Brian Darr

I got the impression Swans was WAY sold out here. And maybe the last tour?

We did not. Our days have turned out to be full enough that we haven’t had energy for nightlife. Maybe on a longer trip…

So sorry for your and your family’s loss.

Check out Maciste in Hell sometime. One of Fellini’s favorites as a kid.

Jacobs was almost definitely the major avant-garde figure I’m farthest from having a handle on.

How about Abel Ferrara, Leon Ichaso and Adam Shankman?

(Bojan Bazelli has worked with each multiple times)

As I once said n the other site:

If you can’t you can’t but are you absolutely sure?

Wild Grass? One of his best for sure. If you ever see Mon Oncle d’Amerique it may feel like a more palatable version of the editing technique he used in the earlier Je T’aime Je T’aime.

I like both l but I will be voting for The Cactus Album tomorrow and hope you will join me!

It’s definitely an unusual one! Are you generally into Alain Resnais?

Don’t you lose your head!

Was Timecrimes and Je’Taime Je’Taime a double bill? Because it sounds like an amazing pairing but it also sounds like it could be exhausting (though I love both films.)

Also Clark Kent and his dad, apparently.

That seems like an awful lot of effort for someone to go through just for me to check an apparent Best Picture Oscar winner off my watchlist.

YouTube video by imagineNATIVE Mann's Sparks by Ryland Walker Knight | 2025 Festival

Tomorrow night @ataconnect.bsky.social hosts the opening event of the Drunken Film Festival, an Other Cinema presentation of my buddy Ryland Walker Knight’s audiovisual project Mann’s Sparks! If you’re anywhere near San Francisco it’s the place to be; here’s a trailer: youtu.be/5MmVZtXypmU

Mine too, though I also had a third in the Ryder row. But my Day-Lewis row is a wreck: 23-42-4.

Funny thing: Don Giovanni is being staged in Montreal this weekend too.

I immersed myself in his filmography and biography for several months for a piece I wrote sixteen years ago, but I’m rusty. I think Jon Mirsalis might be a good person to reach out to though. His email is on his website www.lonchaney.org/index.html

I will try! But if navigating scalpers in a foreign country proves impossible, there’s always this advice:

Apocalyptic!

Maybe I’ll just stand outside the venue and hear them.

Tonight at the main #SanFrancisco Public library: A Hands-On Journey through the Steve Abbott Papers in advance of the release this month of Fairyland:. Attendees receive free tickets for a screening of the film at the Roxie.
https://sfpl.org/events/2025/10/02/presentation-hands-history

Found out Swans (who I’ve never seen live before) are playing in Montreal the night we arrive… but the show is sold out!

Holding onto my longtime social media name doesn’t make that easy!

This is how I found out they’re coming to Portsmouth, NH (not as long a drive as Boston and this more doable for me on a weeknight). Thanks!

Look at these beautiful paintings!

Letterboxd graph showing numbers of films seen per year. Negligible numbers until 1896-1900 followed by a decline until 1908-1909, then another general increase before another drop in 1917, followed by a nearly-unbroken rise to a high point in 1933 followed by a bit of a drop to a relatively stable level (with a few exceptional peaks in 1949 & 1964-1974) until my cinephilia hit in 1997, at which point the numbers were consistently higher than ever before with increasingly large spikes in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2013 & 2018, before dropping in 2020 to levels not seen since 1929 before one last uptick to in 2022-2023 to the pre-1997 average before dropping again.

I have a fairly similar graph but my early high year is 1933 and my drop off didn’t really hit until after 2019.