Woke up to the absolute BEST birthday present/Barbie-X-Files cross-over event I never knew existed from some dear Vancouver friends 😍🤓 #fightthefuture

I’m very happy that TCM is creating a more sustainable path forward by having some of the oldest/busiest directors in the world help out. Much more common sense approach than just paying for the staff of professionals that was doing a great job.

All respect to the lads, but gimmicks like this do a lot to obscure the fact that film programming is a whole-ass job, of which picking the films to be shown is but a small part, and at TCM most of that job will be performed by a newly depleted staff, not the celebrity “curators”

It is never not going to gall me that when you google 'Akerman IMDB' Malin Akerman comes up first.

Devastating, we are truly witnessing the end of an era.

One of the greatest losses for film culture in recent memory; the weight and authority of a Cinema Scope issue was like nothing else I've encountered in English-language criticism.

A brilliant magazine. Thinking today of Mark and crew and all of the great work that they've done through the years.

Simply put — reading Cinema Scope, and the writers who made it, fundamentally altered how I see moving pictures and the world at large. I’ll forever be indebted to anyone who had a hand in it, from Mark to any and all filmmakers, editors and contributors.

More to say about this later but I hope people will find ways, publicly and privately, as institutions and as individuals, to give Mark Peranson credit for what he created and sustained for 25 years. Lots of people helped, including some of you. But it was Mark’s magazine.

Mark Peranson has been telling us this day was coming, but that doesn’t make it any easier. Here’s his editor’s note for the final issue of Cinema Scope

No film magazine in my lifetime has been better at consistently identifying what has been important in the medium. Cheers to Mark, the author of the mag, as well as to Adam Nayman, Andrew Tracy, and everyone else who helped keep it alive. x.com/CinemaScopeMag…

"To do something valuable in this field one needs creative freedom." The writing was on the wall, but this is painful, and will continue to be. A magazine that has never given a damn about the "discourse," just elevating excellence in both cinema and writing.

At the airport, leaving for IFFR, trying to find the words. I came of age as a cinephile reading Scope. I came of age as a critic writing for Scope. No publication has meant more to me personally or professionally. Wouldn’t trade the last eleven years (41 issues!) for anything.❤️

By a wide margin, the most & smartest coverage Wavelengths ever received in its history (which has parallels) was to be found in Cinema Scope . 💔

RIP to one of the great film publications. This is how a lot of things in this world work: someone devotes their life to the arts, volunteering endless hours to make things a little better. I’m honored to have contributed to CS once. Don’t be afraid to follow in Mark’s footsteps.

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