There are writers of the long run-on sentence, and then there’s Goytisolo with whatever the hell this is:

Working on an important list

On the latest episode, I talk with Stephen Barber about 'A Sinister Assassin' (Infinity Land Press), Artaud’s last writings, the “body without organs,” and his fight with Christ, psychiatry, and sex itself. Dropping a bit later today.

I’ll never grow tired of beating the drum for El Pampero Cine. PIN DE FARTIE—“not an adaptation, but an anagram” of Beckett’s Endgame—was a Venice standout; for Notebook, I spoke with Alejo Moguillansky ahead of the film’s New York Film Festival premiere: mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

gonna tell my kids this was Star Wars

Is the chase sequence in 'One Battle After Another' awesome? Yes, it is. It's also a perfect excuse to revisit 'Bullitt.'

like many before it, One Battle After Another once again proves that The Searchers is the only movie ever made

Gee, Brain, whaddya wanna do tonight?

Prochain arrêt: gare terminus. Tout le monde descend, s'il vous plaît.

Sisters of the Brave Beaver

They get you when you sleep. But you can only stay awake so long. Where are you gonna go? Where are you going to run? Where are you going to hide? Nowhere... because there's no one...like you...left.

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John Lynn kicks a ball in Alexandre Koberidze's singular DRY LEAF, a meditative, beautiful, and deeply moving film about the unpredictability of life, the changes of culture, and the persistence of play #NYFF63 icsfilm.org/festivals/new-…

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What a great episode. It prompted me to try translating the term into Polish (I don't think it exists in everyday speech). 'Uduszyć kogoś' sounds appealing - it combines ghost, soul, and strangulation. To strangle someone's soul with one's absence or something like that...

In just one week, we kick off the second semester of the World Cinema Academy at the National Centre for Film Culture. There will be 13 meetings, 13 lectures, and 13 screenings featuring films by Lubitsch, Hawks, Welles, Herz, Antonioni, Teshigahara, Rocha, and others.

Shame on me for not seeing this years ago My ★★★★★ review of Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels (1994) on Letterboxd: boxd.it/bfkrQB

The Stendhal Syndrome and its weird ass CGI.

Pin de Fartie (2025, Alejo Moguillansky)

Last weekend, at the National Centre for Film Culture, we organized special screenings of Bollywood hits to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of DDLJ. There were panel discussions, lectures, food tastings, music. At the end, we took a photo posing like Shah Rukh Khan.