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"The time always comes when one has to pay one’s debt to the fund of sincere belief and has to dare to believe in what he sees."
— Serge Daney, 'The Tracking Shot in Kapo'
I like good images: https://letterboxd.com/seer05/
"The time always comes when one has to pay one’s debt to the fund of sincere belief and has to dare to believe in what he sees."
— Serge Daney, 'The Tracking Shot in Kapo'
I like good images: https://letterboxd.com/seer05/
Somebody let me program a Change pas de Main (1975) + New Rose Hotel (1998) double feature
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Somebody let me program a Change pas de Main (1975) + New Rose Hotel (1998) double feature
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TWO NARROW MARGIN ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1) I have curated a three night programme of some of Luc Moullet’s films and shorts at the ICA next month: www.ica.art/films/in-foc...
ICA | In Focus: Luc Moullet
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...
www.ica.art
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
TWO NARROW MARGIN ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1) I have curated a three night programme of some of Luc Moullet’s films and shorts at the ICA next month: www.ica.art/films/in-foc...
Post a poster you have hanging on your wall
September 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Post a poster you have hanging on your wall
Started a substack, wrote about One Battle After Another (and The Searchers), check it out: open.substack.com/pub/seer2005...
Searching for a Political Cinema
On One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson, John Ford
open.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Started a substack, wrote about One Battle After Another (and The Searchers), check it out: open.substack.com/pub/seer2005...
Best movie ever boxd.it/aXYk0r
A ★★★★★ review of 7 Women (1965)
This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.
boxd.it
September 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Best movie ever boxd.it/aXYk0r
An essential American filmmaker. boxd.it/aWO32h
September 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
An essential American filmmaker. boxd.it/aWO32h
Wrote about my problems with Sinners, IMAX, and the way people think/talk about cinematography. boxd.it/aVa8hH
A review of Sinners (2025)
x.com/HitFactoryPod/status/1961084078909972611 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiH6p6MORbY I had been thinking a lot lately of the severe limitations of the IMAX film format and its relationship with a lot of...
boxd.it
August 31, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Wrote about my problems with Sinners, IMAX, and the way people think/talk about cinematography. boxd.it/aVa8hH
The British were never better than this youtu.be/tKFLu-HiL-4?...
Public Image Limited - Chant (Live on Check It Out 1979).
YouTube video by Spit Records
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August 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The British were never better than this youtu.be/tKFLu-HiL-4?...
70 — Zorns Lemma
71 — La Region Centrale
72 — L’eta di Cosimo de Medici
73 — F for Fake
74 — Lancelot du lac
75 — Jeanne Dielman
76 — Tras-os-Montes
77 — Le Camion
78 — Amor de Perdição
79 — France/tour/detour/deux/enfants
71 — La Region Centrale
72 — L’eta di Cosimo de Medici
73 — F for Fake
74 — Lancelot du lac
75 — Jeanne Dielman
76 — Tras-os-Montes
77 — Le Camion
78 — Amor de Perdição
79 — France/tour/detour/deux/enfants
Fave of the 70s
70 Man Who Left His Will on Film
71 La Region centrale
72 Fat City
73 Duvidha
74 Cockfighter
75 Numero deux
76 Duelle
77 Opening Night/Cross of Iron
78 Les rendez-vous d’Anna
79 Stalker
70 Man Who Left His Will on Film
71 La Region centrale
72 Fat City
73 Duvidha
74 Cockfighter
75 Numero deux
76 Duelle
77 Opening Night/Cross of Iron
78 Les rendez-vous d’Anna
79 Stalker
Favorite films of the 1970s
70: The Conformist
71: McCabe & Mrs Miller
72: Solaris
73: The Holy Mountain
74: Chinatown
75: Barry Lyndon
76: Network
77: A Special Day
78: Blue Collar
79: All That Jazz
70: The Conformist
71: McCabe & Mrs Miller
72: Solaris
73: The Holy Mountain
74: Chinatown
75: Barry Lyndon
76: Network
77: A Special Day
78: Blue Collar
79: All That Jazz
August 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
70 — Zorns Lemma
71 — La Region Centrale
72 — L’eta di Cosimo de Medici
73 — F for Fake
74 — Lancelot du lac
75 — Jeanne Dielman
76 — Tras-os-Montes
77 — Le Camion
78 — Amor de Perdição
79 — France/tour/detour/deux/enfants
71 — La Region Centrale
72 — L’eta di Cosimo de Medici
73 — F for Fake
74 — Lancelot du lac
75 — Jeanne Dielman
76 — Tras-os-Montes
77 — Le Camion
78 — Amor de Perdição
79 — France/tour/detour/deux/enfants
July 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Without saying When Doves Cry, fav Prince Song?
