Maria San Filippo
@cinemariasf.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media Studies~Emerson College Scholar of feminist/queer screen media Wellesley, NYU, UCLA, Fulbright alum IUPress, WSUP & MQUP author / Lambda Literary Award winner Boston-based itinerant cinephile mariasanfilippo.net
In his new Netflix stand-up special 'Ridiculous,' Louis CK makes his unhappiness evident. Without deeper insights, his misery soon becomes our own.
Louis C.K.’s Misery Is Infectious in His ‘Ridiculous’ Return to Netflix
In his new Netflix stand-up special 'Ridiculous,' Louis CK makes his unhappiness evident. Without deeper insights, his misery soon becomes our own.
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MERCI @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social & Tom Waugh for #Pride love! So many fabulous titles coming down the Queer Film Classics pipeline, excited to read all! @dorianawards.bsky.social @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @lgbtqreads.bsky.social @scmsqtc.bsky.social @lambdaliterary.org @glaad.bsky.social
McGill-Queen's University Press@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday on the blog, Queer Film Classics co-editor Thomas Waugh has curated a list of films to watch this Pride month- and beyond! buff.ly/NviKUmR
Just in time for #Pride Month, @criterion.bsky.social announced June 16 release of Academy Film Archive/@uclaftvarchive.bsky.social/@sundance.org restored 4K Blu-Ray of 90s lesbian film landmark: Lisa Cholodenko's feature debut HIGH ART www.criterion.com/films/32507-... feat. @brubyrich.bsky.social
Exciting news: 1 mo from today I'll deliver the Bergman Lecture during Bergman Week on "Bergman Island" aka Fårö, Sweden, discussing Mia Hansen-Løve's BERGMAN ISLAND as #ecofeminist response to PERSONA, screening that very evening with an introduction by Honorary Guest Juliette Binoche! Fantastiskt!
My 10th year contributing to @sensesofcinema.bsky.social's World Poll! Voilà my annotated 10 favorite films of 2025: www.sensesofcinema.com/2026/world-p... @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @dorianawards.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @screenslate.bsky.social @iffboston.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social
Part 7 – Senses of Cinema
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Senses of Cinema@sensesofcinema.bsky.social · 7mo ago📣 🎟️ Welcome to Issue 116 of the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema. Our first Issue of the new year features our World Poll, where our readers and contributors have shared their highlights of the previous year. buff.ly/Jn11ExH
#DavidLynch would've turned 80 today. He's inspired endless appreciation & commemoration in the past year; here's my small contribution: substack.com/home/post/p-... @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @dorianawards.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social @oaffc.bsky.social
Five films for burning it all down
Commemorating David Lynch’s Los Angeles
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New year, new list! cinemariasf.substack.com/p/favorite-2... (Stay tuned for my Top 10 of 2025 in @sensesofcinema.bsky.social World Poll coming soon!) @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social @dorianawards.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social @screeningsex.bsky.social
Thankful to welcome 2 new book chapters into the world from opposite ends of my research interests: #romcom & #pornstudies! An amuse bouche for #comedystudies feast to follow, “Regenerating ‘Radical Romantic Comedy’ for the Twenty-First Century" kicks off @academic.oup.com HANDBOOK OF SCREEN COMEDY
What an ideal day to be teaching Richard Dyer's STARS chapter on the legendary Jane Fonda! TY @unionmaidpgh.bsky.social! Paired w/ this @ktlaent.bsky.social interview: www.msn.com/en-us/movies... @sagaftranews.bsky.social @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @janefonda.com @scms-starperformer.bsky.social
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The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 10mo agoIn 1947, some Hollywood stars including Henry Fonda stood up to anti-communist witch hunts. Now, Jane Fonda and artists like Viola Davis, Pedro Pascal and Billie Eilish are reviving their organization — the Committee for the First Amendment — to defend free speech again. buff.ly/B79gBQX #polisky
The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize! Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...
Preparing to deliver my talk "From Striver to Disaster: The Bisexual as Figuration of Contemporary Socioeconomic Decline" at Bi Research Group Conference; join online! www.bisexualresearch.com #IBRC2025 #bisexualresearch @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @bisexualmovies.bsky.social @scmsqtc.bsky.social
Celebrating #Bisexuality Day w/ my books APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR & THE B WORD, which recently made the news getting trashed in TX www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-... Tho most press is good press for academic authors, I preferred @lambdaliterary.org awards @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @iupress.bsky.social
My sophomore attempt at seasonal Substacking: a love letter to LA & Lynch; hope it's worth the wait! cinemariasf.substack.com/p/five-films... @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @lafilmcritics.bsky.social @lafilmforum.bsky.social @kcrw.com @emersonsoarts.bsky.social
Five films for burning it all down
Commemorating David Lynch’s Los Angeles
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Happy #Pride Book Discounts! My monographs THE B WORD & PROVOCAUTEURS & PROVOCATIONS 40% off w/ code UPRIDE25 iupress.org/author/maria... + my 2022 ed. collection AFTER 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER': ROMANTIC COMEDY IN THE POST-ROMANTIC AGE 40% til Fri 6/20 w/ code RYAY40 wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814346730/
Nice surprise on @emersoncollege.bsky.social Commencement Day to see John Cameron Mitchell's @nytopinion.nytimes.com op-ed recalling visit @emersonsoarts.bsky.social hosted this spring! opportunity to screen SHORTBUS & moderate Q&A was the highlight of my school year! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o...
