STREETS OF FIRE on 70mm! With rare appearance by director Walter Hill - he said he hadn't seen the movie since it hit screens 41 years ago. Great Q&A with @kjrelthmiller.bsky.social

Road trip. The Sugarland Express at @academymuseum.bsky.social with @kjrelthmiller.bsky.social asking the Qs.

Started the day thinking about THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT for whatever reason

🎶 I’ll do anything for you, Gregg, anything for you 🎶

This is my WICKED

Actually crying. We so wanted him to join us for ERASERHEAD at the museum, but his health wasn’t in a good place. A life-changing visionary to anyone who has ever seen his movies.

The Academy Museum is reopening today with screenings resuming as scheduled. I’ll be there to introduce, and watch, our 2p COOL HAND LUKE screening. I really need a movie right now.

The dear folks at the Museum of Home Video are streaming 3 episodes of my pandemic-era show as part of a fundraiser for the immeasurable loss L.A. is enduring. Hope you can tune in (for free) Sun @ NOON to pay tribute to our city + donate to worthy causes if you can.

Love this pic of the wife @kjrelthmiller.bsky.social with Cronenberg from this past weekend. He's making a great face.

Kinda always felt this way TBH. Manny Farber on Antonioni in 1962

disclosure: I was SO nervous last night. I raaarely get nervous before Q&As but this one was special + so many friends & my mom were there! Then some @$$ clown shouted something as I was reading Cronenberg’s bio & it totally threw me. Ultimately had a dreamy time & will remember the night forever 🥰

This Wikipedia bit he kept returning to did NOT get old. The man can do no wrong.

Tonight I was in a dream!!! Still swimming, processing, will have more thoughts later.

Pinching myself. I am so damn lucky. Can’t wait to converse with Cronenberg tomorrow night after eXistenZ. Standby line will be in full effect — and everyone got in for Videodrome tonight! See you there.

Just learned through an IG friend that works by Greer Lankton are currently on display at @moma.bsky.social in an exhibit titled Vital Signs: Artists and the Body, on view through Feb 22. Her dolls strike deep, complicated feelings in me both familiar and unknowable. NYers should seek out this show!

*furiously googles LAX<>JFK flights and cheap hotel rooms*

Next week brings us To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, programmed this year by the mighty @davekehr.bsky.social. Opening night Jan. 9 is a new restoration of 7TH HEAVEN. I wrote about this Frank Borzage masterpiece in 2018: silentfilm.org/seventh-heav...

I’m so enamored of this movie that whenever I hear Springsteen’s “It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City” I literally swoon. My highest recommend on this forthcoming release!

My most successful resolution was in 2017 when I committed to watching at least 1 film per day (average). Have stuck with it for 8 years & don’t plan to stop. Don’t expect anyone else to relate or care, but I’ve made a few goals for myself in 2025. Trying to keep them light and achievable!

Continuing a six-year New Year’s Day tradition with @joshmillerlite.bsky.social — starting 2025 with Columbo S3 E1

Last watch of 2024, which we had to ill@gally down1o@d because it isn’t streaming or rentable anywhere

Been spending the last week with my mom, who is three weeks post immunotherapy treatment for lymphoma. Seems fitting to spend NYE at The Crab Cooker, an Orange County institution our family has frequented for major occasions & celebrations since the 1960s. Here’s to a healthy & happy 2025 to all.

If you’re intrigued by one, commit to both.

A New Years Treat this year is the December 31 release of the special edition Blu-ray of Steve De Jarnatt's apocalyptic classic MIRACLE MILE, which still hasn't attained the appreciation it deserves! It's The Bomb! See It! kinolorber.com/product/mira...

Support women who support women filmmakers! And stay tuned for a related event at a certain Los Angeles cinema in 2025….

What’s your favorite New Year’s Eve movie? Here are a few of mine:

Bill Skarsgård in NOSFERATU + Demi Moore in Act 2 of THE SUBSTANCE for best spine-protruding couple of 2024

Not only is DEADLY FRIEND screening on a 35mm print but it’s a 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive so you know it’s gonna look ✨

Starting today & for the next four days, we’re screening 3D movies at the Academy Museum 2x a day! Sorry if that too many numbers for you!! The jist: starting at 2pm today, we’re celebrating 3D-cember with classic, wild, and wonderful films in glorious 3D! The lineup:

You’re celebrating Christmas today. I’m celebrating the 30th anniversary of LITTLE WOMEN (1994). We are not the same.

Hauled out the yearbooks at the family Xmas eve dinner tonight. Here’s a winner from a rehearsal for the school play c. 2000. The details—Abercrombie, Adidas Superstars, thin-as-hell eyebrows, box-dyed streaks, waterline eyeliner—make me so proud.

“You will be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

For those who loved Richard McGuire‘s graphic novel but couldn’t stand the look or the schmaltz of the recent film adaptation: Daniel Mason’s NORTH WOODS, about the inhabitants of a yellow cabin in Northern Massachusetts across five centuries, is the perfect antidote.

In this house @joshmillerlite.bsky.social and I celebrate Planet Hollywood 🌎 ⭐️

Fave new-to-me watches of 2024, a 🧵: 1. ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932) 2. MAN’S CASTLE (1933) 3. CITY FOR CONQUEST (1940) 4. BRUTE FORCE (1947)

Might have film programmer whiplash after writing a note for a French New Wave classic then immediately starting one for an Apatow comedy 😵‍💫