Isaac Feldberg
@isaacfeldberg.bsky.social
Critic, editor, darling | RogerEbert, The Playlist, Paste Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Inverse, Chron, Letterboxd Journal, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe | CFCA
Also on Letterboxd and Twitter: @isaacfeldberg
Also on Letterboxd and Twitter: @isaacfeldberg
🚨🚨🚨 Jonathan Glazer's BIRTH announced for a new 4K UHD Criterion restoration, this is not a drill 🚨🚨🚨
October 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Jonathan Glazer's BIRTH announced for a new 4K UHD Criterion restoration, this is not a drill 🚨🚨🚨
Honestly really jazzed about my first set of reactions in the AV Club comment section
October 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Honestly really jazzed about my first set of reactions in the AV Club comment section
Fun fact: Channing Tatum was originally offered the lead in BLUE VALENTINE, but he was scared of the role and turned it down — Derek Cianfrance says this was for the best, but his initial impression of Tatum is so prescient that it makes perfect sense they came back together for ROOFMAN
October 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Fun fact: Channing Tatum was originally offered the lead in BLUE VALENTINE, but he was scared of the role and turned it down — Derek Cianfrance says this was for the best, but his initial impression of Tatum is so prescient that it makes perfect sense they came back together for ROOFMAN
J.B. Pritzker and Brandon Johnson opening up the Chicago International Film Festival’s programming guide this year.
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
J.B. Pritzker and Brandon Johnson opening up the Chicago International Film Festival’s programming guide this year.
What a filmography on Bas Rutten
October 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
What a filmography on Bas Rutten
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)
(h/t @marshallshaffer.bsky.social for spotting and sending)
October 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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)
(h/t @marshallshaffer.bsky.social for spotting and sending)
Loved contributing to the newest edition of @fangoria.bsky.social with a retrospective on 10 frightful years of @shudder.com, reflecting on the road so far and some horror highlights along the way.
October 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Loved contributing to the newest edition of @fangoria.bsky.social with a retrospective on 10 frightful years of @shudder.com, reflecting on the road so far and some horror highlights along the way.
Excited to share that @kinolorber.com has reprinted my interview with Yorgos Lanthimos (first for @letterboxd.social) in a print booklet accompanying its 4K UHD release of DOGTOOTH. Among the most exciting films of its decade, a defining one in Lanthimos' career — an honor to be included in this.
October 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Excited to share that @kinolorber.com has reprinted my interview with Yorgos Lanthimos (first for @letterboxd.social) in a print booklet accompanying its 4K UHD release of DOGTOOTH. Among the most exciting films of its decade, a defining one in Lanthimos' career — an honor to be included in this.
Alright, who got a hold of the cursed monkey‘s paw and asked for an ANACONDA remake?
September 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Alright, who got a hold of the cursed monkey‘s paw and asked for an ANACONDA remake?
“I could never escape this recognition that there was a time when I didn’t exist—and, inevitably, that there is going to be another time when I don’t exist.”
Sharing this time I interviewed the great @kogonada.bsky.social about presence, absence, and architecture for
@letterboxd.social: boxd.it/Va
Sharing this time I interviewed the great @kogonada.bsky.social about presence, absence, and architecture for
@letterboxd.social: boxd.it/Va
September 17, 2025 at 4:13 AM
“I could never escape this recognition that there was a time when I didn’t exist—and, inevitably, that there is going to be another time when I don’t exist.”
Sharing this time I interviewed the great @kogonada.bsky.social about presence, absence, and architecture for
@letterboxd.social: boxd.it/Va
Sharing this time I interviewed the great @kogonada.bsky.social about presence, absence, and architecture for
@letterboxd.social: boxd.it/Va
This one’s just patently insane
September 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM
This one’s just patently insane
Cinematic parallels
September 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Cinematic parallels
In honor of Jeremy Saulnier’s Emmy win, an appreciation post for his ultra-timely GREEN ROOM and a very special fuck off to Nazi punks everywhere
September 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
In honor of Jeremy Saulnier’s Emmy win, an appreciation post for his ultra-timely GREEN ROOM and a very special fuck off to Nazi punks everywhere
Fun memento from this past year in film: got Carson Lund and Keith William Richards to sign a baseball at the EEPHUS game played during NYFF last fall
September 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Fun memento from this past year in film: got Carson Lund and Keith William Richards to sign a baseball at the EEPHUS game played during NYFF last fall
REBEL RIDGE has won Best TV Movie at the Emmys.
