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frank falisi

@frankfalisi.bsky.social
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"miscreant perpetrator of low burlesque" writing at: reverse shot, bright wall/dark room, larb, tiny mix tapes, etc.

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frank falisi @frankfalisi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"the HEAD, by way of the EAR, to the SYLLABLE/ the HEART, by way of the BREATH, to the LINE"
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frank falisi @frankfalisi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood
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The Screens of Pete and Pete @peteandpete.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 1, Episode 6: Don't Tread on Pete
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frank falisi @frankfalisi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
a good day to say: I spoke with Louise for IRO, where we got into Castration Movie as the most modern of literatures, a project with the same kind of infinite play and appetite for pleasure as Liz's work at Muscle. long live Castration Movie, long live Muscle inreviewonline.com/2026/06/19/u...
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Unlimited But Periodic: A Conversation with Louise Weard on "Castration Movie"
Frank Falisi chats with Louise Weard about the language of the internet, her epic and ongoing "Castration Movie" project, and whether or not we can classify it as a real "movie".
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frank falisi @frankfalisi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
For @reverseshot.bsky.social's Revolutions Symposium, some something on that enchanted evening and how a musical about bad color productively expresses itself badly reverseshot.org/symposiums/e...
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South Pacific
When it comes to cinematic technological advances, the question is always how we use the tools we've been gifted or cursed with.
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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
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frank falisi @frankfalisi.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
very happy to think long on these films, very grateful to Bloodvine for the space to go languid about Spice Girls and Turner in equal measure bloodvine.com/everythings-...
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“Everything’s Gone Jackanory”: After 28 Days Later
Trying to write about the 28 movies—that most blitzed-out and body-baggy horror franchise measured in days, weeks, years—I turned, like a good hauntologist, to half-remembered popular music.
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frank falisi @frankfalisi.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
on the continued pursuit of viewing Cooper generously or: "hey buddy, don't be afraid it won't be perfect—they only thing to be afraid of really is that it won't be"
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 21/01/2026
New today on the site: "In THE NAME OF THE ROSE (1986), Connery does not present as capable but instead confident despite his incapabilities, a tendency that here feels like zen touched with zany, more Zardozy than Bonded, arresting in a tonsure." - @frankfalisi.bsky.social
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The Name of the Rose (1986): The Mystery of Faith
The Name of the Rose calls itself, in its own opening credits, “a palimpsest of Umberto Eco’s novel”—a provocative, generative, and not altogether unpretentious appellation to lay claim to.
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frank falisi @frankfalisi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
there is no definitive year, and so, what a joy to be among such a disparate set of interpretations and inclinations
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frank falisi @frankfalisi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
thanks to @chadperman.bsky.social for tending a space for this kind of ramble, @eccantwell.bsky.social for copy edits based in care, and Ozzy Osbourne for teaching me how to sing
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 25/07/2025
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frank falisi @frankfalisi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
what else is there to say? "We are trying to protect our dreams." toneglow.substack.com/p/film-show-...
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Film Show 047: Rashid Masharawi
An interview with the Palestinian filmmaker about his new feature-length movie 'Passing Dreams', the Gazan omnibus film 'From Ground Zero', and setting up workshops and screenings in refugee camps
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frank falisi @frankfalisi.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
on the treachery of jukebox musicals as art history or: "because something is happening here but you don't know what it is" reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
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A Complete Unknown
Its willingness to paint sixties establishment folkies as potentially just as extractive as their more legibly villainous record mogul counterparts would have meant something if the film had any inter...
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frank falisi @frankfalisi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
still stuck in the ballroom writing about The Caretaker, but imagine my delight when the film most suited to those crumbled sounds is this haunted goof
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