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Maria San Filippo

@cinemariasf.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Media Studies~Emerson College Scholar of feminist/queer screen media Wellesley, NYU, UCLA, Fulbright alum IUPress, WSUP & MQUP author / Lambda Literary Award winner Boston-based itinerant cinephile mariasanfilippo.net

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IndieWire @indiewire.com · 30/06/2026
In his new Netflix stand-up special 'Ridiculous,' Louis CK makes his unhappiness evident. Without deeper insights, his misery soon becomes our own.
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Louis C.K.’s Misery Is Infectious in His ‘Ridiculous’ Return to Netflix
In his new Netflix stand-up special 'Ridiculous,' Louis CK makes his unhappiness evident. Without deeper insights, his misery soon becomes our own.
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
MERCI @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social & Tom Waugh for #Pride love! So many fabulous titles coming down the Queer Film Classics pipeline, excited to read all! @dorianawards.bsky.social @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @lgbtqreads.bsky.social @scmsqtc.bsky.social @lambdaliterary.org @glaad.bsky.social
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Also well-timed, my chapter forthcoming in SCREENING WOMEN FILMMAKERS from @routledgebooks.bsky.social's Screening Cinema series ed. @garyneedham.bsky.social Watch this space for updates! www.routledge.com/Screening-Ci... @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @bellecobb.bsky.social @dorianawards.bsky.social
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Screening Cinema - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press
Routledge & CRC Press Series: Supporting the use of film screenings as a core aspect of film studies pedagogy, Screening Cinema fills a gap in teaching film where screenings are a core activ
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Just in time for #Pride Month, @criterion.bsky.social announced June 16 release of Academy Film Archive/@uclaftvarchive.bsky.social/@sundance.org restored 4K Blu-Ray of 90s lesbian film landmark: Lisa Cholodenko's feature debut HIGH ART www.criterion.com/films/32507-... feat. @brubyrich.bsky.social
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Exciting news: 1 mo from today I'll deliver the Bergman Lecture during Bergman Week on "Bergman Island" aka Fårö, Sweden, discussing Mia Hansen-Løve's BERGMAN ISLAND as #ecofeminist response to PERSONA, screening that very evening with an introduction by Honorary Guest Juliette Binoche! Fantastiskt!
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
My 10th year contributing to @sensesofcinema.bsky.social's World Poll! Voilà my annotated 10 favorite films of 2025: www.sensesofcinema.com/2026/world-p... @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @dorianawards.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @screenslate.bsky.social @iffboston.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social
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Part 7 – Senses of Cinema
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#DavidLynch would've turned 80 today. He's inspired endless appreciation & commemoration in the past year; here's my small contribution: substack.com/home/post/p-... @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @dorianawards.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social @oaffc.bsky.social
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Five films for burning it all down
Commemorating David Lynch’s Los Angeles
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
New year, new list! cinemariasf.substack.com/p/favorite-2... (Stay tuned for my Top 10 of 2025 in @sensesofcinema.bsky.social World Poll coming soon!) @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social @dorianawards.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social @screeningsex.bsky.social
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
& for dessert...My ode to unrated director's cut of Jane Campion's erotic thriller IN THE CUT (2003) in SCREENING ADULT CINEMA, 2nd vol. in @culturalstudies.bsky.social's SCREENING CINEMA series edited by @garyneedham.bsky.social Bon appetit! @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Thankful to welcome 2 new book chapters into the world from opposite ends of my research interests: #romcom & #pornstudies! An amuse bouche for #comedystudies feast to follow, “Regenerating ‘Radical Romantic Comedy’ for the Twenty-First Century" kicks off @academic.oup.com HANDBOOK OF SCREEN COMEDY
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
What an ideal day to be teaching Richard Dyer's STARS chapter on the legendary Jane Fonda! TY @unionmaidpgh.bsky.social! Paired w/ this @ktlaent.bsky.social interview: www.msn.com/en-us/movies... @sagaftranews.bsky.social @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @janefonda.com @scms-starperformer.bsky.social
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SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus @scmsqtc.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize! Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Preparing to deliver my talk "From Striver to Disaster: The Bisexual as Figuration of Contemporary Socioeconomic Decline" at Bi Research Group Conference; join online! www.bisexualresearch.com #IBRC2025 #bisexualresearch @emersonsofilm.bsky.social @bisexualmovies.bsky.social @scmsqtc.bsky.social
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Celebrating #Bisexuality Day w/ my books APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR & THE B WORD, which recently made the news getting trashed in TX www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-... Tho most press is good press for academic authors, I preferred @lambdaliterary.org awards @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @iupress.bsky.social
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Shout-outs to LA cinephile institutions @2220arts.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @vidiots.bsky.social @newbeverly.bsky.social @amcinematheque.bsky.social @acropoliscinema.bsky.social @theacademyusa.bsky.social @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social @thefridacinema.org @mezzaninefilm.bsky.social
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
My sophomore attempt at seasonal Substacking: a love letter to LA & Lynch; hope it's worth the wait! cinemariasf.substack.com/p/five-films... @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @lafilmcritics.bsky.social @lafilmforum.bsky.social @kcrw.com @emersonsoarts.bsky.social
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Five films for burning it all down
Commemorating David Lynch’s Los Angeles
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Happy #Pride Book Discounts! My monographs THE B WORD & PROVOCAUTEURS & PROVOCATIONS 40% off w/ code UPRIDE25 iupress.org/author/maria... + my 2022 ed. collection AFTER 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER': ROMANTIC COMEDY IN THE POST-ROMANTIC AGE 40% til Fri 6/20 w/ code RYAY40 wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814346730/
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Nice surprise on @emersoncollege.bsky.social Commencement Day to see John Cameron Mitchell's @nytopinion.nytimes.com op-ed recalling visit @emersonsoarts.bsky.social hosted this spring! opportunity to screen SHORTBUS & moderate Q&A was the highlight of my school year! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o...
