hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai - one of the all time greats of world cinema variety.com/2025/film/ob...

Make sure you are buying Criterion discs from B&N. They are the ones running the sale, Amazon is only matching. Without B&N, there’s no discount discs.

Hope folks enjoy my new book Through a Noir Lens Adapting Film Noir Visual Style cup.columbia.edu/book/through... www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0231... #Film #Cinema #media #filmstudies #cinemastudies #FilmNoir #filmhistory #mediastudies #cinemahistory #mediahistory #mediaindustry #noir #books #Noirvember

Our team is aware of a current outage on the site and app. Be back soon 🧡💚💙

if you're ever Photoshopping your own face into the smoke of the Twin Towers, Adobe should have a pop-up that says "are you sure that whatever it is you're doing is a good idea"

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Figured I should add the video here because we had speakers in the costumes and synced the melody too

Going as the trust devices from OBAA this year

it would be a pretty good week for Rolling Stone to have a TV critic

@letterboxd.social are you having technical difficulties on the mobile app, at least with iOS?

For months now we have been hearing Democratic pundits say, "Democrats need to meet voters where they are." Tonight, New York City voters seem to be telling them pretty clearly.

“frankly, he has not won an election since before I was born” Lmaooooo

It’s called an invasion. Use normal words for this shit.

Today in Brooklyn: Resign, Chuck

Now playing (04:30 AM PST): "City Lights" (1931) By Charlie Chaplin Runtime: 87 min.

Bravo to Governor Mills of Maine! Proud that my father was a State of Mainer, and wish he were alive to hear her (he’s been gone for 39 years). Her third paragraph is the crux for me, and echoes Martin Niemöller’s famous “First they came…” maxim.

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

The committee on Science, Space, and Technology are collecting testimony of Federal employees fired in the past days. Please share with your colleagues and friends. The more testimony, the better we can argue against this injustice.

Modern Movies: "Okay, so this is an antihero but this is also PG-13, so you can't kill the villain unless he attacks you first, so I need you to turn your back to leave so he can try to stab you." Silent Movies: "The villain has been disarmed so--"

Please read this story, and share. Here is a free link again. With Inspectors General fired, Congress controlled by GOP that is aligned with Trump, top federal ethics lawyers removed, newspaper efforts like this are largely what's left of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is securing real beneifits as he helps Trump disrupt the federal government. Just how? The NYT takes a deep look today at these benefits: federal investigations targeting Musk companies that have been disrupted or now may die. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

Will people #cancelparamountplus if Redstone pays to settle with Trump’s bullshit lawsuit against CBS News?

it ought to be interesting to see who wins the super bowl. at the end of the day you never know

I wrote about one of my favorite movies, Il sorpasso, and Italian comedy in the 1960s because I know what the people want! jasonistyping.substack.com/p/bring-back... It’s part of the #JourneyToItalyBlogathon, too! Read other great essays on Italian cinema: hqofk.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/a...

One of the more uncomfortable morals of Emilia Pérez seems to be something like “people who do horrible things can be trans” and well, life imitates art?

It’s been a long time since I’ve forced myself to write something long form on a deadline, and boy am I out of practice.

amazing that they’ve now had years to come up with a compelling “in your wildest dreams” use case and this is what they’ve gone with. this is psychopath shit; nobody wants this. but it IS the pitch for microsoft copilot!

Okay, here we go. All of you who responded with preening comments about how little you care and how unimportant it is: Nobody's holding you hostage here. Move on!

Lynch’s art wasn’t for me, but he was a force for good and for the importance of creativity in all of movie-making. RIP.

Sold out opening night for THE BRUTALIST in 70mm at @afisilvertheatre tonight.

Jean Smart keeps winning because she deserves to keep winning. #GoldenGlobes

We’re nearing the end of the year and there will be so many “new” movies to get to in the next 3 months, so let me remind you of the JOY of rewatching movies you love. In related news, I think KNIVES OUT gets better every time I revisit it?

@thehighsign.bsky.social now that we’re here and not on the bird site, I need a new copy of your answer to this question because I always forget and Google is useless—what’s the word for stories where the protagonist is revealed to be writing the story?

Great piece by Becca Rothfeld on the "whiny heroism" of Jordan Peterson: "It is tempting to dismiss Peterson as a stupid person’s idea of a smart person. But perhaps he is just a desperate person’s idea of an intellectual lifeline." (Also possible: he's both) www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

I've been hoping for Becca Rothfeld to perform dissection without anesthetic on Jordan Peterson and here it is, a gift link for you. So many good lines. 1/ The gospel according to Jordan Peterson wapo.st/3ZGSfUT

I’m trying (once again) to force myself to write more consistently. Naturally, I spent time today renaming my Substack and making it ✨ look nice ✨ because I am a broken person who never learns anything.

For @paopalina.bsky.social’s birthday weekend, I attempted the impossible—copying the great Baked Joint bakery’s goat cheese and caramelized onion biscuits. (NB: U.S. definition of biscuit)

Done! Very easy, thanks for the tip.

A cartoon by Will McPhail. #NewYorkerCartoons www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...

I’m in the middle of about 6 other books, including at least 2 essay collections and a stack of recent magazines I’m behind on, but I couldn’t resist this when I saw it at Kramer’s Books yesterday… edited by Wesley Morris!?

@jenishawo.bsky.social I just read your Atlantic essay in The Best American Essays of 2024—I’m completely unqualified to say anything at all about it but I wanted to tell you I’m eagerly awaiting whatever you write next…

The Three Faces of Eve (1957). '57 is a fascinating year for American film because you can witness the seismic shifts in production modes, censorship, cultural shifts in real time. Some fantastic work by Woodward steers this out of medical melodrama and into something still exciting and fresh.

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.

A baseball costs about $2, but Ohtani’s 50/50 ball just sold for $4.4M. Value is complicated!

we have launched our official English-language Bluesky account here: bsky.app/profile/lett... 🧡💚💙 this account will remain in Portuguese 🇧🇷

ageism is good, you should be ashamed to be 50 years old, you know who else was 50 years old? hitler

Netflix - please stop minimising the end credits of movies to suggest something else. Let viewers enjoy the soundtrack and see the cast and crew that worked on the film. We'll exit it ourselves when ready to. #film #filmsky #movies #moviesky