7 years ago today, Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez premiered at the Academy Awards
Received a 14 day suspension from Letterboxd because I kept referring to DCPs as "Film+"
Don't tell me what you're passionate about, it will only make me want to confidently state wrong things about it to piss you off.
The peace president is asking other countries to help start World War III
how you'd find me in the criterion closet
bad dreams in the night
Do you ever look at a director and think they're probably bad with money
Hollywood has taught me the power of being annoying and persistent
This story includes the insane detail that Kaouther Ben Hania was awarded at this event alongside the subject of that Road Between Us documentary that played at TIFF after it was initially rejected.
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The arbitrary distinctions that embarrassing statement used to justify its hypocritical stance are, of course, from a place of privilege. And those distinctions have nothing supporting them in the face of daily examples of innocent people becoming victims of political violence.
Just wondering, based off of the Berlinale's recent statement, if Hamdan Ballal and his family fall under the small "p" or capital "P"
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I wrote a little bit about the Montreal Critics' Week and how smaller, regional festivals can create spaces for engaging with new films in ways that major festivals don't.
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cinematic parallels
4 Non Blondes -
I would like my favourite filmmakers to stop dying on or around my birthday.
Films from Jim Jarmusch, Christian Petzold, and Alexandre Koberidze are among @cjprince.bsky.social’s top 10 films of 2025.
The Voice of Hind Rajab is a film noble in its intentions but filled with questionable choices around its execution.
Read @cjprince.bsky.social's review as the Venice winner opens in theaters:
DRACULA (2025, dir. Radu Jude)
My sleep paralysis demon is Ella McKay what do I do
presidential pardon from director jail
This is what happens when trains dream
The groupies are gonna be wild
Anyone else tired
Twitter users coming back here today
Julia Ducournau's Alpha is so, so bad. Like one of the worst films I've ever seen from Cannes Competition bad.
I wrote about Todd Rohal's Fuck My Son! and Radu Jude's Dracula, two films from this month designed to piss off audiences that also happen to use AI. One film is bad, the other is a fun bit of anarchy in the tradition of David Wain/Michael Showalter.
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Shelby Oaks is out this weekend, which I reviewed last year. The version coming out now is different thanks to reshoots and a new polish on the edit, although I suspect it's not enough to address the film's foundational issues.
My review at @thefilmstage.com:
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What if you think One Battle After Another is a fun collection of set pieces and you find its political content largely sealed off/adjacent rather than super urgent/relevant
Come join @cjprince.bsky.social, @tylekurner.bsky.social, Lena Wilson & me on Saturday afternoon as we ponder what we even mean by queer and trans stories? How has this shifted in the last 5, 10, 50 years (or more)?
And what that means for what stories get told, reach you, and are still missing!
