@ScreenSlate

A guide to moving image culture in NYC. Criticism, listings & programming around repertory film & media art. Follow @ScreenSlateSF for the Bay! Tweets @jondotd

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I think if the mayor's office launched a vibe-coded Screen Slate knockoff, it would be the beginning of the end of the entire administration.
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Lovely review of Morvern Callar by Katherine Connell in @ScreenSlate this week
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TWO BITCHIN' MOVIE EVENTS THIS WEEKEND! FRI, OCT 2 @ScreenSlate Party at Parkside Lounge! Dance party in the back with yours truly DJ Page Six + all-vinyl heaters! SAT, OCT 3 @SpectacleNYC Stoop Sale! Yours truly Tarot Reader Page Six selling tarot readings out front!
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I've been thinking lately that we have crossed Peak Microcinema, and people who made a bunch of money working for Palantir or selling their B2B SaaS marketing company or whatever are going to start to "give back" by invading this space.
I have more thoughts about this but mostly it just makes me sad that 90% of the people who are able to get a new, indie cinemas off the ground are guys with backgrounds in venture capital or real estate.
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"Loktev's tough-and-tender chronicle pushes back against oppression and fear as the organizing narrative imposed upon the world by Putin and his ilk." @NicolasRapold on Julia Loktev's My Undesirable Friends II, part of his Venice coverage: screenslate.com/articles/ven…
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Guest lecturing at NYU for the first time since 2019 tonight. If any of these kids use a shitty vibe coded Screen Slate knockoff I’m going to fail their asses.
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"AI is gonna take your job." Yeah bro lets see an AI smuggle a 16in Jersey Mike's sub sandwich into a 3pm screening of Resident Evil on a Thursday.
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humble legend, Mike Kuchar, explaining how “underground film” used to have a real meaning, in regards to clandestine networks of exhibition developed out of necessity against state repression, long before the term lost all meaning in its recuperation by Art World establishments.
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They listened.
If NAZA's filmmakers truly cared about sharing their story as freely and widely as possible they would have uploaded it to Rapidgator as a series of .rar files and sent the links to Rarefilmm Jon.
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Wow everyone is really out here pretending they don't understand the difference between Roger Ebert (deceased film critic) and Roger Ebert (blog)
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DICK TRACY CRITERION LET'S G— *squints and looks closer*
Replying to @Criterion
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
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Bernardo Rondeau in today's @ScreenSlate: "CGI-free and grounded, [DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT] isn't interested in repeating or expanding upon triggering imagery, but in the effect that imagery has on those who witness it, characters and audience alike." screenslate.com/articles/day…
reminder this is on MONDAY NIGHT! Q+A with Luisa Colón, who never again acted in a feature film. (incidentally, she is the daughter of famous comic book artist Ernie Colón, and now teaches comics classes for the incarcerated!) One screening only. 35mm. roxycinemanewyork.com/screen…
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VHS is 486 interlaced lines of resolution (commonly called "480i"), so they're either showing a digital file that's half the resolution of VHS or they just literally don't know what "240p" means. That said the completely incorrect Google AI result agrees with them
TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA has been made into a true pan-and-scan VHS tape. And we’re taking it on tour. Learn more at campmiasmafilm.com Can’t make it? Stay tuned to order your own copy, coming soon to the MUBI SHOP.
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Saying "Glorious 240p" just seems like dumb millennial marketing humor based on someone asking AI what resolution VHS is. It makes no sense, it's like "35mm print tour on glorious 8mm."
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If you want to learn more about Analog to Digital video, here is an online version of a video conservation workshop for museum workers that I taught at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art: vimeo.com/567487083
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