Daniel Eagan
@danieleagan.bsky.social
Writing about film for Filmmaker Magazine, South China Morning Post, Nikkei, American Cinematographer, and whoever else will let me. Author America's Film Legacy for Bloomsbury. Additional pieces at Film Legacy: https://www.filmlegacy.net/
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Top 5 movie genres:
Guy who’s a pathetic piece of shit
Woman falling apart and it’s hard to watch but goddamn
Theater production/movie production falling apart and it’s so fun to watch
Detective but sad
Period film where they just said fuck it
Guy who’s a pathetic piece of shit
Woman falling apart and it’s hard to watch but goddamn
Theater production/movie production falling apart and it’s so fun to watch
Detective but sad
Period film where they just said fuck it
Top 5 movie genres are:
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
Top 5 movie genres are:
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Top 5 movie genres:
Guy who’s a pathetic piece of shit
Woman falling apart and it’s hard to watch but goddamn
Theater production/movie production falling apart and it’s so fun to watch
Detective but sad
Period film where they just said fuck it
Guy who’s a pathetic piece of shit
Woman falling apart and it’s hard to watch but goddamn
Theater production/movie production falling apart and it’s so fun to watch
Detective but sad
Period film where they just said fuck it
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"[TV] is poor man’s storytelling, easy and cheap. I get depressed when I watch it."
Stellan Skarsgård talks with @danieleagan.bsky.social about #SentimentalValue, suffering, and why cinema will always be superior to television:
Stellan Skarsgård talks with @danieleagan.bsky.social about #SentimentalValue, suffering, and why cinema will always be superior to television:
“Not Everybody Has to Be Likable”: Stellan Skarsgård on Sentimental Value and Suffering
On my last night at the Morelia International Film Festival, dinner took place at Lu, a restaurant specializing in Michoacán cuisine. Over rollos de jicama and tostada San Pancho, conversation ranged ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"[TV] is poor man’s storytelling, easy and cheap. I get depressed when I watch it."
Stellan Skarsgård talks with @danieleagan.bsky.social about #SentimentalValue, suffering, and why cinema will always be superior to television:
Stellan Skarsgård talks with @danieleagan.bsky.social about #SentimentalValue, suffering, and why cinema will always be superior to television:
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Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
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A lost film rises from the deep! 🌊 Maurice Tourneur’s THE WHITE HEATHER (1919), newly restored after being presumed lost, shimmers back to life. 🎬 Watch the clip here, then stream the full film for free at SFFP’s site.
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#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #SilentFilm #FilmSky
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#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #SilentFilm #FilmSky
“The White Heather” (1919) | 2025 Restoration Clip | San Francisco Film Preserve
Watch the complete, newly restored silent film, featuring a new score by the renowned Stephen Horne, on San Francisco Film Preserve’s website: https://filmpreserve.org/restoration/the-white-heather/
“The White Heather,” directed by Maurice Tourneur. Starring: Holmes Herbert, Mabel Ballin, Ben Alexa
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November 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
A lost film rises from the deep! 🌊 Maurice Tourneur’s THE WHITE HEATHER (1919), newly restored after being presumed lost, shimmers back to life. 🎬 Watch the clip here, then stream the full film for free at SFFP’s site.
www.youtube.com/watc...
#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #SilentFilm #FilmSky
www.youtube.com/watc...
#SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #SilentFilm #FilmSky
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Locked in with @arimelber.bsky.social.
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Locked in with @arimelber.bsky.social.
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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
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i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife
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ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening.
Make statues of this.
Make statues of this.
October 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening.
Make statues of this.
Make statues of this.
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Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.
October 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.
We can all learn from this movie. @moreliafilmfest.bsky.social screenanarchy.com/2025/10/more...
Morelia 2025 Review: IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACAS, Political Crisis Endangers Writer
Directed by Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás, the film stars Natalia Reyes.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
We can all learn from this movie. @moreliafilmfest.bsky.social screenanarchy.com/2025/10/more...
