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Scott Tobias@scotttobias.bsky.social |
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Film/TV writer. Co-host: The Next Picture Show podcast. Author of The Reveal newsletter (thereveal.substack.com) with Keith Phipps.
“I’m an expert in all things that nature abhors.” — Mark Eitzel
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Scott Tobias
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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...
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"Though no one connected to the platform committee’s proceedings in Milwaukee publicly criticized the former president or threatened to withhold support..." JFC!
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Scott Tobias
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First, Trump has never written any portions of anything in his whole life. Second, come oooooonnnnnn CNN, you Charlie-with-the-football dopes.
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David_j_roth
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Every big media organization was so crossed-up by Trump winning in 2016 that they have been behaving and hiring as if Long Island-Coded Suburbo-Racist Sociopathy was on an unstoppable ascent worldwide, and interpreting everything backwards from there. It turns out most people actually hate it!
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Scott Tobias
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Beautiful Hawaiian sunset. Also: ENHANCE!!!
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Concerning…
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Either all my friends/followers have bailed on Twitter or I’ve gotten throttled since the “verified” user shenanigans upended the site.
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Scott Tobias
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Fascinating study in contrasts between two virtually identical posts made at the same time. I have a little under 6k followers on BlueSky and 66k on Elon’s Twitter/X. And yet…
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Lakers are pretty desperate for another piece.
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Seismic shift in small-market teams being able to snag free agents like DeRozen for the Kings and Hartenstein for OKC while the Lakers/GSW roll snake eyes. Good vibes/winning teams are trumping legacy franchises.
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I do appreciate you reading it twice.
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Scott Tobias
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Wrote about FORREST GUMP at 30. For a film that obviously resonates with a lot of people, I honestly can’t fathom what it’s trying to express. amp.theguardian.com/film/article...
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Scott Tobias
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Doing the very normal thing of choosing which natural wonder of Hawaii to visit based on how many stars it has on Google.
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Sarah Weinman
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The thing about the march to fascism is that aside from the terror and the consequences it’s also so goddamn embarrassing
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Scott Tobias
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Amazing micro-targeting on this post.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
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Scott Tobias
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Worth noting: It is notable we're taking the time off because we're producing features and reviews for the newsletter the rest of the year. We promise a lot of value for your subscription dollar.
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We're taking the week off for vacation at The Reveal, but we've posted some highlights from the last year and are offering a 20% holiday sale for new subscribers. thereveal.substack.com/p/for-the-fo...
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Ha. Amazing.
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Love how when Mike Ehrmantraut gets a “security consultant” gig at Madrigal to launder $200,000 in drug money, he treats it like Steve Sax in the softball episode of The Simpsons.
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David_j_roth
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
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Parker Molloy
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BREAKING: SCOTUS Rules 6-3 That We Can All Go Fuck Ourselves
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Scott Tobias
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Between last night's debate and today's Supreme Court decisions, we are heading into an unfathomably dark place at breathless speed.
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Keith Phipps
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I wrote one from the heart in memory of my mother at The Reveal:
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D’oh!
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Scott Tobias
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Good movies! A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE ducks from Paramount Pictures' expectations like they're sound-sensitive aliens and JANET PLANET is a wonderful debut: thereveal.substack.com/p/in-review-...
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I have my doubts, but maybe I shouldn't?
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It's definitely not on the level of PIG, which is fantastic, but it's also not your typical studio hack job.
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Good job Michael Sarnoski for botching the assignment and making a real movie.
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Scott Tobias
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You will not regret it.
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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...
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Scott Tobias
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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-...
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Scott Tobias
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Yes. You have directorial problems.
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Scott Tobias
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How could you do this to Elias Koreas?
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Yeah, see I think it’s the most detailed and evocative world I’ve witnessed in any movie this year, and feels so utterly specific in its rhythms and sense of character/place that I’m searching for comparisons. Maybe Moodysson’s TOGETHER in theme, but very much its own thing.
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I strongly disagree but a word like “correctly” rankles a bit. She’s making strong choices in the framing, as she does in every other aspect of this (amazing) film. I didn’t long for the film to be more conventional in any respect.
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Scott Tobias
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What is “correct” supposed to mean? Like you think she’s actually incompetent and not deliberate in her framing?
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This is why, when I got “canceled” for a tweet, I refused to affirm that “cancel culture” is a thing because the made-up moral panic around it was always obviously a stalking horse for straight-up right-wing state-sponsored censorship of the left. Dipshits who got played still won’t admit it.
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Scott Tobias
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Ka-ching! $$$
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American cinema would be so much better if we talked about "world-building" in reference to the immense detail invested films like JANET PLANET rather than some gargantuan sci-fi piece of crap.
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Scott Tobias
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Do I? The "stream it" stuff is in reference to platforms where you pay a monthly fee, "rent it" is in reference to straight rental platforms obv. Did I get something wrong?
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Scott Tobias
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For @nytimes.com, I put together a list of 15 Donald Sutherland movies you can stream. I could have done 15 more. What a career! www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/m...
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Scott Tobias
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He aspires to be better every day, as we all should.
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Keith Phipps
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Today at The Reveal you can read @scotttobias.bsky.social on KINDS OF KINDNESS and read me on THE BIKERIDERS and GHOSTLIGHT:
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For Guardian, I wrote about CHINATOWN at 50. Still as a good a screenplay as the last half-century has produced and just so impressively bleak: www.theguardian.com/film/article...
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For The Reveal, I wrote about the connections between Agnieszka Holland's 🔥 new migrant drama GREEN BORDER and the film that put her on the map, 1990's EUROPA EUROPA: thereveal.substack.com/p/agnieszka-...
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Such a lovely piece from my publishing partner and friend, @kphipps3000.bsky.social, about the loss of his mother, who took him to the movies and stayed awake through some of them: thereveal.substack.com/p/my-mother-...
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I'd read a column on all the steps involved in actually doing this.
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