Tom Hall

This is the final scene of RAGING BULL

If you have not seen Jem Cohen's glorious INSTRUMENT, I could not recommend it more highly. ❤️

Why waste your breath moaning at the crowd?
Nothing can be done to stop the shouting.
If every tongue were still, the noise would still continue.

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Losing Robert Wilson is the end of an era. I am privileged to have seen a few of his works, including EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH. There was a time when a new Wilson work would come to BAM & be all I wanted to see. RIP to a great artist.

These are the days my friends, and these are the days my friends.

I watched this so many times as a kid. Thanks for the head's up!

My hometown, my family is still there. It is an outrage that it took this long and that so many were exposed to poison for a decade so the Republican Party in Michigan could performatively humiliate a diverse union stronghold. Investment in Flint is only the beginning of the justice required.

...the value lives. I have my favorite critics and I turn & return to them constantly not to gauge my opinion & experience of work, but to engage with their thinking & to look for new ways of seeing & articulating my own experience. And when I write, I try to be worthy of a reader.

...about individual works, or as a consumer, but its value lies in engaging with the mind of a great critic and grappling with their framework of understanding. As a curator myself (& sometimes writer), I bring my own expertise to the engagement, and that intersection between us is where, for me...

...their perspectives are somehow "equal" to those of everyone else. This is the typical anti-intellectualism that has flattened cultural reporting into list making (which can be fun, but is not criticism) & publicist controlled celebrity interaction. Personally, I don't read reviews to read...

...of critical value & the framework of the emotional experience Brody rightly highlights. Without a deep understanding of the history & meaning of the field, the ability to understand & contextualize new works is, essentially, vibes. Divesting from reviews is yet another signal to experts that...

Enjoyed Richard Brody's defense of criticism, but IMO, it missed one of the crucial values of great criticism, which is the value of expertise in assessing the meaning and quality of work. We are living through a "forever war" on expertise, which is treated as elitism, when it is the scaffolding...

Finally, FINALLY saw Victor Erice’s DREAM OF LIGHT (THE QUINCE TREE SUN) on the big screen in 35mm, first time seeing it again in decades. Always missed other screenings… Not this time! It’s a masterpiece.

I am so excited to work with Tricia and lead this organization together!

Both parts INCREDIBLE

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Unforgettable, eternal greatness.
Rest In Power, #OzzyOsbourne 🦇

...3rd personal plural, no dialogue, no interiority, everything arranged just so, the opacity of self-delusion. Latronico nails it to the point where I am embarrassing myself by creating a post about this book. Get ‘em, sir… ❤️📚

PERFECTION- Ex-pat Millenial creatives build a life around the impossible dream of perfect vibes in 2010’s Berlin & beyond. The manufactured surface of life is exposed as a façade, privilege a golden parachute into more comfortable emptiness...

Same... love Svengoolie! Tonight, seeing this one again, I was struck how it must have been a model for THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW?

New Jersey’s Montclair Film Revives 103-Year-Old Bellevue Theatre New Jersey non-profit Montclair Film has signed a deal to operate the century-old Bellevue Theatre, expanding its footprint in the New York City suburb.

I am proud to say that we at Montclair Film have signed a lease to become the operators of The Bellevue Theatre in Upper Montclair. I am very excited to program & operate this cinema in concert with our ongoing work at The Clairidge, creating a complimentary venue for films & community in Montclair.

CBS Canceling ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ After Next Season

Integrity personified. I am honored to have the opportunity to know Stephen and to work with Evie, and I look forward to this coming year and toward what is next.

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TRON: ARES incoming...🏍️

Fyodor fever: how Dostoevsky became a social media sensation White Nights, the author’s 1848 novella, sounds an unlikely candidate to go viral, but the story of lovelorn loneliness is now a favourite among TikTok and Instagram users

Oh, I love this! 💔📚

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Once again, STRANGE BREW showed us our future. We just refused to recognize what was coming… #EpsteinFiles #TakeOff

youtu.be/YJHsllXZQlQ?...

A total joy last night seeing "Weird Al" Yankovic in NYC! I had a smile on my face for two straight hours– laughter & sing-alongs & pure escapism. What a treasure he is, and what a great band… don’t miss this tour! Absolute delight! ❤️🪗

Still, I can’t help but wonder how much more I would have liked this book if it had taken Merry seriously and thought more deeply from her perspective. That said, very timely and relevant to our own political crisis of protest and cynical indifference. Well worth the read. 📚

and his wrestling with the generational expectations of American upper middle class immigrant life clashes interestingly with a rather conservative dream of “pastoral” contentment.

AMERICAN PASTORAL- The so-called Greatest Generation gets a reckoning when US violence comes home to roost in the wake of the Vietnam War. Roth is a tremendous writer, but also a deeply nostalgic one here...

Malcolm Gladwell's Cockpit Culture Theory and the Asiana Crash When, on Wednesday, a reporter asked National Transportation Safety Board chairman Deborah Hersman about the role of pilot "deference" in the Asiana 214 plane crash, the conversation tu...

I love Nathan Fielder even MORE now, if that is possible? #TheRehearsalSeason2

Montclair’s Non-Profit Network: Stories of Urgency, Impact and Community | The Montclair Pod

Proud to join Farnoosh & Mike on The Montclair Pod to discuss the work of non-profits in the community and highlight a few of values that drive our work at Montclair Film. Thanks for having me on!

Rocky Horror Step behind the curtain of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with photographer Mick Rock in this one-of-a-kind slipcased collection of rarely seen photographs a...

My friend Tim Mohr worked on this new book, & I am so happy to see it is available for pre-order. It is a photographic history of The Rocky Horror Picture Show by the great Mick Rock, who was there for the making of the film. I miss Tim, but I love seeing his work endure. ❤️