Requiescat, Frederick Wiseman. My man had Foucault-levels of things to say about the role of institutions in our lives, but was also a hugely talented filmmaker on top of it. If you have not seen Titicut Follies (1967), prioritise it: right out the gate, our guy was NOT here to fuck around

the thing about english as a second language is that i can say stuff like ščrljžđ a million times in a row before even once pronouncing a word like "literary" correctly

I wrote about Turner Classic Movies and Bugs Bunny, their five-day 45 cartoons celebration last week, what I liked about their curation and contextualization of classic animated short films, and also addressed areas which could have been handled more carefully.

guns are bad except for when Chow Yun-fat uses them

In regards to what’s going on at the Berlinale film festival, here is footage of Godard & Truffaut shutting down the 1968 Cannes Film Festival in solidarity with students workers & protestors getting brutalized by police in the streets, & probably Godard’s best line about film criticism ever

this is how i found out it's nearing easter

can an asshole die next pls

a whoosh so loud it traversed the ocean to annoy me

The insanity of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s School in the Crosshairs ねらわれた学園 From the director of Hausu! Out on bluray from #thirdwindowfilms thirdwindowfilms.com/films/school...

me zooming past the killer and giving the injured deathhook team mate haste because i chose the escapist class against all sense and reason and there's 4 of us in the match and only one scout and one medic this 2v8 shit is fucked the q's are horrendous my ping is >60 but at least we're zooming

For @dazeddigital.com I spoke with Kristen Stewart about her powerful directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, out of Cannes. The film is out in the UK now, and it's really a gem. www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/arti...

So. My partner suffered an accident that resulted in very significant injuries. While he is, thank christ, alright in the broadest sense, I am now an amateur RN/dog minder/kid chauffeur, so! I've restocked some prints to help keep us in pizza and pain meds. www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products

i wanna project this someday

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.

Theda Bara arrives in A FOOL THERE WAS (1915). It wasn't first vamp film but it put her on the map as the queen of movie vampires. The trend was spent by 1920, with the more subtle femme fatale taking over, but what a run!

i've been thinking about doing this but swapping TOL for PSI FACTOR. i firmly believe inviting this into my life will usher transformational cognitive expansion

got my lost luggage back so i can finally wash my knickers and show you my disappointing haul from the airport gacha

Since we're talking about William Castle a bunch tonight, I thought I'd share my tribute to POPCORN again since it's a wonderful love letter to Castle's passion for immersive cinematic experiences. #TheLastDriveIn

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just read the phrase "le bad boy d'1m95" and can't stop laughing. metric system douze points

In Europe film footage is called membrane meterage

found some therapy notes about a multi episode i forgot about where at first there were multiple shadow people going in and out of my room and later an sp demon was pushing me over on my side before tugging at my arms to pull me off the bed. having one just chill on my chest would be fun ngl

From: The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (1965), dir. Lev Atamanov, Soyuzmultfilm

new profile banner: a detail from FISH KIT by david lynch archival gelatin-silver print, 1980.

munching sadly on a big ass toblerone and pondering the fate of my lost luggage

My good pal Mina Radovic is returning with the 2nd edition of the Serbian Film Festival next month in London. It's a great programme - Makavejev! Noir! Pavle Vuisic!: liberatingcinema.org.uk/serbianfilmf...

i love him

anglo-centric monolingualism is gross enough on its own without pandering to it jfc

dunno if i should log these people out of the hotel tv's apps or do some fucked up shit to their algorithms

even when i'm away from home, i am home

This is one of my all-time top ten favourite films (proven by its inclusion in my Sight + Sound greatest films list in 2022), and it is criminally underrated. One of the most emotionally intelligent and even compassionate serial killer films ever made - a brilliant portrait of toxic masculinity.

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

i have stuff that i printed out (lmao right) for research and used to feel like a hoarder for holding onto it but for a while now i've considered visiting some choice urls to see if their contents is still even accessible because ugh

I wrote a piece...i believe they call it "an appreciation"... about one of my comedy heroes: Ms.Catherine O'Hara. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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This is the third essay in my four part series on Diane Keaton as a dramatic actress. I wrote about REDS, her openness, her legibility, & her willingness to show us every facet of how her character was feeling. She was rare among the withholding New Hollywood actors www.patreon.com/posts/149773...

i will never stop screaming WHO THE FUCK IS THIS FOR? WHO ASKED FOR THIS? TELL ME THEIR FULL NAME OR AT LEAST THEIR SM HANDLE

In the '60s, an all-star team of Soviet artists assembled -- including Yuri Norstein. Together, they crafted a gentle, quiet gem called The Mitten. It's lovely stop motion, and it laid the groundwork for the team's later Cheburashka. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/a-film-for...

innovation in the advancement of pronouncing cacio e pepe never stops

bella ciao bella ciao bella ciao ciao ciao

i found this book at a flea market in 2000, when i was 18 years old. read it & forgot all about it. found it last night at my parents' house. it was published in 1975, and donated probably by the USAID in the late '90s to some library in bosnia. full circle. so depressing. 💀

Oscar nominated co-writer of It Was Just An Accident has just been arrested in Iran. Statement by Jafar Panahi:

Speaking of podcasts, I don't tend to do a lot these days but happily made an exception for this just-dropped episode of Cradle to the Grave where Erik and I dive deep into one of my all-time favourite horror films, Brad Anderson's Session 9 💜 cradletothegrave.buzzsprout.com/2037594/epis...

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

getting progessively more hyped for this. would love a good reason to hoot and holler at the pictures

My new friend

High summoner Yuna would like to show you her paws

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