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On Brandon Colvin’s THE WORLD DROPS DEAD. substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/zza...

Ahead of his career-spanning retrospective beginning at MoMA this week, notes on two recent challenging and rewarding video works by avant-garde legend Larry Gottheim. zzahos.substack.com/p/repetition...

My friends Amy and Dennis built @milestonefilms.bsky.social into the "small but mighty" outfit it is today. So proud of their decision to entrust @mayascade.bsky.social with that legacy and, needless to say, excited for Milestone's next generation! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/m...

I agree with Peter (though naturally I'm concerned what this means for imports, too).

An invaluable, inexhaustible new resource just dropped (not a moment too soon): the WCFTR's newly digitized and searchable collection of Wendy Clarke's video art, including 250+ "Love Tapes." Read about and access it all for free here: wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/index.php/20...

Back Street (1932): The Case of John M. Stahl. (Link in reply.) My fellow boutique blu-ray nuts, there’s a mission-critical poll atop this piece that you won’t want to miss…

Over at the Substack, closing thoughts on the wonderful 2025 Wisconsin Film Festival, with special attention paid to revival screenings of STARSHIP TROOPERS and one notorious, hard-to-see Rolling Stones doc. zzahos.substack.com/p/wrapping-u...

Movie Time With Zach resumes coverage of the Wisconsin Film Festival (which begins tomorrow!) with some admiring words for Albert Serra’s bullfighting doc AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE. Post free until end of the fest: zzahos.substack.com/p/wff-2025-a...

This week at the Substack, I’m spotlighting Julian Castronovo’s DEBUT…, an experimental (and WI-connected) highlight of next month’s Wisconsin Film Festival. open.substack.com/pub/zzahos/p...

Something positive/non-political: I don't think I had ever seen the Josef von Sternberg/Marlene Dietrich collaboration Morocco (1930) until today, and the last five minutes is one of the greatest stretches of filmmaking I've ever seen in an early talkie. You can feel filmmaking leap into its future.

On Mickey 17, In the Lost Lands, Mayhem, and more of "The Latest." zzahos.substack.com/p/the-latest...

Today at Movie Time With Zach: On the world music soundtrack that structures and enlivens Jonathan Demme's SOMETHING WILD. open.substack.com/pub/zzahos/p...

With more "Movie Time With Zach" (MTWZ) content coming up this week, sharing again my Top 10 Films of 2024 list, featuring write-ups of MATT AND MARA, PROBLEMISTA, THE WILD ROBOT, and more. zzahos.substack.com/p/top-10-fil...

Getting one last 2024 list out of my system. zzahos.substack.com/p/bonus-25-f...

From Colin to Marcello’s digressive, cartoon-obsessed Oscar pundit on SNL last night: “You call yourself ‘The Movie Guy,’ but it seems like you’re more interested in talking about SpongeBob.”

February 2025 first views: Shanghai Blues (1984) By the Stream (2024) Desperate Living (1977) Universal Language (2024) Pacifiction (2022) Cecil B. Demented (2000) Mr. Klein (1976)

Just before the wire (Oscar Sunday), I have published a list of favorite 2024 films over at Substack. Spoiler: MATT AND MARA is #1. zzahos.substack.com/p/top-10-fil...

Introducing "Movie Time With Zach." Yet another cinephile's Substack, except this one also covers academia, RHOSLC, Jon Lovitz, and much more. Come read what I'm up to, and join the (free!) mailing rolls, below! zzahos.substack.com/p/its-movie-...

Thrilled to see a newly restored (and music-rights-cleared!) Killer of Sheep, the crown jewel of Milestone Films' catalog, coming to Criterion 4K/Blu-ray this May. www.criterion.com/films/34233-...

More research on LAFCADIO, the lost, queer French avant-garde film recently rediscovered at the WCFTR—plus a clip of the opening ~2.5 minutes! wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/index.php/20...

I love Lady Gaga. youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28?...

January 2025 (terrible month in which I saw some good films): Artemide’s Knee (2008) Flowers of Shanghai (1998) Soft Fiction (1979) Last Summer (2023) Nickel Boys (2024) The Sugarland Express (1974) Chameleon Street (1989) DumbLand (2001) Hard Truths (2024) No Other Land (24)

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This silly Roller Coaster Tycoon Wicked parody—in its worrisome effort and excessive length, taking more than half its runtime to pay off—reminds me of internet creativity circa mid-2010s or earlier. And so I love it. youtu.be/gNty2y0DQN8?...

Apropos of nothing, wishing Jacques Pépin a happy Sunday.

Even more exciting: the WCFTR team has uncovered a seemingly lost short film! And it's sad and queer! I share details on Jean Béranger's LAFCADIO (1948), below, ahead of its UW-Cinematheque screening, w/Bresson's PICKPOCKET, this Sunday @chazenartuw.bsky.social. cinema.wisc.edu/2025/01/24/t...

Got two new pieces of writing—both of them first stops in larger projects I've been working on—that I am eager to share.

If this image provokes in you any intellectual or base physiological response, you are the audience for the piece my pal Nick Benson and I just wrote for Bordwell and Thompson's "Observations on Film Art" blog.

From Deadline. I mean, what do you even say.

Last year I spent many hours digitizing film pressbooks, most dating to the 1960s, for the Media History Digital Library. I wrote a WCFTR blog detailing the origins and research value of this pressbook collection, and how to freely access it, here: wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/index.php/20...

Some of my favorite film discoveries (some arthouse, some quite mainstream) of 2024.

Joining the choir in recommending this smart piece, which takes pains to distinguish the business of film from that of TV, instead of conflating them as analysts (following Netflix's lead) often do. Great details on the halcyon days when Netflix would, you know, acquire a lot of movies, too.