Victor Moscoso, “Man with Spiral Eyes” (1966): 1) idea sketch for poster design, watercolour on paper, 2) sketch for poster, watercolour on paper, 3) sketch for poster, watercolour on paper, and 4) poster, offset litho.
If you missed your chance to get tix for this weekend's run at @spectaclenyc.bsky.social do NOT despair - there will be standby available! But get there early!
Charlie Chaplin's last film, the woefully underappreciated and misunderstood A Countess from Hong Kong, a metapolitical comedy of the link between indignities and proprieties, slapstick and repression, and on the natural-seeming gracefulness of actors and lovers; @tcmtv.bsky.social at 8:...
Our monthly short film series 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦 returns to Freddy's on Tuesday, April 28! Doors 8pm, Films at 9pm. 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 + suggested donations. Just celebrated 3 YEARS of supporting indie artists and hope to see you there.
Original ink painting by @elizabethyoo.bsky.social – can you guess who? 👀
Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency is available in paperback, but is free as an open access ebook today, tomorrow, and forever!
@leverpress.bsky.social
#Booksky
#Filmsky
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Robert Bresson, 1977)
Mike Jittlov, American treasure, wearing a green wizard robe
Posting a picture of Mike Jittlov every day until I forget, day 1
Just added Q&A for our May 6 screening of ATTENBERG at the Los Feliz 3 with Athina Rachel Tsangari moderated by EEPHUS director Carson Lund!
Presented as part of WORLDS APART: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari. 🎟️: americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
Blue Heron, Sophy Romvari's exquisite first feature, blends meticulous observation and bold imagination; it's a story of a past that's still present, of memory as physical experience; it opens Friday at @ifccenter.bsky.social and elsewhere: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
I just watched THE END OF HISTORY, about a hollow loser driving to the end of the country in hopes of opening up his suffocatingly small life, citing stuff like this to himself in the mirror the whole way
35 years ago today, Massive Attack released their debut album Blue Lines on April 8, 1991.
Daddy G, 3D, Mushroom, Tricky, Horace Andy, and Shara Nelson crafted one of the best albums of all time.
Wild Bunch / Virgin Records.
youtu.be/mJNDAb5cTAk
35 years ago today, Massive Attack released their debut album Blue Lines on April 8, 1991.
Daddy G, 3D, Mushroom, Tricky, Horace Andy, and Shara Nelson crafted one of the best albums of all time.
Wild Bunch / Virgin Records.
youtu.be/mJNDAb5cTAk
“A Coney Island of the Mind.” In-progress 8mm work.
so uh
Minneapolis! WTO/99 returns on April 11 & 12, presented by Smitten Kitten! Anne from SK will introduce the film, I will be there for a post-screening Q&A. 50% of ticket sales go to Neighbors Helping Neighbors. 4/11 at MCAD, 6:30pm. 4/12 at Bryant Lake Bowl Theater 3pm & 7pm. Ticket links below
Japan Society Announces Kazuhiko Hasegawa's Anarchic Ethos A Focus on The Man Who Stole the Sun Filmmaker and Associated Works May 8-16, 2026
Kicking off on May 8th with the singular The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) on imported 35mm, a watershed of Japanese cinema history broaching his own personal history with the irradiating atom bomb, as an apathetic, gum-chewing science teacher threatens to detonate a homemade nuclear weapon, series highlights include Hasegawa's 1976 directorial debut The Youth Killer on 16mm—a veritable shock to the system in its nihilistic depiction of a parricide-and three films scripted by Hasegawa prior to his debut, including the lauded Tatsumi Kumashiro drama Bitterness of Youth on 16mm.
right after the Meiko Kaji series
come on Japan Society, leave me a little something for rent
Thursday, April 16: We're hosting a special DarkRoom Screening alongside Alcove Cinema at the Brooklyn Peace Center! FREE RSVP.
BOTD Alan J. Pakula!!!
In the 70s pantheon for Klute, Parallax View, ATPM (DP Gordon Willis x3)
We've talked them all on the podcast!
open.spotify.com/show/7bTN0NQ...
More:
@mcastimovies.bsky.social: www.insidehook.com/film/alan-j-...
Lisa Kennedy on 2019 doc: www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/m...
“A Coney Island of the Mind.” In-progress 8mm work.
BOTD Roger Corman!!!
AIP where the New Hollywood: Nicholson, Bgdnvch, Coppola, Hellman +++ got their start
More
@davidlfear.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
@donaldclarke.bsky.social: www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/mzs/roger-co...
Morning soundtrack ☕️
Faith and John Hubley made beautiful films. They were pioneers of indie animation -- and the first to win the Oscar for it.
No one else did work quite like theirs. In this issue, we explore their art:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/truth-and-...
Some recent favorite features, with three from Slamdance: Hekla (Michael Glover Smith); Dead Lover (Grace Glowicki); Silver (Natalia Koniarz); Matapanki (Diego “Mapache” Fuentes); Remake (Ross McElwee); The Projectionist (Alexandre Rockwell). 🎬
Toshiro Mifune was a badass
- bts of Throne of Blood
