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Will DiGravio

@willdigravio.bsky.social
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researcher, fact-checker: extremism, conspiracies, US history critic: Paste, Time, etc. assistant editor, Cineaste PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Amsterdam The Video Essay Podcast views mine www.willdigravio.com

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Cineaste Magazine @cineastemagazine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our fall issue is here! On the cover: Emily Blunt in DISCLOSURE DAY. For more on the essays, interviews, and reviews included in the issue, visit our website: www.cineaste.com
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
My favorite joke of all time is Mel Brooks telling Carl Reiner that Sigmund Freud was a great basketball player, but the reason it’s not remembered is because “he set up the shots.” Happy 100th birthday to the 👑 ❤️
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
John Ford’s Western, released on this day in 1962, wasn't merely a team-up of legends John Wayne, James Stewart, and Lee Marvin, @willdigravio.bsky.social writes. It was a pointed commentary on the stories America tells about itself:
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and the Lessons of American Myth-Making — Crooked Marquee
John Ford’s 1962 Western wasn't merely a team-up of legends; it was a pointed commentary on the stories America tells about itself.
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Hiroshi Shimizu @outskirtsmag.bsky.social, John Akomfrah @ Brooklyn Rail, Robert Vas @prospectmagazine.co.uk, Jonathan Rosenbaum @chicagoreader.com, new @cineastemagazine.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Kids pause at a railroad crossing in Hiroshi Shimizu’s CHILDREN OF THE BEEHIVE (1948).
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“Even in this fleeting moment, one sees the seeds of what would come to define Kelly’s greatness on screen: an ability to maintain a regal air while offering a deep, relatable humanity,” @willdigravio.bsky.social writes of Grace Kelly’s film debut in ‘Fourteen Hours’: buff.ly/XHs44M7
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“To watch Garbo is to understand what Hitchcock meant he called silent movies the purest form of cinema,” @willdigravio.bsky.social writes. “Each glance and movement seems to convey something about the complexities of Garbo’s character.”
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
At just 20 years old, Greta Garbo sailed from Sweden to the United States to film “Torrent,” the first of three pictures released in 1926. In the words of one prescient newspaper writer, “Miss Garbo is scheduled for stardom.”
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This is my full 50-page statement to Gov. Pritzker's "Illinois Accountability Commission," trying to explain comprehensively the depth of corruption, culture, and training problems within ICE and CBP. I hope you'll at least consider scanning through it: drive.google.com/file/d/1y0im...
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IAC-Testimony.withlinks.pdf
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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Great new episode of The Video Essay Podcast from @willdigravio.bsky.social featuring @jirianger.bsky.social thevideoessay.com/jiri-anger-o...
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The Video Essay Podcast - Jiří Anger on 'Towards a Film Theory From Below'
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
can’t wait to run it back in 2026
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
For Millennium Film Journal, my thoughts on three found footage films from this year’s Prismatic Ground: millenniumfilmjournal.com/los-angeles-...
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Prismatic Ground: Los Angeles, The Mills, and A Moon - Millennium Film Journal
Read this review of Prismatic Ground by Will DiGravio.
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Elliot Williams @elliotwilliams.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Thank you, Will! And yes, pre-order here! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...
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Five Bullets by Elliot Williams: 9780593833704 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, a revelatory account of how one man, four teenagers, and a struggling city collided over race, vigilantism, and public safety . . .  exposing the fault...
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
For nearly two years, I worked as the researcher on @elliotwilliams.bsky.social’s new book, FIVE BULLETS, a history of “subway vigilante” Bernie Goetz, his trial, and 1980s NYC! It’s as timely as it is captivating! Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
reminding myself that every extra freelance gig is one step closer to paying off my student loans/buying an eames lounge chair
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
It’s not a sports documentary until an interviewee says the subject was “playing chess while everybody else was playing checkers”
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
should be mandated in every classroom throughout our great land
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
“It is in the final scene, in which Lloyd’s character completes a dashing run to win the big game, where the film distinguishes itself as a masterpiece’,”  
@willdigravio.bsky.social writes of ‘The Freshman’: crookedmarquee.com/with-pure-gu...
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today. We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER: For @pastemagazine.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
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Michael Kosta: An Empathetic Jock Ready to Spoof Our Time
Comedian and The Daily Show correspondent Michael Kosta is a man of many talents, as his television success and new memoir more than show.
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today. We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER: For @pastemagazine.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
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Michael Kosta: An Empathetic Jock Ready to Spoof Our Time
Comedian and The Daily Show correspondent Michael Kosta is a man of many talents, as his television success and new memoir more than show.
