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EVENT FOR A STAGE: Sustains a fascinating tension between the clear, precise construction of discrete performances and the murky boundaries of realistic emotion; Dean’s sense of movement in a black box and Dillane’s intense ruminations are always compelling.

time to rate some more amounts of money $414,910: that's a whole bunch of money where i come from $50: nice and neat. i love it! $1.06: no offense, but this isn't very much money $1000: don't bullshit me $1002.17: yeah, that's what i thought $614.05: solid $0: hey, wait a minute! $18.93: bad salad

i'd like to see a 4-second shot clock in the nba. i get that running a halfcourt offense is supposed to be good luck or whatever, but it doesn't actually do anything. knock it off. just inbound and let 'er rip

i was pretty suspicious of all the epstein stuff, but that press conference cleared everything up for me. that's the end of that i guess

Heartening news: it appears that Ham Ji Park, aka the BLACKHAT restaurant, is reopening after all…

Not voting in this (haven’t listened to either) but it’s funny seeing how much people are denigrating Spoon considering they essentially originated the Steven Hyden Five Album Test

Happy birthday @lcosgrove.bsky.social!!

i'm scoring this one a 2 out of 5 in both the pitcher/charger and group project categories. this is officially the 266th fight in the database, which is now updated docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

by dumb luck i happened to be watching this one live. i'll have to review it but at first watch it looks like it's database-eligible. if so it would be the first one in almost four years

ten years from now the league batting champ is gonna be a guy named Bandon Bryson who hits .204

Nothing ever happens heads did we just win?

the length of the table of contents in "united states involvement in regime change"

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

"This is a distraction" is just a lie. "They are taking your money and using it to commit criminal acts beyond our comprehension" is 100% true. I think we should tell the truth and not the lie. The latter also has the benefit of at least somewhat centering the issue of atrocities.

The way to fix bluesky’s engagement problem is by telling all your friends to subscribe to thechinesecinema.com

For subscribers only, I've published my liner notes essay for the Radiance Films release of A Moment of Romance. The limited edition that the essay accompanied is now out of print, but you can still pick up the standard edition from their store.

For those of you who think LLMs can translate subtitles adequately, I'm "revising" ChatGPT-derived English subtitles for a Chinese film. I'm changing almost every line. Either the line is too long, the English is unidiomatic, the tone is off, or the rhythm doesn't match what's on screen.

here's how the "earth" article looked in 2001 when wikipedia was 3 weeks old, long before anyone realized that astronauts would someday edit the site from space :')

this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!

my takeaway from that video of young people in Iran walking around and being totally fucking normal while their government is a bunch of totalitarian lunatics makes me feel exactly how they'd feel if they saw a video of a guy doing that same thing in my neighborhood

According to Jon Bois's 17776, today is the day that humanity starts to live together; however, it can only truly do so as a collective.

Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

I interviewed filmmaker/DP Fred Kelemen (The Turin Horse) about his long friendship with the late Béla Tarr: oldnew.substack.com/p/all-starte...

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

told myself i could change my avi once the first draft of the book is done

[hour 76, minute 3, second 16 of my masterclass series] so when you're adding closing credits to your video, some of your top-tier patreon members will have very long names. see, this person's name is Garbageboy Stinkman Belongs in the Toilet. don't be afraid to add a second row here. fantastic name

it's been on my list to make a video about lenny randle for six years and i finally did it. THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND, EPISODE 6:

every time uconn or michigan scores a bucket they are permitted to take one piece of gravel out of the basketball

Delirious with happiness for Variety and its new Chief Film Critic, @guylodge.bsky.social, whom I fully intend to begin addressing as “Critic-at-Lodge.” Seriously, the best news: variety.com/2026/film/ne...

As far as I can tell, he has not shared this uhhhh distinct anecdote about Maxon Crumb before

For @documentary.org I talked with the ledge Terry Zwigoff looking back at his docs Louie Bluie and Crumb--both showing in @filmforumnyc.bsky.social's full career retro of his work.

Trying to get back into Substack. I’ll aim to post 2–3 articles a week about specific movies.

OOIOO last night

new fiction from me (an excerpt from my novel) apocalypse-confidential.com/2026/04/03/s...

The craziest thing I've learned from working through the Wes Anderson box set is how much he draws from 70s-80s action TV: Starsky & Hutch, Miami Vice, A-Team. Fantastic Mr. Fox deliberately pulls visuals from the latter two

Just added! 📣 SHORT FILMS BY ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI (1993-2013) On May 17 at Vidiots, as part of our retrospective of the Greek director’s work, we present a career-spanning program of shorts—including a special secret film. 🤫 Limited tix available: vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/short...

Spotted a TGI Fridays by chance in Ximending... Edward Yang's Taipei is still alive

google doodle fans are shocked to see that today's one is just a pic of some guys shit. well played sir, april fools is once again Respected

Attn All Lovers Of Doggos, Pupperinos & Furbabies—We Are Collecting Your Pets To Send Them To Beautiful Israel Where Theyll Become Champions

sitting in traffic when a smart beautiful woman, w/an amazing personality, walks close by—about 5ft away. i lock my car doors out of respect

Sculptures in Yilan of the illustrated book characters that Kaneshiro Takeshi and Gigi Leung would play in Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s TURN LEFT, TURN RIGHT

@jonbois.bsky.social they’re forgetting how to count again

i'm sorry but the moon is a complete boondoggle that should never have been put up there in the first place. we still have to send repair missions up there a hundred-plus years later all because taft was trailing in the polls and decided to learn magick. i don't know why he thought it would help him

On Kristoffer Borgli’s THE DRAMA: squirmily terrific as R.Patzendaya nuptial-disaster flick, half-assed as provocation, and, not to incite Cage-gap discourse, an improvement on DREAM SCENARIO. Spoilers ahoy: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

New ep—HEAD SHOULDERS NEESON TOES! We’re talking early Neesons, when he was nothing more than a handsome, charismatic 7 foot tall Irish nobody who starred in major films! #liamneeson #nextofkin #rubycairo #undersuspicion podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Up to an even dozen on my list of Home Video Releases I Have Contributed To, with one more finished but to be announced and another coming late this year. boxd.it/Reh6m

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