Maria San Filippo

My 10th year contributing to @sensesofcinema.bsky.social's World Poll! Voilà my annotated 10 favorite films of 2025: www.sensesofcinema.com/2026/world-p...

@emersonsofilm.bsky.social @dorianawards.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @screenslate.bsky.social @iffboston.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social

Five films for burning it all down Commemorating David Lynch’s Los Angeles

#DavidLynch would've turned 80 today. He's inspired endless appreciation & commemoration in the past year; here's my small contribution: substack.com/home/post/p-... @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @dorianawards.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social @oaffc.bsky.social

New year, new list!
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(Stay tuned for my Top 10 of 2025 in @sensesofcinema.bsky.social World Poll coming soon!)

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& for dessert...My ode to unrated director's cut of Jane Campion's erotic thriller IN THE CUT (2003) in SCREENING ADULT CINEMA, 2nd vol. in @culturalstudies.bsky.social's SCREENING CINEMA series edited by @garyneedham.bsky.social Bon appetit!
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Thankful to welcome 2 new book chapters into the world from opposite ends of my research interests: #romcom & #pornstudies!
An amuse bouche for #comedystudies feast to follow, “Regenerating ‘Radical Romantic Comedy’ for the Twenty-First Century" kicks off @academic.oup.com HANDBOOK OF SCREEN COMEDY

What an ideal day to be teaching Richard Dyer's STARS chapter on the legendary Jane Fonda! TY @unionmaidpgh.bsky.social!

Paired w/ this @ktlaent.bsky.social interview:
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The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize!

Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due
Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected
Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication

MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...

Preparing to deliver my talk "From Striver to Disaster:
The Bisexual as Figuration of Contemporary Socioeconomic Decline" at Bi Research Group Conference; join online! www.bisexualresearch.com
#IBRC2025 #bisexualresearch
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Celebrating #Bisexuality Day w/ my books APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR & THE B WORD, which recently made the news getting trashed in TX
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Tho most press is good press for academic authors, I preferred @lambdaliterary.org awards
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@iupress.bsky.social

Shout-outs to LA cinephile institutions @2220arts.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @vidiots.bsky.social @newbeverly.bsky.social @amcinematheque.bsky.social @acropoliscinema.bsky.social @theacademyusa.bsky.social @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social
@thefridacinema.org
@mezzaninefilm.bsky.social

Five films for burning it all down Commemorating David Lynch’s Los Angeles

My sophomore attempt at seasonal Substacking: a love letter to LA & Lynch; hope it's worth the wait! cinemariasf.substack.com/p/five-films...

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Happy #Pride Book Discounts!
My monographs THE B WORD & PROVOCAUTEURS & PROVOCATIONS 40% off w/ code UPRIDE25 iupress.org/author/maria...
+ my 2022 ed. collection AFTER 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER': ROMANTIC COMEDY IN THE POST-ROMANTIC AGE 40% til Fri 6/20 w/ code RYAY40 wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814346730/

Opinion | Today’s Young People Need to Learn How to Be Punk

Nice surprise on @emersoncollege.bsky.social Commencement Day to see John Cameron Mitchell's @nytopinion.nytimes.com op-ed recalling visit @emersonsoarts.bsky.social hosted this spring! opportunity to screen SHORTBUS & moderate Q&A was the highlight of my school year! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o...

Seminar: Valley Girl

7pm Mon.! (3/31), CU @thecoolidge.bsky.social for 35mm screening of Martha Coolidge's VALLEY GIRL starring Nicolas Cage & Deborah Foreman as the most totally bitchin' couple since Romeo & Juliet! coolidge.org/package/semi... @emersonsoarts.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social

My @girlsontopstees.bsky.social tee & I made the scene at #BFIFutureFilmFestival 2025!

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TY host @verilybitchie.bsky.social & all who joined!

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New series alert!

The 1980s were a time of significant breakthroughs for women filmmakers. Our March 2025 series is a survey of some of the indelible works by trailblazing filmmakers in that decade from around the globe 🎥 coolidge.org/trailblazers

Save the date! Martha Coolidge's VALLEY GIRL in 35mm 3/31 @thecoolidge.bsky.social; sign up 4 my pre-show seminar! coolidge.org/events/semin... @emersonsoarts.bsky.social @emersoncollege.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social @iffboston.bsky.social

Treat yo self to (post-)romantic reads courtesy of my 2021 @wsupress ed. collection AFTER 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER' avail. at online booksellers. Encore watch! Martha Coolidge's like totally swoony VALLEY GIRL @eurekaentertainment Blu-Ray feat. commentary by yours truly! eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/valley...

BFI's FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL coming soon! Join me & other panelists for Bye, Bi Invisibility: Crafting Authentic Bisexual Narratives for the Screen hosted by @verilybitchie.bsky.social
21 Feb. 4pm GMT on Zoom whatson.bfi.org.uk/FutureFilmFe...
#BFIFutureFilmFestival 2025!
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Our Dorian Film Award nominations are . . .

🗣 Proposals are due Sunday for the Hollywood Conference to be held at USC in July.
www.thehollywoodconference.com/cfp

The Itinerant Cinephile is now on Substack, sharing monthly curated viewing selections! Check out my (ahem) inaugural post: Five films foretelling how “we the people” got here...
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Vive le cinéma et la démocratie!

More than any other director/creator #DavidLynch turned me on to what film/TV is capable of at an impressionable age and thereby awakened my cinephilia and forever transformed TV. His work is forever seared into my head & heart. RIP Maestro.

We’re looking for a festivals editor! – Senses of Cinema

The team at Senses are looking for a new Festivals editor to join our team! We are accepting applications until January 13 - see here for more details: www.sensesofcinema.com/2024/news/we...

Thank you to @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social editor extraordinaire @elizabethalsop.bsky.social for guiding my long-gestating essay to publication & to #ENMU @wgawest.bsky.social & #AMPAS librarians who enabled access to Brackett's archives. Her life was too short but her legacy lives on in her writing.

Scholarship in Sound & Image Workshop on Videographic Criticism

Just a reminder that applications for the 2025 Scholarship in Sound & Image workshop at Middlebury College, Vermont, are due in about a week. Please encourage people to apply who might be able to attend & would benefit from the experience!
sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/

Excited to see this timely story celebrating screening midlife sex, middle-aged women's desire, and some of my favorite films & comedy of 2024. Thanks as always to Alexis Soloski for a stimulating chat & for shouting out my book!

Hi Bluesky! Happy to be here. Figure I'll start things off w/ my annual annotated list of favorite films, honorable mentions & still-in-contention. Read full digression at mariasanfilippo.net/lists; abridged version coming soon as part of @sensesofcinema.bsky.social 2024 World Poll.
Vive le cinéma!