OK, the singer with a heart problem, and all these visuals, this has got to be a Kieslowski reference, right? (It was shot in Warsaw.)

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) Sublime Taiwanese art film depicting the final screening at a rundown movie theater in Taipei. The movie being shown is King Hu's 1967 wuxia masterpiece Dragon Inn, hence the title. Written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang - BOTD in 1957

Yesterday, Radu Jude answered fans questions about cinema on @screenslate.bsky.social's IG These are some of my fave answers lol

Bolano has some great collections of short stories out there, especially "Last evenings on Earth"

I love how this little dialogue fully encapsulates Hitchcock's humor and horniness

Meek's Cutoff is like arthouse Mad Max if Mad Max was set in the old west and racism was the villain

Los Angeles, 2019 // Neo-Tokyo, 2019 💊

Restorations of Olivier Assayas' rarest films are coming to NYC this November.

Thinking about Jane Birkin expressing some regrets to Varda over having often been typecasted and wishing she'd been offered more strong, boyish characters... Kelly Reichardt would've seen the vision

Police have released cctv footage of the Louvre robbers escaping

Eyes without faces Les Yeux sans visage (1960) Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) La piel que habito (2011) The Face of Another (1966)

Victor Frankenstein's creature? The spirit that the little girl befriends in "The Spirit of the Beehive"??

I love Prairie (and Pynchon) so much #Vineland

Birth on 4K from Criterion about to be my whole identity in 2026

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. - Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities born on this day, 1923 #BookSky #ItaloCalvino

Udo Kier in the Lars von Trier film "The Kingdom", "Breaking the Waves", "Melancholia" and "Nymphomaniac" - BOTD

This was known and I feel that even If he'd lived he wouldn't have directd those scripts. He seemed pretty much done with the moviemaking life and apperead discouraged by the state of the industry and the World in his last documentaris and interviews

“Everywhere across this surface, stories are being told. It teems with stories, like a wimmelbild [teeming picture]. […] Schattenfroh is a wimmelbuch, a book teeming with images.” This tradition is alive, both in painting and writing. theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/i...

Remember how when Tarkovsk was shooting the house burning down at the end of THE SACRIFICE but the camera jammed and well, shit, they just had to rebuild the house and do it again? I don't know why I'm thinking about that right now.

It owes a great debt to the early Bond movies and Jack Lord's got a even greater plot armor than Bond. Cold War paranoia's, 60s retrofuturist aesthetics, wacky mind control devices, a lone female character who's only there to state that hippies are cool but cops can be cool too. It rules lol

'Mon oncle', Jacques Tati

That's lovely. Shouts out Beckett and his famous reaction to receiving nobel "this is a catastrophe". But he's clearly elated Of course tho,his main source of inspiration is "the bitterness. I'm very sad if I think of the state of the World now. This is my deepest inspiration, the human being now"

It's a great day to remember how important a translator like @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social is for those of us who can only read in English. Without her superb translations, we would have missed so much of the great work of László Krasznahorkai.

Fuck yeah, Laszlo actually did it! Read Satantango everybody, it's a masterpiece and even better than the film!!

I don't read enough to have a well informed prospective on who should or shouldn't win, but - as i've been doing for the last couple of years - for the Nobel I'll be pulling for these two eastern european masters of melancholy and despair

You should watch Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man)

I mean, really, I could just keep quoting the novel all day. Here's Slothrop, after visiting the grave of Dr. Jamf, one of the novel's great villians, looking over the Alps.

ansiosissimo.

Usually Pynchon's novels send me off on weird tangents about some strange obscure subjects, but so far Vineland is making me want to watch the original Hawaii Five-O more than anything else lol

The Laughing Woman (1969): owning a collection of paintings depicting diseases like leprosy of cholera seen under the microscope is a neat way to characterize your villain lol

John Carpenter made the movies he made because he was a fan of Howard Hawks, westerns, science fiction, gothic horror, noir...while all the people who try to imitate him are just fans of John Carpenter movies.

Juliette Binoche | Trois Couleurs : Bleu | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1993.

He was incredible in the best Homicide episode "Three Men and Adena"

First look at Bob Ferguson in One Battle After Another sequel

So many great quotable lines about cinema, about life really, in just 20 minutes. Lumet was above all a great craftsman but also seemed to have a deep understanding of actors and people

Afternoons of Solitude (2024; Albert Serra)

One cool easter egg in the even better than you've heard @onebattlemovie: the grocery store Bob grabs his sunglasses from is in Trinidad, CA, one time home of Thomas Pynchon. (I'm familiar with it for the obvious reason.)

The Perfect Human - Jørgen Leth (1937 – 2025)

a few small beers

We Still Kill the Old Way (1967): I always love stories about ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances, trying to do the right thing. Gian Maria Volontè is one of the GOATs and if you want to watch some great political films you definitely have to look at Elio Petri's work

just me and my dog and an impossible view Black Sunday (1960), Mario Bava // The Grapes of Death (1978), Jean Rollin // Damned in Venice (1978), Ugo Liberatore // The Beyond (1981), Lucio Fulci #sidebyside #filmsky #horrorsky #me&mydog 🐾

I just ran One Battle After Another on 70mm and in case it's not common knowledge I want to make sure audiences know that those reels are fucking HUGE and HEAVY (like 40-50 lbs) and we have to lift them over our heads and angle them onto a thin shaft without dropping them on ourselves/the projector

Great response to people who don’t read fiction (from The Assistant by Bernard Malamud)

Among all the great things its got going on, Decision to Leave is film in which modern technologies for once organically blend with the plot and their use doesn't fell forced or hacky. Can't wait to see what he cooked for No Other Choice

“The difference between acting and directing is that when I’m acting, I get to wear beautiful clothes and don’t have to think that much." Shu Qi discusses her directorial debut while at Busan 2025:

"You had the guy 4 fucking days. 4 dayys! You could've walked him backwards and not fucking blown it! But you blew it! This movie is such a blast and Pantoliano delivers my favorite performance in a movie full of great performances Midnight Run - Martin Brest

GREEN: Shades of reflection. 🟢

Ah Claudia😢a luminous presence in some of the very best movies of all time. This scene is unforgettable "Because he doesn't know how to love"