joshua peinado
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writing on film for @screenslate, @ultradogme, @inro, @millennfilmjnl, @chutecoop; marx, lenin, etc.
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Joined September 2016
what if I told you jerome helped me arrange the glasses and choose the angle to take this incredible shot of dorsky
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protestors outside the Indie Spirit Awards bravely call for a Free Palestine and these Hollywood hacks don’t acknowledge it, just makes jokes about it. so much for being the ‘cool, edgy, independent’ crowd. cowards.
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akerman’s first three (solo) features include a redefining of structural cinema that put her in the same circles as michael snow, one of her most emotionally resonant portraits of queer malaise and melancholy which she also starred in, and the literal greatest film of all time
Dead serious when I say this is one of the most impressive 3 film debut runs from a director ever
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guy who has only seen ‘antigone’ and ‘man with a movie camera’ watching Madame Web: so it’s kinda like a meeting point between Straub and Vertov.
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a few years ago when I was semi-popular on filmtok I got in huge trouble for suggesting that Schindler’s List is a failure because it was made by a guy without any real ideology and it shows. hardly surprised by this.
Steven Spielberg Breaks Silence on Israel-Hamas War: “Never Imagined I Would See Such Unspeakable Barbarity Against Jews”
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claire denis and her instagram profile should be worked on as a case study.
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spoilers? for KOTFM. the ~dream sequence following the mother’s death is the closest a hollywood film has gotten to recreating the feel of a weerasethakul sequence.
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presented without comment
an extraordinarily dispiriting article
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When is Criterion going to invest in Manoel de Oliveira? or more Jacques Rivette? We’re all eagerly anticipating Brakhage volume 3, Werner Schroeter is in desperate need, hell even Godard needs a great box set- at least Histoires du Cinema needs a good physical release!.
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Happy birthday to Jean Marie Straub. No other filmmaker has changed my taste as much as him- completely turned my world upside down. Made me reevaluate the entire history of cinema I had been operating on.
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“amy taubin convinced me to see oppenheimer… it was a piece of shit!”
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This is the most despicable, ugly, offensive, insane, cruel… there aren’t words for how calculatingly evil the regime and their PR is. Meanwhile more than 500 Palestinian children are dead….
Israel is paying YouTube to place adverts like this before videos aimed at children. No words.
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I literally can’t imagine a less interesting slate of five directors eligible for the nomination.
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Greatest living filmmaker is Nathaniel Dorsky. Also Claire Denis. James Herbert might be. Maybe Beavers, Benning, or Rousseau. If Arthur Jafa had the resources to make more films, he could change american cinema forever. Of course, this all assumes Godard is dead- I’m skeptical.
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here after a dozen emails with UPS about a missing package
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The notion of “one perfect shot” has done irreversible damage to society. Good cinematography in the popular consciousness has become shit like euphoria clips or wes anderson.
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Went on a tinder date in Italy with a random girl. When I asked where she was from she said “Oh, it’s a small town you’ve probably never heard of it… WALLA WALLA” 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 WHY CANT I ESCAPE.
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sometimes I’ll hop into filmtok lives and ask them their favorite weerasethakul film and not once have any of them even clocked him as a person.
imagine showing these two guys a Weerasethakul film or something.
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when ur professors lecture is becoming a grail on letterboxd
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from an interview with John Ford which appeared in Cahiers du Cinema, No. 45, March 1955
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wow b*rbie is the most politically regressive films I’ve seen touted as feminist. gender-essentialism, corporate apologia, neoliberal slop whose final scene makes a point to exclaim very loudly that women are their genitals.
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Everyone who participated in this event, filmmakers and critics alike, must reckon with how rotten this institution is and what their motivations were for participating. Putting career ahead of solidarity when there was a clear boycott called for is a morally vacuous position.
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I might suggest, as others have, that more people should read actual criticism in the form of blogs/publications/magazines/books etc. You’ll find it much more rewarding!.
tryn see challengers reviews and its so cool that letterboxd is just useless now
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this is like, one of the most popular “filmtok” accounts, btw
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some of the most interesting things I’ve learned about Med Hondo in my research so far- had beef with JLG, was into avant garde Brazilian cinema, almost made a Toussaint Louverture epic with Danny Glover, tried to make a Malcolm X film (he didn’t like Spike Lee’s) also a Che film.
