Memory Is the Sense of Loss A piece about 'Blue Heron'

My first real Substack post is on an early favorite film for the year open.substack.com/pub/danschin...

If I ever came across an Alien vs Predator situation I would simply use empathy and active listening to broker a lasting peace that saw the most pressing concerns of each side addressed equally.

watching The Python Hunt, a rare film I'm 100% sold on based on just one promo image

soon, you:

THIS FRIDAY! Come listen to Caroline and I talk about microhistory

I am serious about this, by the way. Already have multiple posts prepped and scheduled to go up

Dan Schindel Has a Substack Now Introducing It's Been Said.

Oh god what have I done danschindel.substack.com/p/launch

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Really need to watch The Garden one of these days

the Blockbuster King of Mid for 40 years and counting

yeah you can tell

Oh, every one is always nostalgic for the geocites era web but when somebody actually makes a platform that crashes every 10 minutes, suddenly everybody wants future technology, I see how it is.

Niles, flustered: The real tragedy is the opera's decline in standards. The audience is positively full of animals!
Frasier, drolly: You have no idea.

THAT'S RIGHT

never forget

Dennis Mukai, 1990

Dennis Mukai, 1990

The brief early 2010s pop of auteurs taking the potential of 3D seriously post-Avatar was really interesting - this, Hugo, Pina, Jackass 3D of course, etc.

I like to believe he'd eventually return to it, finding it a salve again from the hollowness of his day work. After years of dealing with people like Harry and Pete, 80s sci-fi fans would be a tonic

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

No I think he'd be gracious and friendly

Next week!

In The Christophers, an aging artist’s unfinished masterpieces are subjects of speculation and scheming The new Steven Soderbergh film, which stars Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, takes up questions about how art is valued and how artists become brands

Back at @theartnewspaper.bsky.social writing about The Christophers. Good Ian McKellen in this, but I don't think its pondering amounts to much

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

“The Truth Behind the Artifice”: ‘Crumb’ Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff Looks Back on Learning to be a Director on the Fly In this interview, Crumb director Terry Zwigoff looks back on his documentary films and how he turned production obstacles into creative opportunities

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.

Top First-Time Views for March 2026

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Chime
Inland Empire
Broken Blossoms
Yuri Norstein's The Seasons/The Fox and the Hare/The Heron and the Crane

New York! I will be hosting the Q&A with @carolineavenue.bsky.social et al after the April 24 screening of her film Revelations of Divine Love at @spectacletheater.com! Come thru and watch us talk about microhistory.

i’m so tired

Chime / Serpent's Path His films tend to observe this kind of context collapse as people, groups, communities, or even the entire world spiral. Think of the seeming imminent apocalypse of Cure, the suggested one of Charisma...

For @reverseshot.bsky.social it's a double-header review of a new/old Kiyoshi Kurosawa double bill. Twice the thrills! Twice the chills! Twice the existential disquiet!

Saw Inland Empire for the first time finally last night*, and I don't know how there was ever any confusion. It's clearly a roman a clef against the sinister Poles

*at long last am a Lynch feature completer

I'm sure this will go fine

Lovecraft was also amidst a pretty dramatic shift in his worldview that was cut short when he died, which a lot of people don't talk about (probably aren't even aware of)