Derek Long

Selling Zohran | Defector On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...

I genuinely hope this gives film students some swagger. Mamdani’s videos are impeccable—just immeasurably better than Cuomo’s AI slop—and the videographer is a genuine film nerd. That shit works!

YouTube video by Tyrone Deise Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film

Steamed Hams but it’s a critically acclaimed feature film is the apogee of commitment to the bit

m.youtube.com/watch?v=pk-O...

I always go with the 20fps version + Yanashita score.

Column: The Tribune’s film critic Michael Phillips says so long for now Goodbye for now, as the Sondheim song from the film “Reds” put it. Thank you for reading.

It doesn't get more moving than @mrmichaelphillips.bsky.social's farewell letter. If you read nothing else today, at least read this.

Awesome! Congrats, Tanya!

Guy Incognito with a mustache and top hat

*Simpsons Trivia #731*

Guy Incognito was voiced by Dan Castellaneta, who was also the voice of father character Homer

Champaign-Urbana: Join us at 7pm for the third annual Media & Cinema Studies student showcase
@spurlockmuseum.bsky.social! Come celebrate student filmmaking and our graduating MACS seniors. The Spurlock Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council for this event.

The 78 Steps

An amazing new resource for film historians and anyone else interested in the history of moving image technologies. www.filmatlas.com

Eric Hoyt wrapped the panel by recording his own love tape, and expressing his feelings about the NEH.

In the spirit of Wendy Clarke’s work, he’d like for it to be shared widely and seen by as many people as possible.

#SCMS25 #scms2025 #neh

Love, Links, Archives: The Wendy Clarke Collection at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research Video artist Wendy Clarke's projects such as the Love Tapes, New York Tapes, and Growing Up Gay: The Out Tapes continue to be influential with their elevation of individual voices. Through her process...

It’s particularly poignant to hear about the WCFTR’s great work on the Wendy Clarke Collection. They lost their NEH funding this week. Visit the site! #scms25

wendyclarke.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu

Double Crossover

if you'd like to order double crossover, you can do so here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... I'll be posting more about the process and the final product in the weeks leading up to its release in May!

The real Best Picture winner in our hearts...

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

New show added! We're thrilled to screen Japanese Paper Films at the Spurlock Museum in Urbana, IL on Fri., March 28 at 7pm.

As usual, the amazing Yoko Reikano Kimura (koto) & cellist Hikaru Tamaki will accompany the films with live music.

Sponsored by the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies.

Gul Dukat to receive party line approval by the Senate as Secretary of Bajoran Worker Safety.

Public health PSA frens as botulism can paralyze and kill you: Tuna Recall Hits Costco, Trader Joe's, and More Over Botulism Risk www.eatthis.com/tuna-recall-...

Post two media history monographs that you love that you feel didn't get nearly enough attention when they came out

No explanation, just post.

Luci Marzola's ENGINEERING HOLLYWOOD

Phil Sewell's TELEVISION IN THE RADIO AGE

A beardless Riker walks up to a vast canyon and for some reason yells “Anybody?!”

David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78 Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.

David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78 variety.com/2025/film/ne...

left: Nicolas Cage with long black hair and a moustache in a black top right: Spinoza with long black hair and a moustache in a black top

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers

1. Spinoza

Teen Vogue is now the paper of record, and the NYT is a fashion magazine. The transfer is complete.

Line drawing of a dead cow wearing a Santa hat and t-shirt slu,oed against a wall with its tongue hanging out. The shirt says "NOW I HAVE A COW TOOL HO HO HO".

actually Die Hard is a Cow Tools movie

Screenshot from the video essay “Seeing Movement in Cinema” where Cyd Charisse’s movement is annotated with language from Laban Movement Analysis.

So honored to be mentioned by Oswald Iten in this year’s Best Video Essays of 2024 poll from Sight and Sound, and bursting with pride that my former student Nancy Jia also made the list!!! 🥰

www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Early Christmas gift? Thanksgiving miracle? Take your pick, it's wonderful news.

Scholarship in Sound & Image Workshop on Videographic Criticism

Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!

Cover of the book Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical.

Hi everyone! For those new to my feed, I work a lot on film history and craft, the intersections between film and dance industries/cultures, style/aesthetics, video essays, and musicals. I wrote a book about all that, Storytelling in Motion (OUP, 2024). Happy to chat more about it!

Hello, new followers! I have a new book about how we fundamentally misunderstand "Method" acting/actors. If you want to know more about what we're really talking about when we talk about folks "going Method," this is the book for you! You can buy it here: bit.ly/43QVOa4 for 40% off w/code UTXGIFTS.

Just a reminder to support your local public libraries! Write letters of support. Use the library often & in many different ways. Show up to meetings.

Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.

Just a bit more self-promotion here, but if you use the code RUP30 you will get 30% off on the Rutgers website!