The Art of Self-Defense (2019)

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Wikidata Q44613088, film, IMDb tt7339248, TMDB 480001: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title.

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Who talked about it

Blank Check — Patreon

The Big Picture

Came from

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Led to

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No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Alessandro Nivola: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Alessandro Nivola → The Art of Self-Defense. Nivola's firecracker performance in a movie 'like an American Yorgos'.
    “That movie is sort of like an American Yorgos, the most movie, like it has that sort of weird unreality where you're like, people don't talk like this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:30:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Riley Stearns: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (director): The Art of Self-Defense → Riley Stearns. Riley Stearns's hand-to-hand combat psychodrama starring Jesse Eisenberg.
    “Riley Stern's, uh, I don't know, hand-to-hand combat, psychodrama, starring Jesse Eisenberg.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:47:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (director): The Art of Self-Defense → Riley Stearns. Riley Stearns's hand-to-hand combat psychodrama starring Jesse Eisenberg.
    “Riley Stern's, uh, I don't know, hand-to-hand combat, psychodrama, starring Jesse Eisenberg.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:47:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Alessandro Nivola → The Art of Self-Defense. Nivola's firecracker performance in a movie 'like an American Yorgos'.
    “That movie is sort of like an American Yorgos, the most movie, like it has that sort of weird unreality where you're like, people don't talk like this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:30:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about The Art of Self-Defense: Sean watched it in an Airbnb kitchen at South by Southwest and it was still effective.
    “I watched that movie in a kitchen of an Airbnb at South by Southwest.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:48:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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