marshlands

hmmm, le cercle rouge? track of the cat?

(although i of all people certainly understand "not making it down to hyde park")

not to be like this but... you did

first views, feb '26:
Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
The Dybbuk (1937)
The Contract (1978)
Security Unlimited (1981)
The Iceman Cometh (1989)
Full Moon in New York (1989)
Lee Rock (1991)
The God of Cookery (1996)
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002)

hbd to the guy!

again not even the barest attempt to manufacture consent. just "i'll decide when i decide" and then overnight bomb a girls' school

good times were had by all

deranged

Dare I ask why

A plug for Criterion's current pre-Code Mervyn LeRoy package.
LeRoy may be no one's idea of an auteur altho Andy S praised his "innate vulgarity." I knew most of them, love FIVE STAR FINAL & THREE ON A MATCH, but HEAT LIGHTNING is a small revelation w typically great work by Glenda Farrell.

tfw youre eric marsh

Now hold on a second

Hong kong filmmakers be like let's go to the really cinematic graveyard

dream team: spotted

those were the days

Fruit Chan repping Gus Van Sant in Made in Hong Kong (1997)

It was in theaters when Pearl Harbor was bombed and was an effective recruiting tool, so technically it covers both 🫡

SOMEONE doesn’t want to win ww2 but go off i guess

i don't know who needs to hear this but before he became a filmmaker Rick Alverson was a competitive figure skater

For the @reverseshot.bsky.social symposium, I wrote about THE TARGET SHOOTS FIRST and the Hi-8 camera, selling out vs. buying in, the shadow of the ’90s on our current moment, and my tenure managing Downtime Magazine. A more personal piece than usual! Check it out! reverseshot.org/symposiums/e...

Image union! That’s elite programming

This is the site that's being studied for the Bears' stadium.

seeing news about a "memory shortage." it's not a shortage. billionaires who hate you hoarded it all so they could make everything worse and stupider and more expensive, just like with most shortages

Don’t worry there’s a whole subset of dweebs who wrongly accuse him of being apolitical

Two interviews with Frederick Wiseman done by the wonderful Wiseman Podcast:
Part 1:
wiseman-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/inte...
Part 2:
wiseman-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/inte...

time to put in some work on the "America as Slaughterhouse" thesis that was being formed around the bicentennial by fred and charles burnett

there's no key that unlocks his entire filmography but Meat might be close... although personally i don't enjoy being in a slaughterhouse

new york loser times

dont let Fred hear you using the o-word buddy