Brian Darr

If you’re wondering why I haven’t posted about a current issue consider that I’ve been too consumed with thinking about it to start to form words about it.

Second this heartily! Particularly fascinating to hear Greene discuss the final title card from his particular perspective as a documentarian. Not sure I agree with him on that, but it’s very thought provoking!

Stories like this shouldn’t even be surprising. But they are. We used to give people more credit.

Not much of a Trekkee but always thought he was great when I dipped in, and was tickled to learn we shared the same college alma mater. R.I.P.

Lots of great options in this poster contest but I particularly enjoyed playing spot-the-auteur in this one, even though I got totally stumped by this stubble-faced guy who looked remarkably like Bill Pullman.

I love a good quest, and this one is right up my Murnau-fan alley.

I’m proud to say that I was able to watch YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING last night in a packed cinema without having had anything spoiled for me. Thanks to everyone in my feed for helping facilitate this (intentionally or not.)

Wish this wasn’t a school night- otherwise I’d be pretty tempted to drive down to see DREAMS MONEY CAN BUY in 16mm again. Amazing film!

IIRC I submitted HYPOCRITES and REGENERATION as well as three films none of the podcast guest named: THE GOLDEN CHANCE, FILIBUS and Willis O’Brien’s THE DINOSAUR AND THE MISSING LINK: A PREHISTORIC TRAGEDY

Don’t know the real one for certain. My dad took me to STAR WARS at the Coronet in Fall 1977 & my mom took me to SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS at (she thinks) the Stonestown, but the Chronicle archive movie listings indicate it played there when I was younger than she says she’d have taken me to it.

Same company releasing Blu-Rays of the first and only Academy Award-winner for Unique and Artistic Picture and the film Louis B. Meyer engineered it to beat, both before the end of the current Oscar Season™, is pretty exciting!

I happen to know of a college library with zero Kubrick movies on Blu-Ray and no budget to purchase any either.

Great news for San Francisco music fans- this is where I saw Merzbow, Wesley Willis, Evangelista…

R.I.P. Tom Skerritt. Next Tuesday's FREE screening of ALIEN in Waterville, Maine has suddenly become a memorial to its last living male cast member. www.watervillecreates.org/shows/alien/

This is how I win Cinematrix

Marjorie Keller Films: Wed, Oct 21, 7 PM Discover the work of a key figure in experimental cinema whose feminist, handmade films blend poetic imagery, portraits, and social critique. Introduction by experimental film curator and author Steve Anker. 🎟️ bampfa.org/film

Today 2 PM at SFMOMA: the Studio 8 Film Festival Kick-Off, with films from No Nothing Cinema and George Kuchar on the big screen in the Phyllis Wattis Theater. Free, RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1998223498... Film still: Dean Snider, courtesy Marian Wallace

I've been waiting to see Jodie Mack's "Let Your Light Shine" in 3D for over 10 years; if you're in LA don't miss this opportunity to do so!

The most unhinged Tod Browing-Lon Chaney movie?

The first World Cinema Project set entirely made of films I have never seen. (Though I’ve seen another Flora Gomes film, the delightful MY VOICE, so I’m particularly intrigued by MORTU NEGA.)

THE NIGHTINGALE is one of the harshest movies I’ve ever seen in a film festival setting. Interested to check out the other four! Here’s my last four, sorta. (They’re slightly misordered, and there’s a non-spooky cartoon I haven’t logged yet that would displace one of them if I had)

Got a 90+ on all the locales I’d heard of, but I bet @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social does better on at least one of them… www.maptap.gg October 16 100🎯 94🏆 90🎉 89🎉 100🎯 Final score: 941

Line Describing a Cone For Tax Purposes

One of the best October options for Looney Tunes fans:

Five years ago today my brother-in-law Ian Mouser was killed by a truck while riding his bicycle in Arizona. Ian was a man like no other I've ever met. The non-profit organization he founded in Portland, Oregon is still being run by a dedicated team devoted to carrying on his vision. Here's a video

Keep hoping someone’s gonna pick my favorite Cecil B. DeMille film from 1915: THE GOLDEN CHANCE, which was filmed at the same time as THE CHEAT and is (IMHO) superior in every way but one (no Sessue Hayakawa performance). Not this week! still a great listen though.

I would be running a zoo in which the animals are organized in alphabetical order.

Feel like this is worth an afternoon repost.

Loved POWWOW PEOPLE. My review: boxd.it/b5iNV5

Few Robert McKimson cartoons are interesting enough to write four paragraphs on, but this one certainly is: boxd.it/gJwRsf

Great meeting @chaki.bsky.social at the @revpermovie.bsky.social presentation of the great 1980 concert documentary in Boston last night! I couldn’t resist writing about each of the 29 songs performed by 27 punk/new wave era acts in the movie: boxd.it/gIE0o7

Never seen something like this…

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Boingo Oingo

R.I.P. Eva Marie Saint. Unmentioned in this little piece about the Paramount Theatre, where I saw NORTH BY NORTHWEST twice, is the fact that the second showing in 2008 was preceded by the recitation of a message of appreciation from the star to the audience who had gathered to see her signature film

What a cartoon. Other Letterboxd reviewers have covered a lot of the bases on why it's so special (check my 'liked" reviews at the page bottom) so I wrote a few paragraphs about why my last encounter with it was so special (hint: the venue was and is the most glorious movie palace I've attended).

The best collaborative playlist of the year (that I listen to, anyway) has begun its annual reveal. There’s a competition too but that part isn’t necessary to enjoy:

Cornell protest right now. At least a thousand people out here.

Two faves are RAW DEAL & SILVER LODE, both of which I’ve nominated to the National Film Registry in hopes that a film that Alton was the main cinematographer on could finally be inducted. (His only Registry film credit is “Additional Photography” on AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, where Alfred Gilks was D.P.)