HUGO

film critic, film programmer, film everything.

[HUGO @HugoEmmerzael]

Proud to launch a new film series in Moving Arts Centre Amsterdam (MACA) called WHICH WAY IS UP?
Offering reflections on our postmodern, late capitalist hellworld through the lens of digital film.
Here's the series trailer I cut (and composed music for)

[USA Reject @sadreturns]

when all is said and done this is easily the one thing Heidecker has produced with any longevity; the parallels to modern AI are fascinating.
this is about the pinnacle of aesthetic sketch comedy. every element is perfect & not a second of it is out of place. + Rudd excels here

[Simon Curtis @simoncurtis]

Truly the greatest, most important television show ever made.

[Adam Piron @adam_piron]

still think about this bit everyday. line reading of the decade.

[The Film Stage 📽 @TheFilmStage]

Michael Mann location-scouting 'Heat 2' in Mexico.

[HUGO @HugoEmmerzael]

@bramruiter Never left bruv

[In Review Online @InRO]

'Its charming qualities can mostly be ascribed to Travolta’s genuine unpretentiousness. With a soothing voiceover, he captures the boundless excitement of a kid who can’t believe his long-held dream is becoming reality before his very eyes.' @HugoEmmerzael takes a look at actor-turned director John Travolta's peculiar Propeller One-Way Night Coach: https://t.co/YSDz3A2mnh

[sam 🍂 @burritoprophet]

xfiles meets the bible oh i’m jorking it

[Hugboxxing Final Boss 🇱🇧 @hitherehaidar]

"Cryptid George Lucas" is one of my favorite video genres

[In Review Online @InRO]

'creepy, utilitarian environments, devoid of human life, filled instead with the powerful feeling of the Freudian uncanny. These are the egregious non-spaces we want to block from our collective memory, yet so omnipresent due to late capitalist homogenization that they themselves have become powerful vestiges of the cancerous monoculture we endure' @HugoEmmerzael wanders into The Backrooms: https://t.co/XctFQOetFC

[HUGO @HugoEmmerzael]

@kennybeats yes! My most memorable record shop experience. Recognize ALL of the above, and yet found it a profoundly fun and touching experience that resulted in going home with one of the best keepsakes I ever got from a record store!

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

Ukraine is training drone operators using a custom GTA V mod that simulates hunting Russian Shaheds in the air.

[In Review Online @InRO]

'Surely, Fjord‘s moral inquiry into the contrast between evangelical orthodoxy and secular progressivism is poignant, but the frictionless treatment of the material — in which every side receives its fair hearing and the audience is burdened with the responsibility to render a verdict — remains lackluster.' @HugoEmmerzael investigates Cristian Mungiu's new film: https://t.co/XrBpfftpji

[In Review Online @InRO]

'Sometimes the first shot of a film tells you enough to know you’re in the hands of a great director. Arthur Harari’s The Unknown — so far the genuine standout of this year’s Cannes competition — opens on such a note' @HugoEmmerzael continues his festival dispatches with another highlight: https://t.co/FFSbap7FPk

[In Review Online @InRO]

Acclaimed director Andrey Zvyagintsev makes a triumphant return to filmmaking after a 9 year hiatus and an alarming health crisis. @HugoEmmerzael reports on Minotaur, a highlight of the Cannes 2026 competition: https://t.co/6UI8TER8w9

[HUGO @HugoEmmerzael]

Not @TheWrap making the catastrophic blunder of suggesting Zvaygintsevs 2022 set film is about the Russian invasion of… GEORGIA of all places 💀💀💀

[TheWrap @TheWrap]

‘Minotaur’ Review: The Personal and Political Collide in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Chilling Drama https://t.co/tw5Fd99tAL

[HUGO @HugoEmmerzael]

Don’t trust the neysayers: NWR still has the juice 🥵

[In Review Online @InRO]

'Turns out, Her Private Hell is not so much a film concerned with stitching those divergent storylines together, however, as it is an audiovisual experiment in how to evocatively mesh manifold emotional registers within the same frame.' @HugoEmmerzael investigates Her Private Hell: https://t.co/HqXYfUdyTM

[HUGO @HugoEmmerzael]

not kidding when i say its one of the best at this fest, alongside the John Travolta film and Harari's THE UNKNOWN

[Barry Hertz @HertzBarry]

HER PRIVATE HELL turns out to be our collective misery as Refn delivers flaccid piece of coffee-table fetishism, drenched in neon-slop aesthetic. Too dull to be future camp classic, too painful to be anything but endurance test. Kinda shocked it wasn’t booed off screen. #Cannes

[7/11 Truther @DaveMcNamee3000]

The #JohnTravoltaChallenge is taking over the world

[7/11 Truther @DaveMcNamee3000]

A third beret has hit John Travolta’s head