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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 12h

I will be at the Chicago International Film Festival on Saturday 10/17, on a panel about everyone's favorite topic, Physical Media! Come on out.

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In a glass case of emotion reading @mattsinger.bsky.social's new book Funny Business, on the rise and dispersal of the Frat Pack. Out today!

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OLD NEW reports from the New York Film Festival on Film Heritage Foundation restorations of the Parallel Cinema masterpiece Report to Mother ('86) and the charming counter-culture campus comedy In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones ('89). And much more: oldnew.substack.com/p/new-york-f...

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New York Film Festival: Revivals

Report to Mother, In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones, Yesterday Girl, The Ritual

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Way back in the pre-COVID days we took a tour with Andrea and it was great!

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My terrifying wife is in the New York Times for her Witches of Wall Street tour. Book now and often: boroughsofthedead.com/tours/witche...

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

OLD NEW reports from the New York Film Festival with words on Mariano Llinás's quixotically delightful The Life of Jorge Luis Borges, an interview with Laida Lertxundi on her acting debut in Beatrice Gibson's At Night, and more! oldnew.substack.com/p/new-york-f...

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New York Film Festival: Currents

Words on The Life of Jose Luis Borges, Foreign Travel, Overt Listening, At Night, Another Earth

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ᴛʜᴇ 𝕍𝔼ℝℕ𝕀𝕊ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔾 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ONE LAST SHOT starring Scott Adkins is a satisfying conclusion to maybe the most ambitious series in modern indie action. Somehow they do ROPE-style filmmaking on tight budgets and schedules, and the story is engrossing enough that I forget to think much about the technical side. (Now on VOD.)

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One Last Shot | VERN'S REVIEWS on the FILMS of CINEMA

ONE LAST SHOT is an event movie within the world of indie action: director James Nunn (GREEN STREET 3: NEVER BACK DOWN), writer Jamie Russell and star Scott

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Was called in to co-host Kino Lorber's Shelf Space and had a lovely chat with Illeana Douglas about her new book on George Cukor's The Women (1939): youtu.be/EXxa1dl0a10?...

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Illeana Douglas | Shelf Space with Kino Lorber | Ep. 28

YouTube video by Kino Lorber

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

great week for new music: Krallice - Scour Order Nicole McCabe & Savannah Harris - All Together Now Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts - Second Song Patrick Shiroishi & Jason Nazary - here i am no i

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Listening to Sleep. These guys love marijuana.

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mariano Llinás' 323-minute Life of Jorge Luis Borges (2026) has a Marvel-style post-credit stinger.

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Football is back, so at OLD NEW I wrote about Semi-Tough (1977) and compared Kristofferson-Reynolds-Clayburgh to Mike Vrabel-Drake Maye-Diana Russini: oldnew.substack.com/p/keeping-sc...

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Keeping Score: Semi-Tough (1977)

On Michael Ritchie’s raucous football comedy

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Let's sing an endless song / For this asshole of a world"

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

a good week for new music: Sigh - Goh-Ka Devil Master - Bloody Dreams Paul Pinto & Quince Ensemble - The Approach, Ep. 1-3 Huw Morgan - the sound of the sea is the memory of all it has experienced

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

RIP Cassandra Wilson. Her words in Loop (Issue No. 1 - Fall 2016)

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Sean Gilman @theendofcinema.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New for subscribers only: a look at Jackie Chan's Drunken Master II. Also mentioned: Lau Kar-leung, Anita Mui, Ti Lung, Jet Li, Tsui Hark, Yuen Woo-ping, Yuen Siu-tien, Ching Siu-tung, Corey Yuen, Josephine Siao, Stephen Chow, Ringo Lam and John Woo, Michelle Yeoh, Yuen Biao, and Sammo Hung.

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Drunken Master II (Jackie Chan & Lau Kar-leung, 1994)

Films from Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and Beyond

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Linda May Han Oh's solo bass version of "God Bless the Child" could make a stone cry: lindamayhanoh.bandcamp.com/album/beneat...

