My new year gift to you all is this 2,600+ title @letterboxd.social list that compiles all of the films listed as First Viewings and Discoveries in the @screenslate.bsky.social year end poll. It's probably the only list where you'll find Rollerball (2002) alongside 25 films directed by Mikio Naruse.

Screen Slate First Viewings and Discoveries 2025

presented in ballot order, from the link below, to allow for easy following along with those who made the selections first (each film can only be listed once) www.screenslate.com/articles/best-movies-...

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I contributed some movie lists to the award-winning @screenslate.bsky.social. Use with caution.

Participated in @screenslate.bsky.social's end year round up. Mad that I did not see Ella McKay before this: screenslate.com/articles/bes...

SPECIAL AWARD: Screen Slate

Yesterday, Radu Jude answered fans questions about cinema on @screenslate.bsky.social's IG These are some of my fave answers lol

I had the honor and privilege of getting to sit down and chat with Jafar Panahi about his superb new thriller "It Was Just An Accident", handily one of the year's best films. For @screenslate.bsky.social.

Blind Chance: A Conversation with Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panahi’s career has proven to be an exercise in adaptability. His highly publicized tactics of clandestine production, circumventing the approval of Iran’s Ministry of Culture, have laid out a b...

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In @screenslate.bsky.social , I reviewed Motern Media's latest film EVIL PUDDLE, playing @spectacletheater.com this month: www.screenslate.com/articles/evi...

Evil Puddle

The musician, actor, and filmmaker Matt Farley has been making movies with his family and friends under the banner of Motern Media since 2002. Working alongside Charles Roxburgh, he’s made what he cal...

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Curtis Sliwa is without his iconic red beret

This type of journalism is why I’m proud to be a founding subscriber of @aftermath.site

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I have gathered my thoughts and turned it into a fun blog about how IMDb is hell. I hope you like a long, under-explained list of movie ratings. aftermath.site/imdb-review-...

Can someone fill me in on why there’s a Bluesky exodus today?

For @screenslate.bsky.social , I reviewed Brad Abrahams' 2017 documentary LOVE & SAUCERS, about painter and UFO abductee David Huggins: www.screenslate.com/articles/lov.... It plays @spectacletheater.com tonight and later this month.

Love & Saucers

When discussed, the topic of alien abduction can often lead to one of the following reactions: mocking laughter and derision, or the conclusion that an abductee is contending with a psychological cond...

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I wrote about Linda Linda Linda (2005) for @screenslate.bsky.social, one of my favorite musicals that is back in theaters tomorrow! www.screenslate.com/articles/lin...

Linda Linda Linda

“Let’s sing an endless song / For this asshole of a world.” Korean exchange student Son (Bae Doona) spits out those words with joyful vitriol toward the end of Linda Linda Linda (2005), a coming-of-ag...

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Ken Camp’s queer horror video art masterpiece HIGHWAY HYPNOSIS has its long-belated New York premiere tomorrow at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social! Read about it on @screenslate.bsky.social today: www.screenslate.com/articles/hig...

Phone Booth is @screenslate.bsky.social's pick of the day, and lucky you, it's screening tonight, July 21, and on July 24, here at BAM on 35mm as part of the series “NYC 2000s.” www.screenslate.com/articles/pho...

Phone Booth

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I’ll defend John Carpenter’s weirdo sequel to my death. New piece about ESCAPE FROM LA at @screenslate.bsky.social today! Screening on 35mm at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social tonight, for those in NY.

Escape from L.A.

In John Carpenter’s Escape from L.A. (1996), a catastrophic earthquake separates Los Angeles from the continental United States at the turn of the millennium, and the city is turned into a maximum sec...

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We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort. On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you. zohranfornyc.com/gotv

CASTRATION MOVIE was featured on @screenslate.bsky.social / @screenslatesf.bsky.social today in advance of its Bay Area premiere at the New Parkway next Monday as part of Frameline. There are still a few tickets still available — don’t miss out! www.screenslate.com/articles/cas...

