Sign in

Forrest Cardamenis

@fcardamenis.bsky.social
824 followers 249 following 356 posts

Film critic who has written for MUBI, Reverse Shot, Filmmaker, Indiewire, and others. More movie thoughts on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/fcardamenis

PostsRepliesMedia
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 15h
This is the Zapruder film for baseball fans.
010
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A bad call to eliminate them last year and now this, the Padres are insanely unlucky.
010
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Funniest way to break up a no-hitter.
011
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In case you missed it, thoughts on the latest by Radu Jude and one of the two new Hong films.
031
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some brief(ish) thoughts on two more NYFF films, Radu Jude's Diary of a Chambermaid and Hong Sang-soo's The Day She Returns. fcardamenis.substack.com/p/nyff-2-qui...
fcardamenis.substack.com
NYFF #2: Quick Hits from Festival Favorites
On the latest by Radu Jude and Hong Sang-soo
000
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ICYMI, some thoughts on Nicolás Pereda’s latest and (maybe) greatest.
000
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My first report on this year's New York Film Festival is focused on Nicolas Pereda's Everything Else is Noise. Check it out: fcardamenis.substack.com/p/nyff-1-eve...
fcardamenis.substack.com
NYFF #1: Everything Else Is Noise (Nicolás Pereda)
Including his differences from Hong Sang-soo and what we risk when we opt for such comparisons.
000
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What if they raised money for schools by selling ads on the school buses
001
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So all the best TV shows are from Anglophone countries except for Squid Game?
020
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
👀
120
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Completely absurd.
000
Reposted by Forrest Cardamenis
Filipe Furtado @filipefurtado.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
On Yuen Woo-Ping’s comeback film Blades of the Guardians and current action cinema
anotacoescinefilo.substack.com
When Bodies Still Fly
On Blade of the Guardians, The Furious, and current Eastern Asian action cinema
0105
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Extremely funny to me to see people who clearly don’t understand how WAR works say that it overrated center fielders simply because PCA is ahead of Ohtani. Does it overrate Mike Trout, Willie Mays, and Ken Griffey Jr? How about Andy Pages?
010
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For the night crowd, if any of you haven’t gotten enough Odyssey discourse, I have some thoughts on it as well as the discourse started by two of Homer’s translators. fcardamenis.substack.com/p/the-odysse...
fcardamenis.substack.com
The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan, 2026)
Plus: Emily Wilson, Daniel Mendelsohn, and Franco Piavoli's Nostos: Il Ritorno.
083
Reposted by Forrest Cardamenis
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I wrote about The Odyssey, what I think translators Emily Wilson and Daniel Mendelsohn got right and wrong, and Christopher Nolan’s growth as a filmmaker. open.substack.com/pub/fcardame...
open.substack.com
The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan, 2026)
Plus: Emily Wilson, Daniel Mendelsohn, and Franco Piavoli's Nostos: Il Ritorno.
033
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I wrote about The Odyssey, what I think translators Emily Wilson and Daniel Mendelsohn got right and wrong, and Christopher Nolan’s growth as a filmmaker. open.substack.com/pub/fcardame...
open.substack.com
The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan, 2026)
Plus: Emily Wilson, Daniel Mendelsohn, and Franco Piavoli's Nostos: Il Ritorno.
033
Reposted by Forrest Cardamenis
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Wrote about the 1926 blockbuster Last Days of Pompeii and a handful of shorts by Enrico Guazzoni, plus his Quo Vadim (1913), possibly the first blockbuster in cinema history. Link in reply. open.substack.com/pub/fcardame...
open.substack.com
Il Cinema Rirovato #2
On The Last Days of Pompeii, Quo Vadis and short films of Enrico Guazzoni
121
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Wrote about the 1926 blockbuster Last Days of Pompeii and a handful of shorts by Enrico Guazzoni, plus his Quo Vadim (1913), possibly the first blockbuster in cinema history. Link in reply. open.substack.com/pub/fcardame...
open.substack.com
Il Cinema Rirovato #2
On The Last Days of Pompeii, Quo Vadis and short films of Enrico Guazzoni
121
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The siren song should’ve been the first new Joanna Newsom song in more than a decade. That’s what it would’ve been for me at least.
021
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Everybody loves to bitch about the time change but the reality is we have it correct. You don’t want that hazardous winter commute and kids going to school in the dark and you don’t want the sun rising at 4:30AM just so it can get dark as you’re finishing dinner.
020
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It’s gonna be crazy when Kyle Schwarber retires with 600 home runs and a career WAR of 30.
010
Reposted by Forrest Cardamenis
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I wrote a little about the early French cinema I watched at Il Cinema Ritrovato, specifically on Albert Capellani and Leonce Perret's L'Enfant de Paris (my favorite film of the festival and now one of my favorite films). Check it out: substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
Il Cinema Ritrovato #1
On Albert Capellani and Léonce Perret's L'Enfant de Paris (1913)
122
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I wrote a little about the early French cinema I watched at Il Cinema Ritrovato, specifically on Albert Capellani and Leonce Perret's L'Enfant de Paris (my favorite film of the festival and now one of my favorite films). Check it out: substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
Il Cinema Ritrovato #1
On Albert Capellani and Léonce Perret's L'Enfant de Paris (1913)
122
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Now that film culture is so globalized, the concept of trolling is understood, and digital aesthetics are no longer strange and novel, it is time that we recognize Lars Von Trier’s The Idiots as a really good film.
030
