now is a perfect time to start reminiscing about lily gladstone’s beautiful performance in certain women

Gena Rowlands, thank you, performers mean everything to me, I can’t live without the melodramatic splendor of your noble kind

the most life changing movie you’ll ever watch is waiting for you on tubi

Braided essay king, I said what I said

a great piece on background cinematic people

Of all the writing I produced in 2024, my essay on the history of “comfort women” is what I’m most proud of: mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

Announcing "Obayashi '80s: The Onomichi Trilogy & Kadokawa Years"—running Feb 7-14! Illustrating earnest portraits of youth & expressive fantasias, Nobuhiko Obayashi's teen symphonies attune themselves to the extraordinary nature of ordinary adolescence: japansoc.org/Obayashi80s

WHO DID THE LIGHTING for the THR round table this year BECAUSE I WANT TO KISS YOU ON THE MOUTH

It's the best day of the year: A.S. Hamrah on Oscars movies in n+1 nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

Kinuyo Tanaka on the set of THE ETERNAL BREASTS (1955).

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…

talked all things hasumi (what is the hasumi-esque?) with the truly brilliant Carlos Valladares, up now on Gagosian

Our Mikio Naruse poster is up!

DIRECTOR-APPROVED TWENTY-DISC 4K SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR’S SET FEATURES ✨ •Commentaries, interviews, documentaries, deleted scenes, auditions, short films, home movies, commercials, storyboards, animation tests, archival recordings, still photography, discussions, analysis,

Essays for the Wes Anderson box set will be a feast: Richard Brody, Bilge Ebiri, moeko fujii, Dave Kehr, James L. Brooks, Kent Jones, Geoffrey O’Brien, Martin Scorsese, and Erica Wagner. Reminder that Criterion Collection generously puts their essays online. criterion.com/boxsets/8208-t…

[BREAKING] Since May, Columbia admin has been secretly working to eliminate graduate teaching jobs while negotiating with SWC for a new contract. Out of ~200 instructor jobs in a regular year, we know of only ~10 that have been appointed.

🇫🇷 ❤️ 🗽 Luc Moullet in NYC! Behold the screening schedule for our retrospective Luc Moullet: Anarchy in the Alps (taking place August 8-14), with the French New Wave filmmaker joining us in person at select screenings. View individual film descriptions & secure 🎟️ at