“I saw a Twitter prompt asking people what movie makes for the best test of someone’s media literacy. The most popular responses were ‘Fight Club’ and ‘The Matrix,’ but my answer is ‘Election.’” — Daniel Joyaux wants justice for Tracey Flick

rogerebert.com/features/elect…

I am intrigued by this bold new strategy of having writers and people who like writing be in charge of publications

48 hours from now, in Dallas, Texas:

📆Wednesday, May 8th

Join us for a special screening of SCARFACE, followed by a conversation with “The World is Yours: The Story of Scarface” writer Glenn Kenny + book signing!

Copies of the book will be available at the concession stand. 🎟️ Tickets: ifccenter.com/films/the-worl…

I’m not sure why Variety is aggregating an interview I did back in February, but if you want to read the original text, it’s here!

vulture.com/article/jessic…

After the police left, the students reclaimed their campus and gathered together for the planned peaceful teach-in. The massive police presence and arrest of dozens of students was so unnecessary.

Sunday afternoon in Dallas:

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no he’s not. all you people know is depravity

MZS Love Planet Hong Kong. I remember wanting to get my hands on it before they put it online, so I spent the one time I happened to be on the USC library reading as much as possible.

Dallas, Texas, April 28, 4 p.m.: I will host a screening of Vanishing Point, one of the landmark car chase/road films. And mzs.press will sell copies of the incredible new book Vanishing Point Forever: thetexastheatre.com/film/vanishing…

BOY KILLS WORLD went through a significant change between its Toronto premiere and its theatrical release. For RogerEbert.com, I highlighted some other notable movies that weren't the same after they unspooled at major festivals. rogerebert.com/features/movie…

There should be congressional hearings about how the police in the United States get to pick and choose which sorts of protests are allowed and which will be crushed with violence

For LIVING LIFE FEARLESS, I wrote about the music on Curb Your Enthusiasm livinglifefearless.co/2024/features/…

Crazy. I wonder if it has something to do with rent being unaffordable, food being unaffordable, insurance being unaffordable, daycare being unaffordable, college being unaffordable, home owning being unaffordable, medical care being unaffordable, and a pandemic.

New York: Bob Fosse retrospective in May at IFC Center, including my beloved All That Jazz: ifccenter.com/series/bob-fos…

“The newspaper carries its own singular obsession with the president, aggrieved over his refusal to give the paper a sit-down interview that Publisher AG Sulzberger and other top editors believe to be its birthright.” politico.com/news/magazine/…

One of the people NYPD maced last night is a photojournalist for NYU’s student paper, Washington Square News.

Photo shared with me by Gabe V, a journalism student at NYU.

Get him

Not to take anything away from the mo-cap work on this franchise, which was groundbreaking, but these costumes and masks look GOOD