HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT now streaming for free on Le Cinéma Club 👇 www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

We're open to submissions next Friday (13th February) for gorse 15: Eureka!/EYPHKA! Full details on the website: gorse.ie/gorse-15-eur...

LET'S RUIN A MOVIE TITLE! 😂🎥 Replace ONE word in a movie title with "Sátántangó." I’ll go first: •Sátántangó

this was a great read

"Imbolc might affect these hours"

LET'S RUIN A MOVIE TITLE! 😂🎥 Replace ONE word in a movie title with "Sátántangó." I’ll go first: •Sátántangó

good chance we're going to hear Trump talk about Koyaanisqatsi in the coming days

On the fifteenth anniversary of his death, I wrote about one of my favourite poets, R.F. Langley, who I was lucky enough to know for ten years someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/we-speak-f...

You're absolutely correct to say that the old world is dying! -Would you like me to suggest some ways that we can mitigate monsters?

how it feels to finish reading two books in two weeks

Falling asleep last night I had the thought "when you die, your secret Tomatometer Score will be revealed to you". What could it mean?

I forgot to write anything this year. Maybe next year

Toy Story casting session: -So who do kids love? -Outspoken socialist Wallace Shawn, obviously. And convicted cocaine trafficker, Tim Allen. -And for the soundtrack? -Okay are you familiar with the song 'Rednecks'?

Don't feel bad if you didn't reach your reading goals for the year. There's only around 7 or 8 good books anyway.

The Muppets Seize Berlin

Christmas books

You've heard of Barbie-heimer... now get ready for Avatar-ty Supreme

one day we will figure out if Stoner is a good book or not. We just have to keep posting about it

real reason we haven't heard from Biden lately? he's got that Na'vi surgery. he's 7 foot tall and blue as hell now

Yawn

my proudest moment as a bookseller was when someone rang the shop to ask about a photography book Caller: I can't remember the title. It had a blue cover Me, taking a wild guess: was it Martin Parr's LUXURY? Caller, after a long pause: yes. yes it was

we're placing microbets on your inevitable downfall bro. we're financializing every facet of your personality. we're making your fall from grace a tradable asset.

If you're at a loss for something to watch this weekend, Talking Pictures TV has an enchanting Saturday night lineup: Godard's À BOUT DE SOUFFLE, followed by DETOUR (1945) then finally, a classic episode of EUROTRASH.

Celebrating International Mens Day #men

still enjoying The Chair Company but the needle drops are way too jarring

YES

Watching the Chair Company and I think Tim Robinson could actually do a decent adaptation of Ishiguro's THE UNCONSOLED.

Luc Moullet on cinephilia as the preserve of the man-child

Rest in peace Peter Watkins. A filmmaker whose work was stridently intellectual and genuinely radical. But even at their most righteously indignant, his films felt like they came from a place of deep humanity. They could be remarkably tender too.

"Everything that happens in our society—war, conquest, science, consumption, love, and child-rearing—are marked by the fact that they happen in capitalist time". Good interview w/ Thomas Meaney: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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my good pals and former video store colleagues, Reece and Bjorn, kindly invited me back on their podcast to talk about Spike Lee's SUMMER OF SAM (1999). Check it out 👇👇👇 open.spotify.com/episode/0kzn...

The Imagination is Currently Closed

Sigmund Freud in a letter to Stefan Zweig: ‘I was inclined to look upon the Surrealists as absolute (let us say 95 per cent, like alcohol) cranks.’

New writerly achievement unlocked (bought a copy of a lit journal I contributed to from a secondhand charity shop)

I'm not sure why, but whenever I'm at a loss for something to watch, I'll generally throw on the B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From? documentary

Aki Kaurismäki on Terrence Malick: "The first one [Badlands] was OK. That was in the 1970s. After that they were Christian bullshit."

I feel like sitting in the middle seat on a aeroplane has supplanted the word "moist" as the most common thing people pretend to hate

Very moved by this sentence from an old obituary for Roger Shattuck: "A week before his death he was still ordering books through interlibrary loan".

A real rogues gallery of chancers in this list (apart from Mary Gaitskill, she's cool) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

MUSEUM HOURS (2012)... what a picture

Do you even know if Tintin is supposed to be his first name? Or is it his surname? What about Captain Haddock's first name?

fuck Mubi and their stupid statement. Cancelled my subscription today

I could easily be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space. No problem

Very moved to learn that Sir Thomas Browne, author of Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial, coined the word "swaggy."

RIP Michael Roemer. Absolutely mind-blowing to consider that he made his first film in 1949. For context, THE THIRD MAN, ADAM'S RIB and WHITE HEAT were released that year. Hell, Jean-Pierre Melville made his debut in '49 too with LE SILENCE DE LA MER!

Postscript from Rivette's GANG OF FOUR