The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Forever a Woman (1955)
Lola Montes (1955)
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)
The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
Van Gogh (1991)

My sister saw Lindy Ruff in a parking lot today. This guarantees a #Sabres victory.

Michael | Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema Danish film master Carl Theodor Dreyer's homoerotic classic Michael is a mature and visually elegant period romance decades ahead of its time.

I don't know why everyone is talking about Carl Theodor Dreyer's gay-themed drama Michael (1929), but the Blu-ray is on sale now: kinolorber.com/product/michael

Me reading War and Peace at the moment when Andrei Bolkonsky gets wounded and the meaninglessness of life is revealed to him by staring at the infinitude of the sky

I'm so old it's the 15th anniversary of when I introduced a 10th anniversary screening of Freddy Got Fingered and Pam Grier liked a tweet about it

The truth hurts

Eight Minutes in April Notes on Hockey #6

I bestow "Best Sabres Writing of 2026" to Ed Park on his substack The Dizzies: thedizzies.substack.com/p/eight-minu...

Buffalo Sabres "We're Gonna Win That Cup" & "Memorable Sabre Highlights" YouTube video by rudykw1965

Playing it loud: youtu.be/dqrFxiQfXl0?...

Tage

Go Sabres

Helloween at Palladium Times Square was a sublime aesthetic experience.

Hennigan's: the no-smell no-tell scotch

Helloween – Halloween (Official HD video) YouTube video by Helloween

Going to ascend when I see Helloween play "Halloween" (1987) live tomorrow night: youtu.be/8zn6pB0nr3Y?...

The Fockers are back

After seeing Ken Jacobs' Cyclopean 3D at Anthology (very beautiful), went to a bar and there was a dude watching the Sabres in a Tage Thompson jersey. #Sabres

Got a shirt of my favorite band.

TAGE

Tage

today's new music

Fun fact - Plane 2 was in development under the title of...SHIP. But it was cancelled: thedirect.com/article/plan...

Plane 2 was going to be called SHIP until it was cancelled :(: thedirect.com/article/plan...

All Started With a Gaze: Fred Kelemen on his Friendship with Béla Tarr Filmmaker and DP Fred Kelemen on 36 years of collaboration and friendship with the late Béla Tarr

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

There is still beauty in the world

Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings, by Mary Halvorson & Ambrose Akinmusire 9 track album

maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/slo-mo...

All Started With a Gaze: Fred Kelemen on his Friendship with Béla Tarr Filmmaker and DP Fred Kelemen on 36 years of collaboration and friendship with the late Béla Tarr

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

Happy Easter

Drought breaking fit

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