Will Sloan

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Will Sloan presents Plan 9 from Outer Space - Now Playing In Theater at Metrograph Extended introduction by Will Sloan and a book launch following the screening on Thursday, 10/9

By the way, friendly reminder that the New York launch of my book is this Thursday at Metrograph. I would be earnestly delighted if you could attend. Yes, YOU!
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RidicuLists: The Top Five Literary Works by Ed Wood - Journal - Metrograph Film history is a house with many rooms. In Ridiculists, Will Sloan explore some of its nooks and crannies. For the latest entry, a look at five of the cult independent filmmaker Ed Wood’s finest book...

I wrote about Ed Wood's finest literary works for the Metrograph Journal
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Looks like a good dog

Contemplating the big questions.

(*Criterion Guy voice*) "Oh hell yeah! Gentlemen of the Press (1929) has finally joined the Alpha Video Collection!"

When I see Bari Weiss all I see is Refaat Alareer’s murderer, so I really wish I didn’t have to hear about her this often. Repulsive person.

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Emulsion Ep. 16 – Will Sloan on Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA Ed Wood died the better part of a half-century ago, and to this day his reputation as the world's worst filmmaker persists. Even in this era when seemingly everything can be reclaimed, few have made t...

On the new Emulsion, @willsloanesq.bsky.social joins Nick Newman to discuss his excellent Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA, Wood's sui generis pleasures, where good and bad become indistinguishable, and (briefly) Woody Allen's What's with Baum?

Against the Grain: An Interview with Will Sloan about Ed Wood Will revalues the "worst director of all time"

I interviewed internet personality @willsloanesq.bsky.social about his Ed Wood book over at my substack OLD NEW.

Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA - Paperback Book By Will Sloan For generations, Ed Wood has been known as “the worst director of all time.” This sympathetic critical study repositions the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space as a maverick independent

A limited quantity of my smash-hit book Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA is available from the @vinsyn.bsky.social store.
Why not add it to your monthly pile of Vinegar Syndrome product?
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A cultural boycott of Israel? I mean heck, it sounds easy enough, but then you realize you’d miss out on all that Israeli culture.

Hakeem Jeffries’ “Stop the Republican Shutdown” livestream has just 156 viewers

I have good news

our author @willsloanesq.bsky.social presents Plan 9 from Outer Space at The Metrograph and signs copies of Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA — October 9th, 7PM

Watch the movie. Buy the book. Only then will Criswell’s prophecy make sense.

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Big new movie by a famous acclaimed director about to drop (Fred Olen Ray)

Ed Wood (middle) directing Rene Bond and Rick Lutze in Necromania (1971)

Thanks for the kind words

Ugh, more yellow journalism

Will Sloan presents Plan 9 from Outer Space - Now Playing In Theater at Metrograph Extended introduction by Will Sloan and a book launch following the screening on Thursday, 10/9

🚨 New York 🚨

I will be showing my personal 16mm print of Plan 9 from Outer Space, and signing copies of my hit book Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA, at @Metrograph

Thurs, Oct 9, 7pm

Tix: metrograph.com/film/?vista_...

“You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.”

HBD, Mark Rothko ...

Happy to see Kamala Harris getting shouted at by Palestine protestors during her book events now. Would love to see this sort of energy applied to every genocider from now on - and there are a lot of 'em! Keep it up!

I'll drink to that 🥂

Not yet.

Q&A: Director Henry Jaglom, Author Of 'My Lunches With Orson' Director Henry Jaglom was a close friend of Orson Welles — and with Welles' permission, he recorded several years' worth of their lunchtime conversations. Nearly 30 years after Welles' death, those tr...

Many years ago I interviewed him www.npr.org/2013/07/20/2...

RIP Henry Jaglom.

Jinx, a good girl.

Have you watched this one yet?

Incredible lighting and cinematography in the low-budget Eric Roberts-starring Get Out rip-off movie Woke (2024). Ordinary spaces look like the CGI planets from a Star Wars prequel.

I believe that every second of footage they shot with Paul McCartney probably made the final cut