“You’re having that encounter with the object itself that’s exciting.” Long live celluloid! 🎞️

Possibly the best thing in Moma's current Duchamp show is this 1913 newspaper cartoon poking fun at his "Nude Descending a Staircase"

Very excited to return to UMN for this event.

I’ve seen many movies six times or more but this and the one in the quoted post are certainly among the ones I have seen the most. Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

die hard schmie hard for the real ones EYES WIDE SHUT is a christmas movie

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

I’m teaching my class on Detroit again this fall and so I am collecting material for my opening lecture on the evolving and varied identity of the city: from the Motor City to the Arsenal of Democracy to Motown to the capital of the twentieth century to the Dirty D to Techno City and more.

Define cinema with gif.

A film that takes place where you’re from

RIP

Knock knock Who’s there La promesse du bonheur La promesse du bonheur who [no answer]

Teaching today, experimental and expanded cinema edition: "What was Dada in regard to cinema was not a specific film, but the performance, not a specific set of techniques or textual organization, but the spectacle."

Tony is much the better director of the Scott brothers and Eyes Wide Shut is far superior to A Clockwork Orange.

RIP

Cocktails for @mauraseale.bsky.social bday

This feels like more of a threat than an offer of support.

Please consider submitting a proposal and share widely! I'm co-editing with @lydiazv.bsky.social and Sam (who I don't think is on here). Deadline for proposals is 1/17, more details in the link below. Happy to answer questions, too. #critlib 📚📜

Screening today, action cinema finale edition:

Teaching today, classical film theory finale edition: "All of this is at the expense of speculation; of abstract thought, which risks inconclusiveness: or in economic terms, the possibility of no return."

Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article Humanity now welcomes Kong as an honorary ape among men, a benevolent defender against the violent threat of nature; he will not survive us krisis.eu/article/view...

Screening today, classical film theory edition:

Teaching today, classical film theory edition: “The twentieth century was unquestionably the century of cinema, but is cinema’s time now over.”

The beer I ordered (on the right) is called “pure cinema.” And so I’m toasting Germaine Dulac.

The Washington Post reports that Michael Anton and Sebastian Gorka had a falling out over who should receive credit for writing Trump's speeches. This is incorrect. In this thread, I will tell you the real reason why Anton dislikes Gorka. 🧵

Almost 11:47 on a Saturday night. That is the hand we have been dealt.

Screening today, action cinema edition #boatcinema:

Teaching today, action cinema edition:

Ten thoughts on a rewatch of COLLATERAL (Mann, 2004):

TFW you are prepping to teach action cinema next week.

Teaching today, Action Cinema edition: "...Bay’s cinema invites us to consider the ideological register of his films and to ask what they might tell us about the excesses of early twenty-first century American cinema, and the globalized cultural and political environment in which it circulates..."

Favorite photo you’ve taken this year. Here’s mine:

Teaching today, classical film theory edition: “what is the good of film experience?”

Teaching today, action cinema edition: "Michael Bay's world lives up to Marinetti's vision in its unconditional endorsement of speed, technology, and progress as much as its celebration of danger, violence, and the primordial power of courage, audacity, masculinity, and visceral interactivity."

Teaching today, classical film theory edition: “If film is an art at all, it certainly should not be confused with the established art.”

Pre-Symphony cocktails

I'm going to talk myself into teaching a Michael Bay/Michael Mann course in the near future.

Prepping for Michael Bay week in my action cinema class.

Post a scene from a film you’ve seen more than ten times. (I’ve seen a lot of movies more than ten times but this is certainly one that I have seen many more than ten times and I also happen to be teaching it this week)

The music video for Crockett's Theme (aka best song ever written) youtu.be/eF8fGFfJl_I?...

First day of classes teaching/screening today, classical film theory: "It is all moving, all alive, all speeding about. It all moves into the foreground and then disappears somewhere."

Totality achieved for just over a minute

Post a pic YOU took at sunset. No description.

Happy Easter

RIP Carl Weathers www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD-f...

Teaching today, Classical Film Theory edition: “…one must admit that the photogenic is like a spark that appears in fits and starts.”

Teaching question of the day, classical film theory edition: did the gremlins kill cinema?