Shiguehiko Hasumi and Yoshida Kiju on the start of Yoshida's film career
January 9, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Shiguehiko Hasumi and Yoshida Kiju on the start of Yoshida's film career
I can't believe I haven't seen this before - footage of Orson Welles' 1936 all-Black staging of Macbeth, from the WPA newsreel We Work Again
January 5, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I can't believe I haven't seen this before - footage of Orson Welles' 1936 all-Black staging of Macbeth, from the WPA newsreel We Work Again
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Continued the tradition of looking at painting on my birthday - this time at the Legion of Honor in SF, where James Stewart trails Kim Novak in Vertigo
January 2, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Continued the tradition of looking at painting on my birthday - this time at the Legion of Honor in SF, where James Stewart trails Kim Novak in Vertigo
A Chaplin impersonator in Naruse's Husband and Wife (1953)
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A Chaplin impersonator in Naruse's Husband and Wife (1953)
Very excited to be speaking with Marta Mateus about António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro and their beautiful Trás-os-Montes (1976) tonight, 7PM at @bampfa.bsky.social bampfa.org/event/tras-o...
Trás-os-Montes
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November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Very excited to be speaking with Marta Mateus about António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro and their beautiful Trás-os-Montes (1976) tonight, 7PM at @bampfa.bsky.social bampfa.org/event/tras-o...
No question it's this
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
No question it's this
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Still impressed by this series of posters for a 2018 Peter Watkins retrospective presented by Wolf Kino in Berlin.
November 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Still impressed by this series of posters for a 2018 Peter Watkins retrospective presented by Wolf Kino in Berlin.
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Actor Ahmed Ahmedpoor, known for his role as Mohamed Reza Nematzadeh in Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House (1987), passed away last Thursday at the age of 46. ❤️
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Actor Ahmed Ahmedpoor, known for his role as Mohamed Reza Nematzadeh in Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House (1987), passed away last Thursday at the age of 46. ❤️
Brenez: "John Ford is certainly the inventor of the form, when at the end of Fort Apache (1948), we learn that the entire story we have witnessed exists in order to criticize a painting exhibited in Washington"
October 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Brenez: "John Ford is certainly the inventor of the form, when at the end of Fort Apache (1948), we learn that the entire story we have witnessed exists in order to criticize a painting exhibited in Washington"
footage of the aftermath of the 1982 bombing of Lebanon, edited by Carolee Schneemann in 1983/2006
October 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
footage of the aftermath of the 1982 bombing of Lebanon, edited by Carolee Schneemann in 1983/2006
my most anticipated book release of the month
October 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
my most anticipated book release of the month
Claire Simon, Marie-Claude Treilhou, and Alain Guiraudie in Treilhou's Un petit cas de conscience (2002)
October 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Claire Simon, Marie-Claude Treilhou, and Alain Guiraudie in Treilhou's Un petit cas de conscience (2002)
Poster on my wall
October 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Poster on my wall
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New in our Screening Room: Adrian Martin's recorded introduction to Raúl Ruiz’s City of Pirates (1983), initially presented in the context of our Serge Daney programme at ICA London.
→ sabzian.be/screening-room/la-ville-des-pirates-introduction
→ sabzian.be/screening-room/la-ville-des-pirates-introduction
September 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New in our Screening Room: Adrian Martin's recorded introduction to Raúl Ruiz’s City of Pirates (1983), initially presented in the context of our Serge Daney programme at ICA London.
→ sabzian.be/screening-room/la-ville-des-pirates-introduction
→ sabzian.be/screening-room/la-ville-des-pirates-introduction
Rereading The American Cinema for the first time in maybe 8 years and am once again asking for a collected edition of Sarris's writing from Library of America
September 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Rereading The American Cinema for the first time in maybe 8 years and am once again asking for a collected edition of Sarris's writing from Library of America
Extremely grateful to Miguel and the editors at Taipai for publishing this Spanish translation of my essay on Godard's posthumous films
📌 Las últimas cosas antes de lo último. Las películas póstumas de Godard
"Incluso muerto, sus películas siguen siendo nuestras contemporáneas."
✍️ Jonathan Mackris (@feuilladist.bsky.social)
🔦 Traducción: Miguel Savransky
taipeirevista.com/index.php/20...
"Incluso muerto, sus películas siguen siendo nuestras contemporáneas."
✍️ Jonathan Mackris (@feuilladist.bsky.social)
🔦 Traducción: Miguel Savransky
taipeirevista.com/index.php/20...
Las últimas cosas antes de lo último. Las películas póstumas de Godard (Jonathan Mackris, 2025) - TAIPEI
La novedad de estas películas póstumas es el acceso que ofrecen al proceso de trabajo de Godard, a su pensamiento sobre el cine y a su relación laboral con sus colaboradores en las dos últimas décadas...
taipeirevista.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Extremely grateful to Miguel and the editors at Taipai for publishing this Spanish translation of my essay on Godard's posthumous films
Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Eduard Tisse, and Eisenstein
September 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Eduard Tisse, and Eisenstein
Georgia Hale recounts Josef von Sternberg's reaction to hearing that Chaplin loved The Salvation Hunters
August 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Georgia Hale recounts Josef von Sternberg's reaction to hearing that Chaplin loved The Salvation Hunters
In 1963, the editors at Cahiers du cinema asked some of their contributors to list the top ten American films of the sound era. Here are some of the ballots
August 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
In 1963, the editors at Cahiers du cinema asked some of their contributors to list the top ten American films of the sound era. Here are some of the ballots
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I really want to go to this but the screening starts at 10PM and goes until 2 in the morning....
Great news: after 3 years, Film Heritage Foundation has restored Sholay, from a combo of original 35mm negatives found in Mumbai (for reference; too damaged to use) and inter+ves and colour reversal intermediates found in Mumbai and London—w/ original ending. Premieres Italy 6/27
June 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I really want to go to this but the screening starts at 10PM and goes until 2 in the morning....
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Coming soon at the ICA in London (no details yet): In Focus: Serge Daney (29 August–4 September), a ten-film programme exploring the legacy of the influential critic in collaboration with @sabzian.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Coming soon at the ICA in London (no details yet): In Focus: Serge Daney (29 August–4 September), a ten-film programme exploring the legacy of the influential critic in collaboration with @sabzian.bsky.social