Best first views of June: Midnight Orphée Komposition in Blau Clash by Night Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed Camille Tales of Manhattan Kreise This Happy Breed When Tomorrow Comes Ala-Arriba! Swing High, Swing Low I Love Boosters Disclosure Day Phantom of the Rue Morgue

It’s disclosin’ time

R.I.P. Barry Dransfield youtu.be/bI-J3RcffyM

Concentration camps.

Best first views of May: Mystic River A Soldier’s Story Last Embrace The Haunted (TV pilot, 1964)

Now watching. Happy birthday, big guy

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Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

Clarence B. Jones, lawyer and speechwriter who drafted part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” speech, has died. He was 95.

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

Scanning a film directed by and starring Vittorio De Sica’s son

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🎶 It’s a tarte-tatin for dessert tonight (have a bana-na) 🎶 #PiratePrentice #GravitysRainbow #ThomasPynchon

"According to statistics compiled by the ACLU, women who kill their partners will spend an average of 15 years behind bars, while men who kill their female partners serve much shorter sentences, on average between 2 to 6 years."

Ishtar still one of the funniest movies

Best first views of April: Mona Lisa Blue Heron Be Kind Rewind The Christophers The Testament of Ann Lee Arabesque

In honor of Mimi Fariña’s birthday, as well as the anniversary of Richard Fariña’s death, the Sandy Denny page on Facebook shared this beautiful letter Mimi wrote to Sandy praising the latter’s cover of Richard’s song “The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood”

This movie looks pretty bonkers, I think I will watch it

I am the literal worst at choosing which movie to watch

R.I.P. the wonderful Beverley Martyn youtu.be/-e4l_3gg96E

Finished Gravity’s Rainbow! What a wild ride

Just wild that the Secret Service shot a Donald Trump supporter dead at Mar-a-Lago two months ago because he had a gun & was trying to kill the president over the Epstein files but—speaking only for myself—I haven’t heard a word about it amid the coverage tonight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“School choice” is a long con by right wing corporate interests and every Democrat who played a part in selling it should never know a moment’s peace. www.npr.org/2026/04/19/n...

This is why I keep saying over and over that Poland is one of the world’s most dangerous places for Jews right now. They are systematically erasing and rewriting history. This is just one of countless examples.

The Jedwabne pogrom of 1941 was one of the most brutal acts in the entire Shoah, committed by Poles against Polish Jews, not by the occupying Germans. Now the local government and people are denying that Poles committed this act. www.timesofisrael.com/polish-towns...

Never expected to cheer so hard for the Baudrillard Papacy

Pesach sameach! Liberation now! youtu.be/qwD43LSZIyE

Best first views of March: Il Decameron Love on Delivery To Sleep with Anger Timecode Porgy and Bess

I found it, the most deranged way a grocery store has ever displayed pasta sauce

I'm telling you, the first time some blonde white woman whose also a major sports star gets disqualified for being intersex, all hell is going to break loose.

Finished it. A fair amount of it is silly and/or wooden, and the spectacle largely outweighs the spiritual, but the grandeur of it all is truly astonishing. Quite good when it comes down to it.

come look at our cash money, everyone, we let a pedophile scribble all over it

Anyway, I’m glad the star of Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death is finally getting the proper recognition

Congratulations to the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize

Hmmm... it’s almost Pesach, maybe I should rewatch this one that I haven’t seen in probably a couple of decades at least

the video for “Walk of Life” by Dire Straits, but it’s just a loop of this clip

as of right now the biggest single donation to this gofundme for Valerie Perrine's burial costs? Noah Wyle

R.I.P. the great Terry Cox, drummer for the groundbreaking folk-rock band Pentangle, and heard by many on David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.” I love this performance where you can see him playing his drum set with just his hands youtu.be/UYQeX9nDhww

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day, folks! Here's Warwick Davis in full makeup being taught how to properly smoke a bong from behind the scenes of Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood.

A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists variety.com/2024/film/ne...

This week it was uncovered that the Trump regime is trying to "cure" trans prisoners of being transgender, while doing everything they can - from labeling our mere existence as explicit to stripping us of our legal documents - to ensure we *all* end up imprisoned in their ever-growing camps.

Best first views, February: Il fiore delle Mille e una notte The Chase (1966)

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

The words we love to see

So what was the deal with Frederick Wiseman apparently not allowing Shirley Clarke’s The Cool World (which he produced and held the rights to) to be re-released/distributed on video?

UCLA’s **faculty unions** said no, and the govt is backing off. Its admin was so ready to comply the might have already set up an autopay for the wire transfer bribe money.