Our latest publication is out at #Cannes2024! A beautiful labor of love, made with Davide Cazzaro, m.t., Sophia Satchell-Baeza, and Matt Thrift...

reports of Megalopolis make it sound less like Southland Tales and more like Damon Packard...

um why is there the giant statue of ICARUS, wings fully melted, at Melbourne airport??

happy Sydney Film Festival season! Keva S York, Jamie Tram, luke goodsell and i have nine suggestions for you (also i saw stress positions last night so add that) abc.net.au/news/2024-06-0…

Why is he Dougie Jones

The NYC screening that was the grounds for this little piece is over, but the impulse to extoll the queasy delights of The Beaver Trilogy is evergreen. For Screen Slate: screenslate.com/articles/beave…

Stranger by the Lake sequel?

Clown pylons, M5 Highway Újhartyán, Hungary.

new financial year, new me

So excited to show all you trash fiends an unforgettable marathon of underground psychotronic visions, curated by yours truly!!

Now that I'm back in Prague, I've had time to reflect on the monumental project we pulled off at Locarno Film Festival. Each day, we produced a 20-page printed magazine distributed around the festival, featuring interviews and texts from various contributors. locarnofestival.ch/media/pardo.ht…

Highlights include Leonardo Goi speaking with Jane Campion, HUGO with Mohammad Rasoulof and Alfonso Cuarón, Keva S York with Ben Burtt, Christina Newland with Ehsan Khoshbakht, and Filipe Furtado on the new 4K restoration of Alberto Cavalcanti's MULHER DE VERDADE.

Been storing this one like a squirrel with a nut in his cheek: for Notebook, I spoke to director Aaron Schimberg about A Different Man - which is deadpan, dark, and one of the best films I saw at the Berlinale mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

Tureen, or serving dish. Strasbourg faience (tin-glazed earthenware). circa 1750-60.

Lady Gaga Harlequin album has confounded the Spotify algorithm; now it’s not sure if I want pop hits or Tony Bennett

the reveal in the Folie à Deux credits is of the most egregious needle drop of the yr (trumping Civil War's use of Suicide)

An e x p a n d e d version of my Locarno Film Festival interview with the indefatigable Tarsem is now up on Notebook! In which spirituality is denounced, death wishes are made, and it's argued that storytellers should be worshiped as gods mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

Lady Gaga’s star turn in Bradley Cooper’s 'A Star is Born' proved her a compelling screen presence and scene partner.  But Todd Phillips ends up giving her little more to do than to play the Squeaky Fromme to Phoenix’s Manson, writes Keva S York. satpa.pe/FwWqWQy

Hate to kick a clown while he's down, but Todd Phillips made me do it 🤡 On the follies of Folie à Deux, for The Saturday Paper: thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/film/2…