Most of what's out isn't worth seeing. And having to write about this stuff, you feel degraded. It's occupying your head and it has no right to be there. (1988)

On this day in 1926, Ernest Hemingway's mum was unimpressed.

Robert Mitchum has such immense camera presence not just because he's a natural and original actor but because his cynicism is there in the drooping eyelids and the great, reptilian face. (1970)

I don't trust anyone who doesn't admit having at some time in his life enjoyed trashy American movies; I don't trust any of the tastes of people who were born with such good taste that they didn't need to find their way through trash. (1969)

nǎaṫoōwǎap•ṗīyiistǔkḱii This is literally the beginning of IN THE CUT by Susanna Moore

Criticism is an art, not a science, and a critic who follows rules will fail in one of his most important functions: perceiving what is original and important in new work and helping others to see. (1963)

One of the most important scenes in the history of Movies 😮‍💨

he was so ahead of his time. we need great writers who are assholes so bad

Barry Lyndon is a coffee-table movie; we might as well be at a three-hour slide show for art-history majors. (1975)

It never scared me to be one of the few women critics in a male world. I found that many of the male critics could be quite stupid. But more often they were just scared people who wanted to be in the swing of things...They were gutless, and they’re still gutless. (1999)

Hi MUBI UK & Ireland I’m having an issue with my MUBI Go subscription where i can’t get access to use it even though I’m on an annual subscription plan. I’ve already missed a couple of films because of it, would you be able to get it sorted so I have access again please?

I love that Joan Didion wrote a brief essay on self-respect. People should read it. It's also instructive on how those who don't respect themselves cannot respect others.

Remembering Chantal Akerman on her 74th birthday!

It would be dishonest to enjoy something and not admit it. If you laugh all the way through a comedy and then write a pan, something is wrong with you. You have to be able to believe in yourself enough to be truthful about how you react. (1989)

Her work is so bold and diverse that it keeps on reinventing itself while taking the most accurate pulse of American culture. And she belongs to a small group of writers who can claim to have expanded the possibilities of the short story. Award the Nobel Prize to Lynne Tillman.

Nobody ever talks about how Sodom and Gomorrah were walkable cities

There's something crazily repressive in the atmosphere. They're rejecting the rare films that could stir them, frighten them, elate them. (1978)

Reading Evelyn Waugh’s travel book Labels and there’s a great anecdote about his driver on Crete taking a ‘selfie’ on Waugh’s camera left in the car. I’d love to know if this photo has ever turned up in an archive or something? Evelyn Waugh Society don’t know if you’d have any clue!

i genuinely think a screen adaptation of this would be unethical