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Robert Kramer book coming soon, UChicago Press! enlist the cat in the impending class war: @NorthNJDSA @ruaaup @Newark_History #AbolishICE 🌹
thrilled beyond words by this: just signed a contract with the University of Chicago Press for my next book, the extremely-long-in-the-making FILMS THAT EXPLODE LIKE GRENADES: ROBERT KRAMER AND THE SEARCH FOR A RADICAL CINEMA !!!
wow, Guardian proving my point--ranking these as the two weakest R.E.M. albums is delusional! it's a god-tier discography all around, but obviously Collapse Into Now, Accelerate, and then Reveal form the bottom rung, this is more fact than opinion. theguardian.com/culture/2025/j…
possibly the 2 most underrated R.E.M. albums, also the most melancholy emo-Stipe ones. poor guy, everybody wanted shiny happy people & he just felt like sad professor. will admit AtS dwindles to formless adult contemporary in home stretch, but 1st half great, even song w/Q-Tip
literally the perfect song to blast at earshattering volume while cruising down the New Jersey Turnpike
as noted by the esteemed @ruizdiaries, this would be Raúl Ruiz's 84th birthday. here's my humble offering: a 2.5-year thread of deep cuts & ephemera, in somewhat Ruizian fashion. a filmography you can never reach the bottom of, but wonderful to sink deeply into it!
early indications are that this might finally be the year I get Raúl-Ruizpilled; modest physical assemblage here (one of these things is not like the others, hint it's the erotic thriller w/a Baldwin brother), but staggering amount of his work on YouTube & suddenly clicking
it was astonishing then, still mystifying now, & will be truly baffling in the future, that academia self-destructed over . . . this. some students in tents. any issue other than Palestine & the encampments would never have made the local news.
The student protesters were obviously correct on Gaza. The reaction to them was obviously idiotic and depraved. We're probably still a while out from this being banal conventional wisdom, but it's coming.
"skirmish" when it's literally a pro-Israel guy shoving people (including a rabbi). don't worry Israel guy, the NJ assembly committee just advanced the IHRA definition of antisemitism, so rest assured that protecting Israel from criticism will supersede free speech in New Jersey
Skirmish outside NJ Statehouse just now as pro-Palestinian advocates rally against a bill, up for a vote today, that would adopt a state definition of antisemitism. State troopers escorted two pro-Israel counter protesters away.
until today I had not realized that Jia Zhangke made a 7-min AI film last year. watching it was the worst most depressing cinematic experience I've had since the massacre scene in Soldier Blue traumatized me in elementary school. this at end of credits made me want to die.
i keep not understanding why this is breaking news, given that we already know they were sexpest-bros, & mostly think this is Pee Tape Redux, but also whatever, Epstein Files more effective than anything the Dems have done lately
when I interviewed Jon Jost about Robert Kramer, he described Kramer's film ICE as "naïve revolutionary posturing bullshit," and it's a phrase that runs through my head every time I read stuff like this. I'm critical of AOC, but c'mon be serious blackagendareport.com/aoc-genocidal-…
still my favorite Trump tweet, Bedbug pwned
“The infestation of bedbugs at The New York Times office” @OANN was perhaps brought in by lightweight journalist Bret Stephens, a Conservative who does anything that his bosses at the paper tell him to do! He is now quitting Twitter after being called a “bedbug.” Tough guy!
person who has never attended a screening at Anthology Film Archives:
Is it weird/pathetic to go see a movie by yourself
i like this new bright eyes ska song & it's nice to see conor having fun
the King of How Not To Do Leftism
Antisemitism is NOT real. I’m not religious. The idea that I have to accept your goofy fucking Jewish stories about you being God’s chosen people and accept the existence of your apartheid state is ABSURD. Fuck you
these stupid motherfuckers have been doing this for so goddamn long
I think there are 4 categories of films I go out to see in theaters: 1. hard-to-see repertory deep cuts; 2. big-screen spectacle stuff; 3. shitty Hollywood movies exclusively at AMC25 on 42nd St cuz I like the vibes; 4. Hong Sangsoo
Watch the trailer for Hong Sangsoo’s latest film, By the Stream 🎥 The film will open August 8 in NYC at @FilmLinc via @CinemaGuild