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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 18h

J.B. Pritzker and Brandon Johnson opening up the Chicago International Film Festival’s programming guide this year.

Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 18h

True of both is that Kerr had to go to a place no one could reach, both where his pain and his violence resided, to do what he did — Safdie seems most fixed by what happened in his loneliness as Dawn stayed in the picture, how their pugilistic conflict was one he lost but that perhaps liberated him.

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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 18h

THE SMASHING MACHINE is most intriguing to me because of the mismatch between Benny Safdie’s documentary-style approach and Dwayne Johnson’s psychological immersion — this sense they are approaching Mark Kerr from two contradictory positions, that the film is animated most by a consequent friction.

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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 19h

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A ★★★★ review of A House of Dynamite (2025)

Nuclear armament as a doomsday clock counting down to zero, a progression that no process can mitigate, no action can disrupt, no expert can defuse — which makes it a film also about the collectivized...

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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 1d

What a filmography on Bas Rutten

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Eric Badofsky @ebadofsky.bsky.social · 1d

#Chicago restaurant and business owners: Please print, post, and share these door signs. Let Homan’s bounty hunters know they’re 𝘯𝘰𝘵 welcome to invade your establishment.

NOTE: You have the right to refuse service to anyone carrying a weapon or creating a threatening atmosphere for your patrons.

Printable door sign reading:

NOTICE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND IMMIGRATION AGENTS

[STOP sign symbol]

NO ICE ENTRY

• Private Property - Entry Restricted by Law In this Business Without a Judicial Warrant Signed by a Judge

• This is a private business - You are not permitted to enter non-public areas.

• You may not search the premises or question employees without proper legal authorization.

• Any persons on this property have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.

• An ICE administration warrant - Form I-200 or I-205 - does not authorize entry into private areas.

[Lower bar]

In compliance with The Constitution of the United States of America, 4th amendment and The Immigrant Worker Protection Act AB 450

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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Walking out of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER ready to run a marathon

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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 4d

Pinch-me moment: I asked the one and only Wes Anderson about his first ten films, on the occasion of a new boxset from @criterion.bsky.social, for @letterboxd.social. A dream, as ever, to spend time with his intrepid and stylistically singular body of work; one of my very favorite filmmakers.

Magnificent Andersons: Wes Anderson on 25 years of filmmaking craft and collaboration—and his new Criterion set • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

As a major new Criterion box set of his work hits shelves, Wes Anderson tells Isaac Feldberg about a quarter-century of filmmaking: via Rushmore, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel and more.

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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 10d

Color me dazzled by Lucile Hadžihalilović's THE ICE TOWER, an unsettling hall-of-mirrors meditation on enchantment in the blinding lights of idolatry, cinema, and fantasy. One of the most dreamily arresting films you will see this year. My four-star review for @ebertvoices.bsky.social:

The Ice Tower movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

This is not so much a film you watch as one you wake up from, shivering.

www.rogerebert.com

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3d

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

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Mitchell Beaupre @mitchellbeaupre.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely stellar career interview with Wes Anderson here from @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social on the occasion of the new @criterion.bsky.social box set. Read the full interview on Letterboxd Journal: boxd.it/2Lc

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 4d

As a major new @criterion.bsky.social box set of his work hits shelves, Wes Anderson tells Isaac Feldberg about a quarter-century of ﬁlmmaking: via Rushmore, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel and more. boxd.it/2Lc

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 4d

As a major new @criterion.bsky.social box set of his work hits shelves, Wes Anderson tells Isaac Feldberg about a quarter-century of ﬁlmmaking: via Rushmore, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel and more. boxd.it/2Lc

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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 4d

Endless gratitude to all who made this one possible.

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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 4d

Pinch-me moment: I asked the one and only Wes Anderson about his first ten films, on the occasion of a new boxset from @criterion.bsky.social, for @letterboxd.social. A dream, as ever, to spend time with his intrepid and stylistically singular body of work; one of my very favorite filmmakers.

Magnificent Andersons: Wes Anderson on 25 years of filmmaking craft and collaboration—and his new Criterion set • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

As a major new Criterion box set of his work hits shelves, Wes Anderson tells Isaac Feldberg about a quarter-century of filmmaking: via Rushmore, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel and more.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 4d

Was completely on purpose

Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 4d

Threw on the new Criterion of NIGHTMARE ALLEY 2021 and forgot that the reappearance of Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen makes this the Catalina Wine Mixer of Guillermo Del Toro's oeuvre.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 6d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 6d

THE SMASHING MACHINE is an indie Oscar vehicle, not a franchise tentpole, and the idea that Johnson needs to come out and explain why it didn't have a massive opening weekend is a sign that both celebrity culture and entertainment journalism have reached new levels of delusion.

IGN @ign.com · 6d

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has issued a statement after The Smashing Machine became the Hollywood star's worst box office opening ever.

'You Can't Control Box Office Results' — Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Responds to The Smashing Machine's Disappointing Launch

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8d

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 9d

Damn, so our best writer on Trump & the nightmare we're all living through is _also_ superb at writing on movies? It's fine, I'm not jealous at all. David Roth on OBAA, 1970s paranoid political thrillers, & how revolution, by its very nature, is always a work in progress. flaminghydra.com/issue-416/

Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

flaminghydra.com

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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 8d

PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK deserves to be seen widely — all credit to Kino Lorber for giving it a threatrical release. I stand by every word of the review quoted on this poster, from Cannes earlier this year.

(h/t @marshallshaffer.bsky.social for spotting and sending)

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 9d

terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.

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Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · 9d

Oh. Oh my. This sounds like a “maybe not for everyone but definitely for me” film, particularly because THE SNOW QUEEN is my favorite H.C. Andersen story. What a compelling review.

Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 10d

Color me dazzled by Lucile Hadžihalilović's THE ICE TOWER, an unsettling hall-of-mirrors meditation on enchantment in the blinding lights of idolatry, cinema, and fantasy. One of the most dreamily arresting films you will see this year. My four-star review for @ebertvoices.bsky.social:

The Ice Tower movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

This is not so much a film you watch as one you wake up from, shivering.

www.rogerebert.com

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tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social · 9d

Essentials 1: Chantal Akerman's Toute Une Nuit, one of the few movies that reconceives the very nature of narrative and does so exquisitely—extensively, intensively, romantically; at 4 at @moma.bsky.social, introduced by Aurore Clément: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The Nocturnal Masterwork “Toute Une Nuit” Comes to Light

Chantal Akerman’s rarely screened, dance-like drama of lovers’ encounters, separations, and reunions is newly available to stream.

www.newyorker.com

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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 9d

Best actor, to me: a two-person race between Benicio del Toro in THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME and Benicio del Toro in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

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