J Bogart

J Bogart

@jonathanbogart.net

Library worker, researcher and writer about culture from the first third of the 20th century, depressive. https://jonathanbogart.net

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Equator
@equatormag.bsky.social

Brazil’s election had three winners, says Miguel Lago: Lula, civil society and Jair Bolsonaro, from his jail cell. “Lula’s Final Chapter”: a symposium from @equatormag.bsky.social and @alameda.institute, with Rodrigo Nunes, Anna Raposo de Mello and Juliano Fiori. www.equator.org/articles/bra...

equator.orgLula’s Final Chapter • EQUATORFour Brazilian thinkers on an astonishing political comeback – and the long shadow of Bolsonarismo

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Erin Reed
@erininthemorning.com

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

erininthemorning.comDon’t Vote For The Worst Anti-Trans DemocratsThe Democratic Party should, and likely will, win big in the midterms. We must not send the worst anti-trans voices to join them.
J Bogart
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my last film of the festival. wish i liked it more than i did, but i’m open to doing so: the time to make up your mind about people is never. boxd.it/gYiyN1

boxd.itA review of Dao (2026)yeah, no, i’m definitely movied out. no rating because i missed a significant chunk due to poor planning, but unless there was something really transformative in that first half-hour it wouldn’t have ...
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went to an animated shorts screening. putting my mini-reviews in a single thread. boxd.it/gY1bmR

boxd.itA ★★★ review of ¿Necesitas Ayuda?cute but underbaked.
J Bogart
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Favorite film in haiku: With a little sex "Mr. Smearcase, that's my knee!" Cock-eyed caravan

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no longer worried that i uncritically love everything, now worried that i’m a k-philistine (now with correct link) boxd.it/gX1EEh

boxd.itA ★★★ review of Nowhere to Lay My Eyes (2026)my first rating below four for something i’ve seen at the chicago international film festival, and i can’t quite tell whether i’m just movied out by now, whether the cultural barrier was just that muc...
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saw a preview for this when i saw Wildwood on thursday and told myself i should see it when it comes out, completely forgetting that i’d already booked this screening boxd.it/gWRVlV

boxd.itA ★★★★ review of Tangles (2026)a beautifully piercing, generously human movie with leavening non-representational devices: most notably the multiple airplane gags, but the deliriously fluid subjective sequences that break out of th...
J Bogart
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i do feel like anyone surprised or disappointed by this has not really registered spiegelman’s career-long solipsism, which was as bad as crumb’s just with more dignified subject matter

Rodrigo Baeza@rodrigobaeza.bsky.social

Oh, shit. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

J Bogart
@jonathanbogart.net

“cartoonist navel-gazes” is of course the least surprising sentence ever uttered, but the long underground in particular had a real gift for producing generationally self-obsessed white men

J Bogart
@jonathanbogart.net

saw a preview for this when i saw Wildwood on thursday and told myself i should see it when it comes out, completely forgetting that i’d already booked this screening boxd.it/gWRVlV

boxd.itA ★★★★ review of Tangles (2026)a beautifully piercing, generously human movie with leavening non-representational devices: most notably the multiple airplane gags, but the deliriously fluid subjective sequences that break out of th...
J Bogart@jonathanbogart.net

hell yeah a slow moving two and a half hour black and white art film about how much the catholic church fucked up the philippines in the seventeenth century boxd.it/gW5p0l

boxd.itA ★★★★ review of Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors (2026)glad i saw magalhães earlier this year, not because i don’t think i would have really understood this movie without the context of that one, or even just because it got me used to lav diaz’s stark, en...
J Bogart
@jonathanbogart.net

there are many reasons paul f. tompkins should be considered a comedic genius, but his choice to perform fozzie bear as a serious dramatic role in live muppet script readings is a highlight for me

