i see a number of you talking about the “Train Dreams Wars” which is quaint and all but i’m not sure you realize how in the trenches it got

had a great talk with my old professor, Tenzin Phuntsog, about making films that are important to you and his debut NEXT LIFE filmmakermagazine.com/132497-inter...

bro last night was an american canto

film criticism may be dying, but The A.V. Club let me write about Bazin’s ontology of the image, and that’s not for nothing

some Friday reading for ya: wrote about Linklater, Godard, NOUVELLE VAGUE, and the looming legacy of Bazin www.avclub.com/richard-link...

my report of the 26th Maryland Film Festival, which surprised me on how much it bounced back from its historic low point in 2023 and is once again making Baltimore one of the great places to be for indie cinema filmmakermagazine.com/132457-revie...

Twitter went down because too many people watched the Magellan trailer and the site crashed

Alex Lei, the Brianna Wu of film twitter? (He's actually white)

re-upping this piece i wrote last year on The Journey, even though everytime i reread something i wrote on Peter Watkins’ greatest work i immediately want to update it again because, more than any film, it can only be considered in an ever-evolving present inreviewonline.com/2024/08/12/a...

“I had just won a Guggenheim fellowship and went down to the post office. I run into Sal, he says ‘Hey Buba, you think you’re ever gonna make it?’ It brings you back to reality.” @honorszombie.bsky.social spends an afternoon with the Bard of Braddock, Tony Buba

I just can't understand why you'd make a movie like Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere seemingly designed to make Springsteen heads like @alexlei.bsky.social angry www.avclub.com/springsteen-...

went long on Nebraska and why Scott Cooper’s approach to Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is so deeply misguided www.avclub.com/springsteen-...

Hoagy Carmichael: Deliver Me From Nowhere

talked to Paula González-Nasser about wonderfully subtle and quietly devastating debut THE SCOUT for InRO inreviewonline.com/2025/10/23/p...

recreating the Twitter experience

how come my account doesn’t have the “rude” tag. fuck you guys

one of the biggest surprises of New/Next this year was Connor Sen Warnick’s atemporal synthesis of political and poetic cinema set in early 70s Chinatown, CHARACTERS DISAPPEARING. talked to the debut director for Filmmaker filmmakermagazine.com/132242-inter...

talked to Sabrina Greco about her rip-roaring debut Lockjaw for InRO inreviewonline.com/2025/10/17/s...

A joy to speak with Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha about the legacy of LINDA LINDA LINDA, an underdog indie that continues to capture the hearts of new fans. For @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy filmmakermagazine.com/132226-oral-...

talked to Tucker Bennett and Chris Corrente about their handmade, PKD-esque internet dystopian romp IN THE GLOW OF DARKNESS filmmakermagazine.com/132229-inter...

we got the gonzo coverage of New/Next online

okay who’s in charge here

do people on Bluesky like Jay Kelly. do you talk about Jay Kelly

people on Bluesky don’t even know about Two Skateboards

you people have no idea the discourses we can bring to this app. you’re not ready

in a way this place is Elon’s dream platform: Twitter, but with Reddit humor

can you insight violence and make direct threats on this site? that’s really the only functionality that Twitter’s missing

how do you use Grok on here

trying to think of a discourse hand grenade to throw in here before inevitably not checking the app again for a month. maybe “OBAA could’ve been made for half the budget” or something like that, those takes always go gangbusters

Bluesky stinks

A home-grown, DIY sci-fi from Albert Birney, OBEX is having its Baltimore premiere tonight at the New/Next Film Festival @alexlei.bsky.social goes behind the scenes on its production ethos

French New Wave is alive! @alexlei.bsky.social found it in New York Film dispatch from a Luc Moullet retrospective and the launch of the ultra-cinephilic magazine Narrow Margin

Fascinating anniversary piece on Come And See, a film that became an unlikely sensation for extremely online cinephiles (it's #3 on Letterboxd's Top 250 movies??) www.avclub.com/come-and-see...

certified racing freak @alexlei.bsky.social writes about F1 as IP (he also refers to the film as its marketing copy demands: F1 The Movie)

interview w/ letterboxd's best user pd187 is out! thanks to @alexlei.bsky.social for editing and @bruisermag.com for putting it out www.bruisermag.com/morgan_pd187

Wong Kar Wai @sightsoundmag.bsky.social, Alan Rudolph @bombmag.bsky.social, Kira Muratova @nybooks.com, Jonathan Rosenbaum and @alexlei.bsky.social on Dreyer, Dag Johan Haugerud @ 4Columns, @quinzaine.bsky.social award-winners … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

I dont know that @alexlei.bsky.social settled on a name, but he highlighted this emerging new wave last year: www.avclub.com/american-ind...

William S. Burroughs @ MUBI, @alexlei.bsky.social on John Ford, Pauline Kael @newyorker.com, Marilyn Monroe and Candy Darling @ Texte zur Kunst, new Millennium Film Journal … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

another banger year-end piece, this one about the shifting proving ground for American indies. From @alexlei.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/american-ind...

Love this piece by Alex Lei -- talking to designer Sebastian Pardo about his amazing title design work on Brady Corbet's "The Brutalist." filmmakermagazine.com/128169-inter...

"You don’t need a lot of money to make a certain kind of film." Our intrepid film writer @alexlei.bsky.social interviews Baltimore's Nicky Otis Smith about the premiere of his new feature film, SATUR-19. bruisermag.com/lei_smithint...

“The rural vote had turned things around.” That line landed hard for me tonight at the FilmFestKnox screening of the resplendent new 4K restoration of John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s “Northern Lights”. Appreciating this sharp interview by @alexlei.bsky.social. filmmakermagazine.com/127545-inter...

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