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Oh yeah Spielberg definitely said Lynch stipulated Cheetos back when he was doing Fabelmans press, but Lynch had never commented about it. These quotes are from this past December so still old-ish news but weren't posted here...Fabelmans was a 2023 release in the UK so that's why they followed up for their year in review. This Redditor posted the full interview with more thoughts on his Fabelmans experience, from Empire's magazine edition: And probably TMI but the comments shared an AMA with a Twin Peaks exec producer who clarified Lynch's preferred Cheeto

It immediately reminded me of a brilliant David Lynch ramble that John Mulaney and Nick Kroll quoted at the Independent Spirit Awards:

I was 11 when Fellowship of the Ring was released Anyone turning 11 this year was in utero or not yet conceived when The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was released

It's a snack food cliche but it is true. Even if you're full or limiting yourself, you're gonna at least have a small handful or just refrain entirely. Eating a single potato chip is a red flag!

David Lynch finally gave a few quotes about taking the role

That's weird, it's not like that for other categories, is it? Eligible visual effects and sound supervisors especially can get up there...it must be another case of the music branch being especially protective about the integrity of a single composer writing 100% original material which gets anal sometimes. It was also just a bizarre rule because composing duos still got their own statue (so Reznor and Ross each got one when they won for Social Network) but then with three or more composers it was back down to one? I feel like it's possible that was a rule change that was proposed in 1986 after The Color Purple had like 12 composers nominated and maybe it didn't get implemented until after 1988 when Last Emperor won. And they just decided 3 or more would get one statue from now on, and it never came up again until Soul. Then actually having to follow through and withhold two Oscars from the winners made them feel bad

No but it gets a bad rap, it's really entertaining

He can always take back his position that Kill Bill is one movie and call them two movies, which they are. In that sense he's already made 10, anyway.

I like em all tbh. Hateful Eight lives up to its title a little too well for me but it is hilariously disgusting except for the truly sad flashback reveal.

Love "Hymn to the Fallen," always have, essential John Williams. I wouldn't hesitate at all to put it in the pantheon of his greatest concert pieces. The score is effective, "Wade's Death" for me is what I really think about as Williams's most important contribution in context. His score is expressing a lot of stomach-churning feelings in the aftermath of that situation. Especially Miller crying in secret, it's like the sound of emotional repression. But it just feels weird to single out SPR as a masterpiece of film scoring, other than just always appreciating John Williams's musical and dramatic instincts. The film is obviously the Steven Spielberg/Michael Kahn show, D-Day is probably the greatest thing they've ever put together, maybe the greatest thing Spielberg's ever directed. I acknowledge the film is sometimes confused as to what it is really trying to say about the nature of war, but it's such a moving and harrowing movie, I love the whole ensemble and all four combat sequences are just astonishing.

Disney doesn't own The Beatles until they get the Anthology and the 60s movies up on Disney+ Granted Disney did buy ABC around the time they originally broadcast the Anthology documentary so maybe that already counts. I hate everything. Kind of funny looking back that 1997 crystallized three major male movie stars with Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting), Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic), and Will Smith (Men in Black; I know ID4 had already happened in 1996). DiCaprio is kind of the only one who still checks every box today and even he couldn't make Killers of the Flower Moon a blockbuster. Which wasn't entirely out of the question after The Revenant and his previous Scorsese collabs. Since then you do kind of have to put asterisks by most who have emerged as leading man material. They always fall short in some area, but of course we do have guys like Ryan Gosling and Joaquin Phoenix who can carry films. But they need a lot of extra help to make unqualified hits, whereas nobody but Leo could have gotten The Wolf of Wall Street and especially The Revenant into the hundreds of millions, $533 million is still insane for that movie. Dwayne Johnson has done a good job branding himself and he did have consistency on his side but Black Adam was embarrassing and nobody thinks he's a great actor. Right now if anybody can keep it up I guess it'll be Timothee Chalamet. I'm still not really getting the sense that Glen Powell is lighting hearts on fire.

He did literally say "I don't particularly want to do films anymore" but I think as it turns out, the word "particularly" was doing a lot of work when he said that. With the various qualifying statements he's given since, it's more accurate to say film scoring as a whole is not a priority. But he's also admitted to being protective and jealous about his film legacy, saying some version of "I did it because I didn't want anybody else doing it" about multiple projects now. And even though he can come off ambivalent and not-quite-kidding when he says stuff like "Steven expects me to work til I'm 100," he's obviously sentimental and proud about that. They are married after all.

If Steven Spielberg directs it and John Williams is alive and well at 93+, I think it'll happen. I wouldn't begrudge him saying no but of course I hope he does it. I don't really wanna think about it anymore until it exists.

I almost had a heart attack thinking that said "Todd Haynes"