Screen Slate

Love & Saucers When discussed, the topic of alien abduction can often lead to one of the following reactions: mocking laughter and derision, or the conclusion that an abductee is contending with a psychological cond...

For @screenslate.bsky.social , I reviewed Brad Abrahams' 2017 documentary LOVE & SAUCERS, about painter and UFO abductee David Huggins: www.screenslate.com/articles/lov.... It plays @spectacletheater.com tonight and later this month.

Linda Linda Linda “Let’s sing an endless song / For this asshole of a world.” Korean exchange student Son (Bae Doona) spits out those words with joyful vitriol toward the end of Linda Linda Linda (2005), a coming-of-ag...

I wrote about Linda Linda Linda (2005) for @screenslate.bsky.social, one of my favorite musicals that is back in theaters tomorrow!

www.screenslate.com/articles/lin...

This is not true, and I have no idea why you would tag me in a blatant falsehood that denies nearly a decade of work editing the site in my own.

Ken Camp’s queer horror video art masterpiece HIGHWAY HYPNOSIS has its long-belated New York premiere tomorrow at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social!

Read about it on @screenslate.bsky.social today:

www.screenslate.com/articles/hig...

Phone Booth

Phone Booth is @screenslate.bsky.social's pick of the day, and lucky you, it's screening tonight, July 21, and on July 24, here at BAM on 35mm as part of the series “NYC 2000s.”

www.screenslate.com/articles/pho...

Escape from L.A. In John Carpenter’s Escape from L.A. (1996), a catastrophic earthquake separates Los Angeles from the continental United States at the turn of the millennium, and the city is turned into a maximum sec...

I’ll defend John Carpenter’s weirdo sequel to my death. New piece about ESCAPE FROM LA at @screenslate.bsky.social today!

Screening on 35mm at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social tonight, for those in NY.

[Once again, the 500th time you equip it] Carerful Sam, this book DOES NOT appear to be equipped with a book jacket.

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We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort.

On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you.

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CASTRATION MOVIE was featured on @screenslate.bsky.social / @screenslatesf.bsky.social today in advance of its Bay Area premiere at the New Parkway next Monday as part of Frameline. There are still a few tickets still available — don’t miss out!

www.screenslate.com/articles/cas...

“Programming a Theater Near You: An Interview with David Schwartz” interview @screenslate.bsky.social! 🎉

www.screenslate.com/articles/pro...

I just learned about this games existence last night and my first thought was that a glorious new age of Highlight Reel is upon us

We live to defeat the Equilibrious Beast another day

P. Adams Sitney

Flo Jacobs with her husband, Ken, and their children, Nisi and Azazel

Within the past few days, we’ve lost P. Adams Sitney and Flo Jacobs.

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How the Other Half Lives at the Nitrate Picture Show I never could understand the motivations of “Summer Camp People”––those seasonal blooms flowering between Memorial Day and Labor Day in the Adirondacks, Berkshires, and the Poconos––who live only for ...

Head over to @screenslate.bsky.social for my Scene Report from this year's notorious Nitrate Picture Show! www.screenslate.com/articles/how...

Dare I try to hit up both Nitehawks in one night …

This Day and Age Halfway through the second, maybe third, decade of our “needing to talk about” the crises facing American young men is the perfect time to check in with Cecil B. DeMille’s 1933 Teen Power fantasy This...

Tonight's screening gets the @screenslate.bsky.social treatment! www.screenslate.com/articles/day...

Red Bone Guerrillas Red Bone Guerrillas (2003) wears its shagginess with pride. It begins with a title card proclaiming that it’s rated “NS”: no script, no second takes. All the dialogue was improvised by its cast. Along...

For @screenslate.bsky.social , I reviewed Pierre Bennu's RED BONE GUERILLAS: www.screenslate.com/articles/red.... It plays @spectacletheater.com tonight.

Appreciate how this reads like a festival premiere reaction tweet

Hideko Takamine in Mikio Naruse’s YEARNING (1964)

Mikio Naruse @ 4Columns and @thefilmstage.com, Todd Haynes @ Notebook, André Téchiné and Catherine Deneuve @screenslate.bsky.social, @coreyatad.com on ANDOR, Jia Zhangke @ NYRB and @avclub.com …

Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Entering Interregnum: A Conversation with Jia Zhangke on Caught by the Tides Jia Zhangke has been collecting footage for his films as he’s travelled across China for over 22 years. When the Covid-19 pandemic interrupted his routine, he thought to wrap the process up.

And in case any of you locals aren't signed up for the NY Daily, the mother ship @screenslate.bsky.social has an interview out today with Jia Zhangke on the occasion of his latest, Caught by the Tides, which opens at the Roxie and Smith Rafael this weekend: www.screenslate.com/articles/ent...

Like a Sphinx: André Téchiné on His Collaborations with Catherine Deneuve A quintessential product of the nouvelle vague, the director and screenwriter André Téchiné began his career as a critic at Cahiers du cinéma. He started to make his own films after working as an assi...

My partner interviewed André Téchiné, whose films are currently showing at L'Alliance Française in NYC, for @screenslate.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/sph...

Dance, Girl, Dance In 1953, the United States’ favorite harebrained housewife appeared before Senator McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee to answer for her alleged communist sympathies. Like many actresses...

Tonight you can see Dorothy Arzner's DANCE GIRL DANCE on 35mm at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social!

More from me on this all-time banger in @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/dan...

a screenshot of the new york times profile that announces me taking over milestone films. the headline reads “At Milestone Films, Passing the Torch, but Keeping the Flame Alive”, the subhed reads “The distributor's owners, Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, made the unusual choice to give it away. Their successor is Maya Cade of the Black Film Archive.”

some news: in 2026, i will become the president and owner of @milestonefilms.bsky.social, the distribution home of charles burnett, kathleen collins, bridgett m. davis, and many others.

to be a champion of cinema is my life’s greatest honor & pleasure. learn more: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/m...

Kumar Shahani Parallel Cinema, a traditionally overlooked film movement, has equally overlooked filmmakers populating its canon. Only recently has the film world outside of India come to embrace the importance of f...

The folks at @screenslate.bsky.social kindly asked me to write something about the legendary Kumar Shahani, whose select films are playing this weekend at Prismatic Ground in NYC @anthologyfilm.bsky.social

I highly recommend you go if you’re around the area!

www.screenslate.com/articles/kum...

“Why is does this thing that never went away but which I simply stopped paying attention to no longer exist” is my least favorite genre of tweet

They still exist. A24 has filmmaker commentary tracks on nearly all of their releases. Boutique labels have filmmaker and expert commentary on nearly all of their releases. Even streaming purchases come with commentary track audio options. People are crazy.

By this logic the final job will actually be film programming.

“Dracula is actually that your mom died” is the actual plot of Sopranos creator David Chase’s first screenplay