Incredibly excited to kick off October Horror with my look at Jim Van Bebber’s short films. Roadkill and My Sweet Satan are two of his strongest works, offering particularly nightmarish visions of Ohio.

There are great pieces in store this year, and I have another Ohio piece coming down the line!

Margot Adler on the December '64 occupation of Sproul Hall at Berkeley: "There were rooms available for studying. There was a Chanukah service and folk dancing. In another room, they showed Charlie Chaplin's film The Rink."

curated a screening of two super 8 short films by Jean-Claude Rousseau (the greatest living filmmaker) in April at Screen/Society in Durham, NC. very rare opportunity to see this work theatrically, not to be missed! cinematicarts.duke.edu/screensociet...

Tim Robinson on kittiwakes & fulmars in Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage

Well, the second edition of the Latin American Film Festival of Dallas will take place from March 21st to March 23rd, hosted by Spacy and thanks to grant from city of Dallas. Lineup in this thread.

The Thinking Machine #88: Caught in the Dream of the Other “Each of us is more or less a victim of other people’s dreams”. That was Gilles Deleuze’s summation of the central dynamic in Vincente Minnelli’s…

CAUGHT IN THE DREAM OF THE OTHER: new audiovisual essay by Cristina Álvarez López & I on/with Vincente Minnelli's MADAME BOVARY (1949) & A MATTER OF TIME (1976). This is number 88 (!) in our monthly series THE THINKING MACHINE for DE FILMKRANT. Enjoy! vimeo.com/1054831788

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER I WONDER HOW NANCY WILL LIKE MY NEW DOG SHE'S NICE --- BUT HER TAIL IS A LITTLE TOO LONG ( SLUGGO’S DOG IS SITTING ON THE END OF THE WATER-HOSE AND NANCY THINKS ITS THE DOGS TAIL)

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
February 15,1947

The New TOM SWIFT Jr. Adventures TOM SWIFT and His Giant Robot The New POM SAVIET Ja. Adventures TOM SWIFT and His Atomic Earth Blaster The New TOM SWIFT Ju. Adventures TOM SWIFT In the Caves of Nuclear Fire By VICTOR APPLETON II By VerOR APPLETON 117

Tom Swift tried to warn us.

Unplaceable Terror Film Kiyoshi Kurosawa Film Criticism Cure Phenomenology Letterboxd Theme mise en scene

On Dominic Lash’s new book about _Cure_: www.stillpointldn.com/articles/unp...

For Frieda, Eric de Kuyper, 2022 Writing about Ophüls or Ozu on a corner of the kitchen table... surrounded by the smell of everyday life. Cooking, “making food” – thus protecting herself from the torment of writing. An attitude that...

“Writing about Ophüls or Ozu on a corner of the kitchen table... surrounded by the smell of everyday life. Cooking, “making food” – thus protecting herself from the torment of writing.”
- Eric de Kuyper on the writings of Frieda Grafe

Imagine being the richest man in the world, and your passion project is to stop providing aid to poor, desperate people.

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Neil Young Unreleased has made it over here. I know some of my friends will want to know this.

A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery

The Halt

Evolution of a Filipino Family

Season of the Devil

For the long haulers, 27 Lav Diaz films 🎥: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

For Irvin Words on a late friend.

A good friend of mine passed away last night. Wanted to write these words as a means of paying my respects.

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Empyrean Series nos. 41–45 are all out in the world as of yesterday. Quite pleased with this motley bunch. Seems a small miracle to see the process concluded again. [Link in following post]

Dois anos atrás o Ben Tarnoff publicou este livro bem legal sobre o processo de privatização de internet e na parte final lida um tanto com os esforços de buscar alternativas a ele. Recomendo bem.

These are the ten "best" films I've never seen. I should try and watch these soon.
*Ordet
*Gertrud
*The Battle of Algiers
*The Leopard
*The Mother and the Whore
*A Man Escaped
*L'Eclisse
*Children of Paradise
*The Color of the Pomegranates
*Greed

Any trans woman who's onscreen in a way that they feel good about is a net good, I think, and I am, uh, a middle-aged white woman with a fair bit of social standing. But there IS a semi-prevalent belief that transness is a vanity project undertaken by rich, white people, and I'd love to dispel that.

vi isso aqui no IG e olha, estive em Firenze esse ano e posso atestar que a comida é insana

What's Next for Trans Cinema? Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay discuss the past and future of trans film.

@willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I interviewed by Kyler Turner for Paper Mag. www.papermag.com/trans-cinema...

MUITOS VENTRES PARA O DEMÔNIO: PRESENÇAS FEMININAS NO CINEMA DE JOSÉ MOJICA MARINS por Beatriz SaldanhaEm 1964, com À meia-noite levarei sua alma, José Mojica Marins apresentou ao mundo seu personagem Zé do Caixão, que se tornou o símbolo do horror brasileiro dentro e fora do país, ...

Está no ar o texto "Muitos ventres para o demônio: Presenças femininas no cinema de José Mojica Marins", escrito à convite do Cine Humberto Mauro para a mostra O Estranho Mundo Zé do Caixão. A mostra tem início hoje em BH.
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Somewhat on this topic of AI, after watching Malignant 2021 demon lover diary 1980 eyes wide shut 1999 white of the eye 1987… thinking you might have some _anthropophagical_ suggestions/ masterpieces?

Edgar Pera é aquele cineasta cuja mera menção é uma ameaça.

We are so back

The whole issue is uploaded on Internet Archive. The Wood piece was written by trans woman Jean Marie Stine who in addition to being a friend of Wood makes a pretty major claim that Wood was transsexual and that Wood's sexuality was not 'heterosexual crossdresser' but bisexual.