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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He gave us… Beef. Rest in peace, Gerrit Graham. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you were offline/away most of this week, I launched a Kickstarter to write a comprehensive behind-the-scenes companion to Veronica Mars. You can watch the official project trailer below. We are $1,010 away from being able to offer international shipping when the book drops next year!!

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My book on Veronica Mars was just officially dubbed a "Project We Love" by the kind souls at Kickstarter! Check it out & let's knock out that first stretch goal so we can ship worldwide. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Please join me in supporting Jen's project--she's going to deliver a fantastic book sure to please the Marshmallows and Film & TV heads alike. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...

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The Veronica Mars Book Project

Marshmallows! Meet Mars in Neptune, a lovingly researched, behind-the-scenes oral history & companion to our fave sunshine-noir series.

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's hard to imagine something that happens on Monday being one of the things you look forward to all week, but when that something is 2 hours of surf rock on a Monday afternoon, it's actually easy. No matter where you are in the world, you can experience the joy of this show.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 12/08/2026

Thrilled to share the cover and pub date for my next book!   YIPPEE KI-YAY: "DIE HARD," BRUCE WILLIS, AND THE REINVENTION OF THE ACTION MOVIE — an in-depth look at the origin, production, and legacy of the original 1988 classic, as well as its various sequels and rip-offs — is out 5/11/27!

The cover for YIPPEE KI-YAY is red with black and white type, and an abstract but cool silhouette of a figure in free-fall while attached to a fire hose.

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Don't get left behind when my new book STRANDED ON EARTH: HOW NIGHT SKIES BECAME E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL arrives on October 27! Pre-order today from @1984prods.bsky.social, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, & others #ET #Spielberg #Aliens #CloseEncounters #UnmadeMovies

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Happy to have a chapter on PANIC ROOM in this book that captures what I see as the general arc of Fincher’s career and what I think makes this overlooked film so special. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 22/07/2026

“If they can convince you a song produced by such a beast is good, then what use is there for any of us? Let the machine work and drain and sputter and purge; may we dance and clap at what meager pleasures it can conjure." An empty bit of good:

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An empty bit of good.

Let the machine work and drain and sputter and purge, may we dance and clap at what meagre pleasures it can conjure.

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

MINONS & MONSTERS: come for the loving tributes to film history, stay for the inspiring depiction of film’s present where laborers band together to defeat an all-consuming corporate behemoth.

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

(it’s also a stealth David Byrne pod) I’m at the Demme pod! I’m at the Byrne pod! I’m at the combination Jonathan Demme-David Byrne pod!

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#Podcast: #WatchWithJen - S7: E15 - Early Jonathan Demme with Mike Miley Film scholar & author @mikemiley.bsky.social returns to discuss the life & career of the director, plus the films STOP MAKING SENSE, SOMETHING WILD, & MARRIED TO THE MOB. Available Everywhere www.patreon.com/FilmIntuitio...

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Talking with Jen about Jonathan Demme has been one of the highlights of my summer. Hope you enjoy it too (and go watch those films!)

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A great and moving thread by a great and moving writer and musician.

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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Steve Erickson’s 1992 review of Fire Walk with Me is 💯

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

As expected, I had a blast talking with Jen. Very excited for y’all to hear this one.

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Great pod recording session with knowledgeable film historian @mikemiley.bsky.social! We talked early Jonathan Demme, genre explosions, character reinvention, & bringing joy back to filmmaking. You’ll hear it on #WatchWithJen pod soon.

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

3 Shows Just Added to Watch With Jen pod’s Season 7 Summer Roster!

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Max Evry @maxevry.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

My next book for @1984prods.bsky.social is STRANDED ON EARTH: HOW NIGHT SKIES BECAME E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL Don't get left behind when it arrives on October 6.

