Not one of them has ever stood in a line for 4 hours or more to vote in person.

Not one of them has been turned away at the polls because they are suddenly “not on the list.”

Not one has had their pay docked b/c they arrived late to work b/c they went to vote in the morning.

Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2003): How much the world has changed since Ozu. Or how little.

The Seventh Continent (Michael Heneke, 1989): the role of television and money in contemporary, affectless violent

Nicholas Ray (with scenes from his film "Johnny Guitar") - BOTD

An Interview with Raoul Peck about Ernest Cole: Lost and Found – Senses of Cinema

"...I made choices very early on not to do certain work and to be always in a position where I decide what I do, how I do it..."
Now in Issue 113, an interview with filmmaker Raoul Peck about his work and his 2024 documentary, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/intervi...

Material Interests: A Personal History of U.S Black Analog Experimental Filmmakers Material Interests: A Personal History of U.S Black Analog Experimental Filmmakers In Conversation with Christopher J. HarrisJoin us for a talk by artist-filmmaker Christopher J. Harris on July 26th @...

Material Interests: A Personal History of U.S Black Analog Experimental Filmmakers - In Conversation with Christopher J. Harris. July 26th, 18h - not/nowhere, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Agnès Varda on The Gleaners and I With The Gleaners and I, Agnès Varda was liberated by her digital camera to produce a more intimate form of documentary essay, marked by a deft political approach and a remarkable lightness of touch. ...

With The Gleaners and I, Varda was liberated by her digital camera to produce a more intimate form of documentary essay, marked by a deft political approach and a remarkable lightness of touch

In 2001, she talked about mixing the personal, the political and the potato www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

A 35mm double bill of '80s cult classics! THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985) & REPO MAN (1984) screen next weekend, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, July 4th, 5th & 6th. Tickets: buff.ly/qFtOhAA

Le Livre d'image (The Image Book, 2018, Jean-Luc Godard): the failures of western cinema, esp in regard to the Middle East

Revisiting “Columbus,” a Thrilling Drama of Growing Up Modernist Kogonada’s first feature, starring Haley Lu Richardson, John Cho, and Parker Posey, highlights the inspirational power of the architecture for which Columbus, Indiana, is famed.

Kogonada's first feature, Columbus, from 2017, a surprise from the start with its very title and quietly exhilarating throughout, has stayed with me more vividly than many more heralded films; now it's on Tubi, so no excuses:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Throne of Blood (1957)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cinematographer: Asakazu Nakai

News From Home (1977): Ode To The Death & Life Of One Great American City News from Home reminds us that film, as an art form, is only capable of reconstructing, re-making paths that have already been trod.

6/8/77: Chantal Akerman's News From Home
Her greatest film, + essential NYC #70s time-capsule
More:
@phuonghhle.com: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@jhoberman.bsky.social: www.artforum.com/features/j-h...
Fugel/ @bwdr.bsky.social: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/09/14/n...

THE MASTERMIND | Official Clip | Coming Soon YouTube video by MUBI

THE MASTERMIND (Kelly Reichardt, 2025)

SHOWING UP (Kelly Reichardt, 2022)

Jean-Pierre Leaud in STOLEN KISSES, THE MOTHER & THE WHORE, WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? AND LA CHINOISE.

HBD Jean-Pierre Léaud!!! MCCT5 5)Day For Night (Truffaut) 4)Irma V (Assayas) 3)Mother/W (Eustache) 2)Masculin Féminin (Godard) 1)400 B (Truffaut)
More:
@jhoberman.bsky.social: nyti.ms/2nMcKyd
Assayas: www.filmcomment.com/blog/visions...
@habibandre.bsky.social: www.sensesofcinema.com/2018/stardus...

The Unfortunate Timelessness of Almereyda's Hamlet Michael Almereyda’s 2000 adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the last great modern Shakespeare film.

Michael Almereyda’s 2000 adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the last great modern Shakespeare film.
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America's In Real Trouble A cynical look at America's might, both military and civilian, to the tune of pop songs, filmed at Chicago's Memorial Day parade.

"America's In Real Trouble" (1967, Tom Palazzolo, 16mm)

Velvet Goldmine: 20 years on, has the time come for Cool Britannia’s Citizen Kane? In the Britpop era, few films came more wildly ambitious than Todd Haynes’ kaleidoscopic glam-rock epic Velvet Goldmine. Now Bowie is dead and Britain has turned a corner, is it time for a reappraisal...

5/22/98 Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine, w/J R Myers, Ewan McGregor, Toni Collette & Eddie Izzard imagined as Bowie, Lou, iggy & co
Bookend w/Haynes spectacular VU doc
More:
@carolinesiede.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/velvet-goldm...
S Dalton: www.bfi.org.uk/features/vel...

Alphaville

1965 • Jean-Luc Godard

OPEN CALL VIDEOBARDO International Video Poetry Festival, 29 Years Videobardo International Videopoetry Festival, invites artists, filmmakers, poets, and experimenters of audiovisual language to participate in its 2025 edition. Since 1996, Videobardo has brought toge...

OPEN CALL VIDEOBARDO International Video Poetry Festival, 29 Years (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Deadline August 10th expcinema.org/site/en/call...

HIS HEAD WAS A SLEDGEHAMMER: RICHARD FOREMAN IN RETROSPECT

May 21 – 28

Program details: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

Black and white photo of Jacques Rivette giving direction to Juliet Berto on a rooftop.

Juliet Berto and Jacques Rivette on the set of OUT 1 (1971)

Endings: Stanley Kubrick's The Killing From my piece in the May issue of Sight & Sound, out on stands now, the ending of Stanley Kubrick's the Killing. Nicely edited for space (yes, I went over word count) my editor kindly allowed me to pu...

5/19/56: Kubrick's The Killing (co-W Jim Thompson) w/Mr. Sterling Hayden, Timothy Carey & Elisha Cook Jr.
More:
@wendyide.bsky.social: www.thetimes.com/article/clas...
Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea...
@kimmorgan.bsky.social: sunsetgun.typepad.com/sunsetgun/20...

𝘽𝙤𝙗 𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙪𝙧 : 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟔 : 𝟏𝟎𝟐𝐦

#FrenchNewWave #FilmSky
𝘽𝙤𝙗 𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙪𝙧 : 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟔 : 𝟏𝟎𝟐𝐦
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𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨, 𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙚, 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛…

‘Isn’t Reality Sad Enough?’ | Sophie Pinkham Kira Muratova, perhaps the greatest Ukrainian film director of the latter part of the twentieth century, was born in 1934 in Soroca. At the time her

“She offered probing, often painful investigations into edge states: life on the borders of political, economic, and social systems, of gendered expectations, of madness, of old age and death.”—Sophie Pinkham on Kira Muratova

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Ingmar Bergman's enthralling PERSONA screens next Saturday May 24th at 11:30am!

*One Show Only - Part of SAPPHOPALOOZA*

Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...