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this is Ethan Hawke's first Oscar nomination in the lead category
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Word for the night shift: The President's Cake is not to be missed—one of the few films to reclaim the inner essence of Italian Neorealism—but, caveat spectator, its second week will have fewer daily showtimes.
In his first feature, The President's Cake, set in Iraq in 1990, Hasan Hadi brings new style and new substance to a classic story of children fending for themselves amid social turmoil; now playing, highly recommended:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“The President’s Cake” Is a Neorealist Treasure from Iraq
The first feature by Hasan Hadi, set in 1990, depicts the agonies of war and dictatorship as experienced by a schoolgirl in the course of a high-stakes day.
www.newyorker.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Word for the night shift: The President's Cake is not to be missed—one of the few films to reclaim the inner essence of Italian Neorealism—but, caveat spectator, its second week will have fewer daily showtimes.
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Extraordinary news: Filipiñana has been acquired for distribution by @kinolorber.com and will release it in theatres later this year; congratulations all around, including to viewers who'll get to see it.
Just checked and, unless I've missed the news, neither Filipiñana nor zi has U.S. distribution, which is worrisome; it's for the good of a film to be released not long after it premières; delay hurts, films gather dust on the shelf and seem like old news when they arrive.
Much fun "at" Sundance (at home, online) thanks to two great films that premièred there, Rafael Manuel's Filipiñana and Kogonada's zi; delighted to have seen them, even more so to keep them in mind afterward:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
February 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Extraordinary news: Filipiñana has been acquired for distribution by @kinolorber.com and will release it in theatres later this year; congratulations all around, including to viewers who'll get to see it.
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Heads-up: a comprehensive retrospective of Agnès Varda's films at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social March 13-April 2. Hard to remember how rare most were; notable that what put her definitively into the spotlight, The Gleaners and I, was made loosely, personally, outside norms, after a major flop.
February 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Heads-up: a comprehensive retrospective of Agnès Varda's films at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social March 13-April 2. Hard to remember how rare most were; notable that what put her definitively into the spotlight, The Gleaners and I, was made loosely, personally, outside norms, after a major flop.
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This kind of filmmaking was steadily supplanted by setbound productions and rear projection. There were exceptions, of course, but mean streets on the real mean streets didn’t return until post-WWII, by which time most of the 1910s pioneers had been forgotten.
February 12, 2026 at 4:07 PM
This kind of filmmaking was steadily supplanted by setbound productions and rear projection. There were exceptions, of course, but mean streets on the real mean streets didn’t return until post-WWII, by which time most of the 1910s pioneers had been forgotten.
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Look how Tourneur makes use of a moving train to elevate the horror of a violent killing. We are unsettled by both the attack and the shifting scenery reflected in the glass. You can't get something like this on set, with greenscreen, or CGI.
February 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Look how Tourneur makes use of a moving train to elevate the horror of a violent killing. We are unsettled by both the attack and the shifting scenery reflected in the glass. You can't get something like this on set, with greenscreen, or CGI.
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To make things even more impressive, Tourneur shot much of the film at real locations: city streets, Sing Sing prison. Realism was the other obsession of the 1910s and combining that with cinematic lighting created something special.
February 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
To make things even more impressive, Tourneur shot much of the film at real locations: city streets, Sing Sing prison. Realism was the other obsession of the 1910s and combining that with cinematic lighting created something special.
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Moody lighting wasn't invented for film noir, lighting became increasingly important in the 1910s and films of that decade, like the gangster picture ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE (1915), used light dramatically. Director Maurice Tourneur was also a cinematographer, this was his wheelhouse.
February 12, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Moody lighting wasn't invented for film noir, lighting became increasingly important in the 1910s and films of that decade, like the gangster picture ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE (1915), used light dramatically. Director Maurice Tourneur was also a cinematographer, this was his wheelhouse.
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I loved Akinola Davies Jr's overwhelming swirl of memory and politics in MY FATHER'S SHADOW when I saw it at Cannes.
It love it even more now. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
It love it even more now. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
My Father's Shadow review: An enchanting tale of generational memory
This is an enchanting film.
www.rogerebert.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I loved Akinola Davies Jr's overwhelming swirl of memory and politics in MY FATHER'S SHADOW when I saw it at Cannes.
It love it even more now. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
It love it even more now. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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It was in the paper today!
February 12, 2026 at 1:57 AM
It was in the paper today!
colon cancer is super aggressive. my Dad passed just 35 days after he was diagnosed. it’s awful.
BREAKING: James Van Der Beek, the titular character and star of 'Dawson's Creek,' died at the age of 48 after a battle with cancer, his wife announced on social media reut.rs/4c8wpAn
February 11, 2026 at 8:29 PM
colon cancer is super aggressive. my Dad passed just 35 days after he was diagnosed. it’s awful.
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Really love this list from my dude @rifewithkatie.bsky.social! letterboxd.com/journal/roma...
My Beloved Monster: a starter pack of twenty romantic horror films to die for • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Death, danger, devotion and desire have always been intimate bedfellows: from Universal’s monster movies to the genres’s modern queer and feminine aesthetics, Katie Rife offers a starter pack of twent...
