Screen grab of Netflix interface for The Perfect Neighbor, featuring an elderly white woman in shorts and a tank top speaking with police, as seen through a body-cam
This month’s Docalogue features 2 excellent pieces on The Perfect Neighbor - check out what @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social and Kelly Gates have to say about the film: docalogue.com/the-perfect-...
Belated shoutout to February’s Docalogue on Alex Ross Perry’s 2024 doc PAVEMENTS. Check it out! docalogue.com/pavements/
New Docalogue is up about Pee-wee as Himself. Check it out! docalogue.com/pee-wee-as-h...
Check out November’s new Docalogue on Petra Costa’s Apocalypse in the Tropics! docalogue.com/apocalypse-i...
It’s was my absolute pleasure to speak with The Hollywood Reporter about this topic! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Celebrate Labor Day by checking out this month’s Docalogue on @brettstory.bsky.social & Stephen Maing’s UNION, with some excellent contributions from @joeginclark.bsky.social and Emmelle Israel! docalogue.com/union/
Went to see Naked Gun tonight and there was a Google AI commercial embedded in the 30 mins of trailers beforehand that sparked so much spontaneous scorn - like people were openly laughing, scoffing, heckling at the screen. Almost as funny as the movie!
Movie poster for Black Box Diaries, the film’s director/subject in profile
Check out this month’s Docalogue on Black Box Diaries, with two different takes on the film’s ethics from Bill Nichols and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano: docalogue.com/black-box-di...
This also happened on our last book. Virtually every footnote came back improperly formatted. The tedium involved in fixing this was almost unbearable.
Check out this month’s Docalogue on Sugarcane, with contributions from Tyson Stewart and Joanna Hearn! docalogue.com/sugarcane/
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Absolutely devoured @maryannefranks.bsky.social Fearless Speech this weekend, and can’t recommend it highly enough. I had highlighted so much of my library’s copy by the second chapter, I had to make an emergency bookstore run to snag my own copy. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mary-...
I’ve been told by someone who works there that this is the result of contracts drawn up at a time when the idea of AVOD was inconceivable for Netflix. They would have to renegotiate all of these contracts, and auteurs especially have been largely uninterested in doing so
Check out this month’s Docalogue on The Remarkable Life of Ibelin with contributions from @eltorchin.bsky.social and Michael Grabowski! docalogue.com
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
Not agreeing with Charlie Kirk is not a PURITY test. It’s a moral character test. Newsome just failed.
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