Lawrence Chadbourne
@ephesus1guard.bsky.social
Amateur film historian.
Anti authoritarian and anti imperialist politics.
Semi retired.
Still adjusting to life in North Carolina.
Anti authoritarian and anti imperialist politics.
Semi retired.
Still adjusting to life in North Carolina.
Wkd film in theater was #TrainDreams, co writer + dir #ClintBentley . i liked his earlier #SingSing . new one , based on #DenisJohnson book,moves slowly , but builds 2 a moving end and especially benefits from the quiet performance of #JoelEdgerton + the naturalistic lensing by #AdolphoVeloso
November 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Wkd film in theater was #TrainDreams, co writer + dir #ClintBentley . i liked his earlier #SingSing . new one , based on #DenisJohnson book,moves slowly , but builds 2 a moving end and especially benefits from the quiet performance of #JoelEdgerton + the naturalistic lensing by #AdolphoVeloso
#ItWasJustAnAccident is another strong offering from #JafarPanahi who has somehow managed to continue making films under severely restricted conditions.
I expect to be talking to friends in the coming days about how he resolves the moral crisis toward the story's end.
I expect to be talking to friends in the coming days about how he resolves the moral crisis toward the story's end.
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#ItWasJustAnAccident is another strong offering from #JafarPanahi who has somehow managed to continue making films under severely restricted conditions.
I expect to be talking to friends in the coming days about how he resolves the moral crisis toward the story's end.
I expect to be talking to friends in the coming days about how he resolves the moral crisis toward the story's end.
#Roofman was an enjoyable #ElectionDay matinee: A welcome return after 9 years for skilled director #DerekCianfrance, a sympathetic performance by #ChanningTatum, and a rather amazing crime story. The real life #JeffereyManchester could have requested reading material from my #PrisonBooksCollective
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
#Roofman was an enjoyable #ElectionDay matinee: A welcome return after 9 years for skilled director #DerekCianfrance, a sympathetic performance by #ChanningTatum, and a rather amazing crime story. The real life #JeffereyManchester could have requested reading material from my #PrisonBooksCollective
Followed Sun viewing of #Frankenstein (2025) witn 1 of 2 new #Dracula films released this year, the "exhaustingly exhilarating, " as described by #IndieWire #RaduJude comic, episodic epic , including quite explicit raunchiness, deliberately glaring #AI imagery, and #Godard like cultural references
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Followed Sun viewing of #Frankenstein (2025) witn 1 of 2 new #Dracula films released this year, the "exhaustingly exhilarating, " as described by #IndieWire #RaduJude comic, episodic epic , including quite explicit raunchiness, deliberately glaring #AI imagery, and #Godard like cultural references
The new #Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro) is over designed visually but moving and thought provoking on the writing level, in the way it examines more deeply the original author's philosophical and spiritual thinking about man and his Creator, and the actual horror of a life without death.
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The new #Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro) is over designed visually but moving and thought provoking on the writing level, in the way it examines more deeply the original author's philosophical and spiritual thinking about man and his Creator, and the actual horror of a life without death.
Best films new to me seen in October:
1) Blue Moon -2025
2) Fairyland-2023
3) Mundurukuyu: Forest of the Fish Women-2025
4) Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025)
5) A River Runs Through It- 1992
1) Blue Moon -2025
2) Fairyland-2023
3) Mundurukuyu: Forest of the Fish Women-2025
4) Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025)
5) A River Runs Through It- 1992
November 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Best films new to me seen in October:
1) Blue Moon -2025
2) Fairyland-2023
3) Mundurukuyu: Forest of the Fish Women-2025
4) Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025)
5) A River Runs Through It- 1992
1) Blue Moon -2025
2) Fairyland-2023
3) Mundurukuyu: Forest of the Fish Women-2025
4) Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025)
5) A River Runs Through It- 1992
#BlueMoon is a companion piece to earlier #RichardLinklater film on another turning point in US theater history #MeAndOrsonWelles. In a tour de force performance #EthanHawke delivers a sharp critique of his former partner's #Oklahoma which suggests a general dumbing down of 40s American culture
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#BlueMoon is a companion piece to earlier #RichardLinklater film on another turning point in US theater history #MeAndOrsonWelles. In a tour de force performance #EthanHawke delivers a sharp critique of his former partner's #Oklahoma which suggests a general dumbing down of 40s American culture
#TheMastermind is another fine piece of work from #KellyReichardt. Single out performance by the ubiquitous #JoshOConnor, typical good use of small town and rural locales, and jazz score by #RobMazurek
October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
#TheMastermind is another fine piece of work from #KellyReichardt. Single out performance by the ubiquitous #JoshOConnor, typical good use of small town and rural locales, and jazz score by #RobMazurek
Recently caught up with films: Ballad of A Small Player, Good Fortune, Urchin, and Fairyland. Each has different merits, but it is Fairyland that lingers in my mind, possibly because of my own connection to San Francisco.
It is a sad story that nonetheless celebrates a glorious period of urban life
It is a sad story that nonetheless celebrates a glorious period of urban life
October 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Recently caught up with films: Ballad of A Small Player, Good Fortune, Urchin, and Fairyland. Each has different merits, but it is Fairyland that lingers in my mind, possibly because of my own connection to San Francisco.