Opinion | Today’s Young People Need to Learn How to Be Punk
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7pm Mon.! (3/31), CU @thecoolidge.bsky.social for 35mm screening of Martha Coolidge's VALLEY GIRL starring Nicolas Cage & Deborah Foreman as the most totally bitchin' couple since Romeo & Juliet! coolidge.org/package/semi... @emersonsoarts.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social
Seminar: Valley Girl
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My @girlsontopstees.bsky.social tee & I made the scene at #BFIFutureFilmFestival 2025! youtu.be/slgyAfx89Qc?... TY host @verilybitchie.bsky.social & all who joined! @dorianawards.bsky.social @outfest.bsky.social @queerfilmfestival.ca @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @emersonsoarts.bsky.social
Maria San Filippo@cinemariasf.bsky.social · 2y agoBFI's FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL coming soon! Join me & other panelists for Bye, Bi Invisibility: Crafting Authentic Bisexual Narratives for the Screen hosted by @verilybitchie.bsky.social 21 Feb. 4pm GMT on Zoom whatson.bfi.org.uk/FutureFilmFe... #BFIFutureFilmFestival 2025! @dorianawards.bsky.social
New series alert! The 1980s were a time of significant breakthroughs for women filmmakers. Our March 2025 series is a survey of some of the indelible works by trailblazing filmmakers in that decade from around the globe 🎥 coolidge.org/trailblazers
Save the date! Martha Coolidge's VALLEY GIRL in 35mm 3/31 @thecoolidge.bsky.social; sign up 4 my pre-show seminar! coolidge.org/events/semin... @emersonsoarts.bsky.social @emersoncollege.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social @iffboston.bsky.social
Seminar: Valley Girl
Romeo & Juliet for the Reagan era. When a Hollywood punk falls hard for a popular suburban preppie, their respective worlds collide in a culture clash that established the prototype for 80s teen romco...
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Maria San Filippo@cinemariasf.bsky.social · last yr.Treat yo self to (post-)romantic reads courtesy of my 2021 @wsupress ed. collection AFTER 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER' avail. at online booksellers. Encore watch! Martha Coolidge's like totally swoony VALLEY GIRL @eurekaentertainment Blu-Ray feat. commentary by yours truly! eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/valley...
Treat yo self to (post-)romantic reads courtesy of my 2021 @wsupress ed. collection AFTER 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER' avail. at online booksellers. Encore watch! Martha Coolidge's like totally swoony VALLEY GIRL @eurekaentertainment Blu-Ray feat. commentary by yours truly! eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/valley...
BFI's FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL coming soon! Join me & other panelists for Bye, Bi Invisibility: Crafting Authentic Bisexual Narratives for the Screen hosted by @verilybitchie.bsky.social 21 Feb. 4pm GMT on Zoom whatson.bfi.org.uk/FutureFilmFe... #BFIFutureFilmFestival 2025! @dorianawards.bsky.social
🗣 Proposals are due Sunday for the Hollywood Conference to be held at USC in July. www.thehollywoodconference.com/cfp
CFP — The Hollywood Conference
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The Itinerant Cinephile is now on Substack, sharing monthly curated viewing selections! Check out my (ahem) inaugural post: Five films foretelling how “we the people” got here... Subscribe and spread the word! cinemariasf.substack.com Vive le cinéma et la démocratie!
More than any other director/creator #DavidLynch turned me on to what film/TV is capable of at an impressionable age and thereby awakened my cinephilia and forever transformed TV. His work is forever seared into my head & heart. RIP Maestro.
The team at Senses are looking for a new Festivals editor to join our team! We are accepting applications until January 13 - see here for more details: www.sensesofcinema.com/2024/news/we...
We’re looking for a festivals editor! – Senses of Cinema
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Thank you to @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social editor extraordinaire @elizabethalsop.bsky.social for guiding my long-gestating essay to publication & to #ENMU @wgawest.bsky.social & #AMPAS librarians who enabled access to Brackett's archives. Her life was too short but her legacy lives on in her writing.
Elizabeth Alsop@elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 2y agoGood morning, feminist film scholars and historians of bluesky! Might I recommend this wonderful deep dive by @cinemariasf.bsky.social into the work of under-heralded Hollywood screenwriter Leigh Brackett? lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
Just a reminder that applications for the 2025 Scholarship in Sound & Image workshop at Middlebury College, Vermont, are due in about a week. Please encourage people to apply who might be able to attend & would benefit from the experience! sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/
Scholarship in Sound & Image
Workshop on Videographic Criticism
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Excited to see this timely story celebrating screening midlife sex, middle-aged women's desire, and some of my favorite films & comedy of 2024. Thanks as always to Alexis Soloski for a stimulating chat & for shouting out my book!
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y ago“Babygirl” suggests that there are many stories to tell about women in midlife, stories that take their worth as a given and don’t equate their value to their desirability, Alexis Soloski writes.
Hi Bluesky! Happy to be here. Figure I'll start things off w/ my annual annotated list of favorite films, honorable mentions & still-in-contention. Read full digression at mariasanfilippo.net/lists; abridged version coming soon as part of @sensesofcinema.bsky.social 2024 World Poll. Vive le cinéma!
