"Some of these things could be considered not very cinematic, but fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke, basically."
📓Today in the Journal: @dking1583 interviews one of NYC’s true independents, Dan Sallitt. https://t.co/wF8QvOZmw9
Disgraceful dad Gil Renard is "one of the most overlooked malcontents in the De Niro pantheon."
@dking1583 on Tony Scott's The Fan (1996), showing on 35mm at @nitehawkcinema Prospect Park tonight https://t.co/OTpIDzwPvu
Issue 8: Mood is here and well, it’s a MOOD 🎭 Inspired by our Film Recommendation Generator, this issue features film recs curated by our contributors, based on a mood: obsessive, peckish, forgetful, motivated, nostalgic…
👠 READ NOW: https://t.co/CdDuSff91r
For @newrepublic, I wrote about cleanup tech & how it distracts from real solutions to curb waste. This 'Cleanup-Industrial Complex' enables firms & sectors who already profited from pollution to monetize their waste again, while preserving the status quo.
https://t.co/6VNyXuux5z
“Even the most outlandish of Portis plots are populated by the kind of Everymen found in almost every Zip Code in this country. . . . They are themselves a kind of Library of Americans.” @cncep reviews Charles Portis: Collected Works in the @NewYorker. https://t.co/26Vkaqobdz
"Sports are supposed to be silly, playful, and petty, riddled with minor slights transformed into major motivations." Wrote about Angel Reese, Caitlin Clark, and the art of talking trash: https://t.co/1mR4GcvBLu
“Empire of Light,” much like “1917,” aspires to autobiographical resonance only to end up mired in anodyne generality. Watching the soldiers barrel through the trenches is strangely comparable to watching Olivia Colman sample perfumes or build sandcastles. https://t.co/ZTtHo3kx7r
Now playing in theaters, BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE is Claire Denis’ latest exploration of the dissonances between body and language—or, as critic Leo Goldsmith puts it, “discourse and meatspace.” Read now: https://t.co/Ne04eKFq3S
Mike Leigh on VERA DRAKE ("What's happening to Roe v. Wade is so disgusting and depressing and outrageous and irresponsible"), NAKED, TOPSY-TURVY, shooting digital, and more. New interview by @FateSailor on the occasion of his @FilmLinc retro.
https://t.co/9EyugSdnZZ
Surprise! A Valentine's treat for you 💋 In The Mood Magazine Issue 3: Love & Sex is now live! With flamin' hot pop culture writing on Blue Valentine, In The Mood For Love, Adventureland, To Live and Die in L.A., Scenes from a Marriage, and more: https://t.co/3UITTPMdgS
What ecstasy to read and write about Patricia Highsmith's diaries and notebooks for @bookforum. Every page abounds in sapphic lust and anguish. https://t.co/wa4jKjXY3f
With our Home Invasion & True Crime series now on @criterionchannl, we asked 6 women writers—@bealoayza, @trillmoregirls, @cinemiasma, @meganeabbott, @kelli_weston, @angelicabastien—to wrestle with their their fascination for serial-killer movies. 📽️
https://t.co/lZ3tCapH0x
💔 "Love at Large operates on a wavelength of nocturnal poignancy, with people coming and going at all hours, aching for connection but rarely feeling content."
Read the rest of @dking1583's Film Diary on LOVE AT LARGE in our first issue: https://t.co/VXndho35WS
💊 "Her methods of coping with the emptiness are straightforward and understandable: baking cakes, swimming, Leonard Cohen, day-drinking cognac."
Read Danny King on Fassbinder's FEAR OF FEAR on our Film Recommendation Generator. Click NEUTRAL, then VAPID: https://t.co/DVn3PHdzmC
For @thebafflermag, I wrote about Guy Raz’s bad business podcast, the enduring idolatry of consumer tech, and why we badly need to ditch the “hero’s journey” view of entrepreneurship.
https://t.co/H68aF0GVc6
I wrote about Melvin Van Peebles’ 1st film, The Story of a Three Day Pass, for @4_columns. It’s playing @FilmForumNYC in a new restoration. https://t.co/u5Cl4Ilkh7