At a "Sly Lives" Q&A, Questlove spoke about how D'Angelo agreed to be in it to talk about burnout (many wouldn't), recalling the pressure on him to take his shirt off each night for "How Does It Feel," which he saw from beyond the drums on tour. Went from thinking about all we missed to all he gave.

It wasn’t easy, even in L.A., to find a theater playing “Highest 2 Lowest,” but if it’s in your neighborhood, it’s unbelievable with an audience. Scrambling to think of a better stretch of theatrical experiences than Naked Gun, Weapons & now this. Spike and Denzel turned the NoHo 7 into the Palais.

It's been surprising the most buoyant directors I've talked to lately have been those with films about the most grim situations in the world. Maybe that's the attitude that pulls them through to begin with. Anywho, here's Julia Loktev on "My Undesirable Friends" moveablefest.com/julia-loktev...

Some exciting stuff to share on day #1 of Tribeca - former location scout Paula González-Nasser turns out to be an impressive writer/director with "The Scout," recognizing how being let into other people's lives as part of her work allows her to reconsider her own moveablefest.com/paula-gonzal...

Took me a while, but the Cannes Closing ceremony is streaming on Brut's Tiktok www.tiktok.com/@brutofficie...

It's been a joy (and at least a lil exhausting) to spend the week digging into Directors Fortnight and Critics Week at Cannes, but wanted to share a few of the discoveries and pardon the 🧵...

Have been a little bit bummed walking around Austin the last couple days and realizing a lot of my old haunts are gone. But just got out of a screening of Uvalde Mom, a doc about the aftermath of the shooting, and when Al Green showed up midway through, the place erupted, so at least there’s that.

Discoveries made at True/False this year: Myrid Carter’s extraordinary family portrait “A Want in Her,” the propulsive all-archival “WTO ‘99,” Sasha Wortzel’s delicate Everglades evocation “River of Grass” and Kinkao, a great new Thai restaurant that replaced Chim’s on the main drag.

Starting to wrap up my Berlinale coverage, but hope this is just the beginning for "Timestamp," a beautiful doc about the Ukrainian school system continuing on that I suspect will be amongst the year's best films moveablefest.com/timestamp-ka...

Hitting the ground running at Sundance, so I hope you don't mind my sharing a running tab here...

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Wrote about my favorite performance of the past year, and why what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in HARD TRUTHS really feels like it's in a league of its own www.vulture.com/article/give...

After so many other discoveries made @grandillusioncinema.org over the years, I was delighted they led me to see Mikiech Nichols' "Mountainside," among the special screenings in their "Farewell to 1403" series, starting this wk as the Seattle theater plans relocation moveablefest.com/mikiech-nich...

Super special screening of “Step Brothers” at Vidiots where Chewbacca sat in the front row, the bathrooms were stocked with Good Housekeeping magazines and John C. Reilly shouted as the film began (after an emotional intro by Maggie Mackay) “Does this mean we’re best friends?” Incredible night.

A big True/False strength in recent years are the intimate, intricately made family histories and got to talk with Chloe Abrahams about hers, "The Taste of Mango," out now & would keep an eye out for Rachel Elizabeth Seed's recent Spirit nominee "Photographic Memory" moveablefest.com/chloe-abraha...

Talked to the great Joshua Oppenheimer about visiting underground bunkers built by oligarchs and how we can't keep our head in the sand as "The End" starts its journey in the world today moveablefest.com/joshua-oppen...

Here’s Michael Mann talking about how they hired the security expert who set up the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to protect his editing room on “The Insider” from any unexpected intrusions.

Couldn't find any better way to christen this account than with a chat with Raoul Peck, who talks about his latest "Ernest Cole: Lost & Found" (now @ifccenter.bsky.social in NY) and how with each life story he's brought to the big screen, he's sharing more of his own moveablefest.com/raoul-peck-e...