New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.
illwill.com/lies
New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.
illwill.com/lies
some exciting news!
24.01.2026 15:20 — 👍 53 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 2a hero and a martyr
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finally got my hands on the complete Narrow Margin (so far), a v cool new magazine containing some of the best recent writing on film out there. Vol 1 on Luc Moullet and Vittorio Cottafavi, and vol 2 on the supremely underrated cinema of Diagonale. grab a copy!!
03.01.2026 21:36 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
My film “Redwood Souvenirs” included @benjamincrais.bsky.social’s top ten of 2025 for Screen Slate: www.screenslate.com/articles/bes...
12.12.2025 21:32 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@benjamincrais.bsky.social on the greatest of all cinephilic perverts, João César Monteiro: www.screenslate.com/articles/joa...
15.10.2025 19:21 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
my recent film Redwood Souvenirs premieres at RPM festival on Oct. 11! it's a film i assembled from old footage from my time house-sitting for Fred from 2020-22, made after his death as a memento for myself and others
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Made a film with @benjamincrais.bsky.social—something like a re-staging of Ray's On Dangerous Ground that traverses some of Ray's actual haunts (nyc in the 30s, upstate ny in the 70s). premiering sep. 12 at I Mille Occhi, truly wild programming: www.imilleocchi.com/1000occhi_programma25_online.pdf
03.09.2025 14:41 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
it’s never “let me tell you how things are” but rather “where am I? where are we (in history)?”
Whitney Strub and Benjamin Crais correspond on Robert Kramer and John Douglas’ MILESTONES
Ben, Luc Moullet and me
”I saw a film by… who is the official British film director?”
“…Mike Leigh?”
“Yes, him.”
cannot express how excited I am for this special issue of SAQ that @pietrobianch1.bsky.social & I edited to be in the world!!! filled to the brim with brilliant pieces by brilliant people! coming in october!! hope the world is still around to see it!
02.05.2025 14:52 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Genevieve Yue reviewing this year’s Cosmic Rays film fest, with some remarks on Ode to R.G. Springsteen!
cosmicraysfilmfest.com/reviews-of-t...
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22.03.2025 14:48 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
tfw you go uptown to the Jameson memorial but you also get to stop by your old apt to get the issue of Parapraxis on Economies you accidentally mailed there 💅
* also @benjamincrais.bsky.social did a fantastic job !!
courtesy of @vuernica.bsky.social , currently working on his archives)
27.02.2025 20:30 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
some of jameson’s impressions of israel (“and then it came to me: that israel is california”)
27.02.2025 20:29 — 👍 23 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 1
MECW 1: 215
09.02.2025 15:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
a few words on masao adachi’s gushing prayer for @screenslate.bsky.social
www.screenslate.com/articles/gus...
In this episode of Film Comment, Clinton Krute and Michael Blair invited Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais, two noted critics who each proudly own original Milestones posters, to discuss Robert Kramer’s life and work. https://buff.ly/408Szf3 #ListenUP
30.12.2024 16:32 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Wasn't on bluesky when it came out, so I didn't advertise it over here but looking back on 2024 I'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to work on a special issue of Polygraph 29, "Narrative and Crisis," together with my colleagues & friends benjamincrais.bsky.social and carsonw.bsky.social
29.12.2024 19:04 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
favorite first watches of 2024
16.12.2024 16:31 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0wrote about the cinema of the portuguese revolution for film comment
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