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“It's just you and me now, sport. And I'm going to find you, God damn it.”

For the morning crowd.

happy birthday to the great Walter Hill; here’s an old 2013 piece that I’m fairly certain is my earliest surviving writing for InRO inreviewonline.com/2013/02/01/w...

New Serge Daney translation: The Diagonale Archipelago. From the 2nd issue of new quarterly film magazine Narrow Margin. sergedaney.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

Was going to say something along the lines of ‘manufacturing consent doesn’t work when it’s this obvious’ but we all know there’s like half of this country who doesn’t think there’s any contradictions here

@boxofficegross.bsky.social watching Narnia with my kids and omg it sucks so bad

Lav Diaz @newyorker.com and @slantmagazine.com, Mira Nair @ A Rabbit’s Foot, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne @ebertvoices.bsky.social, Guy Maddin and David C. Roberts @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy, dispatches from @marbleicehook.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Such an enormous pleasure to talk about a Genuinely Great Movie, and about what something this totemic can mean on personal, artistic, and political scales, and how those things change over the years. I am so happy with how this turned out; I think we did justice to the film and the GREAT Ang Lee.

It’s rough out there folks; keep your head up, fuck ICE, and happy Last 4 Friday to all who celebrate

It was just a multiplex inside of a mall, I have no nostalgia for it

I finally sat down with maybe THE perennial Brandon Guy, Gerard Butler, and had a great conversation about Greenland 2, the differences in his many action heroes and a tiny bit on Den of Thieves 3. You can read it here: www.menshealth.com/entertainmen...

The run of Filmmaker Magazine under Scott & Vadim produced some of the most fascinating and important work on understanding indie film in terms of economics, technology, and the actual stakes of art. I was honored to write for Vadim, easily one of the best editors I've worked with. Hire Vadim!

Adding my voice to the chorus of QTs: Vadim is the realest of real ones; Filmmaker Magazine’s senseless loss will be some other lucky employer’s immense gain

Here’s a brilliant person you could hire. You should probably do so.

Body cams, while functionally/legally important, have also accelerated the process by which perpetrators of state violence reflexively respond to their own criminality. They have drastically improved the speed by which they can narrativize their crimes.

keep recalling Bill Morrison's INCIDENT (2023)--not because of similarities between the cowardly cop murder it recounts and yesterday's ICE execution, but because it crystallized how "cops" (considered broadly) have internalized and streamlined the process of instantaneous narrative-building.

Running on Karma (To/Wai, 2003)

I’ll take “TV Hosts Who Have More Balls than Most Elected Democrats” for 800

apparently Netflix is doing some sort of Man on Fire reboot/update and all I’ll say is that if you don’t have Paul Cameron behind the camera pumping out images like these then why even bother?

Lav Diaz's #Magellan twists convention through omission, considering only death, not the circumstances leading up to it. Read @yesitsalistair.bsky.social's review:

The container ship from LOGISTICS (2012) will return as the container ship from LOGISTICS (2012) in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

Almanac of Fall (1984; Tarr)

A lot of talk today about "slow cinema," if it's real, etc... I find this interview between Paul Douglas Grant and Lav Diaz to be particularly insightful, especially Diaz's claim to be filming "Mindanao time" or "Malay time." offscreen.com/view/stories...

the greatest currently active filmmaker, and it is not even close

Rewatched and reviewed Jia Zhangke's debut feature, "Pickpocket" (1997), where the director himself has a very brief cameo sporting a much worse haircut than the one below. #filmsky 📽️

Have always recoiled at calling Tarr or Hou or Tsai ‘slow’, like yeah compared to Hollywood stuff they are certainly less frenetic but there’s always something happening with the camera, the lighting, the gesture of the human body in the frame. Just gotta look with your eyes to see what’s there!

Our MERMAID LEGEND Early Release Episode is now available, listen for free on Patreon - we discuss with our friends @paulwriteshorror.bsky.social & @quasarsniffer.bsky.social the work of Toshiharu Ikeda and other Director's Company films (read more w/links on Patreon) www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

By virtue of being the definitive cinematic chronicler of post-Soviet collapse, Tarr ended being the most prescient seer of the slow, endothermic decay of the 21st century. Werckmeister Harmonies is one of the great movies about doomscrolling despite the fact the most advanced tech in it is a truck.

RIP to Béla Tarr, an artist who made beautiful (often haunting) films on his own terms and took no prisoners when talking about them. Truly one of the best to ever do it. Full interview: www.filmcomment.com/blog/intervi...

After directing the glossy Finding Forrester, Gus Van Sant watched a few Béla Tarr films and they melted his brain so hard he spent the next decade making Tarr tributes (Gerry, Elephant, Last Days, and Paranoid Park).

"Watch the movie again." R.I.P. Béla Tarr

Werckmeister Harmonies (2000; Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky, photography by Gábor Medvigy, Miklós Gurbán, Emil Novák & Rob Tregenza) one the great films of the millennium, full stop

terrible news to wake up to. A giant of cinema, and a profound influence on a young, impressionable me. Satantango exists to rewire brains and how we think about the cinema.

One is a deranged, racist lunatic screaming about aliens while wearing a bowtie on a political show and the other is a screenshot from Starship Troopers.

Nostos: The Return (1989; Franco Piavoli)

New Frank Borzage piece just dropped: Borzage's Mortal Storm: On Military Patriotism, Nationalism, Idolatry and Morality crazyforborzage.substack.com/p/borzages-m...

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Hooper & Romero & Carpenter were all great for a multitude of reasons, but as I grow older, I think what I find most fascinating about the trio, as they reflect off of one another, is they were all highly skeptical of the American ideal they were raised into & they questioned it in different ways

Good week to start this one

I also cite Koresky's own polemic against 2005's "progress" in mainstream queer cinema from this Reverse Shot Two Cents article from 2005, a necessary counterpoint to the voluminous praise Brokeback received from one side and contextless, homophobic takedowns from the other bsky.app/profile/worm...

It's top 10 time. After watching 300 movies in 2025, I finally narrowed it down to these 10 faves. youtu.be/j4n_0b9At84 #filmsky #top10movies

Post your First Film/Last Film of 2025 🍿

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Arlen Vice

Panthers-Bucs an epic battle for mid status lol this is not a serious division

Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been one of America’s biggest cheerleaders for American war crimes for decades now

the 2025 political cine-schisms nasty-funny tightly controlled cinema: Eddington, No Other Choice, Bugonia, Materiaists lived-in frayed cinema: Sinners, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Marty Supreme moms have had it cinema: Die My Love, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You discuss