One year ago today, I woke up & wrote 5K+ words about Bob Rafelson's masterpiece FIVE EASY PIECES without stopping. Still proud of this piece. www.patreon.com/posts/114386...

gonna keep bumping my profile of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, of which I am very proud, would love if you read, at @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/jafa...

“I didn’t find God in the skies. I found God in images.” Powerful words by Jafar Panahi during his Martin Scorsese talk last week. ♥️

🎬 McCabe & Mrs. Miller was released 54 years ago today. Robert Altman’s anti-Western masterpiece, drenched in melancholy and snow, remains one of the most hauntingly beautiful films ever made. Explore its making, legacy, & enduring power: 🔗 cinephiliabeyond.org/mccabe-mrs-m...

A set of lithographs of Kurosawa’s storyboards for RAN signed by him and gifted to an art dealer friend on loan to the Japan Society in New York for tonight’s screening of the film.

Seeing this tonight.

I will never understand people who make things -- films, stories, art, music -- abdicating the making of those things in favor of a machine doing it. The joy is in creating something, not in avoiding the work of creation.

35mm, Film Forum in New York this evening.

Not over the cold shoulder given this awards season to the craft achievements of MEGALOPOLIS, a film I found frequently dizzying in the strength and imagination of its images.

Happy Friday - I wrote a little thing about Frida Kahlo and a certain image from The Substance: sabinastent.substack.com/p/duality

For David Lynch. I loved him, and I will miss him. www.patreon.com/posts/120552... (no paywall)

This was an aside on another thread but I dig into the specific differences between the censored BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN you probably saw in film class or on the Criterion Channel and the restored version derived from an original director's cut discovered in Germany. moviessilently.com/2014/11/23/b...

Goodnight. 😢 youtu.be/31wWFzmS1l4?...

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Brutalist Day today

The image of Satan in Murnau's FAUST (1926) remains unequaled in film. Pure, undiluted nightmare fuel. Murnau is the definition of "sublimity."

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The discourse around “shots of the decade” keeps bringing to mind for me this moment in THE ZONE OF INTEREST that distills the sterile detachment and carefully compartmentalized horror of Glazer’s film to a solitary, soul-chilling frame. All that is unseen but still sensed, as if beginning to haunt.

Saw this and had to repost. <3 Credit to Marpal Embroidery for the work!

James Cameron really loved HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT, didn’t he?

So many filmmakers owe their careers to Roger Corman. His artistry, along with his unwavering support and recognition of fellow artists, exemplified an endearing love and championing of cinema that changed Hollywood forever. He was, quite simply, a titan of the industry. RIP.

Emma Stone is brilliant in the film, but I do wish Poor Things amounted to something more than the sum of its parts.

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Watching Moonstruck tonight reminded me of how wonderful it is to notice new things about a film on a revisit and consider it in a different way.

Treating myself to a double feature of May December and Fallen Leaves tonight. Really looking forward to both films.

Hey kids! Do you like to read about FORM? Here’s me at NYT on Scorsese’s late style, specifically the evolution of his violence from exhilarating, razzle-dazzle set pieces to cold, wide, blunt, two-or-one-and-dones. Gift article, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/m...

My essay for the box set of Tod Browning (THE MYSTIC, THE UNKNOWN, and the immortal FREAKS) is up at the @criterion.bsky.social website. I was delighted to go long on the great Browning and his carnie soul. www.criterion.com/current/post...

New Wim Wenders this evening in New York, thus concluding my time at the festival this year.

The poor cab driver had no idea where Lincoln Center was, and I had to direct her on my way from the train station. That was fun.

I just purchased a ticket to see the new Wim Wenders film while riding a train to see the new Nuri Bilge Ceylan film in New York tonight. I love movies.

I had tickets for La Chimera at NYFF this evening. Unfortunately, I’m going to miss it because of issues with Metro-North. I’m very disappointed, but I’m hoping that I can get to New York in time to catch a late showing of The Royal Hotel. We shall see…

I am now hungry and want nothing to do with glamping after watching a double feature of The Taste of Things and Evil Does Not Exist at the New York Film Festival this evening.

Tonight’s viewing is the final DVD shipped to me from Netflix.

I’ve decided to watch a few Méliès films tonight.

I suppose when viewing PERSONA as a commentary on the creation and consumption of art, this isn’t the worst idea in the world. It still shouldn’t be done though. deadline.com/2023/09/gote...

An article that nails the essence of what’s being lost for cinema lovers everywhere at the end of this month.

Revisiting this tonight. I haven’t watched this film in a long time, but I know it’ll be as visually sumptuous and rich an experience as it was the last time I did.

Tonight’s viewing…

I was able to secure tickets for a double feature of THE TASTE OF THINGS and EVIL DOES NOT EXIST to begin this year's New York Film Festival for me, followed by a screening of Sofia Coppola's new film PRISCILLA the next night.

You ask Stan Grossman, he’ll tell you the same thing.

Prepping for NYFF selections tomorrow afternoon. Regrettably won’t be able to see POOR THINGS since it doesn’t coordinate with my schedule. I’m hoping to do ZONE OF INTEREST, a Saturday night double feature with the Palme d’Or winner and Rohrwacher, and catch the new Coppola and Ceylan.

Journeying into the mind of David Lynch once more tonight.

Tonight’s viewing…

Tonight’s viewing…

Forever grateful for havens like the Brattle to screen 35mm prints of WHITE HEAT and THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE back to back. They’ve shown more reverence to the history of WB than Zaslav ever could.

Celebrating Park Chan-wook’s birthday today by seeing the remastered version of OLDBOY.

Might as well launch this into the blue sky now that I’ve arrived. https://boxd.it/4ElRGX