Mostly tweets about film and television, archives and collections, architecture and design, music and photography. Prof., Dept. of English, UWinnipeg. he/him.
Graphic Refuge now has a landing page and beautiful cover featuring art by @gabifroden. Essays by myself and @CandidaRifkind with a foreword from Vinh Nguyen, whose work has been indispensable. Out next spring.
wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/G/Grap…
Some actors, often powerful ones, make bad choices about which directors to work with.
#KrisKristofferson?
Dennis Hopper
Scorsese
Sayles
Peckinpah
Cimino
Guillermo Del Toro
Linklater
Todd Haynes
Pakula
Miguel Littin
James Ivory
Tim Burton
And he was loved by his colleagues.
Tokyo Reels: The Solidarity Image, my essay commissioned by @AfterallJournal for their Palestine speical issue, is now online. I reflect on Palestine solidarity movements/networks in 60-80s Japanese cinema through Subversive Film's Tokyo Reels project. afterall.org/articles/tokyo-…
Almost every year for the past 15 years, I've started my fall and summer terms with screenings of Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera. Somehow it's eternally new to me. And what a great GIF!
The @CinemaStudies dept in @NYUTischSchool seeks to hire a tenure-track assistant professor of cinema studies position . . . specializing in moving image archiving and preservation. Application deadline Oct.
tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies…
I still think about this tweet all the time and today I am teaching a class on photography, cultural memory, and the archive, so it is going in the powerpoint.
Two instructors in #UWinnipeg's Department of Theatre and Film are screening their latest film at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
'Serve the Country' is a deadpan comedy about a self-proclaimed tennis prodigy.
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Obscure YT of the day: The Legend Alan Arkin stars with Mariette Hartley in IMPROPER CHANNELS (81), a forgotten Canadian tax-shelter comedy about bureaucratic mishaps that was nominated for multiple Genie awards! No Arkin fan can go without! youtube.com/watch?v=Y2eApPeE…
As someone who has written about how commercials, PSAs, station idents, bumpers, and other assorted interstitials seem to stick as tenaciously in memory as programmes themselves, I am obviously a fan of Programme Four.
@rachelichtman Love Programme 4. It is academic, sure, but lemme know if you want a copy of my work on SCTV, which I swear 100% fits with the magic you have made with this!