July 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Without saying When Doves Cry, fav Prince Song?
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virtually all of your irritation with mediocrities and worse in ‘the arts’ can be assuaged by remembering that in the long run sucking is its own punishment
July 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
virtually all of your irritation with mediocrities and worse in ‘the arts’ can be assuaged by remembering that in the long run sucking is its own punishment
HOLY SHIT IVE BEEN PRAYING FOR TIMES LIKE THESE. My skull weighs like an anvil rn but finally a good part of my week
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on August 26th on Blu-ray in the US form #WarnerArchive: #SevenWomen (1966)!
In the final film of an illustrious career that spanned nearly five decades, director John Ford breaks his old mold: famed for making westerns, he directed an “eastern”; accredited as a
Coming on August 26th on Blu-ray in the US form #WarnerArchive: #SevenWomen (1966)!
In the final film of an illustrious career that spanned nearly five decades, director John Ford breaks his old mold: famed for making westerns, he directed an “eastern”; accredited as a
July 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
HOLY SHIT IVE BEEN PRAYING FOR TIMES LIKE THESE. My skull weighs like an anvil rn but finally a good part of my week
Superman is one of the best and most interesting pop culture inventions ever, honestly. He’s also been in stories that often suck for the past several decades or so, including this one. How do you explain the contradiction? boxd.it/akQNz9
A review of Superman (2025)
To start off, I'll say simply that James Gunn is often a bad filmmaker in a lot of the obvious ways. This tic he's picked up of filming things in the widest lens possible, paired with a hyperbolic mov...
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July 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Superman is one of the best and most interesting pop culture inventions ever, honestly. He’s also been in stories that often suck for the past several decades or so, including this one. How do you explain the contradiction? boxd.it/akQNz9
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...table, and got (inadequate) credit and payment, but no share in future earnings?
Comics history is like an advent calendar of abuses. Always something new behind the next door.
Comics history is like an advent calendar of abuses. Always something new behind the next door.
July 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
...table, and got (inadequate) credit and payment, but no share in future earnings?
Comics history is like an advent calendar of abuses. Always something new behind the next door.
Comics history is like an advent calendar of abuses. Always something new behind the next door.
Rewatching any of Godard's video work and how do you not go back to, like, YouTube video essayists trying to talk about film and not view them as sub-literate cavemen. Godard made me realize that, yeah, there's not much real good film "content" on YouTube.
July 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Rewatching any of Godard's video work and how do you not go back to, like, YouTube video essayists trying to talk about film and not view them as sub-literate cavemen. Godard made me realize that, yeah, there's not much real good film "content" on YouTube.
