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(having said that, I'm for casting that's interesting, not necessarily faithful to the original text: for me Hamlet can be a woman, a black guy, an old man, doesn't matter as long as you nail the point of the character)
February 4, 2026 at 10:34 PM
(having said that, I'm for casting that's interesting, not necessarily faithful to the original text: for me Hamlet can be a woman, a black guy, an old man, doesn't matter as long as you nail the point of the character)
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My favorite WH adaption by far! She NAILED the book's Romantic sense of Nature, a very very sophisticated take.
Re: Heathcliff -- even if American race categories still confuse me -- is written as a gypsy, dark skin and dark hair. "Lascar" cannot mean "Benedict Cumberbatch", that's for sure.
Re: Heathcliff -- even if American race categories still confuse me -- is written as a gypsy, dark skin and dark hair. "Lascar" cannot mean "Benedict Cumberbatch", that's for sure.
February 4, 2026 at 10:33 PM
My favorite WH adaption by far! She NAILED the book's Romantic sense of Nature, a very very sophisticated take.
Re: Heathcliff -- even if American race categories still confuse me -- is written as a gypsy, dark skin and dark hair. "Lascar" cannot mean "Benedict Cumberbatch", that's for sure.
Re: Heathcliff -- even if American race categories still confuse me -- is written as a gypsy, dark skin and dark hair. "Lascar" cannot mean "Benedict Cumberbatch", that's for sure.
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Just wanna remind folks that Andrea Arnold made a lovely earthy adaptation of WUTHERING HEIGHTS with a non-white actor playing Heathcliff and you should watch it.
February 4, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Just wanna remind folks that Andrea Arnold made a lovely earthy adaptation of WUTHERING HEIGHTS with a non-white actor playing Heathcliff and you should watch it.
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Or, Soderbergh makes all four, in a totally different styles. Since -- I'm not sure that a lot of people, you and I the exceptions, remember that Bob Rafelson invented the Monkees -- I'd name the project Four Easy Pieces.
January 30, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Or, Soderbergh makes all four, in a totally different styles. Since -- I'm not sure that a lot of people, you and I the exceptions, remember that Bob Rafelson invented the Monkees -- I'd name the project Four Easy Pieces.
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I'd see all four of those. Particularly if a different director did each one in a totally different style.
Is somebody going to make four separate biopics about each of The Monkees as counter-programming for the four Beatles movies?
January 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I'd see all four of those. Particularly if a different director did each one in a totally different style.
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I watched IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME last night. It was filmed at my high school, with some of my students. I actually was an extra in it but my part was cut. A lovely lyrical film in the vein of the L.A. Rebellion.
IF GO WILL THEY MISS ME, a heartfelt coming-of-age story set in South Los Angeles, is the kind of a film that Sundance is all about.
I wrote about that, NIGHT NURSE and JARIPEO for my latest Sundance dispatch via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
I wrote about that, NIGHT NURSE and JARIPEO for my latest Sundance dispatch via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
Sundance 2026: If I Go Will They Miss Me, Night Nurse, Jaripeo | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert
On three ambitious films from Sundance's NEXT program.
www.rogerebert.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I watched IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME last night. It was filmed at my high school, with some of my students. I actually was an extra in it but my part was cut. A lovely lyrical film in the vein of the L.A. Rebellion.
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And Green--their scenes work so well because you sense she's having fun, this stuff *excites* her, she projects her intelligence in a way that helps tone down his thuggishness- she's keeping him in line. You can't write *that*. She's almost as fantastic here as she was in Mr Bertolucci's Dreamers.
January 27, 2026 at 1:09 AM
And Green--their scenes work so well because you sense she's having fun, this stuff *excites* her, she projects her intelligence in a way that helps tone down his thuggishness- she's keeping him in line. You can't write *that*. She's almost as fantastic here as she was in Mr Bertolucci's Dreamers.
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Thoughts on the first Craig Bond film. boxd.it/cP3HsD
A ★★★★½ review of Casino Royale (2006)
One of the triumphs of the series. And I have always maintained that Craig, who many INCLUDING MYSELF did not initially think was a great pick, is the definitive Bond. He brings an emotional depth and...
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January 25, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Thoughts on the first Craig Bond film. boxd.it/cP3HsD
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Our Schoenberg.
January 23, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Our Schoenberg.
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David Bowie’s STATION TO STATION turns 50 today.
January 23, 2026 at 3:09 PM
David Bowie’s STATION TO STATION turns 50 today.
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Robert Bresson’s PICKPOCKET returns to the PCC for a final encore screening to meet demand, next Friday 30th Jan. A hypnotic study of a young thief drifting through Paris. Werner Herzog called it “phenomenal… so intense and so beautiful it makes you ache".
🎟️: buff.ly/bdeNg2t
🎟️: buff.ly/bdeNg2t
January 23, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Robert Bresson’s PICKPOCKET returns to the PCC for a final encore screening to meet demand, next Friday 30th Jan. A hypnotic study of a young thief drifting through Paris. Werner Herzog called it “phenomenal… so intense and so beautiful it makes you ache".
