THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB, the Tunisian Oscar entry (currently on the long list), is not a happy movie, but definitely one to watch. The mashup of documentary and narrative filmmaking is haunting and important.

Content warning: this WILL make you hungry...

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

Gary Cooper kissed Barbara Stamwyck right before midnight tonight. Great way to end the year!

Merry Christmas from Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet

It's a Christmas Movie if it has a Nativity scene.

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

“𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐁𝐚𝐫…” approaches the finish line (only one more to go...), with “Seen, Heard: Language Use in the ‘Best Movies’” by @middento.bsky.social, now on 16:9:

Hold onto your hats, folks: this amazing lady is 90 YEARS OLD TODAY!! We hugged and danced around, and I made cookies (she always preferred cookies to cake anyway, heh), so it's a good day - and this tiara means everyone else can see that it's her day. Te quiero, mami - happy birthday! 🎉♥️

Hear hear

Cut to Sound #3: "Magnetic Pulses" A collaborative video, with images and words by @barbarazecchi.bsky.social, @cormacrestrike.bsky.social, Merel Marjieh, @middento.bsky.social, @jemsaunders1.bsky.social, Adi Beck, Nilüfer Neslihan Arslan, and @colleenlaird.bsky.social: vimeo.com/1077486007

The video essay MEMORIAS DE C/LEO by @middento.bsky.social overlays the narration of Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN on a scene lifted from ROMA. This simple but elegant intervention unlocks rich layers of parallels between these two Alfonso Cuarón movies.

I am driving on the Merritt parkway right now and the colors are red and orange and yellow and dark green and white and dark brown, and there is snow and clouds and light, and there is beauty and melancholy and joy and memory, and that is today.

Very excited to share the outcome of the 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, an online videographic workshop I organized this summer! Here 👉 tinyurl.com/ParametricSu... 👈 you can find detailed instructions for the four parametric exercises used in the Series, w/links to Vimeo showcases of the works created.

@jmittell.bsky.social OK, fine, you got me to finally join this thang. :) Can I join the cool kids' klub too? :)