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Starting my summer reading right with this one by @willsloanesq.bsky.social. Been looking forward to this one for a while.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I wrote about MULHOLLAND DRIVE for my reader's choice series. In this essay I looked at dreams, tragedies, queer identification and shadow histories of Hollywood. It's a longer one, but you can read a sample below. www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

a still image of Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive. She has tears in her eyes as she sees her lover with someone else

A few months ago I dreamed I was at a wrap party for a Hollywood production, and while I grazed around in my black cocktail dress and with a martini glass in hand I began to get the strangest sense of deja vu. It was around then that I realized that in my dream state my mind was re-enacting the culmination of Diane Selwyn’s (Naomi Watts) tragic love story with Camilla Rhodes (Laura Harring) from Mulholland Drive. In my dream I kept flickering between the cinematic representation from David Lynch’s film and my heels-on-the-ground experience of witnessing Diane’s heart-break firsthand. In Mulholland Drive Naomi Watts delivers a devastating close-up in that scene where her eyes are a deluge, but she holds the emotion within her face to keep from making a scene and when that image flickered and froze in my subconscious my mind pulled a song up from the ether to accompany the moment: The Supremes version of “Unchained Melody”.

“Unchained Melody” speaks to the ache of a broken heart, but the version by The Supremes goes further than the sweeping ache of the arrangement, or the narrative of the lyrics, and feels cosmic in what it suggests. It’s an ethereal version of the track whose orchestration sounds closer to the chilly fuzz of what would become dream pop. It is a version that prioritizes the sonic texture of what the lyrics suggest when Diana Ross sings, “Lonely rivers flow, to the sea, to the sea, Lonely rivers sigh, wait for me, wait for me.”. I have always thought that it sounded like a precursor to one of David Lynch’s favorite pieces, “Song to the Siren”, and with Mulholland Drive’s girl group odes it makes sense that my mind would attach these pieces together. There is something essential about The Supremes version of that song. It pierces the membrane of the very idea of a love song to show the core of the medium, and this is also how I feel about Mulholland Drive in relation to American cinema. In most versions of “Unchained Melody” the vocalist approaches the phrase, “godspeed, my love” as a straightforward declaration of letting go, but that is not the case for Diana Ross. In the final moments of the track she sings, “god......speed my love”, and her voice hangs on God, and there is space inbetween the phrasing, as if the ache of her desire were momentarily a prayer. To me, that heartbreak across eons, and ages and dimensions is also the story of Mullholland Drive. Diane Selwyn and Camilla Rhodes are meant to find each other in different guises of identity and personality, and they will always find themselves ripped apart from one another. When I woke up from the dream, I felt as though I had been somewhere deep and mysterious inside of myself, and in the months since, I have not stopped listening to “Unchained Melody”, or thinking about Mulholland Drive.

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

#Podcast: #WatchWithJen - S7: E9 - Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy with S.A. Cosby The wonderfully gifted author of KING OF ASHES returns to talk Araki, plus the filmmakers, actors, video stores, & more of the '90s indie film scene. Available everywhere or www.patreon.com/posts/watch-...

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I wrote about LOST HIGHWAY for my horror column. This one is different from his later films. We aren't meant to identify or empathize with anyone. We are meant to observe. It's closer to his work as a painter where rationalization is elusive & the world is cruel. www.patreon.com/posts/monste...

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David Lynch caught a new idea on the final day of filming Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. He imagined a man and a wife nearing the end of their relationship receiving a videotape in the mail that contained footage of the two of them sleeping peacefully in the comfort of their bedroom. He was pulled to the idea because it disturbed the notion of privacy within the home, but he did not believe that the idea was strong enough to carry a film on its own. Over the course of several years, more ideas and ‘fated’ moments of coincidence came to him organically that were eventually attached to what would become Lost Highway. The legend goes that Lynch was interrupted at dawn by a phantom message on the telecommunications device attached to the gated entrance of his home, “Dick Laurent was dead.”. He never investigated further, because he did not want to lose the mystery. He read Barry Gifford’s “Night People”, and loved the prose of two sentences in particular, “We’re just a couple of Apaches riding wild on the lost highway.”, and “You and me, mister, we can really out-ugly the sum’bitches, can’t we?”. The former of those two sentences was eventually copied word for word in pornographer Mr. Eddy’s (Robert Loggia) final moments in Lost Highway. Additionally, Lynch became obsessed with the ongoing televised trial of former football star and Naked Gun actor O.J. Simpson who was accused of murdering of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson. A palpable darkness seeped into the project when he began penning the script with Gifford, but it was a morbidity that was separate from his empathetic portraits of women in trouble. Lynch usually gave the viewer a figure to identify with, and in the time leading up to Lost Highway, that had primarily been women suffering at the hands of misogynistic abuse. Lost Highway offers no such pathway. We are put into the position to observe Lost Highway rather than identify with it....

