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@randomcinemaguy.bsky.social
"Benson, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of Intelligence"
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full @laurenwilford.bsky.social interview with @realgdt.bsky.social, from shortly after trump was first elected
Death is the Curator: An Interview with Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro is perhaps best known as a builder of worlds—his films grow from the sketchbooks that he fills with ideas for fantastical creatures and places.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:38 AM
full @laurenwilford.bsky.social interview with @realgdt.bsky.social, from shortly after trump was first elected
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" I was just trying to work the best I could. And thank God there was some lightning caught in the bottle." --Angus McLachlan, writer-director of A Little Prayer, the family drama starring David Strathairn that was one of my favorite movies of 2025. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/a...
Lightning in a Bottle: Angus MacLachlan on "A Little Prayer" | Interviews | Roger Ebert
The writer-director talks about his latest film, his process, and art’s ability to expand personal horizons.
www.rogerebert.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:28 PM
" I was just trying to work the best I could. And thank God there was some lightning caught in the bottle." --Angus McLachlan, writer-director of A Little Prayer, the family drama starring David Strathairn that was one of my favorite movies of 2025. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/a...
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Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Man shot in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse: ‘He wanted to help people’
Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Great essay, and to the commenter who equates the movie with WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN?, ding ding ding, you get a prize
‘Marty Supreme’ Has a Lot to Say About Being Jewish in America
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Great essay, and to the commenter who equates the movie with WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN?, ding ding ding, you get a prize
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I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays
rcjohnso / scripts
Free screenplays for Brick, Brothers Bloom and Looper.
www.rian-johnson.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:23 AM
I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays
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back at TIFF, i interviewed Wagner Moura, now Oscar-nominated
‘The Secret Agent’ Is More Than Just a Great Political Thriller
‘Narcos’ star Wagner Moura talks about his role in director Kleber Mendonça Filho's '70s-set Brazilian drama and how life under the Bolsonaro regime shaped their collaboration.
www.gq.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:51 PM
back at TIFF, i interviewed Wagner Moura, now Oscar-nominated
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I talked with Tom Ley about our shared love for the delightfully and unnecessarily committed and entirely batshit 28 Days Later sequels. (There are spoilers in here but nothing you wouldn't have learned from reading basically any review of the films.) defector.com/we-live-in-t...
We Live In The Bone Temple Now | Defector
David Roth: I feel like when we have these sorts of conversation blogs on the site, the subject is generally something that everyone kind of likes, but not in a way that they’d fully feel comfortable ...
defector.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I talked with Tom Ley about our shared love for the delightfully and unnecessarily committed and entirely batshit 28 Days Later sequels. (There are spoilers in here but nothing you wouldn't have learned from reading basically any review of the films.) defector.com/we-live-in-t...
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New today!
Our Best of 2025 issue continues:
"On its surface, the film may feel slight on account of its slim runtime & seemingly small stakes. But after sitting with a second viewing, what PETER HUJAR'S DAY opens my vision to is the sublime ordinariness of being with others."
- Spencer Williams
Our Best of 2025 issue continues:
"On its surface, the film may feel slight on account of its slim runtime & seemingly small stakes. But after sitting with a second viewing, what PETER HUJAR'S DAY opens my vision to is the sublime ordinariness of being with others."
- Spencer Williams
Peter Hujar’s Day and the Art of Yapping
Peter Hujar’s Day opens my vision to the sublime ordinariness of being with others.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
New today!
Our Best of 2025 issue continues:
"On its surface, the film may feel slight on account of its slim runtime & seemingly small stakes. But after sitting with a second viewing, what PETER HUJAR'S DAY opens my vision to is the sublime ordinariness of being with others."
- Spencer Williams
Our Best of 2025 issue continues:
"On its surface, the film may feel slight on account of its slim runtime & seemingly small stakes. But after sitting with a second viewing, what PETER HUJAR'S DAY opens my vision to is the sublime ordinariness of being with others."
- Spencer Williams
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An essential analysis for a must-see film!
New on the site!
Our Best of 2025 issue continues, with @dodgyboffin.com on Steven Soderbergh’s BLACK BAG
Our Best of 2025 issue continues, with @dodgyboffin.com on Steven Soderbergh’s BLACK BAG
Black Bag (2025): Suspicions, Hearsay, and Pillow Talk
Black Bag is a study of the notion of trust—and how it can be assured in a world where everyone is always lying to each other.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:38 PM
An essential analysis for a must-see film!
