R. Emmet Sweeney
@robert-emmet.bsky.social
Kino Lorber / occasional film critic at oldnew.substack.com
Pinned
I hard launched a Substack called Old New to get all these cursed thoughts out of my head: oldnew.substack.com
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The GLTS documentary comes out next week from @kinolorber.com and I did an unboxing! Check it out and grab a copy!
youtu.be/EIoy64QZkpo
youtu.be/EIoy64QZkpo
George Lucas Talk Show Documentary Blu Ray Unboxing Video
YouTube video by The George Lucas Talk Show
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November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The GLTS documentary comes out next week from @kinolorber.com and I did an unboxing! Check it out and grab a copy!
youtu.be/EIoy64QZkpo
youtu.be/EIoy64QZkpo
I interviewed singer/composer Theo Bleckmann about his gorgeous new album Love and Anger, inventing an alien language for Men in Black (1997), and yodeling "Kung Fu Fighting" for Hoodwinked Too! (2011): oldnew.substack.com/p/love-and-a...
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I interviewed singer/composer Theo Bleckmann about his gorgeous new album Love and Anger, inventing an alien language for Men in Black (1997), and yodeling "Kung Fu Fighting" for Hoodwinked Too! (2011): oldnew.substack.com/p/love-and-a...
⚾ Contributed a few words on my favorite sports novel, Robert Coover's The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. I gave 110%, left it all out on the field. ⚾
Our first-ever Sports Issue is coming soon! Featuring
@minakimes.bsky.social, Kiese Laymon, Jenny Odell, @lauravandenberg.bsky.social, a custom Believer-branded swim cap, and much more.
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@minakimes.bsky.social, Kiese Laymon, Jenny Odell, @lauravandenberg.bsky.social, a custom Believer-branded swim cap, and much more.
Subscribe now and get 15% off: store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
⚾ Contributed a few words on my favorite sports novel, Robert Coover's The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. I gave 110%, left it all out on the field. ⚾
Yes I got tickets to see the reunion of an iconic European rock band (Helloween at Palladium Times Square)
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Yes I got tickets to see the reunion of an iconic European rock band (Helloween at Palladium Times Square)
Excited to see the Predator enter the world of Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973)
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Excited to see the Predator enter the world of Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973)
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A Few Great Pumpkins @reverseshot.bsky.social; Wesley Morris, @eshynes.bsky.social, and @robert-emmet.bsky.social on more scary movies; @fredmkaplan.bsky.social + @sshaviro.bsky.social on Kathryn Bigelow; MUBI roundtable on Radu Jude …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A Few Great Pumpkins @reverseshot.bsky.social; Wesley Morris, @eshynes.bsky.social, and @robert-emmet.bsky.social on more scary movies; @fredmkaplan.bsky.social + @sshaviro.bsky.social on Kathryn Bigelow; MUBI roundtable on Radu Jude …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
With Baahubali back in theaters tomorrow, perhaps I can interest you in an interview with Makuta VFX's Pete Draper, who has worked on every SS Rajamouli film since Magadheera (2009): filmmakermagazine.com/114153-inter...
Makuta VFX’s Pete Draper on Working with RRR Director S.S. Rajamouli
The culmination of director S.S. Rajamouli’s bombastic use of visual effects, RRR is on its way to becoming the biggest Indian blockbuster of 2022. Starting with the vengeful CGI fly in Eega (2012)…
filmmakermagazine.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
With Baahubali back in theaters tomorrow, perhaps I can interest you in an interview with Makuta VFX's Pete Draper, who has worked on every SS Rajamouli film since Magadheera (2009): filmmakermagazine.com/114153-inter...
a perfect album from 1989
October 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
a perfect album from 1989
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"I detest the expression “horror film.” I make films on the supernatural and I make them because I believe it." – Jacques Tourneur
I wrote about Jacques Tourneur's profoundly unsettling and uncertain Night of the Demon (1957), over at my Old New substack.
Not a Superstitious Sucker: Night of the Demon (1957)
On Jacques Tourneur's profoundly unsettling horror film
oldnew.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"I detest the expression “horror film.” I make films on the supernatural and I make them because I believe it." – Jacques Tourneur
My terrifying wife, the writer/ghost tour baron Andrea Janes -
@boroughsofthedead.bsky.social - was interviewed about the hauntings at the Merchant's House Museum by ABC7 NY:
@boroughsofthedead.bsky.social - was interviewed about the hauntings at the Merchant's House Museum by ABC7 NY:
At NYC's most-haunted house, long-dead residents won't give up the ghost
She thinks that a genuine love for the house might be what truly motivates Gertrude's ghost to hang around.
abc7ny.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
My terrifying wife, the writer/ghost tour baron Andrea Janes -
@boroughsofthedead.bsky.social - was interviewed about the hauntings at the Merchant's House Museum by ABC7 NY:
@boroughsofthedead.bsky.social - was interviewed about the hauntings at the Merchant's House Museum by ABC7 NY:
I wrote about Jacques Tourneur's profoundly unsettling and uncertain Night of the Demon (1957), over at my Old New substack.
Not a Superstitious Sucker: Night of the Demon (1957)
On Jacques Tourneur's profoundly unsettling horror film
oldnew.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I wrote about Jacques Tourneur's profoundly unsettling and uncertain Night of the Demon (1957), over at my Old New substack.
Thanks to everyone who came out to this epochal event! Many children got to see a beautiful new 16mm print of Bruce Baillie's All My Life (1966).
