Isaac Feldberg

What Are My Rights During an ICE Raid? Immigration law can be tricky, but here's what you should know.

Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents. While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⬇️

They save the cat

“Just Me and My Cat” | Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby — Chicago Critics Film Festival Screening Monday, May 5, at 7:00 p.m., with writer, director, and star Eva Victor in attendance , Sorry, Baby is one of the year’s most exciting feature debuts.

Full interview here: www.chicagocriticsfilmfestival.com/spotlight/ju...

“I wanted to make a film that focuses on the feelings that come after someone experiences a trauma… The time when people look away and move through their own lives and you are still stuck, trying to make sense of what happened.”

— Eva Victor, in our interview on SORRY, BABY

Thank you!!

So beyond pumped to announce that I have an essay in Vinegar Syndrome’s upcoming release of Larry Fessenden’s landmark first two features, NO TELLING and HABIT, newly restored in 4K. (My first-ever booklet essay, feels like a real moment, super proud of the piece.)

SHE RIDES SHOTGUN rattles with intensity & Egerton & especially Ana Sophia Heger give stunning central performances. The film runs a straighter line than the book, a little more black&white in storytelling, but preserves a brutal poetry. Tantalizing to think of opportunity for more film of its kind.

Bringing Sexy Back Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

wrote about how social media kills sex for @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

Thanks for writing in! This section is referring to the popular climate for comic-book films at the time when TMNT was in development, prior to filming in ‘89; Burton’s BATMAN came out a month or possibly less before the start of production.

Shell Shock: the unlikely glory of Steve Barron’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at 35 • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine As Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles turns 35 and prepares for a theatrical re-release, director Steve Barron tells Isaac Feldberg about the challenging production and breathtaking triumph of the 1990 bloc...

Turtle-mania over at @letterboxd.social — I was delighted to detail the unlikely saga of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (1990), from its path through Golden Harvest to Jim Henson's state-of-the-art animatronics, a wild film shoot, and the guiding light of Steve Barron, for a Deep Impact feature.

Dead Man Walking: Taron Egerton on “She Rides Shotgun” | Interviews | Roger Ebert An interview with the star of Rocketman, Kingsman, Smoke, and this week's She Rides Shotgun.

While he was in Chicago last week, I met up with Taron Egerton to discuss SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, crime fiction, his career to date, and—because we’re both huge fans—Werner Herzog’s GRIZZLY MAN.

Fun chat for @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...

Shell Shock: the unlikely glory of Steve Barron’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at 35 • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine As Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles turns 35 and prepares for a theatrical re-release, director Steve Barron tells Isaac Feldberg about the challenging production and breathtaking triumph of the 1990 bloc...

Turtle-mania over at @letterboxd.social — I was delighted to detail the unlikely saga of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (1990), from its path through Golden Harvest to Jim Henson's state-of-the-art animatronics, a wild film shoot, and the guiding light of Steve Barron, for a Deep Impact feature.

Dead Man Walking: Taron Egerton on “She Rides Shotgun” | Interviews | Roger Ebert An interview with the star of Rocketman, Kingsman, Smoke, and this week's She Rides Shotgun.

While he was in Chicago last week, I met up with Taron Egerton to discuss SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, crime fiction, his career to date, and—because we’re both huge fans—Werner Herzog’s GRIZZLY MAN.

Fun chat for @ebertvoices.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...

Arrival Amy Adams delivers a sterling performance in this sci-fi masterpiece

here is an essay about Arrival

this is the most important thing i’ve ever written goodmovie.substack.com/p/arrival

(no paywall on this one — free for everyone)

A terrific essay on a brilliant and often misunderstood film by one of our great living artists.

Primal Fear: writer-director Neil Marshall on the twentieth anniversary of his claustrophobic caving horror, The Descent • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine As The Descent turns twenty, writer-director Neil Marshall talks to Isaac Feldberg about his subterranean creature feature—one of the scariest movies ever made—and why the original ending is superior ...