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Opinion | Today’s Young People Need to Learn How to Be Punk
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
7pm Mon.! (3/31), CU @thecoolidge.bsky.social for 35mm screening of Martha Coolidge's VALLEY GIRL starring Nicolas Cage & Deborah Foreman as the most totally bitchin' couple since Romeo & Juliet! coolidge.org/package/semi... @emersonsoarts.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social
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Seminar: Valley Girl
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
My @girlsontopstees.bsky.social tee & I made the scene at #BFIFutureFilmFestival 2025! youtu.be/slgyAfx89Qc?... TY host @verilybitchie.bsky.social & all who joined! @dorianawards.bsky.social @outfest.bsky.social @queerfilmfestival.ca @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @emersonsoarts.bsky.social
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Coolidge Corner Theatre @thecoolidge.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
New series alert! The 1980s were a time of significant breakthroughs for women filmmakers. Our March 2025 series is a survey of some of the indelible works by trailblazing filmmakers in that decade from around the globe 🎥 coolidge.org/trailblazers
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Save the date! Martha Coolidge's VALLEY GIRL in 35mm 3/31 @thecoolidge.bsky.social; sign up 4 my pre-show seminar! coolidge.org/events/semin... @emersonsoarts.bsky.social @emersoncollege.bsky.social @bsfc.bsky.social @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social @iffboston.bsky.social
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Seminar: Valley Girl
Romeo & Juliet for the Reagan era. When a Hollywood punk falls hard for a popular suburban preppie, their respective worlds collide in a culture clash that established the prototype for 80s teen romco...
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Treat yo self to (post-)romantic reads courtesy of my 2021 @wsupress ed. collection AFTER 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER' avail. at online booksellers. Encore watch! Martha Coolidge's like totally swoony VALLEY GIRL @eurekaentertainment Blu-Ray feat. commentary by yours truly! eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/valley...
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
BFI's FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL coming soon! Join me & other panelists for Bye, Bi Invisibility: Crafting Authentic Bisexual Narratives for the Screen hosted by @verilybitchie.bsky.social 21 Feb. 4pm GMT on Zoom whatson.bfi.org.uk/FutureFilmFe... #BFIFutureFilmFestival 2025! @dorianawards.bsky.social
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GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics @dorianawards.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Our Dorian Film Award nominations are . . .
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🗣 Proposals are due Sunday for the Hollywood Conference to be held at USC in July. www.thehollywoodconference.com/cfp
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CFP — The Hollywood Conference
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The Itinerant Cinephile is now on Substack, sharing monthly curated viewing selections! Check out my (ahem) inaugural post: Five films foretelling how “we the people” got here... Subscribe and spread the word! cinemariasf.substack.com Vive le cinéma et la démocratie!
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
More than any other director/creator #DavidLynch turned me on to what film/TV is capable of at an impressionable age and thereby awakened my cinephilia and forever transformed TV. His work is forever seared into my head & heart. RIP Maestro.
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Senses of Cinema @sensesofcinema.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
The team at Senses are looking for a new Festivals editor to join our team! We are accepting applications until January 13 - see here for more details: www.sensesofcinema.com/2024/news/we...
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We’re looking for a festivals editor! – Senses of Cinema
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Thank you to @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social editor extraordinaire @elizabethalsop.bsky.social for guiding my long-gestating essay to publication & to #ENMU @wgawest.bsky.social & #AMPAS librarians who enabled access to Brackett's archives. Her life was too short but her legacy lives on in her writing.
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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Just a reminder that applications for the 2025 Scholarship in Sound & Image workshop at Middlebury College, Vermont, are due in about a week. Please encourage people to apply who might be able to attend & would benefit from the experience! sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/
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Scholarship in Sound & Image
Workshop on Videographic Criticism
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Excited to see this timely story celebrating screening midlife sex, middle-aged women's desire, and some of my favorite films & comedy of 2024. Thanks as always to Alexis Soloski for a stimulating chat & for shouting out my book!
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Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Hi Bluesky! Happy to be here. Figure I'll start things off w/ my annual annotated list of favorite films, honorable mentions & still-in-contention. Read full digression at mariasanfilippo.net/lists; abridged version coming soon as part of @sensesofcinema.bsky.social 2024 World Poll. Vive le cinéma!
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