Violet Lucca
@violetlucca
Film critic. Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Jan ‘25). My writing about film has appeared in the NYT, Art in America, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and elsewhere. NYFCC member
I hate thinking about Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, or Soon-Yi, but this exchange is worth drawing attention to.
Eyes Wide Shut posting will continue until all files have been redacted
When you need to be writing but can’t stop writing everywhere else besides the word document
From 2023: Andrew Cockburn’s shitty piece about Dem primary challengers, which included a lengthy section burnishing RFK Jr.’s reputation. Love it when people fall for gish gallop, especially from a fucking lawyer!
Future corvid historians will be perplexed by the seeming abruptness of the Silicon Age Collapse.
Austin friends! Please keep your city weird come through to see me discussing my book at a screening of CRASH at @austinfilm.bsky.social on the 27th. The event is co-sponsored by the venerable First Light Books so you know it’s good! www.firstlightaustin.com/events/viole...
Spent last night canvassing the Upper East Side in the rain for this guy—and I wouldn’t have it any other way. (I’ve also been to Inwood, Parkchester, and Norwood.) We’ve got a chance to make life easier for millions of New Yorkers! Sign up: www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/si...
I’ll also be introducing THE SHROUDS at the Seattle International Film Festival at 7pm on Saturday!
SEATTLE! I’ll be at Third Place Books tomorrow at 7 talking about my book about David Cronenberg. I promise it’ll help you understand/enjoy THE SHROUDS more. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/violet-luc...
This was a study of 146 children. Some of that group watched at Cape Canaveral. This is not the gotcha you think it is.
I don’t mean this in a mean way, but: Severance is such a good show that it’s leading people to begin to understand what acting entails.
I think they see people using face filters and want to extend it to the rest of the body/field of vision. This completely misses the charm of something like Meitu, the greatest photo filter app of all time. (It turned me into Tina Fey?)
The assassin is a success win MBA guy??? Or is it just a bit??? And he brought the gun to get McDonald’s??? WHAT IS REAL ANYMORE
The following joke was originally told by Amy Taubin: The Brody Bunch (@nyfcc.bsky.social, 2024)
Ronald Mlodzik (Adrian Tripod) starred or appeared in many of Cronenberg’s early short films, features, and made-for-TV experiments—and always wore his own clothes for the roles.
Now jumping ahead to the polymorphously perverse CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (1970).