With “Chronovisor” playing today at Prismatic Ground at Anthology Film Archives, here’s my interview with the directors of this ingenious, engrossing film that’s also a productive model for ultra-low-budget production.

“What’s an example of a good lookbook? It’s a question I get asked all the time by directors, so I shared some images Sean Dunn created for “The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford.” This lookbook helped a lot during financing and preproduction!

News! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Happy Avril 14, all.

Sirat WAS ROBBBED

Big respect. “You lose your country with countless small acts of complicity.”

Remembering Tom Noonan, missed in the Academy In Memoriam tonight.

Hey, congrats Alexandre and Natalie for winning Best Short! My profile of the "Two People Exchanging Saliva" directors for Filmmaker's 25 New Faces last year. filmmakermagazine.com/people/alexa.... #oscars

RIP Habermas, whose death follows that of his beloved Public Sphere

Excited by today’s return of the feminist film journal @another-gaze.bsky.social with the first of its new biannual digital issues.

Really love this rich discussion of Tom and his work.

Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club! You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Less than 6 months ago @discord.com had a data breach exposing ID’s of 70,000 + of its users but …apparently hasn’t learned anything? ID checks don’t make the internet safer, they make us all more vulnerable. www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

If they can do this to find a dog, they can do this to find anyone. That’s terrifying.

Minneapolis filmmakers asking international production community to boycott Enterprise over their supplying of vehicles to ICE. Read their letter here and consider signing if you are able. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

TikTok has been under new leadership for like a day and I made a slideshow with posts from the ICE rally today and it immediately got out under review and is not being published. Incredible.

It is genuinely incredible how quickly Ellison and co have made TikTok almost completely useless by immediately and preemptively censoring content that could be seen as critical of the regime

A favorite film writer on a favorite podcast. A great listen, needless to say.

Seeing Republicans shift into "the gun is the problem" when it suits their fucked up bizarro-world worldview, can we pass some kind of restrictions real quick before they shift back?

There is a precedent for a person getting someone else's Nobel Prize. In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, gave his Nobel Prize in literature to Joseph Goebbels uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Big news! David's name has been bandied about for a while, and he's a good choice. Previous stints include Participant, Universal and Good Machine.

Tmw is my last day at Filmmaker, and it’s also the last day for our estimable director of editorial operations Vadim Rizov, who has been a valued partner for 11 of my 33 years. Here, he curates some of his best work that we’ve had the privilege of publishing. filmmakermagazine.com/132962-vadim...

Leaving The Gotham today for the last time holding my final issue of Filmmaker magazine. On newsstands now/soon, it’s a banger.

For Filmmaker’s new print issue, director Jaime Levinas writes about learning from Amos Poe, who passed away yesterday in New York City. R.I.P. Amos. filmmakermagazine.com/132695-learn...

At Filmmaker, I just posted the Sundance 2026 lineup.

This article of is 7 years old, but it’s an evergreen one, especially Thanksgiving week.

Super excited about this @metrographnyc.bsky.social event on Dec . 6 — short films from Filmmaker’s 2025 25 New Faces. I will be doing the Q&As in what will be my Filmmaker event swan song. Hope to see some of you there. metrograph.com/filmmaker-ma...

Regarding “After the Hunt,” I’m glad Arto Lindsay got paid.

We just lost an icon in the world of music videos. Diane Martel was a trailblazer, her eye defined an era. Her credits include Dance With My Father (Luther), Dreamlover (Mariah), Throw Ya Gunz (Onyx) and more. She created space for the dancers and opened doors for women directors. Rest in power sis.

For my penultimate issue of Filmmaker, one of my favorite original cover shots yet. Thanks to photographer @isseygoold.bsky.social and filmmaker Mary Bronstein (“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”

I spoke to Charlie Kaufman and Eva HD about their hauntingly beautiful ode to memory, seeing and Athens, "How to Shoot a Ghost," which premiered today in Venice. filmmakermagazine.com/131654-i-wen...

The Nova Convention was one of those legendary events. I regret not being in New York and able to see. So I appreciated Lauren Wissot’s interview with the directors of the Locarno premiering new doc “Nova ‘78,” w/ newly discovered archival footage of the event. filmmakermagazine.com/131602-the-n...

What the actual fucking fuck. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

My dear childhood friend is raising funds for a 13 year old boy and his mother who have been staying with her during his treatment, and for his family still facing a genoc1de back in Ga7a. I can personally guarantee that every cent will support their needs. Thank you for sharing. gofund.me/4a1c529a

In response to the NYT lists, I called for contributors to submit 15 titles for Best Experimental Cinema of the 21st Century. 109 ballots, 940 films, and 550 artists later, these are the results. Huge thanks to @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy for stepping up to publish. tinyurl.com/484u9f2z

Bluesky needs some beauty today. Victor LaValle's incredible novels with stunning new covers designed by Yuko Shimizu. If I had to pick a favorite, I would say that I haven't stopped thinking about Lone Women since I read it months ago. @victorlavalle.bsky.social @yukoart.bsky.social

(Cc: @columbiauniversity.bsky.social)

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...

A smart and nuanced piece.

LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR—Jem Cohens most recent film is playing at the IFC in Manhattan all week. It is spectacular if you or anyone you know is in the city don’t miss this!

Great Q&A last night at @ifccenter.bsky.social with Jane Schoenbrun and Jen Cohen. Cohen’s “Little, Big and Far,” an @nytimes.com Critics Pick, runs all week.

Over at Filmmaker we've been running a series by Amalia Ulman on directors and actors's relationship to the animal world. Here's the delightful latest, in which Amalia goes birding in Central Park with Lili Taylor. filmmakermagazine.com/130978-inter...

“… feels spiritually nourishing in a way few films can manage.” Just a fantastic review by Alyssa Wilkinson for Jem Cohen‘s “Little, Big and Far,” which opens this Friday at the @ifccenter.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/m...

Really proud to be an executive producer of Jem Cohen's new "Little, Big and Far," which opens Friday at @ifccenter.bsky.social. Please come out and also check out the trailer below.

Interesting article. At Filmmaker Magazine, this is something we are debating, whether to destructively scan our issues in order to get them fully digitized going back to the beginning. Some of the early issues there are not many — if any — copies left.

here’s an excerpt from my book CINEMA HER WAY where Mira Nair and I discuss her film THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST and she shared with me this story about her son, Zohran Mamdani, experiencing Islamophobia post-9/11 while walking with his grandfather in Manhattan.

Via @matthewstoller.bsky.social

How come I've never heard this Peel Session of Eno and Winkies? Amazing version of "I'll Come Running" that is not on the tracklist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D1j...

"Alot of times I like em to just shut up and listen to the music..." Diamanda Galas interviewed in the '80s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBq4...