Each blog post leads to an unlocked article, and FQ's current issue is entirely free-to-read this month courtesy of @ucpress.bsky.social!
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And FQ contributing editor Anthony Michael DโAgostino thinks through the many resonances of Sinners.
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Next, Pynchon scholar Peter Coviello writes about screening One Battle After Another in occupied Chicago.
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FQ's Oscars coverage is live on the University of California Press blog! First up, Gerd Gemรผnden introduces his interview with Kleber Mendonรงa Filho about The Secret Agent.
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On the left, the cover of the Spring 2026 issue of Film Quarterly, featuring an image from a film in which a woman leans her head against a tree in a park, and a statute of a T Rex can be seen over her shoulder.
On the right, an image of Aunt Gladys from the film WEAPONS, a garishly made-up older woman with a manic smile.
The Spring @filmquarterly.bsky.social is stacked w/ #openaccess horror: Elinor Dolliver schools us on analog horror, Mina Radoviฤ explains Yugoslav animal horror, @tonyeatspuppies.bsky.social identifies a new trio of witches in LONGLEGS, BRING HER BACK & WEAPONS.
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Ryan Cooglerโs Sinners made Oscar history with 16 nominations. @filmquarterly.bsky.social examines how the filmโs blend of Black history, vampire lore, and genre experimentation speaks to contemporary debates about culture, appropriation, and originality in Hollywood. #Oscars2026 #SinnersMovie ๐ฌ๐
"Rob Kingโs illuminating book helps us understand how the films of Radley Metzger helped make an erotic world that finally had no place for him."
Mark Goble has an excellent review of MAN OF TASTE in @filmquarterly.bsky.social. bit.ly/4b127NJ @goblemark.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
It's almost time for @theacademyusa.bsky.social #Oscars2026! Learn why in @filmquarterly.bsky.social, Peter Coviello says #OneBattleAfterAnother should win a million awards. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/i...
My review of Rob King's excellent book on softcore auteur Radley Metzger is in here too, though not, I admit, doing the antifascist work of Pete Coviello on One Battle After Another or an interview with Kleber Mendonรงa Filho. online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...
A beam of light is reflected in the eye of a donkey in the poster for Alison McAlpineโs PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS (2024).
Tony Kushner on Spielbergโs MUNICH @gqmagazine.bsky.social, Walter Murch on PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS @thefilmstage.com, Satyajit Ray @ 4Columns, Darren Aronofskyโs AI slop @newrepublic.com, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social โฆ
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Gratitude to @dwhdaily.bsky.social for including FQ in his new post over at Criterion.com: "The new issue of Film Quarterly is fully and freely accessible, and if thereโs a running theme, itโs horror: Yugoslav horror, analog horror, and three contemporary witches." @ucpress.bsky.social
FQโs Spring issue is free to read!
Oscars: One Battle After Another & Interview with Kleber Mendonรงa Filho
Horrors: The She-Butterfly & The Rat-Savior at 50, The New Witch Triad, Analog Horror & Spoorloos
Reports: Athens, New/Next + MoMA
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Thanks David Hudson for the shout-out in this beautiful December film round-up for The Criterion Current! ๐๏ธโค๏ธ @dwhdaily.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social @filmquarterly.bsky.social
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Most Read article in @filmquarterly.bsky.social -- though I'm always looking up at @caetlin.bsky.social's sizzling re-assessment of the butt shot!! (And @caelkeegan.bsky.social's brilliant take on bad trans objects.) ๐๏ธโค๏ธ
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In May 1949, Berlin became an enormous set for a film about the Berlin Airlift. We talk to Joseph Pearson, whose book, excerpted in @filmquarterly.bsky.social, includes a look at "The Big Lift," starring Montgomery Clift, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h...
In today's mail: print copy of the new issue of @filmquarterly.bsky.social ๐๏ธ๐๐ @ucpress.bsky.social
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Great to get a chance to see and catch up with @filmquarterly.bsky.social's editor J. M. Tyree in Chicago at the @historians.org conference. #AHA26 #AHA2026
Thanks, @dwhdaily.bsky.social! "In the new Film Quarterly, @hennefem.bsky.social looks back on Il Cinema Ritrovato, Ramzi Fawaz writes about the politics of the Star Wars series Andor & Joseph Pearson tells the story behind The Big Lift, starring Montgomery Clift."
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A ghostly audience gathers in front of a blank screen in Bi Ganโs RESURRECTION.