“Programming a Theater Near You: An Interview with David Schwartz” interview @screenslate.bsky.social! 🎉 www.screenslate.com/articles/pro...

We live to defeat the Equilibrious Beast another day

Saint JESSICA DUNN ROVINELLI@jdrllc.bsky.social · last yr.

Elden Ring Nightreign is destroying the NYC film community. Your @screenslate.bsky.social email is going to come out late because me and Jon have to finish this match

Within the past few days, we’ve lost P. Adams Sitney and Flo Jacobs. www.criterion.com/current/post...

Head over to @screenslate.bsky.social for my Scene Report from this year's notorious Nitrate Picture Show! www.screenslate.com/articles/how...

How the Other Half Lives at the Nitrate Picture Show

I never could understand the motivations of “Summer Camp People”––those seasonal blooms flowering between Memorial Day and Labor Day in the Adirondacks, Berkshires, and the Poconos––who live only for ...

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Tonight's screening gets the @screenslate.bsky.social treatment! www.screenslate.com/articles/day...

This Day and Age

Halfway through the second, maybe third, decade of our “needing to talk about” the crises facing American young men is the perfect time to check in with Cecil B. DeMille’s 1933 Teen Power fantasy This...

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For @screenslate.bsky.social , I reviewed Pierre Bennu's RED BONE GUERILLAS: www.screenslate.com/articles/red.... It plays @spectacletheater.com tonight.

Red Bone Guerrillas

Red Bone Guerrillas (2003) wears its shagginess with pride. It begins with a title card proclaiming that it’s rated “NS”: no script, no second takes. All the dialogue was improvised by its cast. Along...

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Mikio Naruse @ 4Columns and @thefilmstage.com, Todd Haynes @ Notebook, André Téchiné and Catherine Deneuve @screenslate.bsky.social, @coreyatad.com on ANDOR, Jia Zhangke @ NYRB and @avclub.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

And in case any of you locals aren't signed up for the NY Daily, the mother ship @screenslate.bsky.social has an interview out today with Jia Zhangke on the occasion of his latest, Caught by the Tides, which opens at the Roxie and Smith Rafael this weekend: www.screenslate.com/articles/ent...

Entering Interregnum: A Conversation with Jia Zhangke on Caught by the Tides

Jia Zhangke has been collecting footage for his films as he’s travelled across China for over 22 years. When the Covid-19 pandemic interrupted his routine, he thought to wrap the process up.

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My partner interviewed André Téchiné, whose films are currently showing at L'Alliance Française in NYC, for @screenslate.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/sph...

Like a Sphinx: André Téchiné on His Collaborations with Catherine Deneuve

A quintessential product of the nouvelle vague, the director and screenwriter André Téchiné began his career as a critic at Cahiers du cinéma. He started to make his own films after working as an assi...

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Tonight you can see Dorothy Arzner's DANCE GIRL DANCE on 35mm at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social! More from me on this all-time banger in @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/dan...

Dance, Girl, Dance

In 1953, the United States’ favorite harebrained housewife appeared before Senator McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee to answer for her alleged communist sympathies. Like many actresses...

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some news: in 2026, i will become the president and owner of @milestonefilms.bsky.social, the distribution home of charles burnett, kathleen collins, bridgett m. davis, and many others. to be a champion of cinema is my life’s greatest honor & pleasure. learn more: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/m...

The folks at @screenslate.bsky.social kindly asked me to write something about the legendary Kumar Shahani, whose select films are playing this weekend at Prismatic Ground in NYC @anthologyfilm.bsky.social I highly recommend you go if you’re around the area! www.screenslate.com/articles/kum...

Kumar Shahani

Parallel Cinema, a traditionally overlooked film movement, has equally overlooked filmmakers populating its canon. Only recently has the film world outside of India come to embrace the importance of f...

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