Shiguehiko Hasumi and Yoshida Kiju on the start of Yoshida's film career

I can't believe I haven't seen this before - footage of Orson Welles' 1936 all-Black staging of Macbeth, from the WPA newsreel We Work Again

"down with thieves!"

Continued the tradition of looking at painting on my birthday - this time at the Legion of Honor in SF, where James Stewart trails Kim Novak in Vertigo

A Chaplin impersonator in Naruse's Husband and Wife (1953)

Very excited to be speaking with Marta Mateus about António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro and their beautiful Trás-os-Montes (1976) tonight, 7PM at @bampfa.bsky.social bampfa.org/event/tras-o...

No question it's this

Still impressed by this series of posters for a 2018 Peter Watkins retrospective presented by Wolf Kino in Berlin.

Actor Ahmed Ahmedpoor, known for his role as Mohamed Reza Nematzadeh in Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House (1987), passed away last Thursday at the age of 46. ❤️

Brenez: "John Ford is certainly the inventor of the form, when at the end of Fort Apache (1948), we learn that the entire story we have witnessed exists in order to criticize a painting exhibited in Washington"

footage of the aftermath of the 1982 bombing of Lebanon, edited by Carolee Schneemann in 1983/2006

my most anticipated book release of the month

Claire Simon, Marie-Claude Treilhou, and Alain Guiraudie in Treilhou's Un petit cas de conscience (2002)

Poster on my wall

New in our Screening Room: Adrian Martin's recorded introduction to Raúl Ruiz’s City of Pirates (1983), initially presented in the context of our Serge Daney programme at ICA London. → sabzian.be/screening-room/la-ville-des-pirates-introduction

Rereading The American Cinema for the first time in maybe 8 years and am once again asking for a collected edition of Sarris's writing from Library of America

Extremely grateful to Miguel and the editors at Taipai for publishing this Spanish translation of my essay on Godard's posthumous films

Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Eduard Tisse, and Eisenstein

Georgia Hale recounts Josef von Sternberg's reaction to hearing that Chaplin loved The Salvation Hunters

In 1963, the editors at Cahiers du cinema asked some of their contributors to list the top ten American films of the sound era. Here are some of the ballots

I really want to go to this but the screening starts at 10PM and goes until 2 in the morning....

Coming soon at the ICA in London (no details yet): In Focus: Serge Daney (29 August–4 September), a ten-film programme exploring the legacy of the influential critic in collaboration with @sabzian.bsky.social

Back on Bluesky to heap praise on @dcairns.bsky.social 's great essay on Midnight for Criterion www.criterion.com/current/post...

The Cinémathèque française is currently running a retrospective of John Stahl. I didn't realize he had such an extensive silent career, almost none of which appears to be available online. Does anyone know about these? Are they as good as his sound films?

Footage of the UN Palestinian refugee camps in 1949, taken by the Quaker society the American Friends Service Committee

@dagscott.bsky.social I'm curious if you know the answer to this. I was under the impression that The Smiling Lieutenant was lost until the 90s, but I just came across this listing at PFA from 1980. Do you know anything about this?

My partner interviewed André Téchiné, whose films are currently showing at L'Alliance Française in NYC, for @screenslate.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/sph...

I'm planning to teach a course on romantic comedy in the fall, which will include three films by Ernst Lubitsch. I'm curious - what three would others choose?

New Serge Daney translation: two hours of discussion with Jacques Rivette (1989). Thanks to Ted Fendt. sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/05/micr...

Sylvain George last night @bampfa.bsky.social

My interview with Sylvain George is now live on @screenslate.bsky.social @screenslatesf.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/poi...

I wrote about Godard's posthumous films for @sabzian.bsky.social www.sabzian.be/text/the-las...

Jean Narboni on the relationship of the post-68 Cahiers critics to Bazin: “It’s like Hegel and Marx, that’s it. We tried to stand him on his feet”

Brecht (and Fritz Kortner) on a dinner party at Chaplin's in 1945, where he discussed his plans for Monsieur Verdoux

It’s been a little over a year and a half since the last issue appeared, and I was beginning to wonder ... But Outskirts Film Magazine Nº3 is now available for pre-order — outskirtsmag.com A bit more on what’s inside — www.instagram.com/p/DIYs5nEK5h...

Godard on receiving an "special" Palme d'or for Image Book: "I wrote to Thierry Frémaux to tell him it was a catastrophe"

Margot Adler on the December '64 occupation of Sproul Hall at Berkeley: "There were rooms available for studying. There was a Chanukah service and folk dancing. In another room, they showed Charlie Chaplin's film The Rink."

Godard in 2019 on his relationships with Rivette, Truffaut, and Rohmer in the 50s

"Eric Rohmer by his friend trufo"

Serge Daney on Mark Donskoy: "Because he believes in the final blossoming of life, he focuses on everything that smothers it. [...] One common theme throughout the films, and the filmmaker's major preoccupation: only when things are lost or yet to be gained do they truly exist"

"One speaks of Cézanne's apples the way one speaks of Hitchcock's bottles of Bordeaux in Notorious" - Godard

Deleuze on movie theaters

Many people talk about Ici et ailleurs or Notre musique when talking about Palestine in Godard's cinema, but not mentioned enough is that the last film he and Miéville completed, Sang titre (2019), was made as a tribute to the people of Gaza and Ramallah

Rereading this in preparation for a lecture on Summer Interlude next week - there are maybe four or five others essays as influential on how I think about film as this one

I love this photo of Bergman and Rossellini

New collection: Work in Progress / The Films of Johan van der Keuken This collection gathers all English-language texts on Sabzian on the work of JvdK, along with a complete multilingual annotated filmography (62 films!).