the knicks and spurs have received lifetime bans from the nba for running around on the court in the middle of last night's game

@jonbois.bsky.social Watching baseball

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The damaged opening frame from the original negative of John Smith’s “The Girl Chewing Gum,” removed at his request by Mark Toscano:

I wanna see a NHL fan on the ice. Guy makes it over the shielding, oh shit he's got skates on. nobody is ready for this

zorb ran on the court?

glad scott foster is standing up for the small market team despite what the league thinks is best

Watching baseball @jonbois.bsky.social

Chung King-fai played Simon Yam's dad in the Ringo Lam segment of Septet: The Story of Hong Kong where Yam's character is an analogue of the director. Lam got his start training to be an actor under Chung and this was the final film for both of them.

Chung King-fai (1937–2026) King Sir was monumental in the development of drama and theatre in Hong Kong. He also led the acting classes at Shaw Brothers' acting school once it became jointly run with TVB, teaching acting to the likes of Chow Yun-fat, Johnnie To, Ringo Lam.

This was honestly very difficult to translate.

Watching baseball @jonbois.bsky.social

primer for non-nba fans tuning into the finals: the knicks and spurs will have to find the letters N, B, and A that are located somewhere on the court. they'll be given clues by helping various people – chasing down a little kid's lost balloon, helping a farmer return his chickens to the coop, etc

this is one of my favorite secret base projects we've ever done. it's been so much fun watching it come together

The Donnie Expedition, our history of international players in the NBA Draft, is gradually slipping out from behind the paywall this month. Here's part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3O0...

Building off of my last post on Asian Westerns, here are some Further thoughts on Kill Bill, The RZA, Keanu Reeves, The Wachowskis, and Multiculturalism in Early 2000s Hollywood Genre Cinema www.thechinesecinema.com/further-thou...

Bring back the Sonics!

In terms of depicting the impossibility of rigid systems of control to restrict the fundamental chaos of animal nature, Jacques Tati’s Playtime makes a great thematic pairing with Jurassic Park.

episode 8 of THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND went up on the patreon today. this one would've only been 22 minutes long but i added a five-minute segment about the time george brett pooped his pants

Two deep archival digs into 16mm prints with Lightstruck and Filmforum this week, two immersive ambient + multimedia showcases in the theater, and some summery folk balladry in the bar to open the month. Welcome to June at 2220.

May 2026 Top 5 First Views: SCATTERED CLOUDS EUREKA FLOWING LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS THE ARCH HM: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, The Last One for the Road, Two Seasons, Two Strangers, Attenberg, The Last Detail, Night and the City, Mother, Chevalier, Sanjuro, Being There, Madadayo

commercial flights can be a good deal if you actually want to go to whatever the plane’s destination is, but if all you’re looking for is a place to sit it’s a total ripoff. most places offer benches for free

baseball!

Overjoyed to have written a booklet essay for @filmmovement.bsky.social's Blu-ray of Neo Sora's exquisite, surprisingly hopeful HAPPYEND via @vinsyn.bsky.social/OCN Distribution; many thanks to him and Aiko Masubuchi for their invaluable advice! vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

For Bleak Week at the @amcinematheque.bsky.social, I'll be moderating a Q&A with Isabelle Huppert after a screening of HEAVEN'S GATE at the Egyptian on Friday. Extra tickets just became available:

love lightning bolt, they hadn't figured out how to record their sound yet though. this is what it should sound like www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWz3...

if you’re not a parent, you can’t even imagine how difficult it is to travel on a plane with a toddler: somewhat difficult at times. have you ever done something that was somewhat difficult at times? i didn’t think so

vacations are awesome because you don’t even have to go to work or anything like that. you can just hang out and do whatever

Whoa. The George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will start you off in a photographic recreation of cave paintings, then work its way up, room by room, through more complex and beautiful forms of storytelling until you reach the end:

Oi Chewie, just got off the phone wif Ol Man Didney. Eez lookin at the box office numbahs and we sayin the next movie's gonna aff ta be about you n me wandrin a bunch of empty allways on Corcuscant

On top of those four Beatles movies they should also put out a shot for shot recreation of A Hard Day's Night with Paul as his own clean grandfather

Happy birthday @zhandlen.bsky.social!

On one of Ford's best pre 1939 movies.

Another entry in my Frederick Wiseman series. This time on Welfare.

nother article on Frederick Wiseman's work. On Model (1981).

Milagros Mumenthaler's beguiling THE CURRENTS, one of the most remarkable films of the year so far, begins its US theatrical run today thanks to @kinolorber.com; I wrote a capsule about it in my AFI Fest coverage last year (on my Substack, Stray Comrades): straycomrades.substack.com/p/afi-fest-2...

Our third June program will feature another politically and formally radical film from one of cinema’s most committed artists!

Announcing! 📣 Escape directed by Masao Adachi 2025, 110 min Join us 6/30 @2220arts.bsky.social for the LA premiere of the new film by master Japanese director Masao Adachi (AKA SERIAL KILLER)! Co-presented by Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/zdad40198d63

i’ve seen enough….sga fraudvp take the trophy back

my fav ozu

Join us tonight @2220arts.bsky.social for the Los Angeles premiere of Sho Miyake’s TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, winner of the Golden Leopard at last year’s Locarno Film Festival! Doors: 7:30pm 🍻 Screening: 8:00pm 🎥 Tickets still available online or at the door! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/W68ea186c829

Happy birthday @lauravenning.bsky.social!

Some critics are cantankerous; I tend toward the Cannes-rankerous. Here's how the 2026 competition stacked up: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

New ep—SHE HAW! Giddy up, we’re talking about 3 lady westerns of varying degrees of quality! After all, what are westerns if not thrillers with horses? So check your boot for snakes and get on board! #badgirls #bandidas #thequickandthedead podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Had a fabulous time on the Film Comment podcast alongside Devika Girish, Justin Chain and Jessica Kiang. It was the final night of Cannes, and we talked about THE DREAMED ADVENTURE, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, COWARD and KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS. open.spotify.com/episode/5kp6...

this is a picture of what i looked like the last time the knicks were in the finals

I AM AT PRESENT BEING MILDLY INCONVENIENCED AT A RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT