Keith Phipps

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Movies, etc. for GQ, Vulture, Ringer and more. Co-host Next Picture Show. With @scotttobias.bsky.social I write The Reveal: http://thereveal.substack.com. Author of AGE OF CAGE. Photos at Vero: @kphipps3000

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Celebrate the anniversary of the first time I saw this movie and a woman in the audience exclaimed, "OH! It gets dirty _right_ away!"

Stanley Kubrick's final film EYES WIDE SHUT starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman opened on this day in 1999. Celebrate the 25th anniversary tonight at 8pm ET on Pluto TV 90s Throwback. No password required. pluto.tv/us/live-tv/5...

For The Reveal I wrote about Shelley Duvall's stunning work in Robert Altman's 3 WOMEN:

The Pink Stuff: Shelley Duvall in ‘3 Women’thereveal.substack.com Duvall delivered one of her most memorable performances in one of Robert Altman's most experimental films playing a character she helped shape in every way.

Having a saved eBay search for vintage radios from the '60s, '70, and '80s means every morning my inbox is filled with delights like these.

Daughter: “I’m choosing my top 4 films for Letterboxd. So far I have GREMLINS 2…”

Nothing has made me regret my decision to post about politics / current events on social media seldom, if at all even though I think about them all the time. But that often means I end up not posting anything. Anyway, here's one of my favorite movie posters just because I like it.

It's reviews day at The Reveal where you can read me on FLY ME TO THE MOON (didn't hate it), LONGLEGS (messed me up) and @scotttobias.bsky.social on MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER:

In Review: 'Fly Me to the Moon,' 'Longlegs,' and 'Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger'thereveal.substack.com This week brings a rom-com set against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 mission, an unnerving horror procedural, and a documentary about a remarkable filmmaking team.

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Redbox’s last words.

Good night, old friend.

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As a green reporter, I interviewed Robert Towne for WITHOUT LIMITS. It remains the worst interview I ever did. I reflect on that experience (and the greatness of the movie) today on The Reveal: thereveal.substack.com/p/robert-tow...

Robert Towne and Me: A Disaster Revisitedthereveal.substack.com What a flubbed interview around Towne's Steve Prefontaine biopic 'Without Limits' reveals about a great sports movie and the two men at its center.

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A movie about faking the moon landing comes out and @kphipps3000.bsky.social busts out this piece about competing moon-trip movies from 1950. Classic Phipps. thereveal.substack.com/p/1950-the-y...

1950: The Year We Went to the Moon (Sort Of)thereveal.substack.com Released mere weeks apart 19 years before the moon landing, ‘Destination Moon’ and ‘Rocketship X-M’ competed at the box office while offering two sharply contrasting visions of space travel.

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This week, inspired by JANET PLANET, we look back at another film where an owlish kid watches and judges a parent within a fringe society: Lukas Moodysson's 2000 comedy TOGETHER tracks the ins and outs of a radical commune full of opinionated people and big drama. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

For THE REVEAL I wrote about two 1950 movies about going to the moon and how they helped make this feel like something we could do. (Inspired, sort of, by FLY ME TO THE MOON):

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OK, now it's personal. My name is _not_ "Abigail's Big Sisters."

It still amazes me just how bad Google’s AI is:

Looking forward to this (and not just because two pals co-wrote it).

Publisher's Weekly _loved_ Back to the Island, the upcoming book on Lost I wrote with @noelmu.bsky.social. If you were a fan of the show -- or just like TV -- I think you'll enjoy this book. Preorder today! www.publishersweekly.com/9781419750502

‘Lost’: Back to the Island: The Complete Critical Companion to the Classic TV Series by Emily St James, Noel Murraywww.publishersweekly.com In this spirited commentary, screenwriter St. James (coauthor of Monsters of the Week) and TV critic Murray serve up brief essay...

Bold of Sonos to push forward as a company by updating their apps and equipment to a state that might best be described as “semi-functional.”

Finally saw a Chicago coyote in the wild. (Technically it was in Lincolnwood, but I think that counts.)

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Just checked the news. Maybe I should make this a double feature? Is GARFIELD any good?

Seated for a movie (JANET PLANET) at least partly because I think watching the debate would break my brain.

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Our conversation series on the Sight & Sound Top 100 poll reaches SANSHO THE BAILIFF, one of my favorite movies. A reminder to cling to your humanity in dark times. thereveal.substack.com/p/75-tie-san...

#75 (tie): Sansho the Bailiff: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Timethereveal.substack.com Kenji Mizoguchi's heartbreaking masterpiece about a family torn apart in feudal Japan appeals to our humanity in the face of tyranny and evil.

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Learned a lot from this @aduralde.bsky.social interview with @kphipps3000.bsky.social that we just posted on The Reveal today. Alonso talks about his new book on the history of LGBTQ+ representation in film and it's quite a journey: thereveal.substack.com/p/interview-...

Interview: Alonso Duralde Discusses 'Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film'thereveal.substack.com The veteran critic, journalist, and podcaster discusses his sweeping new survey of the history of LGBTQ+ films and talent.

The peerless work of renowned cinema scholar Sean Evans. (He types quickly.)

Just published today. I'm sure it's a thoroughly-researched, in-depth work produced with all the rigorous care and attention to detail that went into the cover.

Today at The Reveal you can read @scotttobias.bsky.social on KINDS OF KINDNESS and read me on THE BIKERIDERS and GHOSTLIGHT:

In Review: 'Kinds of Kindness,' 'The Bikeriders,' 'Ghostlight'thereveal.substack.com A perfect time to duck into the air conditioning to see new movies by Yorgos Lanthimos and Jeff Nichols, plus a lower-key indie gem about on-stage and off-stage drama.

Gotta say, waiting for a call from the cable company to cancel my late mom's service because Comcast forces you to talk to someone to explain why you're canceling, no matter the reason, is not cool.

I wrote one from the heart in memory of my mother at The Reveal:

My Mother, the Movies, and Methereveal.substack.com Some reflections on times spent at the movies long ago, in remembrance..

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Top Five Reasons COLUMBO victims must die: 5. Not good enough to marry my child. 4. Standing in the way of my big break. 3. Blocking my inheritance. 2. Knows about my scandalous past/affair. 1. Threatening to destroy all the good work we've been doing here at the Institute.

One of these little women just committed a big murder. Can she be stopped before she strikes again?

Love when Apple Music alerts me to new tracks from favorite artists.

For The Reveal I wrote about THE BIRDS, which I had not seen in years and did not realize how much I'd missed on previous viewings:

10 Thoughts on Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds'thereveal.substack.com In 1963, Hitchcock followed the mammoth success of ‘Psycho’ with an elusive, unsettling film unlike anything else he’d ever make.

“From the Box Tops: Alex Chilton”

Valley Forge Music Fair ad, summer 1987. My dad took us to that Yakov Smirnoff show with an opening act I'd seen on a Rodney Dangerfield HBO young comics special with Robert Townsend and Sam Kinison.