“There’s Some Leisure in It, Too”: Kevin Jerome Everson on Labor, Art, and Film hyperallergic.com/523764/theres-…

There are movies, and then there is Johnnie To’s DRUG WAR.

Tom Seymour Jamie Dunn 🇪🇺 our Howard Hawks? Johnnie To!

Funny/amazing interview with subtitler of Denis, Godard, Assayas + Les Visiteurs in Film Comment Magazine filmcomment.com/blog/interview…

Michael Mann's opener of his Miami Vice (2006) screenplay is just perfect.

It's a privilege to learn about racism instead of experiencing it your whole life.

#filmparlato14 is out!

My article on Tsai Ming-Liang's transformative "Rizi" ("Days") is published at Film Parlato. It also includes some notes by the film's cinematographer Chang Jhong-Yuan. The gorgeous projection at #Berlinale remains one of my last cinema experiences in a theatre (because covid19).

David Fincher: When Welles says, "It only takes an afternoon to learn everything there is to know about cinematography," pfff ... Let’s say that this is the remark of someone who has been lucky to have Gregg Toland around him to prepare the next shot. Orson Welles:

a suggestion from Chris Marker: "...resistance, instead of protest", and: "If the five sides of the pentagon appear impregnable, attack the sixth side." — a Zen proverb

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Syllabus discourse got me misty eyed recalling Fred Camper’s great American Melodrama class at SAIC in 2000, 35mm prints of Sunrise Man’s Castle Mortal Storm Stella Dallas Some Came Running Letter from Unknown Woman Sirk X 2 Ray X 2 Yvonne Rainer! auteurism for life baybeee

Hey all, guess what? Simon and I are back at it! The Akerman Year, a monthly podcast w/ guests, will cover the entire, five decade-spanning oeuvre of the incredible filmmaker, author, and artist Chantal Akerman! Details below!

Kiarostami on The Wind Will Carry Us

"LICORICE PIZZA takes an arm’s-length embrace of nostalgia. Anderson doesn’t turn a blind eye to reality—he heightens it, weighting it with meaning, reflecting the romance of hindsight and adolescent abandon." Christina Newland on PTA's latest. reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/…

Cannes attendees: there’s an Apichatpong single-channel installation, FOR BRUCE, in the Marché basement. Headphones on, zone out.

Johnnie To's DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 is unexpectedly in NYC cinemas. Adam Cook & Daniel Kasman's discussion mubi.tv/1tUuPkM

Sounds of Hong Kong cinema: Johnnie To, Milkyway Image, & the sound track, by Gary Bettinson, Jump Cut 55, fall 2013 ejumpcut.org/archive/jc55.2…