Maxwell Paparella

“He thinks, not for the first time, that he has chosen his profession poorly.” On the early Soviet silents of Boris Barnet, some of which play this weekend at @Metrograph. screenslate.com/articles/boris…

“He thinks, not for the first time, that he has chosen his profession poorly.” On the early Soviet silents of Boris Barnet, some of which play this weekend at @Metrograph. screenslate.com/articles/boris…

i'll be rewatching MHC's entrancing work with the seductive Lisa Robertson epigraph to Chiara Haefliger's fascinating interview in mind ... ❤️ "While it may make use of edges in passing, the work of desire is borderless."

As @metrograph begins its Boris Barnet retrospective today, we have decided to make the first issue of Outskirts—with its extensive dossier of translations and texts on Barnet's films—available for free as a downloadable PDF. Go to outskirtsmag.com/shop to download directly.

screenslate.com/articles/note-… Screen Slate ascendant, with your help

Come for my cameo as a pilgrim with terrible German accent; stay for a profound exegesis of the first book in English published by a woman, who was at the time legally dead and living in the walls of a church.

Idea for a nap hotel

Nowhere more silent than the most crowded train.

The howling of winter vestibules

@JohnDeMarsico 💔 It’s been such a blessing to see this team through your eyes, John. Your broadcasts have often been the most compelling reason to watch. Someone at SNY evidently didn’t know that they had, but I can only hope that another fanbase is about to find out what they’ve been missing.

This wasn’t easy to write. Thank you for taking a moment with it.

"[Lav] Diaz made only one take of each shot through his fixed frame, and each set-up is calibrated to convey a single idea. The result is a bracing semantic economy..." Revisit Maxwell Paparella (@44getting) on MAGELLAN: mubi.com/notebook/posts…

Jawni is brilliant. Can’t wait to read more of her.

Idea for a television show that keeps you sick

@mubinotebook @nycalamounited @eleanorpetry Meant to credit the lion’s share of this reporting to the always excellent @fauxbeatpoet, of course!

For @mubinotebook, I contributed supplemental reporting from the picket lines of @nycalamounited’s strike, with amazing photographs by @eleanorpetry. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

🔖 What I wrote this year:

Thanks, always, to my editors, readers, and friends. Looking forward to much more in the new year♥️

For @mubinotebook, I wrote a dispatch from the third edition of @filmfestknox, a festival dedicated to American regional cinema set in the shadow of old World’s Fair architecture. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…