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I write the Daily column for Criterion's Current.
Robert Blake points a camera at us in David Lynch’s LOST HIGHWAY (1997).
David Lynch @artforum.com, postwar British cinema @nybooks.com, Kevin Brownlow @theguardian.com, new @cineastemagazine.bsky.social, new Found Footage Magazine, more best-of-2025 lists and one big poll …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Ben Whishaw, lost in thought in Ira Sachs’s PETER HUJAR’S DAY.
A brief update on the latest best-of-2025 lists and awards — www.criterion.com/current/post...
04.12.2025 16:53 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
At this point, when it comes to Ukraine (and probably several other issues as well), European leaders trust the US about as far as you’d expect them to.
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Just some guys on a road trip in Satyajit Ray’s DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (1970).
Satyajit Ray, Mikio Naruse, Pedro Almodóvar, William Wyler, John M. Stahl, Robina Rose …
Present Past 2025: A Celebration of Film Preservation opens tomorrow at the Academy Museum and runs through December 22 — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Jafar Panahi blocks a scene in IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT.
Notes on a few of the top winners of this year’s Gothams and British Independent Film Awards, plus a few early best-of-2025 lists.
So now we’re in it. We’ll do something else tomorrow, but then it’s right back at it again on Thursday … www.criterion.com/current/post...
Online at @nybooks.com, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
02.12.2025 14:38 — 👍 18 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
Tom Stoppard in a 1967 photo by Otto Stupakoff.
Remembering Tom Stoppard … www.criterion.com/current/post...
01.12.2025 19:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm doing something revolutionary. Something no one has done before: A NEWSLETTER! Yes, I'm throwing a party and I'd love for you to come.
01.12.2025 13:06 — 👍 144 🔁 28 💬 7 📌 6
Hu Ge in Wong Kar Wai’s BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI (2023).
Wong Kar Wai @bostonglobe.com + @ebertvoices.bsky.social, Kubrick @indiewire.com + @thefilmstage.com, rubble films + EDGE OF DARKNESS @thequietus.com, Michel Simon @theguardian.com, Pasolini @sightsoundmag.bsky.social …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Udo Kier in a 1991 polaroid taken by Gus Van Sant.
Remembering Udo Kier … www.criterion.com/current/post...
25.11.2025 17:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Anyone who loved BETWEEN THE TEMPLES half as much as I did is going to want to know about this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC_Q...
On the set of Howard Hawks’s TODAY WE LIVE (1933), Joan Crawford takes a break with a book.
This month brings one of the biggest books roundups yet, with notes on new collections from Melissa Anderson and @hamrahrama.bsky.social plus biographies, memoirs, and more — www.criterion.com/current/post...
24.11.2025 16:25 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0“Let me tell you a story …”
24.11.2025 14:32 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Shelly Duvall and Sissy Spacek in Robert Altman’s 3 WOMEN (1977).
Sissy Spacek @ Interview + @vulture.com, Renoir + Rossellini @sabzian.bsky.social, Godard @eflux.bsky.social, Sylvia Chang @ Metrograph, that scene in SINNERS @latimes.com …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
One of Neon’s posters for Joachim Trier’s SENTIMENTAL VALUE, featuring Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve looking pensive or fraught or something along those lines. Even the background looks spinach-y.
A newer poster offers a smiling Skarsgård and a delighted Elle Fanning.
Poster on the left: “A somber Norwegian family drama would be good for you.”
Poster on the right: “Europeans know how to have fun. Just ask Elle Fanning!”
Anyway, a roundup: www.criterion.com/current/post...
Up close: Abbey Lincoln and Ivan Dixon in Michael Roemer’s NOTHING BUT A MAN (1964).
As a complement his new MoMA exhibition LESS IS MORBID, Arthur Jafa has programmed a series of four double bills — www.criterion.com/current/post...
20.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New Issue on Sabzian: ‘André Bazin, Television Critic’
Compiled and introduced by Tillo Huyghelen, this trilingual issue contains 7 articles by Bazin on the notion of television, as well as an interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini.
→ sabzian.be/issue/andr%C3%A9-bazin-television-critic
Poster for Mamoru Oshii’s ANGEL’S EGG (1985) by Kiyoshi Tsukamoto.
“Mamoru Oshii Restored: Origins and Inspirations” is on at Metrograph, and ANGEL’S EGG (1985) opens nationwide on Wednesday — www.criterion.com/current/post...
17.11.2025 15:36 — 👍 29 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
“What was I supposed to do, work a miracle? Yes, of course, Fellini had been expecting a miracle.”
New on Sabzian: Pier Paolo Pasolini on the filming of Accattone
Silvia Pinal on the new poster for Luis Buñuel’s VIRIDIANA (1961).
Buñuel @nytimes.com + @avclub.com, Rock Hudson @ 100 @ BFI, Yekaterina Golubeva @ Metrograph, Paul Schrader @thefilmstage.com …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
The director, producer, and mentor to Fatih Akin, who is best known internationally for his appearances in Fassbinder’s films, is gone at 86.
14.11.2025 16:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Terrific interview with Sylvia Chang here by @swenryan.bsky.social
metrograph.com/sylvia-chang...
Nice b/w publicity photo for SCENE.
Early reviews of SCENE, Abel Ferrara’s memoir, are strong, and the generous excerpt up @literaryhub.bsky.social is especially recommended ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
13.11.2025 20:03 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tatsuya Nakadai peers through lines of barbed wire in Masaki Kobayashi’s THE HUMAN CONDITION (1959–1961).
Remembering Tatsuya Nakadai … www.criterion.com/current/post...
12.11.2025 22:35 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Jade Oukid and Tonin Janvier dance in the Moroccan desert in Oliver Laxe’s SIRÂT.
One-week runs of Oliver Laxe’s SIRÂT begin Thursday @filmlinc.bsky.social and Friday in Los Angeles before @neon-rated.bsky.social rolls out a wider theatrical release in January — www.criterion.com/current/post...
11.11.2025 19:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A double portrait of a young Nakadai with arresting eyes and a smouldering cigarette.
Tatsuya Nakadai, who starred in films by Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Naruse, Teshigahara, Ichikawa, and Kinuyo Tanaka, has died at 92.
“The qualities that truly define him are those that seem sprung from electrifying forces deep within.” Chuck Stephens — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Olivia Liang seems to favor Richard Bravery’s design for the UK cover of THE SILVER BOOK, “a love story/thriller about illusions and mirrors, so I adored this damaged silvery surface over a photograph of two of the book’s main characters, Fellini and the brilliant costume designer Danilo Donati, in a water taxi on the lagoon in Venice: an image I’ve obsessed over since the very beginning of the book.”
THE SILVER BOOK, Olivia Laing’s second novel, is set in mid-1970s Rome, where Fellini is shooting CASANOVA and Pasolini is at work on SALÒ — www.criterion.com/current/post...
10.11.2025 21:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A street scene from Ken Jacobs’s STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH.
The Brooklyn Rail + the Film-Makers’ Cooperative are hosting a free virtual screening of the late Ken Jacobs’s STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH on Tuesday.
David Schwartz offers a brief intro (brooklynrail.org/event/2025/1...) and goes longer on Ken + Flo Jacobs for Film Comment — mailchi.mp/filmcomment/...
Ben Whishaw’s Day
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kKR...
