Prahlad Srihari

found an incredible YouTube channel--guy from Ohio uploads full noirs and does late-night TV style intros while dressed as a gumshoe

Modi regime's PIB is now intimidating Deccan Herald openly

@mtgilchrist Portrait of a Lady on Fire

When’s the last time you saw a movie you immediately felt like was one of your all time favorite movies?

@CasparSalmon Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up but also Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave, Peter Strickland's Flux Gourmet, and Daniels' Everything Everywhere All at Once That's besides the Polley, Glazer and Cronenberg films already mentioned.

A tribute I really wish I didn’t have to write, in praise of the late, staggeringly great Michael Kenneth Williams, who belongs on any attempt to make an HBO Mt Rushmore: rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features…

RIP Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933-2021), the undisputed king of cool

He's going to be okay.

Who gets to be a critic? For my debut piece for @voxdotcom’s The Highlight, I tried to get at the core of this question, the value of a diverse pool of voices, the gatekeeping forces preventing that, and how a Craigslist ad was my way in. vox.com/the-highlight/…

Chaplin did it first. 1920s

Kogonada, Andrea Arnold, Mia Hansen-Love, Julia Ducournau, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Wes Anderson...What a line-up! Oh how I wish I could make it to Cannes this year.

Ramachandra Guha: Modi’s Hindutva irrationality makes India’s war on Covid-19 even more difficult scroll.in/article/995510…

The perfect joke doesn’t exi—

Joyce on Finnegan’s Wake is better than most other stuff

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Colson Whitehead are not the same person. Yes, the underground railroad features in The Water Dancer too. But @BarryJenkins is NOT adapting Coates' debut novel. editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/new-on…

Poured myself into this essay for @reverse_shot on Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl and how being a punkish immigrant kid shaped my cinephilia and vice versa. Would love it if you gave it a read😌 reverseshot.org/symposiums/ent…

Josephine Decker's Shirley is finally available for streaming (on @BmsStream) in India. As this review will attest, it's a gem. firstpost.com/entertainment/…

🎥Evolution of the Dolly Zoom🎥 90 seconds of historic shots aka: Hitchcock Zoom Vertigo Zoom Zolly Smash Zoom Trans-Trav Trombone shot Push-Pull Contra-Zoom Jaws Shot Zido #cinematography #filmmaking

@_PVRCinemas seems to have confused Chaos Walking with Judas and the Black Messiah. Still, I'm pretty sure Chaos Walking is no one's sci-fi flick of the season.

How the pigs coerced a mole to bring down a panther firstpost.com/entertainment/…

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