It is worth noting the Post slashed the bulk of its arts coverage, including most of the critics, ending a great tradition in journalism.

The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.

Sublime thread:

Best film I saw at Sundance was CLOSURE. Watch online while you still can, or better yet wait for its festival rollout to see and hear it in a theater.

David Osit’s documentary Predators, which I raved about at Sundance, is now streaming on Paramount+. It’s a knotty, complicated, and ultimately very moving account of the legacy of To Catch a Predator and the outsourcing of justice, and … you should watch it.

I grew up in a neighborhood that went for Cuomo +53 My current neighborhood (of twenty years) went for Mandani by +67 Willowbrook, East Williamsburg New York, New York

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025) A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday. www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...

Journalism that fails to infuse a historically informed lens is akin to covering the smoke but never asking who lit the fire. History-centered journalism should be the framework within every newsroom.

Show me a love truer than the Times’s for the word “norms.”

If this monstrosity ever gets built, it's where their Nuremberg trials should be held before we put them in jail & tear it down.

If you live in New York—or you live in LA next week or you live in Chicago the week after that, etc.—I really can't recommend seeing PREDATORS @filmforumnyc.bsky.social more strongly. You will not see a more thought-provoking film about documentary ethics. And that's one of so many layers to this.

the best movie at Sundance is now playing at Film Forum

All you got is this moment. Twenty-first century's yesterday.

Shoot this into my veins

Also wouldn’t mind if the mayor of NYC actually liked NYC.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

“A Theater Near You,” curator David Schwartz’s salute to 17 landmark New York screening venues, opens @ MOMA on Thursday ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Q: Alpha? A: omega

Cannes 2025: The Return of the Academy Ratio

Not remarked upon enough that the political faction most critical of contemporary art — putatively on the grounds that it devalued traditional skills and craft — has taken the most readily to AI art.

It’s so funny when people try to make sense of his ramblings. “It’s hard to figure out how he would implement such a plan” lol he’s an impulsive moron who doesn’t understand shit, it’s like ascribing complex motives to a dog eating another dog’s poop

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

Jeffrey Katzenberg's 1991 memo (the inspiration behind JERRY MAGUIRE) about the state of Hollywood and the need to get back to the “singles and doubles” philosophy that drove the launch of Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures is unfortunately more prescient than ever.

A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.

"A snapshot of the most exciting voices working in American and international cinema today––and with a strong focus on newcomers" - The Film Stage selects 7 films to see at First Look @movingimagenyc.bsky.social this weekend. thefilmstage.com/7-films-to-s...

This feels like a major inflection point. If ICE can apparently unlawfully arrest & disappear a permanent resident and it is not immediately met with strong opposition from the public, officials, and courts, there is no going back.

The Redstone @movingimagenyc.bsky.social wuz robbed.

David Osit going deep on his excellent doc Predators with @eshynes.bsky.social (and Chris Hansen 👀)

Profoundly grateful to have my first book event here in Columbia, MO at Skylark Bookshop this week — thanks to @eshynes.bsky.social for being a phenomenal first conversation partner and to everyone who came and bought books and asked questions.

Columbia, MO: come hear me give my VERY FIRST reading of "We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine" tonight!!! Skylark Bookshop, 6:30pm, with the great @eshynes.bsky.social. It's not out till 3/11 so you're getting a sneak peak! www.skylarkbookshop.com/new-events/2...

After many years in the making, I'm very excited to share the news that my book "SICK AND DIRTY: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness" is coming from @BloomsburyPub in June. You can preorder now! geni.us/sickanddirty

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.

We won’t disappear just because you change a website.

‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.

Congratulations to Polio

The 2025 First Look lineup at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social has been unveiled.

The 14th First Look (my tenth) is live and online. Bonjour Tristesse, Diciannove, Zodic Killer Project and 17 other features, plus new work by Bill Morrison, Gregor Božić, and many others. www.indiewire.com/news/festiva...

Helping Trump persecute and deport literal infants because of the alleged sins of their parents should be any lawyer’s red line. The career employees at DOJ being asked to defend this sadism have a moral obligation to refuse, or resign in protest. There may be some tough calls, but this isn’t one.

I and many others warned that the anti-CRT, anti-DEI propaganda campaign that so many embraced or down played was always about creating the narrative for and paving the way for a larger attack on civil rights. We are here.

Cinematic and Blockbuster Achievement

“Everyone knows that behind every great man, there is a non-verbal woman who only breaks her silence to say ‘Hi Bob’, ‘Hi Pete’ and ‘Please don’t smoke in here.’” - Merrill Markoe’s bullseye The Ballad of Toshi.

People who follow coverage of movies and celebrities should read every word of this. People responsible for that coverage should read every word of this twice. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

Here are the democrats who voted to no longer cover gender affirming care for military kids. SHAME ON EACH OF YOU Bennet (D-CO) @bennet.senate.gov Blumenthal (D-CT) @blumenthal.senate.gov Brown (D-OH) Cantwell (D-WA) @cantwell.senate.gov Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Coons (D-DE)

It's noms n' snubs season. Catch the fever.