Eric Hynes

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)

A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.

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Journalism that fails to infuse a historically informed lens is akin to covering the smoke but never asking who lit the fire. History-centered journalism should be the framework within every newsroom.

The norms, the norms, lo how they shatter.

Show me a love truer than the Times’s for the word “norms.”

If this monstrosity ever gets built, it's where their Nuremberg trials should be held before we put them in jail & tear it down.

If you live in New York—or you live in LA next week or you live in Chicago the week after that, etc.—I really can't recommend seeing PREDATORS @filmforumnyc.bsky.social more strongly. You will not see a more thought-provoking film about documentary ethics. And that's one of so many layers to this.

A New Documentary Revisits To Catch a Predator. You May Not Like What It Finds. We’re still living in the world that this show helped create.

the best movie at Sundance is now playing at Film Forum

A stark, bewildered feeling, as of death, came over me.

All you got is this moment.
Twenty-first century's yesterday.

Shoot this into my veins

Also wouldn’t mind if the mayor of NYC actually liked NYC.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

The New Yorker Theater marquee in May 1960 advertises a double feature: Alfred Leslie and Robert Frank’s PULL MY DAISY (1959) and Orson Welles’s THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942). Photo via MoMA and Toby Talbot

“A Theater Near You,” curator David Schwartz’s salute to 17 landmark New York screening venues, opens @ MOMA on Thursday ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Clearing rights for DAWN is uncommonly difficult. Unlikely that Criterion and others haven’t tried for it.

Q: Alpha?
A: omega

Cannes 2025: The Return of the Academy Ratio

Not remarked upon enough that the political faction most critical of contemporary art — putatively on the grounds that it devalued traditional skills and craft — has taken the most readily to AI art.

Am now programming @burnsfilmcenter.bsky.social and this weekend it was Hitchcock’s PSYCHO and Bong Joon Ho’s MOTHER.

It’s so funny when people try to make sense of his ramblings. “It’s hard to figure out how he would implement such a plan” lol he’s an impulsive moron who doesn’t understand shit, it’s like ascribing complex motives to a dog eating another dog’s poop

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

Jeffrey Katzenberg's 1991 memo (the inspiration behind JERRY MAGUIRE) about the state of Hollywood and the need to get back to the “singles and doubles” philosophy that drove the launch of Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures is unfortunately more prescient than ever.

A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.

7 Films to See at MoMI’s First Look 2025 A snapshot of the most exciting voices working in American and international cinema today––and with a strong focus on newcomers––the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival returns this week,...

"A snapshot of the most exciting voices working in American and international cinema today––and with a strong focus on newcomers" - The Film Stage selects 7 films to see at First Look @movingimagenyc.bsky.social this weekend.
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This feels like a major inflection point. If ICE can apparently unlawfully arrest & disappear a permanent resident and it is not immediately met with strong opposition from the public, officials, and courts, there is no going back.

The Redstone @movingimagenyc.bsky.social wuz robbed.

Filmmaker David Osit and film curator Eric Hynes sitting in a faux living room set discussing Osit's new film Predators

David Osit going deep on his excellent doc Predators with @eshynes.bsky.social (and Chris Hansen 👀)

Profoundly grateful to have my first book event here in Columbia, MO at Skylark Bookshop this week — thanks to @eshynes.bsky.social for being a phenomenal first conversation partner and to everyone who came and bought books and asked questions.