For Screen Slate, I wrote about the moment Shirley MacLaine jabs her heart in SOME CAME RUNNING (1959). The Stanford Theatre’s retrospective of Minnelli closes in high style this weekend with SCR and BELLS ARE RINGING (my favorite Minnelli musical): screenslate.com/articles/some-…

This week, Carlos Valladares is back to wrap up the The Stanford Theatre's Vincente Minnelli retrospective with Some Came Running in all its cataclysmic neon glory, playing Thursday-Sunday alongside Bells are Ringing: screenslate.com/articles/some-…

Had one of the best weekends of my life in Peoria, IL at their RiverfrontMuseum, presenting and lecturing on films on their GIANT screen, pairing them with works in the galleries, and having lovely conversations with the community. Can’t wait to be back :)

Decided to read Andrew Sarris’ full review of The Godfather (1972) and am chuckling at the image of him thinking Bonasera was played by Brando.

Robert Bresson’s late masterwork, THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (1977), a blistering indictment of post-May ’68 France, opens in new 4K on Fri, 9/20! Followed by Bresson’s Arthurian deconstruction LANCELOT DU LAC (1974), also newly restored in 4K, on Fri, 9/27. buff.ly/4fMe5fw

P.S. This is what Andrew Sarris really said about a certain overhyped Coppola film.

Starts tonight !

Head to "Gagosian Quarterly" to read a piece by Carlos Valladares in which he mines the history of the romantic comedy and proposes an expanded canon for the genre: on.gagosian.com/3QN9uyc Carlos Valladares

A few words on CLOSE YOUR EYES, in dialogue with a lot of my favorites (Hasumi, Hamaguchi, Dreyer's GERTRUD, Hawks, MARIANNE): letterboxd.com/cvall96/film/c…

If anyone’s around, lmk 🫡

Hope this gets a big run soon.

LANCELOT DU LAC, Robert Bresson’s singularly ruthless retelling of the Arthurian legend, opens in newly restored 4K in exactly one month on Friday, September 27: bit.ly/475KaLB Preceded by Bresson’s THE DEVIL, PROBABLY in 4K on Friday, September 20.

¡Ojo, ojo, ojo! En enero sale una nueva edición de Introducción a una verdadera historia del cine, las 14 conferencias de Godard en Montreal. Esperemos que fundada en la reciente edición ampliada de Timothy Barnard. En el cuenco de plata.

I’m in the Fall 2024 Art in America, writing about Marie Hazard in the New Talent section + Mary Cassatt at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. You can pick up the issue wherever magazines are sold 🙏🏽

Yes. Also, so Proust-coded

I was the first member of the public to watch Jerry Lewis’s footage of The Day the Clown Cried, and I wrote about it for The New Republic newrepublic.com/article/185434…