David Byrne, the former front man of Talking Heads, believes that reunion tours are regressive. “Have you seen any reunion tours where you felt, like, ‘Oh, they’ve really evolved and they’re bringing something new to the table?,’” he said. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/q_oFKk

Reading your posts

Die My Love is a great movie about how Sissy Spacek always understands where you’re coming from.

Recency bias, schmecency bias, it’s without question It Was Just An Accident

"I feel really alone when I try to make art, and it’s really difficult, and I want comfort from the idea that I’m not alone." Ira Sachs discusses the making of Peter Hujar's Day, opening this Friday:

I concede that I’m way more pro-Kinds of Kindness than most, but Bugonia really left me wanting that film’s density of ideas about who we are and why we’re like this. Not a bad movie, but disappointingly narrow.

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

I fucking love new york

What Do You Mean It’s Gay Halloween, Charlie Brown?

Me posting on bluesky dot com

I really wonder how much that will matter if Democrats aren't doing a full-throated "GOP/Trump did this to you campaign!" and aren't taking this moment as an opportunity to connect constituents to food source solutions. It may be happening, but I haven't seen much of it.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Rewatched the Aunt Gladys film tonight

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike. (via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

Our fall festival draft with @chrisvfeil.bsky.social is one of the most fun things @chrisjrosen.bsky.social and I have done on Prestige Junkie After Party and today we’re declaring a winner with a surprise special guest! open.substack.com/pub/prestige...

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Essential reading and an incredible portrait by @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social of Jafar Panahi and the movie of the year (imo!!), IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

Since my mom’s death, my gut instinct to immediately text her about the death of a performer we both love has, I would say, generally not been making the grief thing any easier

Reds is streaming on Pluto fyi

I don’t know man, this one really hurts

When Betty speaks, everyone else needs to shut the fuck up

Talked to Regina Hall about the “psychic” nature of One Battle After Another, screaming into the void, and whether Scary Movie 6 will be an A24 parody www.vulture.com/article/regi...

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Ooh boy everyone is being way too kind to The Smashing Machine

and to our enemies: FAFO Fiona Apple's Fetch the b Olt cutters

Anyway, OBAA has me listening to Steely Dan, which is nice

A House of Dynamite

I saw a special film at the #NYFF: Peter Hujar's Day, Ira Sachs's meditative recreation of a 1974 interview with the photographer. Vividly evocative of a lost gay New York, and Ben Whishaw, using only a transcript, goes so deep; he does the kind of work that should be up for awards but rarely is.

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)

Happy Sunday from Ben Whishaw

Well, One Battle After Another is an unflaggingly vivid, wacko, emotional Exhibit A of the genius of essentially everyone involved

🚨SPOILERS🚨: I wrote about the ~ENDING~ of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER; what it says about the past, present, and future of this country; and how beautifully it envisions an "I have friends everywhere" mode of resistance. again, SPOILERS. at @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/one-...

Listen to a preview of today's A Woman Robbed, discussing Shelley Duvall in The Shining and Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls! @chrisvfeil.bsky.social joins me to review their performances, discuss why they weren't nominated, and more! Full episode on Patreon! linktr.ee/andtherunner...

Me making Oscar predictions over at anklerpundits.com? Likelier than you think!

LB favs refresh, why not etc.

Hamnet is a tearjerker that “doesn’t feel like medicine or homework.” It’s no surprise the film racked up the TIFF Audience Award and seems primed for domination, think @kateyrich.bsky.social, @chrisjrosen.bsky.social and @chrisvfeil.bsky.social prestigejunkieafterparty.substack.com/p/fall-fest-...

JOINT STATEMENT: Hollywood Labor on Pulling of Jimmy Kimmel Live w/ @sagaftra.org @directorsguild.bsky.social @afm-union.bsky.social

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

Well tonight I saw David Byrne live and in another life I think I would have been a premiere league groupie.

This list is good and correct but also I will be a broken record all season about the god-tier performances from Ethan Hawke in BLUE MOON and Yeom Hye-ran in NO OTHER CHOICE

He went out on such a high note