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Our understanding of East Asian cinema would be a sliver of what we know if it wasn’t for Tony. He did a program at Bologna one year of ridiculously rare Chinese films from 1947-1953 that basically don’t exist on any of the rare torrent sites, much less even VHS or DVD. RIP to a legend

Looking like THE KNIFE is not likely to steal another victory in the last few minutes of the match, but maybe another vote or two can get it onto my arbitrarily-delineated list of “close matches” (anything with a 55-45% breakdown or slimmer.)

This is the real Independence Day/Weekend.

I should’ve done better on #2- can’t complain about the others though. How fare you, @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social? www.maptap.gg July 5 97🔥 92🏆 95🏅 92🏆 94🏅 Final score: 937

Great moments in U.S. History.

Share an ‘80s movie you’ll always love

Rewatched a classic last night, and went digging around to learn a bit more about the context of its original San Francisco run at the Roxie. Here’s what I found: boxd.it/f2XTzB

The Strange One (1957)

Great listen!

I'll be in LA to introduce this program of short films celebrating America 250. Marian Anderson! Frank Sinatra! National Parks! Nuclear Threats! Bruce Conner! vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/celeb...

June notable first views (order viewed): Imogene Coca Screen Test (David Selznick, 1936) Inspiration (Karel Zeman, 1949) Under the Bridges (Helmut Käutner, 1946) This Happy Breed (David Lean, 1944) 9214 (Takahiro Suzuki, 2010) Daisy Doodad’s Dial (Florence Turner, 1914)

Today's Supreme Court decision was enabled by liberals and media pundits who've spent the last few years claiming trans girls and women athletes are a serious threat to cis women. The editors of the NY Times and the Atlantic must be celebrating this morning.

SCOTUS demands nationwide regime of child genital inspectors.

hey when we say that liberals and democrats are worse than useless on trans rights this is the kind of shit we are talking about :) by the way :) what is the fucking point of conceding on title IX like this. what is the fucking point.

At long last wrapping up my Nitrate Picture Show diary with a sprawling, discursive ramble on the Blind Date With Nitrate selection & how it pulled the weekend’s program together, how seeing it on nitrate oddly resonated with my last viewing, etc. Links to all my NPS reviews are in the piece too.

Also Lee Grant is almost certainly older than Brooks (she has at times given her birthday as October 31, 1926 but most sources now agree it was actually 1925.)

He got to spend a good portion of his life knowing there was an OJ Simpson Field at his alma mater Galileo High School in San Francisco. That’s more than enough honor for a man of his importance.

Ann Blyth has died at 98. She received a Supporting Actress nomination 81 (!!) years ago for her completely delicious performance as Joan Crawford's wicked daughter Veda in Mildred Pierce. Man, does that performance hold up. Enjoy 3:00 of immorality and immortality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs1J...

You’ve killed your last joke.

Silliest Letterboxd list I’ve made in a bit… boxd.it/VhI2e

Centrist Dems are way more pissed off that three or four primaries didn’t go their way than they are about peaceful protestors being locked away for 50 years for printing zines.

Sounds like a good time to me!

An openly gay pro baseball player speaks out on the #SFGiants Pride controversy sfstandard.com/2026/06/24/g...

For me, easily the best two albums competing this week. I voted for Roots Manuva.

Now that I’ve seen (essentially) every Wiseman movie, perhaps I should finally start in on exploring the filmography of Brazilian documentarian Eduardo Coutinho?

I personally like SPARKLE’S TAVERN better than THUNDERCRACK! And SCREAMPLAY is tons of fun too. Haven’t sent he others but have long heard great things about PUMPING IRON II, and OFF THE WALL is an early credit for both Jon Else (DAY AFTER TRINITY) and Judy Irving (WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL)!

Some words on a Frederick Wiseman movie I saw back in May. (I’m in Montreal and hope to catch BASIC TRAINING at @cinemathequeqc.bsky.social tonight) boxd.it/eRTL8Z

Should anyone fancy a playlist with three tunes from each participating country we happen to have one here tidal.com/playlist/5a2...

If you own a bar or other business that puts up flyers, consider posting something like this

The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) condemns the Russian attack on the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio in Kyiv. The 99-year-old studio lost over 100,000 costumes and props to misiles. www.fiafnet.org/fiaf-stateme...

My last three, plus a viewing from the Nitrate Picture Show two weekends ago, that I finally got around to logging:

None of @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social’s banes in this one! www.maptap.gg June 19 99🎯 94🏆 95🏅 86🌞 100🎯 Final score: 941

I’ve been shook up since learning about the deaths of these two people. I don’t think I ever met Wylie, but I had many nice brief chats with Judy in person at film events after interviewing her about her father William Wyler for my blog back in 2007 hellonfriscobay.blogspot.com/2007/09/inte...

Would be so fun to see this in a crowd- if only I were in Massachusetts on a Monday night...

Another belated write-up, this time on the first Portuguese film to be shown at the @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social in Rochester earlier this month, and some related topics boxd.it/ePxaxh

I haven’t watched the Giants in decades & this story makes me think that should become officially permanent. Hope this poisonous culture (which seems to be condoned by management) doesn’t bleed into the org’s other activities, like their connection to theaters like the Curran, 4-Star, Vogue & Balboa

Has anyone ever tried making love to their old lady while playing an Unwound album, I wonder?

I still have the shirt from my first Oingo Boingo concert in 1990. Doesn’t really fit but I haven’t gotten rid of it either.

I must confess I get that last country confused with another one sometimes. www.maptap.gg June 16 97🔥 95🏅 96🔥 97🔥 85🌟 Final score: 930

This was posted less than a week before Ray’s film is announced to enter the Criterion Collection- coincidental?

The Nitrate Avant-Garde program was one of the once-in-a-lifetime highlights of last weekend’s Nitrate Picture Show. I wrote a few words on the concluding film of the program, including links to longer reviews of the other two selections in the trio. boxd.it/eMUmwf

Another week-late dispatch from the Nitrate Picture Show: boxd.it/eMp2yN

I know I have some Rosenbaumites among my followers…

My last four all come from the Takahiro Suzuki screening at Kinonik last night.

I’ve slowly but surely been working through writing reviews of the films I saw at last weekend’s Nitrate Picture Show. This one, about a German film I’d barely heard of before, seems worth sharing. boxd.it/eKyU5Z

Ugh.

Top 10 Spielberg credits: 1. Funding the restoration of BELFAST, MAINE (1999) 2. Funding the restoration of WELFARE (1975) 3. Funding the restoration of ESSENE (1972) 4. Funding the restoration of PUBLIC HOUSING (1997) 5. Funding the restoration of ASPEN (1991) 6. Funding the restoration of HIGH SC

when he came out of the screening he called the doc's protagonist "one sick fuck" and I was like 🫨