Chris Feil

Narrowing down the year’s best film performances to just 17 was pure torture, but I did it! bsky.app/profile/vult...

Beau Travail, You Can Count on Me

A Big Bold Beautiful Newsletter Journey Welcome to Premiere Party, by Richard Lawson.

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.

An Oral History of the Eyes Wide Shut Orgy Staging that scene from Stanley Kubrick’s divisive final film.

My oral history of the orgy scene from EYES WIDE SHUT. www.vulture.com/2019/06/eyes...

Hi @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I published this last year but with our TCM appearances last month we are once again asking to buy our book!

bookshop.org/p/books/corp...

How I feel watching WAKE UP DEAD MAN whenever the neck tattoo they give Josh O’Connor peeks over his cassock

The Devil All the Time poster

Katey Rich!

A tradition like no other... @kateyrich.bsky.social joins us for our annual Thanksgiving week hunk parade on This Had Oscar Buzz! In this case, it's the drawling, murderous, charismatic preachers and vengeful sons of THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A ★★ review of Wicked: For Good (2025) They heard all of your complaints about act ii of the show and overcorrected to the point of making something demonstrably worse

[long, long, long exhale] boxd.it/bOTCHP

“That Cut Is Stanley’s Cut”: Nigel Galt on Editing Eyes Wide Shut with Kubrick What is it to spend 15 months in a room with—let's just speculate—the most influential filmmaker of all-time on his final project, a work for which they did not survive to elaborate upon and left in a...

I'm a little late getting to this, but this is a must read for anyone who loves EYES WIDE SHUT

thefilmstage.com/that-cut-is-...

What a gift!!

I have not yet seen Wicked: For Good but trust that I am already pro sex cardigan

[opens door] “Hi, AD! I’m Chris. Welcome to my home! Can’t wait to show you what’s inside.”

[cut to: large walk in closet]

“So these are my sex cardigans.”

Sissy Spacek Answers Every Question We Have About 3 Women The Oscar winner broke a bone on set and may or may not have thrown up after chugging a beer, but she also shared a special bond with Shelley Duvall.

I promise Sissy Spacek gushing about Shelley Duvall and Robert Altman will soothe your weary soul
www.vulture.com/article/siss...

Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching?

Good morning. This article by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...

[taps “good movie!” sign]

The Shrouds - The Criterion Channel Directed by David Cronenberg • 2024 • France, Canada Starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce Long fascinated by the ways that technology is transforming our bodies and minds, David Cronenbe...

A movie I suspect will only get funnier, sadder, and more prescient as we descend into [gestures widely] but hopefully won’t go forgotten (currently on Criterion Channel)
www.criterionchannel.com/the-shrouds

THE SHROUDS (2025):

“Sirāt” Is a Harrowing, Exhilarating Dance of Death In Oliver Laxe’s desert thriller, an intensely agonizing journey reveals both the pitiless nature of fate and the stubborn persistence of compassion.

A rave for SIRĀT, the movie of the year: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Anyway I think the Fennell Wuthering Heights looks like a trashy delight and am so in. No questions at this time.

people are focusing on the scary part ("AI-generated") but why, why on Earth, would I want content "from users"

“Images Are Dead”: Oliver Laxe on Sirāt and Spirituality As music thumps across the desert landscape of Morocco's Atlas Mountains and ravers give themselves over to the endless bass, whispers of World War III echo in the margins. In Sirāt, Oliver Laxe’s fou...

"An image doesn’t have the responsibility to say something; they have to 𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑘𝑒 something." Sirāt director Oliver Laxe talks with @brndnstrssng.bsky.social about remaining tethered to an increasingly broken, tenuous world:

David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation At seventy-three, the former front man of Talking Heads is still asking questions about what it means to be alive. But now he’s also offering ideas of hopefulness and service.

David Byrne, the former front man of Talking Heads, believes that reunion tours are regressive. “Have you seen any reunion tours where you felt, like, ‘Oh, they’ve really evolved and they’re bringing something new to the table?,’” he said. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/q_oFKk

Reading your posts

A ★★★★ review of Die My Love (2025) Living in a red state makes me feel like that too

boxd.it/bE0Arv

Die My Love is a great movie about how Sissy Spacek always understands where you’re coming from.

Sure have!!

Second place Hard Truths

Recency bias, schmecency bias, it’s without question It Was Just An Accident