they literally renamed the entire company after this

For @documentary.org I spoke to Sofia Coppola about her wonderful Gen X tv magazine Hi Octane, and I guess she also has a new movie out documentary.org/online-featu...

If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.

folks we're turning back the galleons, the corregidores, the very bad gobernadorcillos, oh they're bad, the worst many say, may are saying it, down there they say MUY MALO, it's true

📢📢📢

Giuliano de Medici MOGS soy Pazzis for Florentine domination <I am swept into a paddy wagon and placed in a straitjacket>

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

EAT YOUR VEGATABLES, YUGI-BOY

Absolutely.

If you love those giant brown snow mounds in parking lots, this is the most exciting winter in a decade

Very neat exhibition on Puerto Rican comic book artists at the NYPL, including the late great George Perez

here is how you get into Wiseman

god he was so fucking funny

dont let Fred hear you using the o-word buddy

He was American nonfiction cinema. That's it.

1. Get on my level

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it happened

For @screenslate.bsky.social I wrote up Joan Micklin Silver's wonderful Hester Street, playing at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social as part of its expansive retrospective of tenement cinema www.screenslate.com/articles/hes...

They got ants at the NHM

This one actually got me

posting is harmless provided you don't take it seriously- the second you start believing you're doing Important Work, that's when the madness takes hold

Katsuhiro Otomo

Thrilled to be part of the latest @reverseshot.bsky.social symposium with a piece on Snow White and Disney's multiplane camera reverseshot.org/symposiums/e...

Top First-Time Views for January 2026 The Testament of Ann Lee Close-Up The Flying Guillotine Taste of Cherry Once Upon a Time in Harlem Love & Pop Magellan Woos Whoopee Hawaiian Birds The collection of Japanese paper films at MoMA’s Save and Project

i haven't done this since twitter but at the request of 1 (one) person, OSCAR NOMINEES AS SIMPSONS SCREENCAPS THREAD

For @documentary.org I spoke with director Brydie O'Connor about Barbara Forever, recently premiered at Sundance

For @reverseshot.bsky.social I wrote about Baby Steps and the beautiful frustration of Bennett Foddy's work reverseshot.org/features/341...

The feint in the A Knight of Seven Kingdoms premiere where they make you think they're going to reuse the GoT opening theme yet again only to smash cut to a guy shitting got me good. Tremendous gag. Also I really enjoyed the episode.

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

back in the news

Took 35 years but somebody finally found the true ending

Barry Lyndon shit

Really enjoyed working on the program notes for this series, to the extent to which it’s possible to “enjoy” the writing process. Programmatically only wish I’d managed to track down a screenable print of the under-appreciated BABY BOOM www.filmlinc.org/daily/flc-ce...

but doctor,

My love language is reading the phrase "love language", looking it up, discovering it's some American Christian thing, saying aloud "who am I, Billy Graham?" and watching the movie "Ronin" (1998, Directed by John Frankenhiemer) instead.

Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet

TONIGHT

I did a little post here to round up some of my best work as an editor (and, sure, some of my interviews). It's been fun! filmmakermagazine.com/132962-vadim...

They killed Falstaff because he got too much pussy. They hated him for it.

This is happening Friday!

Happy New Year! Two things I want to do this year are write more and support my newborn, and I'm hoping Substack can help me with both, so please sign up for my thoughts on old movies and more! Thoughts on Fritz Lang silent films will drop soon. fcardamenis.substack.com/subscribe?pa...

wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French

New York! I'm going to be moderating a Q&A with producer Alex Megaro about his film WTO/99 after a screening at the city's best microcinema @spectacletheater.com on Friday, January 9! Come thru!

Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"

Best theatre I saw in 2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls