K.J. Relth-Miller

STREETS OF FIRE on 70mm! With rare appearance by director Walter Hill - he said he hadn't seen the movie since it hit screens 41 years ago. Great Q&A with @kjrelthmiller.bsky.social

Road trip.

The Sugarland Express at
@academymuseum.bsky.social with @kjrelthmiller.bsky.social asking the Qs.

Started the day thinking about THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT for whatever reason

🎶 I’ll do anything for you, Gregg, anything for you 🎶

This is my WICKED

Lynch was the 1st director I ever did a deep-dive on, for a report in the film class that made me want to study film forever. Each viewing of each film is different according to where you are in life. This is his genius. His art resonated with so many of us then and will continue to forever.

David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78 Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.

Actually crying. We so wanted him to join us for ERASERHEAD at the museum, but his health wasn’t in a good place. A life-changing visionary to anyone who has ever seen his movies.

The Academy Museum is reopening today with screenings resuming as scheduled.

I’ll be there to introduce, and watch, our 2p COOL HAND LUKE screening. I really need a movie right now.

The dear folks at the Museum of Home Video are streaming 3 episodes of my pandemic-era show as part of a fundraiser for the immeasurable loss L.A. is enduring. Hope you can tune in (for free) Sun @ NOON to pay tribute to our city + donate to worthy causes if you can.

Love this pic of the wife @kjrelthmiller.bsky.social with Cronenberg from this past weekend. He's making a great face.

Kinda always felt this way TBH. Manny Farber on Antonioni in 1962

disclosure: I was SO nervous last night. I raaarely get nervous before Q&As but this one was special + so many friends & my mom were there! Then some @$$ clown shouted something as I was reading Cronenberg’s bio & it totally threw me. Ultimately had a dreamy time & will remember the night forever 🥰

This Wikipedia bit he kept returning to did NOT get old. The man can do no wrong.

Tonight I was in a dream!!! Still swimming, processing, will have more thoughts later.

Pinching myself. I am so damn lucky. Can’t wait to converse with Cronenberg tomorrow night after eXistenZ. Standby line will be in full effect — and everyone got in for Videodrome tonight! See you there.

Just learned through an IG friend that works by Greer Lankton are currently on display at @moma.bsky.social in an exhibit titled Vital Signs: Artists and the Body, on view through Feb 22. Her dolls strike deep, complicated feelings in me both familiar and unknowable. NYers should seek out this show!

Goosebumps just thinking about it. Spano is the definition of 🔥

*furiously googles LAX<>JFK flights and cheap hotel rooms*

Next week brings us To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, programmed this year by the mighty @davekehr.bsky.social. Opening night Jan. 9 is a new restoration of 7TH HEAVEN. I wrote about this Frank Borzage masterpiece in 2018: silentfilm.org/seventh-heav...

I’m so enamored of this movie that whenever I hear Springsteen’s “It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City” I literally swoon. My highest recommend on this forthcoming release!

Catherine Breillat’s LAST SUMMER (which was just added to the Criterion Channel today) chased with two old episodes of DOCUMENTARY NOW!

My most successful resolution was in 2017 when I committed to watching at least 1 film per day (average). Have stuck with it for 8 years & don’t plan to stop.

Don’t expect anyone else to relate or care, but I’ve made a few goals for myself in 2025. Trying to keep them light and achievable!

Continuing a six-year New Year’s Day tradition with @joshmillerlite.bsky.social — starting 2025 with Columbo S3 E1

Aww thanks!! Would never so no to an offer like this.

Last watch of 2024, which we had to ill@gally down1o@d because it isn’t streaming or rentable anywhere

While in OC we also drove by Benjies, the Santa Ana, CA diner that enamored me to NY-style deli. In 1990, I was the six-year-old ordering corned beef on rye with a cup of chicken soup with rice and washing it all down with a Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray soda in a corner booth by the long, painted windows.

Been spending the last week with my mom, who is three weeks post immunotherapy treatment for lymphoma. Seems fitting to spend NYE at The Crab Cooker, an Orange County institution our family has frequented for major occasions & celebrations since the 1960s.

Here’s to a healthy & happy 2025 to all.

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