Sam C. Mac

Former Editor-in-Chief @InRO, critic for @Chron, @Slant_Magazine, and others. Programs film screenings focused on (pre-)history of independent Chinese cinema

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Very, very pleased to announce STRUCTURE. WAVE. YOUTH. CINEMA: THE LOST CHAPTER OF CHINA’S NEW DOCUMENTARY MOVEMENT. The largest SWYC retrospective to date. April 3–29 at @SpectacleNYC. TIANANMEN (天安门), I HAVE GRADUATED (我毕业了), ONLY ONE EARTH (只有一个地球), NOTES FROM BEIJING (京城散记), REFORM SCHOOL STUDENTS (工读生), JUJUBE FRUITS (大红枣儿), LITTLE MAO AND SPARROW (小毛与麻雀). Tickets 🎟️ available now: https://t.co/A8AAajQT5Y

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GOAT gone. https://t.co/gMjJQkY4eV

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@swen_ryan The only one who never forgets

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Had new writing go up on @InRO for subscribers on the Substack. Give it a look if 90s underground Chinese cinema is your thing or you checked out @samcmac's STRUCTURE. WAVE. YOUTH. CINEMA. series at the Spectacle Theater.

Link here: https://t.co/T6E1xVTnFM

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New Yeezy ad directed by Tsai Ming-liang

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@getnickwright Wildes was definitely going to call Luka most overrated

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🤤

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In the last month, Boston sports fans have seen the

- Pats HC have his years-long affair with a reporter exposed

- Red Sox fire their manager and sit in last place in the division

- Bruins lose in R1 of the playoffs

- Celtics blow a 3-1 lead to the 76ers in R1 of the playoffs

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Reed Sheppard

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NOTES FROM BEIJING

Final screening tonight @SpectacleNYC

The real hidden gem 💎 of the SWYC retrospective series, which also ends tonight.

Tickets 🎟️: https://t.co/Jbey59w373

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“Quite close to a Wisemanian institutional critique...attends to the specific lives and challenges of the students onscreen, while reminding us that they are metonymic examples of a much wider crisis.”
— Michael Sicinski for @InRO on REFORM SCHOOL STUDENTS, which just had its last screening in New York this week.

Read here: https://t.co/osJvZ9cqIr

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Tonight — 10 PM @SpectacleNYC.

ONLY ONE EARTH
Final screening.

Michael Sicinski @InRO: “A dense collage film comprised of found footage from international news reports and environmental documentaries, layered into an unsparingly cataclysmic portrait of a world in the process of self-destruction…recalls Chris Marker, Arthur Lipsett, Artavazd Peleshian”

Tickets 🎟️ here: https://t.co/4JqSqw4wBo

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Marcus Smart

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Your LAST chance to see I HAVE GRADUATED 我毕业了 at @SpectacleNYC is tonight at 10PM. Here’s the trailer (V2):

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#JFSALON #JFDocumentary #JFIMAGE Over three days, we screened a series of rare documentaries from China’s New Documentary movement (1988–1994), offering a raw and intimate look at a society in transition. These films help us better understand that era: its people, tensions, and unspoken histories. The program featured a talk by Communication Manager Sam C. Mac @samcmac of the Fairbank Center, and Ian Johnson @iandenisjohnson, who shared insights into grassroots historians and the creation of the China Unofficial Archives, highlighting the importance of preserving memory outside official narratives.

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New Yorkers ❗️: I implore you to come out to @SpectacleNYC tonight for the 10pm screening of NOTES FROM BEIJING pts. 1–6. This will be only the second screening ever of this film, which was only digitized for the first time last year. It’s the secret heart of our SWYC touring series. Don’t sleep (even though it starts at 10pm 💤). https://t.co/9DwCUdVRrD

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Please do read the great Michael Sicinski on ONLY ONE EARTH for @InRO: “an unsparingly cataclysmic portrait of a world in the process of self-destruction” whose “rueful narration and contrapuntal editing recalls the Chris Marker of A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and The Owl’s Legacy (1989), while the use of collision montage and superimposition for maximum horror and disorientation has much more in common with experimentalists like Canada’s Arthur Lipsett and Armenia’s Artavazd Peleshian”

Screens TONIGHT - on Earth 🌏 Day - at both @SpectacleNYC and @Jifengbooks

https://t.co/8BLRol8CB7

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Tonight in DC

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#季風書園中國新紀錄運動電影展映
《我畢業了》記錄北京1988級大學生在1992年畢業之際的真實狀態，捕捉他們對生活、愛情、性與政治的直白想法；在1989之後的時代轉折中，這些聲音既青澀又誠實，為那一代人的青春留下了一份難得而珍貴的影像側寫。
4月22日晚6點, Closing remarks by Ian Johnson

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Confession: The recent announcement of a new Madonna album makes this retired critic miss writing for @Slant_Magazine.

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Tomorrow

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#季風書園中國新紀錄運動電影展映
以四年時間深入北京工讀學校，《工讀生》貼近記錄被標籤為「問題青年」的真實處境，紀錄制度與個體之間難以調和的張力。這部曾遭審查的作品，也讓那些長期被忽視的邊緣聲音重新被看見。
4月21日 6 PM，在線報名：https://t.co/ofLRw4Jz7J

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