Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
Bay Area folks, silent movie nerds, female director stans — filmmaker Valerio Ciriaci will be in Santa Cruz on Sat Aug 8 screening his new documentary on early Italian filmmaker Elvira Notari. I’ll have the pleasure of speaking with him on stage afterwards. Join us www.eventbrite.com/e/elvira-not...
ELVIRA NOTARI: BEYOND SILENCE Film ScreeningElvira Notari: Beyond Silence traces the legacy of Italy's first woman director and the artists now bringing her vision back.www.eventbrite.comBetter TV involves “courage up and down the payroll.” 🫡 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Heated Rivalry: Creator Jacob Tierney on Romance, Queer Joy, and Why This Series Became a PhenomenonPodcast Episode · We Disrupt This Broadcast · July 30 · 34mpodcasts.apple.comOne of many great films shot in Santa Cruz! 🎢 🌊
16mm Inferno🎬 39 years ago today, the cult Vampire Horror film "The Lost Boys" premiered in US theatres (July 31, 1987). Directed by Joel Schumacher and an amazing cast starring Jason Patric, the late Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Kiefer Sutherland, Barnard Hughes, Edward Herrmann, Jami Gertz and Corey Feldman!
I’m surprised it’s only dropped by 25%, TBH. Nobody I know up here is traveling to the States. I travel back and forth pretty regularly — and pretty much see only Yanks making the trip. But $2.3 billion in lost revenue is really gonna hurt small towns and small businesses. So dumb.
Hoodlum 🇺🇸Who can blame them? Canadian visits dropped by 25% last year, costing the US $2.3 billion in tourism revenue. Are we great yet? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
No words. Literally no words.
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)'Millions of women of childbearing age live in counties where there's no place to give birth. Nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts could devastate labor-and-delivery services in already struggling hospitals.' 19thnews.org/2026/07/mate...
Film folks, @librarycongress is now accepting nominations for the National Film Registry, honoring "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant films.” Take a look at the work already recognized and you’ll see how presentist, white and male the list currently skews. 🗳️
Manohla DargisHere’s the link for nominating: www.loc.gov/programs/nat...
Great thread from @histoftech.bsky.social on, welp, history of tech, as always. ⬇️
Mar HicksFor many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.
Why does the Nanaimo bar pictured in the header have the proportions of base, custard and chocolate utterly wrong? [ducks] #CanadaSky thislifeintrips.com/the-best-nan...
Searching for the Best Nanaimo Bar in Nanaimo? Here Are My Top Picks.I head to the source in search of the best Nanaimo Bar in Nanaimo. Come get the backstory on this Canadian treat and my top picks in town.thislifeintrips.comWould be very curious to hear from fellow film historians who have knowledge of this practice. What are its origins and/or regional parameters? I’ve never heard of anything like this before.
Brian RuhMy youngest is on her way to Indy for a 12pm movie showing of Hadestown. They’d have preferred a later screening, but apparently at that theatre nobody under 21 can see a movie after 7pm without supervision. That doesn’t seem right. And I can’t shake the feeling that there’s a racist element too.
I love every single one of the “Advantages of Being a Woman Artist” — but I think my favorite ( for obvious reasons) is “Being included in revised versions of art history.” Long live the Guerrilla Girls!! faroutmagazine.co.uk/founding-mem...
Founding member of Guerrilla Girls reveals her identityOne of the founding members of feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls has revealed herself to be American painter and sculptor Joyce Kozloff.faroutmagazine.co.ukOh, boy! Look what @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social has got cooking!! #FilmSky filmpreserve.org/revision/
Re:Vision - San Francisco Film PreserveRe:Vision: Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery September 24-27, Roxie Theater, San Francisco Archivists worldwide work tirelessly to preserve and provide access to every kind of moving image mater...filmpreserve.orgForever grateful to Mr. Jewison. He funded a scholarship for U of Toronto Cinema Studies graduates going on to grad school. I was the first recipient. That was ages ago. It continues to this day. ☺️
Dean FreyCelebrate the Norman Jewison Centennial 🎂💯 📷 Leo Fuchs, 1963 "The main thing is, he really likes actors, so what you see in his pictures is a kind of celebration of performance, as opposed to actors as paint, illustrating the vision of the director." - John Patrick Shanley