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Happy 93rd to John Boorman!
One of the great film artists of the 20th century and a personal fave. I’ve corresponded and spoken on the phone with him a handful of times – and that will never not be insane to me.
Here he is toasting our screening of EXCALIBUR with the Holy Grail from the film!
One of the great film artists of the 20th century and a personal fave. I’ve corresponded and spoken on the phone with him a handful of times – and that will never not be insane to me.
Here he is toasting our screening of EXCALIBUR with the Holy Grail from the film!
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Happy 93rd to John Boorman!
One of the great film artists of the 20th century and a personal fave. I’ve corresponded and spoken on the phone with him a handful of times – and that will never not be insane to me.
Here he is toasting our screening of EXCALIBUR with the Holy Grail from the film!
One of the great film artists of the 20th century and a personal fave. I’ve corresponded and spoken on the phone with him a handful of times – and that will never not be insane to me.
Here he is toasting our screening of EXCALIBUR with the Holy Grail from the film!
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As the ambitious, emotional The Testament of Ann Lee sets sail, director Mona Fastvold, choreographer Celia Rowlson Hall and composer Daniel Blumberg tell Ella Kemp about their radical portrait of a leader. boxd.it/2Vm
January 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM
As the ambitious, emotional The Testament of Ann Lee sets sail, director Mona Fastvold, choreographer Celia Rowlson Hall and composer Daniel Blumberg tell Ella Kemp about their radical portrait of a leader. boxd.it/2Vm
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Julian Barnes says that his new novel, "Departure(s)," will be his final book. Or is it actually "Julian Barnes," a character in the novel, saying that? For the WSJ, I look at the last (or is it?) work in a career that has been both highly fastidious and slyly anarchic. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Fiction: ‘Departure(s)’ by Julian Barnes
A novelist whose works have long contemplated final things turns in his last book.
www.wsj.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Julian Barnes says that his new novel, "Departure(s)," will be his final book. Or is it actually "Julian Barnes," a character in the novel, saying that? For the WSJ, I look at the last (or is it?) work in a career that has been both highly fastidious and slyly anarchic. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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great interview with Amanda Seyfried
Amanda Seyfried’s Epiphanies
The star of “The Testament of Ann Lee” and “The Housemaid” discusses letting go of judgment, working without hierarchies, and committing to the role of a woman possessed by faith.
www.newyorker.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:35 PM
great interview with Amanda Seyfried
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Writers on Film Latest episode. We talk William Friedkin with biographers Nat Segaloff.
open.spotify.com/episode/7elI...
open.spotify.com/episode/7elI...
Hurricane Billy: The Life of William Friedkin with Nat Segaloff
open.spotify.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Writers on Film Latest episode. We talk William Friedkin with biographers Nat Segaloff.
open.spotify.com/episode/7elI...
open.spotify.com/episode/7elI...
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HBD John Boorman!!!
2 Great memoirs
Our Point Blank Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/2U26...
2 From Mr. B:
www.bfi.org.uk/features/joh...
lwlies.com/interviews/j...
More:
@donaldclarke.bsky.social: www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
@hoodedjustice.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/the-journeys...
2 Great memoirs
Our Point Blank Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/2U26...
2 From Mr. B:
www.bfi.org.uk/features/joh...
lwlies.com/interviews/j...
More:
@donaldclarke.bsky.social: www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
@hoodedjustice.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/the-journeys...
John Boorman on Kubrick, Connery and the lost Lord of The Rings script
The legendary British director of Deliverance, Excalibur and Zardoz looks back over his extraordinary career.
lwlies.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:35 PM
HBD John Boorman!!!
2 Great memoirs
Our Point Blank Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/2U26...
2 From Mr. B:
www.bfi.org.uk/features/joh...
lwlies.com/interviews/j...
More:
@donaldclarke.bsky.social: www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
@hoodedjustice.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/the-journeys...
2 Great memoirs
Our Point Blank Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/2U26...
2 From Mr. B:
www.bfi.org.uk/features/joh...
lwlies.com/interviews/j...
More:
@donaldclarke.bsky.social: www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
@hoodedjustice.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/the-journeys...
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Here they are, folks
punkeinfilm.blogspot.com/2026/01/my-f...
punkeinfilm.blogspot.com/2026/01/my-f...
