Grateful that we have critics who understand nonfiction filmmaking and the history of documentary and can write about it in smart ways. (Even when the movie is “dumb”)

Merging my worlds, my favorite poker podcaster, @thirdwalking.bsky.social just did a segment on Dustin Defa’s film The Adults after I suggested that he check it out. Worth listening to if you also fit inside this tiny sliver of a Venn diagram?

This video is a work of genius. This is the closest that we will get to another Nathan Fielder, but in the realm of YouTube. youtu.be/wscQpkcwgNU?...

Just in case anyone is listening - I’ve created a treasure hunt with a $10,000 diamond as the end prize and it kicks off April 25th in Boone County MO. booneanza.org

It’s annoying to me that “old twitter” was probably the social media format I enjoyed creating the most, and posting here generally feels like shouting at two or three people who I could have just texted.

Also in random poker culture - there’s a growing body of evidence to suggest that Wyna Liu, creator of Connections, is a poker player. Or at least over-represents poker in the solves.

Somewhere I like to imagine a group of Jewish poker players are playing a game of double board PLO bomb pots and calling it “36”

I first saw NATCHEZ on something of a whim last August when I was up in Middlebury, VT to speak on a panel about journalism at the film festival there, and I have thought about it an awful lot since then. It's starting its theatrical run, and worth your attention. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/m...

Who will be the first pro poker player to get cast on The Traitors?

FYI film industry folks - “leopard” in today’s NYT Connections has nothing to do with Locarno.

@thirdwalking.bsky.social a poker(ish) movie recently that flew way under the radar - THE ADULTS, (dir. Dustin Defá, starring Michael Cera) uses poker as a B plot to reveal the protagonist’s interior (at least that’s how I read it). But is also a quite realistic depiction of small scale home games.

I have rarely felt more like a grown-up than just now when I pre-ordered collard greens for my NYD hoppin’ John

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I named my fists Kuleshov and Effect because you won’t know how you feel until the second one hits

If I were a progressive candidate looking to advance a big-tent platform, I would be screaming about this. No consumer wants dynamic pricing. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...

Nu Shooz & The Jets (5th grade) Pixies (Doolittle tour) Chumbawamba, Drop Dead, Crash Worship (Hampshire College) ESG & Bratmobile (Ladyfest Chicago) The Faint w/ Bright Eyes (my basement)

I hope that somewhere out there a Native Alaskan filmmaker is writing an indie film about a group of teenage friends centered on Cali Swag District’s 2010 performance at Club Millennium in Anchorage.

Kicking off my new treasure hunt in Ithaca, NY this Saturday. We’ve hidden $10k in jewels somewhere in Tompkins County. Be the first to solve the puzzles and claim the prize. Sign up at www.thehistorycenter.net/tompkins-tre... - first clue is $100, your team can be as large or small as you like.

I’m not normally one for four dimensional chess theories, but if I wanted to decimate a whole raft of arts and media nonprofits, forcing public media to raise billions of dollars would sure do the trick

This interview actually contains a lot of great info about proper care and protocols for doc subjects - even in as weird and as manufactured a setting as THE REHEARSAL www.decodingtv.com/p/an-intervi...

A sad one! R.I.P. Robert Wilson. "Einstein on the Beach" was a canonical work for me as a teenager, long before I saw the piece at its first BAM revival. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/t...

Cats are and always have been cyberpunks

In our slide towards a fascist state, this is what a Missouri legislator said as he rejected the will of 58% of Missourians to raise the minimum wage. “Of course the people voted for it. It’d be like asking your teenager if he wanted a checkbook. You know, they’re going to vote for it every time.”

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

This could have been 20 films. It could have been all docs. It could have been all genre films. But it’s not. At this exact moment here are 10 films that I want to celebrate and will return to for another 25 years.

Israel isn't in control of the United States. This is just who the US is and has always been. Saying we're controlled is just a way of saying we're victims. We're not. We're an imperial power that likes war because it's profitable and enriches our oligarchs. That's it.

This is gorgeous. Happy Juneteenth!

RT if you ever bought Vintage Contemporary paperbacks just because they looked so cool

Roughly 5000 people filled downtown Columbia, MO today. All ages, all walks of life. Biggest rally/protest I can remember seeing here. Gave me some small hope for our future. No kings.

Thinking about relative pain of different endings to a poker tournament and here’s my ranking (from least to most painful) 5. 4th 4. 3rd 3. 10th 2. Bubble 1. 2nd

Every live action remake of an animated film should follow all the rules of Dogme 95

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Waiting for a flight in Chicago I watched one pilot approach another and ask “hi, are you Lou DiPietro?”* to which the other responded “No” without looking up. Then I boarded my plane and watched the season finale of The Rehearsal. *not actual name

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Paul Rudd career reset alert! He’s once again a 30-something indie film actor. We can count on a trajectory of great choices and good performances, leading to some starring roles in tentpole franchise films before he resets again in 15-20 years. Long live infinite Rudd.

I’ve got poker on the brain because I read the first line and thought it was gonna be a thread about card games

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

Who needs dystopian fiction when this is an actual (if somewhat metaphorical) headline

Hamdan Ballal, one of 2 Palestinian directors of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land” (with 2 Israeli directors), was beaten bloody near his home by Israeli settlers and detained by the Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank on Monday, witnesses said. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/w...

Any American Jew who supports, materially or otherwise, settlers in occupied Palestine, can go fuck themselves. To flip from victims of pogroms to perpetrators makes me sad and furious.

obviously the category is “Settings for Frederick Wiseman Documentaries”

@mkonnikova.bsky.social was just listening to Risky Business (big fan) and heard an ad for Walden University. I know you probably don’t directly control the ads that appear, but given your background with con artists, I’d encourage you to try and ditch this predatory for-profit institution.

From the First Look film fest, an all-timer of a film blurb couplet - “A work of real-life body horror that’s also a tender portrait of communal defiance” www.instagram.com/p/DHLhW0FRQ6...

Poker Bluesky is still lagging behind Twitter, so posting this absolutely above the rim 2-7 hand for … myself? x.com/pokerorg/sta...

Quality criticism from the 2025 edition of @truefalsefilmfest.bsky.social courtesy of Nic Rapold & Saffron Maeve www.screenslate.com/articles/tru...

This is the best essay I’ll read this month. About snooker (which I love) but also about … the nature of thought? www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

I don't love having my True/False disrupted by the Oscars, but I do like watching them in a room full of people who cheer whenever RaMell Ross' name is mentioned and have known Sean Baker since before Tangerine

congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.

Wouldn’t have predicted Mr. Blue Sky showing up in TWO different True/False films but life is funny that way

Sundance visitors to True/False are strong - have seen Middletown, Predators, Seeds, Zodiac Killer Project & How to Build a Library so far. All bangers.