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One of the great last films, An Autumn Afternoon—a ferocious repudiation of conformism and decorum, in private and civic realms—should dispel any misguided notion of Ozu as a gentle observer of delicate feelings; at @moma.bsky.social at 7:
www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...
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DVD of the Week: An Autumn Afternoon
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January 18, 2026 at 10:34 PM
One of the great last films, An Autumn Afternoon—a ferocious repudiation of conformism and decorum, in private and civic realms—should dispel any misguided notion of Ozu as a gentle observer of delicate feelings; at @moma.bsky.social at 7:
www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...
www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...
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Oscar nominations plus: my friends and colleagues @justincchang.bsky.social and @michaelschulman.bsky.social and I discuss them here, in the @newyorker.com Daily newsletter, with our editor Erin Neil keeping the peace:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bea068...
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The New Yorker
Reporting, Profiles, breaking news, cultural coverage, podcasts, videos, and cartoons from The New Yorker.
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January 22, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Oscar nominations plus: my friends and colleagues @justincchang.bsky.social and @michaelschulman.bsky.social and I discuss them here, in the @newyorker.com Daily newsletter, with our editor Erin Neil keeping the peace:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bea068...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bea068...
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“The art world, with all its progressive scaffolding and humanist ornamentation, practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion, couldn’t metabolize Palestine. It still can’t.”
David Velasco @equatormag.bsky.social — www.equator.org/articles/how...
David Velasco @equatormag.bsky.social — www.equator.org/articles/how...
How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
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December 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“The art world, with all its progressive scaffolding and humanist ornamentation, practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion, couldn’t metabolize Palestine. It still can’t.”
David Velasco @equatormag.bsky.social — www.equator.org/articles/how...
David Velasco @equatormag.bsky.social — www.equator.org/articles/how...
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On the anniversary of Éric Rohmer's passing, in 2010, it's worth recalling his greatness and his distinctiveness; a Rohmer film is a genre, but—despite his many emulators—it's a genre with only one practitioner, because of the extraordinary life that formed it:
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Éric Rohmer’s Elusive Life, Revealed in a New Biography
Long before the release of his first feature, Rohmer brought about a revolution in the name of others, as critic, editor, and friend.
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January 11, 2026 at 11:17 PM
On the anniversary of Éric Rohmer's passing, in 2010, it's worth recalling his greatness and his distinctiveness; a Rohmer film is a genre, but—despite his many emulators—it's a genre with only one practitioner, because of the extraordinary life that formed it:
www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...
www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...
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Few movies this year can hold a fast-melting candle to Bi Gan's RESURRECTION. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Delirious Cinematic Artifice of Bi Gan’s “Resurrection”
In the Chinese director’s third feature, the pop idol Jackson Yee plays a shape-shifting dreamer who gets lost in a densely allusive maze of stories and genres.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Few movies this year can hold a fast-melting candle to Bi Gan's RESURRECTION. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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For the latest issue of The Yale Review, I wrote about Terrence Malick's massive influence on modern American filmmaking. yalereview.org/article/bilg...
Bilge Ebiri: “Why Terrence Malick Is the Most Influential Director”
Bilge Ebiri explores filmmaker Terrence Malick’s vision of grace and his far-ranging influence on American cinema.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
For the latest issue of The Yale Review, I wrote about Terrence Malick's massive influence on modern American filmmaking. yalereview.org/article/bilg...
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I dared to write about my Top Ten movies of 2025 over at OLD NEW: oldnew.substack.com/p/season-of-...
Season of the List: Top Ten Movies of 2025
You know you want it
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December 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I dared to write about my Top Ten movies of 2025 over at OLD NEW: oldnew.substack.com/p/season-of-...
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For our year-end issue cover, FQ has No Other Choice! Inside - Film of the Year: Sinners; Series of the Year: Andor; Interview: Janus Metz on Andor; The Big Lift at 75; Dossier: Franchise Everything!; Reports: Cannes, Bologna; Editor's Notebook: Horror and Humor. Unlocked articles coming soon!!
December 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
For our year-end issue cover, FQ has No Other Choice! Inside - Film of the Year: Sinners; Series of the Year: Andor; Interview: Janus Metz on Andor; The Big Lift at 75; Dossier: Franchise Everything!; Reports: Cannes, Bologna; Editor's Notebook: Horror and Humor. Unlocked articles coming soon!!
“The experiential difference between watching a movie in a theatre and on a home screen varies for every movie…. Having done most of my primordial childhood movie-viewing on TV and most of my artistically formative viewing, in adolescence and early adulthood, in theatres, I’m agnostic….” 📽️ 🇺🇸 🎞️ #film
What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies
The competition between Netflix and Paramount Skydance to acquire the studio is haunted by the ghosts of mergers past.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
“The experiential difference between watching a movie in a theatre and on a home screen varies for every movie…. Having done most of my primordial childhood movie-viewing on TV and most of my artistically formative viewing, in adolescence and early adulthood, in theatres, I’m agnostic….” 📽️ 🇺🇸 🎞️ #film
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Hollywood actress Kim Novak (b. 1932), star of films such as “The Man With the Golden Arm” (1955), “Picnic” (1955), “Vertigo” (1958), “Kiss Me, Stupid” (1964), and “The Mirror Crack’d” (1980).
TAGS: #KimNovak #Hollywood #Film #Cinema #Movies #Picnic #Vertigo #AlfredHitchcock #TheMirrorCrackd
TAGS: #KimNovak #Hollywood #Film #Cinema #Movies #Picnic #Vertigo #AlfredHitchcock #TheMirrorCrackd
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Hollywood actress Kim Novak (b. 1932), star of films such as “The Man With the Golden Arm” (1955), “Picnic” (1955), “Vertigo” (1958), “Kiss Me, Stupid” (1964), and “The Mirror Crack’d” (1980).
