Jonathan Kiefer
@kieferama.bsky.social
I wrote the movie Around the Sun and sometimes write about other movies and work for the Roxie Theater and teach at California College of the Arts.
East Bay, CA | jonathankiefer.com
East Bay, CA | jonathankiefer.com
Well, to take your mind off it, how about an arguably under-appreciated Wenders film playing in SF tonight? I wrote up Notebook on Cities and Clothes for @screenslate.bsky.social:
www.screenslate.com/articles/not...
www.screenslate.com/articles/not...
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Wim Wenders tells us his first Yohji Yamamoto fashion experience was as a consumer, having bought a Yamamoto shirt and jacket that made Wenders feel “more me than before,” partly on account of the gar...
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January 26, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Well, to take your mind off it, how about an arguably under-appreciated Wenders film playing in SF tonight? I wrote up Notebook on Cities and Clothes for @screenslate.bsky.social:
www.screenslate.com/articles/not...
www.screenslate.com/articles/not...
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
Thank you, Sarah.
Wrote this for all my art school friends, teachers and nemeses; for CCA's patient and helpful staff; for my library coworkers; my media services pals; for all the baby artists who won't get to go this art school:
www.kqed.org/arts/1398541...
www.kqed.org/arts/1398541...
What We Will Lose When California College of the Arts Closes
After the closures of the San Francisco Art Institute and Mills College, the announced end of CCA hits triply hard.
www.kqed.org
January 16, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Thank you, Sarah.
Today's tone-setter for 2026: David Runciman's discussion of Wallace Shawn's play The Designated Mourner
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Films of Ideas extra: The Designated Mourner
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January 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Today's tone-setter for 2026: David Runciman's discussion of Wallace Shawn's play The Designated Mourner
www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fil...
www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fil...
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all these fucks are like bro you don't understand how precise this operation was bro no one's ever done this bro it was epic, expecting us to be like oh well in that case
January 3, 2026 at 5:06 PM
all these fucks are like bro you don't understand how precise this operation was bro no one's ever done this bro it was epic, expecting us to be like oh well in that case
And so again came the time of writing down the titles of movies (for @screenslate.bsky.social)
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
And so again came the time of writing down the titles of movies (for @screenslate.bsky.social)
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The bird takes its revenge on the kings in The Thieving Magpie (1964), dir. Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini
Federico Fellini loved this film: "it makes me furious that I don't know how to draw so I could resolve my films in the same way"
Federico Fellini loved this film: "it makes me furious that I don't know how to draw so I could resolve my films in the same way"
October 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The bird takes its revenge on the kings in The Thieving Magpie (1964), dir. Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini
Federico Fellini loved this film: "it makes me furious that I don't know how to draw so I could resolve my films in the same way"
Federico Fellini loved this film: "it makes me furious that I don't know how to draw so I could resolve my films in the same way"
Nice to see The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is free to watch on Le Cinema Club this week.
I reviewed it back in the day, and a rewatch seems in order: kieferama.substack.com/p/the-ballad...
I reviewed it back in the day, and a rewatch seems in order: kieferama.substack.com/p/the-ballad...
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
2011
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July 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Nice to see The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is free to watch on Le Cinema Club this week.
I reviewed it back in the day, and a rewatch seems in order: kieferama.substack.com/p/the-ballad...
I reviewed it back in the day, and a rewatch seems in order: kieferama.substack.com/p/the-ballad...
Hi, I’ll be moderating a couple of Q&As at the Roxie this week.
Tomorrow evening: Kathleen Chalfant, who stars, most recently, in FAMILIAR TOUCH
Sunday afternoon: Sezin Devi Koehler, discussing her book Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory, and in particular, SPEED
Join us!
#movies
Tomorrow evening: Kathleen Chalfant, who stars, most recently, in FAMILIAR TOUCH
Sunday afternoon: Sezin Devi Koehler, discussing her book Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory, and in particular, SPEED
Join us!
#movies
June 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Hi, I’ll be moderating a couple of Q&As at the Roxie this week.
Tomorrow evening: Kathleen Chalfant, who stars, most recently, in FAMILIAR TOUCH
Sunday afternoon: Sezin Devi Koehler, discussing her book Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory, and in particular, SPEED
Join us!
