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As part of CINEMA OF PALESTINIAN RETURN, a beautiful series of films programmed by Kaleem and Nadine Fattaleh at Anthology Film Archives in May, I will be inroducing two screenings (May 6 & 14) of Borhane Alaouié's incredible KAFR QASIM (1975) anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screening…

i love them tbh

Later this year we will publish Yoshiko Shibaki's "Susaki Paradise" (tr. Polly Barton), from which Kenji Mizoguchi adapted "Street of Shame" (1956). A collection of six interlinked stories about sex work in the post-war period that combines realism, lyricism & savage humour.

“This is New York City, kid! Home of King Kong! This is where he died…” is an absolute bar.

me and the boys excited to see the latest angela schanelec movie

That is not to say that Brenez’s objects of analysis are invariably morose or hopeless. Evil, for Brenez, is “historical,” a force of oppression and injustice, but it vivifies as much as it mortifies—an energetic system animating body and mind. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

Copped issue #1 of Narrow Margin, dedicated to Luc Moullet and Vittorio Cottafavi, last night. Nice new movieshow quarterly kinda laid out in the O.G. La Gazette du Cinéma newspaper style. Not sure if you can order it online but presumably they'll be slangin em Anthology Film Archives?

Highly recommend Vittorio Cottafavi's Maria Zef, screening tonight at Anthology Film Archives courtesy of Narrow Margin, a wonderful new publication.

Narrow Margin 01 now live! Brand new interview with Luc Moullet, original texts on Moullet and Vittorio Cottafavi, and new translations of contemporary and retrospective texts and interviews by Moullet, Cottafavi, and a host of critics. narrowmarginquarterly.com/01

French New Wave is alive! alex lei found it in New York Film dispatch from a Luc Moullet retrospective and the launch of the ultra-cinephilic magazine Narrow Margin

my talk with Straub and Huillet's sound recordist, Jean-Pierre Duret for the The Theater of the Matters screening of These Encounters of Theirs tomorrow. many thanks to Hicham Awad and Ed McCarry