Violet Lucca
@violetlucca.bsky.social
Film critic. Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Jan ‘25). My writing about film has appeared in the NYT, Art in America, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and elsewhere. NYFCC member
https://linktr.ee/violetvlucca
https://linktr.ee/violetvlucca
You forgot someone
October 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
You forgot someone
When you need to be writing but can’t stop writing everywhere else besides the word document
September 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
When you need to be writing but can’t stop writing everywhere else besides the word document
From 2023: Andrew Cockburn’s shitty piece about Dem primary challengers, which included a lengthy section burnishing RFK Jr.’s reputation. Love it when people fall for gish gallop, especially from a fucking lawyer!
August 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
From 2023: Andrew Cockburn’s shitty piece about Dem primary challengers, which included a lengthy section burnishing RFK Jr.’s reputation. Love it when people fall for gish gallop, especially from a fucking lawyer!
Future corvid historians will be perplexed by the seeming abruptness of the Silicon Age Collapse.
August 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Future corvid historians will be perplexed by the seeming abruptness of the Silicon Age Collapse.
Austin friends! Please keep your city weird come through to see me discussing my book at a screening of CRASH at @austinfilm.bsky.social on the 27th. The event is co-sponsored by the venerable First Light Books so you know it’s good!
www.firstlightaustin.com/events/viole...
www.firstlightaustin.com/events/viole...
July 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Austin friends! Please keep your city weird come through to see me discussing my book at a screening of CRASH at @austinfilm.bsky.social on the 27th. The event is co-sponsored by the venerable First Light Books so you know it’s good!
www.firstlightaustin.com/events/viole...
www.firstlightaustin.com/events/viole...
This is how he got the chin
June 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is how he got the chin
Spent last night canvassing the Upper East Side in the rain for this guy—and I wouldn’t have it any other way. (I’ve also been to Inwood, Parkchester, and Norwood.) We’ve got a chance to make life easier for millions of New Yorkers! Sign up: www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/si...
May 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Spent last night canvassing the Upper East Side in the rain for this guy—and I wouldn’t have it any other way. (I’ve also been to Inwood, Parkchester, and Norwood.) We’ve got a chance to make life easier for millions of New Yorkers! Sign up: www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/si...
I’ll also be introducing THE SHROUDS at the Seattle International Film Festival at 7pm on Saturday!
May 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I’ll also be introducing THE SHROUDS at the Seattle International Film Festival at 7pm on Saturday!
SEATTLE! I’ll be at Third Place Books tomorrow at 7 talking about my book about David Cronenberg. I promise it’ll help you understand/enjoy THE SHROUDS more. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/violet-luc...
May 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
SEATTLE! I’ll be at Third Place Books tomorrow at 7 talking about my book about David Cronenberg. I promise it’ll help you understand/enjoy THE SHROUDS more. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/violet-luc...
This was a study of 146 children. Some of that group watched at Cape Canaveral. This is not the gotcha you think it is.
April 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This was a study of 146 children. Some of that group watched at Cape Canaveral. This is not the gotcha you think it is.
TFW you’re watching Star Trek: DS9 and Garak isn’t in the episode
April 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
TFW you’re watching Star Trek: DS9 and Garak isn’t in the episode
Incredible @moviejawn.com swag. Thanks, @rosaliekicks.com!
February 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Incredible @moviejawn.com swag. Thanks, @rosaliekicks.com!
I don’t mean this in a mean way, but: Severance is such a good show that it’s leading people to begin to understand what acting entails.
February 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I don’t mean this in a mean way, but: Severance is such a good show that it’s leading people to begin to understand what acting entails.
Wait a minute. I think we have the exact same bookshelves.
January 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Wait a minute. I think we have the exact same bookshelves.
I think they see people using face filters and want to extend it to the rest of the body/field of vision. This completely misses the charm of something like Meitu, the greatest photo filter app of all time. (It turned me into Tina Fey?)
January 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I think they see people using face filters and want to extend it to the rest of the body/field of vision. This completely misses the charm of something like Meitu, the greatest photo filter app of all time. (It turned me into Tina Fey?)
Emmylou is using my book about the Ottomans like an ottoman
December 27, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Emmylou is using my book about the Ottomans like an ottoman
The assassin is a success win MBA guy??? Or is it just a bit??? And he brought the gun to get McDonald’s??? WHAT IS REAL ANYMORE
December 9, 2024 at 6:34 PM
The assassin is a success win MBA guy??? Or is it just a bit??? And he brought the gun to get McDonald’s??? WHAT IS REAL ANYMORE
December 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Thinking about how 2012 was the greatest year for limo movies.
November 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Thinking about how 2012 was the greatest year for limo movies.
Ronald Mlodzik (Adrian Tripod) starred or appeared in many of Cronenberg’s early short films, features, and made-for-TV experiments—and always wore his own clothes for the roles.
October 31, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Ronald Mlodzik (Adrian Tripod) starred or appeared in many of Cronenberg’s early short films, features, and made-for-TV experiments—and always wore his own clothes for the roles.
Now jumping ahead to the polymorphously perverse CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (1970).
October 31, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Now jumping ahead to the polymorphously perverse CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (1970).