Benjamin Crais
@benjamincrais.bsky.social
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@benjamincrais.bsky.social on the greatest of all cinephilic perverts, João César Monteiro: www.screenslate.com/articles/joa...
João César Monteiro: Symphonies of a Libertine
A brief account of a three-minute film: A spindly, well-dressed man strolls down a lamp-lit Lisbon street. As he reaches his apartment, the soundtrack of the most romantic scene from Nicholas Ray’s Jo...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
@benjamincrais.bsky.social on the greatest of all cinephilic perverts, João César Monteiro: www.screenslate.com/articles/joa...
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my recent film Redwood Souvenirs premieres at RPM festival on Oct. 11! it's a film i assembled from old footage from my time house-sitting for Fred from 2020-22, made after his death as a memento for myself and others
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September 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
my recent film Redwood Souvenirs premieres at RPM festival on Oct. 11! it's a film i assembled from old footage from my time house-sitting for Fred from 2020-22, made after his death as a memento for myself and others
revolutionsperminutefest.org/2025_10_11_P...
revolutionsperminutefest.org/2025_10_11_P...
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Made a film with @benjamincrais.bsky.social—something like a re-staging of Ray's On Dangerous Ground that traverses some of Ray's actual haunts (nyc in the 30s, upstate ny in the 70s). premiering sep. 12 at I Mille Occhi, truly wild programming: www.imilleocchi.com/1000occhi_programma25_online.pdf
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September 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Made a film with @benjamincrais.bsky.social—something like a re-staging of Ray's On Dangerous Ground that traverses some of Ray's actual haunts (nyc in the 30s, upstate ny in the 70s). premiering sep. 12 at I Mille Occhi, truly wild programming: www.imilleocchi.com/1000occhi_programma25_online.pdf
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it’s never “let me tell you how things are” but rather “where am I? where are we (in history)?”
Whitney Strub and Benjamin Crais correspond on Robert Kramer and John Douglas’ MILESTONES
Whitney Strub and Benjamin Crais correspond on Robert Kramer and John Douglas’ MILESTONES
June 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
it’s never “let me tell you how things are” but rather “where am I? where are we (in history)?”
Whitney Strub and Benjamin Crais correspond on Robert Kramer and John Douglas’ MILESTONES
Whitney Strub and Benjamin Crais correspond on Robert Kramer and John Douglas’ MILESTONES
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”I saw a film by… who is the official British film director?”
“…Mike Leigh?”
“Yes, him.”
“…Mike Leigh?”
“Yes, him.”
May 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
”I saw a film by… who is the official British film director?”
“…Mike Leigh?”
“Yes, him.”
“…Mike Leigh?”
“Yes, him.”
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cannot express how excited I am for this special issue of SAQ that @pietrobianch1.bsky.social & I edited to be in the world!!! filled to the brim with brilliant pieces by brilliant people! coming in october!! hope the world is still around to see it!
May 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
cannot express how excited I am for this special issue of SAQ that @pietrobianch1.bsky.social & I edited to be in the world!!! filled to the brim with brilliant pieces by brilliant people! coming in october!! hope the world is still around to see it!
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Genevieve Yue reviewing this year’s Cosmic Rays film fest, with some remarks on Ode to R.G. Springsteen!
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April 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Genevieve Yue reviewing this year’s Cosmic Rays film fest, with some remarks on Ode to R.G. Springsteen!
cosmicraysfilmfest.com/reviews-of-t...
cosmicraysfilmfest.com/reviews-of-t...
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March 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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tfw you go uptown to the Jameson memorial but you also get to stop by your old apt to get the issue of Parapraxis on Economies you accidentally mailed there 💅
* also @benjamincrais.bsky.social did a fantastic job !!
* also @benjamincrais.bsky.social did a fantastic job !!
March 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
tfw you go uptown to the Jameson memorial but you also get to stop by your old apt to get the issue of Parapraxis on Economies you accidentally mailed there 💅
* also @benjamincrais.bsky.social did a fantastic job !!
* also @benjamincrais.bsky.social did a fantastic job !!
some of jameson’s impressions of israel (“and then it came to me: that israel is california”)
February 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
some of jameson’s impressions of israel (“and then it came to me: that israel is california”)
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MECW 1: 215
February 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
MECW 1: 215
a few words on masao adachi’s gushing prayer for @screenslate.bsky.social
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Gushing Prayer
In the summer of 1949, several months after joining the youth wing of the national communist party, the 17-year-old poet Nagasawa Nobuko took her own life with poison. Two decades later, Nagasawa’s po...
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February 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
a few words on masao adachi’s gushing prayer for @screenslate.bsky.social
www.screenslate.com/articles/gus...
www.screenslate.com/articles/gus...
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In this episode of Film Comment, Clinton Krute and Michael Blair invited Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais, two noted critics who each proudly own original Milestones posters, to discuss Robert Kramer’s life and work. https://buff.ly/408Szf3 #ListenUP
The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Robert Kramer
Starting places: critics Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais join to discuss the undersung filmmaker’s richly heterogenous, and endlessly fascinating, body of work
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December 30, 2024 at 4:32 PM
In this episode of Film Comment, Clinton Krute and Michael Blair invited Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais, two noted critics who each proudly own original Milestones posters, to discuss Robert Kramer’s life and work. https://buff.ly/408Szf3 #ListenUP
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Wasn't on bluesky when it came out, so I didn't advertise it over here but looking back on 2024 I'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to work on a special issue of Polygraph 29, "Narrative and Crisis," together with my colleagues & friends benjamincrais.bsky.social and carsonw.bsky.social
December 29, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Wasn't on bluesky when it came out, so I didn't advertise it over here but looking back on 2024 I'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to work on a special issue of Polygraph 29, "Narrative and Crisis," together with my colleagues & friends benjamincrais.bsky.social and carsonw.bsky.social
favorite first watches of 2024
December 16, 2024 at 4:31 PM
favorite first watches of 2024
wrote about the cinema of the portuguese revolution for film comment
November 21, 2024 at 5:46 PM
wrote about the cinema of the portuguese revolution for film comment