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Among the most satisfying films in #NYFF62 is the 14-hour-plus EXERGUE – ON DOCUMENTA 14 (yes, all of it), about the arduous task of putting on an international art exhibition. Edward Frumkin (he/him) talks to director Dimitris Athiridis about his approach: reverseshot.org/interviews/ent…

TEXTUR 7: Roberto Minervini includes contributions by Michelangelo Frammartino, Cinema Scope, Payal Kapadia, Devika Girish, JS Rinland, Pablo Marín, Marie-Hélène Dozo and many more! Our thanks to all the contributors and Roberto for all his help and support!

Berlin's official city portal just wrote our film No Other Land has "antisemitic tendencies". A film that won the Berlinale and was recently invited to a special screening in the German embassy in Israel. It pains me to see how, after murdering most of my family in the holocaust,

Merry Christmas one and all! Here's 57 features and 20 shorts by the inimitable Jean-Luc Godard. Link: mega.nz/folder/HQUCGQb…

Obscure Abel Ferrara of the evening: For some reason, Abel Ferrara's 2020 documentary about himself and the pandemic, SPORTIN' LIFE, w/ Willem Dafoe, Cristina Chiriac & Paul Hipp, is only available via IndieWeb. But available in its entirety it is! Link in reply:

‘Film criticism needed a push’: The oral history of Cinema Scope, Canada’s gift to global cinephiles: theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/arti…

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Happy to contribute some words to Reverse Shot’s Best of 2024 feature, on Radu Jude’s DO NO EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD, a film I wrote about early on—before its Locarno premiere, for Cinema Scope—and one that, a year-and-a-half later, feels as urgent as ever.

David Lynch, our beloved dad, was a guiding light of creativity, love, and peace. On Monday, January 20th—what would have been his 79th birthday—we invite you all to join us in a worldwide group meditation at 12:00pm NOON PST for 10 minutes. Let us come together, wherever we

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Put together a website to index some criticism/research, which reminded me again that I no longer get to write for Cinema Scope every few months. Still, I'll always be grateful to folks like Mark and A.A. Dowd for the professional encouragement as I was just starting to write.

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Cannes Podcast #2 is LIVE! Blake Williams is joined by Mark Peranson, Flavia Dima, Daniel Kasman, Öykü Sofuoglu, Vadim Rizov, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal. Listen as they discuss SIRÂT, NOUVELLE VAGUE, DIE MY LOVE, MIRRORS NO. 3, and EDDINGTON. soundcloud.com/moiree/moiree-…

The 2nd MOIRÉE critics' podcast from #Cannes2025 is live! Listen as I wax poetic about Richard Linklater's excellent NOUVELLE VAGUE. With: Blake Williams, Mark Peranson, Flavia Dima, me, Öykü Sofuoglu, Vadim Rizov, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal. soundcloud.com/moiree/moiree-…

Podcast #3! Blake Williams, Mark Peranson, Flavia Dima, Daniel Kasman, Öykü Sofuoglu, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal discuss THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME, THE SECRET AGENT, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, MAGELLAN, HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, ALPHA, and THE LOVE THAT REMAINS. soundcloud.com/moiree/moiree-…

Incompletas: 🇧🇷 Cinemim drive.google.com/drive/folders/… 🇨🇦 Cinema Scope drive.google.com/drive/folders/… 🇵🇹 Cinegrafia drive.google.com/drive/folders/… 🇵🇹 Cine - revista mensal de arte cinematográfica drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

“Minervini is a filmmaker, not an activist, or maybe it’s more appropriate to call him a magician. Because what he is doing is in fact magic.” —Cinema Scope Details for our Roberto Minervini series are now online: books, totes, guest moderators & more! acropoliscinema.com

Heard the sad news about Brian today and thought about all the years I’ve been listening to him and admiring his genius. Rest in peace dear Brian.

Signed copies of Textur #7, the latest edition of the Viennale’s ongoing monograph series, will be available throughout our Roberto Minervini retrospective, running from tomorrow through June 23 2220 Arts + Archives and BRAIN DEAD STUDIOS! Co-presented by MUBI US! 📖 acropoliscinema.com