Teyana is so good in OBAA. From completely commanding Sean Penn in Those Scenes to the pure emotion when we only hear her voice from the letter she wrote, she just bodied this role in a way that I can’t get over.

Just a late night reminder that if you’re getting into the films of Mira Nair, she’s one of the interview subjects of my book CINEMA HER WAY, which is still in stores now and would make a great Christmas gift. 🎁 www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847...

THE RAZOR’S EDGE (1985), a Lebanese movie directed by Jocelyne Saab that depicts a teenage girl living amidst war; coming of age in violence. Its perfect blend of reality and surrealism has stayed with me.

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Two burgers and 5 coffees cost $1.40 total in The Blue Gardenia

I know there’s a lot more immediate things on the agenda for NYC but I really hope/think this administration will go hard on arts funding and maybe my friends and I can get paid a living wage again

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

New York Forever. I was born here and I’ll die here. I’m so proud and hopeful for the first time in a looong time.

History will remember this man as a coward at best.

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

Damn not Diane Ladd. RIP to a real one.

Laura Dern lost David Lynch and her mother within one year are you serious?? Diane Ladd; another gone from an era where people could just…be artists 💔

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

Hammer horror fans—here’s Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in their last photo together.

Going as the trust devices from OBAA this year

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Made so many of these yesterday

Ate Bloombito all the way up!!!

THE NAMESAKE (2006) is a beautiful reminder of leaving home and finding it again. We’ll talk about this movie in tonight’s Mira Nair class! cinejourneys.com/the-cinema-o... @cinejourneys.bsky.social

Hello! I come to you from a place called Facebook, where zealous single-issue anti-Mamdani voters are a real thing. Also from a place called "the Upper West Side," which, same. So to anyone out there who thinks he has this in the bag: No victory laps yet. A good day to vote is TOMORROW.

My most watched directors of the year so far

This is what happens when I involve my bf in Halloween costume making (complimentary)

Bette Davis in MADAME SIN (1972)

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

Tomorrow: Session 1 of 2 on Mira Nair’s films. We’ll talk about Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding 🧡 @cinejourneys.bsky.social

If you’re seeing THE MASTERMIND, guess what? I wrote a bit about it in relation to ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER!

"When I look back on my life, it’s the time periods of perceived success that I do the least amount of growing and the most amount of atrophy, and the times of perceived failures that I find myself." For @letterboxd.social I spoke to Ethan Hawke about BLUE MOON

My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.

I’m so happy to see KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN added to @criterion.bsky.social. William Hurt won an Oscar for his performance, which he even admitted deeply relies on Raúl Juliá’s brilliance. This movie makes me wonder what else we could have gotten had Juliá not left us so soon.

Happy Birthday to Mira Nair, a filmmaker who has always promoted the importance of love and community to save lives, and is so good at highlighting immigrant experiences. I’ll be leading a class discussing some of her work starting next week! cinejourneys.com/the-cinema-o...

Registration for @filmiliarface.bsky.social’s Cinema of Mira Nair is still open! It’s going to be awesome. cinejourneys.com/the-cinema-o...

And today is Mira Nair’s birthday!

D'Angelo speaking out about the physical and emotional burden of maintaining a nearly unobtainable physique and sexy image as a Black male artist should be taught in labor studies. It absolutely impacted how I analyze pop culture.

D’Angelo, along with his peers of music, taught me so much. His music was beyond generation or genre to me. When I think of *that scene* in SINNERS, D was the first artist it reminded me of. A rare, honest talent whose music gave life. RIP ❤️

The cover for this week’s issue is “Cannonball,” by Harry Bliss. See what’s inside: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/NcQOF2

Actually very shocked about Diane Keaton. She cemented herself so deeply into film that I never once even thought she’d be gone!

35 movies later, I had a great time at #NYFF63. It was great to see so many friends, make new ones, and watch good movies. Here’s to next year!

MAY DECEMBER has what AFTER THE HUNT wants

Another day, another film screening Q&A where only men are picked to ask questions 🙃

congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists. I ❤️ Portland

Excited for @filmiliarface.bsky.social's upcoming online class on the Cinema of Mira Nair! It's only $20 and will be awesome. Details at the link! cinejourneys.com/the-cinema-o...

MARTY SUPREME: Well now I know which Safdie has been stressing me out all these years. #NYFF

I'm too fucking tired to debunk every stupid thing that Ryan Murphy said about Christine Jorgensen or how the public response to Ed Gein was catastrophic to the the perception of trans people so I'll just point to my book. We covered all of it. bookshop.org/p/books/corp...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Absolute queen shit

At times, I love New York movie audiences more than any audiences in the world, and one of those moments came today, when the first appearance of Thelma Schoonmaker in the documentary received a huge round of entrance applause from the crowd in Alice Tully Hall. These are my kind of people.

Best actor, to me: a two-person race between Benicio del Toro in THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME and Benicio del Toro in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER