had fun writing about pop personas, gregg araki, and charli xcx for @filmmakermagazine.com this week! sign up for new essays from me each Friday, direct to your inbox: filmmaker.substack.com/p/faceoff-gr...
chloe lizotte
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content director, filmmaker magazine • chloelizotte dot com
wrote about charli xcx and gregg araki for this week’s filmmaker newsletter—on public mythos, coolness, taste, and playing against type…
Filmmaker Magazine@filmmakermagazine.com · 5d ago"Persona is a very deliberate instrument for Charli, who is curious about the conditions that might destabilize it." Chloe Lizotte ( @celizotte.bsky.social ) on expectation and dissonance in Gregg Araki's I WANT YOUR SEX and Charli XCX's MUSIC, FASHION, FILM: filmmaker.substack.com/p/faceoff-gr...
i spoke to people who fully committed to the bit for some field reporting
Filmmaker Magazine@filmmakermagazine.com · 3w ago"Like Odysseus, people had traveled far—from Boston, from Arizona, from Toronto." Chloe Lizotte ( @celizotte.bsky.social ) 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: filmmaker.substack.com/p/a-long-way...
“Political commitment is woven into the fabric of the cinema itself.” Botagoz Koilybaeva 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. open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...
La Clef Revival Occupies the Cinema
The Parisian cinema collective unlocks a new future for film culture and city life.
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filmmaker is now on bluesky!
Filmmaker Magazine@filmmakermagazine.com · 3w ago"There is something irresistible about Valerie's futile but sincere effort to prevail." From our summer issue, Rafaela Bassili reflects on the transforming entertainment industry depicted in Lisa Kudrow's THE COMEBACK: filmmaker.substack.com/p/lost-in-th...
We’re thrilled to unveil the summer 2026 issue of Filmmaker! Featuring an intimacy coordinator roundtable, Jane Schoenbrun, John Early, Julio Torres, and much more ☀️ Trailer by Charlotte Gosch / Studio Other Types
drop a 📍to share with others where gangnam style is audible outdoors on classon avenue
thoughts on Disclosure Day in our Friday newsletter. plus, David Schwartz at the Knicks parade: substack.com/@filmmakerma...
“Disclosure Day” on the Eve of the Future
Plus: a New York film luminary reports from the Knicks parade.
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no greater rush than correctly predicting whether any given singer will do the octave jump in “land of the free”
as soon as we learned that Tim Heidecker (@timheidecker.bsky.social) and Eric Wareheim would be at Cannes, we knew we had to talk to them for Filmmaker. here’s Keva York’s Q&A with the era-defining comedy duo, reunited in Quentin Dupieux’s latest, Full Phil: open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...
“I Hope They Boo”: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim Take Cannes
Keva York shares a meal with the comedy duo, freshly reunited in Quentin Dupieux’s "Full Phil."
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moved by this internal rhyme in an Athletic article…poetry is everywhere if you keep your eyes open
gazing out the window wondering why esteban bigliardi doesn’t have a wikipedia page
wrote about the Palme-ineligible Propeller, Cannes, etc for our Friday newsletter—ahead of a roundup of our coverage so far: open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...
A Jolt of Travolta
Chloe Lizotte writes on “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” and some futuristic imagery from Cannes.
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starting to roll out some Cannes newsletters on the Filmmaker Magazine Substack—like any travel day, Nespresso helped me kick this one off. plus, an early word on Schoenbrun and Radu. subscribe to follow along; more in store this week from an all-star roster! : open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...
Seventy-nine Palmes: Welcome to Cannes
"What else?" asks Chloe Lizotte from the Croisette as she notes early highlights from Jane Schoenbrun and Radu Jude.
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seated for propeller one-way night coach………..
chloe lizotte@celizotte.bsky.social · 3mo agodisaster….preexisting conflicts with every screening of propeller one-way night coach
disaster….preexisting conflicts with every screening of propeller one-way night coach
on the beautiful images, necessary images of James N Kienitz Wilkins’s The Misconceived, for @reverseshot.bsky.social . opens First Look tomorrow! reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
I used Shazam to discover Teen Age Riot by Sonic Youth at the Moynihan Train Hall Food Court at Penn Station
avant-garde capitalization in cobble hill cinemas preshow reel
my new notebook "cutscenes" column is an argument against the cutscene itself, proposing - by way of everything from MANIAC MANSION to ELDEN RING - that video game storytelling should be medium-specific and involve more than moving images that suspend the player's control. mubi.com/en/notebook/...
Cutscenes | Against the Cutscene
From Donkey Kong to Hideo Kojima, these mini movies often suggest the future of the medium—but do they undercut the pleasures of gaming?
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Talked to Matt Johnson about lenticular storytelling, being annoying, and studying Norman McClaren in film class mubi.com/en/notebook/...
Notes from the Peanut Factory: Matt Johnson on “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie”
Toronto’s most dynamic alt-comedy duo leaps to the silver screen (and travels through time…and scales the CN Tower).
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always a pleasure to chat sundance with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social — some fun films on deck this year. listen in here to learn how to make gatorade at home or make long distance calls for free: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Ep. 373: Sundance 2026 – Chloe Lizotte on Night Nurse, Homemade Gatorade and other shorts, Public Access Redux, plus A Rotterdam Surprise
Podcast Episode · The Last Thing I Saw · 02/04/2026 · 47m
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in @reverseshot.bsky.social two cents on some extremely unusual home cleaning behavior! scroll until you see him: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
