March 9: 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦 returns to Nitehawk Cinema - Prospect Park! Join us for a secret monthly mixtape of short films from across the globe, including NY premieres. Q&As with visiting filmmakers & free zines. ONE NIGHT ONLY: nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark...

Not only is it Skerritt, but he suggested Bud Cort for the lead.

Gotta go, my ride's here

Kicking off 2026 with some amazing new features: The Chronology of Water (Kristen Stewart); Barbara Forever (Brydie O'Connor); Magellan (Lav Diaz); The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho); TheyDream (William D. Caballero); Joybubbles (Rachael J. Morrison). 🎬

“This is a political film that’s explicit about its characters struggles and the struggles so many undocumented immigrants faced... and how transness intersects with this experience.” – Autostraddle Isabel Sandoval’s LINGUA FRANCA screens Monday at Nitehawk Williamsburg.

An early crush and the inspiration for my own teenage funeral home escapades RIP Bud Cort 🖤

📸 Saul Leiter • New York 1954

Kicking off 2026 with some amazing new features: The Chronology of Water (Kristen Stewart); Barbara Forever (Brydie O'Connor); Magellan (Lav Diaz); The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho); TheyDream (William D. Caballero); Joybubbles (Rachael J. Morrison). 🎬

OUTSTANDING long form Wallace Shawn profile via @susandominus.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/t...

I have nothing to add to the Withering Tights discourse except this:

I've waited a long time to be able to say this, but we're hiring a full-time Film Critic for @avclub.com! Details are in the job listing, but you should send application materials to [email protected] www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Always and forever 💙 Wishing a very happy birthday to the singular Laura Dern.

New poster I made for Radley Metzger’s THE IMAGE, playing at @spectacletheater.com. One of my favorite films, adapted from the banned novel by Catherine Robbe-Grillet. New 4K restoration by @therialtoreport.bsky.social & Distribpix, via @muscledistribution.bsky.social @schlockvalue.bsky.social 🌹⛓️

Joe Pesci is 83. Here’s the pivotal scene from Goodfellas when he gets elaborately whacked by the mob for killing Billy Batts.

Feeling a múm Monday. youtu.be/GA5Q8u5f0Ks?...

Taxi Driver was released 50 years ago today. 50 years of Martin Scorsese’s bleak American masterpiece. 50 years of Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle. 50 years of Paul Schrader’s “God’s Lonely Man.” 🚕 “Someday, a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.”

Taxi Driver was released 50 years ago today. 50 years of Martin Scorsese’s bleak American masterpiece. 50 years of Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle. 50 years of Paul Schrader’s “God’s Lonely Man.” 🚕 “Someday, a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.”

Dennis Hopper at a shoppers drug mart in Vancouver, 1980

Happy Dilla Day. 📻 Celebrating the late J Dilla, 20 years gone.

Needed some good news today, so here you go: Le Cinema Club is playing HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT for the next week at www.lecinemaclub.com

Newsletter update 🗞️

Cassavetes ass answer (the highest compliment)

Tonight at the Cleveland Cinematheque I’m presenting two Jafar Panahi films — It Was Just an Accident and The Circle. Here’s an excellent piece curator Bilgesu Sisman wrote about the event cinematheque.cia.edu/2025/12/16/c...

Goodbye, beautiful friend Christa Fuller ❤️. Actress in Godard’s ALPHAVILLE and films by Wim Wenders, Claude Chabrol, Peter Bogdanovich, Sam Fuller. @nonfilms.bsky.social and I were fortunate to visit her in the Hollywood Hills home she shared with her late husband, the legendary director #SamFuller

R.I.P. Christa Lang Fuller 🥀 A true cinema legend.

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C U Next Tuesday when I make my triumphant return to cohosting PRE-CODE PARADE!!!!!

