Nicholas Forster

Congrats! This is fantastic!

This is so generous, thanks for sharing; I'l write!

I would love to hear more about this class; it sounds fabulous!

I was also wondering is the 11 pages/class read aloud as a group (with students/prof taking turns speaking) or individually or some other method?

Lurker (2025) When a twenty-something retail clerk meets a rising popstar, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and pro...

Alex Russell's LURKER surprised me in a great way--a movie about a well trodden subject that digs its heels in ambivalence at every moment when another film would resolve tension.

Would love to read something fabulous about it (or maybe I'll try to write something?)

letterboxd.com/film/lurker-...

Lurker (2025) When a twenty-something retail clerk meets a rising popstar, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and pro...

Alex Russell's LURKER surprised me in a great way--a movie about a well trodden subject that digs its heels in ambivalence at every moment when another film would resolve tension

Would love to read something fabulous about it (or maybe I'll try to write something?)

letterboxd.com/film/lurker-...

Donald Sutherland's Gated Tears in Pride and Prejudice (2005) What It Means To Process a Necessary and Joyful Loss

The Sutherland casting moved me and took me by surprise! I thought it was so magnificent that I wrote about it within his career a few years ago.

thefloor.substack.com/p/donald-sut...

Since this news about IU dropped I've tried to visit the BLACK FILM CENTER/ARCHIVE's website bfca.indiana.edu

There have been different hosting errors but its been down for days

Really hoping there is just some backend servicing

The BFC/A and Black Camera are necessary and critical institutions

‘Sesame Street’ Hits the Market: HBO and Max Opt Not to Renew Deal For New Episodes (Exclusive) The Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service Max will continue to license library episodes of the long-running children's show, but is shifting its programming strategy to focus to adult and family fa...

This is bad.

It's made all the worse because the last episode ended on a cliffhanger.

LMNO-WHAT, Elmo? LMNO-what, you coked up, furry red freak?!?

Just planning the week I screen this in my class this term! Have a great showing!

James Earl Jones was a true original with a style uncommon today.

He could tango with scripts that dictated the broadest kind of performance while also deftly carrying forward subtlety & nuance.

I love THE ANNIHILATION OF FISH and am honored to have spoken with him 7 years ago. RIP

“You Couldn’t Even See”: Genre, “Thomasine and Bushrod,” and the Matter of Black Film | Los Angeles Review of Books Nicholas Forster explores the question of how to define Black film through a close look at the 1974 film “Thomasine and Bushrod.”

Wrote this awhile back but posting here as I return, sorta kinda, to academia.

It is an essay on THOMASINE AND BUSHROD, race, and genre for the LA Review of Books.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/you-...

Thanks Aaron; I appreciate it!

Thanks :)

I hope I can get my feet planted again and find the passion to dive in as well!

I guess what is tricky is returning to the world that I left for a year.

I feel super far behind; feels as tho I've lost the ability to read.

I can't recall things that used to be on the tip of my fingers.

All kinds of odd little frustrations, alongside the something-like-guilt of having this job

Trying to figure this out:

I finished my PhD just before the pandemic began. I was lucky to adjunct for a few years.

After not finding anything on market I moved across the country and started another job, unrelated to my research, for a year.

Now I'm starting as a prof of Cinema Studies. (1/2)

"Ponzi Austerity is necessary because the perpetual growth that rationalizes neoliberalism cannot be sustained without raiding public coffers and public goods, even though the advocates for this system continue to claim 'free market' independence from the state as its main advantage."

Visited a used book store for the 1st time in many many years and was planning to leave with nothing.

Then the folks I was with stayed another hour...

Well, I hoodwinked myself.

So, I'm reading through some Thomas Mann short stories I guess.

#NewToMe