“It can feel like therapy to watch it. And it was therapy for me to make it.”
Nausheen Dadabhoy 🪬 talks about An Act Of Worship with Farihah Zaman, whose new monthly series Infinite Beauty: Muslim + MENASA Identity Onscreen is alive and ongoing Museum of the Moving Image

There are...a lot of Canadians. And I find that very suspicious.

Excited to be launching a new ongoing series, Infinite Beauty: Muslim and MENASA Identity Onscreen, guest programmed by Farihah Zaman, with Nausheen Dadabhoy 🪬’s AN ACT OF WORSHIP - this Sunday night Museum of the Moving Image. 🚨

Next SUN (11/6), join guest curator Kinitra Brooks for a special 2 film series exploring the Black final girl and the iconic characters that laid the foundation for her presence in modern horror. Featuring TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT and 28 DAYS LATER. movingimage.us/series/the-bla…

Things have changed at the movies, some of them for good, but of you were saying 24 or 30 months ago the movie theatres were dead or becoming a niche thing you were wrong.

Sad news: I was one of the casualties of Criterion’s layoffs. Super proud of my work there - and we’ve still got some writing goodies in store coming soon! - but let a girl know if you’ve got any leads on editorial gigs in the worlds of film, books, theater, and beyond!

'Universally relevant. This powerful documentary about
Argentina’s abortion debate has global relevance' (Screen International). This Sunday, October 23 at Museum of the Moving Image mailchi.mp/cinematropical…

Starts this week!

One of the most unjustly overlooked of all documentary filmmakers, Noriaki Tsuchimoto made films that are revelatory in their patient pursuit of humanity. This first-ever twelve-film U.S. retrospective opens NOV 12. See full lineup. movingimage.us/series/noriaki…

Stars at Noon is Denis's best film since 35 Shots by a wide margin don't @ me.

A casual list of impressions Gray fell into with startling ease:

Subway train screeches
Coppola
Joaquin Phoenix
Jimmy Caan
Brando
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant
Dazed film students
and about 10 others I couldn’t clock because they were rocketing like fast balls.

Watching edo and Eric Hynes riff with James Gray in two separate Q&As only 30 minutes apart was virtuosic.

Who’s playing hooky to see King of Queens James Gray dole out a doubleheader Museum of the Moving Image?

Kicking off this weekend's #CaanFilmFestival shows, we return to Michael Mann's 1981 crime masterpiece THIEF—and who better to introduce the film than the master himself! Screens TONIGHT (encore OCT 2 & 9) with a special video introduction. movingimage.us/event/thief-6/…

James Gray on James Caan and THE YARDS - in person Friday, Oct 14, directly before the sold out Queens premiere of ARMAGEDDON TIME New York Film Festival.

Reid Davenport's New Film Confronts the Legacy of the Freak Show

Check out Reid Davenport's artist diary on Creative Capital: creative-capital.org/2022/09/27/rei…

I Didn't See You There screens at #DCTVFirehouse September 30 through October 6! links.dctvny.org/IDSYT

Alex Gibney Freedom. Of. Speech. Does not. Guarantee a platform. And the response to the film has also been an expression of that right— it’s been done publicly, not coordinated in secret. Those who disagree with the critiques are still free to show the film, and clearly have been doing so.