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Devotional underground cinema, buried touchstones; no “players” and no Netflix contracts
The Seventh Continent (Michael Heneke, 1989): the role of television and money in contemporary, affectless violent
September 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The Seventh Continent (Michael Heneke, 1989): the role of television and money in contemporary, affectless violent
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Nicholas Ray (with scenes from his film "Johnny Guitar") - BOTD
August 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Nicholas Ray (with scenes from his film "Johnny Guitar") - BOTD
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"...I made choices very early on not to do certain work and to be always in a position where I decide what I do, how I do it..."
Now in Issue 113, an interview with filmmaker Raoul Peck about his work and his 2024 documentary, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/intervi...
Now in Issue 113, an interview with filmmaker Raoul Peck about his work and his 2024 documentary, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/intervi...
An Interview with Raoul Peck about Ernest Cole: Lost and Found – Senses of Cinema
www.sensesofcinema.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"...I made choices very early on not to do certain work and to be always in a position where I decide what I do, how I do it..."
Now in Issue 113, an interview with filmmaker Raoul Peck about his work and his 2024 documentary, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/intervi...
Now in Issue 113, an interview with filmmaker Raoul Peck about his work and his 2024 documentary, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/intervi...
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Material Interests: A Personal History of U.S Black Analog Experimental Filmmakers - In Conversation with Christopher J. Harris. July 26th, 18h - not/nowhere, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...
Material Interests: A Personal History of U.S Black Analog Experimental Filmmakers
Material Interests: A Personal History of U.S Black Analog Experimental Filmmakers In Conversation with Christopher J. HarrisJoin us for a talk by artist-filmmaker Christopher J. Harris on July 26th @...
expcinema.org
July 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Material Interests: A Personal History of U.S Black Analog Experimental Filmmakers - In Conversation with Christopher J. Harris. July 26th, 18h - not/nowhere, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...
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With The Gleaners and I, Varda was liberated by her digital camera to produce a more intimate form of documentary essay, marked by a deft political approach and a remarkable lightness of touch
In 2001, she talked about mixing the personal, the political and the potato www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
In 2001, she talked about mixing the personal, the political and the potato www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Agnès Varda on The Gleaners and I
With The Gleaners and I, Agnès Varda was liberated by her digital camera to produce a more intimate form of documentary essay, marked by a deft political approach and a remarkable lightness of touch. ...
www.bfi.org.uk
July 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
With The Gleaners and I, Varda was liberated by her digital camera to produce a more intimate form of documentary essay, marked by a deft political approach and a remarkable lightness of touch
In 2001, she talked about mixing the personal, the political and the potato www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
In 2001, she talked about mixing the personal, the political and the potato www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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A 35mm double bill of '80s cult classics! THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985) & REPO MAN (1984) screen next weekend, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, July 4th, 5th & 6th. Tickets: buff.ly/qFtOhAA
June 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
A 35mm double bill of '80s cult classics! THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985) & REPO MAN (1984) screen next weekend, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, July 4th, 5th & 6th. Tickets: buff.ly/qFtOhAA
Le Livre d'image (The Image Book, 2018, Jean-Luc Godard): the failures of western cinema, esp in regard to the Middle East
June 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Le Livre d'image (The Image Book, 2018, Jean-Luc Godard): the failures of western cinema, esp in regard to the Middle East
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Kogonada's first feature, Columbus, from 2017, a surprise from the start with its very title and quietly exhilarating throughout, has stayed with me more vividly than many more heralded films; now it's on Tubi, so no excuses:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Revisiting “Columbus,” a Thrilling Drama of Growing Up Modernist
Kogonada’s first feature, starring Haley Lu Richardson, John Cho, and Parker Posey, highlights the inspirational power of the architecture for which Columbus, Indiana, is famed.
www.newyorker.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Kogonada's first feature, Columbus, from 2017, a surprise from the start with its very title and quietly exhilarating throughout, has stayed with me more vividly than many more heralded films; now it's on Tubi, so no excuses:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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#Film89ShotOfTheDay
No.2774
Throne of Blood (1957)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cinematographer: Asakazu Nakai
No.2774
Throne of Blood (1957)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cinematographer: Asakazu Nakai
June 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
#Film89ShotOfTheDay
No.2774
Throne of Blood (1957)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cinematographer: Asakazu Nakai
No.2774
Throne of Blood (1957)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cinematographer: Asakazu Nakai
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6/8/77: Chantal Akerman's News From Home
Her greatest film, + essential NYC #70s time-capsule
More:
@phuonghhle.com: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@jhoberman.bsky.social: www.artforum.com/features/j-h...
