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Film critic at TIME. I never travel far without a little Big Star. https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/

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06.03.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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'The Bride!' Is an Intellectual Joyride Without the Joy That annoyingly emphatic exclamation mark in the title isn’t just there for looks; it’s emblematic of the movie’s overkill

THE BRIDE! That exclamation mark is there for a reason! And not a good one! This movie is a lot! And not in the good way! time.com/7382567/the-...

06.03.2026 02:53 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century From 'Idlewild' and 'Bright Star' to 'The Magic Flute' and more, these are TIME's most underappreciated movies of the 21st Century

@szacharek.bsky.social you wrote all 50 of these? Stakhanovite stuff!
time.com/collections/...

05.03.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

!!! β™₯️

06.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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'The Bride!' Is an Intellectual Joyride Without the Joy That annoyingly emphatic exclamation mark in the title isn’t just there for looks; it’s emblematic of the movie’s overkill

Ask and ye shall receive! time.com/7382567/the-...

05.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd forgotten that in 2000 I wrote about watching THIS IS SPINAL TAP! in the dentist's chair. But apparently, I did!

02.03.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's very important info.

25.02.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

YEEEESSSSSSS, all must watch!

24.02.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Appreciation: The Peter Fonda role we should be talking about isn’t β€˜Easy Rider,’ but β€˜Ulee’s Gold’ In the 1997 drama β€œUlee’s Gold,” Peter Fonda plays a lonely beekeeper with a persistent limp, a gruff demeanor and a lifetime’s worth of regrets. Nearly everyone in his smal…

BOTD Peter Fonda!!
Across sweeping career, our fave remains The Hired Hand
More:
@szacharek.bsky.social: time.com/5658447/pete...
@kentucker.bsky.social: ew.com/article/1998...
@noelmu.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/m...
@justincchang.bsky.social: www.chicagotribune.com/2019/08/18/a...

23.02.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I would add that people have to like it, but yes!

22.02.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think I've heard that, and regardless, it sounds very Nick Lowe!

22.02.2026 03:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

While we're on the subject of MacArthur Park & songwriter Jimmy Webb...this is just incredible.

22.02.2026 03:11 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

I've never seen thisβ€”it's incredibly beautiful. Thank you for sending!

22.02.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wichita Lineman is one of the greatest songs ever written.

21.02.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

This version, from Paul Shaffer's band, with Jimmy Webb himself sitting in, and vocals by Will Lee, is magnificent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUPS...

21.02.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 3

Love both versions, but she definitely chose the right one for skating choreography!

21.02.2026 20:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I grew up listening to the Richard Harris version (one of my older sisters was in love with him) and I’m sure, for better or worse, it made me what I am today.

21.02.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Delighted that a new generation is discovering the WTF pleasures of β€œMacArthur Park.”

21.02.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 129 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 6
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Baz Luhrmann's EPiC Is the Tribute Elvis Deserves Constructed of previously unreleased footage, EPiC is less a documentary than a kind of spiritual conjuring of Elvis

ELVIS LIVES! See EPiC in IMAX if you can. time.com/7379611/elvi...

21.02.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bible doesn't mention that Martha & Mary had such a fab home. No wonder Christ & the gang wanted to visit them! As rendered in 1566 by Hans Vredeman de Vries, whose day is today.

20.02.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Being darling is now a potential FCC violation.

20.02.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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THIS Wuthering Heights is "for the fans."

18.02.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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A trillion ❀️s for this picture.

17.02.2026 04:31 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I remember going to @filmforumnyc.bsky.social to see Menus-Plaisirsβ€”Les Troisgros, and I'm like, wow, this is long, better hunker down, & a guy behind me snored through the WHOLE thing, but I was practically tingling through all the way through. Like watching a William Castle movie or something.

16.02.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

God, he was just great!

16.02.2026 23:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hands-down my best celebrity-sighting-in-the-wild was seeing, while visiting Paris, Fred Wiseman crossing the Pont Neuf one day. I stopped for a second and just gawped. Frederick effing Wiseman! I was too scared to say anything to him, but I savored that moment of being in the presence of greatness.

16.02.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Author photo for when she writes her first book. Don’t laugh, I think she’s gonna do it.

15.02.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I disliked pretty much all of it (except for Heathcliff’s gold tooth, which I thought was inspired), but I’d rather have a movie that divides people than one that just instigates a universal pile-on.

15.02.2026 00:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And you can signal artificialityβ€”with vinyl dresses or whateverβ€”but it has to give the audience some visceral charge beyond, 'Wow, that's certainly a hideous choice.' Not necessarily looking for prettiness, just prefer not to be visually punished so a filmmaker can get her not-so-big ideas across.

14.02.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I was OK with it because I knew going in not to expect slavish faithfulness to the novel. Which is fine! But when nearly every stylistic choice is just bad, you start to wonder why she’d bothered in the first place.

14.02.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0