Films at First Sight

Persona | Review by Susan Sontag - Scraps from the loft Susan Sontag reviews Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" for Sight and Sound magazine

3/6/67: Ingmar Bergman's Persona (NYC) 🙏🙏
w/Bibi & Liv, + Gunnar
From Us: midcenturycinema.org/2017/03/09/5...
More:
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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Susan Sontag: scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/perso...

in your relationship who is the Mahiro and who is the Chisato

Identikit (AKA The Driver's Seat) (1974)

Directed by #GiuseppePatroniGriffi
Starring by #ElizabethTaylor #IanBannen #GuidoMannari
#MonaWashbourne #LuigiSquarzina #MaxenceMailfort #AndyWarhol

Cinematography by #VittorioStoraro
Music by #FrancoMannino

#Identikit #TheDriversSeat #Cinemaitaliano

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Submit your film to the 2026 Access:Horror Film Festival today – filmfreeway.com/accesshorror  

Late deadline: March 31st
Extended deadline: April 30th
Last Chance: May 31st

#accesshorror #filmfestival #horrorfilms #independentfilmmakers #independentfilmmaking

Calling all cinephiles!
This April, @wcfilmfestival.bsky.social is back at it, delivering a bevy of #ShortFilm goodness for the masses & in their 20th year, they prove once again that they are a true champion of the format. Don't believe us? Check out their INSANE lineup below!
#FilmSky #FilmFest 📽️

This movie changed our lives at @genrevision.com. Watch it on @shudder.com or @eternalfamily.bsky.social and be transformed. genrevision.com/posts/boxers...

Cover art for our episode about The Boxer's Omen

While @shudder.com still has a handful of Kuei Chih-Hung flicks, you SHOULD NOT sleep on his psychotronic masterpiece, The Boxer's Omen. And afterwards, check out our episode where Graham remains flabbergasted at what he just witnessed. Available wherever you get your podcasts!
#HorrorSky #MutantFam

We are covering this later this month and the temptation NOT to finally sit down and watch it is REAL 😅

Baby Assassins (2021)

Le Samouraï (1967)

The Hit (1984)

Revolver Lily (2023)

The upcoming slate of films that we're covering is absolutely KILLER 🤗
#FilmSky 🎥

'Blades Of The Guardians' Review - Yuen Woo-Ping's 60-Year Convergence Of Martial Arts Film History This is what martial arts diehards have been waiting to see, and from a master entering his 80s, that is no small feat.

Woo-Ping brings the fucking fire with the first film he's made officially in his 80s, BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS.

Theatrical attendance recommended!

Cover art for our episode about Dead Souls

New Episode Alert!
Graham may still be stuck in the Forbidden Zone (sorry for the audio technical difficulties!), but luckily Joe broke him free long enough to chat about Alex Cox's latest, Dead Souls, which screened at SF Indie Fest.
Tune in wherever you get your podcasts!
#FilmSky 🎥 #WesternSky

In one week, EEPHUS slides into our home theater for a special 1-year-anniversary screening! Come out to @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social for a matinee screening next Saturday!

Get your tickets now: https://bit.ly/4rztFka

Hard-to-see great film alert: ALL THAT JAZZ is on TCM Sunday night.

If it is one thing that Joe loves, it's a sweaty-ass movie and if The Treasure of Sierra Madre doesn't fit that bill, we don't know what does. So, if you're in the Tri-State Area, come out on 3/7 to the Oaks Cinema Center to see John Huston's MASTERPIECE on 16mm!! Details below!
#FilmSky #16mm 📽️

Alain Delon Noir, Romance, & Thrillers Alain Delon Noir, Romance, & Thrillers Unranked List 1. Le Samouraï (1967) Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville archive.org/details/LeSamourai1967720pBRripX265HEVC10bitPoOlLa 2. L’Eclisse (1962) Directed ...

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This is one of the first lists I made with links in the description box to freely watch films; it was last updated over 3 years ago & has over 40 films:

Alain Delon Noir, Romance, & Thrillers
letterboxd.com/wahrhaftig/l...

