Kate Renne...

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University. Works on film & media philosophy and the history/theory of “self-viewing.” Cinema Scope contributor.

[Kate Renne... @Cinement]

Hey all, guess what? Simon and I are back at it! The Akerman Year, a monthly podcast w/ guests, will cover the entire, five decade-spanning oeuvre of the incredible filmmaker, author, and artist Chantal Akerman! Details below!

[Kate Renne... @Cinement]

@swen_ryan Aw, thanks Ryan! Much appreciated! ☺️

[Joshua Minsoo Kim @misterminsoo]

RIP to one of the great film publications. This is how a lot of things in this world work: someone devotes their life to the arts, volunteering endless hours to make things a little better. I’m honored to have contributed to CS once. Don’t be afraid to follow in Mark’s footsteps.

[Will Sloan @WillSloanEsq]

No film magazine in my lifetime has been better at consistently identifying what has been important in the medium. Cheers to Mark, the author of the mag, as well as to @brofromanother, Andrew Tracy, and everyone else who helped keep it alive.
https://t.co/3SZZ3qU6Xx

[MZS @mattzollerseitz]

Awful news

[Jason @bronco7732]

Simply put — reading Cinema Scope, and the writers who made it, fundamentally altered how I see moving pictures and the world at large.

I’ll forever be indebted to anyone who had a hand in it, from Mark to any and all filmmakers, editors and contributors.

[Stephen Broomer @StephenBroomer]

A brilliant magazine. Thinking today of Mark and crew and all of the great work that they've done through the years.

[Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings]

Devastating, we are truly witnessing the end of an era.

[The Daily @CriterionDaily]

Mark Peranson has been telling us this day was coming, but that doesn’t make it any easier. Here’s his editor’s note for the final issue of @CinemaScopeMag

[Kate Renne... @Cinement]

@JordanCronk My sentiments exactly. Heartbroken.

[Jordan Cronk 🥀 @JordanCronk]

At the airport, leaving for IFFR, trying to find the words. I came of age as a cinephile reading Scope. I came of age as a critic writing for Scope. No publication has meant more to me personally or professionally. Wouldn’t trade the last eleven years (41 issues!) for anything.❤️

[WAVELENGTHS@TIFF @WVLGTHS]

By a wide margin, the most & smartest coverage Wavelengths ever received in its history (which has parallels) was to be found in @CinemaScopeMag . 💔

[Reverse Shot @reverse_shot]

"To do something valuable in this field one needs creative freedom." The writing was on the wall, but this is painful, and will continue to be. A magazine that has never given a damn about the "discourse," just elevating excellence in both cinema and writing.

[Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing @swen_ryan]

One of the greatest losses for film culture in recent memory; the weight and authority of a Cinema Scope issue was like nothing else I've encountered in English-language criticism.

[Adam Nayman @brofromanother]

More to say about this later but I hope people will find ways, publicly and privately, as institutions and as individuals, to give Mark Peranson credit for what he created and sustained for 25 years. Lots of people helped, including some of you. But it was Mark’s magazine.

[Kate Renne... @Cinement]

It is never not going to gall me that when you google 'Akerman IMDB' Malin Akerman comes up first.

[Kate Renne... @Cinement]

After ten minutes or so, she would have fallen asleep, waking up just ten minutes before the end. She would, however, have a clear opinion about the movie – in this case, probably something like: “I don’t like the works by Escher ...” 🥱😴

[Kate Renne... @Cinement]

Another gem re: Akerman's viewing habits, from collaborator Eric de Kuyper: "I went to the movies with Chantal a lot, at times when we were working and living together so, for instance, I could easily imagine how she would have reacted to a film like Inception (2010). [1/2]

[Maddie @maddiewhittle]

All respect to the lads, but gimmicks like this do a lot to obscure the fact that film programming is a whole-ass job, of which picking the films to be shown is but a small part, and at TCM most of that job will be performed by a newly depleted staff, not the celebrity “curators”

[Kate Renne... @Cinement]

She asked, humorously

[Kate Renne... @Cinement]

Is Whit Stillman the John Waters of the center Right? 🤔🤨