Matthew Clayfield

Anyone have a GRIFFITH REVIEW subscription they can use to get me an article I'd like to read for something I'm writing?

Give me a beer, stick a candle in it, and I'll blow out my liver Some notes on 'Cheers'

Because I have an addictive personality and don't have anything better to do with my time I immediately watched CHEERS in its entirety and wrote about that, too. open.substack.com/pub/matthewc...

My guts are not here for you to love Some notes on 'M*A*S*H'

I recently wrote at length about M*A*S*H, which I watched in its entirety earlier this year. open.substack.com/pub/matthewc...

Wow, good thing I'm going away next year, because the Belvoir season is trash.

YouTube video by LM R Nino Rota - Death on the Nile - Main Titles

Watching Death on the Nile, the 70s version, with @mzspress.bsky.social . Haven't seen it since I was a kid. Instant reaction to the opening credits: when people make lists of their favorite Nino Rota scores, this one should be considered. youtu.be/wqKLyyrkT_Y

I'm turning forty on Friday. Please donate to the CPJ to usher me into the slow decline into death I inevitably face. www.facebook.com/share/p/1713...

How I Spent My Summer Vacation At The Drive-In | Features | Roger Ebert A writer journeys to see the country's drive-ins.

"These cinematic monuments, with some of the largest movie screens you’ll ever see outside of an IMAX, are also survival stories." @colinsouter.bsky.social visited 6 drive-ins with his wife and wrote this wonderful piece. www.rogerebert.com/features/how...

Caught the last performance of GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS. Big standing ovation, especially for Toby Schmitz, who goes characteristically all-in and is excellent. But something was missing for me. Some books, and Porter's is one, are better left felt, not illustrated.

In a vague attempt to try something new, I spoke to my friends Zach Campbell and Adrian Martin (both of whom you should follow on Substack) about film criticism, academic film studies, the old days of film blogging, and which critics they're reading these days. open.substack.com/pub/matthewc...

So, uh, got some book mail.

If the Weimar Republic had a podcast, it would be the SLATE POLITICAL GABFEST.

That's kind of you, Ben. Thanks.

The new issue of @meanjin.bsky.social is out and includes my first-ever piece of published fiction. It's a short story titled 'Zheravna' and I am obviously very excited. meanjin.com.au/edition/84-2...

Well, not grace, perhaps, but it's the only time he ever seems happy.

Finished today. Three days and fourteen hours later. A hard thing to pull off, perhaps, but even after thirteen hours the fourteenth hits like a truck: a gripping portrait of a man with nerves so frayed you could braid them, who nevertheless finds grace in the presence of art.

Ten hours in and wishing we could finish it tomorrow rather than Friday. I'll have to write about it.

This is one of those issues on which Pat & I are *diametrically opposed*.

I loathe Q&A, and always have. A waste of everyone’s talent.

Pretty wild to think MOUNTAINHEAD the cheap SUCCESSION given how cheap SUCCESSION was.

Five-and-a-half hours in and it's fantastic. A remarkable portrait, not only of the contemporary art world and its discontents, but of the world in the second part of last decade.

Here we go. Day one of the three-day, fourteen-hour screening of EXERGUE - ON DOCUMENTA 14.

Getting to see all of Jafar Panahi's films, in order, introduced by Panahi himself (except CRIMSON GOLD, which I've seen before and which clashed with something else I wanted to see) has been such a wonderful experience so far. Today we entered the period of his ban with THIS IS NOT A FILM.

He naturally wore sunglasses inside like a fucking champ.

Lines in the sand: Nablus and Balata "Even the infants cannot stand to live like this. You can hear their protests."

Read the penultimate piece in my Israel-Palestine series now. open.substack.com/pub/matthewc...

Exciting to learn that Jafar Panahi will be attending the Sydney Film Festival in person.

I've been reposting my 2012 series on Israel and Palestine. Following pieces on Tel Aviv, the Golan Heights, and Kfar Haruv, I'm up to Jerusalem. The Negev and the West Bank to follow. open.substack.com/pub/matthewc...

I wrote a not-very-nice review of Anna Funder's not-very-good book. open.substack.com/pub/matthewc...

Dalkey Archive to Reissue Works by Harry Mathews Dalkey Archive Press, an imprint of Deep Vellum Publishing, will reissue 10 works of fiction and nonfiction by American writer Harry Mathews over the next five years. The publishing program will kick ...

Fresh reissues of Harry Mathews from Dalkey Archive: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Oh, good! "Unlock" is a noun now. That will be very useful.

I wrote a not-very-nice review of Anna Funder's not-very-good book. open.substack.com/pub/matthewc...