Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer
@nicopsetzer.bsky.social
Brooklyn-based film critic and programmer from Chiapas, MX. / Managing editor @ScreenSlate / Managing director @lecinemaclub / Writing Here & There
Happy to spotlight this wonderful new film — go check it out if you’re in SF!
This week, SFFILM opens for its 68th festival! To celebrate, we've got not one, not two, but THREE festival picks to highlight this week. First up, @nicopsetzer.bsky.social on Endless Cookie, Seth and Peter Scriver's "psychedelic exploration of Shamattawa life": www.screenslate.com/articles/end...
Endless Cookie
The arrival of a film of such consummate visual prowess as Seth and Peter Scriver’s Endless Cookie (2025) merits celebration; perhaps, this explains its constancy in film festival lineups ever since i...
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April 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Happy to spotlight this wonderful new film — go check it out if you’re in SF!
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This week, @nicopsetzer.bsky.social on The Shock, Lambert Hillyer's Lon Chaney-starring, SF-set gangster melodrama, screening this Saturday at the @nilesessanay.bsky.social
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The Shock
The Indiana-born filmmaker Lambert Hillyer remains best known for his 1943 Batman serial, which inspired the later Adam West series in the 1960s. Although the Caped Crusader no longer resembles his ci...
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April 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This week, @nicopsetzer.bsky.social on The Shock, Lambert Hillyer's Lon Chaney-starring, SF-set gangster melodrama, screening this Saturday at the @nilesessanay.bsky.social
www.screenslate.com/articles/sho...
www.screenslate.com/articles/sho...
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"While they sit comfortably behind their screens, their actions have very real consequences for the rest of us. If I am deprived of my child in the first moments of his life, the people responsible will have been, among others, these students." www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
A Letter to Columbia
<i>Editor's Note: This op-ed was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA </i>’24<i>. Spectator verified this with his Attorney Amy Greer and conducted its regular editing process. Khalil is currently detaine...
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April 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"While they sit comfortably behind their screens, their actions have very real consequences for the rest of us. If I am deprived of my child in the first moments of his life, the people responsible will have been, among others, these students." www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
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Todd Solondz’s film Palindromes (2004) is getting rereleased this week. I interviewed him for @screenslate.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/eig...
The Eight Avivas: An Interview with Todd Solondz about Palindromes
Todd Solondz and his cinematic worldview of discomfort and sorrow burst upon the American indie filmmaking scene with the festival success of his second movie, Welcome to the Dollhouse, in 1995, and i...
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March 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Todd Solondz’s film Palindromes (2004) is getting rereleased this week. I interviewed him for @screenslate.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/eig...
Reposted by Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer
This is huge: Screen Slate named the second most important newsletter in @markkrotov.bsky.social's life in the New York Times
March 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is huge: Screen Slate named the second most important newsletter in @markkrotov.bsky.social's life in the New York Times
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Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description
February 18, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description
You can now watch THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED with a Disney+ subscription. Support independent American cinema.
February 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
You can now watch THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED with a Disney+ subscription. Support independent American cinema.
Every time I write about a film at Doc Fortnight I stumble upon an interview that reveals the film in question has a little lie at its center—a smart trick of sorts. And so I restart, to celebrate a trickster’s cinema that is sometimes clichéd, and mostly charming.
February 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Every time I write about a film at Doc Fortnight I stumble upon an interview that reveals the film in question has a little lie at its center—a smart trick of sorts. And so I restart, to celebrate a trickster’s cinema that is sometimes clichéd, and mostly charming.
A new year. A new app. A new piece of writing. Here is my my latest for @screenslate.bsky.social :
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Feedback Loop: Catching Up
I have been doing a lot of catching up this January, as I often find myself around a lot of bright and learned film critics and film viewers whose history with the artform exceeds my own. The sense of...
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February 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
A new year. A new app. A new piece of writing. Here is my my latest for @screenslate.bsky.social :
www.screenslate.com/articles/fee...
www.screenslate.com/articles/fee...