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Beneath Lifted Skies, by Linda May Han Oh

15 track album

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Over at OLD NEW I wrote about Frank Borzage's transcendent classical music romance I've Always Loved You (1946). Of which Borzage said, "The color overshadows the plot."

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Appassionata: I’ve Always Loved You (1946)

Frank Borzage’s deliriously romantic love story set in the classical music world

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Mack Sennett on slapstick (2/15/1948, NYT)

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

At OLD NEW I wrote about Imtiaz Ali's Main Vaapas Aaunga (I Will Return, 2026), a dizzyingly romantic love story torn asunder by Partition: oldnew.substack.com/p/the-long-g...

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The Long Goodbye: Main Vaapas Aaunga (2026)

On Imtiaz Ali's epically intimate romantic-tragic love story

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

At OLD NEW I wrote about Imtiaz Ali's Main Vaapas Aaunga (I Will Return, 2026), a dizzyingly romantic love story torn asunder by Partition: oldnew.substack.com/p/the-long-g...

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The Long Goodbye: Main Vaapas Aaunga (2026)

On Imtiaz Ali's epically intimate romantic-tragic love story

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Main Vaapas Aaunga (2026): heart-exploding l'amour fou between a Sikh man and a Muslim woman torn asunder by Partition. Grand Borzage-ian romance reminded me most of I've Always Loved You (1946). So yeah movie of the year imo.

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My brother Joe released a new album of funny and bittersweet tunes today: joesweeney.bandcamp.com/album/party-...

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Party of One, by Joe Sweeney

13 track album

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Updated Descendants rankings. New era lacks the Kenny Ortega touch. 1. Descendants 2 (2017) 2. Descendants 3 (2019) 3. Descendants (2015) 4. Descendants: Wicked Wonderland (2026) 5. Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024)

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

BOTD DP Bruce Surtees!! Shot 20 #70s Film (!!) - incl Play Misty, Dirty Harry, Blume in Love, Lenny, Night Moves We just lauded his magnificent contribs to Harry and Night Movies on recent eps of That '70s Movie Podcast! More via @robert-emmet.bsky.social: r-emmetsweeney.com/2020/01/17/t...

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

For OLD NEW I wrote about André de Toth's demonic noir Crime Wave (53), out now on Blu-ray from Warner Archive: oldnew.substack.com/p/dark-city-...

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Dark City: Crime Wave (1953)

On André de Toth's demonic noir, out now on Blu-ray from Warner Archive

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Chuffed to be a guest on Nicolas Rapold's The Last Thing I Saw podcast, talking Qin Pengfei's Wings of Dread, MoMA's Silent Film Week, and Ketan Mehta's Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India! (1995): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Ep. 415: R. Emmet Sweeney on Wings of Dread, MoMA Silent Movie Week, Oh Darling Yeh Hai India, Blades of the Guardians, Driver’s Ed

Podcast Episode · The Last Thing I Saw · August 3 · 53m

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

For OLD NEW I wrote about André de Toth's demonic noir Crime Wave (53), out now on Blu-ray from Warner Archive: oldnew.substack.com/p/dark-city-...

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Dark City: Crime Wave (1953)

On André de Toth's demonic noir, out now on Blu-ray from Warner Archive

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Outraged nobody alerted me to this new Lea Jacobs joint.

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hey I got an award for the Dogtooth 4KUHD I produced: kinolorber.com/product/dogt...

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

For those who truly support cinema, I will see you at tonight's 8pm screening of Jesse V. Johnson's Above and Below at the AMC Empire

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Mack Chandler, Timothy Carey, and Charles Bronson in Crime Wave (1953)

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The cinematic event of the summer is out this week: Jesse V. Johnson's Above & Below. Exhibited on luminous DCP and presented in only one aspect ratio to simplify your decision-making process.

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Andre de Toth on why he preferred working on lower budget films

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Julien Leclercq is better suited for 80-minute crime movies (i.e. The Crew, The Bouncer, Earth and Blood, Sentinelle) than 6-hour "limited series", but checking out Elite Force (2026) anyway.

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Border Incident (1949) is on the Movies! Network rn. John Alton went hard on this one.

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