Maxwell Paparella

“The chase finally ends at the cemetery—the world’s oldest theme park.” On bloodsuckers and bullshitters, for the booklet of @radujude’s DRACULA, out from @12specialfilms and @VinegarSyndrome vinegarsyndrome.com/products/dracu…

“Welshness manifested around me as a quality both bone-deep and lightly worn.” Henry Rees-Sheridan on eisteddfods, Plaid Cymru, and the “still here”-ness of a people.

“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…

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…