On THE MASTERMIND, Kelly Reichardt’s reserved political sensibility, the rise of the Me Decade, and the fact that we’re all on the chopping block, for The Nation. Check it out! thenation.com/article/cultur…

I wrote about the wrenching departure of filmmaker and film-undoer Ken Jacobs, who I knew as a teacher and a colleague. Link in reply.

New weekend plans just dropped:

NEW HIT FACTORY // The fine gentlemen of Sōd Casty For Me join to discuss Hirokazu Kore-eda's delicate, understated AFTER LIFE - a meditation on death and the hereafter as well as a treatise on artmaking itself; how cinema reflects and retains memory. Links below.

This week: DOG’S DIALOGUE a film by RAÚL RUIZ. 1977. 22 min. A rare short film from a prolific Chilean master shot in the style of Chris Marker’s La Jetée and riffing off the popular and sensational photo-novels from the era.  For one week on lecinemaclub.com.

Wednesday at Low Cinema: I’m showing my own excellent 16mm print of The Black Cat along with some truly mind-blowing, never-on-video (/not-on-torrents) deep cuts Tickets: lowcinema.com/tickets/p/16mm… 🎨 by our graphic design intern Don Jerringer

Wrote about the late Ken Jacobs, who scared the fuck out of me as a teacher, freaked the fuck out of me as a filmmaker, and was a chill dude when we collaborated on the Ken Jacobs Collection Blu-ray. Link ⬇️

If you hone in any problem with Sports Media These Days, this guy's stupid fucking face is there and yet every still tunes in.

SF BAY AREA - We're excited to announce that Hit Factory is hosting a screening of Heather Landsman's (💽 heather) haunting archival film THE BEST OF ME at the fabulous 4 Star Theater NEXT SATURDAY 11/1 at 8:00pm PT. Tickets and info below.

Tomorrow!

Allan Dwan paying tribute to Gloria Swanson on This Is Your Life in 1957

Having my first "LA traffic" experience and when you have something time-related going on, it actually is exactly as annoying as everyone says

I was there, he did do this ✅

Jerome Hiler by the sea

reupping this edit👼

Put this on your watchlist, please. I think the people with the money dish it out if they exclusively see something is popular enough on the list website boxd.it/YlQQ

"When a director wants to express his own idea during the creative process, you always find loss in all different phases, but this is natural." Soi Cheang talks with Nick Newman about directing action, 'Twilight of the Warriors' sequel and prequel plans, and the future of Hong

Just thinking of Jacques Tourneur's unmade horror film Whispering in Distant Chambers (interview in Cinefantastique, Summer 1973)

I wrote about Jacques Tourneur's profoundly unsettling and uncertain Night of the Demon (1957), over at my Old New substack. Link in reply.