The Sprocket Society
@sprocketsociety.bsky.social
Presenting analog film screenings in Seattle, WA since 2008. https://sprocketsociety.org/
The @grandillusioncinema.org & @siffnews.bsky.social present a brand new 35mm print of Tsai Ming-Liang’s THE HOLE. September 18 & 20 at the SIFF Film Center. “Impressive a quarter century ago, it seems even more so today.” J. Hoberman, The New York Times grandillusioncinema.org/film/the-hol...
We’re warming up the Bat Projector for tonight’s show w/ @grandillusioncinema.org at SIFF Film Center! A special 60th anniversary of BATMAN (1966) w/ Adam West! Plus on 16mm: a serial episode from BATMAN & ROBIN (1949) & a couple 60s Saturday AM Bat cartoons! grandillusioncinema.org/film/batman-...
Sunday 8/23 @ 7:00 PM, we’re part of the @grandillusioncinema.org show at SIFF Film Center, screening an episode of the serial BATMAN & ROBIN (1949) + a cpl ‘60s Sat morning Bat-cartoons on 16mm. The main event: the BATMAN: THE MOVIE (1966) w/ Adam West. Tix @ grandillusioncinema.org/film/batman-...
We’re showing some early Batman cartoons and a serial episode as part of this show! Plus there’ll be life size replicas of the freakin’ BATCOPTER and BATMOBILE, and Batman “himself” will be there! Holy nostalgic overload! To the Bat Poles — don’t miss it!
Grand Illusion Cinema@grandillusioncinema.org · last mo.Holy 60th anniversary, Batman! We’re showing BATMAN: THE MOVIE on 8/23 at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center. Plus a couple of the Caped Crusader’s early adventures on 16mm from @sprocketsociety.bsky.social. Presented with the Adam West Day committee. grandillusioncinema.org/film/batman-...
If I ever direct a feature film, I will definitely wear a hat just like that at all times.
Citizen Screen@citizenscreen.bsky.social · last mo.Preston Sturges directing Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in the delightful THE LADY EVE (1941). Watch it on TCM for Stanwyck’s #SummerUnderTheStars day on August 11, a must see line-up.
In memory of Josh Wakeland and for his birthday, we present 35mm double features of the first two live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies on both August 13 & 16 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center. grandillusioncinema.org/film/teenage...
damn this screening room is trapped in amber (complimentary) and will be missed!
A Home Away from Home: Goodbye to the Lake Street Screening Room
A loving ode to a place that shaped Chicago film criticism.
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The Man in the High Castle destroyed every swastika prop after filming, so nothing could end up as a souvenir or extremist symbol.
The Evidence of the Film (1913) offers a behind-the-scenes look at how movies were edited
Nice way to distract yourself this morning: the annual roundup of favorites from Il Cinema Ritrovato, chosen by 170 film writers, programmers and cinephiles. Always a good preview of what the rest of us will rediscover in the coming year. notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/2026/07/ICR2...
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2026: Favourites & Discoveries Poll
International poll on the best films shown at Il Cinema Ritrovato XL
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Artistry matters. (Ironically, it’s also good business.)
Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 4mo agoRICK RUBIN on why Hollywood keeps making soulless movies: "So many big movies are just not good because they're being made by people trying to make something they think someone else is going to like. That's not how art works. That's commerce."
Holy shit!! This is huge! We co-presented ultra rare 35mm screenings in 2015 at the Grand Illusion Cinema, and never thought this would happen. At the time, WB was still so uptight about THE DEVILS that they wouldn’t even allow BFI to release a blu-ray.
Joe Dante@thejoedante.bsky.social · 4mo agoYou guys — it’s happening!! www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
These FREE zoom presentations by SFFP are always fascinating and illuminating. This one promises to be especially so.
San Francisco Film Preserve@sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis Friday, March 27, ONLINE WITH SFFP presents Alex Feliciano Mejía on Guatemala's Tipografía Nacional films — produced under the military regime of Jorge Ubico as instruments of state propaganda, and now, decades later, being digitized and re-examined. 1/2
My Best Girl (1927) was shot by Charles Rosher, Mary Pickford's favourite cinematographer, who later won an Oscar for his work on Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
It should be your absolute goal to make sure any film/tv/arts/culture book you purchase from now on is directly from mzs.press, “the arts bookstore of the internet.” Matt is the best of the best, human & writing wise, and when he needs some help, we all gotta help! Plus: it’s a fantastic bookstore!!
Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6mo agoTHREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
The great Chester Himes and Griot, his beloved blue point Siamese, named "after the magicians in the courts of West African kings." Himes also said that if he stayed away too long, Griot would wreck his studio and chew up his books. #Caturday
Thanks to @siffnews.bsky.social, @centralcinema.bsky.social, @nwfilmforum.bsky.social, Here-After, and Dirty Couch Brewing for hosting our popup screenings this year!
A good piece about a great, thought provoking movie (suppressed in part by the FBI) that you must see. You must also militate for someone solid to release the new 4K restoration on blu. (The only DVD release was 26 years ago!)
Bright Wall/Dark Room@brightwalldarkroom.com · 10mo agoNew today on the site: “Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.” - Bryan Miller
We’re showing IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE for our 55th annual engagement, Dec. 18, 20, 21, 23 & 24 at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social! Mark your calendar or buy tickets right now! grandillusioncinema.org/film/its-a-w...
Pixar designed Toy Story to be printed on physical film. The Disney renaissance movies were the same. Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
Tonight! Me and Seattle treasure Lori Goldston are doing a multi-projector + live cello improv film jam, as part of the 10th anniv celebration of @common-area.bsky.social at their “annex” space Common Objects (2601 1st Ave). Doors at 7pm. It’s free! RSVP now at www.tixtree.com/e/cam-10th-a...
The Engauge Experimental Film Festival returns to Northwest Film Forum NEXT WEEK for its 8th year! The festival celebrates sprocket-driven, artist-made experimental film, presenting six programs of shorts at NWFF’s cinema in Capitol Hill. All work featured in the festival originates on film stock.
Our SECRET VAULT OF TORMENT show tomorrow 10/28 includes a secret feature that alarmed censors at the time. A sign with this “WARNING!” was displayed in some Canadian theaters. Ontario banned it outright b/c it was “Full of fiendish & diabolical doings.” Holland, too, b/c its “degrading effect.”
Our all-16mm SECRET VAULT OF TORMENT is this Tues Oct 28 @ 7pm at NW Film Forum. We’re showing a bonkers secret mid-‘30s horror feature + a bunch of spooky shorts. Our feature’s an orig “SHOCK!” TV print. Here’s some pgs from the series’ 1958 pressbook. Tix & info: sprocketsociety.org/coming-soon/
One week from tonight! 10/28 at NW Film Forum, our all-16mm show SECRET VAULT OF TORMENT w/ a secret 1930s horror feature + spooky shorts, including the “complete” Frankenstein saga via Castle Films digests. Also a 3-D short & more! Info & tix via sprocketsociety.org/coming-soon/
