Happy Last 4 Friday to all who celebrate

As someone who has seen Mallrats more times than I care to admit, this is a fascinating profile that has a couple twists along the way. Crazy how even mentioning the word "Scientology" to a former Scientologist provokes a Pavlovian response of hostility and near-immediate legal action.

looking upon every letterboxd review of the new Scream where someone gives it a half star and says "Free Palestine"

Eureka's May titles have just been announced, all of them a total blast to work on: Buster Keaton's masterpiece The General on 4K UHD, an excellent and underseen outing for Inspector Maigret in Maurice Tourneur's Cécile is Dead and Frank Beyer's controversial Trace of Stones, one of DEFA's finest.

One of the most beautiful shots in film. TENEBRE (1982) Directed by Dario Argento

Cis allies: here’s a simple way to put your money where your mouth is and support trans journalists! I’m starting a thread here to share independent journalists who need your support.

what has frustrated me the most in the 10+ years I’ve been focused on women directors is that the ACCESS to their films has expanded immensely, yet your average filmgoer still is as incurious to expand their viewing, thus expand the user based canon, as the old IMDb Top 250 list from 20 years ago.

LB as an app for discovery should really help people find more films by women, and I know their editorial really does a lot to platform female filmmakers (including in the work I get to do with them), but just because you bring a horse to water doesn’t mean they’ll drink.

#ICYMI Producer Max pulls his best Vyce Galaxy Brain on the ending of RETURN TO SILENT HILL. Listen to the latest episode of A4E to find out how he, Diego, and Sister Jill come together to argue the merits of Christophe Gans' latest film in the SILENT HILL franchise.

Somehow it’s the one-year anniversary of the publication of my book CINEMA HER WAY today! Here’s a little wrap-up of the book’s first journey around the sun.

Excited for the finale of the film to involve stabbing, shooting, and/or exploding NPH 🔥🔥🔥

Wuthering Heights (1954; Buñuel)

Mercy (2026; Timur Bekmambetov) pro-police state, pro-AI, pro-surveillance panopticon, anti-mise en scene. Bad movie!

new action movie from long-time stunt man/ coordinator Olivier Schneider starring my man Alban Lenoir let’s fuckin go

On the new episode of @junkfilterpod.bsky.social, the film writer @brianabrams.bsky.social returns for a show about the underrated PREDATOR 2. IS it better than the original? WILL my guest abruptly quit talking to me after I suggest that perhaps it is? open.spotify.com/episode/5c3x...

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

@neilsnowdon.bsky.social and I brought together such a great team for this release - our darling Willow included - and its so lovely for everyone's hard work to be recognised like this 💜

Last chance to join up, should be a fun time! Come hang with us!

Showing up to Barnes & Noble in this to buy the K-pop demon hunters 4K at full price

Petzold just can’t miss, nothing but bangers

truth nuke

Day 4 of high protein, low carbs, a gallon of water consumed, and only 3 cups of coffee allowed, max. So far so good!

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when I graduated from j-school in 2009 it already felt like the bottom of the industry had dropped out. joke's on us

If you'd like to support this week's guest, Jill, here's a link to her short film WAKASHU! sisterjill.gumroad.com/l/wakashu Liam and @vycevictus.bsky.social will return next week for your regularly scheduled programming.

NEW EPISODE! Producer @odstspartan.bsky.social takes over with @hibachijustice.bsky.social, @diegocrespo.bsky.social, & community member @sisterjill.bsky.social to talk religious imagery & foggy towns with RETURN TO SILENT HILL (2026) & a look back the series. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

had always heard this was a bad Argento, one of his declining years entries, but I was wowed by Sleepless. Slick, moody photography that seems influenced by the Cinéma du look, plus a late-style Goblin score that’s heavy on crunchy guitars. A very pleasant surprise!

Wrote about Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). If you like it, please share it.

This week on @cinemasmorgasbord.bsky.social we have the wonderful @kolleencarney.bsky.social joining us on FURTHER REEDING (the world's finest Oliver Reed-themed podcast) to discuss Ken Russell's adaptation of The Who's TOMMY.

The retrospective of Sara Gómez's films continues today at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social at 4 with her feature, One Way or Another, a passionate and probing docufiction that fuses a drama of love and work with detailed inner lives and their historical underpinnings: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Every time Vikram posts about this movie I think to myself I need to rewatch for the first time in over two decades. As I get older, my appreciation grows for media (especially documentaries) that precisely captures a specific moment in time from the not too distant past.

Hats off to @dylancheung.bsky.social for doing TWO subtitle tracks for Arrow UK's PEKING OPERA BLUES: A straight forward translation, and a second 'alternate' track, that is cpture the feeling of the dialogue through some clever style choices. Dylan's truly the Alexander O. Smith of HK movies!

I don’t have a full ranking, love almost all of them, but Deja Vu will always be my number one. Post-9/11, war-on-terror, crypto-Vertigo riff that I can’t believe a major studio bankrolled

Have watched both the Brownlow/BFI disc of Napoleon and the new restoration this week and the info out there on the differences is terrible. On KG and Reddit both you have people saying 5.5 vs. 7 hours is almost entirely attributable to the change from 20fps to 18. There’s a math problem there!

would love if you read this, I put a lot into it, thanks!

The plot here is so razor-thin, with no characterization, that one wonders if the screenwriter brought the project to David Fincher, who then rejected it, thinking even he couldn’t have done anything exciting, suspenseful, or provocative with it #PsychoKiller www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

it took me several days to finish writing about the life and work of Frederick Wiseman, and i still could only scratch the surface. here are a couple thousand words about one of my favorite filmmakers, a titan and a genius and a man open.substack.com/pub/capybaro...

I'll have a longer report on the festival as a whole in Documentary Magazine soon, but here's a brief recap of my impressions of the expanded cinema I watched in Rotterdam. fcardamenis.substack.com/p/what-i-wat...

Our first proper episode of The Power of '73 Compels Us is up!! @palguy88.bsky.social & i discuss two fugue state films about women failing to keep their past lives at bay: Mario Bava's Lisa and the Devil & Jess Franco's The Other Side of the Mirror open.spotify.com/episode/38lg...

Art of Dying kinda like an outsider art masterpiece:

Happy Last 4 Friday to all who celebrate

Ryan and his ilk are all the same: ‘reasonable, polite society has shunned me while I attack marginalized groups, I must be on to some shocking hidden truth here!’. Nope, you’re just an asshole

Jacques Deray (with scenes from his film "La Piscine") - BOTD

I highly recommend Tom Noonan's film WHAT HAPPENED WAS. He was a fantastic writer and director in addition to being one of the great character actors his generation. WHAT HAPPENED WAS is a romance for people who have been worn down by life and themselves and who don't trust love, but still want it.

Failed State heads -- if you are in SEATTLE we are playing at THE BEACON on 3/19 -- COME THROUGH! TIX: thebeacon.film/calendar/mov...

@gailsimone.bsky.social Gail, my favorite video essayist, Scout Tafoya, has made a beautiful and thoughtful celebration of M. J. Bassett's Red Sonja: vimeo.com/1138883372

Return to Silent Hill in the top 10 no gods no masters

Frederick Wiseman made movies with so much attention and humanity that when he showed up in other projects (for example, as the radio announcer in EEPHUS) it felt like he was bestowing a blessing.