David Hudson
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I write the Daily column for Criterion's Current.
âThe Secret Agent Network,â a series programmed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, is on from January 7 through 13
@filmlinc.bsky.social
!
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âThe art world, with all its progressive scaffolding and humanist ornamentation, practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion, couldnât metabolize Palestine. It still canât.â David Velasco
@equatormag.bsky.social
â
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How Gaza Broke the Art World âą EQUATOR
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
https://www.equator.org/articles/how-gaza-broke-the-art-world
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Kubrick conspiracies
@vulture.com
, Malickian movies
@yalereview.bsky.social
, Spike Lee + music
@letterboxd.social
, Rebecca Hall @ Club Ciné, and the
@slate.com
Movie Club is on! Did You See This?
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Alt poster by Mike Trujillo (
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âWays of Seeing 2025,â a roundup of the latest best-of lists and polls and some fine writing to go with them â
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Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, Martin Scorsese and Robbie Robertson, Luc Moullet, Esfir Shub, Abel Ferrara, Sam Shepard ⊠itâs the December Books roundup â
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Besides films by Akerman, KieĆlowski, Herzog, Farocki, Makavejev, Linklater, and Spike Lee, the Berlinaleâs âLost in the 90sâ retrospective will feature Godardâs ALLEMAGNE ANNĂE 90 NEUG ZĂRO with Eddie Constantineâs Lemmy Caution. Hope to see some of you there !
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None of these are easy, but damn, this one ⊠Remembering Rob Reiner âŠ
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Queer cinema pioneer Rosa von Praunheim, best known for IT IS NOT THE HOMOSEXUAL WHO IS PERVERSE, BUT THE SOCIETY IN WHICH HE LIVES (1971), has died. He was 83.
@spiegel.de
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Sabzian
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Some of the many books from our winter selection: â
sabzian.be/news/new-book-releases-winter-2026
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Nicolas Rapold
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A joy working on Screen Slate's Favorite First Viewings w/ entries from our incredible contributors and from Jafar Panahi, Kahlil Joseph, Park Chan-wook, Julia Loktev, Lav Diaz, Isabel Sandoval, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Alain Guiraudie, Darius Khondji, and more!
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Best Movies of 2025: First Viewings & Discoveries and Individual Ballots
This list of lists is still being updatedEach year Screen Slate invites our dozens of contributorsâalong with filmmakers, critics, performers, programmers, cinema workers, and other friends and mutual...
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/best-movies-2025-first-viewings-discoveries-and-individual-ballots
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Bi Gan
@nytimes.com
, disturbing soundtracks
@thequietus.com
,
@mudede.bsky.social
and Robinson Devor
@screenslate.bsky.social
, Radu Jude
@eflux.bsky.social
, new
@filmquarterly.bsky.social
, and more best-of-2025 lists and polls ⊠Did You See This?
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10 days ago
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Charli XCX stars in three of the 90 features Sundance has lined up for 2026 â
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11 days ago
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âSergei Eisenstein: 100 Years of Potemkinâ is on at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna from tomorrow through January 5 â
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Another quick update on the latest best-of-2025 lists and awards â
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13 days ago
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David Hudson
Outskirts Film Magazine
15 days ago
We're delighted to announce the launch of the Outskirts Film Podcast, a bi-monthly podcast about cult movies, experimental film, popular cinema, and everything in between and at the peripheries. Rate, subscribe & follow us wherever you get your podcasts.
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Straub and Huilletâs THESE ENCOUNTERS OF THEIRS (2005) screens on 35mm on Wednesday
@bambrooklyn.bsky.social
and Pedro Costa will be in Copenhagen this weekend â
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14 days ago
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David Lynch
@artforum.com
, postwar British cinema
@nybooks.com
, Kevin Brownlow
@theguardian.com
, new
@cineastemagazine.bsky.social
, new Found Footage Magazine, more best-of-2025 lists and one big poll ⊠Did You See This?
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17 days ago
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A brief update on the latest best-of-2025 lists and awards â
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At this point, when it comes to Ukraine (and probably several other issues as well), European leaders trust the US about as far as youâd expect them to.
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Confidential Conference on Ukraine Peace: "We Must Not Leave Ukraine and Volodymyr Alone with These Guys"
DER SPIEGEL has obtained notes from a conference call involving EU leaders - including Germany's Friedrich Merz and France's Emmanuel Macron - showing just how little trust Europe has in Washington.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/confidential-conference-on-ukraine-peace-we-must-not-leave-ukraine-and-volodymyr-alone-with-these-guys-a-a7b269ed-b6c2-4739-8e83-81552e097c14
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Satyajit Ray, Mikio Naruse, Pedro AlmodĂłvar, William Wyler, John M. Stahl, Robina Rose ⊠Present Past 2025: A Celebration of Film Preservation opens tomorrow at the Academy Museum and runs through December 22 â
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19 days ago
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Notes on a few of the top winners of this yearâs Gothams and British Independent Film Awards, plus a few early best-of-2025 lists. So now weâre in it. Weâll do something else tomorrow, but then itâs right back at it again on Thursday âŠ
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20 days ago
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A. S. Hamrah
21 days ago
Online at
@nybooks.com
, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs | A. S. Hamrah
In December 2019, three months before the pandemic, I was standing on a subway platform in Brooklyn when I recognized a prominent older film critic also
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/12/02/a-total-breakdown-of-all-the-easter-eggs/
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Remembering Tom Stoppard âŠ
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21 days ago
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Richard Lawson
22 days ago
I'm doing something revolutionary. Something no one has done before: A NEWSLETTER! Yes, I'm throwing a party and I'd love for you to come.
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A Big Bold Beautiful Newsletter Journey
Welcome to Premiere Party, by Richard Lawson.
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Wong Kar Wai
@bostonglobe.com
+
@ebertvoices.bsky.social
, Kubrick
@indiewire.com
+
@thefilmstage.com
, rubble films + EDGE OF DARKNESS
@thequietus.com
, Michel Simon
@theguardian.com
, Pasolini
@sightsoundmag.bsky.social
⊠Did You See This?
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26 days ago
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Remembering Udo Kier âŠ
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Anyone who loved BETWEEN THE TEMPLES half as much as I did is going to want to know about this:
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CAROL AND JOY - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Janus Films
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This month brings one of the biggest books roundups yet, with notes on new collections from Melissa Anderson and
@hamrahrama.bsky.social
plus biographies, memoirs, and more â
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28 days ago
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âLet me tell you a story âŠâ
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Sissy Spacek @ Interview +
@vulture.com
, Renoir + Rossellini
@sabzian.bsky.social
, Godard
@eflux.bsky.social
, Sylvia Chang @ Metrograph, that scene in SINNERS
@latimes.com
⊠Did You See This?
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about 1 month ago
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Poster on the left: âA somber Norwegian family drama would be good for you.â Poster on the right: âEuropeans know how to have fun. Just ask Elle Fanning!â Anyway, a roundup:
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about 1 month ago
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As a complement his new MoMA exhibition LESS IS MORBID, Arthur Jafa has programmed a series of four double bills â
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about 1 month ago
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Sabzian
about 1 month ago
New Issue on Sabzian: âAndrĂ© Bazin, Television Criticâ Compiled and introduced by Tillo Huyghelen, this trilingual issue contains 7 articles by Bazin on the notion of television, as well as an interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini. â
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âMamoru Oshii Restored: Origins and Inspirationsâ is on at Metrograph, and ANGELâS EGG (1985) opens nationwide on Wednesday â
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Sabzian
about 2 months ago
âWhat was I supposed to do, work a miracle? Yes, of course, Fellini had been expecting a miracle.â New on Sabzian: Pier Paolo Pasolini on the filming of Accattone
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The Vigil, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1960
What is it, in essence, that Fellini doesnât like? The poverty, the sloppiness, the coarseness, the awkward, almost anonymous pedantry with which Iâve shot the scene. Fine, I agree. It was my first ex...
https://sabzian.be/text/the-vigil
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Buñuel
@nytimes.com
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@avclub.com
, Rock Hudson @ 100 @ BFI, Yekaterina Golubeva @ Metrograph, Paul Schrader
@thefilmstage.com
⊠Did You See This?
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about 1 month ago
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The director, producer, and mentor to Fatih Akin, who is best known internationally for his appearances in Fassbinderâs films, is gone at 86.
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about 1 month ago
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Sean Gilman
about 1 month ago
Terrific interview with Sylvia Chang here by
@swenryan.bsky.social
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Sylvia Chang - Journal - Metrograph
A titan of New Taiwanese Cinema and the Hong Kong New Wave discusses her latest award-winning role.
https://metrograph.com/sylvia-chang-interview/
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Early reviews of SCENE, Abel Ferraraâs memoir, are strong, and the generous excerpt up
@literaryhub.bsky.social
is especially recommended !
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about 1 month ago
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Remembering Tatsuya Nakadai âŠ
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One-week runs of Oliver Laxeâs SIRĂT begin Thursday
@filmlinc.bsky.social
and Friday in Los Angeles before
@neon-rated.bsky.social
rolls out a wider theatrical release in January â
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about 1 month ago
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Tatsuya Nakadai, who starred in films by Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Naruse, Teshigahara, Ichikawa, and Kinuyo Tanaka, has died at 92. âThe qualities that truly define him are those that seem sprung from electrifying forces deep within.â Chuck Stephens â
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THE SILVER BOOK, Olivia Laingâs second novel, is set in mid-1970s Rome, where Fellini is shooting CASANOVA and Pasolini is at work on SALĂ â
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about 1 month ago
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The Brooklyn Rail + the Film-Makersâ Cooperative are hosting a free virtual screening of the late Ken Jacobsâs STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH on Tuesday. David Schwartz offers a brief intro (
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about 1 month ago
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Ben Whishawâs Day
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Ben Whishawâs Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kKR9UakxQQ
about 2 months ago
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Ira Sachs @ 4Columns +
@newyorker.com
, Joy Williams on Gene Hackman
@harpers.bsky.social
, Claire Atherton and Chantal Akerman
@eflux.bsky.social
, Terence Davies @ BFI, new
@sensesofcinema.bsky.social
⊠Did You See This?
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about 2 months ago
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In the run-up to the release of JAY KELLY (limited theatrical on November 14 and streaming on Netflix on December 5),
@amcinematheque.bsky.social
presents five films by Noah Baumbach â
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about 2 months ago
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So looking forward to finally catching Bi Ganâs RESURRECTION when 14 Films presents it in Berlin (
www.14films.de/en/resurrect...
).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJe...
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RESURRECTION - Janus Trailer
YouTube video by Janus Films
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about 2 months ago
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I was already intrigued, but now the teaser has put Mona Fastvoldâs THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE on the absolute must-see list:
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THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE | Official Teaser | Searchlight Pictures
YouTube video by SearchlightPictures
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about 2 months ago
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