My Favourite Films of 2025
1. Two Pianos 2. Spectateurs! by Arnaud Desplechin "Cinema is part of your life experience..." Every film is both a personal history and a...
punkeinfilm.blogspot.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Here they are, folks
punkeinfilm.blogspot.com/2026/01/my-f...
punkeinfilm.blogspot.com/2026/01/my-f...
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I’m so glad I am not online enough to have to acknowledge or deal with the absolutely garbage dumb pop culture takes that plague the internet from people who don’t read or have any understanding of how to interpret/read film. 😇 I only hear about this shit secondhand.
January 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I’m so glad I am not online enough to have to acknowledge or deal with the absolutely garbage dumb pop culture takes that plague the internet from people who don’t read or have any understanding of how to interpret/read film. 😇 I only hear about this shit secondhand.
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The John Wick series
we often talk about “what anime would you adapt into a movie” but here is a reverse: what movies would you adapt into an anime?
January 13, 2026 at 5:01 AM
The John Wick series
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I read a lot from the folks at Witness, who note that getting multiple angles are key to verification (you can see that in the video we released today). This is a good little primer. They have tons of resources.
www.witness.org/portfolio_pa...
www.witness.org/portfolio_pa...
January 8, 2026 at 6:48 PM
I read a lot from the folks at Witness, who note that getting multiple angles are key to verification (you can see that in the video we released today). This is a good little primer. They have tons of resources.
www.witness.org/portfolio_pa...
www.witness.org/portfolio_pa...
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"True peace, like unconditional love, takes difference into account. It doesn’t force assimilation or dictate what change should look like, but rather invites us to participate in a true community where everyone is safe to be who they are," writes Abby Olcese.
sojo.net/articles/cul...
sojo.net/articles/cul...
‘Pluribus’ Turns Happiness Into a Virus, and Peace Into a Problem
“What would true peace of mind feel like?” Vince Gilligan said to Sojourners. “It’s like asking what the far side of the moon would be like.”
sojo.net
January 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"True peace, like unconditional love, takes difference into account. It doesn’t force assimilation or dictate what change should look like, but rather invites us to participate in a true community where everyone is safe to be who they are," writes Abby Olcese.
sojo.net/articles/cul...
sojo.net/articles/cul...
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I love this man
Benicio del Toro speaks to the moments in One Battle After Another that have turned into popular memes.
One Battle After Another is back in select theaters and available on HBO Max
One Battle After Another is back in select theaters and available on HBO Max
January 11, 2026 at 4:40 AM
I love this man
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And while most of my work for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social was the usual mix of new release reviews, festival work, and disc and streaming guides, I did get to write about Robert Redford: crookedmarquee.com/there-can-ne...
There Can Never Be Another Robert Redford — Crooked Marquee
The screen icon’s death last week underscored how his kind of stardom (and activism) was only possible in his specific era.
crookedmarquee.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
And while most of my work for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social was the usual mix of new release reviews, festival work, and disc and streaming guides, I did get to write about Robert Redford: crookedmarquee.com/there-can-ne...
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Ten non-review pieces I'm especially proud of from this year.
(1) On the films of the great Frederick Wiseman (on the occasion of the three-city retrospective of his work), and also Instagram Reels, with particularly terrific art:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/m...
(1) On the films of the great Frederick Wiseman (on the occasion of the three-city retrospective of his work), and also Instagram Reels, with particularly terrific art:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/m...
What an Instagram Reel Has in Common With a 4-Hour Documentary
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Ten non-review pieces I'm especially proud of from this year.
(1) On the films of the great Frederick Wiseman (on the occasion of the three-city retrospective of his work), and also Instagram Reels, with particularly terrific art:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/m...
(1) On the films of the great Frederick Wiseman (on the occasion of the three-city retrospective of his work), and also Instagram Reels, with particularly terrific art:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/m...
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Delroy Lindo is on a long list of actors long overdue for an Oscar nomination. He might finally break that ceiling with his role in Sinners. We caught up to talk about Ryan Coogler's "brilliant" epic, and, as always, he has some keen observations to share
Delroy Lindo On The "Brilliant" And "Contemporary" Story In Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners' [Interview]
Delroy Lindo already deserved an Oscar nomination. He might finally get one for his role as Delta Slim in Ryan Coogler's Sinners.
theplaylist.net
December 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Delroy Lindo is on a long list of actors long overdue for an Oscar nomination. He might finally break that ceiling with his role in Sinners. We caught up to talk about Ryan Coogler's "brilliant" epic, and, as always, he has some keen observations to share