On Albert Serra's horrifically mesmerising Afternoons of Solitude: substack.com/@dariollinar...

For more details: dariollinares.substack.com/p/becoming-a...

substack.com/@dariollinar... Thomas Flight’s work asks questions that continue to preoccupy me as I still operate within an institutional framework while also trying to build a critical/educational platform here on Substack. Indeed, his approach to the exploration and explanation of film provokes...

Here is the outline for the entire syllabus of my 6-session series on film criticism and analysis. I expand on the rationale for the course, what is in each session, and I reflect on the approach, which will be accessible, interactive and hopefully enjoyable. open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

Here is the outline for the entire syllabus of my 6-session series on film criticism and analysis. I expand on the rationale for the course, what is in each session, and I reflect on the approach, which will be accessible, interactive and hopefully enjoyable. open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

I don’t know why I feel like I have to apologise (to myself as much as to anyone reading this), but I do feel guilty when circumstances lead to a lull in both my time and my motivation to watch films. A few thoughts on this and more: open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, subjects are bound in darkness, mistaking shadows cast on the wall for reality. For Baudry, cinema replicates this illusion: the projected image stands in for the world, and the spectator takes this illusion as real. dariollinares.substack.com/p/what-is-ps...

YouTube has become a place where anyone can acquire filmmaking skills, but Thomas Flight's 1.2million subscriber channel shows how a self-curated education in cinema can be rigorous, expansive, & genuinely public. Click below to watch our 90-minute conversation open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

The Best Seat in the House? (Part 1) open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

On the otherworldly Delphine Seyrig: She strikes exactly the right balance between the delightfully mannered and the utterly composed. A blend of elegance and menace, she glides through the spaces like an apparition haunting the mise-en-scène itself. dariollinares.substack.com/p/daughters-...

My latest trip to The Nickel Cinema was to see Daughters of Darkness. dariollinares.substack.com/p/daughters-...

RIP Béla Tarr (1955-2026) If you want to know where to begin, I strongly recommend Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), a cosmic nightmare that’s nominally about a travelling stuffed whale exhibit, but also about civilisation eating itself, the death drive & the dark forces unleashed by authoritarianism.

Now listening: when two of your favourite film podcasters collide! @darioll.bsky.social @www.johnbleasdale.com open.spotify.com/episode/3f84...

@darioll.bsky.social I’m really late coming to The Cinematologists, and have just gotten to your Le Quai des Brumes episode. Love the discussion on the film and your subsequent conversation on the value of talk after a film, and the position of the older audience member.

sad to hear that this will be the last season of the Cinematologists podcast, but enjoyed hearing Dario @darioll.bsky.social and Neil talk over One Battle After Another. Now listening to the following episode on Don't Look Now... open.spotify.com/episode/6FSK...

1. Maduro is not a good guy by any stretch of the imagination. 2. But capturing him through an extra-legal action that violates international law undermines any US credibility with Russia in Ukraine and China with Taiwan. 3. We have a terrible history with topping leaders without a post-war plan.

Taxonomy of the Lone Killer open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

Taxonomy of the Lone Killer: dariollinares.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...

I just backed NOXAETERNA A SURRE8L ODYSSEY EXPERIENCE on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/nxe...

Jay Kelly is a movie about movies that makes you hate movies and the people who make movies.

Taxonomy of the Lone Killer: dariollinares.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...

Taxonomy of the Lone Killer open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

A little teaser for the next episode of The Cinematologists Podcast, to drop on Monday. Taxonomy of the Lone Killer.

FilmStack positions itself, sometimes speculatively, sometimes polemically, as a proto-movement: a decentralised, writerly think tank. drafting, in real time, a manifesto engine for the future of cinema. open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

Update on the times for the Live Reveal of the FilmStack top ten films of 2025 poll. Click below for details. open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

12/9/73: Nicolas Roeg's stunning Don't Look Now (NYC) w/Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland New Book! @darioll.bsky.social: dariollinares.substack.com/p/dont-look-... More: @michaelschulman.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/recommends/w... @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/nicol...

open.substack.com/pub/dariolli... If you are a film writer on Substack you can vote in the end-of-year best films of 2025 poll:

The arts, performing arts & media studies section of the #UPWeek Gallery also features great publications from @weslpress.bsky.social, @benjaminbarson.bsky.social, @wlupress.bsky.social @darioll.bsky.social & Amherst College Press https://bit.ly/3WTl7XD

It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback

Sorry, Baby explores the thorny entanglements of power, blame, and guilt without resorting to didacticism or moral signalling. Agnes’s experiences unfold through the grain of a lived reality of disorientation, post a trauma that inflects every element of experience open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

Thanks Rob. Hope you're keeping well.

Sorry, Baby explores the thorny entanglements of power, blame, and guilt without resorting to didacticism or moral signalling. Agnes’s experiences unfold through the grain of a lived reality of disorientation, post a trauma that inflects every element of experience open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...

This week, I found myself caught between two extraordinary films: Sorry, Baby - a razor-sharp campus comedy that quietly tears open the politics of trauma - and Souleymane’s Story, a haunting portrait of labour, migration, and survival in the shadows of Paris.

This week, I found myself caught between two extraordinary films: Sorry, Baby - a razor-sharp campus comedy that quietly tears open the politics of trauma - and Souleymane’s Story, a haunting portrait of labour, migration, and survival in the shadows of Paris.

The Year I Became theyearibecame.substack.com?utm_campaign... I case you need reminding to rest

My step-nephew (it's complicated) got his 1st pay cheque I watched in real time as he endured that painful rite of passage: discovering how much tax and national insurance is extracted from your pay. Cue a conversation on the realities of adulthood. Tears were shed. Welcome to the big league son.

It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school