“I’ll assure you, I’m not as bad as in the movie,” Almodóvar says. “I have the feeling now that people love me more than before. And they think that they have to express that feeling toward me, which is wonderful, but they think I’m much worse off than I am.”

“I had to create this character or else I was going to become him.” —Paul Schrader on the origins of TAXI DRIVER and its main character Travis Bickle. pic.twitter.com/nn1LrXROcn

— TIFF (@TIFF_NET) November 20, 2019

Google Places Some Restrictions On Targeted Political Ads

An Excerpt from “Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay”

Diablo Cody On Musicalizing “Jegged Little Pill”

UK-Educated Russians Are Upholding Putin Regime, Says Newly Released Ukrainian Filmmaker Oleg Sentsov

So consider this an exit interview for #AvengersEndgame

If you love it 3000 — and have seen it almost as many times — I hope you'll still discover surprising things here.https://t.co/UpJodTJErj

— Anthony Breznican (@Breznican) November 20, 2019

Randy Newman Remembers His Earliest “Square” Rock ‘n’ Roll: “Peyton Place”

Well. #KnivesOut is a masterpiece. An instant classic. Quietly incendiary, riotously joyous, hysterically funny and absolutely vital. Screw @rianjohnson and his poopy head

— Phil Lord (@philiplord) November 15, 2019

“I wish that I’d have had your experience when I was in my teens. Jane Tennison was the first. Her ambition and her self-interest and the fact she knew she was better than most of the people—most of the men—around her. The way she had to be quite ruthless. The way her relationships with her parents, her family, her boyfriend all got pushed to one side for her job. There hadn’t been anything like that.”

Have you ever heard of "Magnificent Century"? The Turkish TV drama has hundreds of millions of global viewers, and it's part of a rising wave of cultural movements emerging from the East and eclipsing American soft power around the globe. https://t.co/JHTT3ZlzwH

— New York Times Arts (@nytimesarts) November 15, 2019

Thank you Harte International Galleries.
It was a pleasure to meet everyone. Thank you for inspiring me to continue painting.@HarteIntGallery pic.twitter.com/y1IUxgL7t7

— Anthony Hopkins (@AnthonyHopkins) November 17, 2019

Check out episodes 1 & 2 of @themandalorian!
They are great! More to come on @disneyplus.

— Robert Iger (@RobertIger) November 18, 2019

White House Claims Trump Hosted White House Joker Screening After Rush To Walter Reed Hospital

‘1917’ is a thrilling, immersive, emotional journey into the heart of war. It’s exceptional on a technical level, yet frequently stunning in its simplicity. Sam Mendes & DP Roger Deakin (along with their crew) created a hypnotic cinema experience that is both riveting & moving. pic.twitter.com/qCrdquwdqC

— edgarwright (@edgarwright) November 17, 2019

‘When you’ve seen enough movies in enough places, in drive-ins from childhood and city palaces in adulthood, do you remember the places as well, if not better than the films themselves? The edifice as much as the onscreen evidence? I do. (You should be able to remember what’s around or behind the flatscreen in your living room.) I’m not Marilu Henner, I don’t remember the exact seat and what she said and what I said and if the Dots were juicy-fresh. But I remember the seat I chose, best for the movie in that particular space The memory of dreams projected, played out in spaces: my own dreams I remember and photographs I take are often that frame within frame: the scene, also seen.”

Photographer Terry O’Neill Was 81: A Life in Pictures

‘Nobody owns cinema. We don’t own cinema. You don’t own cinema. Scorsese doesn’t own cinema. When we look at the box office[of Avengers: Endgame, we don’t see that as a signifier of financial success, we see it as a signifier of emotional success,”—The Russo Brothers

“From the moment I saw Marriage Story at the Venice Film Festival, I was always planning to circle back to this issue. But now that the film has been released, that question had bled into a new dynamic: the calling of the movie on the carpet for not being enlightened or woke enough.”
The Sunday Column Has Pondered Scenes From A Marriage Story