A quick note on the passing of Fred Wiseman movieenthusiast.substack.com/p/frederick-...

"For 50 years, Wiseman has been making documentaries on shoestring budgets with small crews, focusing on institutions....A Wiseman film works on you slowly and imperceptibly. He never stages interviews, interposes B-roll that he hasn’t filmed himself, or identifies speakers with onscreen titles." 👇

My movie year in review: movieenthusiast.substack.com/p/best-of-20...

[Tina Fey on Las Culturistas voice] someday Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet are going to send you a screenplay and you'll have to act surprised that there's people having socially unacceptable sex in a confrontational way

I swear if Resurrection doesn't play in the DMV

In light of today's entertainment news: movieenthusiast.substack.com/p/notes-on-l...

I'm a humble man with a simple request (for someone to distribute My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Last Air in Moscow)

Did Criterion Channel add Milisuthando without announcing it, I swear I've been poring over those monthly lineup posts for years

You can't make me watch another Lynne Ramsay movie, I've played that game before

You, too, can organize your neighbors around movies substack.com/home/post/p-...

Let's gooooooo

Among other things I can't get over how good the Steely Dan needle drop is in One Battle After Another

we've published five essays in the first few weeks of our 'the ranks of the freaks' series, covering the first half of paul thomas anderson's career! check out the excellent work from @timmarkatos.bsky.social, jeremy zeitlin, @philipchristman.bsky.social, @adamfpetty.bsky.social, and sarah healy!

So is Dea Kulumbegashvili's April just never going to be streaming or

Thanks Kathryn Bigelow I didn't have enough to worry about right now already

Going through old movies and replacing the Wilhelm scream with Alanis Morissette's yelp from the end of All I Really Want

So I see all the usual suspects wasted no time in writing their "here's what Trump gets right about crime in DC" pieces

I see your best movies of the 21st century list and I can do you one better movieenthusiast.substack.com/p/25-non-eng...

Can anyone help me remember which Verso books I was waiting to buy until they're running a sale, they're running a sale

Honestly ChatGPT has been such a game-changer for me. This morning I asked it to teach me how to use a washing machine. Now I don't have to throw out my dirty clothes and buy new ones at the end of every week—and they say this stuff is bad for the environment

Running around D.C. yelling DON'T RANK CUOMO at all of my confused neighbors

We need to figure out what's going on with all these videos that are like "I learned this from the guy at my deli counter" followed by the least useful kitchen hack you've ever seen

Rejected Halloween costume idea: ideological state apparatus

DC is finally getting Caught by the Tides but I'll be out of town for the only screening…we need to coordinate these things better

Some professional news: today I join the UX team at Princeton University Library! If you have opinions about search engines…let's talk

The new Nadav Lapid sounds like a post–October 7 Salò…unsure how I feel about that

Gander Trouble, Judith Butler's unpublished memoir about growing up on a goose farm

Sing to me, o Muse, of how dopamine obsession looks in women

New superman born exact same month and year as me…that's not right

And to think that only a week ago I knew nothing of the Jennifer Hudson Show spirit tunnel

Reading and understanding a book by Judith Butler, is that a sign of growth or decay

Please endorse me for customer service phone line patience and menu navigation on LinkedIn

Some company somewhere should use Yakety Sax as their customer service line hold music

HBD Rohmer!! movieenthusiast.substack.com/p/rohmer-rev...

Two PSAs: 1) I was axed in a reduction in force at my company last month so I'm looking for work—UX/UI design, see my portfolio and reach out if you have any job leads! www.timmarkatos.com

Somewhere out there a littlest monster is asking chatgpt where the garden of eden is

I log on to bluesky and feel nothing but despair 😥 Then I switch to my "Friends" list and daylight breaks through 😎

Good morning to everyone except the gays trying to forge alliances with the right

If it weren't all so dangerous I would be even more annoyed by how stupid it all is right now

New Pocket AI generates fake articles for you based on your bookmark history, nobody tell me if this already exists

Back in the news

Who is the labneh supplier to all of the restaurants in D.C. and how did they blow up

I think it's a nice touch to have ads interrupting the Oscar nomination announcements every couple of minutes, really keeps you on your toes

The Brazilians in the Oscar nominations announcement live chat are going craaaaaazy

Two of my podcasts this week have talked about neti pots, what's going on here

Has David Bentley Hart ever read a book by a woman? Just wondering

Apropos of nothing in particular, why are you asking, I'd like to introduce my new garage band, Bad Shallots

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I also reviewed Nickel Boys and Hard Truths but I don't know if bluesky nerfs substack links so let's see how this works out movieenthusiast.substack.com/p/nickel-and...

I reviewed the latest attempt to argue for LGBTQ inclusion in the church christiansocialism.com/2025/01/13/a...