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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · 3d

⬇️ a must-read! lareviewofbooks.org/article/maus...

oliver evans @olivergevans.bsky.social · 3d

Some reflections on Ed Wood, auteurism, and the differences between yesterday’s bad cinema and today’s corporate slop, in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Oliver Evans reviews "Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood, USA" by Will Sloan: "The worst film by Ed Wood is more interesting than the best film by Ron Howard, Sloan argues, which is admittedly a checkmate."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mausoleum-of-dreams/

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · 24d

the ice tower 🩵🩵🩵

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · 24d

In Focus: Pia Frankenberg starts /tomorrow/ at the ICA ❕
⛸️ The Assault on 35mm and Ain't Nothin' Without You
🩶 followed by an in-person Q&A with Pia
www.ica.art/frankenberg-...

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · 26d

you can now read @caitlinquinlan.bsky.social's lovely essay on Never Sleep Again, the importance of place to Pia Frankenberg, and a cinema of women walking ❤️ >> ica.art/media/11895.pdf

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Sep 12

"In late 1973, she rented two rooms at the Hotel Dante, a seedy joint in North Beach, San Francisco, with Eleanor Coppola ... In their respective rooms, each installed their own work: Hershman Leeson in room 47, Coppola in room 43."

Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Sep 12

💓 Tess Little on Lynn Hershman Leeson's artworks: "They visit the California Department of Motor Vehicles and submit application forms for driving licences. They meet suitors for dates in San Francisco’s Union Square, wearing blonde wigs and Revlon blush." www.anothergaze.com/woman-viewer...

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Sep 11

come to the cinema for Schanelec's minimalist take on melodrama – and my little introduction about that, cinematic Arianes, and an image of happiness – this Saturday >> ica.art/my-sisters-g...

Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Sep 2

www.ica.art/films/schane...

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Sep 5

❤️ ⬆️ ⬇️ @sophiasb.bsky.social on Amy Halpern's Falling Lessons, which 'evokes a range of way of seeing and being in the world. We see a baby bottom up and a woman bottom down. In a moment, everything can turn on its head.' 🌀 www.ica.art/media/11715....

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Sep 2

www.ica.art/films/schane...

Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Sep 2

you can catch me waxing lyrical about Angela Schanelec 🤍 🤍 🤍 before My Sister's Good Fortune and Dreamed Path at the ICA in London on Saturday 13 and Tuesday 30 September
ica.art/my-sisters-g...
ica.art/schanelec-th...

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Aug 26

serendipitous double bill at the ICA on 23 September: walk Marseille with Maren Eggert and Angela Schanelec, then come back to Cinema 1 in the evening to wander post-reunification Berlin with Pia Frankenberg, Lisa Kreuzer, and co🚶‍♀️💜
ica.art/marseille-on...
ica.art/frankenberg-...

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Aug 19

thrilled to confirm Pia Frankenberg will now be joining, in person, for a post-screening Q&A on Friday 19 September! www.ica.art/frankenberg-...

Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Aug 12

for the ICA, i've programmed a comprehensive retrospective of Pia Frankenberg's charming, irreverent cinema. it plays Friday 19–Tuesday 23 September across three screenings, contextualised by new writing and an intro on opening night. more info and on sale here! >> www.ica.art/films/in-foc...

Pia Frankenberg in Ain't Nothin' Without You (1985)

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Aug 12

big thanks to Marie Kloos for introducing me to these delightful films, and to the ICA team 🌟

Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Aug 12

for the ICA, i've programmed a comprehensive retrospective of Pia Frankenberg's charming, irreverent cinema. it plays Friday 19–Tuesday 23 September across three screenings, contextualised by new writing and an intro on opening night. more info and on sale here! >> www.ica.art/films/in-foc...

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Aug 6

sacromonte cave museum 🍶🤍

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jul 8

‘Whenever Thierry Frémaux is asked about the political position of the festival, he replies with a variation on: “Le cinéma, rien que le cinéma.”’

Daniella Shreir at Cannes: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Daniella Shreir · Diary: What happens at Cannes

I arrived in Cannes with a terrible line from Sélection officielle ringing in my head: ‘To paraphrase Woody Allen...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Aug 4

filmmaker interviews from the @opencitydocs.bsky.social's critics workshop are now online! wonderful work ft. words from Maeve Brennan, Diana Allan, John Smith, Alexander Horwath, Saeed Taji Farouky, Armand Yervant Tufenkian, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Morgan Quaintance >> opencitylondon.com/notes/

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Aug 4

www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.p... delighted to be back in FIDback ❤️ i wrote on Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky's colour/character studies, where being alone is red, round, and bouncy for Beatrix, and bluish for others 🔴 🔵

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Jul 19

‘But I wanted to be the first / to tell you that the words / have turned and have transformed themselves: / they are long intelligent fish-faced snakes’

Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Jun 4

‘Does a thick meaty porridge / of language actually nourish?’

Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Jun 4

Angela Winkler and Hanna Schygulla in Margarethe von Trotta's SHEER MADNESS 🖤

Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Mar 21

applications for the Another Gaze x @opencitydocs.bsky.social Critics Workshop are open only until 9PM (UK time) on Monday: opencitylondon.com/news/open-ci... don't miss that deadline! 🕘 Dani and i want to read yr apps!

Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Feb 27

applications are now open for the Open City x Another Gaze Critics Workshop! Dani and i will spend five days talking film and criticism with ten participants and invited speakers, in the context of one of our most exciting festivals... more info here >> opencitylondon.com/news/open-ci...

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Mar 21

best film of last year – don't miss it

Open City Documentary Festival @opencitydocs.bsky.social · Mar 20

We are excited to announce the UK premiere of exergue – on documenta 14, as a prologue to Open City Documentary Festival 2025.

Dimitris Athiridis’ observational study of documenta 14 will screen at the ICA over 3 days from 18-20 April.

🎟️ are now on sale!

opencitylondon.com/year_round/p...

Prologue: exergue - on documenta 14 - Open City Documentary Festival

We are excited to announce the UK premiere of exergue – on documenta 14, screening as a prologue to Open City Documentary Festival 2025. exergue – on documenta Dimitris Athiridis | 2024 | Greece | 8...

opencitylondon.com

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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · Mar 19

applications are open for the locarno critics academy. doing this and meeting everyone involved in 2017 gave me the confidence to write and work in and around film. and now @celizotte.bsky.social is on board too, so it’s even better now.

www.locarnofestival.ch/about/factor...

Locarno Film Festival · Critics Academy

The Locarno Critics Academy is an extensive workshop in film criticism that gives young writers a crucial entry point into the world of film festivals. During...

www.locarnofestival.ch

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Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social · Mar 7

@caitlinquinlan.bsky.social one for you!

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