It is a sad story that nonetheless celebrates a glorious period of urban life
It is a sad story that nonetheless celebrates a glorious period of urban life
#BoneLake as a four character psychosexual intrigue (that climaxes in some rather grisly bloodshed) isn't bad and is better as horror than some of the more mainstream and bigger budgeted similar genre offerings. Am gonna try for the #RaoulPeck #Orwell documentary this weekend
October 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#BoneLake as a four character psychosexual intrigue (that climaxes in some rather grisly bloodshed) isn't bad and is better as horror than some of the more mainstream and bigger budgeted similar genre offerings. Am gonna try for the #RaoulPeck #Orwell documentary this weekend
#Anemone which opened here Thurs is the welcome return of #DanielDayLewis, who also co wrote and whose son Ronan is( 1st time )director.
Intriguing juxtaposition of sustained, brooding interior scenes (two terrific monologues) probing closeups , with stark, stormy #NorthernEngland seaside settings
Intriguing juxtaposition of sustained, brooding interior scenes (two terrific monologues) probing closeups , with stark, stormy #NorthernEngland seaside settings
October 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
#Anemone which opened here Thurs is the welcome return of #DanielDayLewis, who also co wrote and whose son Ronan is( 1st time )director.
Intriguing juxtaposition of sustained, brooding interior scenes (two terrific monologues) probing closeups , with stark, stormy #NorthernEngland seaside settings
Intriguing juxtaposition of sustained, brooding interior scenes (two terrific monologues) probing closeups , with stark, stormy #NorthernEngland seaside settings
Films I resaw in Sept that especially stand out
1) Fox and His Friends
2) Love With The Proper Stranger
3)A Night to Remember
4) Running on Empty
5) The Smallest Show on Earth
1) Fox and His Friends
2) Love With The Proper Stranger
3)A Night to Remember
4) Running on Empty
5) The Smallest Show on Earth
October 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Films I resaw in Sept that especially stand out
1) Fox and His Friends
2) Love With The Proper Stranger
3)A Night to Remember
4) Running on Empty
5) The Smallest Show on Earth
1) Fox and His Friends
2) Love With The Proper Stranger
3)A Night to Remember
4) Running on Empty
5) The Smallest Show on Earth
Best films new 2 me seen in Sept
1) The Baltimorons
2) The Company You Keep
3) Heavens Above!
4) The History of Sound
5) The Last Castle
6) Lions for Lambs
7) Little Fauss and Big Halsy
8) One Battle After Another
9) Spy Game
Some films with or directed by Redford were better than I expected
1) The Baltimorons
2) The Company You Keep
3) Heavens Above!
4) The History of Sound
5) The Last Castle
6) Lions for Lambs
7) Little Fauss and Big Halsy
8) One Battle After Another
9) Spy Game
Some films with or directed by Redford were better than I expected
October 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Best films new 2 me seen in Sept
1) The Baltimorons
2) The Company You Keep
3) Heavens Above!
4) The History of Sound
5) The Last Castle
6) Lions for Lambs
7) Little Fauss and Big Halsy
8) One Battle After Another
9) Spy Game
Some films with or directed by Redford were better than I expected
1) The Baltimorons
2) The Company You Keep
3) Heavens Above!
4) The History of Sound
5) The Last Castle
6) Lions for Lambs
7) Little Fauss and Big Halsy
8) One Battle After Another
9) Spy Game
Some films with or directed by Redford were better than I expected
3) Every #PaulThomasAnderson film I have seen has had much merit and great interest, except maybe for the rather misbegotten Phantom Thread, and taken as an oeuvre they are one of the most accomplished by any current US director .
September 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
3) Every #PaulThomasAnderson film I have seen has had much merit and great interest, except maybe for the rather misbegotten Phantom Thread, and taken as an oeuvre they are one of the most accomplished by any current US director .
2) BUT, as applies 2 #OneBattleAfterAnother, I am still grappling with the coherence of the whole. In the meantime, several earlier titles with the same basic theme, #RunningOnEmpty by #SidneyLumet and #TheCompanyYouKeep by #RobertRedford are well worth checking out
September 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
2) BUT, as applies 2 #OneBattleAfterAnother, I am still grappling with the coherence of the whole. In the meantime, several earlier titles with the same basic theme, #RunningOnEmpty by #SidneyLumet and #TheCompanyYouKeep by #RobertRedford are well worth checking out
1) My 1st #PaulThomasAnderson ,There Will Be Blood reminded me of #KingVidor & I feel the rating of Vidor by Michael McKegney friend #AndrewSarris (More great moments, fewer great films) somewhat applies now. There are 3 scenes in #OneBattleAfterAnother that are as good as anything I’ve seen in 2025
September 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
1) My 1st #PaulThomasAnderson ,There Will Be Blood reminded me of #KingVidor & I feel the rating of Vidor by Michael McKegney friend #AndrewSarris (More great moments, fewer great films) somewhat applies now. There are 3 scenes in #OneBattleAfterAnother that are as good as anything I’ve seen in 2025
2) Reading about #TheHistoryOfSound afterwards, I was intrigued that key footage of the protagonists first meeting and performing songs was filmed in a #Hoboken eatery called #10thAndWillow which is across the street from where I lived in the 80s, though the place didn't exist then.
