reverseshot.org/interviews/e... Very granular interview conducted by Jordan Crank when I was in LA in late September.

New Issue on Sabzian: ‘André Bazin, Television Critic’ Compiled and introduced by Tillo Huyghelen, this trilingual issue contains 7 articles by Bazin on the notion of television, as well as an interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini. → sabzian.be/issue/andr%C3%A9-bazin-television-critic

So much bad news, but this fall the Metro NY Library Cncl is launching the first iteration of its Cross-Reference Coalition, an experimental interdisciplinary school ft 17 participants from across NYC’s libraries, colleges + municipal depts, plus artists + designers. We’re exploring The Misfit.

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Night and Fog (1955) with Here and Elsewhere (1974)

The @criterionchannl.bsky.social's Frantz Fanon at 100 program is great and it's got me wondering what you could put together for programs on other revolutionary thinkers. How about a Césaire or Baldwin program? Asking yourself what thinker/films you'd put together is a fun activity.

This essay—on Trump, spectacle, collective hallucinations—is worth your time! lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-tr...

📚 Just published: the Summer edition of our seasonal roundup of recently released and upcoming film publications.

Absolutely. In addition to debunking the myth, Lembke has a lucid explication of the Nixon-Agnew strategy to smash opposition to the war by blaming the media for creating it. Published in 1998--a real contribution to the field of Vietnam War studies (& in its way the mass psychology of fascism).

John Frankenheimer and Rock Hudson on the set of Seconds (1966) 🎬

"Shifting cinema from entertainment to a political tool necessitates a lot of archival work and remembrance. But memory is not enough..." Navigating the Film Cultural Ecosystem in the Face of Genocide with Members of Palestine Film Institute. Full interview: www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/endurin...

"...we hope these texts jolt you in one way or another towards an unbound, liberated relationship with the cinema – and thus with the entire world." Issue 113 is out now featuring the dossier, Enduring Frames: Cinema, Solidarity, Palestinian Resistance. www.sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue...

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

«Social structures tolerate difference within their order, but we present a difference to the order. … The ‘crime’ of the scapegoat is not carried out through any act, but simply by existing. Not ‘Be gay. Do crime,’ as the meme says, but ‘Be trans. Be crime.’»

The opposition makes no sense because the terms are mismatched and outmoded.

This is a great start. And it's also fundamental to read the writings of activists who are also political theorists. Angela Davis, Huey Newton, George Jackson, Carmichael/Ture, Brown/al-Amin, Shakur, and, of course, Fanon are all essential. Obv but always worth restating.

“A small arthouse cinema on Miami Beach faces the possible cancellation of its lease + the loss of $80K in grant $ promised by the city after refusing to cancel screenings of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land (about 🇮🇱’s displacement of 🇵🇸) following rptd intimidation attempts by the mayor.”

Mourning the loss of Linda Williams. It’s hard to think of another scholar whose work helped define such a diverse range of subfields. For me, her 1981 essay “Film Body: An Implantation of Perversions” was a beacon showing how fundamental feminist analysis could be for early cinema. RIP

IMPORTANT UPDATE for QTC members participating in this year's conference. #SCMS2025

Isabella Rossellini in a BLUE VELVET dress. We see you. #DavidLynch #Oscars

So transphobia, imo, is structurally very similar to antisemitism -- both get much of their force from the fear of a SECRET Other, an Other who can pass -- and it's because of that, i think, that transphobia and antisemitism are uniquely DERANGING to bigots.

For Reverse Shot, I spoke with Zeinabu irene Davis about the rejuvenation of her incredible classic COMPENSATION — a film I think is one of the great films about Chicago, deafness and Black life.

if youre in need for a thing to look forward to… charles burnett’s unreleased masterpiece “annihilation of fish” is coming to cinemas. ❤️‍🔥

Huge online movie archive of the Communist Party of France by @cine-archives.bsky.social. With movies about Lenin, the Spanish war, mobilizations against the Indochina war and the Algerian war, demonstrations for Angela Davis, Ben Chavis, Mandela… www.cinearchives.org #SocialistSunday #Communism

Sidney Lumet's and Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Oscar-nominated documentary KING: A FILMED RECORD...MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS (1970) is streaming on the Kino Film Collection, Hoopla Digital (free w/ a library card) and VOD if you'd like to remember a true leader today. #FilmSky #MartinLutherKing

Isabella Hammad recommends essential books about Palestine by Jean Genet, Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, and more.

This is the definitive David Lynch take to me newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

GOLD! David Lynch presents the history of surrealist film in a 1987 BBC Arena documentary (1987). vimeo.com/1048046353

Going to tell my students this was the original Nosferatu

Trying to come up with a list of filmmakers who are also film theorists. Here's what I've got: Soviets (Eisenstein, Vertov, Kuleshov, Pudovkin) Tarkovsky Cahiers (Godard etc) Bresson Sharits Frampton Deren Brakhage Mekas Le Grice Gidal Pasolini Kluge Wollen-Mulvey Mrinal Sen Yvonne Rainer 1/

This is a great book. Shared the chapter on Psycho, Dressed to Kill (and more) with my students and the result was a serious conversation about DtK’s profound ambivalence about transness.

🔎 Now, 23 years later, I am here again and again making a movie. The movie is not really “aboutˮ Vietnam. It has more to do with the passage of time, with forgetting, with the great changes that have taken place, and how hopefulness has become something else. 🎥 POINT DE DÉPART 📼 RK#9 👉 re-voir.com

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