Unearthed a piece I posted in 2007 at the time of Chris Marker’s LEILA ATTACKS, and Marker’s comment on my translation of his accompanying text from Cahiers’ site. evillights.substack.com/p/leila-atta...

I wrote about Sabrina Greco’s excellent new + feature debut LOCKJAW (watch out Amerigo) HERE: evillights.substack.com/p/lockjaw

4/4 Nicolae and Elena Bequeath their Bodies to Television (Libération, 26 Apr 1990) sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/10/roma...

3/4 Romania, Year Zero (Cahiers du cinéma, February 1990) sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/10/roma...

2/4 The Judges and the Assassin (Libération, 27 Dec 1989) sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/10/roma...

Four new translations of Serge Daney: his writings on the TV coverage of the 1989 Romanian revolution. 1/4 - Freeze-Images (Libération, 25 Dec 1989) sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/10/roma...

Reading VINELAND now since it’s not feasible to watch OBAA every day. It’s so fucking funny. “Pat Sajak in The Frank Gorshin Story”??? That’s like a joke for me personally.

A few words on FELLINI-SATYRICON… evillights.substack.com/p/fellini-sa...

On FELLINI: A DIRECTOR’S NOTEBOOK (1969) — evillights.substack.com/p/fellini-a-...

Here’s the little piece I wrote on TOBY DAMMIT by Fellini evillights.substack.com/p/toby-dammit

Really small piece I wrote, a note really, about Fellini’s GIULIETTA OF THE SPIRITS: evillights.substack.com/p/giulietta-...

I wrote about Fellini’s lesser-known THE TEMPTATIONS OF DOCTOR ANTONIO here: evillights.substack.com/p/the-tempta...

I put up on my Substack my piece on Fellini’s LA STRADA. Thrive, subscribe (free)… evillights.substack.com/p/la-strada

I wrote a short piece about Fellini’s not-well-known short film UN GIORNALISTA RACCONTA: AGENZIA MATRIMONIALE here: evillights.substack.com/p/un-giornal...

Joe Gebbia is the billionaire co-founder of AirBnB, a close friend of Elon Musk, and worked to gut the federal government with DOGE. And he just gave the single largest donation to Cuomo’s super PAC since the primary.

Silencing dissenting voices is the very intent of the program — and it cannot be allowed to continue. Read the press release and full complaint: eff.org/press/relea.... (5/5)

EFF today sued to stop the Trump administration from targeting visa holders for deportation based on their social media posts. “A lot of this is core political speech that is absolutely protected by the First Amendment,” EFF's Lisa Femia told @nbcnews.com.

📢 BREAKING NEWS 📢 EFF and co-counsel have filed a lawsuit against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of First Amendment-protected speech online. (1/5)

Also: a piece I wrote about Fellini’s I VITELLONI: evillights.substack.com/p/i-vitelloni

Posted onto the new Stack my 2021 piece on Fellini’s THE WHITE SHEIK: evillights.substack.com/p/the-white-...

Put up a piece on Fellini’s first film (co-directed with Lattuada), VARIETY LIGHTS / LUCI DEL VARIETÀ: evillights.substack.com/p/variety-li...

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I wrote about Keifer Nyron Taylor’s THE TOBACCONIST: evillights.substack.com/p/the-tobacc...

PRIORITIES: “Your taxes are coming down! See? Everyone’s happy, honey.” 💰 Instead of stopping health care premiums from skyrocketing for millions while millions more lose coverage, Trump rides around his golf course glazing himself for lowering taxes for his billionaire pals

RIP Diane Keaton, and basically watch my 2016 film ASMR CHARLIE ROSE BARBERSHOP ROLE PLAY, with Shannon Esper, Eleanore Pienta, Lily Marotta, Jay Giampietro, Keetin Mayakara, Caroline Partamian, Stephen Gurewitz, Michael M. Bilandic, and Sunita Mani vimeo.com/161019878

I reposted my 2020 piece on Keifer Nyron Taylor’s LLOYDIE: THE BOY FROM ST. THOMAS at the new Cinemasparagus stack. Subscribe there for free! evillights.substack.com/p/lloydie-th...

Alan Rudolph has great powers.

In one scene in CHOOSE ME Alan Rudolph has placed a poster for THE MAN I MARRIED to the left of a poster for THE MAN I LOVE

Here’s a good deal on the start of the Bridge Trilogy

“I’m sorry, but it’s time for the news.” -CHOOSE ME, Alan Rudolph

I wrote about Matt Reeves’ LET ME IN here: evillights.substack.com/p/let-me-in

With the recent success of Nadav Lapid’s OUI / YES, I reposted a small text I wrote last year on his early film WHY? — evillights.substack.com/p/why

Make a lithograph it’ll last longer.

The Animal Handlers of the Early Cinema

I wrote a piece on the stack about Matt Reeves’ CLOVERFIELD: evillights.substack.com/p/cloverfield

BOTD Michelangelo Antonioni!!! MCCT5 5)L'Eclisse 4)L'Avventura 3)Blow Up 2)La Notte 1)The Passenger More: @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich... @hperryhorton.bsky.social: filmschoolrejects.com/rear-view-mi... @geoff-andrew.bsky.social: geoffandrew.com/2019/01/11/m...

A replica of a common Russian outpost with spray-painted styrofoam, eh

Wrote something about the record of the hour, CONFUSION IS SEX, by Sonic Youth, here: evillights.substack.com/p/confusion-...

Wrote a piece on Matt Reeves’ first film, THE PALLBEARER, with Gwyneth Paltrow, David Schwimmer, and Barbara Hershey. This is the real origin story of The Batman! evillights.substack.com/p/the-pallbe...

Also I wrote about Fellini’s 8½, posted in memory of Claudia Cardinale: evillights.substack.com/p/8

Some words I wrote on Norm Macdonald and Bob Saget’s DIRTY WORK — the “dirtier cut” at that! evillights.substack.com/p/dirty-work...

I wrote about THE EXTREME ADVENTURES OF SUPER DAVE: evillights.substack.com/p/the-extrem...

Two cool ladies (roommates??) and a small pal. Photo from my collection, ca. 1930s.

Je ne vais pas vous faire croire que c’est de la grande littérature (quoi que) mais non seulement R. A. Salvatore a vendu plus de vingt millions de livres (donc je suis curieux) mais je dois dire que c’est l’épatante adaptation d’un récit figé qui ici

Wrote a piece on @whitecitycinema’s COOL APOCALYPSE in 2016. Reprinted on my new Stack here: evillights.substack.com/p/cool-apoca...

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

MARY JANE: sorry about your uncle dan PETER PARKER: it’s ben MARY JANE: 🎵one week since you looked at me

Corporations should not decide what shall and shall not entertain us. This is how you wind up with a straight-to-video release of THE EXTREME ADVENTURES OF SUPER DAVE.