Bi Gan @nytimes.com, disturbing soundtracks @thequietus.com, @mudede.bsky.social and Robinson Devor @screenslate.bsky.social, Radu Jude @eflux.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, and more best-of-2025 lists and polls โฆ
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Free year-end reads from FQ's new issue!
Ramzi Fawaz on Andor
Andor interview with Janus Metz by Gerald Sim
Maggie Hennefeld on Smashing the Patriarchy in Bologna
Joseph Pearson on The Big Lift at 75
J. M. Tyree's Editor's Notebook
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Free to read in FQ's new issue! Maggie Hennefeld on Il Cinema Ritrovato, unlocked courtesy of @ucpress.bsky.social
Free to read in FQ's new issue! Ramzi Fawaz on Andor - an epic 10k word essay, unlocked courtesy of @ucpress.bsky.social
New @filmquarterly.bsky.social issue dropped! Psyched to see our truly global "Franchise Everything" dossier with @cbrannondonoghue.bsky.social @alfredmartin.bsky.social @nitingovil.bsky.social @ncouret.bsky.social Reyna Denison and Marc Francis.
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Happy to see my short essay โMust-See Blacknessโ in the @filmquarterly.bsky.social dossier โFranchise Everythihgโ where I discuss the relationship between representation, consumerism, and media industries. Thanks to @jdconnor.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute.
A screenshot of the article "Mouths & Mirrors in Ryan Coogler's Sinners" featuring an image from the film. Sammie, a young black man, is dressed in 1920s garb, strumming a banjo, and singing with great feeling. A happy juke joint party is seen behind him.
Black and white, vampire and human, each eating the other ... @tonyeatspuppies.bsky.social's new article "Mouths & Mirrors in Ryan Coogler's Sinners" is new from @filmquarterly.bsky.social . Publisher and free versions here:
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Greatly enjoyed reading Ramzi Fawaz's essay on Andor in the new issue of Film Quarterly, where he shrewdly argues that the series "sits resolutely within the history of global revolutionary media." doi.org/10.1525/fq.2...
It was a joy to write this festival report on Il Cinema Ritrovato '25 in Bologna!! (Highlights include contortionist snake ladies ๐ & smashing the patriarchy! ๐จ) FREE to read via @ucpress.bsky.social in the sizzling new issue of @filmquarterly.bsky.social ๐๏ธ๐ !!
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Hot off the press!!! "Smashing the Patriarchy in Bologna: A Feminist Dispatch from Il Cinema Ritrovato" by CFNW co-curator @hennefem.bsky.social is now *live* and FREE to read in the new issue of Film Quarterly!! ๐๏ธ๐ @filmquarterly.bsky.social
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Incredible issue!
Cover Image: Film Quarterly Winter 2025 Cover: No Other Choice (directed by Park Chan-wook) Editorโs Notebook J. M. Tyree Mouths & Mirrors in Ryan Cooglerโs Sinners Anthony Michael DโAgostino โI Have Friends Everywhereโ: Andorโs Revolutionary Commitments Ramzi Fawaz Dossier: Franchise Everything! Edited by Marc Francis Introduction Marc Francis Bad Infinity: Hollywood Macrofranchises and the Macroeconomy J. D. Connor On the Next Installment: The Brazilian Film Franchise and the Art of Parcelamento Nilo Couret Must-See Blackness Alfred L. Martin, Jr. Hierarchies of Value: Female Film Franchises and Industrial Forgetting Courtney Brannon Donoghue When Stars Align: The Shared Universes of Hindi Franchise Cinema Nitin Govil Anime Franchising in Japan: Animation and the Diversity of Media Mix Practice Rayna Denison Interview Shooting for a Revolution: Interview with Janus Metz Gerald Sim Festival Reports Smashing the Patriarchy in Bologna: A Feminist Dispatch from Il Cinema Ritrovato Maggie Hennefeld Cannes 2025: Scrutinizing the Political Ani Maitra, Mary Simonson Retrospective The Hollywood Version: Cold Wars On and Off Set in The Big Lift (1950) Joseph Pearson
For our year-end issue cover, FQ has No Other Choice! Inside - Film of the Year: Sinners; Series of the Year: Andor; Interview: Janus Metz on Andor; The Big Lift at 75; Dossier: Franchise Everything!; Reports: Cannes, Bologna; Editor's Notebook: Horror and Humor. Unlocked articles coming soon!!
