I taught Alain Resnais' JE T'AIME JE T'AIME (1968) over the weekend in a small-group seminar and damned if the fucking thing doesn't get more and more personal and poignant every time I revisit it. I wonder if Wes Anderson got his Dalmatian mice from it.

A bit puzzled how hung up people are about the California/Texas thing in CIVIL WAR… it makes complete sense in even the lightest science fiction context, doesn’t it?

If I started a petition to make Suicide's 'Frankie Teardrop' our national anthem, who would sign?

If you don't know this album, no shame.
If you don't learn about this album, for shame.

Rewatching 'Hill Street Blues' for class tomorrow and the theme song sent me on a nostalgia death spiral so profound I think I made an audible 'ooooofta' noise at my set. One of the first songs I learned on the piano when I first started at 8 or so. Mike Post you golden god, you.

I don't make fun of people for not knowing things because knowledge is temporary and borrowed by its nature. If we live long enough, we'll all be in a position of having lost more knowledge than we retain. Then again, if you're proud of being an incurious idiot, all bets are off.

This weekend, as part of CU Denver's film program, we welcome Lucky McKee for two days of screenings and workshops. Friday night, he and I will be performing a live commentary over his fantastic giallo THE WOODS for our students. Workshops all day Saturday. That's right.

I'm in tears. This man.

From stage, Walter Hill thanks Quentin Tarantino for shining a spotlight on his body of work in the last few years - we also recommend Walter Chaw 周瑜's great book about his films! mzs.press/A-Walter-Hill-…

God, this review.

Reminded, via CIVIL WAR, of Ann Hui's BOAT PEOPLE (1982). One of the great films about photojournalism in a crisis zone, upending reporter-as-outsider-hero clichés to indict characters and viewers in a form of complicit spectatorship. On Criterion Channel. criterion.com/current/posts/…

You can pre-order our movie on iTunes right now and when it goes live on May 10th, it will email you so you can watch it instantly. tv.apple.com/us/movie/the-l…

Upon CIVIL WAR's release, here's my review of ANNIHILATION. filmfreakcentral.net/2018/02/annihi…

Here's David Lowery directing a scene with CU Denver film students. Incredible.

Ralph does a pivotal cameo in 'F'. we shot it a few weeks ago. He is amazing and fun to work with-

'See, if we actually have to pay people for the data we steal then our data theft thing won't make money. So, you know...like...we gotta steal stuff. For the money. Y'all like the money, right? Yeah. So like back me up here.'

Yes.

Masterpiece. The film's pretty good too.

Criterion will never release Gary Sherman's LISA but I approached this review as if I were writing the booklet essay for it. filmfreakcentral.net/2021/06/lisa/?…..

This tweet presumes Annihilation isn’t an absolute banger, so we must disregard