Sure, that one’s the best, but I’m listing the HBO miniseries

To come up with four, I'd have to root around in the back of a catch-all drawer for whichever amusing or serviceable action movie my fingers happened upon

Something no one mentions when they're reminiscing about video stores is the type of guy who would insist that Iike Ned Kelly was the greatest movie ever made, and he'd just rent Ned Kelly every other month. I wonder what that guy's up to

I saw Polizeiruf 110: Kreise & Wölfe this week, and this is my new favorite genre as well. It’s a good thing he only made three of these, I’d watch one every night if I could..

Someone might wanna tell Metrograph to rename their Gong retro…

The Matrix Resurrections was never going to pop off bc the entire thing is deconstructing the legacy of what it means for queer and trans pepople vs what it means for everyone else, but it deserved a better chance than it got. It was doomed bc it came out the same day as the Omicron strain of Covid!

You can't suck me in with your What Movie Infuriated You prompts, I'm busy watching Alan Rudolph's complete œuvre. I'm hearing Mark Isham & Teddy Pendergrass in my sleep

The Yellow Taxi Tutors guy in this is gold

I would've seen this like a decade sooner than I did if it weren't for that cover. Even the way they wrote Martin Scorsese Presents repelled me

Release Lonesome Dove in academy ratio, you cowards

If I had voted in time, I would've had this first 🙃

good song! it was still in rotation on us modern rock radio in the late 90s. i secretly liked it then when i heard the minnelli/psb version, took that as an endorsement and tacit permission

yeah no, I was talking about Delancey. I don't what happens on the Brooklyn side even though I just walked it on Friday but I think it's fine

It was more about exiting, it would spit you into a lil no-man's land triangle of bollards and barriers, then you'd have to go through a narrow spot and NYPD would stand around ticketing ppl who did it wrong

BEST HAM in the airport sign @ BCN

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

Gene Tierney, acting in Leave Her to Heaven, a film noir, sits in a train car and takes a book handed to her by someone off-screen

Cornel Wilde, acting in Leave Her to Heaven, walks into a courtyard

Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde sit and talk in the movie Leave Her to Heaven

Ruth Berent, played by actress Jeanne Crain, looks offscreen in Leave Her to Heaven

Leave Her to Heaven (1945, John Stahl) is such a beautiful movie

Props! I’ve only even seen one of those

Critic Brad Stevens’ top ten list submission to the Sight & Sound end of year poll for 2025

God bless Brad Stevens, who has, as usual, the most interesting & diffident Sight and Sound top ten. Is anyone more dedicated to the film maudit?

This is still how I feel about Radiohead. The closest analog I hear for Winter’s voice is Zach Condon from Beirut, so even tho I’m not in love with Winter’s whingeing, my tolerance is prob higher bc it feels familiar

Spielberg showing Shyamalan influence, a full circle

Terrific movie. Hovering at 11 on my list

Just in time, only this morning I was hate listening to a popular movie podcast and wishing for a cinephilic/autueurist pod

It’s like saying you’ve never heard Ben Webster, Clifford Brown, Elina Duni, or Bill Evans. Ah well.

There’s lots of music that I don’t listen to bc it doesn’t have a use value for me. Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Joanna Newsom. Good music that I (mostly) don’t listen to

Someone told me they don’t like jazz bc it’s not emotional enough. That’s like saying you don’t like furniture bc it’s not emotional enough, you don’t like Montreal, cafes, wool sweaters, porcupines or the letters X, Y & Z bc they’re not emotional enough.

The worst Walsh protagonist a guy could ask for

Thanks Dan! Happy holidays

Norman Rockwell painting, depicting little Roby Bridges being escorted into a school by Feds. Racial slurs are pained on the wall behind here. A thrown tomato lies on the ground.

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.