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Occasional writer and film programmer with a day job. Cinema Scope, Filmmaker Magazine, MUBI Notebook. Artistic Director, FILM FEST KNOX. www.longpauses.com
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All I'm saying is that FLOW winning an Oscar is a perfect excuse for someone to write a deeply reported story about Cinetic, Sideshow, Janus, and Criterion. I'd read the hell out of that.

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Stranger by the Lake is on Criterion Channel! (If you haven’t seen Stranger by the Lake, consider this a strong recommendation.)

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If listening to loud music would help, this 2013 NIN show rips.

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"You have a daughter. Just wait 'til she's a teenager." "Everyone who failed as a father says that to me." I'm more than ready for this comedian-as-sage era to end, but Bill Burr's response to Howie Mandel is so satisfying.

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I’m 52 and have been a cinephile since I was a teenager. I just finished watching Never Open That Door by Carlos Hugo Christensen and now want to watch a dozen more films by a director I’d never heard of two hours ago. I love that that still happens.

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I’ve recently begun thinking of myself as a secular Christian, in that I no longer believe in god but am committed to pursuing justice, mercy, and grace.

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I started the Sly Stone doc last night but realized I just can't watch another three-minute montage about the tumultuous 1960s.

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I'm sure you already know this, but Roberta Flack's FIRST TAKE is one of the greatest albums ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=whGE...

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Movie you watched more than six times, gifs only

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Need to mention that I made eye contact several times tonight with Nina Hoss.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Hot take from Berlin: museums shouldn’t be closed on Mondays when I have a two-hour hole in my schedule.

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James Benning’s new film is so bad. Also, it’s annoying that he charges steep rental fees when this movie would cost at least $250k if he cleared the music rights.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

“This is not going to be good.” - Me to a friend, 20 seconds into the competition film, Hot Milk. (It was not good.)

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Can confirm from my home here in a deeply red state that my neighbors are slowly coming to the realization that we’ve reached the “find out” phase of the MAGA experiment.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Goth flight attendant! This is a first for me, and I’m very happy about it.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Still no idea what I'm going to watch in Berlin this week. Like, what if instead of watching movies I got on a train to Prague? Prague seems cool.

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It has been completely obvious what the GOP wanted to do since the resolution to the 2000 election. Now they have finally removed all impediment to the execution of that plan.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I would be thoroughly content not to see screenshots of the usual Twitter fascists melting down over Kendrick but OTOH it’s nice and I think motivating to be reminded that even as they trample the laws to erect their perfect white state they can never be happy bc no one thinks they’re cool

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Every voter in Film Comment’s Best Undistributed Film list should be required to download whatever documentaries, essays, period dramas, and German TV policies Dominik Graf directed that year.

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Talk about a sense memory. I can hear the hard drive of my Gateway 2000.

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Imagine a movie as strange and beautiful as Dark City being released in 2025. (I’m watching Dark City for the first time in 25 years.)

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I've now seen all 18 Petzold features, and it was only while watching the final one on my list -- the not-very-good Die Beischlafdiebin (The Sex Thief, 1998) -- that I realized one of the main reasons I enjoy his films so much is because he's as uninterested in male protagonists as I am.

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