“I believe many of you know my age but I’m full of life because as you know, a Scorpion never dies.”🦂 Meiko Kaji ending her NYC trip by making us all emotional 🥲 What a beautiful experience, thank you @japansociety.org for making this happen

Often separating the art from the artist is separating the abuse from the abuser, and that isn’t the rock solid logical superior intellectual position to have. The Death of The Author means the authors intent doesn’t negate people to having an oppositional decoding of a piece of work.

Trying to just get together the $450 i need to pay my storage unit rent before the end of the month and get groceries. Still looking/applying for work wherever i can

Japanese independent cinema is proliferating in London's repertory cinemas. Who's programming it, and why? In the first of a series of curator chats, I spoke with Kano Matilda, whose '21st Century Japan' strand at @riversidelondon.bsky.social brings us Super Happy Forever and more

Here’s an article I wrote! In the Rebecca Riots, men wore women’s clothes as disguise, not to undo gender, but to move through it. Sometimes identity becomes something systems can and will absorb (even rely on), without anything really shifting underneath

I spoke with two trash legends for the BFI: Mink Stole and Peaches Christ. We discussed the legacy of trash, the importance of community, and Mink's Instagram reels algorithm www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/m...

Tetsuya Nomura appearing in this as a disembodied voice talking from an empty chair as Kitase enthusiastically nods along has sent me to the fucking MOON

Richly textured and deeply felt, Grimm Grimm's new album ETERNALISE is musical quicksand – a well of emotion to surrender and sink into We spoke about his collaborations with Kojima and Eiko Ishibashi, and how personal and interpersonal forces shaped this LP www.soundspheremag.com/news/grimm-g...

It appears that the news has broken that Caden Mark Gardner and I have programmed a series on Trans Filmmakers for the Criterion Channel. These films will be available in April www.criterion.com/current/post...

Announcing… the new print edition of Little White Lies, inspired by the cinema of Jim Jarmusch, with special focus on his wonderful new film, Father Mother Sister Brother, which is out in the UK on 10 April. The cover is by Berlin-based illustrator Yannik Saal.

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First trailer for "Cherry and Virgin", an indie feature film directed (& crowdfunded) by Masanao Kawajiri (using rotoscoping). Character designs by mangakas Katsuya Takayanagi & Ryo Nakaharu. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxZt...

To celebrate 40 years of BFI Flare, the BFI have made a lovely documentary speaking with the programmers, filmmakers, and attendees that made it sing. Grateful and proud to have been involved with this as interviewer. player.bfi.org.uk/subscription...

Dream date

Frederick Wiseman In Memoriam spotlight tribute where they show us footage of the meetings where they decide which dead film icons to do spotlight tributes for

took me way too long to realize that Master Onion from Parappa is a literal Rap Scallion 💀

Now that Timothee Chalamet has been taught a bloody good lesson everyone can go back to doing what they do best: Regularly and enthusiastically attending the ballet and opera

And if you haven't heard of Rewrite, that's OK, it hasn't been released here yet. But trust me, it's great. I reviewed it here www.thechinesecinema.com/fantasia-fes...

The nominees for the Endy Award for Best Picture are: 1. Blue Fight 2. CITY the Animation 3. Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants 4. Lone Samurai 5. The Mastermind 6. Nouvelle Vague 7. One Battle After Another 8. Resurrection 9. Rewrite 10. Sinners And the Endy goes to. . . Rewrite!

Rewrite was my #2 of last year, super underrated genuine crowdpleaser that I hope more folks get to see

every British guy between the ages of 38 and 52 has intense, borderline troubling nostalgia for some insanely unplayable looking Amiga game called like “Bonky’s Quest”

CG, or not CG? Mamoru Hosoda's conflicted new epic, SCARLET, is in UK cinemas now. My review for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

again, I cannot emphasise enough: Kim Gordon is about to turn 73

On the eve of the Japan Academy Prize, I spoke with Akira Nagai, director of Suzuki=Bakudan, an unconventional mind-game thriller nominated for twelve awards desperatelyseekingsubtitles.substack.com/p/akira-naga...

