I’m guest programming the Must-Watch Indies series at FACETS starting in April! Each month I’ll be programming indie films that are singular works made outside the Hollywood studio system. My first slate of films starts screening on April 11th!
🎟️ Tickets and showtimes: facets.org/portfolio-ca... 🍿
Well said, David (@davidehrlich.bsky.social) 👏 📽️ 🗽 🎞️ 🍿 #film #movies #cinema #FilmSky #Indiewire #NYCMovieGoing #DavidEhrlich #AlamoDrafthouse #MovieGoing #enshittification #CulturalEnshittification
My new year gift to you all is this 2,600+ title @letterboxd.social list that compiles all of the films listed as First Viewings and Discoveries in the @screenslate.bsky.social year end poll. It's probably the only list where you'll find Rollerball (2002) alongside 25 films directed by Mikio Naruse.
Toshiro Mifune, Venice, 1961. #botd
Here for it only if it's 2hrs 20m of Sandra Hüller doing karaoke.
The best documentary of 2025 arrives on MUBI this Friday. My review, from August:
Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness
Gong Li stands proudly among tall stalks in Zhang Yimou’s RED SORGHUM (1988).
“Revisiting Chinese Cinema,” a 12-film retrospective, will be accompanied by master classes from Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Huang Jianxin, Ann Hui, and Tsai Ming-Liang @ #HKIFF50 ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
PTA now gets the greatest prize of all: Seeing his wife in Oh, Mary!
The future of Oxford’s Ultimate Picture Palace – one of the UK's oldest cinemas – is under threat.
Why are British property developers so interested in destroying our cultural heritage?
Please read, sign and pass on!
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CHUNGKING EXPRESS and FALLEN ANGELS come together once again for a Make Your Own Double Feature next Thu 2nd April. Wong Kar-wai captures Hong Kong from two different lenses in these two masterpieces.
🎟️: buff.ly/Tsaoz2M
Claire Denis’ BEAU TRAVAIL returns to the PCC, next Tue 31st March, 27th April & 19th May.
🎟️: buff.ly/ENmQlf0
Poster for Mexico Noir featuring 1950s actors
I've curated the Mexico Noir film series for
@viffest.bsky.social featuring 15 movies, most of them screening in new restorations from March 26 to April 8. Join me in Vancouver this spring for a showcase of classic noir. Tickets are available via viff.org/series/mexic...
Remembering Éric Rohmer today on his birthday ✨
A vintage Hungarian movie poster for "The Empire Strikes Back" features a stylized illustration of Darth Vader and stormtroopers in the foreground, with an AT-AT walker, Star Destroyers, and a TIE fighter set against a giant orange sun.
The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Fantastic Hungarian poster by Tibor Helényi
Christian Petzold is in New York this week as @filmlinc.bsky.social presents a series of his films in the run-up to the U.S. release of MIROIRS NO. 3 — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Here’s the little story I refer to at the top of today’s Daily:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTES...
Living on Velvet, Frank Borzage's novelistic 1935 melodrama (Fitzgerald-and-Hemingwayesque) is rapturous, high-spirited, pain-filled; brief word on it, and a fuller one on its place in the Borzageverse; on @tcmtv.bsky.social at 2:
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The city is overwhelming; if I weren't a little under the weather and a lot on deadline, I'd be at @metrographnyc.bsky.social for Boris Barnet silents; the Agnès Varda retrospective at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social offers Cléo from 5 to 7 (at 8), introduced and w/Q. & A. by her biographer Carrie Rickey;
In 2008, for his last day on earth, Guy Maddin filmed his pug Spanky taking a walk to the lake.
This week on the podcast, the Outskirts team explores the still underappreciated Japanese master Hiroshi Shimizu’s versatile body of work—ranging from lyrical tapestries of the countryside to neo-realist postwar films. youtu.be/0F8-hVWb0VM?...
The Spring issue of Cineaste is here!
On the cover: Wagner Moura in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s THE SECRET AGENT
Order the issue and learn more here: www.cineaste.com
A masterpiece 🖤 📽️ 🇺🇸 🎞️ #JohnFord #JohnWayne #LeeMarvin #westerns #OldHollywoodWesterns #AmericanCinema #MoviegoingInNYC #NitehawkCinema #FilmSky
📽️ 🇧🇷 🎞️ 🎭 👑 #FilmSky #BrazilianCinema #TheSecretAgent
The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.
A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.
Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.
Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.
Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
Rendez-vous avec Agnès! Our comprehensive 3-week Varda retrospective of the nonpareil icon of cinema begins this Friday, March 13!
Tickets at buff.ly/8gLUWSa
Edith Scob and Georges Franju have their eyes on each other on the set of JUDEX (1963).
“The Fantastic Realism of Georges Franju” opens tomorrow at L’Alliance New York ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
“Mitchell believes that Alamo’s policy switch is really about cutting labor hours….” 📽️ 🇺🇸 🎞️ #AlamoDrafthouse #USCinemas #moviegoing #LaborSky #FilmSky
“In NATCHEZ, Herbert observes how an American city that profits off its antebellum history grapples with its legacy of slavery….” 📽️ 🇺🇸 🎞️ #film #cinema #movies #documentaries #FilmSky #AmericanSouth #Mississippi #SuzannahHerbert #WomenFilmmakers
"Unlike many classic noirs and gangster films of the studio era, Fritz Lang’s 1953 masterpiece The Big Heat treats women both seriously and sympathetically."
David Sterritt reviews for our winter issue: www.cineaste.com/winter2025/t...
Had a great time talking with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social here at the #Berlinale about Alain Gomis’s DAO, Juan Pablo Sallato’s THE RED HANGAR, and Karim Aïnouz’s ROSEBUSH PRUNING on The Last Thing I Saw — podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...