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I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.
Charlie Kaufman gets his chair at Morelia International Film Festival
October 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Charlie Kaufman gets his chair at Morelia International Film Festival
Sold out house for Lucrecia Martel’s Nuestra Tierra at Morelia International Film Festival
October 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Sold out house for Lucrecia Martel’s Nuestra Tierra at Morelia International Film Festival
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I loved everything about Diane Keaton, her unabashed, beautiful quirkiness, her biting sarcasm, but mostly her deep cheerfulness. The world is now smaller. rip
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Diane Keaton "Seems Like Old Times" HD
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October 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I loved everything about Diane Keaton, her unabashed, beautiful quirkiness, her biting sarcasm, but mostly her deep cheerfulness. The world is now smaller. rip
youtu.be/WMkM_XPEuBA?...
youtu.be/WMkM_XPEuBA?...
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"We can experience a dream together in a theater. It’s a communal feeling that can’t be duplicated in any other media.”
Bi Gan discusses Resurrection, the importance of dreams, ambitious shots, and the everlasting power of cinema at the Busan Film Festival:
Bi Gan discusses Resurrection, the importance of dreams, ambitious shots, and the everlasting power of cinema at the Busan Film Festival:
“Cinema Will Not Come to an End”: Bi Gan on Resurrection
One of the most anticipated films in the newly established Competition section at this year's Busan International Film Festival was Resurrection, an epic look at cinema history from Bi Gan. For almost...
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October 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"We can experience a dream together in a theater. It’s a communal feeling that can’t be duplicated in any other media.”
Bi Gan discusses Resurrection, the importance of dreams, ambitious shots, and the everlasting power of cinema at the Busan Film Festival:
Bi Gan discusses Resurrection, the importance of dreams, ambitious shots, and the everlasting power of cinema at the Busan Film Festival:
ALL GREENS is this year's best "high school outcasts form drug ring" comedy. Part of the Vision Asia section of this year's Busan International Film Festival.
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Busan 2025 Review: ALL GREENS, High Schoolers Become Drug Dealers in Goofy Comedy
A bright, bouncy film about coed drug dealers, All Greens makes full use of its narrative contradictions. It employs a tone similar to the Baby Assassins franchise, only without violent stunts. Of the...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
ALL GREENS is this year's best "high school outcasts form drug ring" comedy. Part of the Vision Asia section of this year's Busan International Film Festival.
screenanarchy.com/2025/10/busa...
screenanarchy.com/2025/10/busa...
My first kabuki gangster film, to be released in the US by GKIDS @gkids.com
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Busan 2025 Review: KOKUHO, Heir Commits Himself to an Artist's Life
A hit in Japan, where it was selected to represent the country at the Academy Awards, Kokuho is a tougher sell elsewhere. Focusing on two kabuki rivals over a 50-year period, the film is nothing if no...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
My first kabuki gangster film, to be released in the US by GKIDS @gkids.com
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Typepad is gone so you won’t see my blog, Some Came Running, there anymore. I’m moving the enterprise to Ghost — link below. More to come and thanks for your patience!
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Some Came Running
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Typepad is gone so you won’t see my blog, Some Came Running, there anymore. I’m moving the enterprise to Ghost — link below. More to come and thanks for your patience!
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This is not a fight about tax credits.
This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.
We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.
This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.
We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.
October 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is not a fight about tax credits.
This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.
We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.
This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.
We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.
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Same as it ever was.
September 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Same as it ever was.
Yesterday and today
September 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Yesterday and today
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September 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Celine Song is always a thoughtful interview, here she talks about Rain Man and empathy for her characters asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/bi...
Celine Song: My movies are about 'what it's like to live'
Box office for 'Past Lives' director's latest film, 'Materialists,' tops $100m
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September 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Celine Song is always a thoughtful interview, here she talks about Rain Man and empathy for her characters asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/bi...