Derek Smith
@positivelytonsils.bsky.social
Film critic @slantmagazine.com & @spectrumculture.bsky.social, Guide @cinejourneys.bsky.social.
Upcoming David Lynch online class, starting first half of next year! Details coming soon.
Upcoming David Lynch online class, starting first half of next year! Details coming soon.
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Among its many triumphs, BURDEN OF DREAMS attests to Les Blank’s egalitarian approach to documentation. Now available on Criterion 4K UHD Blu-ray. tinyurl.com/ydyrvsrv
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Among its many triumphs, BURDEN OF DREAMS attests to Les Blank’s egalitarian approach to documentation. Now available on Criterion 4K UHD Blu-ray. tinyurl.com/ydyrvsrv
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Pope Leo Criterion Closet video WHEN
November 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Pope Leo Criterion Closet video WHEN
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Alireza Khatami’s THE THINGS YOU KILL, writes @positivelytonsils.bsky.social, is a subtly enigmatic examination of the nature of masculinity. In theaters Friday. tinyurl.com/32phxv8f
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Alireza Khatami’s THE THINGS YOU KILL, writes @positivelytonsils.bsky.social, is a subtly enigmatic examination of the nature of masculinity. In theaters Friday. tinyurl.com/32phxv8f
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Lav Diaz to all the Magellan fans out there:
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Lav Diaz to all the Magellan fans out there:
Lav Diaz to all the Magellan fans out there:
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Lav Diaz to all the Magellan fans out there:
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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I'm hosting an evening of Eraserhead through @cinejourneys.bsky.social on 11/13 as a preview of my Lynch class coming next year. It'll be on Zoom and there'll be a ~30-minute presentation followed by an hour or so group discussion. Best part, it's completely free!
cinejourneys.com/eraserhead-e...
cinejourneys.com/eraserhead-e...
Eraserhead Evening – Details and Registration | CineJourneys
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October 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I'm hosting an evening of Eraserhead through @cinejourneys.bsky.social on 11/13 as a preview of my Lynch class coming next year. It'll be on Zoom and there'll be a ~30-minute presentation followed by an hour or so group discussion. Best part, it's completely free!
cinejourneys.com/eraserhead-e...
cinejourneys.com/eraserhead-e...
Guy who still has Denis Leary's "I'm an Asshole" song on his playlist unironically.
From the vehicle to the license plate to the location, you couldn't conjure up a finer “guy parked in crosswalk” than what we have here.
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Guy who still has Denis Leary's "I'm an Asshole" song on his playlist unironically.
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This is coming up next Thursday night. Still time to sign up!
I'm hosting an evening of Eraserhead through @cinejourneys.bsky.social on 11/13 as a preview of my Lynch class coming next year. It'll be on Zoom and there'll be a ~30-minute presentation followed by an hour or so group discussion. Best part, it's completely free!
cinejourneys.com/eraserhead-e...
cinejourneys.com/eraserhead-e...
Eraserhead Evening – Details and Registration | CineJourneys
cinejourneys.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is coming up next Thursday night. Still time to sign up!
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Nikos Koundouros’s 1956 crime thriller THE OGRE OF ATENS, a classic from the golden age of Greek cinema, remains a potent and relevant portrait of the manly art of self-delusion. Available on Blu-ray on November 18. tinyurl.com/2r383pts
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Nikos Koundouros’s 1956 crime thriller THE OGRE OF ATENS, a classic from the golden age of Greek cinema, remains a potent and relevant portrait of the manly art of self-delusion. Available on Blu-ray on November 18. tinyurl.com/2r383pts
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Columbo
August 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Columbo
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barely a metaphor lmao
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
barely a metaphor lmao
This is coming up next Thursday night. Still time to sign up!
I'm hosting an evening of Eraserhead through @cinejourneys.bsky.social on 11/13 as a preview of my Lynch class coming next year. It'll be on Zoom and there'll be a ~30-minute presentation followed by an hour or so group discussion. Best part, it's completely free!
cinejourneys.com/eraserhead-e...
cinejourneys.com/eraserhead-e...
Eraserhead Evening – Details and Registration | CineJourneys
cinejourneys.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is coming up next Thursday night. Still time to sign up!
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King Vidor's First World War epic The Big Parade premiered 100 years ago today. It would go on to huge box office success, reportedly ranking as the second-highest-grossing film of the silent era after The Birth of a Nation
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
King Vidor's First World War epic The Big Parade premiered 100 years ago today. It would go on to huge box office success, reportedly ranking as the second-highest-grossing film of the silent era after The Birth of a Nation
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“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
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His last words were "I endorse Andrew Cuomo."
George Banks, who killed 13 people, five of whom were his own children, in a 1982 shooting rampage in Pennsylvania that was one of the nation’s worst mass murders at the time, has died at 83.
George Banks, Convicted Mass Murderer, Dies at 83
He fatally shot 13 people in Pennsylvania in September 1982 in what was then one of the nation’s worst mass shootings. Five of the victims were his own children.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:36 AM
His last words were "I endorse Andrew Cuomo."
Orson Welles, from The Muppet Movie
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Orson Welles, from The Muppet Movie
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Fiona Apple looking at my forthcoming David Lynch calendar: "Ladies, ladies, ladies, LADIES..."
Printing later this month! Pre-order yours now!
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Printing later this month! Pre-order yours now!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
November 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Fiona Apple looking at my forthcoming David Lynch calendar: "Ladies, ladies, ladies, LADIES..."
Printing later this month! Pre-order yours now!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
Printing later this month! Pre-order yours now!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
One of the all-time great performances.
There are only two kinds of people in the world: those who love Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria with all their heart and those who’ve never seen it
October 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
One of the all-time great performances.
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THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT meticulously yet concisely probes how, why, and when our understanding of the greenhouse effect went from a scientific certainty to it being up for debate. Read @positivelytonsils.bsky.social's review.
'The White House Effect' Review: The Birth of the U.S.'s Climate Change Denial
The film meticulously probes how, why, and when the greenhouse effect went from a scientific certainty to it being up for debate.
www.slantmagazine.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT meticulously yet concisely probes how, why, and when our understanding of the greenhouse effect went from a scientific certainty to it being up for debate. Read @positivelytonsils.bsky.social's review.
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Arturo Ripstein’s DEEP CRIMSON, a transfixing tale of deception, obsession, and desperation from 1966, receives a gorgeous new transfer courtesy of the Criterion Collection. Available on 4K UHD Blu-ray tomorrow. tinyurl.com/43rzmuhp
October 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Arturo Ripstein’s DEEP CRIMSON, a transfixing tale of deception, obsession, and desperation from 1966, receives a gorgeous new transfer courtesy of the Criterion Collection. Available on 4K UHD Blu-ray tomorrow. tinyurl.com/43rzmuhp
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Last night's game was secretly just a practice run to get Angelinos ready for Julia Loktev's 5 1/2 hour doc, My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow.
October 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Last night's game was secretly just a practice run to get Angelinos ready for Julia Loktev's 5 1/2 hour doc, My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow.