On Agnès Varda’s PLAISIR D’AMOUR EN IRAN — evillights.substack.com/p/agnes-vard...

A lot of places are about to be bombed in a country far away and a good many people killed because Donald Trump cannot make anyone forget or ignore the accusations of what he did with young girls. That is now the foreign policy of the United States.

The first of two pieces I’ve written about Frederick Wiseman, on his first film TITICUT FOLLIES: evillights.substack.com/p/frederick-...

Imagine what fucked up shit they’ll find inside RFK Jr at his autopsy? Or like if he’s an organ donor and you got his corneas or some shit and then had “pastrami vision”?

far off in the distance ahead, a Ukraine War article and a second-person short story glitter in the afternoon sun

19 years ago today! @timheidecker.bsky.social & #ericwareheim ‘s Awesome Show, great job premiered on #adultswim!

Given the earnings Tesla just reported, it makes sense to shift money they don’t have out of making cars they can’t sell and into a speculative AI venture focused on hallucinatory non-consensual nude image generation.

this is like that time the chicken lady from parappa the rapper met nicolae ceaușescu

He thinks he’s a good guy by generously extending his vast trauma to the canvas of human history.

On Ozu’s second or third or whatever film, from the 1929 jumble - the excellent 14-extant-minute FRIENDS FIGHTING THE JAPANESE WAY: evillights.substack.com/p/yasujiro-o...

A little piece on a little seen little Varda: evillights.substack.com/p/agnes-vard...

2025 from the view of my Substack: evillights.substack.com/p/some-2025

I wrote a Very Important Poem, at my Substack. evillights.substack.com/p/ai-cant-20...

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Here’s a good one on SEVEN SAMURAI that I just wrote. Excuse the crazy green tingeing for now, it’s .tif crap I’ll fix later evillights.substack.com/p/akira-kuro...

Interesting to see all the MAGAs and conservatives who genuflected at and took political advantage of the Kirk death now attempt to regain clout by invoking parrot’y parity sympathy for the Reiners.

It was 1961, but yes.

This *is* hilarious, but as a kid, I also have to admit that this was the most intriguing board game cover art ever. It really did feel like "This is a game for adults. If I play this, I'm an adult." McSweeney's nailed that feeling.

Excellent interview with mon voisin Totodeau: zone-critique.com/critiques/em...

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I wrote about Jean-Luc Godard’s first film, (not BREATHLESS), OPÉRATION „BÉTON,” here: evillights.substack.com/p/jean-luc-g...

To get anywhere in this crazy world you gotta have BlueSky smarts, alright

I’m writing over time about all of Ozu’s films. It begins here, with A STRAIGHTFORWARD BRAT: evillights.substack.com/p/yasujiro-o...

I wrote about Agnès Varda’s LE BONHEUR: evillights.substack.com/p/le-bonheur

I wrote about Vincente Minnelli’s THE COBWEB: evillights.substack.com/p/the-cobweb

More pieces reposted at my Substack: VAN GOGH by Resnais: evillights.substack.com/p/van-gogh LES FIANCÉS DU PONT MAC DONALD by Varda: evillights.substack.com/p/the-fiance... CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 by Varda: evillights.substack.com/p/cleo-from-...

I wrote about Minnelli’s BRIGADOON here: evillights.substack.com/p/brigadoon

I wrote about João César Monteiro’s first film, SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDRESEN, here: evillights.substack.com/p/sophia-de-... The film plays this evening @acropoliscinema chosen by Marta Mateus to accompany her feature debut FOGO DO VENTO [FIRE OF WIND].

A couple words on Nadav Lapid’s SYNONYMS.. evillights.substack.com/p/synonyms

A piece I wrote on Nadav Lapid’s 2015 film HAGANENET: evillights.substack.com/p/haganenet-...

Elon Musk has been having an existential crisis wrapped in a panic attack uninterrupted for multiple years. It's crazy how money can insulate you from meaningful criticism and consequences, but also from anyone caring about or helping you. This is the loneliest man alive. Ha ha. The little bitch.

Selections from 'Verhexen' are featured in L’Oeil de la Photographie this weekend in advance of Paris Photo, with thanks. Forthcoming monograph with Kehrer Verlag.

That fourth photo…

10/30/91: Maurice Pialat's Van Gogh w/Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq More: @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab... @evillights.bsky.social: cinemasparagus.blogspot.com/2015/10/van-... @railoftomorrow.bsky.social: criterioncast.com/reviews/blu-...

on Minnelli’s MADAME BOVARY: evillights.substack.com/p/madame-bov...

A piece I wrote on Minnelli’s CABIN IN THE SKY: evillights.substack.com/p/cabin-in-t...

I used to say this trial was a waste of taxpayer dollars, but I think it’s totally worth it.

We talk to Berlinale and Locarno alum Carlo Chatrian about the life of a film programmer and a thriving cinema culture:

I wrote about the Lugosi DRACULA by Tod Browning — late to Halloween: evillights.substack.com/p/dracula

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...