for the 20th anniversary of Aaron Katz’s DANCE PARTY, USA premiering at SXSW, i took a look back at the scrappy legacy that gave the festival and Austin the DIY clout it rests on today www.avclub.com/sxsw-mumblec...
wrote about Robert Duvall’s extraordinary physical presence www.avclub.com/robert-duval...
“About a mile up the road in a strip mall was where the cinema was happening…”
@alexlei.bsky.social reports on Sundance’s final outing to Park City
oh i’m sure
this is just like Twitter. incredible
wrote a few weeks ago about what i think is Robert Duvall’s finest film www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...
“I believe in resuscitation” might as well be a manifesto for the troupe itself.
@alexlei.bsky.social reports on CIMINO’S DEFEAT, the latest production from the vital Brooklyn-based theater company Adult Film
as the Sundance dust starts to settle, The Lake has emerged as one of my favorites—for Doc Mag, i talked to Abby Ellis about her thrilling, apocalyptic and skeptically optimistic film about the efforts to save the Great Salt Lake documentary.org/online-featu...
went long on Magellan, and how it stands less as a new leap in his cinema and instead is a part of his longterm project excising the ghosts of Filipino history www.avclub.com/lav-diaz-mag...
wrote about how James Cameron used the tropes & imagery Western in the Avatar films and how his adaptation of the genre reduces it of its complexity www.avclub.com/james-camero...
“Ahead of its latest installment playing at New/Next, I kept asking around about what the hell Reveries actually was. ‘It’s hard to describe.’ ‘You just have to see it.’ ‘It’s, like, two guys riffing. But trippy.’”
@alexlei.bsky.social interviews the trio behind the REVERIES series
had a great chat with Elena Oxman on her stunning debut OUTERLANDS, which effortlessly bounces between a first-person realism and a surprising poetic inflection filmmakermagazine.com/132649-inter...
they blew up the pigeon population in Mumbai last night
i’ll circle back on this around 2am
let me hit the casino and get back to you
re: WB-Netflix
physical media is more important than ever and it should be accessible to people everywhere. Baltimore has had a nonprofit video store for year’s now, and one of its co-founders @ericallenhatch.bsky.social wrote about how it can be replicated www.patreon.com/posts/24007106
i see a number of you talking about the “Train Dreams Wars” which is quaint and all but i’m not sure you realize how in the trenches it got
had a great talk with my old professor, Tenzin Phuntsog, about making films that are important to you and his debut NEXT LIFE filmmakermagazine.com/132497-inter...
bro last night was an american canto
film criticism may be dying, but The A.V. Club let me write about Bazin’s ontology of the image, and that’s not for nothing
some Friday reading for ya: wrote about Linklater, Godard, NOUVELLE VAGUE, and the looming legacy of Bazin www.avclub.com/richard-link...
my report of the 26th Maryland Film Festival, which surprised me on how much it bounced back from its historic low point in 2023 and is once again making Baltimore one of the great places to be for indie cinema filmmakermagazine.com/132457-revie...
Twitter went down because too many people watched the Magellan trailer and the site crashed
they’re trying to demoralize us
speak on it
