I will be at the Frida in spirit and in video!!

We’re heavy in research for it right now!

We are recording the HAWKE + LINKLATER SUPER DRAFT with @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social & @812filmreviews.com NEXT WEEK! All 9 Ethan & Richard collaborations will make the list, what placements do you want to see?!

for the night crowd

In this week’s Directed By Women Viewing Guide: a new film starring Carmen Maura, an queer family drama, a series about NYC tenements, a 1972 Oscar-winning doc, Brett Story in person, a diaspora series at UCLA, a doc about the L.A. Rebellion, and a doc about Palestinian children held as prisoners.

for the afternoon crowd

In this week’s Directed By Women Viewing Guide: a new film starring Carmen Maura, an queer family drama, a series about NYC tenements, a 1972 Oscar-winning doc, Brett Story in person, a diaspora series at UCLA, a doc about the L.A. Rebellion, and a doc about Palestinian children held as prisoners.

"Why do we want to be in other people’s bodies? What does that provide us? I actually think we would all be really miserable." For this month's Female Filmmakers In Focus at @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I spoke with Amanda Kramer about her singular new film BY DESIGN

"Why not see an image we’ve never seen, or an image we’ve seen but don’t remember, or an image that we’ve seen many times in a new way?” @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social spoke w/ Amanda Kramer about BY DESIGN, finding the right chair for Juliette Lewis, & moral core of body swap films.

"The agency’s general counsel said the goal is to dramatically compress the timeline in which transportation regulations are produced. That should be possible, he said, because 'it shouldn’t take you more than 20 minutes to get a draft rule out of Gemini.'" www.propublica.org/article/trum...

for the late night crowd

for the evening crowd

Join us February 20 for the next installment of ONLINE WITH SFFP 🎬 Film archives didn’t just preserve cinema history—they shaped it. 1/4

Crazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

1. Kristen Stewart buying and renovating the Highland Theater is incredible 2. Kristen Stewart's photo shoot for AD announcing the news is everything

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

A we mourn the ravaging of the Washington Post, it's a great day to subscribe to your local newspaper or another regional paper. Local reporting has a huge positive impact on local rights & justice, & we are seeing local papers shut down at devastating speed Democracy dies in darkness is still true

What a coincidence

Wouldn't be ironic, if the progressive celebrities that Republicans supposedly hate so much ended up saving the arts in this country

Co-sign

THREAD

A war against the arts and arts coverage.

I understand why it's gotten buried in the news about international and sports, but one of the largest papers in the US saying it's effectively no longer interested in arts coverage (unless it has something to do with Trump) seems like kind of a big deal.

the Washington Post effectively blew up its arts section today, dismissing its books, TV, music, and theater critics, features writers, and several editors. (I'm also guessing the vacant film critic position will stay that way.) Just an insane loss of talent and a huge self-inflicted wound.

The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.

oh hell yes www.architecturaldigest.com/story/kriste...

🧊 "We're going to get an ICE detention facility before we get a grocery store!"

Our hot new MJ cover story on all the idiotic things Trump is doing to control America's 250 anniversary celebrations and ictate the presentation of US history and culture is online. Read it before the First Amendment gets canceled. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

What an absolutely brutal fucking day.

once our herd immunity is gone we’re just gonna be a sickly country with the shittiest healthcare system for a country of our quote-un-quote developed status

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

little item for the Senate Dems to ponder: which of the reforms you’re currently floating is going to stop this?

INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.

Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.

one of my fave parts of this conversation

"Why do we want to be in other people’s bodies? What does that provide us? I actually think we would all be really miserable." For this month's Female Filmmakers In Focus at @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I spoke with Amanda Kramer about her singular new film BY DESIGN

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet. But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

Deepak Chopra in the Epstein Files writing, "God is a construct, Cute girls are real." In this same exchange, he responds to Epstein, asking, "Did you find me a cute israeli? :)" with "Cute girls are aware when they make noises." www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I say this as a victim and as a lawyer and as a journalist and as a woman in public, no one, literally no one in power, cares about victims of sexual violence. This is why they promise women more police and prisons (allegedly to help them) while fancy men who are friends with Epstein go free.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

A new Arizona bill gives cops the power to arrest parents who let their children watch a drag show. A violation of HB2589 could result in a felony charge with up to three years in prison.

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

for the evening crowd

I somehow knew Daughters of the Dust would make it. A truly transcendental film. Check if your local public library (or university) offers Kanopy streaming because it's free on there.

"Christmas Adventures Club" was a third draft punch up for our reality