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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It’s been beautiful following Finals games by how insane my neighborhood pops off when they’re killing it (Sixers are still my team, but I’ve also lived here for over 13 years, and Knicks are a distant second, let’s go Knicks)

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The time has come to watch the Wim Wenders film that Mel Gibson, one of the movie’s stars and producers, famously called “as boring as a dog’s ass”

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Been watching Girls, which I never finished back in the day, and this was nice. Her most recent credit, from 2013

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Went to an event where everyone silently listened to the entirety of Sign O The Times on vinyl through good speakers, and it was honestly transcendent. Treating older albums like movies projected in a theater is a good idea

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

How did I not know about this? He does not talk about it in his memoir

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Surely I’m the only person here to see the new James Cameron only for James Cameron

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Somehow only now learning that the Rittenhouse Square Barnes and Noble closed (and perhaps more importantly its legendary easy-to-access public bathrooms), and I’ve never been more distraught by the passing of a Philadelphia institution

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Caught the Chess revival/rewrite (not bombastic enough, more SALT II treaty talk than I recalled), then did what you’re supposed to do when you see a ridiculous Broadway show and that’s pair it with a ridiculous Times Square restaurant, in this case Margaritaville

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Was scolded by a little girl in midtown who took umbrage with me saying the Les Miz movie was bad then angrily stormed off — a peak New York moment for me

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Love watching movies from when media companies had disgusting amounts of excess cash, such as Crocodile Dundee, in which Mick Dundee’s lavish NYC jaunt, including a suite at the Plaza, is funded by fucking *Newsday*

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Gotta say I did not enjoy spending most of the day with a pit the size of a Buick in my stomach worrying whether our psycho president was going to destroy the world or not and I do not relish doing this all over again in two weeks

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Perfect box office weekend, this used to be a real country etc

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

They added two more screenings!

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Moved to be one of the oldest people at this sold out screening of Sátántangó, a sign the kids dig the big screen but also slow cinema in which an hour is devoted to a drunk getting tanked, running out of booze, trudging through the cold for more booze, then passing out en route home

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Congrats to PTA for belatedly nabbing some Oscars. Boogie Nights came out just after I started film school in '97 — and what a movie to see at that age/in that major — and also I'm pretty sure the only time I've caught Covid (that I know of) was the time I went to see it in 70mm

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

2025 Best Picture rankings: Police Academy Police Academy 3: Back in Training Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment Police Academy 5: Mission: Miami Beach Police Academy 6: City Under Siege Police Academy: Mission to Moscow Hamnet

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I’m glad I finally caught up with Hamnet because it’s healthy to periodically remember what truly bad cinema is like. Watching only the good-to-great or at least rich text stuff can not only give you a lopsided idea of the medium’s capacity but also make you feel less alive

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Revisiting Taxi Driver for the first time in an awfully long time and instead of taking Betsy to the dirty Swedish movie (at the Lyric Theatre, which now houses the Harry Potter play), Travis, had he been smart, could have taken her across the street to Clint’s The Eiger Sanction

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A long time ago I swore I saw Tom Noonan in the East Village but I wasn’t sure it was him. A friend said, “If you think you saw Tom Noonan, you saw Tom Noonan.” RIP

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Frederick Wiseman spent 1967 on, some six decades, wandering America and the world filming how it works (and, often, doesn’t), retreating to an editing room, then going back out and doing it all over again. What a life! RIP to one of the actual greatest

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Phil Collins solo albums are wild because they’ll have a minimalist, menacing, anguished masterpiece followed immediately by the lamest, most vanilla track ever recorded. I’m especially thinking of “Do You Know, Do You Care?” into “You Can’t Hurry Love” off Hello, I Must Be Going

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Someone do a rep series of W. Somerset Maugham film adaptations and call it Mars Needs Maughams

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I liked Marty Supreme a lot but preferred the one where someone hates living a panic attack existence over the one where someone thrives with it

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

An absurdly mixed bag year! Emergency spinal surgery over the summer made it an ordeal, but I still managed to watch new movies and cross off plenty of oldies off my to-see-list. Thanks to all who helped me get through 2025 and may 2026 be considerably less garbage

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

TIL: We could have gotten David Lynch’s American Beauty

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Revisited Broadcast News and the part where the news head jokes to Nicholson that the layoffs would be less brutal if he shaved a million or so off his salary, then spends a solid 30 seconds apologizing to him and swearing he was just kidding, is my new favorite part

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Belatedly made Metropolitan a staple of my holiday movie repertoire starting in 2022 and it’s become one of my favorite Yuletide traditions

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Once I interviewed Rob Reiner and asked about his incredible work in Wolf of Wall Street. He said, "I don't know what was more unbelievable: that I was DiCaprio's father or that DiCaprio was a Jew." An incredibly lovely and funny man. This news is beyond awful

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

This is arguably the wildest aspect of David Lynch’s Dune

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Because of their Marty Supreme getup in the big window of AMC Lincoln Square 13, New York finally has the giant head of Abel Ferrara looking down upon it

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

My half-filled theater included a row of people who snickered throughout at this movie from a bygone era, but then enthusiastically discussed how it was unusually insightful about specific concerns plaguing us today, so I don’t know what to think! (I mostly liked it)

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Ella McCay: I enjoyed this kooky movie and its plethora of faults and its far more plentiful pleasures. Very nice seeing a comedy in the year 2025 that repeatedly pauses so characters can cry while sad music plays. That Soike Fearn guy is intense

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Is “chicken bake” even a thing or a CostCo invention? Also never been here before and was horrified/impressed by five pounds of Hershey’s and 50 pounds of powdered sugar

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Would watch a sitcom about Roberto Rossellini bringing a kangaroo home to Ingrid and the kids

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Trier has this annoying habit of mercilessly tackling specific-to-me anxieties, this one hitting two of them

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I didn’t buy it either, but that’s because Gustav is actually not that terrible a person, even if he’s forever flighty with people, which makes for an overall stronger movie (that I had problems with too, but the thing got to me)

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Was heartened at my UWS screening of Sentimental Value when a little jokette about Gaspae Noé’s 23-year-old Irreversible got the film’s biggest laugh

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Stoked to never have to think about Andrew Cuomo again for the rest of my days

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Caught up with Pret-à-Porter before it skedaddled from Criterion Channel and this crash zoom into Stephen Rea doing a face is among the wackiest shots in the Altman canon

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Look what the fuck someone did to my lock to steal my bike. I’m almost impressed

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Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

No one has ever wanted to steal my shitty bikes!

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