Excited to present some brainrot at @lightindustry.bsky.social on 10/25 at 2pm with my daughter Alice. She picked YouTube memes and I joined them with experimental and silent shorts. Bring your kids!: lightindustry.org/thechildrens...
October 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Thanks to everyone who came out to this epochal event! Many children got to see a beautiful new 16mm print of Bruce Baillie's All My Life (1966).
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Quite a detailed and loving tribute to an American original
Wrote about the late Ken Jacobs, who scared the fuck out of me as a teacher, freaked the fuck out of me as a filmmaker, and was a chill dude when we collaborated on the Ken Jacobs Collection Blu-ray: oldnew.substack.com/p/a-wrenching-departure-ken-jacobs
A Wrenching Departure: Ken Jacobs
On Ken Jacobs as a teacher and a colleague
oldnew.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Quite a detailed and loving tribute to an American original
Alice has a message regarding our program tomorrow at @lightindustry.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Alice has a message regarding our program tomorrow at @lightindustry.bsky.social
Wrote about the late Ken Jacobs, who scared the fuck out of me as a teacher, freaked the fuck out of me as a filmmaker, and was a chill dude when we collaborated on the Ken Jacobs Collection Blu-ray: oldnew.substack.com/p/a-wrenching-departure-ken-jacobs
A Wrenching Departure: Ken Jacobs
On Ken Jacobs as a teacher and a colleague
oldnew.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Wrote about the late Ken Jacobs, who scared the fuck out of me as a teacher, freaked the fuck out of me as a filmmaker, and was a chill dude when we collaborated on the Ken Jacobs Collection Blu-ray: oldnew.substack.com/p/a-wrenching-departure-ken-jacobs
I wrote about the wrenching departure of filmmaker and film-undoer Ken Jacobs, who I knew as a teacher and a colleague: oldnew.substack.com/p/a-wrenchin...
A Wrenching Departure: Ken Jacobs
On Ken Jacobs as a teacher and a colleague
oldnew.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I wrote about the wrenching departure of filmmaker and film-undoer Ken Jacobs, who I knew as a teacher and a colleague: oldnew.substack.com/p/a-wrenchin...
Yes I'm into "gooning" (watching Seann William Scott in Goon (2011) and Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017))
October 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Yes I'm into "gooning" (watching Seann William Scott in Goon (2011) and Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017))
Someone left this on my doorstep last night. The force is telling us that people need to buy the I'M "GEORGE LUCAS": A CONNOR RATLIFF STORY Blu-ray - out 11/18! @connorratliff.bsky.social @patrickcotnoir.bsky.social
Pre-order: kinolorber.com/product/i-m-...
Pre-order: kinolorber.com/product/i-m-...
October 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Someone left this on my doorstep last night. The force is telling us that people need to buy the I'M "GEORGE LUCAS": A CONNOR RATLIFF STORY Blu-ray - out 11/18! @connorratliff.bsky.social @patrickcotnoir.bsky.social
Pre-order: kinolorber.com/product/i-m-...
Pre-order: kinolorber.com/product/i-m-...
In one week! Come hang.
Excited to present some brainrot at @lightindustry.bsky.social on 10/25 at 2pm with my daughter Alice. She picked YouTube memes and I joined them with experimental and silent shorts. Bring your kids!: lightindustry.org/thechildrens...
October 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
In one week! Come hang.
Saw a Three Amigos and Heathcliff Movie double bill
Name a FIlm you saw at a Drive In Theater.
October 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Saw a Three Amigos and Heathcliff Movie double bill
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A joy to speak with Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha about the legacy of LINDA LINDA LINDA, an underdog indie that continues to capture the hearts of new fans. For @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy
filmmakermagazine.com/132226-oral-...
filmmakermagazine.com/132226-oral-...
Oral HIstory: Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha on “Linda Linda Linda” at 20
Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha on the making of their cult classic “Linda Linda Linda.”
filmmakermagazine.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A joy to speak with Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha about the legacy of LINDA LINDA LINDA, an underdog indie that continues to capture the hearts of new fans. For @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy
filmmakermagazine.com/132226-oral-...
filmmakermagazine.com/132226-oral-...
For my Old New substack I wrote about Edward L. Cahn's hypnotically beautiful past-life monster movie The She-Creature (1956) + a brief note on Ken Jacobs: oldnew.substack.com/p/past-lives...
Past Lives: The She-Creature (1956)
A brief note on Ken Jacobs and a longer note on Edward L. Cahn's hypnotic creature feature
oldnew.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
For my Old New substack I wrote about Edward L. Cahn's hypnotically beautiful past-life monster movie The She-Creature (1956) + a brief note on Ken Jacobs: oldnew.substack.com/p/past-lives...
An Introduction to the American Underground Film, by Sheldon Renan (1967)
October 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
An Introduction to the American Underground Film, by Sheldon Renan (1967)
My remembrance of Tomonari Nishikawa is in the Fall issue of Millennium Film Journal: millenniumfilmjournal.com/product/mfj-...
October 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
My remembrance of Tomonari Nishikawa is in the Fall issue of Millennium Film Journal: millenniumfilmjournal.com/product/mfj-...
My favorite generation-spanning action film about a revolutionary movement released in 2025 is, of course, Retro (dir. Karthik Subbaraj)
October 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My favorite generation-spanning action film about a revolutionary movement released in 2025 is, of course, Retro (dir. Karthik Subbaraj)