Matt Strohl

Philosophy professor. Film, philosophy of art, fly fishing. - -

[graham @middlemanchette]

Pierre Creton box set available for pre-order now!! https://t.co/suurIa7Nsc

[Matt Strohl @strohltopia]

Favorite first viewings for May:

The Fastest Gun Alive (Rouse, 1956)
Blind (Wiseman, 1986)
Terror Firmer (Kaufman, 1999)
Not My Type (Belvaux, 2014)

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@ArrowFilmsVideo The Box

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@filipefurtado I guessed Crisis in Six Scenes and What’s Up Tiger Lily and I was right. Crisis in Six Scenes is interesting! Tons of Elaine May.

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Back in the news.

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I think we were the only ones today out retracing the steps of De Palma’s OBSESSION.

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@gruxamengus My most cited paper is actually about appropriation but I can’t exactly write in my trash book “if you hate what I say here, I’ve got something else for you to read.”https://t.co/mfPlPyKPLP

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One thing I learned this week is not to read too much sociology of taste, or else every time you sit down to watch a movie you’ll worry “uh oh, what would a sociologist of taste think about me watching this.”

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@gruxamengus Any move that you can come up with to justify any aspect of your interest in anything from less respectable areas of culture has definitely been called “bourgeois self-fashioning through extractive appropriation.” I guarantee it.

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@davo_arid I actually met them and went on their tour bus. They were opening for KoRn and gave me a copy of their demo tape. Memorably, they were very nice guys. I bought that first album the day it came out.

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10 acts I’ve seen live (dating myself):

Sonny Rollins
Tom Waits
The Pogues
The Ramones
The Boredoms
John Zorn and Yamataka Eye
Buddy Miles
Limp Bizkit (before their first album)
Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler the Creator (tiny venue)
Pantera (1994-the show where Phil got arrested)

[machine gun kelly reichardt @LingoUnbound]

10 acts I’ve seen live

Portishead
Sonic Youth
OutKast
My Bloody Valentine
Leonard Cohen
Joni Mitchell
Carly Rae Jepsen
Joanna Newsom
Björk
Courtney Love

[Matt Strohl @strohltopia]

RIP to the great George Eastman (aka Luigi Montefiori). Since the first time I saw him in a movie, my policy has been that I’ll watch ANYTHING he’s in, which has led me to some strange and wonderful places.

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@DanielGorman20 Play it loud!

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@daniel_fidler It looks like lots of people are getting hyped on the negative reviews of this one. Definitely how it goes with Refn: if a Cannes audience liked it, that would be cause for concern.

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Oh, it’s on. The Cannes curve of a masterpiece. It’s also promising that reviews complain of slowness, incomprehensibility, and “style over substance.”

[Collin Brinkmann @crbrinkmann]

LATE STYLE IN FILM - now available for purchase at

https://t.co/KPxd524yXN
(FYI: the price is discounted if you buy directly from the website)

Thank you, and please spread the word to anyone you think might be interested!

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@DanielGorman20 Peak De Niro more than peak Tony Scott, but a treat in any case.

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Oh, weird, I had Forstag as a student. Making me feel old af.

[Bradley Warren @bradmwarren]

MT01: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is coming to Missoula for a rally in support of Sam Forstag's primary campaign for Congress.

May 22nd at The Wilma Theater.

AOC previously endorsed Forstag's campaign.

Other union leaders will join.

#Mtpol #Mtnews

[in later bloom (union bitch) @Post1000Tension]

Wrote about Claire Denis start to finish: AD years with Rivette and Wenders/Dommartin, 1971-87; her first films and earliest friendships with Descas, de Bankolé, and, behind the scenes, Bernard-Marie Koltès, who died of AIDS in 1990; what her final films may look like. Link below

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@GotThatWMD @MikeThornWrites Best film, period.