It is worth noting the Post slashed the bulk of its arts coverage, including most of the critics, ending a great tradition in journalism.

The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.

Sublime thread:

Judging from my jury experiences of recent years (compared to, say, 5 years ago), "topicality" has become the most compelling criterion.

Dismaying the Sundance jury didn't acknowledge it, but as with PREDATORS last year, the most compelling works rarely achieve the consensus of a jury.

Best film I saw at Sundance was CLOSURE. Watch online while you still can, or better yet wait for its festival rollout to see and hear it in a theater.

A New Documentary Revisits To Catch a Predator. You May Not Like What It Finds. We’re still living in the world that this show helped create.

David Osit’s documentary Predators, which I raved about at Sundance, is now streaming on Paramount+. It’s a knotty, complicated, and ultimately very moving account of the legacy of To Catch a Predator and the outsourcing of justice, and … you should watch it.

I grew up in a neighborhood that went for Cuomo +53
My current neighborhood (of twenty years) went for Mandani by +67

Willowbrook, East Williamsburg
New York, New York

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

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I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)

A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.

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Journalism that fails to infuse a historically informed lens is akin to covering the smoke but never asking who lit the fire. History-centered journalism should be the framework within every newsroom.

The norms, the norms, lo how they shatter.

Show me a love truer than the Times’s for the word “norms.”

If this monstrosity ever gets built, it's where their Nuremberg trials should be held before we put them in jail & tear it down.

If you live in New York—or you live in LA next week or you live in Chicago the week after that, etc.—I really can't recommend seeing PREDATORS @filmforumnyc.bsky.social more strongly. You will not see a more thought-provoking film about documentary ethics. And that's one of so many layers to this.

A New Documentary Revisits To Catch a Predator. You May Not Like What It Finds. We’re still living in the world that this show helped create.

the best movie at Sundance is now playing at Film Forum

All you got is this moment.
Twenty-first century's yesterday.

Shoot this into my veins

Also wouldn’t mind if the mayor of NYC actually liked NYC.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

The New Yorker Theater marquee in May 1960 advertises a double feature: Alfred Leslie and Robert Frank’s PULL MY DAISY (1959) and Orson Welles’s THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942). Photo via MoMA and Toby Talbot

“A Theater Near You,” curator David Schwartz’s salute to 17 landmark New York screening venues, opens @ MOMA on Thursday ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Clearing rights for DAWN is uncommonly difficult. Unlikely that Criterion and others haven’t tried for it.

Q: Alpha?
A: omega

Cannes 2025: The Return of the Academy Ratio

Am now programming @burnsfilmcenter.bsky.social and this weekend it was Hitchcock’s PSYCHO and Bong Joon Ho’s MOTHER.