“Political commitment is woven into the fabric of the cinema itself.” Botagoz Koilybaeva profiles the La Clef Revival collective, who occupied an arthouse theater in Paris to unlock a new future for cinema. From our summer issue. 📸: Chiara Marinai. open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...

filmmaker is now on bluesky!

We’re thrilled to unveil the summer 2026 issue of Filmmaker! Featuring an intimacy coordinator roundtable, Jane Schoenbrun, John Early, Julio Torres, and much more ☀️ Trailer by Charlotte Gosch / Studio Other Types

drop a 📍to share with others where gangnam style is audible outdoors on classon avenue

Unbelievably,

thoughts on Disclosure Day in our Friday newsletter. plus, David Schwartz at the Knicks parade: substack.com/@filmmakerma...

no greater rush than correctly predicting whether any given singer will do the octave jump in “land of the free”

as soon as we learned that Tim Heidecker (@timheidecker.bsky.social) and Eric Wareheim would be at Cannes, we knew we had to talk to them for Filmmaker. here’s Keva York’s Q&A with the era-defining comedy duo, reunited in Quentin Dupieux’s latest, Full Phil: open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...

moved by this internal rhyme in an Athletic article…poetry is everywhere if you keep your eyes open

gazing out the window wondering why esteban bigliardi doesn’t have a wikipedia page

wrote about the Palme-ineligible Propeller, Cannes, etc for our Friday newsletter—ahead of a roundup of our coverage so far: open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...

starting to roll out some Cannes newsletters on the Filmmaker Magazine Substack—like any travel day, Nespresso helped me kick this one off. plus, an early word on Schoenbrun and Radu. subscribe to follow along; more in store this week from an all-star roster! : open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...

seated for propeller one-way night coach………..

disaster….preexisting conflicts with every screening of propeller one-way night coach

in the gestalt of lunch

on the beautiful images, necessary images of James N Kienitz Wilkins’s The Misconceived, for @reverseshot.bsky.social . opens First Look tomorrow! reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

I used Shazam to discover Teen Age Riot by Sonic Youth at the Moynihan Train Hall Food Court at Penn Station

never getting over “The Michael Phenomenon”

avant-garde capitalization in cobble hill cinemas preshow reel

my new notebook "cutscenes" column is an argument against the cutscene itself, proposing - by way of everything from MANIAC MANSION to ELDEN RING - that video game storytelling should be medium-specific and involve more than moving images that suspend the player's control. mubi.com/en/notebook/...

each person is $31.99

Talked to Matt Johnson about lenticular storytelling, being annoying, and studying Norman McClaren in film class mubi.com/en/notebook/...

always a pleasure to chat sundance with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social — some fun films on deck this year. listen in here to learn how to make gatorade at home or make long distance calls for free: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

in @reverseshot.bsky.social two cents on some extremely unusual home cleaning behavior! scroll until you see him: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

The good people at Notebook asked me to write about the restored Fall of Otrar. Of course, I turned in an essay on the deep strangeness of past worlds: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

a dark day for public radio when brian lehrer is forced to say the word “grokipedia”

DYING to get in on conversation behind me at restaurant about “diegetic” / “non-diegetic” …………..

the neil hamburger to sinatra’s “trilogy: past present future” pipeline

don’t miss laura on the viennale!

man on subway platform with penn and teller ball cap and NIN varsity jacket……..

after the hunt youtu.be/pQS5TciZ5C0?...

happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...

happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...

ballots: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

was offered a seat on the subway bc i was cradling a personal pizza box as if it were a child

olympic-level snack wrapper crinkling was ongoing behind me for the final 40 minutes of the “last night i conquered the city of thebes” p&i

on the venice film festival, for mubi notebook: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

one thing about film festivals in 2025 is that so many people will have their ringer on

way to go grandpa

with the realization that i am recognizing more and more films in a festival preshow reel, my heart surges with Power…………

status update: rewinding NBA finals game commercial break to hear errol morris say “TELL ME ABOUT CHIPOTLE” in vo just one more time

please support me as i endeavor to become the most vocal astrid sonne fan on bluesky dot edu

pacers in 5

pacers in 4

this happened on wheel of fortune tonight

The woman wondered what she had gotten herself into.

pacers in 6