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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 11h

Don't tell anyone I've had Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming on my shelf since release day and have not touched it except to move house since...

Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 11h

Psha. Real heads got the beautiful black hardback on release day and then got LK to sign it and a bag-beaten copy of War on War at City Lights a few months later.

Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 11h

The "quick, post a picture of yourself with a laszlo krasznahorkai novel before the bookstores open to show that you're not a poser" challenge

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 2d

Screening the festival trailer after the first 1/3 of the festival should be illegal.

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 2d

Had never really thought of Hawks before in relation to Reichardt, but The Mastermind's persistent, insistent slack feels like a Hawks hang-out with all the hang-out surgically excised, the gaps amplified by an Akermanian insistence on heist process—the change in plan, the barn, the La Chambre shot

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 3d

FML Just now realizing that, after the Naruse was cancelled yesterday, I could have gone to see The Big Trail at the Stanford but wasn't thinking about it because I already had MVFF tickets

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 6d

Has anybody seen any other Bay Area stops for Reichardt yet? I can’t make this one…

Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 7d

Looks like Kelly Reichardt's going to be at the Roxie on 10/26 for The Mastermind: roxie.com/film/the-mas...

The Mastermind

Director Kelly Reichardt IN PERSON for Q&A after the 6pm screening on Sunday, October 26. Celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Showing Up) directs an unforgettable Josh O’Connor in THE…

roxie.com

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 6d

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 6d

Eric Rohmer’s first and only novel, ÉLISABETH, published in 1946, will be out in a new translation by Aaron Kerner next July.

@mcnallyeditions.com — www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/elis...

The cover features a neatly cropped shot, probably from one of Rohmer’s films. Late summer or simply late afternoon by the seaside.

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 7d

Looks like it's already got a few dates in the Big at least

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 7d

Looks like Kelly Reichardt's going to be at the Roxie on 10/26 for The Mastermind: roxie.com/film/the-mas...

The Mastermind

Director Kelly Reichardt IN PERSON for Q&A after the 6pm screening on Sunday, October 26. Celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Showing Up) directs an unforgettable Josh O’Connor in THE…

roxie.com

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Leaving FilmStruck @leavingfilmstrk.bsky.social · 8d

San Francisco Silent Film Festival announced the schedule for its annual event.

silentfilm.org/festival-202...

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 8d

✨🥂✨ "There's artificial intelligence... and there's actual intelligence." ✨🥂✨

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 9d

Post a poster you have hanging on your wall

A poster for Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff featuring a pencil drawing of Michelle Williams standing behind the title of the movie, pointing a rifle toward the viewer's left

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 9d

They must REALLY think Seyfreid has a shot at Best Actress because... this otherwise feels like a very weird fit?

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 9d

Searchlight Pictures has acquired Mona Fastvold’s ‘THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE’ starring Amanda Seyfried.

The studio is lining up a theatrical release in the U.S. later this year.

(Source: https://deadline.com/2025/09/searchlight-buys-the-testament-ann-lee-with-amanda-seyfried-1236566563/)

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 10d

but in the meantime if I know anyone swinging through Denmark...

Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 10d

just sitting here thinking about how I wish media mail was an international standard www.atlastbooks.com/shop/p/yr-pr...

Terrassen – Privilege: An Yvonne Rainer Filmography — AT LAST BOOKS

Published as appendix to the Yvonne Rainer Retrospective (November 6-28 2024), organised by Terrassen at Palads Cinema, Copenhagen. Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934) needs no introduction. One of the grea...

www.atlastbooks.com

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 11d

I'm sorry—WHAT?! The Rialto Cerrito can do 35mm?!

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 14d

"It's 8:15." is probably the best single line of the year?

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 18d

The de-burred, Houdinious brat now that I’m home:

An overhead snapshot of a large black and white dog relaxed and sleeping on his side, half on a dog blanket and half on a blue and white-striped carpet, with his back flush against the front of a couch.

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 18d

All in all, very considerate of my dog to escape through a window on the afternoon of a repeat Naruse film I’ve already caught rather than a one-off, and for my neighbor to text that he’d done so literally as I was about to hand over my card to buy a ticket.

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 20d

Also PSA for the Naruse-heads: there’s a used copy of the Catherine Russell book (whose intro title was borrowed for the BAMPFA series) on the shelves

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 20d

Good news: I was responsible and took a bag of books to sell when I went to Moe’s
Bad news: I was irresponsible and immediately spent the credit and then some

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 21d

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 21d

this is how I find out you haven't been reading my FWD::FWD::FWD::RE::RE::FWDs

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 21d

Delighted my response to people finding out I’m an “old movies and/in old theaters” guy and asking “Do you know what’s up with the Grand Lake’s 9/11 festival?” can now be “Well, do you know about The ORB?”

Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social · 21d

Essential vibe reporting by @oaklandreviewofbooks.org from the annual 9/11 Truther festival at the Grand Lake: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-assume-wel...

I assume we’ll be here again next year

9/11 Truth Film Festival, Grand Lake Theater, 9/11

www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org

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Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · 24d

pleased as punch to see that Happyend is doing well enough at the Roxie that it's getting bumped from the Little to the Big for at least one screening on 9/25
roxie.com/film/happyend/

Happyend

“Japanese director Neo Sora is no catastrophist: the vision of dystopia he puts forth in his coolly compelling first fiction feature Happyend is chilling precisely because it won’t take some…

roxie.com

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