Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing

Nia DaCosta Injects New Blood Into “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” In this gory sequel to Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later,” an undead threat that has ravaged Britain turns out to be no match for the reality of living human evil.

28 YEARS LATER: BONEHENGE, reviewed. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to Nuisance Bear / U.S.A., Canada (Directors: Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman, Producers: Michael Code, Will N. Miller, Teddy Leifer) — A polar bear is forced to navigate a human world of tourists, wildlife officers, and hunters as its ancient migration collides with modern life. When a sacred predator is branded a nuisance, it becomes unclear who truly belongs in this shared landscape. World Premiere. Available online for public. Jury citation: This film tells an enormous story with great drama, beauty and verve, and powerfully confronts the realities of climate change, the tensions between Indigenous tradition and Western capitalist encroachment, and the complexities of humanity’s relationship with the natural world. It also features a standout sequence that is, like the film itself, humorous, terrifying, and unforgettable. Of all the documentaries we saw, this one was the least … polarizing. The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary goes to Nuisance Bear.

And he was never asked to do another festival jury again. #Sundance

One Last Sundance in Park City The most important film festival in America bade farewell to its Utah roots.

On the end of Sundance as we know it. (Yes, I wrote about Grub Steak.) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Every 1960s Cantonese wuxia film looks like it only exists on a series of glass plates or something.

it looks as though first lady melania trump is making the leap to the silver screen. perhaps now that they have a movie star in the white house, they will be redecorating the oval office with red carpet 🎬

Happy birthday @manilazic.bsky.social!

Happy birthday @elazic.bsky.social!

The Subtle Mysteries of Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother The movie, starring Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett, probes a web of quietly intriguing family relationships.

On Jim Jarmusch’s lo fi enigma machine FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2051...

Sounds of Freedom: The Biden Years On-Screen, Part Three | Los Angeles Review of Books The third installment of ‘The Biden Years On-Screen’ considers the cinematic fallout of cancel culture, the overruling of Roe v. Wade, and the 2022 midterm elections.

In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social today with the third installment of The Biden Years On-Screen with pal and mentor @brofromanother.bsky.social. nobody better. thx Ellie Eberlee, AJ Urquidi and @paulxt.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/joe-...

Scarecrow Capital Campaign We just bought our longtime building on Roosevelt Way! Purchasing our forever home marks a transformative turning point for Scarecrow and provides long-term stability and renewed possibility. We s...

If you need some good news: @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social just bought the building it's in! Throw them some money if you can.

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Clara Law's Immigrant Songs Films from Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and Beyond

New for subscribers only, I watched four of the films in the @metrographnyc.bsky.social's on-going Clara Law retrospective and wrote about them. They're really good!

www.thechinesecinema.com/clara-laws-i...

Excerpt of the book Ten Thousand Bullets: The Cinematic Journey of John Woo that references “Hark” and “Yun-fat” as if those were their surnames.

Imagine writing a whole book about John Woo and not knowing that Tsui Hark is Mr. Tsui and Chow Yun-fat is Mr. Chow.

The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) Or, form vs. content on the occasion of America's semiquincentennial.

I wrote entirely too many words about Birth of a Nation. It's not quite in time for MLK day, but if you feel like reading entirely too many words about Birth of a Nation, I've got you. (Please read this I worked really hard on it.) fcardamenis.substack.com/p/the-birth-...

A young girl holding a cat outside.

Sunday, Feb. 1, 7 p.m.
🎞 “Rear Entrance” (Hong Kong, 1960) — 35mm!

Directed by the legendary Li Han-hsiang of Shaw Brothers fame, “Rear Entrance” tells the moving story of a woman (silent-to-sound era actor Butterfly Woo) who adopts a young girl.

Free! ucla.in/3LY5oVt

35mm Li Han-hsiang coming to LA

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Everyone on the Rose Byrne train this awards season should seek out Clara Law's THE GODDESS OF 1967 (2000) because it's quite something.

this is it. this was the last piece of the puzzle. i now have all i need to make a documentary that's so annoying and shitty that letterboxd turns off the ratings and reviews because they feel bad for me

i'm so excited for tomorrow i can't even sleep. monday is the most magical day of the week, because it's only four days away from whiskey friday with tony dokoupil. that's almost as close to whiskey friday with tony dokoupil as you can get

Sam Darnold:

Never in doubt

Is that Peyton Manning from the motion pictue IS THIS THING ON?

80% of all nfl coaches / coaching candidates are named Mike McMacMikeMichael

@jonbois.bsky.social watching basketball

it's equal parts great and bizarre to see someone in office who seems genuinely proud to be a public servant

think i'm gonna go ahead and scoop the second half of this game into some tupperware. does stidham go bad in the fridge? does anyone know

This is the exact same garbage Chinese state media and Western tankies were peddling about Hong Kong in 2019.

The fact people can autonomously band together, pool resources, rally donations, and organise is truly unthinkable to some folks. Just because you couldn't do it doesn't mean others can't.

I love Jaxon Smith-Njigba very much.

Yuen Biao’s still got it. Arguably the best stunt man ever.