avant-garde capitalization in cobble hill cinemas preshow reel
my new notebook "cutscenes" column is an argument against the cutscene itself, proposing - by way of everything from MANIAC MANSION to ELDEN RING - that video game storytelling should be medium-specific and involve more than moving images that suspend the player's control.
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Talked to Matt Johnson about lenticular storytelling, being annoying, and studying Norman McClaren in film class mubi.com/en/notebook/...
this post presented by Jet Blue “FlyFi”……..
always a pleasure to chat sundance with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social — some fun films on deck this year. listen in here to learn how to make gatorade at home or make long distance calls for free: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
in @reverseshot.bsky.social two cents on some extremely unusual home cleaning behavior! scroll until you see him: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
film criticism is everywhere:
The good people at Notebook asked me to write about the restored Fall of Otrar. Of course, I turned in an essay on the deep strangeness of past worlds: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
a dark day for public radio when brian lehrer is forced to say the word “grokipedia”
DYING to get in on conversation behind me at restaurant about “diegetic” / “non-diegetic” …………..
the neil hamburger to sinatra’s “trilogy: past present future” pipeline
don’t miss laura on the viennale!
man on subway platform with penn and teller ball cap and NIN varsity jacket……..
happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...
happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...
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exactly. thank you
was offered a seat on the subway bc i was cradling a personal pizza box as if it were a child
olympic-level snack wrapper crinkling was ongoing behind me for the final 40 minutes of the “last night i conquered the city of thebes” p&i
one thing about film festivals in 2025 is that so many people will have their ringer on
way to go grandpa
with the realization that i am recognizing more and more films in a festival preshow reel, my heart surges with Power…………
my eyes snap open and my pupils contract
it just stopped me dead in my tracks
