TONIGHT AT YALE: François Truffaut's THE STORY OF ADÈLE H. in 35mm, screening for its 50th anniversary in the "French 75" film series. bit.ly/yalefrench75 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3 HQ L01 (320 York in New Haven)

I profiled the indefatigable Jerry Schatzberg for Notebook on the occasion of his recent MoMA retrospective. Brew the coffee, it’s a long one: mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

For BOMB Magazine , I spoke again with Charles Burnett in advance of the re-release of the restored KILLER OF SHEEP (1977), now with Dinah Washington's "Unforgettable". He's in New York this weekend for select Q-and-A's and intros at Film Forum. bombmagazine.org/articles/2025/…

Excellent book of interviews (bought it in French last year) from a bizarrely terminally maligned director (mostly by Film Twitter people). Highly recommended. If anyone’s looking for me to review this, I’m around ✋🏾

Going to all of these — a well-curated and wonderful lineup 🙏🏽🙏🏽

"His photographs humble their iconic figures, gently pulling them down from the pedestal of fleeting celebrity; his films, too, marvel in the tripwire instability of everyday life’s tragicomic dimension, provoking audiences to laugh and cry in the same breath. But so far, the

The only footage of Luis Buñuel speaking in Spanish

For Gagosian Quarterly, I had the great pleasure/honor/joy of dialoguing with moeko fujii on the new English translation of Shiguéhiko Hasumi’s landmark book on Yasujiro Ozu, released by University of California Press (is on Bluesky). Here’s our unexpurgated conversation: gagosian.com/quarterly/2024…

I wrote about J Hoberman’s excellent new book for Art in America. artnews.com/art-in-america…

This is incredible, it turns out THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED does exist! It was reported today on Swedish TV that a former employee of Europafilm illegally copied the film onto VHS and held on to it for 45 years. Thanks to him, we might finally get to see this film in its entirety.

Unforgettable performances from Hackman and Al Pacino, the sensitive direction of Jerry Schatzberg, and the glowing landscape cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond come together for one of the defining road movies of the 1970s—a tender, richly human portrait of two hard-luck

I love this so much: Brian Wilson hearing Ronnie Spector’s cover of ‘Don’t Worry Baby’ 💜

One of the best songs Brian Wilson wrote was about the beauty of drinking water. WATER. Every time I drink water, I think of Brian Wilson. That's next level. RIP youtube.com/watch?v=EDd5Zm…

Filmmakers today can’t stop showing their math, like they’re gonna be graded on it. Stuff like this doesn’t matter. What matters is if the film is good. The guy who did the Crow remake had a whole list too.