RIP Kris Kristofferson. I was always confused because I have a cousin named Chris Christofferson—were they the same guy? young me wondered—but I eventually figured out who was who. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y5m...
It takes real creativity to come up with “Patty Schayewski.”
Capri Cinema t-shirt, Screen Slate hat, and Thai Film Archive pants decorated with film-related imagery.
Thanks to the Thai Film Archive’s outstanding film-themed pants for completing the outfit.
Screenshot of eBay listings for two 35mm prints of YOU SO CRAZY.
What a time to be alive: not one but two 35mm prints of Martin Lawrence's 1994 standup film YOU SO CRAZY on eBay at the same time. Thomas Schlamme hive, get on this.
I’d describe it more like the “Swiss Army Knife of database software” rather than “Cadillac,” but either way, I didn’t realize how much the description of a character—played by Tilda Swinton, no less!— who loves FileMaker Pro would make me want to see a movie, in this case PROBLEMISTA.
A section of a chart displaying statistics about moviegoing in 2023.
Another one in the books.
www.filmjournals.net/review/2023_...
Willie Ruff and Brian Meacham at the Yale Film Archive, October, 2022.
Willie Ruff was one of my favorite people in the world, an incredible musician, educator, historian, filmmaker, and storyteller. I’m so proud to have preserved some of his films, and will miss our frequent visits and conversations. It never got old to hear him say, “Brian, I’m so glad you got born.”
No.
Jenny (Joanna Kerns) stands next to Sam (William Lucking) while holding a gift wrapped in Space Invaders-themed wrapping paper in a screenshot from season 3, episode 19 of "Magnum, p.i" (1983).
I wasn't expecting Joanna Kerns and Space Invaders wrapping paper when I dug into Season 3 of "Magnum, p.i." tonight.
A bottle of Dogfish Head Burton’s Baton from 2015 and a Midnight Sun Brewing glass.
I would saying “pouring one out for my brother on his birthday,” but this was his favorite beer, and he had aged this particular bottle in his cellar since 2015, so I will be pouring it into a glass and drinking a toast to him while watching an episode of “Magnum, p.i.,” a perfect way to remember.
A freshly-cut tree stump with the words “Please Coppice ME” written in Sharpie on the top.
Same.
What a pleasant shock to find Nation of Language opening for LCD Soundsystem tonight. A perfect fit.
Glögg ingredients including aquavit, port, and red wine.
Annual glögg ingredient family portrait time!
Screenshot of an eBay listing for a giveaway card featuring 35mm film frames from a print of MINARI.
Dream come true, we've joined the ranks of eBay film choppers. Someone's selling this giveaway I made (from a junk reel, BTW), which "...appears to have been cut by hand by the staff of the Yale Film Archive." Please nobody pay anything, much less $70, for this.
www.ebay.com/itm/20454909...
The famous architecture firm of McKim, “Meade” & White. This is the hard-hitting typo-spotting I’ve been lacking an outlet for.
Film listing for a documentary called The Secret Cities of Mark Kistler (2023).
Before the internet, I thought Commander Mark might have been a figment of my childhood imagination, but now there's a documentary out about the man who taught me how to draw a foreshortened square, a key life skill.
Filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung discusses MINARI after a Yale Film Archive screening.
Debating the merits of Yale-branded water with Isaac Chung.
Small cards advertising a screening of MINARI, some with a rectangular cut-out to accommodate two frames of 35mm film.
A desk covered in small cards, arranged upside-down, with two frames from a 35mm print of MINARI glued to each one.
Getting ready for Isaac Chung’s visit and the premiere of the only 35mm print of MINARI in the world with some light arts and crafts.
Personally, all of my cinematic experiences already feel pretty eventized, thanks.
Combined age of the last three people I talked to on the phone: 282.
Thanks to SKYJACKED (1972) for answering the age-old question "Did John Hillerman ever work with John Guillermin?" and for featuring Anchorage as an integral part of the hijacker's demands.
On a computer monitor, a still from an outtake from the film JAMES BALDWIN: FROM ANOTHER PLACE, showing Baldwin with filmmaker Sedat Pakay’s hand holding a piece of paper reading BALDWIN SOUND TAKE 1. In front of the monitor, the piece of paper itself, modified to read “2” and finally “3.”
I’ve lived with this piece of paper, held by filmmaker Sedat Pakay in front of James Baldwin as Baldwin takes a drink before the interview begins, for so many years, it’s utterly startling to come upon the actual thing itself. In a box with another somewhat unrelated item, of course.
Hats off to the moviegoer in my row who did his own Pointing Rick Dalton during the closing of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON last night, stage whispering “It’s Martin Scorsese!” for us all to enjoy.
Bow Tie New Haven poster displays making promises its cinemas can’t keep.
Back to the old venue for tonight’s screening of ANATOMY OF A FALL, somehow, inexplicably, two days before anywhere else in the country. We may be losing our only first run cinema as of tomorrow, but tonight, New Haven has some movie mojo.
by Himself
