Ian Wang

For @ArtReview_ I wrote about cinema in 2024, the year the film world turned a blind eye to genocide artreview.com/the-year-in-fi…

excerpt from rachel corrie’s letter to her mother, written three weeks before she was killed

The Gaza playbook, applied to a major Arab capital city that was once called the Paris of the Middle East. War crime upon war crime.

It remains the case that Another Gaze is the most serious, rigorous and politically-engaged film publication in this country—what a joy to see it return! Give this new issue a read and give them some donations!!

'While cinephilia seems to be back with new enthusiasm, in line with a certain ‘vibe shift’, it often resembles an old version, one that we set out to remedy ten years ago – masculine French cinephilia, encore' We are back with 12 new pieces of writing. anothergaze.com/another-gaze-e…

...and for the @AnotherGaze relaunch, i wrote ~3k words about Niki de Saint Phalle's life-long mission to help children protect themselves from adults, and her wonderful film in which the quixotic fantasies of little girls become more than dream >> anothergaze.com/niki-de-saint-…

@wrinkledlinen Congrats Winnie!!!! Working at an architecture firm extremely chic arguably chicer than film criticism, bravo

I feel like I've made enough critiques of Asian diaspora art to have earned the right to say: a lot of you talking about "AsAm woman MFA diaspora lit" are very weird!!! Please say something normal!!!

Nothing will boost your confidence like being told "you have beautiful hair" by a drunk woman in a Dalston kebab shop at 4am (this really happened to me a couple weeks back!!)

From William Wyler’s Wuthering Heights (1939) - low hanging fruit, sorry, but a scene like this has a swooning, operatic grandeur that the cheap, glossy sheen of Emerald Fennell’s camera simply cannot match

One of my favourite moments in a Frederick Wiseman film, when someone at the help desk for the New York Public Library has to explain to a caller that a unicorn is not a real animal—no other filmmaker could capture these strange, deeply human moments of curiosity like he could

@ellie_eberlee So sorry to hear this news, Ellie. What a loss for the magazine, I’m so sorry for the way you and other editors have been treated. Solidarity and best of luck for the next steps, I know you’ll be doing great work wherever you go

stepped down as LARB’s managing editor today—the 5th senior+ editor to leave in 3 years, and the 4th staff member in 6 months. thank you to the writers for the greatest editorial privilege of my life. pay your staff and contributors. fix the way you treat people or die

I wrote about the whitewashing of Gothic literature on screen and what I think we can learn from Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” for the Curzon Journal (link below ⬇️)

people hate rape survivors so fucking much man. try to pursue a doomed prosecution and people will hound them about supposedly putting ‘innocent men’ in jail, but refuse to pursue prosecution and they get told they’re responsible for other people being raped.

It's so nice talking to strangers in queues. This weekend I was in the queue for the film lab and got chatting with the guy in front of me, and we made a bit of a connection - then as he left the shop, he just handed me a roll of Ilford XP2 for free! I love human beings

I cannot overstate the extent to which the 365 buttons girl completely makes sense to me. She makes sense in an almost mystical way, like a higher truth that can only be accessed by intuition and not logic

@uncanny_eli Haha thank you - I get you, I think something about Joachim Trier's style just doesn't work for me (didn't like Worst Person either) but I'm glad it's resonating with people so much!

@iantwang i personally love SV but everything else i’ve seen here i agree with lol

Generationally mediocre start to the year's viewing

@esmesayss I know you’re right, really this is the fault of my compulsive need to be “caught up” in the year’s “big films”… I will say I did think I’d superficially enjoy KPop Demon Hunters and be superficially moved by Hamnet but neither was true!!

@iantwang what did you expect from these tbf lol

@sicamgabrielle Oh I’m so glad you agree Gabbie! Wasn’t it so mediocre!! I was not impressed

@iantwang Heavy agree on Sentimental Value