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-...

In case anyone still cares www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I would like to see the US government claw back all the money extorted through corruption and to impose punitive fines so all that collaborated with Trump in this endeavor get totally stripped of their wealth. When the Democrats win, I hope they go Medieval on them.

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

The most cowardly, grovelling yes-men in America are the most powerful. If these were the times they wished they lived in, they and their families would be stripped of rank, land and fortune as soon as the tides turn. And some would lose their heads.

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.

It's only taken Trump one year to make the USA this much poorer, lawless, more dangerous, less secure, less reliable. Imagine what the country will look like in three more years. I'm so glad I don't live there and nonetheless resent having to live through the effects of his mad ravings.

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...

I just…..

An extraordinary achievement of tone: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/12/17/4...

A great film, funny and suspenseful, that unfurls into a philosophical discussion of morality and ethics: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/12/15/4...

The rapidity with which the USA has become a tinpot dictatorship with no regard for law or for the sanctity of life, dizzying levels of corruption, and even a secret police...it makes my head spin.

Interviewed by The Boar: theboar.org/2025/12/big-...

"We are aware that some AI chatbots may generate incorrect or fabricated archival references...They generate new content based on statistical patterns, and may therefore produce invented catalogue numbers, descriptions of documents, or even references to platforms that have never existed."

A treat to talk to the marvellous Glyn Davis on his handsome new book, the ‘BFI Classic’ on Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955). notesonfilm1.com/2025/12/06/j...

This looks amazing and I shall be there, at least for the first part as I don't know if I can manage 300 minutes on a school night when I'm teaching first thing tomorrow:

Zia Yusuf is in the right party. What a loudmouth, arrogant, bully; speaking over everyone and not listening to a word anyone else says.

Exciting. On next Monday at the Warwick Arts Centre.

This was the first video essay I made, when I still didn't quite have a handle on editing software -- not that I'm much better now -- but I still like it, and will probably show it to students later today. vimeo.com/426581272

James Cullen, articulate, knowledgeable, brilliant: on Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: notesonfilm1.com/2025/11/28/j...

a great performance in a mediocre but 'important' film: eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/28/4...