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one thing I like to learn about is 17th century guys with non binary rock climbing enthusiast names

2) NARROW MARGIN #1 is now available for purchase at the BFI shop and ICA bookstore. Ask for NARROW MARGIN. Accept no substitutes.

Here’s two

all our acts aspire to the condition of music, don’t look back, don’t look back.

that’s not what commodity fetishism means

Here is the mag and our series with M. Moullet mentioned in Criterion’s daily transmission. Our enemies will continue to appear ever more foolish.

I don’t want to be hyperbolic. But this is one of the greatest things that has happened during my lifetime.

im built like this

New York: Narrow Margin, the magazine I edit, is holding some special screenings at Anthology in August. Program(me) is not public yet but I assure you it is nuts.

”I saw a film by… who is the official British film director?”
“…Mike Leigh?”
“Yes, him.”

um ACTUALLY I think you’ll find John Ford was something of a CONSERVATIVE

I have been reading and mostly enjoying eccentric ultra-conservative Roberto Calasso but whenever he winds up to something that might be a general political thesis you get a paragraph like this. I would be genuinely grateful if someone could tell me what this means.

Thinking about that footage from the shoot of _Mouchette_ where they’re all having lunch together on big trestle tables. Probably how movies ought to be made.

Rohmer films make for rougher watches in your late twenties than in your late teens.

another day scandalized by an unmarried couple sharing a bed in a pre-Code movie

Thanks @jerryj.bsky.social for Paul Czinner's _Ariane_, a pretty extraordinary film that is not like much else from 31, though the freedom of the camera put me in mind of _La Chienne_. Let's hope for a restoration of the French version, which according to some guy on Letterboxd is even better.