Margaret Connor
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Alfred Hitchcock's SUBOTEUR (1942)
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Alfred Hitchcock's SUBOTEUR (1942)
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For my first feature for @latimes.com, I talked to director Clint Bentley, his writing partner Greg Kwedar, and Joel Edgerton about TRAIN DREAMS, an intimate epic I'd encourage you to see in theaters before it hits Netflix later this month: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
From a quiet story about a logger, they knew they could build an American epic
Filmmaking duo Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar tell low-key stories about dreamers. Teaming with actor Joel Edgerton, they went into the woods and emerged with something poetic.
www.latimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
For my first feature for @latimes.com, I talked to director Clint Bentley, his writing partner Greg Kwedar, and Joel Edgerton about TRAIN DREAMS, an intimate epic I'd encourage you to see in theaters before it hits Netflix later this month: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Enjoying some organic Audio Narrative Content as the two girls at the table behind me—who have skipped class to study together for an upcoming quiz—realize that the quiz is, in fact, happening right now in the class they skipped.
September 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Enjoying some organic Audio Narrative Content as the two girls at the table behind me—who have skipped class to study together for an upcoming quiz—realize that the quiz is, in fact, happening right now in the class they skipped.
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Little Murders was a flop on Broadway and a flop as a movie and it is amazing. (Streaming on Prime) I saw it for the first time in June. In Q&A Elliott Gould said that Jean Renoir(!) had written a letter to Alan Arkin praising the film. Here's the letter, as read by EG on the bluray commentary track
![February 6, 1971
Dear Alan Arkin,
Your picture will never be forgotten. It is not only a good picture, but what is more important, it is a record of a stage of the destruction of our world. You managed to do what pleases me the most in the art of directing movies: I mean to forget that there is a camera. We are the unseen witnesses of a terrible drama in which not only your heroes are involved but also all our contemporaries. It is a terrifying film, treated as lightly as a Broadway comedy. Thank you for having shown to me this modern version of a Greek tragedy.
[signed] Jean Renoir
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August 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Little Murders was a flop on Broadway and a flop as a movie and it is amazing. (Streaming on Prime) I saw it for the first time in June. In Q&A Elliott Gould said that Jean Renoir(!) had written a letter to Alan Arkin praising the film. Here's the letter, as read by EG on the bluray commentary track
1. Several million people are about to learn the term "transference."
2. I always thought that what Daniel Paul Schreber really needed was a front-facing camera.
2. I always thought that what Daniel Paul Schreber really needed was a front-facing camera.
August 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
1. Several million people are about to learn the term "transference."
2. I always thought that what Daniel Paul Schreber really needed was a front-facing camera.
2. I always thought that what Daniel Paul Schreber really needed was a front-facing camera.
*Forgetting how gay slang works* Sooooooo, which one of you is the Master and which one is the Commander?
July 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
*Forgetting how gay slang works* Sooooooo, which one of you is the Master and which one is the Commander?
Alright, who wants to go see all three screenings with me?
New 4K Restoration! Celebrate the 45th anniversary of Frank Ripploh’s TAXI ZUM KLO (1980) with our LF3 limited engagement.
Unapologetically explicit & deeply personal, TAXI ZUM KLO shattered taboos upon its release + remains a landmark of queer cinema.
www.americancinematheque.com/series/frank...
Unapologetically explicit & deeply personal, TAXI ZUM KLO shattered taboos upon its release + remains a landmark of queer cinema.
www.americancinematheque.com/series/frank...
July 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Alright, who wants to go see all three screenings with me?
Had dinner outside at the sidewalk rotisserie chicken joint before an evening screening of TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN and they played the entire Meat is Murder album. No amount of cops, cybertrucks, or poorly done dermal fillers will change the fact that L.A. is the greatest city on earth.
July 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Had dinner outside at the sidewalk rotisserie chicken joint before an evening screening of TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN and they played the entire Meat is Murder album. No amount of cops, cybertrucks, or poorly done dermal fillers will change the fact that L.A. is the greatest city on earth.
Methinks part of the LA Times homepage didn't update. Otherwise, uh,
June 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Methinks part of the LA Times homepage didn't update. Otherwise, uh,
Beginning an expedition to find the worst-received Frederick Wiseman doc
May 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Beginning an expedition to find the worst-received Frederick Wiseman doc
My job is so cool
May 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My job is so cool
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gotta be the first pope who conceivably has tried malort
May 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
gotta be the first pope who conceivably has tried malort
Channel surfing through various dogshit B-movies while I wait for PAIN & GAIN to come on at 10:15pm like I'm a goddamn civil war re-enactor
Watching linear television in 2025 feels like going to a ren faire. Like I'm "watching" a "program" on a "channel." Wait never mind now Pluto is showing me a commercial for Brendan Schaub's podcast what the fuck
May 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Channel surfing through various dogshit B-movies while I wait for PAIN & GAIN to come on at 10:15pm like I'm a goddamn civil war re-enactor
Watching linear television in 2025 feels like going to a ren faire. Like I'm "watching" a "program" on a "channel." Wait never mind now Pluto is showing me a commercial for Brendan Schaub's podcast what the fuck
May 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Watching linear television in 2025 feels like going to a ren faire. Like I'm "watching" a "program" on a "channel." Wait never mind now Pluto is showing me a commercial for Brendan Schaub's podcast what the fuck
writing a 33 1/3 for one of those fake bands they put on Brandy Melville tees
May 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
writing a 33 1/3 for one of those fake bands they put on Brandy Melville tees
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Sinners in 70mm IMAX was superb, but I couldn’t bring myself to get a Smoke or Stack popcorn bucket once I saw the Accountant 2 swag
April 25, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Sinners in 70mm IMAX was superb, but I couldn’t bring myself to get a Smoke or Stack popcorn bucket once I saw the Accountant 2 swag
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No offense to Mr. Pizzaballa, but it's extremely weird to imagine the possibility of a Gen X pope. The pope is supposed to be guided by voices, not out here having opinions about Guided by Voices.
April 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
No offense to Mr. Pizzaballa, but it's extremely weird to imagine the possibility of a Gen X pope. The pope is supposed to be guided by voices, not out here having opinions about Guided by Voices.
Earth Day in Los Angeles!!! The L.A. Dash buses are free, but this time it's on purpose!
April 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Earth Day in Los Angeles!!! The L.A. Dash buses are free, but this time it's on purpose!
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Frederick Wiseman's Conclave
April 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Frederick Wiseman's Conclave
Trying to decide what the best part of MEN OF WAR was. The full suit of samurai armor? The revelation that the failed Venezuelan coup scheme was launched in a Miami WeWork? The Spanish-language cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World? Impossible to say.
April 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Trying to decide what the best part of MEN OF WAR was. The full suit of samurai armor? The revelation that the failed Venezuelan coup scheme was launched in a Miami WeWork? The Spanish-language cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World? Impossible to say.
creating a plugin that nukes any reddit comment that starts with "Ehhh,"
April 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
creating a plugin that nukes any reddit comment that starts with "Ehhh,"
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"The cat iss obscene, a creature of pure decadence, in an existence didicated only to leisure and consumption. There is a purity to it that iss horrifying, a singular hunger for [in the most fucked up way imaginable] lasagna that obliterates everysing it touches."
genuinely unnerving how much jim davis and werner herzog look like each other
April 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"The cat iss obscene, a creature of pure decadence, in an existence didicated only to leisure and consumption. There is a purity to it that iss horrifying, a singular hunger for [in the most fucked up way imaginable] lasagna that obliterates everysing it touches."
I won't pretend I know what's good or cool or appealing but I am 100% bullish on Hermann Hesse's NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND—monks, homoeroticism, artistic philosophy, all the stuff that people who like the idea of liking books would like to have in their books. I read it before it was popular etc etc
April 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I won't pretend I know what's good or cool or appealing but I am 100% bullish on Hermann Hesse's NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND—monks, homoeroticism, artistic philosophy, all the stuff that people who like the idea of liking books would like to have in their books. I read it before it was popular etc etc
Norman Rockwell understood exactly what the Optimal Content Consumption Experience looked like
March 31, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Norman Rockwell understood exactly what the Optimal Content Consumption Experience looked like
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This Hamdan Ballal news is so sickening. NO OTHER LAND is such a special collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers who are united for a just and peaceful future. To understand that as a threat worthy of violent retaliation is straight-up evil.
March 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This Hamdan Ballal news is so sickening. NO OTHER LAND is such a special collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers who are united for a just and peaceful future. To understand that as a threat worthy of violent retaliation is straight-up evil.