Blair

I am not Dick Cheney.

[Blair @__seab]

Jacques Rivette, in "On Abjection," while excoriating Pontecorvo for the Holocaust film Kapo: "the point is that the filmmaker judges that which he shows, and is judged by the way in which he shows it."
https://t.co/3eMdDAIgnO

[Blair @__seab]

if the spurs win Game 7 they gotta run the black and silver shirts that just say "ETHICAL BASKETBALL"

[Metrograph @Metrograph]

“Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, Gaza City, Jabalia, Nuseirat, Deir al Balah, Khan Younis. There are names that become inseparable from the great crimes committed there.” —Blair McClendon @__seab on With Hasan in Gaza, premiering at Metrograph from May 29.

[Blair @__seab]

I wrote about Kamal Aljafari's With Hasan in Gaza and the gap between archival films and history. Thanks to Kelli for having me. https://t.co/fbSlQrAbTt

[Blair @__seab]

@jeremypgordon Yeah, I was invited to the sight and sound list and it was way clearer what was being asked, who was asking, and what I was arguing for/against. I don���t think the guardian list would even make sense to me if I was answering for exactly the reasons you said.

[Blair @__seab]

Stepped away from the after party for the premiere of the Mrs. dalloway adaptation and the kebab place is playing a video explaining supply chains and Iran’s battle strategy in Hormuz

[dylan saba @shaabiranks]

Sagely, dialectically: I support both the speech rights of the protestors and the baton rights of the police officers

[The Film Stage 📽 @TheFilmStage]

We're pleased to debut the trailer for Kamal Aljafari's 'With Hasan in Gaza,' one of the year's best documentaries, which opens @Metrograph on May 29: https://t.co/DsV7Q4ojnw

[Blair @__seab]

Film Comment is back! and so is the archive

[Film Comment Magazine @FilmComment]

Home of the finest independent film journalism since 1962, @FilmComment is debuting a quarterly digital magazine, offering subscribers access to cover features, reviews, in-depth interviews, reporting from top film festivals, podcasts, and more.

[Film Comment Magazine @FilmComment]

Our first quarterly digital issue, the Summer 2026 issue, is now live, with a cover story by Blair McClendon (@__seab) on Boots Riley (@BootsRiley)'s I Love Boosters! https://t.co/6lhjEXW7IR

[Blair @__seab]

@BigMeanInternet I think it’s fine to dislike where money comes from (though I wish there were an actual living *and* distribution in the kind of small scale projects people idealize), and I don’t think anyone has to make a movie, but mostly people are incorrect about how power is distributed.

[Blair @__seab]

@BigMeanInternet I also think people are a little confused about film labor. As was shown in the trades reactions to the Sinners deal, it’s uncommon for a director to own a well financed movie. They don’t often have final cut. We call it theirs, because we do that with artists, but it rarely is.

[Blair @__seab]

Last year I was asked if I was interested in working on an adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway set in Nigeria and shot on 35. It was an easy decision. ✌️🏿

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

The Cannes Directors' Fortnight lineup features Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri’s Mrs Dalloway-reimagining 'Clarissa' with Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo and Ayo Edebiri

See the full lineup here: https://t.co/Bueq1rhSv6

[Tala Ramadan @TalaRamadan]

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says toll from Israeli attacks on Wednesday rises to 357 dead

[Kaleem @klmhawa]

Despite my general optimism it’s undeniable that the losses we have suffered are generational, the impact psychically, socially, interpersonally— we can’t even register the enormity of it all

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Oman’s foreign minister says Iran agreed to “zero enriched uranium stockpiling.” Within hours, Israel hits Tehran

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 The final number of dead at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, is 108 school girls, a spokesperson for the Iranian Red Crescent Society said — more than half of the roughly 170 students who attend the school.

It remains unclear whether the strike was carried out by the U.S. or Israel. A CENTCOM spokesperson said they were “looking into” the reports.

Drop Site reported from the site of the massacre, speaking with families who lost their daughters. The school was reduced to rubble, and dozens of girls were trapped beneath collapsed concrete, with residents digging with their bare hands. Parents wandered through the debris in shock, calling out their children’s names. The full report is below.

[aída chávez @aidachavez]

Democratic leadership slow-walked the Iran war powers resolution long enough for Trump to start the war. Top Democrats support war with Iran - they just want Trump to be the one to absorb the political fallout

My report from earlier this week:
https://t.co/M3Ac18aRUl