Fugel/ @bwdr.bsky.social: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/09/14/n...
Her greatest film, + essential NYC #70s time-capsule
More:
@phuonghhle.com: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@jhoberman.bsky.social: www.artforum.com/features/j-h...
Fugel/ @bwdr.bsky.social: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/09/14/n...
News From Home (1977): Ode To The Death & Life Of One Great American City
News from Home reminds us that film, as an art form, is only capable of reconstructing, re-making paths that have already been trod.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
June 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
6/8/77: Chantal Akerman's News From Home
Her greatest film, + essential NYC #70s time-capsule
More:
@phuonghhle.com: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@jhoberman.bsky.social: www.artforum.com/features/j-h...
Fugel/ @bwdr.bsky.social: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/09/14/n...
Her greatest film, + essential NYC #70s time-capsule
More:
@phuonghhle.com: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@jhoberman.bsky.social: www.artforum.com/features/j-h...
Fugel/ @bwdr.bsky.social: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/09/14/n...
THE MASTERMIND (Kelly Reichardt, 2025)
THE MASTERMIND | Official Clip | Coming Soon
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May 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
THE MASTERMIND (Kelly Reichardt, 2025)
SHOWING UP (Kelly Reichardt, 2022)
May 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
SHOWING UP (Kelly Reichardt, 2022)
Jean-Pierre Leaud in STOLEN KISSES, THE MOTHER & THE WHORE, WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? AND LA CHINOISE.
May 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Jean-Pierre Leaud in STOLEN KISSES, THE MOTHER & THE WHORE, WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? AND LA CHINOISE.
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HBD Jean-Pierre Léaud!!! MCCT5 5)Day For Night (Truffaut) 4)Irma V (Assayas) 3)Mother/W (Eustache) 2)Masculin Féminin (Godard) 1)400 B (Truffaut)
More:
@jhoberman.bsky.social: nyti.ms/2nMcKyd
Assayas: www.filmcomment.com/blog/visions...
@habibandre.bsky.social: www.sensesofcinema.com/2018/stardus...
More:
@jhoberman.bsky.social: nyti.ms/2nMcKyd
Assayas: www.filmcomment.com/blog/visions...
@habibandre.bsky.social: www.sensesofcinema.com/2018/stardus...
May 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
HBD Jean-Pierre Léaud!!! MCCT5 5)Day For Night (Truffaut) 4)Irma V (Assayas) 3)Mother/W (Eustache) 2)Masculin Féminin (Godard) 1)400 B (Truffaut)
More:
@jhoberman.bsky.social: nyti.ms/2nMcKyd
Assayas: www.filmcomment.com/blog/visions...
@habibandre.bsky.social: www.sensesofcinema.com/2018/stardus...
More:
@jhoberman.bsky.social: nyti.ms/2nMcKyd
Assayas: www.filmcomment.com/blog/visions...
@habibandre.bsky.social: www.sensesofcinema.com/2018/stardus...
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Michael Almereyda’s 2000 adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the last great modern Shakespeare film.
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The Unfortunate Timelessness of Almereyda's Hamlet
Michael Almereyda’s 2000 adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the last great modern Shakespeare film.
filmobsessive.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Michael Almereyda’s 2000 adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the last great modern Shakespeare film.
filmobsessive.com/film/film-fe...
filmobsessive.com/film/film-fe...
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"America's In Real Trouble" (1967, Tom Palazzolo, 16mm)
America's In Real Trouble
A cynical look at America's might, both military and civilian, to the tune of pop songs, filmed at Chicago's Memorial Day parade.
collections.chicagofilmarchives.org
May 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"America's In Real Trouble" (1967, Tom Palazzolo, 16mm)
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5/22/98 Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine, w/J R Myers, Ewan McGregor, Toni Collette & Eddie Izzard imagined as Bowie, Lou, iggy & co
Bookend w/Haynes spectacular VU doc
More:
@carolinesiede.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/velvet-goldm...
S Dalton: www.bfi.org.uk/features/vel...
Bookend w/Haynes spectacular VU doc
More:
@carolinesiede.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/velvet-goldm...
S Dalton: www.bfi.org.uk/features/vel...
Velvet Goldmine: 20 years on, has the time come for Cool Britannia’s Citizen Kane?