@marcikay.bsky.social

#FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #FilmSky 📽️

New Episode Alert!
We got together IN 3D with Wit from the Another '80s Podcast to check out & chat about Exhumed Films 3D Spectacular at the Colonial Theatre. That's right, it's a Triple Feature of '80s sci-fi flicks on 35mm and in 3D! 😎🌌
Tune in wherever you get your podcasts!
#FilmSky 🎥 #SciFiSky

Poster for Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn

Poster for Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

Poster for Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

Illness and life may have gotten in the way of our regularly scheduled programing, but tomorrow we are back AND IN 3D. Well, not really us, but we will be talking about a recent 3D presentation of a few sci-fi flicks from the early-to-mid Eighties!
#FilmSky #3D #AnimationSky #SciFiSky 📽️

Dead Souls by Alex Cox (2025) #Almeria
#Photography #illustration #Art #Cinema #Movies #Filmsky #MovieHistory #MovieSky #Western #Andalucia #Nature #Landscape #Desert 🎬📽️ 🎥 📸 🌵

Opinion | John Frankenheimer Pointed His Camera Toward the Things We Cannot Escape (Published 2023)

BOTD John Frankenheimer!!
MCCT5: 5)Walk the Line 4)Gypsy Moths 3)7 Days in May 2)Seconds 1)Manchurian Candidate
Drove Bobby to the Ambassador Hotel
More:
@filminquiry.bsky.social: www.filminquiry.com/film-inquiry...
@jamellebouie.net: www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/o...

Thanks to the folks over at Sons of Thunder Studios, the poster for the event is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Films at First Sight with Caitlin Grant from the Plug It Up Podcast and Deke from Sidetrackd16 join us to chat about Yorgos Lanthimos' conspiracy laden trip, Bugonia.

New Episode Alert!
Caitlin from the Plug It Up Podcast and Deke from Sidetrackd16 join us to talk about aliens, torture, conspiracy theories, and the importance of staying moisturized, with Yorgos Lanthimos' wickedly funny new film, Bugonia.
Tune in wherever you get your podcasts!
#FilmSky 🎥 #Oscars

anya in the trade offer meme pose of steepling her hands together while looking expectantly at the camera in her bedroom. she is wearing a pair of over-ear headphones

trade offer

you receive:
me gushing and info dumping about 2021's BABY ASSASSINS on your podcast

i receive:
the satisfaction and serotonin rush of gushing and info dumping about 2021's BABY ASSASSINS on your podcast

Unfortunately, Ben Vareen is not available to console you if you wait too long before making the CORRECT decision and get a ticket for this MASTERPIECE 📽️

Cuts I Like
All That Jazz (1979)
Directed by Bob Fosse
Edited by Alan Heim ACE

Horror Bowl V: Hammer Time » The Colonial Theatre

This Sunday, escape from the maw of sports & capitalism down at the Colonial Theatre, HAMMER-STYLE! That's right, it's a terrifying TRIPLE FEATURE w/ Horror of Dracula, Vampire Circus, and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, all on 35mm! Details below!!
#FilmSky #HorrorSky #MutantFam 📽️🧛🎪⚡🔥

Films at First Sight, Episode 82: Reedland (2025)

New Episode Alert!
Deke from Sidetrackd16 joins us as we explore a seemingly peaceful rural countryside that is suddenly disrupted when the body of a young girl is found amongst the reeds. From 2025, it's Sven Bresser's Reedland.
Tune in wherever you get your podcasts!
#FilmSky 🎥 #DutchCinema

Films at First Sight: Episode 49: Seconds (1966) Life isn't full of too many second chances but what happens when you are given a new lease on life? Now that's a big question for a small podcast. Luckily for us, friend of the show, Steve is here to ...

And then check out one of the greatest episodes of Films at First Sight we ever made:

filmsatfirstsight.libsyn.com/episode-49-s...

Go see one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made 🤩🎥

The Principles of Continuous Action - action-cinema.com In this post I turn to the issue of what constitutes continuous action. Consider the recurrent scene in which the protagonist and the antagonist of a film are locked in some type of combat and pause t...

My post on the principles of continuous action has been published on my website. I set out 15 principles that present the conditions under which action continuity can be established in a film.

It's showtime, folks! 🙌