Not to essentialize, but I routinely find that film people approach literature with a level of mutual respect and an understanding of medium specificity that is rarely returned
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Media, Cinema, & Digital Studies PhD candidate & Grad Instructor at UW Milwaukee | Film exhibition, media technology, & American film history | he/him
so many self-styled intellectuals tripping over themselves to volunteer their inability to take movies seriously or understand how they work
Just sharing this again for no particular reason...
cinematthew.bsky.social@cinematthew.bsky.social · 4mo agoI'm going to say it now, I really have zero patience for the impending onslaught of #TheOdyssey discourse. Historical accuracy or fidelity to the source material is not what makes an adaptation interesting (or even good)
Above the spectacle, I'm still thinking about how devastating The Odyssey's moral and political assertions are -- simple and epochal elevated to piercing and confrontational truths through Nolan's structure and form. What an unexpected companion piece to Oppenheimer: letterboxd.com/matthewcoope...
A review of The Odyssey (2026)
While never apolitical, you would be forgiven for not calling Nolan a political filmmaker. But after seemingly excising the last of his high-concept genre pretensions with Tenet, his turn toward more ...
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Some days you just have to spend your morning cold emailing movie theater chains to ask if they'll tell you who supplies their reclining seats
The dude who runs Twitter, controls your feed, and makes money off your posts is on week two of posting about how Chris Nolan casting a black woman as a beautiful woman is anti-white genocide. I do not want to write for that guy for free, which is what you're doing when you post to his platform.
OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child
I'm going to say it now, I really have zero patience for the impending onslaught of #TheOdyssey discourse. Historical accuracy or fidelity to the source material is not what makes an adaptation interesting (or even good)
Teaching @doctorow.pluralistic.net's book Enshittification this afternoon. To my chagrin, my students were not as enthusiastic at the end of our last class about assigned reading with profanity in the title as I'd have hoped
Self-nomination period for two Graduate Student Organization (GSO) Co-Chair positions is currently open and will close on Sunday, April 26, 2026 at 11:59 pm CDT. If you are interested, fill out the form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Disney's announcement at #CinemaCon yesterday of an "InfinityVision" branding initiative for Premium Large Format screens is a totally bizarro move that also underscores some essential conditions of the 2020s theatrical exhibition business🧵 thewaltdisneycompany.com/news/infinit...
The Walt Disney Studios and Global Theatrical Exhibition Partners Launch 'Infinity Vision' — The Ultimate Premium Moviegoing Experience | The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Studios announced the launch of Infinity Vision, a new certification for premium large format (PLF) theaters.
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This afternoon at 4:15: Come see me, @ptklein.com, and Sarah Sinwell discuss independent theatrical film exhibition! Session M8, sponsored by @misig-scms.bsky.social #scms26
Every month, streaming gets a bit closer to good old fashioned pay TV. Now seemingly every service pairs its scripted entertainment with lowbrow reality fare and live sports.
Netflix Price Hike Reveals Streaming’s Next Phase: Pushing Consumers Away From Ad-Free Options
Every month, streaming gets a bit closer to good old fashioned pay TV. Now seemingly every service pairs its scripted entertainment with lowbrow reality fare and live sports.
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Once again sharing my annual advice for conference-going: Be sure to eat a vegetable every once in a while. It's easy to get to Day 3 feeling like garbage and then realize you've only eaten granola bars and bar food. Eat a plant when you can. (And drink water and not just coffee!) #SCMS26
If you’re headed to the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference in Chicago this week, I’ve put together this feed that pulls in every post tagged with #SCMS26 to make it easy to connect and follow along! Say hey if I’ll see you there! ✌️
It's SCMS conference week! A good time to recirculate this 2023 document: "Tips From SCMS Members for Having a Productive and Supportive In-Person Conference" docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Tips for Having a Productive and Supportive SCMS In-Person Conference Experience
Tips From SCMS Members for Having a Productive and Supportive In-Person Conference Note: This was originally composed in April 2023 for the first SCMS back in-person after the virtual ones. It has b...
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🎬 Grad students of #SCMS2026 — come say hello! Save the date: Thursday, March 26, 8-9 pm at Fairmont International Ballroom Join us for drinks, conversation, and community at the Graduate Student Reception.
I just find it funny that people think the guy who made ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER somehow needs to be clearer about where he stands politically.
By my count, that's four genuinely excellent Best Picture winners in a row now? Either the Academy has genuinely turned a corner or we're on a collision course towards something far, far worse than Green Book
“Roughly $24 billion of Paramount’s takeover financing is coming from the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia. [The] journalist-killing kingdom is poised to become a part-owner of one of the world’s most influential news organizations.”
Look, I'm not saying that I'm excited. But an exercise in Saturday morning cartoon plotting and wall-to-wall creature design also feels like a perfectly legitimate direction for a Star Wars flick (y'know, a *children's* series) to take?
It is simply not true that LLMs are "black boxes." Not knowing everything about something doesn't make it a black box. The architecture was developed prior to their invention. They are iterated via intentional design. This is not a black box. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
When you're a pet owner (especially of two), there are days when it is more glaringly apparent that you're sharing your home with two animals. Today has been one of those days...
Ehrlich's videos are always joyful tributes to cinema in all its genres, modes, and national and industrial permutations. A great lunch break watch!
david ehrlich@davidehrlich.bsky.social · 7mo agoTHE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 A Video Countdown vimeo.com/1156345183
Worth remembering that despite many missteps, Kathleen Kennedy also shepherded one of the best big-budget studio films of the 2010s (The Last Jedi, a franchise best) and perhaps the single best television series to debut so far this decade (Andor) variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Lucasfilm Replacing Kathleen Kennedy With Dave Filoni, Lynwen Brennan as New ‘Star Wars’ Bosses
Lucasfilm has lined up replacements for Kathy Kennedy when she steps down from running the company behind "Star Wars" this year.
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