Recently on Notebook: 🔹Dylan Adamson (Dylan Adamson) on yuppie-maxxing and social media realism; an excerpt from Elena Gorfinkel (elena gorfinkel) and John David Rhodes' "The Prop;" Ruairí McCann (Ruairí McCann) on three early films by Frederick Wiseman; Lawrence Garcia on the

“I Didn’t Want to Have ‘Migration’ in the Title”: Sam Abbas on ‘Europe’s New Faces’. Read Natalia Keogan's interview with Sam Abbas on #DocumentaryMag! documentary.org/online-feature…

important piece by Natalia Keogan about how the new administration is weaponizing arts funding to erase trans voices

v excited to anchor the new books—and culture of books—newsletter from Dirt Daisy Alioto … more soon!

"Despite its anxious and melancholic air, WHEN THE PHONE RANG captures the golden haze of youth, with its moments of whimsy and wonder." Natalia Keogan interviews director Iva Radivojević​ for #FirstLook2025. reverseshot.org/interviews/ent…. Screens tonight!

"Some of the actors in the film are my old neighbors. . . . There was a lot of love involved in that as well. Somehow, the whole community came out to support." Iva Radivojevic spoke to Natalia Keogan about her new film WHEN THE PHONE RANG. reverseshot.org/interviews/ent…

Miami Beach’s O Cinema Challenges Mayor’s Threats of Eviction Over ‘No Other Land’ Screenings. Natalia Keogan wrote for #DocumentaryMag. O CINEMA documentary.org/online-feature…

"While watching Elementary, it’s impossible not to be cognizant of the U.S.’s increasingly inhospitable approach to public education..."-Natalia Keogan for International Documentary Association (IDA). New interview with dir. Claire Simon for #FirstLook Museum of the Moving Image; CPH:DOX next. documentary.org/online-feature…

I'm pleased to say that my report on Mati Diop's recent films Dahomey (2024) and Naked Blue (2022) for Film Quarterly 78.3 is free to read online. Special thanks to J. M. Tyree 🎞️ and the whole editorial team for their insight and hard work! online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/78/…

ICYMI: Read Michael Blair’s dispatch from this year’s True/False (True/False Film Fest), which situates the annual nonfiction film festival’s place within a Missouri whose political landscape has transformed in the last few decades. filmcomment.com/blog/the-best-…

Cashiers du Cinema issue no. 3 release tonite at Roxy Cinema New York !!!!!! sold tf out 😵 cinema workers will finally see heaven 👼🎥

For today’s episode of The Film Comment Podcast, critics Mark Asch (Mark Asch) and Natalia Keogan (Natalia Keogan) join to preview this year’s edition of New Directors/New Films (New Directors/New Films), including titles Mad Bills to Pay, Familiar Touch, and more. filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-…

eternally in promo mode — i’m throwing this show in two weeks at the windjammer in ridgewood w/ $500 and libby quinn. pencil it in your calendars now did i mention human lanterns is a band now? we have 10 electric guitars 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

in one of the highlights of my career, i talked to Susan Sandler, Peter Riegert, and Amy Irving, the writer and stars of Joan Micklin Silver's transcendent masterpiece CROSSING DELANCEY. to be published Filmmaker Magazine in three parts, starting now: filmmakermagazine.com/130336-intervi…

For the past two months, I've been speaking to striking Alamo Drafthouse workers in New York about their grievances with the company and battling for a new contract. This is the result. For Notebook. Check it out. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

Lots of good detail about getting a movie greenlit by A24, developing a film with the Russo Bros., creature design, shooting in Romania in this interview by Natalia Keogan of "The Legend of Ochi" director Isaiah Saxon. filmmakermagazine.com/130456-intervi…

It's a day of Tribeca interviews as the festival hits its midpoint. From Natalia Keogan, Travis Wood and Alex Mallis on their send-up of the male ego, "The Travel Companion." filmmakermagazine.com/130892-intervi…

Also from Natalia Keogan, Rob Petit on his darren aronofsky / Sandbox Films-produced, Sandra Huller-narratied, Hannah Peel-scored "Underland," about underground spaces and caves. filmmakermagazine.com/130914-intervi…

“A Brutal Honesty That Still Feels Poetic." 25 New Face Walter Thompson-Hernández talks his debut feature, "Kites," w/ Natalia Keogan. filmmakermagazine.com/130925-intervi…

Paula González-Nasser, of the NYC ultra-low-budget production company, 5th Floor, talks to Natalia Keogan about her Akerman-inspired picture about NYC location scouts. (Plenty of resonant moments for anyone who's worked on a film set.) filmmakermagazine.com/130895-intervi…