Try as you might Hollywood (+ social media algorithms, stan accounts), ✋NO✋ I will never be able to remember the face of one "Daisy Edgar Jones

We live in twisted times, a message that really resonated with Americans when they cast a vote🗳️ for TWISTERS this weekend at the box office

meat’s back on the menu……..boys

On the list of films I thought we’d never be able to show, SPARTA is right near the top. This took some doing (and considerable $$$). Do come out. A rare movie worth debating.

Missive # 4—three films whose director and star are one and the same: Melissa E Anderson on Ida Lupino’s “The Bigamist,” 💜💜🎀 ȶɦɛ ȶɦɨռӄɛʀ🎀 💜💜 on Clint Eastwood’s “Cry Macho,” & Beatrice Loayza on Joanna Arnow’s “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” 4columns.org

Directed by Alain Guiraudie

“Arnow’s millennial humor stands out for the abject nature of her eroticism—made even more potent by the fact that she stars in each of her films.”—Beatrice Loayza on Joanna Arnow’s “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” from the archives 4columns.org/loayza-beatric…

In France, some crows have been trained to pick up cigarette butts on the street. The crows pick up cigarette butts and put them into a machine, where they receive food as a reward.

“Underneath his comic impulses are serious existential inquiries into questions of freedom.” Beatrice Loayza writes on the undersung French New Wave filmmaker Jacques Rozier, the subject of a long overdue retrospective Film at Lincoln Center. filmcomment.com/blog/that-summ…

When I said put sex back in the movies I didn’t realize I meant let me watch a 4k restoration of HELLRAISER in the walter reade. Yes yes yes…

To accompany our new collection of films by Juan Pablo González on Criterion Channel, Beatrice Loayza spoke with the celebrated Mexican director about working with subjects he has known since childhood, documentary ethics, and his wide-ranging influences. criterion.com/current/posts/…

A well-deserved The New York Times Critic’s Pick from Beatrice Loayza for RED ROOMS 🖤 “Explores the fascination with serial killers and true crime from an enticingly fresh perspective”nytimes.com/2024/09/05/mov…

New critic's pick from yours truly. Here's my bit on the excellent new dark-web/serial-killer thriller RED ROOMS. The lead actress Juliette Gariépy is someone to watch.🗡️ nytimes.com/2024/09/05/mov…

Ahead of its premiere this weekend at TIFF, we are pleased to share the first poster for Sofia Bohdanowicz's MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL, designed by Charlotte Gosch of studio other types.

On our latest Podcast from Toronto 2024, critics Adam Nayman (Adam Nayman) and Beatrice Loayza (Beatrice Loayza) discuss Jessica Sarah Rinland’s COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s HARVEST, Joshua Oppenheimer’s THE END, and more. 🎧: filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-…