The number is actually 97.1% if you include the little shuffling around between nonbinary and binary identities that happened, but it is *remarkable* how rock-steady at 97-98% youth trans self-identification is. Believe kids when they tell you they're trans!!

I’ve slowly but surely been working through writing reviews of the films I saw at last weekend’s Nitrate Picture Show. This one, about a German film I’d barely heard of before, seems worth sharing. boxd.it/eKyU5Z

is it April 1st is this a joke

Going straight for Cradle Song was a good idea I guess because after booking that one, the ICR ticketing website glitched and now and I can't see any listings for any screenings on Sunday or Monday.

I’ll never understand people who listen to podcasts at 1.5x. The point of podcasts isn’t to consume information as efficiently as possible. The point of podcasts is to never, ever risk being alone with your own thoughts for even a moment.

Woman with a Cup of Coffee https://www.wikiart.org/en/edouard-vuillard/woman-with-a-cup-of-coffee

After the success of our previous schedulers, we will again be creating our spreadsheet scheduler for Il Cinema Ritrovato 2026 - the full programme in a spreadsheet with a scheduling tool! www.repcinema.com/post/il-cine... Early access for all subscribers or those who support us via KoFi!

given today's Talarico comment about "gender reassignment surgery for minors" (see LRT), I figured I'd re-up this essay that dispels much of the disinformation regarding gender-affirming care for trans youth: (no paywall) juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...

the rational, pragmatic liberal version of being anti- litter boxes in schools “I’m against this thing that isn’t real and doesn’t happen”

"The biggest + most disruptive series of AI-fueled breakdowns have been the server outages that have disrupted service to the MHDL search engine Lantern. These crashes are the result of LLM bots crawling the website, scraping the scanned trade papers + fan magazines to train their next gen models."

The Angel on my shoulder: It’s okay. You’re a little hungover. You’ve seen a lot and are seeing more later! You can sleep in and skip the children’s movie, even if it is Technicolor. The Devil on the other, dragging me by the scalp: “a climactic cave sequence designed by William Cameron Menzies”

MIDNIGHT AT THE NITRATE PICTURE SHOW!!!

From Chierichetti’s Leisen book on the state of Swing High, Swing Low’s print availability. Wonder if a print has been found from a non-American archive for the Il Cinema Ritrovato showing or the partial 16mm blowup is what we’ll be seeing…

NY food eaters! Where should we eat for late dinner near Metrograph and lunch near MoMA?

My @themaineplayweek.bsky.social interview with @noirfoundation.bsky.social founder and TCM host @eddiemuller.bsky.social is up! We discuss Ann Sheridan, Norman Foster, the best dogs in film noir, and much more, in advance of his appearance at the Strand Theatre in Rockland this Thursday evening:

New 3.5 hour Wiseman Pod episode dropping as I’m on my way to the airport—finally a good surprise in this fucking godawful week.

An article I wrote on Peter Bogdanovich as an introduction to a Brazilian retrospective a couple of years ago.

Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar - NYC premiere this day in 1954 - Italian poster, art by Averardo Ciriello

Sonny Rollins recorded so much incredible stuff, especially in his peak period from 1956 to 1962. It's hard to pick among them, but here are four of my favorites. First up, "Decision" from "Volume 1": www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFit...

If you’re wanting to hear Sonny Rollins tonight but don’t know where to start, a quick Top 10: Saxophone Colossus - Often cited as his best, has "St. Thomas," as well as "Mack the Knife," the SOUND is just so good, his solos are super imaginative, excellently recorded

Sorry for the self-RT but in light of today's news...

Hearing the reactions to Mungiu’s latest at Cannes and I just need to say I am feeling like this take is being unequivocally vindicated.

happy birthday Robert Creeley 🎈

me after not posting all day

Feel like @jessehawken.bsky.social needs to know that the forthcoming debut novel of a certain celebrated filmmaker who had a highly praised premiere at Cannes this week has a Paddy McAloon epigraph?

Cohort email introductions have begun and they're all babies sharing what they studied in school and I'm over here like "It was long enough ago that I could not actually tell you what what my Master's Thesis was about with any meaningful detail..."

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

Jacques Rivette's moving adaptation of JEANNE LA PUCELLE is out now. This 2-disc UK Blu-ray includes new writing by @willowcatelyn.bsky.social + new translations of Rivette interviews and Sandrine Bonnaire's writing. Plus, new interviews w/ @bealoayza.bsky.social and w/ co-writer Pascal Bonitzer!

Provocative Austrian feminist artist Valie Export dies at 85 reut.rs/4wucdQX

TIL Charles Bracket also wrote novels

It's my birthday! Your gift to me would be reading my first report on the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (and the next couple that I'll be sharing soon). fcardamenis.substack.com/p/san-franci...

can I walk you through my favorite things about this site, which I made *with these hands*??? (thread lol) petobits.coyotemedia.org

Important newsflash! In the 1950s Chris Marker hand drew tiny comics in English, that portrayed his friend Agnes Varda as a kind of superhero This one has the best opening line ever. Also many cats.

The Mitchell Leisen line-up for Ritrovato! ehsankhoshbakht.substack.com/p/the-mitche...

Hey nerds. Any guesses for the opening night of this year's Nitrate Picture Show?

watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now

In which @soleilho.com visits a queer art gallery in SF and wonders how transmasculinity might be about more than just being a dude. www.coyotemedia.org/queer-transm...

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

Let us peer into the soul of the nation, via a staged non-discussion about a contentious tax measure for library funding in El Cerrito. And then let us heal: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/we-dont-deba...

Samuel Delaney's review of the original Star Wars:

They kept dropping hints, and now, here it is. Film Comment has relaunched as a quarterly digital magazine. Up now: Erika Balsom on Lucrecia Martel, Jonathan Rosenbaum on his 1970s columns, Amy Taubin’s interview with Michaela Coel … www.filmcomment.com

I've really come to believe that this specific song is the single best explanation for why exvangelicals raised in 1990s youth group culture are often borderline militant leftists

this is insane and I love it

Really, really excited we were able to get this piece together so quickly after the series started a month ago. Bay folks should make every effort to get to the rest of these screenings.

The comments about this on r/Christianity are a real treat

Me, patiently explaining to the group chat during HR mania that, far from disqualifying him, Kip is in fact categorically a himbo BECAUSE he is applying to an Art History MA:

The California Theater building in Berkeley has been bought by... some guy who owns a nudist swinger resort in Palm Springs?

BAMPFA's next season is trickling in and they're showing Dorsky's Arboretum Cycle, one of my absolute S&S 10-level all timers, but it's after I will have already moved for school 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 bampfa.org/program/nath...

This is so neat: Haghefilm has a virtual tour of their film labs with short 360° panoramic videos of someone at work in each room haghefilm-virtualtour.nl/virtual-tour...