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@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:36 PM

Not to miss: Straub & Huillet's Antigone, at @metrographnyc.bsky.social at 2:35pm; their version of a John Ford Western, via Sophocles, Hölderlin, and Brecht; hieratic, furious, nature-rapt.

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 2:06 PM

Yuliya Solntseva, in The Enchanted Desna, directs her late husband Oleksandr Dovzhenko's intricate, quasi-autobiographical script with ecstatic style and political ironies of her own; at @metrographnyc.bsky.social at 8:25pm, introduced by Anri Vartan:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

@midcenturycinema.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:36 PMReposted by @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social

10/9/71: Jacques Rivette's monumental Out 1
[Suzanne Schiffman in on W, D]
w/Michael Lonsdale 🙏, Jean-Pierre Léaud 🙏 ++
More
@samadams.bsky.social: www.indiewire.com/features/gen...
@glennkenny.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/m...
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:45 AM

You Can See Everything is an astonishing film of Elizabeth Holmes and her sustaining certainties, of the surprising emotional power arising from this round of Nathan Fielder's interventions:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 2:04 PM

Mikey Madison's performance in The Social Reckoning is akin to Jesse Eisenberg's in The Social Network, but it's pretty much squandered by indifferent direction, narrowly informational writing, and incuriosity; the movie has no spark of life:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

@midcenturycinema.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:09 AMReposted by @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social

10/7/81: Jacques Rivette's Le Pont du Nord
w/Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier
More:
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...
Max Nelson/ @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy: www.filmcomment.com/jacques-rive...
Betsy Sherman/ @theartsfuse.bsky.social: artsfuse.org/89413/fuse-f...

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 2:23 AM

I'll have the honor and pleasure of introducing Godard's Weekend at the Garden Theatre in Princeton, Sat, Oct. 10 at 7pm, in a terrific series including Kiarostami's Close-Up, Murnau's Faust, Mambéty's Touki Bouki, & much more; looking forward to being back (last visit was for Ira Sachs's Passages).

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 3:24 PM

Just realized thanks to @screenslate.bsky.social that Luchino Visconti's last film, L'Innocente, is at the NYFF in a new restoration today at noon (sorry); also playing tomorrow and Friday; the refinement of its cruelty is sublime and chilling:
www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 1:50 PM

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Sicilia! screens tonight (at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social at 8:15pm in 35mm.), aptly during the NYFF, where I first saw it, in 1999; word on this supreme later masterwork of family secrets and erotic history, plus reminiscences:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 12:49 AM

Gets me every time; composed the Concerto for Orchestra, Sonata for Solo Violin, 3rd Piano Concerto, and Viola Concerto here while mortally ill.

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 9:37 PM

In honor and memory of Marjoe Gortner, who should have won an Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith's documentary Marjoe (which did win). Not that awards matter, but performance does, wherever it happens.

@midcenturycinema.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 5:37 PMReposted by @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social

10/4/56: Written on the Wind
D Douglas Sirk/DP Russell Metty
w/Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone
More:
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...
Laura Mulvey: www.criterion.com/current/post...
Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea...

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 2:36 PM

Small Change, François Truffaut's 1976 drama of kinder mores and changing times (with a wink of wishful thinking and a hint of bitter memories built in), at @metrographnyc.bsky.social at 11 in 35mm. (sorry for late word:
www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...

@midcenturycinema.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 10:58 PMReposted by @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social

10/3/65: Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake is Missing
w/Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Olivier
Our take: midcenturycinema.org/node/41
More:
@tasharobinson.bsky.social: avclub.com/bunny-lake-i...
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...
@jhoberman.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/m...

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 3:16 PM

Miklós Jancsó, in Electra, My Love, does what Christopher Nolan didn't—makes clear the relentlessly cruel violence of the Homeric world, and endows that world with pageantry and style nonetheless; it's at @metrographnyc.bsky.social at 9:15pm:
www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:19 PM

Great second week starts today at the New York Film Festival, a feast of sharp words and daring actions in boldly original forms:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 2:06 AM

The other day, someone asked about Spencer Tracy's best performance, and my brain said Man's Castle but my heart said The Actress (and recalled George Cukor's great showcases for the highest refinements of Tracy's art); it's on @tcmtv.bsky.social at 10:15am:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 6:01 PM

Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway are two of the best actors around (and two of my favorites), but Verity squanders their presence; a bitterly yet ludicrously disappointing film:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 10:56 PM

L'Avventura Zabriskie Point Red Desert L'Eclisse I Vinti

@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 2:58 PM

La Chienne, by Jean Renoir—who looms large for the French New Wave because he was sort of a one-person New Wave for decades (including in the hostility he faced)—plays today at L'Alliance at 4 and 7 in the series Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned:
www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...

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