#movies
Tomorrow evening: Kathleen Chalfant, who stars, most recently, in FAMILIAR TOUCH
Sunday afternoon: Sezin Devi Koehler, discussing her book Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory, and in particular, SPEED
Join us!
#movies
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Convinced his job is to make Congress even more hesitant to dump Trump.
Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
JD Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican during trip to Rome
The US vice-president, a self-styled ‘baby Catholic’ who was baptised in 2019, and his family met senior officials from the Catholic Church
www.thetimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Convinced his job is to make Congress even more hesitant to dump Trump.
Another bracing good read from Estelle Artus estelleartus.substack.com/p/jokes-on-you
Joke's on You
Answering 300+ brutally honest film market professionals
estelleartus.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Another bracing good read from Estelle Artus estelleartus.substack.com/p/jokes-on-you
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Good conversation www.interviewmagazine.com/film/david-c...
“Humans Can Be Very Depressing”: David Cronenberg, By Jim Jarmusch
Moments after they learned about the passing of David Lynch, the 82-year-old movie master called his fellow director to discuss mortality, memory, and the end of cinema as we know it.
www.interviewmagazine.com
April 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Good conversation www.interviewmagazine.com/film/david-c...
Important news alert: Franco Piavoli’s enduringly beautiful film The Blue Planet is free to watch on Le Cinéma Club this week.
www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
April 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Important news alert: Franco Piavoli’s enduringly beautiful film The Blue Planet is free to watch on Le Cinéma Club this week.
www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
With your help, the people who run the Roxie can actually buy the Roxie: roxie.com/forever/
April 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
With your help, the people who run the Roxie can actually buy the Roxie: roxie.com/forever/
Happily I'll be back at the Roxie in person moderating a Q&A with Leslie Buchbinder about her film WESTERMANN this Sunday, March 16, and one with Jenni Olson about her films THE ROYAL ROAD and 575 CASTRO ST. on Tuesday, April 1. Please join us — tickets at Roxie.com.
March 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Happily I'll be back at the Roxie in person moderating a Q&A with Leslie Buchbinder about her film WESTERMANN this Sunday, March 16, and one with Jenni Olson about her films THE ROYAL ROAD and 575 CASTRO ST. on Tuesday, April 1. Please join us — tickets at Roxie.com.
Guillermo del Toro likes the classics. It's always a pleasure to hear how he expresses his passion and taste:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=74NV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=74NV...
Guillermo del Toro's Picks for March | Director Picks | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
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March 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Guillermo del Toro likes the classics. It's always a pleasure to hear how he expresses his passion and taste:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=74NV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=74NV...
from the trailer for Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me
March 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
from the trailer for Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me
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Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.
March 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.
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it’s true the grotesque spectacle Trump & Vance performed in the Oval Office today was unprecedented — but it’s false to say they revealed themselves in any new way: these are the abominable characters & positions & attitudes & allegiances they have always proclaimed & embodied
February 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
it’s true the grotesque spectacle Trump & Vance performed in the Oval Office today was unprecedented — but it’s false to say they revealed themselves in any new way: these are the abominable characters & positions & attitudes & allegiances they have always proclaimed & embodied
Aw, this reminds me of my early lonely days in San Francisco as a misfit with modest but arty movie ambitions — one source of solace was Cafe Zoetrope with its huge beautiful Tati poster on the wall, clearly a beacon for Francis himself.
February 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Aw, this reminds me of my early lonely days in San Francisco as a misfit with modest but arty movie ambitions — one source of solace was Cafe Zoetrope with its huge beautiful Tati poster on the wall, clearly a beacon for Francis himself.
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The great Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé has passed away. After seeing his award-winning film YELEEN (1987), Martin Scorsese called it:
“one of the great revelatory experiences of my moviegoing life.”
Read more about this incredible cinematic voice:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/m...
“one of the great revelatory experiences of my moviegoing life.”
Read more about this incredible cinematic voice:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/m...
Souleymane Cissé, Celebrated Malian Filmmaker, Dies at 84
He won multiple awards during his 50-year career, including the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and spent his life championing African cinema.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The great Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé has passed away. After seeing his award-winning film YELEEN (1987), Martin Scorsese called it:
“one of the great revelatory experiences of my moviegoing life.”
Read more about this incredible cinematic voice:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/m...
“one of the great revelatory experiences of my moviegoing life.”
Read more about this incredible cinematic voice:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/m...