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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 29/09/2026

“Mocap allowed production to begin without knowing what the movie would look like.” James N. Kienitz Wilkins writes about making his latest film, The Misconceived, with motion capture: ”a tool to characterize the fragmented digital society in which we live.” filmmaker.substack.com/p/a-farewell...

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A Farewell to Flesh

Man without a movie camera: one filmmaker’s adventures in motion capture.

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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 25/08/2026

An essay about Ari Aster would come back to haunt Sophie Lewis in ways she couldn't have predicted. @kimkelly.bsky.social interviews Lewis about the movie review that was unexpectedly introduced as evidence in the Prairieland ICE Detention Facility case: filmmaker.substack.com/p/how-a-film...

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How a Film Review Ended Up at the Center of a Domestic Terrorism Case

A conversation with feminist scholar Sophie Lewis about the Ari Aster essay that she didn’t expect to be taken out of context.

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

wrote this week’s @filmmakermagazine.com newsletter on Tony, which gave me fresh eyes on Matt Johnson’s earlier work…but it’s a packed weekend for movies, so sign up to be the first to read our summer issue coverage of Camp Miasma and Late Fame next week! filmmaker.substack.com/p/working-cl...

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Working-Class Zero

Matt Johnson’s “Tony” is less an Anthony Bourdain biopic than a story of masculine role models.

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

wrote about charli xcx and gregg araki for this week’s filmmaker newsletter—on public mythos, coolness, taste, and playing against type…

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

i spoke to people who fully committed to the bit for some field reporting

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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 15/07/2026

“Political commitment is woven into the fabric of the cinema itself.” Botagoz Koilybaeva profiles the La Clef Revival collective, who occupied an arthouse theater in Paris to unlock a new future for cinema. From our summer issue. 📸: Chiara Marinai. open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...

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La Clef Revival Occupies the Cinema

The Parisian cinema collective unlocks a new future for film culture and city life.

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Filmmaker Magazine @filmmakermagazine.com · 10/07/2026

We’re thrilled to unveil the summer 2026 issue of Filmmaker! Featuring an intimacy coordinator roundtable, Jane Schoenbrun, John Early, Julio Torres, and much more ☀️ Trailer by Charlotte Gosch / Studio Other Types

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

drop a 📍to share with others where gangnam style is audible outdoors on classon avenue

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

thoughts on Disclosure Day in our Friday newsletter. plus, David Schwartz at the Knicks parade: substack.com/@filmmakerma...

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“Disclosure Day” on the Eve of the Future

Plus: a New York film luminary reports from the Knicks parade.

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

no greater rush than correctly predicting whether any given singer will do the octave jump in “land of the free”

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

as soon as we learned that Tim Heidecker (@timheidecker.bsky.social) and Eric Wareheim would be at Cannes, we knew we had to talk to them for Filmmaker. here’s Keva York’s Q&A with the era-defining comedy duo, reunited in Quentin Dupieux’s latest, Full Phil: open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...

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“I Hope They Boo”: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim Take Cannes

Keva York shares a meal with the comedy duo, freshly reunited in Quentin Dupieux’s "Full Phil."

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

moved by this internal rhyme in an Athletic article…poetry is everywhere if you keep your eyes open

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

gazing out the window wondering why esteban bigliardi doesn’t have a wikipedia page

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

wrote about the Palme-ineligible Propeller, Cannes, etc for our Friday newsletter—ahead of a roundup of our coverage so far: open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...

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A Jolt of Travolta

Chloe Lizotte writes on “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” and some futuristic imagery from Cannes.

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

starting to roll out some Cannes newsletters on the Filmmaker Magazine Substack—like any travel day, Nespresso helped me kick this one off. plus, an early word on Schoenbrun and Radu. subscribe to follow along; more in store this week from an all-star roster! : open.substack.com/pub/filmmake...

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Seventy-nine Palmes: Welcome to Cannes

"What else?" asks Chloe Lizotte from the Croisette as she notes early highlights from Jane Schoenbrun and Radu Jude.

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

seated for propeller one-way night coach………..

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

disaster….preexisting conflicts with every screening of propeller one-way night coach

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

on the beautiful images, necessary images of James N Kienitz Wilkins’s The Misconceived, for @reverseshot.bsky.social . opens First Look tomorrow! reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I used Shazam to discover Teen Age Riot by Sonic Youth at the Moynihan Train Hall Food Court at Penn Station

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

never getting over “The Michael Phenomenon”

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

avant-garde capitalization in cobble hill cinemas preshow reel

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m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

my new notebook "cutscenes" column is an argument against the cutscene itself, proposing - by way of everything from MANIAC MANSION to ELDEN RING - that video game storytelling should be medium-specific and involve more than moving images that suspend the player's control. mubi.com/en/notebook/...

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Cutscenes | Against the Cutscene

From Donkey Kong to Hideo Kojima, these mini movies often suggest the future of the medium—but do they undercut the pleasures of gaming?

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

always a pleasure to chat sundance with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social — some fun films on deck this year. listen in here to learn how to make gatorade at home or make long distance calls for free: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Ep. 373: Sundance 2026 – Chloe Lizotte on Night Nurse, Homemade Gatorade and other shorts, Public Access Redux, plus A Rotterdam Surprise

Podcast Episode · The Last Thing I Saw · 02/04/2026 · 47m

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

in @reverseshot.bsky.social two cents on some extremely unusual home cleaning behavior! scroll until you see him: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The good people at Notebook asked me to write about the restored Fall of Otrar. Of course, I turned in an essay on the deep strangeness of past worlds: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

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Bridging the Void: On “The Fall of Otrar” and the Historical Epic

As Adak Amirkulov excavates the deep past, records are lost and recreated as legends.

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

a dark day for public radio when brian lehrer is forced to say the word “grokipedia”

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

DYING to get in on conversation behind me at restaurant about “diegetic” / “non-diegetic” …………..

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

the neil hamburger to sinatra’s “trilogy: past present future” pipeline

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

don’t miss laura on the viennale!

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

man on subway platform with penn and teller ball cap and NIN varsity jacket……..

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...

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All the Predators

Looking past traditional cinema into avenues of visual media and other light-related phenomena across the online landscapeâ��and beyond.

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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All the Predators

Looking past traditional cinema into avenues of visual media and other light-related phenomena across the online landscapeâ��and beyond.

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

ballots: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

was offered a seat on the subway bc i was cradling a personal pizza box as if it were a child

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

olympic-level snack wrapper crinkling was ongoing behind me for the final 40 minutes of the “last night i conquered the city of thebes” p&i

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

one thing about film festivals in 2025 is that so many people will have their ringer on

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

with the realization that i am recognizing more and more films in a festival preshow reel, my heart surges with Power…………

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

status update: rewinding NBA finals game commercial break to hear errol morris say “TELL ME ABOUT CHIPOTLE” in vo just one more time

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

please support me as i endeavor to become the most vocal astrid sonne fan on bluesky dot edu

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