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

One month out from publication day and VELVET GOLDMINE is #130 on Amazon’s movie guides and reviews best seller list?! (It’s out June 11, you can preorder now, including from @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social, and I will sign yours and/or sing “The Ballad of Maxwell Demon” for you if you purchase.)

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Top 15 shows ever, unranked & gut-based: Twin Peaks The Comeback MST3K Tales from the Crypt The State Deadwood The Wire You Can’t Do That on Television Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Press Your Luck Daria Beavis and Butthead Animaniacs Tanner 88 Aqua Teen Hunger Force

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

IT’S REAL! It’s full color! It’s coming to a bookstore near you (in a little while)! I cannot wait till my VELVET GOLDMINE book is out in the world (on June 11! Less than 2 months away!) Preorders from @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social or your favorite bookstores

The cover of BFI Film Classics volume VELVET GOLDMINE — a pink and blue watercolor rendering of Brian Slade — sits on a tabletop on Scrabble tiles

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Y'all, this book is the real deal--buy two because you're going to want to give one to someone before you finish chapter two!

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I have some huge news! I am making my debut on a Criterion disc for their stunning 4k restoration of Neil Jordan's THE CRYING GAME. I wrote an essay for the booklet and I'm very excited for everyone to check it out. www.criterion.com/films/33812-...

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The Crying Game

Neil Jordan’s emotionally stunning international sensation overcame the barriers between independent and mainstream cinema to become one of the defining films of the 1990s. Set against the turbulence ...

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I want a Car Talk-style show that's just Bob calling Comrade Josh.

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I’m teaching INFINITE JEST again this summer for @roundtable92ny.bsky.social—join me for a thematic tour through this novel for its 30th anniversary! roundtable.org/live-courses...

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

So excited to get my hands on a hard copy of this review.

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Just finished draft one of a little thing I've been working on.

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RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

For Women Writers Week, Jen Johans writes about Joan Cusack, and how she’s "crackling, high-voltage live wire who commits to scenes with an intensely funny mischievous ferocity."

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Joan Cusack: Best Supporting Energy

Five scenes in five unexpected movies to showcase the actor's irrepressible talents.

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

"A movie like Blue Velvet and a performance like Rossellini’s have to make us feel uncomfortable in order for it to be honorable. They hold true to her experiences by showing us that Vallens is a woman with no protection from her emotions and her exposed vulnerability." Superb essay.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I was invited to participate in Women Writers Week at the Ebert website, and I wrote about Isabella Rossellini's performance in BLUE VELVET, and how she helped guide the film into its dark and mysteries places. www.rogerebert.com/women-writer...

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The Mysteries of Dorothy Vallens: On Isabella Rossellini in “Blue Velvet”

A look at one of the most essential performances of the '80s.

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Yeah I watched the State of the Union

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Got to visit Lumberton today ... 1. Jeffrey's House

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A thread for Michael Silverblatt ... Michael was a lot of things to a lot of people, but for me he remains one of the greatest, most inspiring teachers & mentors I have ever had. I know many may not consider him a teacher, but I can think of few people who are better educators.

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A brief note about Robert Duvall ... When I was a senior in high school, Duvall came to Lafayette, LA, to film THE APOSTLE. My friend & I had a show on public access cable where we reviewed movies & made short films. The people Duvall was staying with saw our show & asked Duvall if he'd meet us.

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Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

“Like a David Lynch film itself, Miley’s book is frequently unexpected, sometimes startling, wholly absorbing, and a superb testament to the virtues of lateral thinking.” Read more about DAVID LYNCH'S AMERICAN DREAMSCAPE in the new issue of @sightsoundmag.bsky.social @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social

The cover of the March 2026 issue of SIGHT AND SOUND has Paul Thomas Anderson removing his glasses.

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Bud Cort's great gift was that he made us all feel like no matter how nerdy, odd, on the spectrum, contrary, or confused we might be, as long as we were true to our authentic selves, then we'll find others who dance to the beat that only we can hear each day when we walk out the door. #RIP

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Jason P. Woodbury @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Great book! If you enjoy the idea of connecting the dots between Lynch and the work of Cormac McCarthy, Lana Del Rey, David Foster Wallace, Maurice Sendak, & more, it's for you.

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