Ben Gazzara and Seymour Cassel star in John Cassavetes’ 1976 neo-noir thriller THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE, a sordid tale of a strip club owner who turns contract killer to settle his debts. Now playing – both the 1976 AND 1978 theatrical cuts! ifccenter.com/films/the-ki...

Had a great conversation with director Aidan Cronin about his artistic practice, his upcoming debut feature, and the 3rd edition of the Ithaca Experimental Film Festival.

New From Us: 50 Years Ago This Week – The Killing of a Chinese Bookie John Cassavetes masterpiece w/Mr. Ben Gazzara midcenturycinema.org/2026/02/02/5...

HEKLA will have its world premiere at the great Lindsey Film Fest in Florence, AL on March 6! Attending the screening with me will be actors Liz Stam, Mary Tilden and Brooke Hebert, producer Aaron Wertheimer and editor @marshlands.bsky.social. Here’s a new poster by Tyler Rubenfeld to commemorate:

1/31/61: The Misfits D: John Huston/W: Arthur Miller/ DP: Russell Metty w/Gable, Monroe, Clift, Ritter, Wallach Less than the sum of its spectacular parts More: @geoff-andrew.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/fil... @wendyide.bsky.social: www.thetimes.com/article/clas...

Our January newsletter 👀

Check out our list of Favorite Films from 2025. www.instagram.com/p/DT4F2xADMtZ/

Check out our list of Favorite Films from 2025. www.instagram.com/p/DT4F2xADMtZ/

BOTD Jeanne Moreau!!! MCCT5: 5a)Jules/Jim (Truffaut)/5b Suspended Step (Angelopoulos) 4)Bay of Angels (Demy) 3)Trial (Welles) 2)Notte (Antonioni) 1)Gallows (Malle) More @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/cult... @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social: www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

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Delighted to see Suhaib Gasmelbari’s cinema-centric documentary Talking About Trees coming to @criterionchannl.bsky.social in February; (happened to mention it here the other day), plus... the answer is, The fundamental film of modern melodrama. What is All That Heaven Allows?

𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦 returns to @freddysbrklyn on Tuesday, January 27! Doors 8pm • Films 9pm. 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 to attend + donations for artists attending from out of town. Another night of original, rarely-screened short films to kick off the new year. Ltd ed zines featuring new art by @elizabethyoo.bsky.social.

One question... Who stole Buzzy? #StolenKingdom in theaters soon! Follow @antennareleasing.bsky.social for more!

Read all about it! Deaf Crocodile and the Estonian Film Institute's new 4K restoration of DEAD MOUNTAINEERS HOTEL will premiere at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival as part of its Berlinale Classics program. www.berlinale.de/en/press/pre...

Just a screenshot from one of the best films ever made (M, 1931).

Congrats to the 2026 Slamdance filmmakers! 👏

Happy #PortfolioDay! I’m an illustrator specializing in physical media, working in watercolor and ink. 2025 official Blu-ray slipcovers + movie posters for: @filmmovement.bsky.social, @vinsyn.bsky.social, Duplass Brothers Productions, Big World Pictures, @saturnscore.bsky.social 💿 elizabethyoo.com

"I detest the expression “horror film.” I make films on the supernatural and I make them because I believe it." – Jacques Tourneur

Wrote a bit about my favorite movies of 2025 in here 👇

First painting of 2026! My sumi ink double portrait of sultry Marie-France Pisier in the 1964 French film LES YEUX CERNÉS, directed by Robert Hossein🪞. Film noir commissions always welcome! #filmnoir #movieposter

Are you an animator with a new project? We’re still looking for more #animation to expand the 2026 @sidewalkfilm.bsky.social offerings. Submit today on FilmFreeway! #filmfest #animation #indiefilm #sidewalk2026

It’s Wayne Wang’s birthday. Smoke is a beautiful movie. This wonderful scene inspired one of my Film students to do what Auggie does with his camera every day for his A Level Photography project. And of course, there’s the moment with Paul that the clip title refers to: youtu.be/O8WmkAh2nXE?...