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I tried to watch Shanghai Blues last night but the restoration with decades-after-the-fact dubbing took me out of it so hard that I gave up after 5 minutes. Looked beautiful though. Hope to see a vintage print of it one day.
000
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
boxd.it/4kP6 This movie is inanely good holy crap
boxd.it
The Child of Paris (1913)
The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one o...
000
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Watching my first Cottafavi at Il Cinema Ritrovato
000
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The disrespect! I love it!
020
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Baby has gotten good at identifying “dada” but still struggling with surrealism, cubism, even baroque.
216644
Reposted by Forrest Cardamenis
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I wrote a bit about an early Dreyer film, a Harry Piel action film, and a Gloria Swanson deep-cut. fcardamenis.substack.com/p/san-franci...
fcardamenis.substack.com
San Francisco Silent Film Festival #2
35mm, Dreyer's Love One Another, Gloria Swanson in The Humming Bird, and the German sensationsfilm.
011
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I wrote a bit about an early Dreyer film, a Harry Piel action film, and a Gloria Swanson deep-cut. fcardamenis.substack.com/p/san-franci...
fcardamenis.substack.com
San Francisco Silent Film Festival #2
35mm, Dreyer's Love One Another, Gloria Swanson in The Humming Bird, and the German sensationsfilm.
011
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
ICYMI: I wrote about a few of the surprises at this year’s San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
031
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
It's my birthday! Your gift to me would be reading my first report on the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (and the next couple that I'll be sharing soon). fcardamenis.substack.com/p/san-franci...
fcardamenis.substack.com
San Francisco Silent Film Festival #1
On humility, a pair of Polish surprises, and Lewis Milestone.
296
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
San Francisco is the coldest place on earth idk how people live here
120
Reposted by Forrest Cardamenis
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Did some research on the very good and overlooked Surrealist short film La Perle. fcardamenis.substack.com/p/la-perle-h...
fcardamenis.substack.com
La Perle (Henri d'Ursel, 1929)
Surrealism and Cinéma Pur via Feuillade, Buñuel, and industrial education films.
064
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Did some research on the very good and overlooked Surrealist short film La Perle. fcardamenis.substack.com/p/la-perle-h...
fcardamenis.substack.com
La Perle (Henri d'Ursel, 1929)
Surrealism and Cinéma Pur via Feuillade, Buñuel, and industrial education films.
064
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Do I know anyone who will be attending San Francisco Silent Film Festival? Sound off in comments/DMs!
000
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Just finished reading a paper by a Spanish film prof that takes for granted that Henri d'Ursel's underseen Surrealist short La Perle (premiere date: June 6, 1929) was influenced by Un Chien Andalou (premiere date: June 6, 1929) and L'Age d'Or (premiere date: November 29, 1930).
120
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Part 10 of Tih Minh goes so hard.
000
Reposted by Forrest Cardamenis
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I think a lot of people are approaching The Drama incorrectly (both the ones who like it and the ones who don't) so I tried to straighten things out a bit. fcardamenis.substack.com/p/the-drama-...
fcardamenis.substack.com
The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli, 2026)
A rare trip to the movie theater warrants a rare review of a contemporary film.
041
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I think a lot of people are approaching The Drama incorrectly (both the ones who like it and the ones who don't) so I tried to straighten things out a bit. fcardamenis.substack.com/p/the-drama-...
fcardamenis.substack.com
The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli, 2026)
A rare trip to the movie theater warrants a rare review of a contemporary film.
041
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Why does RPatz need to take a pic of the book Zendaya is reading? Surely he could just read the title and author and then look it up?
100
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Looked into Olympic tickets and there are zero medal sessions available for less than $300 in any sport except archery and judo right now.
110
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Think about how great it would be to radio in “moon’s haunted” immediately after regaining communication after that 40 minute blackout.
030
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Shorter Abel Gance: I discovered the essential problem of cinema and then I solved it. It uncovered another problem, but I solved that too. My comrades have not figured it out yet.
1100
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I wrote a bit more about The Big Parade, because it’s really good and I had more to say. Thoughts on the midpoint departure scene and the ending: fcardamenis.substack.com/p/the-big-pa...
fcardamenis.substack.com
The Big Parade, once more
For those of you who couldn't get enough.
045
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Watched A Cottage on Dartmoor last night. You guys hip to this one? Seems like nobody had heard of it until around 10 years ago. Major banger.
140
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Anyone know what’s going on with the San Francisco Silent Film Festival? Tickets allegedly go on sale on Monday and yet there is no lineup yet. Is this normal? Do they only sell single tickets or are there all-access passes too? @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social, maybe?
100
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Kind of crazy that everyone agrees that Hollywood and American moviemaking are kind of in a bad spot but the last three Best Picture winners make for the best stretch since Silence of the Lambs/Unforgiven/Schindler's List.
2514
Forrest Cardamenis @fcardamenis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
“Want to get away from big city life without sacrificing your career? Have you considered the San Francisco, Seattle, DC, and Dallas metropolitan areas?”
041