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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