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showdown 156: faces places aka actors writing/directing themselves

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“Let the bullets fly: we’re going uptown Saturday night to Thunder Road for the opening night of the last movie written and/or directed by a star who is also in the picture. The mirror has two faces—the poker face needed to direct oneself has to be pitch perfect. Great dictator or violent cop—it is the gift, the touch of evil. So find a quiet place under the cherry moon, open up your diary of a mad Black woman, and list ten great writer-director-performer self-collabs. It’s weird, but don’t worry darling, you’ve got time to whip it together. Heaven can wait. Hanging up now.”

Read notes
  • Before Sunset
  • Pearl
  • What We Do in the Shadows
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Bo Burnham: Inside
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • This Is Spinal Tap
  • The Watermelon Woman
  • Cha Cha Real Smooth
  • Mean Girls
  • All Too Well: The Short Film
  • Thor: Ragnarok
  • Ruby Sparks
  • RuUnion with Katya and Detox
  • Matilda
  • Faces Places
  • Shithouse
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • Another Earth
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Best in Show
  • Good Time
  • Am I OK?
  • Before Midnight
  • The Nowhere Inn
  • Kikujiro
  • Sherlock Jr.
  • Argo
  • Sound of My Voice
  • Office Space
  • Zoolander
  • Whip It
  • A Star Is Born
  • Don't Worry Darling
  • Big Daddy
  • For Your Consideration
  • A Mighty Wind
  • The Hottest State
  • Pitch Perfect 2
  • Blame