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February 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Really love this list from my dude @rifewithkatie.bsky.social! letterboxd.com/journal/roma...
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35mm frames from Ernst Lubitsch's LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN!
Join us this Thursday at 7:30pm, as @chicagofilmsociety.org presents a 35mm screening of Lubitsch's 1925 Oscar Wilde adaptation, with Live Musical Accompaniment by David Drazin🎶
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
Join us this Thursday at 7:30pm, as @chicagofilmsociety.org presents a 35mm screening of Lubitsch's 1925 Oscar Wilde adaptation, with Live Musical Accompaniment by David Drazin🎶
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
February 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
35mm frames from Ernst Lubitsch's LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN!
Join us this Thursday at 7:30pm, as @chicagofilmsociety.org presents a 35mm screening of Lubitsch's 1925 Oscar Wilde adaptation, with Live Musical Accompaniment by David Drazin🎶
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
Join us this Thursday at 7:30pm, as @chicagofilmsociety.org presents a 35mm screening of Lubitsch's 1925 Oscar Wilde adaptation, with Live Musical Accompaniment by David Drazin🎶
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
She literally nods to Baz’s R+J in her last movie. She’s a massive fan. It’s wild that people don’t see that. Or I guess also don’t jive with R+J. Which is a sad way to go through life imo.
February 10, 2026 at 5:19 AM
She literally nods to Baz’s R+J in her last movie. She’s a massive fan. It’s wild that people don’t see that. Or I guess also don’t jive with R+J. Which is a sad way to go through life imo.
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From our friends at @littlevalleyschool.bsky.social: join filmmaker Lucrecia Martel for her online workshop, The Adventure (February 8 & 15).
Enrollment for US $200 open through Little Valley School; scholarships available. Learn more: littlevalleyschool.org/workshop
Enrollment for US $200 open through Little Valley School; scholarships available. Learn more: littlevalleyschool.org/workshop
February 9, 2026 at 8:51 PM
From our friends at @littlevalleyschool.bsky.social: join filmmaker Lucrecia Martel for her online workshop, The Adventure (February 8 & 15).
Enrollment for US $200 open through Little Valley School; scholarships available. Learn more: littlevalleyschool.org/workshop
Enrollment for US $200 open through Little Valley School; scholarships available. Learn more: littlevalleyschool.org/workshop
It’s Ronald Colman’s birthday today. He’s one of the great actors whose style worked as well in the silent era as it did in the sound studio era. A timelessly elegant leading man.
February 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
It’s Ronald Colman’s birthday today. He’s one of the great actors whose style worked as well in the silent era as it did in the sound studio era. A timelessly elegant leading man.
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Since it is Super Bowl Sunday, for this week’s Silent Sundays piece I wrote about Harold Lloyd’s 1925 film The Freshman, and its ties to 1920s football culture.
When Harold Lloyd Came To The Big Game (Go Bears!)
Silent Sundays: Silent Film Streaming Picks
oldfilmsflicker.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Since it is Super Bowl Sunday, for this week’s Silent Sundays piece I wrote about Harold Lloyd’s 1925 film The Freshman, and its ties to 1920s football culture.
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Brad Pitt really did just get away with being a domestic abuser scott free
February 9, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Brad Pitt really did just get away with being a domestic abuser scott free
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I read through hundreds of emails and scoured through years of correspondence and background information to write this 4600 word report.
It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.
It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...
transnews.network
February 6, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I read through hundreds of emails and scoured through years of correspondence and background information to write this 4600 word report.
It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.
It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.
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Still deeply affected by Benito’s latest album, I wrote a watchlist of things that complement it for @ebertvoices.bsky.social:
www.rogerebert.com/features/mov...
www.rogerebert.com/features/mov...
Movies to Watch if You Love Bad Bunny | Features | Roger Ebert
10 films to watch as accompaniments to Bad Bunny's new hit album.
www.rogerebert.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Still deeply affected by Benito’s latest album, I wrote a watchlist of things that complement it for @ebertvoices.bsky.social:
www.rogerebert.com/features/mov...
www.rogerebert.com/features/mov...
for the night crowd
Since it is Super Bowl Sunday, for this week’s Silent Sundays piece I wrote about Harold Lloyd’s 1925 film The Freshman, and its ties to 1920s football culture.
When Harold Lloyd Came To The Big Game (Go Bears!)
Silent Sundays: Silent Film Streaming Picks
oldfilmsflicker.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:20 AM
for the night crowd
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I ask this genuinely but also knowing the answer: why are the millions and millions of dollars these people have never enough? have some self-respect!
I need journalists to ask Hollywood actors why they’re in pro-AI commercials.
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I ask this genuinely but also knowing the answer: why are the millions and millions of dollars these people have never enough? have some self-respect!
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All of Puerto Rico watching Bad Bunny
a man in a suit and tie is holding his finger to his mouth and saying today we celebrate our independence day .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding his finger to his mouth and saying today we celebrate our independence day .
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
All of Puerto Rico watching Bad Bunny