🎟️: buff.ly/bdeNg2t
🎟️: buff.ly/bdeNg2t
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The sheer fact that Panahi didn't get like 20 nominations proves that it isn't really about political commitment -- all due respect to PTA whom I really admire, this year the one masterpiece about authoritarianism was Panahi's. I mean, not even close.
January 22, 2026 at 11:01 PM
The sheer fact that Panahi didn't get like 20 nominations proves that it isn't really about political commitment -- all due respect to PTA whom I really admire, this year the one masterpiece about authoritarianism was Panahi's. I mean, not even close.
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There's clearly stuff that for whatever reason the academy doesn't like. No Kidman for Babygirl last year--too hot, I guess. No Pamela Anderson either--her past too cheesy? No Queer, too gay? And this year again: no Guadagnino, this time too uncomfortable and the whole thing is about horrible people
January 22, 2026 at 10:59 PM
There's clearly stuff that for whatever reason the academy doesn't like. No Kidman for Babygirl last year--too hot, I guess. No Pamela Anderson either--her past too cheesy? No Queer, too gay? And this year again: no Guadagnino, this time too uncomfortable and the whole thing is about horrible people
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Bummed Seyfried didn’t get a nomination. Or the film. But you could see that coming.
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January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Bummed Seyfried didn’t get a nomination. Or the film. But you could see that coming.
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Wild that your number #15 would likely make Top 5 for most of JJ's american contemporaries, and any of his top 10 likely make the other's Top 3.
The one bad movie he made is his student essay and he was, what, 25?
The one bad movie he made is his student essay and he was, what, 25?
January 22, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Wild that your number #15 would likely make Top 5 for most of JJ's american contemporaries, and any of his top 10 likely make the other's Top 3.
The one bad movie he made is his student essay and he was, what, 25?
The one bad movie he made is his student essay and he was, what, 25?
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Jim Jarmusch turns 73 today. boxd.it/eP9OI
Jarmusch Ranked
A list of 15 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Dead Man (1995), Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Paterson (2016), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) and Father Mother Sister Brother (2025).
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January 22, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Jim Jarmusch turns 73 today. boxd.it/eP9OI
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Well I guess we'll have to rewatch Elephant Man for the 146th time tonight then!
January 20, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Well I guess we'll have to rewatch Elephant Man for the 146th time tonight then!
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David Lynch was born 80 years ago today.
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January 20, 2026 at 12:52 PM
David Lynch was born 80 years ago today.
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Screening at the PCC in 4K next Sunday 25th Jan and Monday 16th Feb, Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO follows a former detective drawn into a maze of surveillance, obsession and mistaken identity, set against a San Francisco shaped by fear, desire and vertiginous height.
🎟️: buff.ly/7G5PiHB
🎟️: buff.ly/7G5PiHB
January 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Screening at the PCC in 4K next Sunday 25th Jan and Monday 16th Feb, Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO follows a former detective drawn into a maze of surveillance, obsession and mistaken identity, set against a San Francisco shaped by fear, desire and vertiginous height.
🎟️: buff.ly/7G5PiHB
🎟️: buff.ly/7G5PiHB
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David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.
January 16, 2026 at 6:47 PM
David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.
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He's a hero of mine, a hero, and you know I don't use this word lightly.
And indeed, sometimes you only need *one film*.
Mr. De Sica would be very proud of his disciple.
And indeed, sometimes you only need *one film*.
Mr. De Sica would be very proud of his disciple.
January 13, 2026 at 12:14 AM
He's a hero of mine, a hero, and you know I don't use this word lightly.
And indeed, sometimes you only need *one film*.
Mr. De Sica would be very proud of his disciple.
And indeed, sometimes you only need *one film*.
Mr. De Sica would be very proud of his disciple.
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As a student and critic of Criterion Closet videos (I have considered creating a podcast where I just review Criterion Closet videos but I am too old, busy, and serious for such things), I hail this one as a masterpiece of the genre. youtu.be/SqH9WnGf-ns?...
Jafar Panahi’s Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
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January 12, 2026 at 9:29 PM
As a student and critic of Criterion Closet videos (I have considered creating a podcast where I just review Criterion Closet videos but I am too old, busy, and serious for such things), I hail this one as a masterpiece of the genre. youtu.be/SqH9WnGf-ns?...
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I was thinking about him last week, I rewatched Alien the way I regularly do-- and the way he (with Giler) sets this perfect mechanism in motion, the sheer economy of means, the inevitability.
Truly an American master, cinema is lucky to have him.
Truly an American master, cinema is lucky to have him.
January 11, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I was thinking about him last week, I rewatched Alien the way I regularly do-- and the way he (with Giler) sets this perfect mechanism in motion, the sheer economy of means, the inevitability.
Truly an American master, cinema is lucky to have him.
Truly an American master, cinema is lucky to have him.
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Walter Hill turns 84 today.
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January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Walter Hill turns 84 today.
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Our WEEKLY LISTINGS for Friday 9th Jan to Thursday 15th Jan. What a week of movies!
January 9, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Our WEEKLY LISTINGS for Friday 9th Jan to Thursday 15th Jan. What a week of movies!