September 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
REBEL RIDGE has won Best TV Movie at the Emmys.
Rewatching Spike Lee’s INSIDE MAN, and it’s almost blinding, the amount of star power radiating out of any individual scene with these three
September 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Rewatching Spike Lee’s INSIDE MAN, and it’s almost blinding, the amount of star power radiating out of any individual scene with these three
Some favorite co-lead performances in films so far this year:
Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger, THE SHROUDS
David Strathairn and Jane Levy, A LITTLE PRAYER
Mahmood Bakri and Aram Sabbah, TO A LAND UNKNOWN
Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe, LURKER
Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger, THE SHROUDS
David Strathairn and Jane Levy, A LITTLE PRAYER
Mahmood Bakri and Aram Sabbah, TO A LAND UNKNOWN
Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe, LURKER
August 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Some favorite co-lead performances in films so far this year:
Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger, THE SHROUDS
David Strathairn and Jane Levy, A LITTLE PRAYER
Mahmood Bakri and Aram Sabbah, TO A LAND UNKNOWN
Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe, LURKER
Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger, THE SHROUDS
David Strathairn and Jane Levy, A LITTLE PRAYER
Mahmood Bakri and Aram Sabbah, TO A LAND UNKNOWN
Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe, LURKER
GONE GIRL author Gillian Flynn, moderating a post-screening Q&A of Alex Russell’s LURKER tonight at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social in Chicago, just introduced it as “the rom-com of the season.”
August 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
GONE GIRL author Gillian Flynn, moderating a post-screening Q&A of Alex Russell’s LURKER tonight at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social in Chicago, just introduced it as “the rom-com of the season.”
Stellan Skarsgård, in our recent interview on SENTIMENTAL VALUE and his career, on working with Miloš Forman on GOYA’S GHOSTS. One of the funniest interviews I’ve had recently, and one of my favorites: www.rogerebert.com/festivals/kv...
August 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Stellan Skarsgård, in our recent interview on SENTIMENTAL VALUE and his career, on working with Miloš Forman on GOYA’S GHOSTS. One of the funniest interviews I’ve had recently, and one of my favorites: www.rogerebert.com/festivals/kv...
I love Armando Iannucci’s Sight & Sound ballot, unimpeachable picks across the board and one inspired sneak
August 21, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I love Armando Iannucci’s Sight & Sound ballot, unimpeachable picks across the board and one inspired sneak
BOYS GO TO JUPITER: Endlessly clever, funny, imaginative, with the best soundtrack of the year. In its Sims-esque CG animation, evokes a vivid sense of languor, of waiting around for anything to happen, as the gig economy looms over Florida’s suburban sprawl and life drifts by, warm and sweet.
August 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
BOYS GO TO JUPITER: Endlessly clever, funny, imaginative, with the best soundtrack of the year. In its Sims-esque CG animation, evokes a vivid sense of languor, of waiting around for anything to happen, as the gig economy looms over Florida’s suburban sprawl and life drifts by, warm and sweet.
It’s finally happening: EYES WIDE SHUT on 4K from the Criterion Collection this November www.criterion.com/films/34534-...
August 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It’s finally happening: EYES WIDE SHUT on 4K from the Criterion Collection this November www.criterion.com/films/34534-...
“I wanted to make a film that focuses on the feelings that come after someone experiences a trauma… The time when people look away and move through their own lives and you are still stuck, trying to make sense of what happened.”
— Eva Victor, in our interview on SORRY, BABY
— Eva Victor, in our interview on SORRY, BABY
August 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“I wanted to make a film that focuses on the feelings that come after someone experiences a trauma… The time when people look away and move through their own lives and you are still stuck, trying to make sense of what happened.”
— Eva Victor, in our interview on SORRY, BABY
— Eva Victor, in our interview on SORRY, BABY
So beyond pumped to announce that I have an essay in Vinegar Syndrome’s upcoming release of Larry Fessenden’s landmark first two features, NO TELLING and HABIT, newly restored in 4K. (My first-ever booklet essay, feels like a real moment, super proud of the piece.)
August 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
So beyond pumped to announce that I have an essay in Vinegar Syndrome’s upcoming release of Larry Fessenden’s landmark first two features, NO TELLING and HABIT, newly restored in 4K. (My first-ever booklet essay, feels like a real moment, super proud of the piece.)