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If you have MUBI or Kanopy, I recommend the hell out of Arturo Ripstein’s TIME TO DIE from 1966 (it’s also rentable elsewhere and available on Blu-Ray). A melancholy Mexican revenge Western. Script by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Carlos Fuentes (!). One of my favorite first time viewings this year. A revelation.

Thanks to Gabino Iglesias for choosing A FRIEND IS A GIFT YOU GIVE YOURSELF as one of his favorite books of the year for NPR’s Book Concierge. Lots of incredible stuff in this year-end reading guide. Honored as hell to be included.

Oxford pals: Excited as hell to host @jpkssongs & @spinkytommysongs at our place tomorrow! Hope to see you here! Link to tickets in Pete’s bio.

Excited to finally be able to share news about something I've been working on for the last seven months. I'm guest editor for the noir volume of Nicolas Winding Refn's @bynwr_official. If you're unfamiliar, it's a free site where Refn and his team restore neglected films and a guest editor builds a digital magazine bouncing off (however loosely) whatever films have been chosen. Contributors include @sarahweinman, @gabino_iglesias, @aceatkins, @brbjdo, @violetlevoit, @scottadlerberg, @lauraleebahr, @tylerdawsonkeith, and @oldfilmsflicker. My intro is now live--link in bio. The three chapters will post in March, April, and May.

Epigraphs to COST OF LIVING by Martyna Majok.

Blazer Boys Thanksgiving

Behold Joe Fuckin’ Pesci in this THE IRISHMAN: IN CONVERSATION special feature.

I love Phoebe Waller-Bridge so much.

from Douglas Sirk’s THE TARNISHED ANGELS

Speaking of Alan Rudolph, I noticed that his most recent movie (and his first in 16 years), RAY MEETS HELEN, is now on Prime. Folks seemed not to think too highly of it, but I truly loved it and am excited to watch again. Probably not the best entry point if you’ve never seen a Rudolph movie, but if you love CHOOSE ME, TROUBLE IN MIND, LARGER THAN LIFE, AFTERGLOW, and any others, well, it’s an uncompromising return, a movie in love with love and movies, set in an L.A. straight out of Rudolph’s beautiful imagination. Features Sondra Locke in her final performance and great turns from Keith Carradine, Keith David, Samantha Mathis, Jennifer Tilly, and Kim Wayans.

Released 25 years ago today. I was 15 — it was my first ever Alan Rudolph movie and lifted my JJL worship to new levels. About to rewatch.

The paperback of A FRIEND IS A GIFT YOU GIVE YOURSELF is out in the UK today from @noexitpress. Just got one in the mail & it looks damn great.

Thanks to my pal @wallacelester for this shot. Always been a big dream to have books on the shelves at Shakespeare and Company.

It’s Martin Scorsese’s 77th birthday. My first movie of his, weirdly enough, was THE COLOR OF MONEY. After that, around 12 or 13, was GOODFELLAS—which I memorized—and then I asked for the VHS of TAXI DRIVER for Xmas soon after and I became fully devout. I saw everything from before and everything new as it came out. Being a half-Italian Catholic kid growing up in Brooklyn, early Scorsese movies felt so achingly familiar, which was something I’d never experienced before (or since really). They’re church, they’re home, they’re family. Aside from his own features and docs, I can’t even name how many movies I first saw because of A PERSONAL JOURNEY WITH MARTIN SCORSESE THROUGH AMERICAN MOVIES. I also read Wharton and Kazantzakis and Endō and first listened to The Band because of Scorsese. There’s no end to my admiration of his work and the work he’s done to preserve and promote cinema. Man, I can’t wait to see THE IRISHMAN.

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Bergman’s THE FLASH

July 9, 2014William BoyleIngmar Bergman, The Flash Leave a comment

“A flash. A mere blink of an eye. The paroxysms of a hummingbird’s dying heart. That is all that we have.”

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