September 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
2) Reading about #TheHistoryOfSound afterwards, I was intrigued that key footage of the protagonists first meeting and performing songs was filmed in a #Hoboken eatery called #10thAndWillow which is across the street from where I lived in the 80s, though the place didn't exist then.
1) We've had some rather good new films opening here recently: #ALittlePrayer, #TheBaltimorons and now #TheHistoryOfSound. I was touched by how this story of two young students in the WWI era become friends, and something more, as they team up to collect forgotten folk songs in #Maine
September 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
1) We've had some rather good new films opening here recently: #ALittlePrayer, #TheBaltimorons and now #TheHistoryOfSound. I was touched by how this story of two young students in the WWI era become friends, and something more, as they team up to collect forgotten folk songs in #Maine
Hey cinephiles let's welcome mjhousiaux12.bsky.social . I have missed seeing his astute and suggestive posts since I left the Elon Musk site.
Be sure to engage him about #GeorgeCukor.
Be sure to engage him about #GeorgeCukor.
mjhousiaux12.bsky.social
mjhousiaux12.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Hey cinephiles let's welcome mjhousiaux12.bsky.social . I have missed seeing his astute and suggestive posts since I left the Elon Musk site.
Be sure to engage him about #GeorgeCukor.
Be sure to engage him about #GeorgeCukor.
3) More suited to what I wanted after this grim week, than a film about a future US military dictatorship, was the exhilarating romantic comedy of #TheBaltimorons. I had seen a few #DuplassBrothers productions before,but this is the first that has made a strong impression for me.
September 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
3) More suited to what I wanted after this grim week, than a film about a future US military dictatorship, was the exhilarating romantic comedy of #TheBaltimorons. I had seen a few #DuplassBrothers productions before,but this is the first that has made a strong impression for me.
2) #TheLongWalk, as I expect others have already said, is kind of a cross between #StandByMe and #TheHungerGames, so derives some of its interest,,besides the sheer thriller aspect, from that particular tension, and from the playing of a good group of young actors.
September 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
2) #TheLongWalk, as I expect others have already said, is kind of a cross between #StandByMe and #TheHungerGames, so derives some of its interest,,besides the sheer thriller aspect, from that particular tension, and from the playing of a good group of young actors.
1) The films of most interest to me this past weekend were :
Splitsville
Twin less
The Long Walk
The Baltimorons
I chose the last two, based on the convenience of locations and showtimes, and am especially glad I chose #TheBaltimorons
Continued...
Splitsville
Twin less
The Long Walk
The Baltimorons
I chose the last two, based on the convenience of locations and showtimes, and am especially glad I chose #TheBaltimorons
Continued...
September 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
1) The films of most interest to me this past weekend were :
Splitsville
Twin less
The Long Walk
The Baltimorons
I chose the last two, based on the convenience of locations and showtimes, and am especially glad I chose #TheBaltimorons
Continued...
Splitsville
Twin less
The Long Walk
The Baltimorons
I chose the last two, based on the convenience of locations and showtimes, and am especially glad I chose #TheBaltimorons
Continued...
#4) #ALittlePrayer has writing of the highest order, an unpretentious simple mise en scene, and acting of such extraordinary skill by #DavidStrathairn, #CeliaWeston and others, that at several points I was moved to tears. It is less explicitly about #TheSoutn than #Junebug but uses locations well
September 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
#4) #ALittlePrayer has writing of the highest order, an unpretentious simple mise en scene, and acting of such extraordinary skill by #DavidStrathairn, #CeliaWeston and others, that at several points I was moved to tears. It is less explicitly about #TheSoutn than #Junebug but uses locations well
3) #ALittlePrayer, despite the bad omen of an original showing in 2023 being held up 2 & 1/2 years for release, intrigued me since it is by local boy #AngusMacLachlan who wrote 1 of my top films of 2025, #Junebug, and since it is set in his native #WinstonSalem (pace Matt Soller Zeitz, not a suburb)
September 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
3) #ALittlePrayer, despite the bad omen of an original showing in 2023 being held up 2 & 1/2 years for release, intrigued me since it is by local boy #AngusMacLachlan who wrote 1 of my top films of 2025, #Junebug, and since it is set in his native #WinstonSalem (pace Matt Soller Zeitz, not a suburb)
2) #CaughtStealing isn't anywhere near as interesting as 4 or 5 earlier films by Aronofsky ,and the cartoonish violence, like that in another new film, #Weapons, soon becomes silly. Still there are moments of #LowerEastSide funkiness and #AustinButler moves through his appointed steps with grace.
September 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
2) #CaughtStealing isn't anywhere near as interesting as 4 or 5 earlier films by Aronofsky ,and the cartoonish violence, like that in another new film, #Weapons, soon becomes silly. Still there are moments of #LowerEastSide funkiness and #AustinButler moves through his appointed steps with grace.