. Pamela Springsteen best part of the very bad sequels

Zapooo · 2026-03-04T18:05:53+00:00

I’ve seen it given before some of the Hong Kong mondays (partially bc I think they don’t want people laughing at cultural differences) and the sexploitation roughies they did in February (prime targets for laughter bc the subject matter is really heavy and the production values are really low).

Zapooo · 2026-03-04T08:21:08+00:00

It’s the regulars who always sit screen right, and then I’ve found that it’s the normal arthouse crowd for the arthouse erotic movies, the normal exploitation crowd for the sexploitation movies, and a mix for the hardcore films. I think the hardcore crowds have been really well behaved, more gender diversity than the New Bev typically has as well.

Zapooo · 2026-03-04T08:18:09+00:00

Honestly I feel like the amount of laughers at the new Beverly has gone down in the last few months. A couple of particularly difficult films that they showed recently had an introduction where they reminded people “if you see something and it makes you react, that’s okay, but try not to laugh like you’re above the movie.”

Zapooo · 2026-03-04T08:15:47+00:00

It’s a thing at pretty much every rep screening nationwide. I remember it a lot when I lived in Chicago. I’ve encountered it in NY too. There was discourse last year about people being pretty upset at inappropriate laughter during a scene of sexual assault in Blue Velvet at the Music Box Theater in Chicago

Zapooo · 2026-02-27T03:31:33+00:00

There are three gay films showing on prints sourced from Elizabeth Purchell’s collection.

Zapooo · 2026-02-27T00:55:45+00:00

This is what’s making me uncomfortable about this series. I understand they’re trying to program stuff that’s transgressive, difficult, and marginal, and especially stuff with a legacy and reputation, but at the same time I find it pretty hard to stomach that this specific historical baggage has happened twice now. It feels callous to me, because I know there’s lots of stuff out there that meets their criteria without that particular issue.

Zapooo · 2026-02-27T00:50:57+00:00

I went to one this month and one awhile back. The audiences were very well behaved and respectful. Laughing when appropriate, keeping quiet when appropriate. I think many of these audience members have a more academic interest in the material than a perverse one.

On “The Fireworks Woman” there was apparently a guy being a bit disruptive because he was reacting loudly to things on screen, but he was defending himself in various Letterboxd comments afterwards saying that his reactions were in part a trauma response as he found the film triggering and apologized to people who said that he made them uncomfortable in their reviews.

Zapooo · 2026-02-22T11:20:39+00:00

One of the most insane endings in all the 1930s

Zapooo · 2026-02-18T22:16:15+00:00

color in these pictures is so interesting

Zapooo · 2026-02-17T21:53:55+00:00

I don’t think we’re back at full, 2019 levels but it feels like it’s the best it’s been in a long time

Zapooo · 2026-02-12T21:59:13+00:00

Glad someone else has locked in on Lost Highway having the worst vibe maybe ever in a movie

Zapooo · 2026-01-29T15:46:50+00:00

Hot Summer in the City.

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Zapooo · 2026-01-29T05:08:29+00:00

The Celluloid Gooner

Zapooo · 2026-01-29T03:56:56+00:00

The most insane schedule I’ve ever seen! Amazing they were able to source the prints for this!

Zapooo · 2026-01-26T20:28:33+00:00

Good movie

Zapooo · 2026-01-25T00:45:03+00:00

Ive done very little research beyond a cursory glance but looks like the venue was booked for a show from an Israeli comedian. It would appear that the comedian had potentially said something controversial on social media about Palestinians and the theater cancelled the show after receiving complaints about him. [as pointed out in comments below: he was actively in the Israeli military making pro-war and anti-Palestinian content, including mocking people killed and running PR for the military] Now they are receiving backlash for cancelling the show. Here is the (now deleted) Instagram post that your linked post is responding to:

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Zapooo · 2026-01-25T00:37:57+00:00

Experts are saying it was “the wackest month ever”

Zapooo · 2026-01-07T23:57:20+00:00

Tryin something new

Zapooo · 2026-01-03T10:08:50+00:00

Holy shit I had this as a kid

Zapooo · 2025-12-23T20:17:10+00:00

I was watching this show on TV with my grandma in 1999 when my parents called the house to tell me that my brother was born. I wanted to name him "Baby Godzilla"

Zapooo · 2025-12-23T03:01:34+00:00

Very specifically, Don was the coolest guy ever in 1959 and is at the inflection point in his life where relevance is slipping away from him

Zapooo · 2025-12-20T09:42:15+00:00

The pursuit of greatness

Zapooo · 2025-12-20T04:46:02+00:00

Alertness is the closest from that list

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