[only shows up in feeds shamelessly farming engagement with directors talking shit] This director talking shit is one of the classless things a person has ever done.

So much satisfaction seeing a favorite director’s new movie and reporting back to friends “it’s super-based.”

Léa Seydoux keeps a Michael Jackson doll next to her Palme d'Or youtu.be/C9xos6livy8?t=…

Some days you just feel like this!

When I saw Spike Lee’s Oldboy three weeks early I had to sign an NDA agreeing that if I tweeted any opinions I could be sent to jail.

Had a strange, winding, delightful interview with the great Jordi Mollà — ostensibly about Aggro Dr1ft but more the need to hang paintings on your walls, spirits haunting his Miami home, and why I should leave New York: thefilmstage.com/its-another-pl…

Lot happening here

been thinking about this interview nonstop since it dropped last week

People of London: I'm (virtually) introducing Bonello's Coma and Cindy: The Doll Is Mine Institute of Contemporary Arts on Friday, May 24. Could 'The Big Smoke' have a better film happening that night? I doubt it.

Tickets: ica.art/films/coma

Unfrosted joins ranks with Give My Regards to Broad Street (non-filmmaker-as-auteur vanity project so joyless it starts to simulate drowning).

'I think [Béla] Tarr is probably the most willful, stubborn, and ignorant of all directors I’ve ever worked with.'

Rob Tregenza tells us about shooting 'Werckmeister Harmonies': thefilmstage.com/all-great-dps-…

Mike Faist and I will be seated at the 'Directed By Dan Sallitt' table at tonight's Met Gala.

I talked to Eiko Ishibashi about Evil Does Not Exist, her live performances of Hamaguchi's Gift, and the Japanese filmmaker she thinks more people should watch: thefilmstage.com/eiko-ishibashi…

I think this is the first thing Gallo’s publicly shown of Promises Written In Water?

The Bulle Ogier retro