KAYATTAM [also known as A'HR] (Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, 2020)

FOLKS, just one ep for @boxofficegross.bsky.social’s holiday marathon this week so we made it a great one: @sohamandcheese.bsky.social joins us for episode 45 to delve into the godforsaken biopic genre with WALK THE LINE! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

HAPPYEND (Neo Sora, 2024)

James Cameron really was like I’m just gonna keep making the same fucking movie 5 times in a row and I’m still going “yeah, ok”

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Wrote about Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent), Mariam Afshari (It Was Just An Accident), & Ia Sulhitashvili (April) in here 👇

Fun nighttime surprise on the other app.

I’ve been in inclined to use Aptos Narrow font for a lot of stuff recently and I’m pretty sure it’s subconsciously happening bc it’s very similar to twitter font 🫤

There are a thousand+ movies I'd never watch again. Question is are there any movies I LOVE that i'd never watch again and yes that movie is Bergman's PERSONA

Everyone knows Chalamet is only gonna win an Oscar once he stars in an Iñarritu film

LMFAO no way

JAY KELLY was good for about 20 min and Billy Crudup's scene blew everything else out of the water. Once it's starts actually becoming an actor's self-reflection piece it goes completely downhill. I also expected Sandler to be entertaining but this his most boring role ever maybe

Of course the Quay Bros movie that Christopher Nolan executive produced has a plot based on time distortion

Why did they turn him into the Bob’s Big Boy mascot for the disc cover?

MY BROTHER'S WEDDING (Charles Burnett, 1983)

New at Chicago Reader. On Alireza Khatami’s THE THINGS YOU KILL. A surprising and cagey thriller: chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...

What Does That Nature Say To You? is one of three Hong films I've really liked this decade so far. The other two are In Front of Your Face and In Our Day.

Every single bill being passed through congress the last 5 years

Paste Magazine is shutting down its movies section…. not surprising and not gonna be the last. I loved writing about some movies I deeply cared about - Signs, Happiness, Irreversible, Primer, Close Your Eyes, etc If you want to give some of them a read: www.pastemagazine.com/author/soham...

Diane Keaton and Sandy Dennis both have something similar in their acting, hard to describe, but it's this sort of way of talking that breaks awkwardly mid sentence or word and rapidly switches between joy and despair

Has Pope Leo seen Behind the Convent Walls

As someone who has never quite cared for Ira Sachs nor Ben Wishaw, PETER HUJAR’S DAY really surprised me with how absorbing and amusing it was. Wishaw is so good in it.

Letterboxd Friday

Yash Chopra's KAALA PATTHAR, one of the best movies ever, is on Netflix! You can read my thoughts on it over at Screen Slate: www.screenslate.com/articles/kaa...

Chuck Klosterman's BS Pod appearance was an absolute GOAT display of Dumb Culture Guy brain. He opines on how Nico Harrison was "unfairly treated" and goes on to list everything that his critics were proven right about & then ends with "but what if all that stuff didn't happen"

Trump on the podium speaking to 100 unemployed starving yokels in Kansas telling them that they can easily buy bread by taking all the money out of their HSA account

PRIMER (Shane Carruth, 2004)

Tatsuya Nakadai in HARA-KIRI is one of the all-timer performances. RIP

My piece on NYFF Currents #3 is live now for Millenium Film Journal. I particularly thought JACOB’S HOUSE was of note: millenniumfilmjournal.com/nyff63-curre...

In 2026 why don’t we stop asking clearly disinterested actors during press junkets what they think about memes, please ❤️

Ok so I've been getting doomer posts from Chicago weather all weekend saying tomorrow, this city is going to to suffer a Pleistocene level Ice Age that we may never recover from. Will keep everyone posted.

Haneke’s The Piano Teacher

GDT gets a lifetime pass from me because of PAN'S LABYRINTH but I haven't been excited for a movie of his since PACIFIC RIM (and that wasn't even that good)

Dem party policy is simple: By capitulating to everything Republicans want it creates a spike in anger on which to exploit campaign donations + it makes all their wealthy donors (who are all the exact same donors Republicans have) happy. Only way to break this is to end the party

Orzo with andouille sausage 👍

The disparity between the Cannes festival poster vs the theatrical poster for Cristi Puiu’s SIERANEVADA always amuses me.

Appreciate Radu Jude for making a "one for me" in Kontinental '25 to counter the "one very much not for me" (Dracula)

Saw the 4K restoration of Jessie Maple’s WILL. Great movie. It’s showing again on Wednesday as part of the Black Harvest Film Fest at the Siskel Film Center. Highly recommend.

It's cool Pablo Picasso was alive long enough to have possibly seen Jodorowsky's THE HOLY MOUNTAIN

Letterboxd Friday

This is an excerpt something I wrote abt the film:

Victor Erice’s CLOSE YOUR EYES

Victor Erice’s CLOSE YOUR EYES

We should all be allowed to form a giant queue and take turns pissing on Dick Cheney’s corpse

I don't really get the "Sunday Scaries" anymore because I've attained Ron Livingston in Office Space level of I don't care about my job. I get the "Sunday Fuck Everythings" now

Apparently Drake was at the game tonight. Well......

Have no fear Toronto, the Raptors annual 10th seed Play-In Tournament victory will heal you

The drunkest I've ever been was probably at a bar with 200 other Cubs fans watching that 10-inning rain delay Game 7. I can't imagine being on the losing end of something like that so apologies in advance to whoever loses tonight.

THE FOG (John Carpenter, 1980) 35mm scan