In the Britpop era, few films came more wildly ambitious than Todd Haynes’ kaleidoscopic glam-rock epic Velvet Goldmine. Now Bowie is dead and Britain has turned a corner, is it time for a reappraisal...
www.bfi.org.uk
May 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
5/22/98 Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine, w/J R Myers, Ewan McGregor, Toni Collette & Eddie Izzard imagined as Bowie, Lou, iggy & co
Bookend w/Haynes spectacular VU doc
More:
@carolinesiede.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/velvet-goldm...
S Dalton: www.bfi.org.uk/features/vel...
Bookend w/Haynes spectacular VU doc
More:
@carolinesiede.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/velvet-goldm...
S Dalton: www.bfi.org.uk/features/vel...
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Alphaville
1965 • Jean-Luc Godard
1965 • Jean-Luc Godard
May 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Alphaville
1965 • Jean-Luc Godard
1965 • Jean-Luc Godard
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OPEN CALL VIDEOBARDO International Video Poetry Festival, 29 Years (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Deadline August 10th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
OPEN CALL VIDEOBARDO International Video Poetry Festival, 29 Years
Videobardo International Videopoetry Festival, invites artists, filmmakers, poets, and experimenters of audiovisual language to participate in its 2025 edition. Since 1996, Videobardo has brought toge...
expcinema.org
May 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
OPEN CALL VIDEOBARDO International Video Poetry Festival, 29 Years (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Deadline August 10th expcinema.org/site/en/call...
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HIS HEAD WAS A SLEDGEHAMMER: RICHARD FOREMAN IN RETROSPECT
May 21 – 28
Program details: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...
May 21 – 28
Program details: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...
May 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
HIS HEAD WAS A SLEDGEHAMMER: RICHARD FOREMAN IN RETROSPECT
May 21 – 28
Program details: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...
May 21 – 28
Program details: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...
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Juliet Berto and Jacques Rivette on the set of OUT 1 (1971)
May 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Juliet Berto and Jacques Rivette on the set of OUT 1 (1971)
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5/19/56: Kubrick's The Killing (co-W Jim Thompson) w/Mr. Sterling Hayden, Timothy Carey & Elisha Cook Jr.
More:
@wendyide.bsky.social: www.thetimes.com/article/clas...
Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea...
@kimmorgan.bsky.social: sunsetgun.typepad.com/sunsetgun/20...
More:
@wendyide.bsky.social: www.thetimes.com/article/clas...
Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea...
@kimmorgan.bsky.social: sunsetgun.typepad.com/sunsetgun/20...
Endings: Stanley Kubrick's The Killing
From my piece in the May issue of Sight & Sound, out on stands now, the ending of Stanley Kubrick's the Killing. Nicely edited for space (yes, I went over word count) my editor kindly allowed me to pu...
sunsetgun.typepad.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
5/19/56: Kubrick's The Killing (co-W Jim Thompson) w/Mr. Sterling Hayden, Timothy Carey & Elisha Cook Jr.
More:
@wendyide.bsky.social: www.thetimes.com/article/clas...
Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea...
@kimmorgan.bsky.social: sunsetgun.typepad.com/sunsetgun/20...
More:
@wendyide.bsky.social: www.thetimes.com/article/clas...
Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea...
@kimmorgan.bsky.social: sunsetgun.typepad.com/sunsetgun/20...
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#FrenchNewWave #FilmSky
𝘽𝙤𝙗 𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙪𝙧 : 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟔 : 𝟏𝟎𝟐𝐦
tinyurl.com/m7tdjac3
𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨, 𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙚, 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛…
𝘽𝙤𝙗 𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙪𝙧 : 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟔 : 𝟏𝟎𝟐𝐦
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𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨, 𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙚, 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛…
May 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
#FrenchNewWave #FilmSky
𝘽𝙤𝙗 𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙪𝙧 : 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟔 : 𝟏𝟎𝟐𝐦
tinyurl.com/m7tdjac3
𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨, 𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙚, 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛…
𝘽𝙤𝙗 𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙪𝙧 : 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟔 : 𝟏𝟎𝟐𝐦
tinyurl.com/m7tdjac3
𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨, 𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙚, 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛…
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“She offered probing, often painful investigations into edge states: life on the borders of political, economic, and social systems, of gendered expectations, of madness, of old age and death.”—Sophie Pinkham on Kira Muratova
‘Isn’t Reality Sad Enough?’ | Sophie Pinkham
Kira Muratova, perhaps the greatest Ukrainian film director of the latter part of the twentieth century, was born in 1934 in Soroca. At the time her
www.nybooks.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
“She offered probing, often painful investigations into edge states: life on the borders of political, economic, and social systems, of gendered expectations, of madness, of old age and death.”—Sophie Pinkham on Kira Muratova