“When it can’t get any worse, make it worse.”

To celebrate 20 years of THE DESCENT, still one of the scariest films ever, I spoke to Neil Marshall about pitch-black, crawlers, close-quarters filming, his definitive ending, the upcoming 4K restoration, and more, for @letterboxd.social.

Couldn’t be more gleeful about my latest story in @fangoria.bsky.social: a grisly chat with Alison Brie, Dave Franco, and Michael Shanks about TOGETHER, their skin-crawling new body-horror comedy out from @neon-rated.bsky.social later this month — on stands now!!!

The Amusement Park (Romero) Perfect Days (Wenders)

Inside you there are two wolves (weekend viewing edition)

Fantastic write up from @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social on one of the best of all time, THE DESCENT.

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Loved these questions and they yielded such compelling answers!

Seller’s Market: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on experimenting, action cinema and Cloud • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine With his action thriller Cloud in theaters now, director Kiyoshi Kurosawa speaks with Mitchell Beaupre about the power of silence, the influence of Sam Peckinpah and Michael Mann, and finding the powe...

For @letterboxd.social, I had the privilege of speaking with one of our greatest filmmakers, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, about my favorite film of the year, Cloud. We discussed him being influenced by Straw Dogs, his desire to return to his old mode of filmmaking, whether he’s seen Here, and more. boxd.it/2Eg

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KVIFF 2025: Stellan Skarsgård on "Sentimental Value," Ingmar Bergman, and Cinematic Empathy | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert The actor talks about his long-standing relationship to Czech cinema and some of his most memorable characters and collaborations.

Out of Karlovy Vary, @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social talks to Stellan Skarsgård about Ingmar Bergman, the role of empathy, and his latest role in Joachim Trier's SENTIMENTAL VALUE: www.rogerebert.com/festivals/kv...

Couldn’t be more gleeful about my latest story in @fangoria.bsky.social: a grisly chat with Alison Brie, Dave Franco, and Michael Shanks about TOGETHER, their skin-crawling new body-horror comedy out from @neon-rated.bsky.social later this month — on stands now!!!

A ★★★★½ review of Eddington (2025) “The weirder things get, and the longer we live in them, the more normal they become. But something huge is happening right now, and we have no say in it.” I spoke to Ari Aster about his bizarro, brai...

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"They only see the dimensions of the small world they believe in, and distrust anything that contradicts this small bubble of certainty."

With EDDINGTON in theaters, you have questions. In our delightfully anxious @letterboxd.social chat, Ari Aster has answers. letterboxd.com/journal/eddi...

Almost total shut-out of SAY NOTHING at the Emmys this year, save for Joshua Zetumer’s richly deserved writing nom. Myopic nominations this year with such a focus on coronating juggernauts (27 nominations for SEVERANCE) that the best series of the year flew by undetected.

KVIFF 2025: Sand City, The Visitor, Better Go Mad in the Wild | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert Three films from the fest that reflect on the relationships between people, places, and meaning.

The latest dispatch from Karlovy Vary sees @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social finding thematic links between people, place and meaning in Grand Prix winner SAND CITY, best director ex-aequo winner THE VISITOR, and Crystal Globe winner BETTER GO MAD IN THE WILD.

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IFC Center - Little, Big, and Far Friday, July 11 at 6:45 p.m.: Q&A with director Jem Cohen moderated by Sierra Pettengill after the show Saturday, July 12 at 6:45 p.m.: Q&A with director Jem Cohen moderated by Jane Schoenbrun and Sco...

LITTLE, BIG AND FAR "reflects the constant presence of the unknown in our lives as a reminder to seize solitude amid the bustle of everyday existence, to be quiet and still, to look up and consider the universe." - @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social @ebertvoices.bsky.social
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In Karlovy Vary this week, I sat down with Stellan Skarsgård, who had a lot to say.