A S Hamrah
@hamrahrama
writer and film critic • @nplusonemag, @bookforum, @harpers, etc. • member @NatSocFilmCrix • my book, The Earth Dies Streaming, link below
Join us for a 6-week workshop on "How to Not Write Film Criticism," led by film critic @hamrahrama. Starting Oct 5, students will discuss and write about new films that aim to reconnect the moviegoing experience to writing film criticism. Learn more at lareviewofbooks.org/event/how-not-…
This Luc Moullet series at @AnthologyFilm that the new film mag Narrow Margin is doing is major and I hope a lot of people go to see it.
August 11-14 at Anthology Film Archives I’ll be presenting Luc Moullet and films by Cottafavi, Vidor, and Fleischer for our magazine, Narrow Margin. Please come out and support us! These are all films at the edges of imagination…
Filmmakers today can’t stop showing their math, like they’re gonna be graded on it. Stuff like this doesn’t matter. What matters is if the film is good. The guy who did the Crow remake had a whole list too.
Materialists movie syllabus via Celine
Who cares? Why do this? What a waste of time.
Saoirse Ronan stars in the first-ever music video for Talking Heads’ ‘Psycho Killer.’ Direct Mike Mills on his vision: ‘Saoirse isn’t at all a psycho killer or anything. It’s the environment and that life and false normality’ vulture.com/article/talkin…
It's workshop time! In addition to the annual @LARB_Workshop you know and love, we're hosting three 6-week writing workshops with @kukukadoo and @NadjaSpiegelman—and later down the line, with @hamrahrama and @LaurenMarkham_. Learn more at lareviewofbooks.org/learn/
The latest issue of the @WhitneyReview is out; includes my piece on Charlie Haas’s new novel, The Current Fantasy
The best issue of any magazine I’ve read so far this year
n+1’s 50th issue, HARSH REALM, is out today! Featuring new writing by @sarahlovescali, E. Tammy Kim, @HZeavin, Mark Greif, @andybliu, Iman Mersal, @cgvanderburg, Gillian Linden, @lisa_borst, Gemma Sack, @Richard__Beck, Maureen N. McLane, and @hamrahrama.
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report. trib.al/y99RxTn
RIP Robert Benton — His ‘91 gangster movie Billy Bathgate, rarely mentioned, is excellent, underrated Doctorow novel, Stoppard screenplay, Almendros photog, stars D. Hoffman as Dutch Schultz, with Kidman, Willis, Buscemi, Tucci, Loren Dean in title role
n+1’s 50th (!) issue, HARSH REALM, is almost here! Featuring writing by Mark Greif, E. Tammy Kim, @andybliu, @HZeavin, Gillian Linden, @sarahlovescali, @hamrahrama, @Richard__Beck, @lisa_borst, @cgvanderburg, Gemma Sack, and Maureen N. McLane. nplusonemag.com/subscribe/
“A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston started by recording brain activity in a portion of the mouse’s visual cortex roughly the size of a grain of salt while it watched a series of YouTube clips and movies.” Which movies? usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
For Screen Slate I interviewed Alexander Horwath about his excellent new doc Henry Fonda for President, now playing at @AnthologyFilm screenslate.com/articles/presi…
compare this, which didn't even name Hamdan, to the academy's rightfully strong position when it's the Iranian government oppressing filmmakers:
We join our colleagues in @LAFilmCritics, @TheNSFC, and @TheBSFC in condemning the attack on NO OTHER LAND co-director Hamdan Ballal.
Hit Factory podcast invited me on to discuss AI in movies, because of my recent piece in @FastCompany
BONUS HIT FACTORY // We sat down with critic and author @hamrahrama for a discussion on his recent writing on A.I. in Hollywood, the future of studio moviemaking, and why so many modern directors buy in to the technology's promise of artificial, inuman "perfection". Links below.
Todd Solondz’s film Palindromes (2004) is being rereleased starting today at @IFCCenter. I interviewed him for Screen Slate. screenslate.com/articles/eight…
The international cast of the Trashfuture podcast were good enough to have me on this week to discuss the use of AI in cinema, because of my recent piece in @FastCompany
🚨Crisis on Infinite Farleys ft. A.S. Hamrah🚨 @hamrahrama joins Riley and Nova to talk about AI in the film industry & studio executives’ bizarre desire to algorithmically raise the dead. But first, we look at McKinsey's gambit to make Neom make economic sense. Links below!