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Life is exactly like a video game...and I am a new being, made of digital flesh...thank you @reverse_shot for believing in this concept. Here's why Conner O'Malley is one of the defining video artists of our time
Forget TENET. You want real spectacle? Read @celizotte's deep dumpster dive into the "distinctly contemporary American hellscape" of Conner O’Malley. Introducing our new column Event Horizon—on visual media and other light-related phenomena.
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“Leigh manages to capture at once our interconnectedness and the grave distance that separates us; as one narrative unfolds, countless others scaffold its realism.”
Saffron Maeve on Mike Leigh's TENDER LOVING CARE.
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i wrote about TIFF, VR, movies about acting, and Matt Barats’s great Anchors Aweigh:
“So many movies this fall season are obsessed with arguing for cinema’s right to exist.”
Chloe Lizotte (@celizotte) on I PLAY ROCKY, ELSINORE, PRIMETIME, and Big Tech's imagined crisis of cinema. filmmaker.substack.com/p/sof…
i wrote about TIFF, VR, movies about acting, and Matt Barats’s great Anchors Aweigh:
“So many movies this fall season are obsessed with arguing for cinema’s right to exist.”
Chloe Lizotte (@celizotte) on I PLAY ROCKY, ELSINORE, PRIMETIME, and Big Tech's imagined crisis of cinema. filmmaker.substack.com/p/sof…
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It's the summer of Samy Burch. @celizotte speaks with the screenwriter about her incredible run of screenplays for COYOTE VS. ACME, LATE FAME, and MAY DECEMBER, as well as her earliest shorts with Kate Berlant and John Early:
filmmaker.substack.com/p/sum…
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Still feels surreal saying this, but I interviewed Kiyoshi Kurosawa for @FilmmakerMag!! We talked at length about how the experience of making The Samurai and the Prisoner challenged his long-held filmmaking philosophy.
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the new Matt Johnson Bourdain movie gave me fresh eyes on his earlier work, especially BlackBerry’s depiction of Canadian tech brain…..some thoughts (& briefly on Nirvanna) for the @FilmmakerMag Friday newsletter:
filmmaker.substack.com/p/wor…
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"TONY fits neatly alongside [Matt] Johnson’s other movies, in which characters make decisions informed by the allure of masculine cultural archetypes—and the thin, often self-deluding line between alpha males and beta males."
@celizotte writes:
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action columnist extraordinaire @JonahJeng makes his debut in @FilmmakerMag , writing on Eric Jacobus, who imparted a Hong Kong sensibility to DIY DV movies in the 00s, just before the dawn of YouTube:
"Twenty years ago, a movie filmed for a couple thousand bucks in the Bay Area delivered action sequences that left most Hollywood offerings in the dust."
Read @JonahJeng 's appreciation of CONTOUR, Eric Jacobus's low-budget action masterpiece:
filmmaker.substack.com/p/app…
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i interviewed THE Ngozi Onwurah about the making of 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘐𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘦, now playing @BAMfilmBrooklyn in a new 4K restoration c/o @janusfilms, for @FilmmakerMag - thanks @celizotte and @44getting for edits! filmmaker.substack.com/p/in-…
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"Persona is a very deliberate instrument for Charli, who is curious about the conditions that might destabilize it."
Chloe Lizotte (@celizotte ) writes on expectation and dissonance in Gregg Araki's I WANT YOUR SEX and Charli XCX's MUSIC, FASHION, FILM.
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"By refusing to condescend to his lurid B-movie material, [Sam] Neill inhabits it like a church."
Adam Nayman (@brofromanother ) writes a remembrance of Neill, who threw himself headfirst into blockbusters and B movies alike.
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i spoke to people who fully committed to the bit for some odyssey field reporting
"Like Odysseus, people had traveled far—from Boston, from Arizona, from Toronto."
Chloe Lizotte (@celizotte ) files a scene report from the opening night of Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY and tries to get to the bottom of a monocultural moment:
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"Political commitment is woven into the fabric of the cinema itself."
Botagoz Koilybayeva profiles the La Clef Revival collective, who occupied an arthouse theater in Paris to unlock a new future for cinema.
From our summer issue. 📸 Chiara Marinai.
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ICYMI: talked to Georgia Bernstein about Night Nurse, which is not just being playing in NY and LA, but also i’ve been informed is making rounds at county AMCs in Baltimore filmmakermagazine.com/133972…
Filmmaker: Summer 2026. pulling back the curtain this week and we’re so excited for you to read it! link in thread…
