Dan Schindel

Top First-Time Views for July 2025

Cloud
American Hunter
The Old Mill
Snake Eyes
Body Double
The Flying Luna Clipper
The Pirate
Blue Remembered Hills

When you throw a dead fly in the trash you’re laying it to rest amongst a great fortune like a pharaoh

The Explainer: Why Is Calm Content Taking Over TV and Digital Platforms? Slowness has been an established mode of cinema for many decades, but the commercial demands of television meant it took longer for that medium to adopt such a form, thanks to the medium’s mass-market...

For @documentary.org I explored the growing sphere of "ambient entertainment." Read it in the most calming, soothing voice you can imagine documentary.org/column/expla...

A painting of cownose rays schooling in a diagonal formation, swimming through sundays. #sciart

Sea of Rays

This mfer said larbour

Cloud Like Pulse, the conceit imagines a nightmare scenario in which an aspect of technologically modulated human interaction breaches the borders of reality�here, online harassment.

For @reverseshot.bsky.social I talked about alienation, sigma cinema, and the master Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new movie Cloud reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

Top First-Time Views for June 2025

My Man Godfrey
La Notte
Alice
28 Years Later
Center Stage
Not Fade Away

Second Amendment Summer A short documentary about self-defense in an unsafe state.

Don't even have words to describe how excited I am to be launching a Kickstarter for my latest short film, SECOND AMENDMENT SUMMER: a short documentary about trans people learning about gun safety and use in this Floridian hellscape.

28 Ways Later If Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's much-feted 28 Years Later taught us anything, it's that the UK has struggled to cope with being Ground Zero for a zombie…

Very pleased to have tossed some ideas into the mix for this @lwlies.com piece. We're a bunch of regular Harry Turtledoves lwlies.com/top-ranking/...

that part during Jessica's show when she would make miscellaneous uncs shoot poison on stage

Jan Svankmajer’s Alice is like a Simpsons parody of an Eastern European children’s film and it rules lmao

good lord

Every time I think everyone I know is aware of this, I mention it and someone else is surprised. Informed two more friends last night

We didn't really get to boost CFM during Pride month last year bc it came out in July. Anyway, we wrote a book about the history of transness of cinema. Corpses, Fools and Monsters is a good choice if you're looking for something to read this month. Trans people have always been here, even in movies

Robert Gould’s Elric of Melniboné art 1/2

On Broadway, with Dan Schindel RoyCast · Episode

We are back on the RoyCast talking Broadway with @danschindel.bsky.social.
open.spotify.com/episode/5V7D...

‘Cultural innovation comes from the margins’—tales of artists pushing boundaries in 1960s New York The critic J. Hoberman’s take on Manhattan counterculture charts the rise of artists such as Andy Warhol and Yoko Ono

Pleased to debut at @theartnewspaper.bsky.social, writing about J. Hoberman's latest, typically rigorous and interesting history book.

The World’s a Stage: An Introduction to ‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ and Other Documentaries Made in Video Games Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) is the latest in a wave of documentaries shot entirely inside Grand Theft Auto or other video games. Playing a game is often no longer a solitary...

This went in @documentary.org's print edition a while back but is online now. I went long on documentaries that play out entirely in virtual environments -- a nascent subgenre I find quite interesting as it develops its own syntax

I caught up with Mission: Impossible 8 last week after going through the entire series and helpfully figured this out:

The first one
Ghost Protocol
Rogue Nation
MI2
Fallout
Final Reckoning
Dead Reckoning
MI3

Publication day!

Top First-Time Views for May 2025

Showgirls
Friendship
Compensation
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Bonjour Tristesse
It's in the Bag
La Ronde
Wife! Be Like a Rose!

When Evil Lurks Limited Edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray: Pre-order Available July 28th Demián Rugna's instant cult classic smashes its way onto disc thanks to Second Sight Films new Limited Edition.

Catching up on things to post about now that I'm back from Nitrate. Very pleased to have my first booklet essay as part of @secondsightfilms.bsky.social's release of When Evil Lurks secondsightfilms.co.uk/collections/...

Sorry bb

And finally, can anyone guess what film this is

Yep!

MY MAN