A Pale View of Hills emerges into UK cinemas this week. My review for @indiewire.com: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

- hey did you guys make that list of exciting young Chinese filmmakers? - My team is kind of stuck. We've only just Bi Gan

Former Pixar employee u/PixelatedRonin fires back at chief creative officer Pete Docter on Reddit over claims on LGBT storyline cut from 'Elio' (2025):

Am I surprised that a man who was able to thrive at a company where women weren't allowed in the same room as the boss, because he'd grope them, appears to have no ethical backbone? Not even a little.

THE KING’S WARDEN is doing insane numbers. It crossed 10 million viewers Friday, but at this rate it’ll become the highest grossing domestic film in Korean box office history (record is ₩139.6B, ₩150B seems assured). 50/50 whether it unseats ROARING CURRENTS’ all-time admissions haul (17.6M).

He will also receive an honorary Palme Mord’Or and an honorary Palme d’Orc. www.festival-cannes.com/en/press/pre...

In my favourite and most comprehensive interview of the year thus far, I spoke with Nao Yoshigai about Berlinale Forum premiere MASAYUME, a documentary about healing that does so for filmmaker and spectator in turn desperatelyseekingsubtitles.substack.com/p/nao-yoshig...

why would you want to be in charge of a festival like this????? www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Absolutely incredible interview, maybe the best Matt Johnson interview I've read

This whole interview rocks

Mamoru Oshii’s landmark 1985 anime film, Angel’s Egg, is streaming on HBO. www.hbomax.com/movies/angel...

You can stream two of the best movies of last year, The Secret Agent and It Was Just An Accident, on Hulu today. www.hulu.com/movie/4545bc...

marlon wayans (outspokenly pro-trans) gets the award for most indecipherable politics

The best animation I saw at Berlin, Chinese debut LIGHT PILLAR fuses self-reflexive 2D with VR live-action, and recalls A New Old Play (for a reason!) My interview for @cartoonbrew.bsky.social: www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

The first in Louise Weard's CASTRATION MOVIE anthology is available on blu ray today. If you want to own this movie I suggest that you buy it right now. The print run has nearly sold out since becoming available today. vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

Been attending Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme screenings at the ICA the past two weekends, where a recurring theme has ended up being the versatility of Yuumi Kawai's hair

The packaging for this makes it look like a Koji Shiraishi Halloween costume

Evangelion's Hideaki Anno said creators reach their peak at around 30 years old — name-checking Hayao Miyazaki and the directors of Yamato, Macross, and Gundam:

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

Last week I was lucky enough to talk to master stuntman/choreographer/director/visionary Yuen Woo-ping! His new film BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS is showing in US/Canadian theatres (thanks @wellgousa.bsky.social) so please let our conversation to get you excited about it screenanarchy.com/2026/02/blad...

WOMAN IN THE DUNES returns to the PCC from a rarely screened 35mm print on Sun 1st March at 5:35pm and Sun 26th Apr at 11:45. 🎟️: buff.ly/cLL6ABP

It brings me no pleasure to report that the anime firework drama in Berlinale Competition fails to spark. A NEW DAWN is a muddle of a debut that inherits all of Makoto Shinkai's worst tendencies. My review for @indiewire.com: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

Always a pleasure to introduce a new and exciting Japanese filmmaker through an interview article. This time I did it for @variety.com . Click through for my conversation with Yusuke Iwasaki about his debut, ANYMART, my personal pick for film of fest. variety.com/2026/film/fe...

WORLD PREMIERE! Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage @ BFI Flare 22/03 + 23/03 @ BFI Southbank, with @weard.moe in person Tickets on sale Tues 24/02 (members), Thurs 26/02 (general) whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online...