I’m a retired comic fan, few months sober, but:
1. Superman
2. Flash (Wally West)
3. Swamp Thing
4. Mister Miracle
5. Animal Man
6. Green Lantern (John Stewart)
7. Aquaman
8. Martian Manhunter
9. Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
10. Batman (begrudgingly)
1. Superman
2. Flash (Wally West)
3. Swamp Thing
4. Mister Miracle
5. Animal Man
6. Green Lantern (John Stewart)
7. Aquaman
8. Martian Manhunter
9. Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
10. Batman (begrudgingly)
My top 10 DC heroes
1. Batman
2. Nightwing / Robin (DG)
3. Swamp Thing
4. Superman
5. Flash (Wally)
6. GL (John)
7. Wonder Woman
8. Oracle
9. Green Arrow
10. GL (Hal)
1. Batman
2. Nightwing / Robin (DG)
3. Swamp Thing
4. Superman
5. Flash (Wally)
6. GL (John)
7. Wonder Woman
8. Oracle
9. Green Arrow
10. GL (Hal)
Name your top 10 DC super heroes:
1. Cyborg
2. Saturn Girl
3. GL Kyle Rayner
4. Batman
5. Gates
6. Starfire
7. Green Arrow
8. Oracle
9. The Metal Men
10. Flash Wally West
Honorable Mentions: Detective Chimp, The Ray, The Atom, Swamp Thing, Mr. Terrific
1. Cyborg
2. Saturn Girl
3. GL Kyle Rayner
4. Batman
5. Gates
6. Starfire
7. Green Arrow
8. Oracle
9. The Metal Men
10. Flash Wally West
Honorable Mentions: Detective Chimp, The Ray, The Atom, Swamp Thing, Mr. Terrific
June 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I’m a retired comic fan, few months sober, but:
1. Superman
2. Flash (Wally West)
3. Swamp Thing
4. Mister Miracle
5. Animal Man
6. Green Lantern (John Stewart)
7. Aquaman
8. Martian Manhunter
9. Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
10. Batman (begrudgingly)
1. Superman
2. Flash (Wally West)
3. Swamp Thing
4. Mister Miracle
5. Animal Man
6. Green Lantern (John Stewart)
7. Aquaman
8. Martian Manhunter
9. Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
10. Batman (begrudgingly)
Godard c. 1978. Very funny to see his assessment of Eastwood here . . . eventually you get to him happily calling him "Mr. Honkytonk Man" in 1998. I can't yet find any comment from Godard on Eastwood in the interim, but then, perhaps Eastwood's 80s and especially 90s output explains enough...
June 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Godard c. 1978. Very funny to see his assessment of Eastwood here . . . eventually you get to him happily calling him "Mr. Honkytonk Man" in 1998. I can't yet find any comment from Godard on Eastwood in the interim, but then, perhaps Eastwood's 80s and especially 90s output explains enough...
Very annoying to have had to add the Akerman and Brisseau — but did I expect better of the Times?
June 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Very annoying to have had to add the Akerman and Brisseau — but did I expect better of the Times?
How to Train Your Dragon: one twink’s attempt to bring liberal reform to his people’s militant nationalism.
June 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
How to Train Your Dragon: one twink’s attempt to bring liberal reform to his people’s militant nationalism.
I think people are making top 10s for the century? Anyways:
Ne touchez pas la hache
No Quarto da Vanda
Kairo
La Captive
Miami Vice
Les Savates du bon Dieu
Geuk Jang Jeon
Yi Yi
Cry Macho
Ren xiao yao
Ne touchez pas la hache
No Quarto da Vanda
Kairo
La Captive
Miami Vice
Les Savates du bon Dieu
Geuk Jang Jeon
Yi Yi
Cry Macho
Ren xiao yao
June 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I think people are making top 10s for the century? Anyways:
Ne touchez pas la hache
No Quarto da Vanda
Kairo
La Captive
Miami Vice
Les Savates du bon Dieu
Geuk Jang Jeon
Yi Yi
Cry Macho
Ren xiao yao
Ne touchez pas la hache
No Quarto da Vanda
Kairo
La Captive
Miami Vice
Les Savates du bon Dieu
Geuk Jang Jeon
Yi Yi
Cry Macho
Ren xiao yao
I feel I shouldn’t have clicked politics as an interesting topic because my feed is overloaded with dumb liberals who could probably never fathom America’s imperialist crimes has bipartisan support.
June 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I feel I shouldn’t have clicked politics as an interesting topic because my feed is overloaded with dumb liberals who could probably never fathom America’s imperialist crimes has bipartisan support.