I wish I could say I’m shocked!

I look forward to reading Joshua Greenberg’s forthcoming book FROM BETAMAX TO BLOCKBUSTER @mitpress.bsky.social! Here’s a preview blog post. Seems like a good companion to Frederick Wasser + Dan Herbert’s work on video and video stores, respectively. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civ...

As someone who was born in 1980s and worked @ Condé Nast, I am required by elder millennial law to watch DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2. I found it very pleasurable (also ironic) to see Anne Hathaway’s character wearing a shirt with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) logo. I want one!

Touching grass

Tony Conrad @ Greene Naftali

Here’s a good one!

Trying hard to not buy new things but oh boy I do want this shirt that an Instagram ad just served up

Been on my camera roll for days. Still makes me cackle.

I’m trying Joan, I’m really trying! From: BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (Fritz Lang, 1956)

TL;DR why I was watching trailer for THE WIZ but smiled at ending where it promotes the soundtrack. I recall soundtracks being a big deal as a kid but, please correct me if I'm wrong, that has fallen by the wayside in recent decades, imagine given changes to media delivery and market fragmentation

Worth a read! I “enjoyed” it insofar as reading about AI writing makes me apoplectic. This section—where feeding LLM language into another to get rid of “it’s not X, it’s Y construction—kills me. This is embarrassing. Just write your own damn prose. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Attending Locarno Film Festival next month (my first Euro film fest beyond Doclisboa)! I’m intro'ing screening in Retrospettiva section (“Red & Black: Hollywood Left and Blacklist” programmed by Ehsan Khoshbakht) and just snagged tix for Piazza Grande screenings of THE INVITE and TAXI DRIVER. Ah!! 🤩

Haven’t read Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD for, like, 20+ years so decided to re-read. Can’t find my copy so I’m listening to Michael York-voiced audiobook and it is WILD in the best possible way. I’m accessing via my library but it appears to be on @archive.org. You’re welcome.

In today’s vernacular, what a baller move. ¡Que viva Eistenstein, indeed! I’d like to think he replied while sitting on this cactus.

🚨 A MUST READ. “The Costs of Consolidation: Arguments + Evidence for Blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger,” comprehensive report authored by leading media industry scholars for UC-San Diego’s MACRO Lab. Accessible language, loads of data on multi biz sectors 🚨 quote.ucsd.edu/macrolab/par...

Did you know there is an online archive of Ester Krumbachová materials?! NOW YOU DO! You’re welcome! ❤️🌼 esterkrumbachova.org/en/about

Niche academic writing problem. I’m simultaneously writing three things (because I’m insane). One requires internal citations (vs. footnotes/endnotes, my norm). I genuinely feel this format is making it harder to write a decent article! Cramping my style, not conducive to citing archive materials...

Still my favorite meme. Hands off my em dash stupid AI, et. al.

Sure, you’ve seen young Jack Lemmon in MISTER ROBERTS and IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU. But have you seen him as the most careless army private ever in TF 20-1684 (aka ONCE TOO OFTEN, 1945)?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HWO...

🚨 Cool CPF alert! 🚨 MAKING AND ARCHIVING FEMINIST ZINES OTHERWISE A Symposium on Global Feminist Methods & Pedagogies Virtual event on 22-23 October 2026 knowledgesteez.com/call-for-pap...

I write, he sleeps.

In run up to July 4, I’ve seen several online pieces w/ critics discussing best films ABOUT America. All are flawed since they overlook Vincent Collins’ groovy 200 (1976) funded by United States Information Agency (USIA)’s Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant Film 🇺🇸 www.archives.gov/research/mot...

Update: Peacock has some tennis and Bowie really likes Coco Gauff.

A fun read for the film nerds. “Alfred Hitchcock’s Vandamm House Never Existed, Until They Build Their Own.” With link that should bypass the paywall. www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

My mom just unwittingly gave me a A+ idea for final session of my film history 1960 seminar next spring when she asked if I knew about these “YouTube people” whose new horror movies she keeps hearing about 🤣 In all seriousness though, this will be great end-of-semester topic bridging old + new

I mean look at this punim (as my paternal grandmother would have said…)

I try to limit my social media time but how would I get movie recommendations otherwise? Hence, from folks at Il Cinema Ritrovato, I recently learned of DRAKULA IN INSTANBUL (Mehmet Muhtar, 1953) which I will 100% be watching soon via YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=n3kk...

🤩 Dropping soon: Yvonne Tasker + Sadie Weaving’s JILL CRAIGIE: FILM AND FEMINISM IN POSTWAR BRITAIN on @illinoispress.bsky.social! (Filing under: book I want to read but have no idea when I’ll ever get to it b/c it is humanly impossible to keep up with exciting work colleagues keep putting out!)

New in #openaccess! RESTITUTION AND THE MOVING IMAGE: GLOBAL FILM HERITAGE BETWEEN RETURN, ACCESS, AND ARCHIVAL REPARATION, edited by Nikolaus Perneczky @kinolaus.bsky.social and Cecilia Valenti www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...