J Bogart
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hell yeah a slow moving two and a half hour black and white art film about how much the catholic church fucked up the philippines in the seventeenth century boxd.it/gW5p0l

boxd.itA ★★★★ review of Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors (2026)glad i saw magalhães earlier this year, not because i don’t think i would have really understood this movie without the context of that one, or even just because it got me used to lav diaz’s stark, en...
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i am exactly the kind of modernist/third-worldist dork a Virginia Woolf adaptation set in contemporary Nigeria was made for boxd.it/gTpZtV

boxd.itA ★★★★★ review of Clarissa (2026)absolutely ravishing adaptation of Mrs Dalloway set in contemporary Nigeria. the fusion of what might be called the Merchant-Ivory sensibility with a very specifically Nigerian milieu (or series of mi...
J Bogart
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would have been the 1980 rerelease of Song of the South (1946), somewhere in or around Arizona’s Verde Valley. i was three at the time and haven’t lived in the area since i was six so no idea about venue and for all i know we drove to Phoenix for it. almost no memory of the film itself, just songs.

Mark Thompson@markreckons.bsky.social

First film you saw at the cinema. The real first one, not the pretend one you tell people! Mine: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, Wigan. We were near the front and I can still remember how massive the AT-ATs looked, looming over us out of the snow :) Film, year, where, and whatever stuck with you.

J Bogart
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i have seen, or at least scrubbed through, the movie since, stirring faint memories, though stronger ones of a Disney picture book which just had the fables without the frame story. but when i say minstrelsy is at the heart of every american art form it’s biography as well as analysis.

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S P I N S T E R
@spinstersounds.bsky.social

Excited to launch The Rosetta Records Project, a forthcoming 3-LP compilation & community initiative channeling the feminist spirit of Rosetta Records, the 1st and only label to specialize exclusively in women’s blues & jazz music from the 1920s-50s. We're celebrating w/ a party in Mississippi 11/7!

J Bogart
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looks like a pretty big spike in traffic to my website last week was ai (it's coming from a county mostly populated by data centers). i have the "tell ai not to crawl my website" checkbox marked, of course, but that's only as good as ai crawlers' compliance, which is plainly not to be trusted.

J Bogart
@jonathanbogart.net

i still believe in the value of posting on the open web, of making my research and knowledge and insights available to anyone who is curious enough to find it. other people doing that was a big part of me learning as much as i have, and i don't want to have to padlock my work, say it ends with me.

J Bogart
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but i also don't want to be used as fodder for the incompetent meaning-leached information extrusion machine. even if they reject them, i want people to evaluate my ideas on their merits, not get them at secondhand compressed into an undifferentiated paste with everyone else's. otherwise why bother?

J Bogart
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looks like the php exploit has taken down one of the archives i've been working in this week, it's a race to the end of the year to see how much i can be prepared for my 2027 project

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Centuries of Sound
@centuriesofsound.bsky.social

I'm hopefully taking a six-month work sabbatical to write a book about Pulp! But only if I can hit my goal on Kickstarter. So, please consider backing, or even better share with people who love Pulp as much as I do.

Freaks, Mis-shapes, Weeds@pulpsongs-book.bsky.social

Just launched! Freaks, Mis-shapes, Weeds: A song-by-song exploration of every known Pulp recording, and life. 30 days left to make this happen! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...

J Bogart
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glad i gave myself a not-seeing-a-movie day today, as i'm pretty tuckered out. had to do a lot of accounting at the job today and i don't think i have much brains left over

J Bogart
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the cast? not the characters? well, there's not a lot a bunch of stage-trained British and Nigerian actors are going to be able to do about a kidnapping under the best of circumstances.

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J Bogart
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it is necessary for anyone who wants to understand the twentieth century to see this movie boxd.it/gThnF9

boxd.itA ★★★★★ review of Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026)FLORENCE MILLS WAS ON A THEATER SCREEN IN FRONT OF ME, THIRTY FEET TALL AND BEING PRAISED TO HIGH HEAVEN nothing else matters. i was a wreck from the first note played in the film because it was the j...
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really loved this satirical, vertiginous haitian fable about religion, sexuality, and haiti herself, and its gleeful defiance of repression, violence and hatred. boxd.it/gSo8sf

boxd.itA ★★★★★ review of Marie Madeleine (2026)classic nineteenth-century tragedy set in contemporary haiti, in a milieu where the classic nineteenth-century struggle (especially in continental fiction) between repressive religiosity and liberator...