Tim Markatos

Frederick Wiseman (1930–2026) A quick note

A quick note on the passing of Fred Wiseman movieenthusiast.substack.com/p/frederick-...

"For 50 years, Wiseman has been making documentaries on shoestring budgets with small crews, focusing on institutions....A Wiseman film works on you slowly and imperceptibly. He never stages interviews, interposes B-roll that he hasn’t filmed himself, or identifies speakers with onscreen titles." 👇

Best of 2025 My top 20 and bonus awards as per tradition

My movie year in review: movieenthusiast.substack.com/p/best-of-20...

[Tina Fey on Las Culturistas voice] someday Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet are going to send you a screenplay and you'll have to act surprised that there's people having socially unacceptable sex in a confrontational way

I swear if Resurrection doesn't play in the DMV

Notes on Lefty Movie Night or what I've been up to the last four years

In light of today's entertainment news: movieenthusiast.substack.com/p/notes-on-l...

I'm a humble man with a simple request (for someone to distribute My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Last Air in Moscow)

Did Criterion Channel add Milisuthando without announcing it, I swear I've been poring over those monthly lineup posts for years

You can't make me watch another Lynne Ramsay movie, I've played that game before

Notes on Lefty Movie Night or what I've been up to the last four years

You, too, can organize your neighbors around movies substack.com/home/post/p-...

For context I have wanted to read this book for years but it costs like $150 because routledge

Let's gooooooo

Among other things I can't get over how good the Steely Dan needle drop is in One Battle After Another

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we've published five essays in the first few weeks of our 'the ranks of the freaks' series, covering the first half of paul thomas anderson's career! check out the excellent work from @timmarkatos.bsky.social, jeremy zeitlin, @philipchristman.bsky.social, @adamfpetty.bsky.social, and sarah healy!

So is Dea Kulumbegashvili's April just never going to be streaming or

Thanks Kathryn Bigelow I didn't have enough to worry about right now already

Going through old movies and replacing the Wilhelm scream with Alanis Morissette's yelp from the end of All I Really Want

So I see all the usual suspects wasted no time in writing their "here's what Trump gets right about crime in DC" pieces

25 (Non-English-language) Films for the Last 25 Years You can have a listicle as a treat for making it through that Deleuze post

I see your best movies of the 21st century list and I can do you one better
movieenthusiast.substack.com/p/25-non-eng...

Can anyone help me remember which Verso books I was waiting to buy until they're running a sale, they're running a sale

Honestly ChatGPT has been such a game-changer for me. This morning I asked it to teach me how to use a washing machine. Now I don't have to throw out my dirty clothes and buy new ones at the end of every week—and they say this stuff is bad for the environment

Running around D.C. yelling DON'T RANK CUOMO at all of my confused neighbors

We need to figure out what's going on with all these videos that are like "I learned this from the guy at my deli counter" followed by the least useful kitchen hack you've ever seen

Rejected Halloween costume idea: ideological state apparatus

DC is finally getting Caught by the Tides but I'll be out of town for the only screening…we need to coordinate these things better

Some professional news: today I join the UX team at Princeton University Library! If you have opinions about search engines…let's talk

The new Nadav Lapid sounds like a post–October 7 Salò…unsure how I feel about that

Gander Trouble, Judith Butler's unpublished memoir about growing up on a goose farm

If nobody likes this it will be the algorithm's fault for real this time

Sing to me, o Muse, of how dopamine obsession looks in women