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R. Emmet Sweeney

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Kino Lorber / occasional film critic at oldnew.substack.com

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · Mar 11

I hard launched a Substack called Old New to get all these cursed thoughts out of my head: oldnew.substack.com

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 19h

That's me, July 1969, in Colorado where Ken somewhat improbably was teaching at the Aspen School of the Arts & I even less probably was his feckless 20-year-old assistant. I learned how to thread a Kalart Victor (& outside of class dropped acid & had the revelation that Everything is Now.)
Thx Rob!

R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 22h

😎 @jhoberman.bsky.social pic by Ken Jacobs

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 3h

My pleasure! And nice shades.

R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 22h

😎 @jhoberman.bsky.social pic by Ken Jacobs

R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 23h

"Ken Jacobs" by Art Spiegelman (2008, reprinted in Binghamton Babylon)

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d

www.villagevoice.com/witnessing-a...

The ultimate underground movie--a lyrical junkyard allegory annotated w chunks of mainly ’30s found footage. “A documentary showcase for the underdog’s spontaneous, uncontrolled fantasy” (Parker Tyler), desperately, despairingly beautiful, never more relevant.

danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social · 1d

Star Spangled to Death (2004; Ken Jacobs)

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 1d

Made the family watch Orchard Street (1955). A crowd pleaser!

R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 1d

Much appreciated, thank you.

R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 1d

He posted it in full over here! vimeopro.com/kenjacobs/st...

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 1d

Ken Jacobs in The Whirled (1961)

R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 1d

I was able to interview Ken Jacobs for Metrograph in 2022: metrograph.com/ken-jacobs/

Ken Jacobs

An interview with Ken Jacobs.

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 1d

It was one of the great honors of my life to have Ken Jacobs as a teacher, and then to work with him on releasing a Blu-ray collection of his work. One of the true geniuses of the cinema. RIP.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)

A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.

www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 5d

Translation of Eric Rohmer's first and only book out in July 2026: www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/elis...

Élisabeth — McNALLY EDITIONS

Éric Rohmer Foreword by André Aciman Translated from the French by Aaron Kerner Witty banter, lust, ennui, and an undercurrent of violence underlie a seemingly paradisiacal summer on the eve...

www.mcnallyeditions.com

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 5d

At the movies

R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks big dog

R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 5d

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

Against the Grain: An Interview with Will Sloan about Ed Wood

Will revalues the "worst director of all time"

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 7d

It's been over a decade since Parker (2013), but somehow 2025 is Donald E. Westlake szn with 3 of his books adapted for film..directed by Shane Black (Play Dirty), Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice), and Duke Johnson (The Actor).

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 7d

Zaror is an inspiring independent film artist/action god. Enjoyed this peek into his process. Wrote a bit about Affinity in my Big Bad Film Fest coverage: oldnew.substack.com/p/dtv-action...

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Out today from Andrea Janes & @leannareneehieber.bsky.social!🚨 Publisher's Weekly sez it's a "Spine-tingling investigation of ghostly mayhem and gory deeds." Buy a copy or I will be lock you inside a secret room in my fogbound mansion!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781356...

America’s Most Gothic by Leanna Renee Hieber, Andrea Janes: 9780806543741 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

From the Bram Stoker nominated author team who penned A Haunted History of Invisible Women, the first book of its kind to investigate gothic tropes that define American lore. Here is the hidden, dark ...

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 12d

mailchi.mp/filmcomment/...
Crashing into the zeitgeist against who-knows-what headwinds, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a kick-ass, madcap, antifascist action flick—imagine Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames on big-budget steroids, served over ICE... Not only tumultuous but funny.

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 12d

Henry Threadgill’s Listen Ship is out today via Pi Recordings
- a 6 guitar-2 piano voyage through interstellar space. I wrote about the world premiere performance at the Long Play Festival earlier this year…https://oldnew.substack.com/p/with-ears-wide-open-long-play-festival

R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 14d

Had an animated chat with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social about his brilliant new Miyazaki book, formative Ghibli moments, and totalitarian parakeets. It's over at my Old New substack: oldnew.substack.com/p/flibberti-...

Flibberti-Ghibli: Nicolas Rapold on The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki

An interview with Nicolas Rapold on his new Miyazaki book, totalitarian parakeets, and the lonely life of pilots

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 14d

A Working Man is the absolute nadir of Jason Statham's otherwise flawless filmography.

R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 14d

RIP Claudia Cardinale
Gebo and the Shadow
(dir. Manoel de Oliveira, 2012)

R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 15d

The DOGTOOTH 4KUHD + BD set I produced for @kinolorber.com is out next week! Fun for the whole family! kinolorber.com/product/dogt...

Dogtooth | Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema

Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar® nomination for Best Foreign Lan...

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