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you will listen to 20 minutes of Michigan-specific policy issues and you will LIKE IT www.youtube.com/watch?v=2shE...

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For my newsletter, I wrote about the depiction of Jesus Christ as man and divine in The Devils, Mamma Roma and The Last Temptation of Christ afilmdiary.substack.com/p/rock-me-se...

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In 1972, a group of Harlem Renaissance cultural icons gathered at Duke Ellington's house. The afternoon was captured on 16mm film by William Greaves, but the footage remained unedited in a vault for 50 years until David Greaves restored his father's project, releasing the documentary it 2026.

The comedian Maria Bamford on being the subject of a Judd Apatow documentary, her passion for open-book accounting, and dating in her fifties. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Catching up on films of the '20s.

On this we agree.

My friend and colleague @justincchang.bsky.social and I teamed up on a newsletter roundup of new releases; I have special enthusiasm for one film in the batch, Eleanor Coppola's absorbing and moving documentary Making Marie Antoinette: links.newyorker.com/e/evib?_t=9a...

Daniel Pinkwater!

I am the fly in the ointment I can spread more disease than the fleas Which nibble away at your window display Yes, I am the fly in the ointment I shake you down to say please as you Accept the next dose of disease

One of my favorite movie memories is walking past the Cinerama and noting that Skerrit was sitting for a Q&A on a screening of Alien that day. Bought a ticket on the spot, it was the best (both his stories and watching it on a huge screen).

Fascinating that as even as other Republicans who long ago sold their souls to MAGA still have enough baseline political acumen to see how poisonous this is, Vance is completely oblivious. It isn't just that he has no principles, decency, or moral compass, he's also really fucking bad at politics.

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He also said the standalone editions might have additional material. Getting weirdly neurotic about having bought the box.

Out of stock at Criterion. Got one at @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social

In the bedrock of my soul I know he started out thinking the press pool was a literal pool and has been seething with disappointment since he discovered the mistake

In 2017, I wrote about my obsessesion with nun cinema for Cléo: A Feminist Film Journal (RIP). With the re-release of The Devils, I thought it was an appropriate time to reshare the essay, which includes many observations on Ken Russell’s masterpiece. cleojournal.com/2017/04/21/w...

Wishing a very happy birthday to Willow Catelyn Maclay. I have a habit of arranging my books by size, so you can see my copy of Corpses, Fools and Monsters sits on a shelf with Lynch on Lynch, String Figures and How to Make Them and a signed copy of Nevada.

I got extremely nerdy with Michael Chaiken, producer of Criterion's amazing new Complete Kubrick set! We talked about restoring Kubrick's shorts, the one shot in Eyes Wide Shut that still drove its DP crazy, and much more: www.avclub.com/the-complete...

I'd say, about both films, to critics even more than to viewers: if you need Martin Scorsese or Nathan Fielder to tell you that fraud is wrong, it's already too late for you. (Even worse for critics who think they don't need it but the masses do.)

they ran an attack ad during this Texans game where the scary voiceover said "James Talarico says he'll DEFEND transgender Texans" and it's like, oh cool, nice, thanks for letting me know that

Crawford is CBS’s chief legal correspondent and has been a vocal acolyte to the Bari Weiss regime. She was also part of the Ellison dinner “honoring the Trump White House.”

The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary, Through the Eyes of the Reporter Who Exposed Her www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/b...

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A more realistic version of CHARLIE'S ANGELS would have one of the angels starting to talk at the same time that Charlie is starting to talk and the angel saying, "You go ahead..." and Charlie saying, "No, I was just going to say...".

mods are asleep, post horny Oliver Reed

people keep being like "every Oliver Reed is horny Oliver Reed" but, c'mon. some Oliver Reeds are clearly hornier than others, and I only want to see the horniest.

A full scale replica of the villa from Boom!

Made this masterpiece/nightmare to say I did a podcast with the great Matt Lynch (AKA Seattle’s bad boy of movies) about YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING. Had a fascinating conversation about that and everything else in Seattle moviegoing this week📽️ Listen here: seattlemoviesdaily.beehiiv.com/podcast/s/se...

Nico, 1971.

Catching up on films of the '20s.

Attn @jael.bsky.social

An attempted attack on a Hindu temple came amid a weeks-long right-wing frenzy over "The Indian Question"; police found a manifesto from the alleged shooter "containing statements expressing white supremacist and extremist ideologies."

montana’s western house seat went for trump by more than 11 points, and in tuesday’s debate democrat sam forstag answered the trans question without arguing about bodies or conceding that trans girls are “boys.” he argued about who decides, then talked about money. i wrote about why it works:

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

Keep the faith, Mississippi, and vote on November 3rd!

the word "goon" almost certainly entered popular use because newspapers and news sites wouldn't stop using the word "edge" when a sports team or political candidate barely wins. hopefully now that i reveal this truth they won't write headlines like "Wolves Goon Bulldogs To Victory"

Was very thrilled to write about my experience camping out at @facetschicago.bsky.social with a bunch of perverts last weekend at the Bruce LaBruce retrospective for @rogerebertofficial:

I know it's only a trailer but, by gum, that Narnia film looks cheesy.

Montana Dem Sam Forstag just refused to throw trans people under the bus in the MT-01 debate: “Keep politics the heck out of it.” He said government has no business in sports or telling parents what to do. It’s the most competitive House race in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.