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Somebody let me program a Change pas de Main (1975) + New Rose Hotel (1998) double feature

ICA | In Focus: Luc Moullet The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

TWO NARROW MARGIN ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1) I have curated a three night programme of some of Luc Moullet’s films and shorts at the ICA next month: www.ica.art/films/in-foc...

A review of After the Hunt (2025) Every year I see at least one film, possibly a handful, where I think, “This should have been directed by Paul Verhoeven.” The screenplay is stupid, which is not to say it is bad (though it frequently...

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Swap out Marnie w Notorious and we’re the same

Locking in soon

Post a poster you have hanging on your wall

Searching for a Political Cinema On One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson, John Ford

Started a substack, wrote about One Battle After Another (and The Searchers), check it out: open.substack.com/pub/seer2005...

A ★★★★★ review of 7 Women (1965) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

Best movie ever boxd.it/aXYk0r

An essential American filmmaker. boxd.it/aWO32h

A review of Sinners (2025) x.com/HitFactoryPod/status/1961084078909972611 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiH6p6MORbY I had been thinking a lot lately of the severe limitations of the IMAX film format and its relationship with a lot of...

Wrote about my problems with Sinners, IMAX, and the way people think/talk about cinematography. boxd.it/aVa8hH

YouTube video by Spit Records Public Image Limited - Chant (Live on Check It Out 1979).

The British were never better than this youtu.be/tKFLu-HiL-4?...

The spiritual godfather of AI art

70 — Zorns Lemma
71 — La Region Centrale
72 — L’eta di Cosimo de Medici
73 — F for Fake
74 — Lancelot du lac
75 — Jeanne Dielman
76 — Tras-os-Montes
77 — Le Camion
78 — Amor de Perdição
79 — France/tour/detour/deux/enfants

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Prince in a red turtleneck with a sort of floral pattern with holes revealing skin. holding pink and red flowers. black pompadour, beard, hot. "I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me."

Without saying When Doves Cry, fav Prince Song?

virtually all of your irritation with mediocrities and worse in ‘the arts’ can be assuaged by remembering that in the long run sucking is its own punishment

And as far as syncing up with the feel of pre-Crisis stuff, I think mainly the stuff Jerry Ordway was doing in in like Adventures of Superman has it down better. I think he’s the real unsung hero of this era, the link between Byrne’s years and the 90s triangle era

HOLY SHIT IVE BEEN PRAYING FOR TIMES LIKE THESE. My skull weighs like an anvil rn but finally a good part of my week

A review of Superman (2025) To start off, I'll say simply that James Gunn is often a bad filmmaker in a lot of the obvious ways. This tic he's picked up of filming things in the widest lens possible, paired with a hyperbolic mov...

Superman is one of the best and most interesting pop culture inventions ever, honestly. He’s also been in stories that often suck for the past several decades or so, including this one. How do you explain the contradiction? boxd.it/akQNz9

We can all b too sectarian abt this or that thing, definitely me, and I really don’t want to hold onto it so much. Im also p drunk lol. So yeah don’t worry about it so much man

💀 well go on ig lol

And given the relative obscurity of many of these video works, they still bear being cited as worthwhile counterexamples.

includes most of those people writing think pieces and the like, influencing the people who continue to pen “criticism” today without any formal literacy. Godard’s an antidote not always for particular conclusions he teaches so much as his means of exploration and articulation…

I guess, but, I don’t think we should accept less. Godard was not perfect, at times incoherent, prone to plenty of overstatements. I’ve read those 70s lectures of his. YouTube essayists are bad but they’re one bad problem in a culture industry that…

...table, and got (inadequate) credit and payment, but no share in future earnings?

Comics history is like an advent calendar of abuses. Always something new behind the next door.

Loathe the people who try to fit things into the trend of “things always change, they don’t get worse”. The inflation of the Hollywood machine and its move further into the hand of financiers has only spelt its decline. In Hollywood things really do get only worse. Hollywood never had a future.

Rewatching any of Godard's video work and how do you not go back to, like, YouTube video essayists trying to talk about film and not view them as sub-literate cavemen. Godard made me realize that, yeah, there's not much real good film "content" on YouTube.

But it’s no The Hustler

To be fair The Color of Money actually probably is better than GoodFellas and Taxi Driver