On my fourth Tarik Saleh film in as many days. I'm obsessed: notesonfilm1.com/2026/06/06/t...

Some thoughts on Tarik Saleh's THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT: notesonfilm1.com/2026/06/05/t...

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

A note on THE CAIRO CONSPIRACY, currently on I-player, and marvellous: notesonfilm1.com/2026/06/05/t...

A note on the marvellous EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC: notesonfilm1.com/2026/06/03/e...

A noe on TUNER: notesonfilm1.com/2026/06/02/t...

A note on one of the films playing at the Mockingbird Cinema as part of the @docnrollfilms.bsky.social program. notesonfilm1.com/2026/05/28/a...

Wrote on this a few years ago and now happy to see it translated to English. notesonfilm1.com/2024/03/25/e...

Yet again more delights in this morning's post. Very happy to be part of this handsome production, which is now on sale. The Richard Dyer component is the talk he gave on Rock Hudson at the NFT and is typically wonderful.

Repost of the Day: From Us - Ten Iranian Films: midcenturycinema.org/2025/07/09/n... Plus one: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...

In cinemas now and worth seeing. notesonfilm1.com/2026/04/04/o...

I loved this film. Mike was less convinced. The discussion was mutually illuminating but I think at the end he leaned more towards my point of view. This is the film Jacob Elordi is urging everyone to see, understandably. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2026/04/03/4...

The War in Iran has exposed the complete corruption and immorality of the US congress. Does anyone there have principles? Is there anything they believe in, aside from their careers and bank accounts?

When does a 'military action' become a war requiring the approval of Congress?

Donald Trump, making the world safer for everyone all over the world: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

In 1992 I worked with the AIDS Positive Underground Theatre Company in Brighton on a show, Freedom to Party, which imagined a world where HIV was cured - but stigma persisted. Today we can treat HIV effectively and prevent it being passed on, yet stigma still persists. Photo: Brighton Pride 1992.

The film is receiving a lot of blowback. We had a really good time, though not always for the same reasons. Extended discussion below. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2026/03/24/4...

Misha Zakharov has curated an exciting program on Carceral cinema, featuring his own work and also providing a rare opportunity to see John Greyson's 1980's video art classic, MOSCOW DOES NOT BELIEVE IN QUEERS. It's part of @flatpack and free to attend. tickettailor.com/event…

Breaking news: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s dismantling of Voice of America was unlawful and ordered more than 1,000 employees, who have spent a full year on paid administrative leave, back to work.

The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals. We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.

3/13/70: Claude Sautet's The Things of Life w/Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider From us on Sautet: midcenturycinema.org/2024/04/29/n... More: @josearroyo.bsky.social: notesonfilm1.com/2013/10/27/l... @scottemarks.bsky.social: www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2020/ju...

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel responsible for 84 of 129 journalist killings in 2025 tracked by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Come on, America – you’ve got to arrest someone. Haven’t you? Even just one, for appearances’ sake? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If we know anything about Trump, it's that he'll throw his most loyal lieutenants under a bus as soon as it's expedient. I predict that Miller, Noem, Hegseth et all will be in jail within a year.

it will really be something if the Epstein Files unseat a British Prime Minster who isn't in them, and not the American President who was Epstein's best friend.

We were perhaps Too Hot To Handle for LinkedIn but the info is here www.avclub.com/hiring-film-...

Yup, it is actually true. Good work on defending your city/country against cruelty, corruption, and deadly force.

The world's nightmare has come true. There's an insane person in the White House with access to the nuclear codes.

BOTD Elaine Stritch!! Outstanding in Company (Pennebaker) Providence (Resnais) September (Allen - www.nytimes.com/1987/12/21/m... More @kellymcmasters.bsky.social on @alexandrajacobs.bsky.social bio: www.newsday.com/beta/enterta... @david-rooney.bsky.social: www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

'This is a regime that has turned against its own people. It governs through disappearance, terror, and the routinization of cruelty. Harm, misery, violence, and murder are no longer deviations from democratic norms; they are the norms.' www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/30/d...

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Donal Trump is a very bad president. The worst president there has ever been. Nowhere in the world has there been a worse president. He'll be remembered only for trying to destroy AMERICA. Anyone who votes for Trump or his cronies will be forced to watch MELANIA on a loop until they repent.

The buck stops with the president and he needs to take responsibility for Minneapolis.

Yes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are dealing with a Western Christian supremacist movement willing to see millions die in the name of racial purity. This is William Wolfe. A year ago he was invited with fourteen other faith leaders to the WH. Today he is praising ICE for killing peaceful observers. This is Christian fascism.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Abolish the Republican Party.

So we are ranked below Brett Goldstein, who is at number 1; and Christopher Holliday Fantasy/ Animation podcast at no. 16, which as they are both former students brings me no end of pleasure, but above Mark Kermode, who is at No 25: www.millionpodcasts.com/movies-podca...

Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Venezuela now, because he wants the oil. He wants the oil under Greenland too. And under Canada. He's openly called for them to be part of the USA. How long before he decides to bomb a couple of NATO members to get his own way? The USA is a rogue nation.

The USA has been flouting international law since — well, forever. But with this there is no pretext at all. This is Genghis Khan level politics and Xi and Putin are delighted. Ukraine and Taiwan are in genuine trouble. Greenland and Canada might be worried. Chuck Schumer will write a stern letter

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

The film seems to run entirely on mood -- loneliness, frailty, vulnerability, alienation in a cold climate. A fluid dexterity of original story-telling and tone. We discuss all this and much more in the podcast below: notesonfilm1.com/2025/12/31/t...

Playing nationwide this afternoon: notesonfilm1.com/2014/12/19/i...