35 years ago today, Massive Attack released their debut album Blue Lines on April 8, 1991. Daddy G, 3D, Mushroom, Tricky, Horace Andy, and Shara Nelson crafted one of the best albums of all time. Wild Bunch / Virgin Records. youtu.be/mJNDAb5cTAk

“A Coney Island of the Mind.” In-progress 8mm work.

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Minneapolis! WTO/99 returns on April 11 & 12, presented by Smitten Kitten! Anne from SK will introduce the film, I will be there for a post-screening Q&A. 50% of ticket sales go to Neighbors Helping Neighbors. 4/11 at MCAD, 6:30pm. 4/12 at Bryant Lake Bowl Theater 3pm & 7pm. Ticket links below

right after the Meiko Kaji series come on Japan Society, leave me a little something for rent

Thursday, April 16: We're hosting a special DarkRoom Screening alongside Alcove Cinema at the Brooklyn Peace Center! FREE RSVP.

BOTD Alan J. Pakula!!! In the 70s pantheon for Klute, Parallax View, ATPM (DP Gordon Willis x3) We've talked them all on the podcast! open.spotify.com/show/7bTN0NQ... More: @mcastimovies.bsky.social: www.insidehook.com/film/alan-j-... Lisa Kennedy on 2019 doc: www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/m...

“A Coney Island of the Mind.” In-progress 8mm work.

Remembering Aurthur Russell today

BOTD Roger Corman!!! AIP where the New Hollywood: Nicholson, Bgdnvch, Coppola, Hellman +++ got their start More @davidlfear.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv... @donaldclarke.bsky.social: www.irishtimes.com/culture/film... @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/mzs/roger-co...

Morning soundtrack ☕️

‘Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over in 3 days’

Faith and John Hubley made beautiful films. They were pioneers of indie animation -- and the first to win the Oscar for it. No one else did work quite like theirs. In this issue, we explore their art: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/truth-and-...

Some recent favorite features, with three from Slamdance: Hekla (Michael Glover Smith); Dead Lover (Grace Glowicki); Silver (Natalia Koniarz); Matapanki (Diego “Mapache” Fuentes); Remake (Ross McElwee); The Projectionist (Alexandre Rockwell). 🎬

Toshiro Mifune was a badass - bts of Throne of Blood

R.I.P. Sam Kieth🥀 Unparalleled style. His artwork (and THE MAXX in particular) remains a massive influence on our own work.

Some recent favorite features, with three from Slamdance: Hekla (Michael Glover Smith); Dead Lover (Grace Glowicki); Silver (Natalia Koniarz); Matapanki (Diego “Mapache” Fuentes); Remake (Ross McElwee); The Projectionist (Alexandre Rockwell). 🎬

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) was in the Criterion Closet! 📽️ #filmsky 🎥 #japanesefilm

Tuesday, March 24: The THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦 is happening in Brooklyn. Doors 8PM • Films 9pm • FREE. 3 years of supporting filmmakers in a welcoming setting. NOT TO BE MISSED. Be cool. See you soon. Zine art by @elizabethyoo.bsky.social of the great Meiko Kaji 🖤

This film was one of the biggest influences on Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Seeing it for the first time, Miyazaki told his friend, "I guess we’re failures, aren’t we?" This is Crac -- the first masterpiece by animator Frédéric Back. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-lament...

Newsletter update 👀

"Cinema is powerful. We’ve seen how a single image can transform how people see themselves and their history. I hope younger filmmakers use that power to engage, to challenge, to remember, and to care for the people who are most at risk of being forgotten."

If you like Watergate, movies, and split diopters shots, I encourage you to watch our film 18½. ATPM is still the Watetgate/film/splits GOAT, but we tried our best (and yes, we got a nod to Redford, too)

Elaine May Directed It. Neil Simon Wrote It. Bruce Jay Friedman Conceived It. Charles Grodin Freaked It

R.I.P. Sam Kieth🥀 Unparalleled style. His artwork (and THE MAXX in particular) remains a massive influence on our own work.

Newsletter update 👀

Tuesday, March 24: The THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦 is happening in Brooklyn. Doors 8PM • Films 9pm • FREE. 3 years of supporting filmmakers in a welcoming setting. NOT TO BE MISSED. Be cool. See you soon. Zine art by @elizabethyoo.bsky.social of the great Meiko Kaji 🖤

STARTING IN ONE WEEK! "Revelations of the Middle Ages" opens @anthologyfilm.bsky.social with the U.S. premiere of "Revelations of Divine Love" and array of medieval masterpieces designed to delight and confound! www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

Chicago! This Friday and Saturday, join us at the Music Box Theatre for midnight screenings of György Kovásznai's animated musical, BUBBLE BATH (1980)! We'll have Deaf Crocodile-themed trivia – you could win Deaf Croc swag, including stickers, enamel pins, or even a Blu-ray copy of BUBBLE BATH!

yeah that looks like a columbo

Cha!!! Couldn’t have done it without you!

The second year of Slamdance in Los Angeles! Thank you to the friends old and new, filmmakers, volunteers, staff, and the programmers for making it such an incredible experience year after year. Slamdance continues its mantra of “By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers” in the best possible way.

The 2026 lineup for New Directors/New Films has been unveiled. Explore ahead of the festival beginning next month at @filmlinc.bsky.social and MoMA:

CONTEST! Guess the 5th film in our DEFA FAIRY TALES box; you could win an in-stock, standard ed. Deaf Crocodile title! Rules: 1. Email guess to [email protected] 2. *ONE* guess per person!! 3. Send your guesses by Friday, March 13 Winners (and correct answer) announced on Friday, March 20!

Support girls--including trans girls--and nonbinary kids AND get cookies: www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/h...

NYC's prestigious Film Forum at #3! This makes me long to travel more. Cinema forever. 🖤

Total eclipse of the full blood moon is tonight, in case you haven’t checked in on the doom portents lately.

Remembering Lou Reed today 🌹

Low ticket alert! See you on Monday, March 9 at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social!

Newsletter update 👀

Newsletter update 👀

In Los Angeles for Slamdance Film Festival until Feb 25! Hope to see as many friends as I can while I'm in town. Check out the Narrative Shorts blocks programmed by Brian @nonfilms.bsky.social! Screenings are sold out, but you can try the rush line 📽️ #Slamdance2026 #IndieFilm @2220arts.bsky.social

30 minutes now completed of Tux and Fanny 3, 50-60 minutes to go...

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

“…one more thing” Oil on canvas paper #art #oilpainting #columbo

Limited seating! Get tix today: nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark...

The retrospective of Sara Gómez's films continues today at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social at 4 with her feature, One Way or Another, a passionate and probing docufiction that fuses a drama of love and work with detailed inner lives and their historical underpinnings: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The 2026 Slamdance Film Festival Opening Night at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles ⭐️🎬🌴

today's random theater photo: Vincent Price and Judith Evelyn in Angel Street (1941)

Marlene Clark & Duane Jones star in Bill Gunn’s Black vampire film GANJA & HESS, screening Thursday 2/26 at Nitehawk Prospect Park in ROMANCING THE DEAD.