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Okay, as this is probably my final week of unemployment I’ve decided to speed run some Straub/Huillet to ground me in marxist principles before selling my labor. What are your favs? I’ve previously seen these
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What’s your favorite “oh wow they’re actually doing this.” Moment from a movie or tv show.
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@WillSloanEsq It’s the kind of nightmare the culture tried to hypothesize for years- the ‘what would you do if there were nazis today’ question. Turns out a lot of people actively love/defend concentration camps. And somewhere more cynically, even more people don’t care at all.
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this was exactly $120
I want to buy a copy of ‘Writings’ of Straub Huillet for less than like… 120 bucks if possible. any leads?.
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Dating Uncle Boonmee I see.
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every morning since moving into my friend’s basement I’ve woken up to this light. very special to me.
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mf whose favorite films are the dark knight, lotr, and the empire strikes back and NEEDS a podcast
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I’m so heartbroken that some people really don’t encounter the power of experimental cinema in their lives… to me, akin to missing a sense.
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watching a bad movie is so much harder, need more haters unafraid to stand up to big hollywood.
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biden team posting this while Israel is committing fucking next-level war crimes really speaks to something.
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five months into 2024… pretty unimpeachable most-watched directors
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got a james benning tattoo.
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Palestine was easy for liberals to support until it challenged their worldview and comfort. As soon as advocating for Palestine created actual dissonance with their position in the empire they bailed, and this is the result. Shame on everyone who has abandoned Gaza.
🚨This will be the last post we share here. We believe there is no point in telling our human stories anymore; everyone has grown accustomed to seeing us killed. It's no longer worth the risk to send our voice out to a world that is content with mere solidarity. Even many of our.
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witnessed something very strange yesterday driving on the highway- a sliver of red tinted sky seemingly emerging from a cannabis farm?
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This would all seem slightly less hopeless if the new guard bore even the slightest chance of filling the hole left by the disappearance of the greats, but when you think about who exactly might take up the call, the art form does start to look irrevocably fucked.
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I wrote on Akerman’s Toute une nuit and Hôtel des Acacias for @ScreenSlate screening today at @MoMAFilm .
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I mean, Straub-Huillet’s FIRST feature is Not Reconciled, it’s probably the most important political film of the 20th century and established something resembling an entirely new film language that they would expand upon in Bach/Othon- both of which redefine ‘brecht’ for cinema
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I’m not defending this review as a masterclass of writing, it was just an off-the-cuff reaction, but this is an absolutely insane thing to comment on it. If you read ‘institutions of power’ and think of jewish people before the bourgeoise…
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The first rough draft of mini booklet on Teo Hernández’s Cristaux for my publication design class with an essay on the film
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Now that we’ve all calmed down, Daney on Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’
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I think it’s cool that you’ve seen 82 films not in the english language, and ranked them all. I can’t wait till you finish the list, hope you can hit 100!
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Favorite Ford, Straub-Huillet, Wiseman, Benning
Lets spice this up:.Favorite Ford, Straub-Huillet, Wiseman, Benning
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this is the most popular review of pale rider on letterboxd. not even funny, just… bad. we gotta put these youtubers in ‘writers jail’ or whatever.
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It occurred to me I never showed y’all my Brakhage tattoo. here it is!
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tired of giving stars, hearts, thumbs up etc… from now on every festival circuit I’ll just be assigning a “BOOM!” or a “DOOM!”.
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I was having a really bad day but then my brother adopted a kitten and my day is soooooo much better holy
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in a peculiar turn of events, this was misprinted and inside is a copy of “economic structure of corporate law”
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The REAL Best Directors lineup .Claire Denis (Stars at Noon).Claire Denis (Both Sides of the Blade).Hong Sang-Soo (The Novelist’s Film).Hong Sang-Soo (Walk Up).Michael Bay (AmbuLAnce).
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I’ll be interviewing Robert Beavers over the course of the next several weeks. If you have any questions for the legend, submit them now.
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between Doc and Tone Glow, the Chicago experimental rep scene is growing into one of the better in the world.
Playing in Fall 2024, .THE DEVOTIONAL CINEMA OF NATHANIEL DORSKY AND JEROME HILER. Sundays at 8pm. 16mm prints courtesy of @canyoncinema.
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the list would be entirely westerns or experimental prints I saw at archives, so I limited myself to one of each of those categories
What is an underrated film you've seen this year that you would recommend everyone watch?.
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