TAGS: #KimNovak #Hollywood #Film #Cinema #Movies #Picnic #Vertigo #AlfredHitchcock #TheMirrorCrackd
TAGS: #KimNovak #Hollywood #Film #Cinema #Movies #Picnic #Vertigo #AlfredHitchcock #TheMirrorCrackd
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Remembering Udo Kier … www.criterion.com/current/post...
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Remembering Udo Kier … www.criterion.com/current/post...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT: Now playing at @ifccenter.bsky.social, with Q&A screenings with director Charlie Shackleton tonight and tomorrow.
Coming to more cities soon, including Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, and more!
Coming to more cities soon, including Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, and more!
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT: Now playing at @ifccenter.bsky.social, with Q&A screenings with director Charlie Shackleton tonight and tomorrow.
Coming to more cities soon, including Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, and more!
Coming to more cities soon, including Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, and more!
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Two of the best films of the year, coming out within weeks of each other, are about filmmaker fathers approaching old age, each with two daughters, the older completely estranged and the younger cordial but not very connected.
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Two of the best films of the year, coming out within weeks of each other, are about filmmaker fathers approaching old age, each with two daughters, the older completely estranged and the younger cordial but not very connected.
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The annual Ho-Ho-Holiday Sale is underway at MZS.Press arts bookstore. we've chosen items for maximum gift-ability. We *automatically* upgrade USPS shipping one level (yes, you read that right!). All orders packed with obsessive care. And we put little extras in there, too! mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The annual Ho-Ho-Holiday Sale is underway at MZS.Press arts bookstore. we've chosen items for maximum gift-ability. We *automatically* upgrade USPS shipping one level (yes, you read that right!). All orders packed with obsessive care. And we put little extras in there, too! mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
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🚨 IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT director Jafar Panahi will return to FLC for in-person 🎤 Q&As at our 6:15pm screenings on Saturday, November 29 and Sunday, November 30!
Get 🎟️ to the #NYFF63 selection: filmlinc.org/panahi
Get 🎟️ to the #NYFF63 selection: filmlinc.org/panahi
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
🚨 IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT director Jafar Panahi will return to FLC for in-person 🎤 Q&As at our 6:15pm screenings on Saturday, November 29 and Sunday, November 30!
Get 🎟️ to the #NYFF63 selection: filmlinc.org/panahi
Get 🎟️ to the #NYFF63 selection: filmlinc.org/panahi
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WARM CURRENT (1939), Kōzaburō Yoshimura’s second (and earliest surviving) feature, screens on 35mm 🎞️ on December 7 at 6pm and December 8 at 12:30pm as part of our upcoming retrospective Kōzaburō Yoshimura: Tides of Emotion!
🎟️: filmlinc.org/yoshimura
©1939 Shochiku Co., Ltd
🎟️: filmlinc.org/yoshimura
©1939 Shochiku Co., Ltd
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
WARM CURRENT (1939), Kōzaburō Yoshimura’s second (and earliest surviving) feature, screens on 35mm 🎞️ on December 7 at 6pm and December 8 at 12:30pm as part of our upcoming retrospective Kōzaburō Yoshimura: Tides of Emotion!
🎟️: filmlinc.org/yoshimura
©1939 Shochiku Co., Ltd
🎟️: filmlinc.org/yoshimura
©1939 Shochiku Co., Ltd
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Abel Gance’s NAPOLEON (1927) screened in NYC for the first time in 40+ years — and "sold out immediately".
@filmforumnyc.bsky.social is looking into more showings of BFI's 5 1/2-hour Kevin Brownlow restoration, despite "a complicated web of rights holders." 🙏
gothamist.com/arts-enterta... #FilmSky
@filmforumnyc.bsky.social is looking into more showings of BFI's 5 1/2-hour Kevin Brownlow restoration, despite "a complicated web of rights holders." 🙏
gothamist.com/arts-enterta... #FilmSky
Who waits in line for a 100-year-old, 5-hour silent movie? New Yorkers, of course.
"Napoleon" sells out Film Forum in screenings a century in the making.
gothamist.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Abel Gance’s NAPOLEON (1927) screened in NYC for the first time in 40+ years — and "sold out immediately".
@filmforumnyc.bsky.social is looking into more showings of BFI's 5 1/2-hour Kevin Brownlow restoration, despite "a complicated web of rights holders." 🙏
gothamist.com/arts-enterta... #FilmSky
@filmforumnyc.bsky.social is looking into more showings of BFI's 5 1/2-hour Kevin Brownlow restoration, despite "a complicated web of rights holders." 🙏
gothamist.com/arts-enterta... #FilmSky
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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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Remembering Peter Watkins … www.criterion.com/current/post...
November 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Remembering Peter Watkins … www.criterion.com/current/post...
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Zohran Mamdani just quoted Eugene Debs right at the TOP of his acceptance speech. 👏🏽 ♥️ 🗽 🗳️ #politics #NYCPolitics #ZohranMamdani #NYCElections #NYCMayor #USPolitics
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani just quoted Eugene Debs right at the TOP of his acceptance speech. 👏🏽 ♥️ 🗽 🗳️ #politics #NYCPolitics #ZohranMamdani #NYCElections #NYCMayor #USPolitics
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Read the first 30 pages of the Scriptnotes book! Then preorder it so you’ll have it in your hands December 30th. scriptnotesbook.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Read the first 30 pages of the Scriptnotes book! Then preorder it so you’ll have it in your hands December 30th. scriptnotesbook.com