Early data suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to strike down affirmative action in college admissions—and none of the other admissions factors that give preferential treatment to wealthier White applicants like legacies and boosts for children of donors—has

Remembering Billy Preston on his birthday. Here's his remarkable performance of Agent Double-O-Soul with Ray Charles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1967

I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom I kill conversation as I walk into a room I'm a three line whip I'm the sort of thing they ban I'm a walking disaster... I wrote 'bout Cemetery Ma-an. Seattle Film Critics Society Severin Films MVD Entertainment More: siffblog2.blogspot.com/2024/09/dont-m…

good for him

The first sitting President to walk a picket line. Happy Labor Day.

I wrote about Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Cloud, one of his three 2024 movies, which is playing at Venice. Over at In Review Online inreviewonline.com/2024/09/02/clo…

HBD the one and only Keanu Reeves who was BOTD in 1964, turning 60 today! Party on! In 1984 a theatrical production of playwright Brad Fraser's "Wolfboy" premiered in Toronto co-starring two young unknown actors named Carl Marotte & Keanu Reeves, directed by the late John Palmer

The book's got problems, but Peter Biskind's section on Ashby in "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" is one of the most beautiful and elegiac tributes to a great and thwarted artist, and an indictment of how Hollywood ate and spit him out.

Since Ashby is back on the feed...

I remember. I also remember that the late Alan Rickman co-edited and directed "My Name Is Rachel Corrie" in London, then in New York at the Minetta Lane Theater after it was cancelled by the first NYC theater that had scheduled it. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Wow: John McCain’s son is publicly speaking out about Trump’s appearance at Arlington, calling it a ‘violation’ that turned cemetery into campaign backdrop. In response, he is changing his voter registration to Democrat and endorsing Harris. cnn.com/2024/09/03/pol…

I really want to come out of my can, but there are people outside.

I couldn't love Christopher Petit's Radio On more. Here's what I wrote for Resonance (R.I.P.) in 2007.

We aren't serious about keeping folks safe.

I reviewed Only the River Flows in July before any Seattle dates had been announced. Two screenings have now been scheduled: Sept 14 at the Egyptian and 15 at SIFF Film Center. RIYL: Memories of Murder and Decision to Leave. STArt Film Studio More info: tinyurl.com/43h47pxe

Dispatches from the “Pavements” premiere last night at the Venice Film Festival, photos courtesy of Lance Bangs. Pictured: PAVEMENT’s Mark Ibold, Spiral Stairs, Steve West, Rebecca Clay Cole, and Matador’s own Patrick Amory and Gerard Cosloy. #pavements #pavementmovie

The word “lie” has 3 letters. The phrase “seize on false theories” has 20 letters and 3 spaces. The New York Times chose the longer version for its headline because that waters down the facts and keeps the Times in its cowardly safe space.

Legendary filmmaker John Woo + Sparks = ???? #xcrucior

I think anyone who follows me knows that I like all kinds of different movies but every time I watch a Hong I’m (temporarily) convinced that this is the only way forward for making film - resolutely small, artisanal, sketched, barely formed, ‘unfinished’ in a productive way

Quinault has given it her seal of approval.