🚨 DANCE FREAK ALERT 🚨 New/Next is very proud to present the BMore premiere of the very new to this world film DANCE FREAK by Alan Resnick and Robby Rackleff, Friday 10/3 at The Charles Theatre! Tix: app.tickethive.com/f/2025-new-n... cc: @alanresnick.bsky.social (and Robby if he’s on here)

Interesting! Satan just emailed me the same offer for my eternal soul

It is now illegal to say Joseph Goebbels was a Nazi

[typing the first word in a sentence that will be read by millions of people who pay me untold billions of dollars for other people’s work] Thew

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Ah, the 3 genders (friends posting Nine Inch Nails concert shots to IG, friends posting Oasis concert shots to IG, friends posting both Nine Inch Nails and Oasis concert shots to IG)

I knew a congressional aide circa 1991. It was an open secret that the Rep had early onset Parkinson's and would resign. AIPAC requested a meeting on a bad health day and he sent his chief instead. AIPACers broke thru a locked door and yelled at a man in severe decline "remember how much we pay you"

Besides George Harrison and Adam Yauch, who are some other musicians from era-defining three-vocalist bands beginning with the letters "Bea" who went on to co-found boutique companies specializing in independent cinema?

Trump Silences Death Rumors at Live Press Conference

white house staffers rn

Donald Trump Appear on Coffin Flop Challenge

this is the day donald trump finally became dead president

that’s what you see when you’re going to hell

when your daughter have become grandma and also Cracker Barrel change logo

Tip for film programmers: don’t obsess over how you have more films to watch and assess than one person could ever possibly absorb. Save space in your brain for the fact that you also have more emails to read and write than one person could ever possibly absorb

Filmmakers: when compiling your special thanks, shout out some film programmers who helped your career. I used to feel differently. But as the system falls apart and most of us work for shady orgs, work for peanuts, or don’t have work, it’s one rare reminder that our efforts had a positive impact.

Baltimore:

New/Next, the film fest here in Baltimore I program and co-founded, returns for edition 3.0, October 2-5. All-access passes are now on sale. Missing out would be such a sadness… newnextfilmfest.com/a-limited-nu... cc: @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social

we all want what they have

i am hollering

I liked Weapons but the prequel isn’t scary *at all*

to the bookie who told me not to put $1000 on House Party getting announced as a Criterion 4K UHD release

"Fix your hearts or die!"

Found a car less distracting than that of the average trump supporter

when someone says most of film history is available via streaming

The plan? A head that’s got a hole as black as your soul.

5 minutes into cold brew / 5 hours after cold brew

OK: I knew Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage are cousins. I knew Ice Cube and Del tha Funky Homosapien are cousins. I knew RZA, GZA, and Ol' Dirty Bastard are cousins. But only in 2025 did I learn (unless a wiki editor is pranking us) that Flavor Flav is also cousins w/ those Wu-Tang members(!)

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just learning the inspiration for Morticia in the Addams Family was Charles' wife Barbara Jean

Italian exploitation film: the most graphic upsetting violence you’ve ever seen. Italian exploitation film composers:

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Still Recall What You Did Last Summer

score one more for the coldplay kiss cam

Not good that Ingmar Bergman had Nazi tendencies. Very much worse that our own current government is heavily stacked with ardent Nazis, I’m thinking.

You’re calling Clipse brave for having the Werner Herzog quote “the birds don’t sing, they screech in pain” from Les Blank’s Fitzcarraldo doc Burden of Dreams sung as the hook to the 1st track of their album. I’m calling them cowards for not having Werner sing the hook himself. We are not the same.

THE CLIPSE — Let God Sort Em Out (No Lady Saying “This Is Culturally Inappropriate” Over the Music Even One Time Edition)

Are the conditions that make smartphone production “dependent” on child slave labor truly inherent to this product at this cost, or could they be delivered with humane practices at current pricepoint if CEOs and 10-20 more execs took merely inflated salaries instead of grotesquely inflated salaries?

Dershowitz looking at the names on the Epstein list like

As astonishing as the special effects are in Jurassic Park, nothing sells the moment when the dinosaurs first appear quite like the looks of wonder on each actor's face

The Times covered “left wing antisemitism” relentlessly for a year from campus protests to the presidential election to the Mamdani win in NYC, and then the president used an anti-Jewish slur in a public speech and they didn’t even mention it.