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Hell. Yes. www.paristheaternyc.com/film/spaceba...
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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Very excited to have been apart of this story, but perhaps even more happy to have my academic freedom at Boston University.
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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Very honoured and deeply grateful: to have been elected yesterday as one of the new Fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social, an institution I have loved since it funded my PhD study many moons ago.
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
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Late Night Last Week: Stephen Colbert & the Consolidation of Corporate Power
The biggest news in the world of late night last week was the firing of Stephen Colbert and the coming death of the Late Show franchise.
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
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Late Night Last Week: Stephen Colbert & the Consolidation of Corporate Power
The biggest news in the world of late night last week was the firing of Stephen Colbert and the coming death of the Late Show franchise.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
“For the last five seconds, we all lay there, quietly waiting for what seemed an eternity,” Edward Teller recalls in this @politico.com excerpt abt the Trinity explosion, 80 years ago this week, from my new oral history of the Manhattan Project & the atomic bombings. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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'Great Enough to Blow Any City Off the Map’: On Site at the First Nuclear Explosion
The men who set off the nuclear age tell the tale in their own words.
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“The layering of images, combined with the cartoon-like set design, achieves an effect that is a blending of worlds: half-real, half-animation.” @willdigravio.bsky.social on the beloved Kelly-and-Jerry dance sequence in “Anchors Aweigh”: crookedmarquee.com/gene-kelly-j...
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
My thoughts on the best (and worst) moments in late night TV (so far) this year! For @pastemagazine.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...
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The Best (and Worst) Moments in Late Night Television This Year (So Far)
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Today I start a 6-month sabbatical, where my goals are to disengage from academic politics (after chairing our Faculty Council for the past tumultuous year), wander about Europe as much as possible, and write a book / make video essays about media reflexivity. Like this! youtu.be/69Kmz4PzEHs
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The Video Essay About The Show: Trailer
YouTube video by Jason Mittell
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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Bill Carter writes: Jimmy Kimmel is a brave man, or just a confident one. He's the one late-night host who seems to have no hesitation about embracing the “guest host” tradition.
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The Sign of a Truly Confident Late-Night Host? Guest Hosts.
Bill Carter writes: Jimmy Kimmel is a brave man, or just a confident one. He's the one late-night host who seems to have no hesitation about embracing the “guest host” tradition.
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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 23/06/2025
🛜⚠️ @theguardian.com named @vermontgmg.bsky.social and @longlead.com’s LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET a podcast of the week. Out Tuesday—subscribe now: Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-… Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/70a5obPALvMVM…
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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 20/06/2025
This @parkermolloy.com interview with @juddlegum.bsky.social is solid gold. What he's built at @popular.info is incredible. That he's doing it without a paywall is really a tremendous service to news consumers. Here's why he made that choice:
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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
When college professor Steve Ross began teaching psychology 16 years ago, he never imagined he’d one day be drawing on his love of late-night television in the classroom. But it turns out that playing a late-night host has become one of his best tools for getting through to students.
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Pass Psych Tonight: How One Professor Made Late Night a Learning Tool
When college professor Steve Ross began teaching psychology 16 years ago, he never imagined he’d one day be drawing on his love of late-night television in the classroom. But it turns out that playing a late-night host has become one of his best tools for getting through to students.
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Jemma Saunders (Penny) @jemsaunders1.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A little snippet from one of my reflections in our first editorial. Watch the fragment by @willdigravio.bsky.social at fragments.video
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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"I experienced this rough cut as an archive of Will’s intentions, a showcase of how various videographic techniques were being deployed to achieve them" @willdigravio.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/04/16/p...
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Paste Magazine @pastemagazine.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
In this week’s late night TV recap, John Mulaney looks up at the lights after getting whupped by three 14-year-old boys, while John Oliver and Nathan Fielder look to the skies to fix our aviation nightmares. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...
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Late Night Last Week: John Mulaney Loses Fight to Teens, as Oliver and Nathan Fielder Look to the Skies
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
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Cineaste Magazine @cineastemagazine.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Our Summer 2025 issue is here! On the cover: Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in John Ford's THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940). The issue includes a review of the new found footage epic, HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT, and an interview with its director, Alexander Horwath. More at our website: www.cineaste.com
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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video
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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
As #TheRehearsal ends in the US and debuts in the UK, I was happy to contribute some of my thoughts to this compelling column by Micha Frazer-Carroll:
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Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal is truly uncomfortable, but we need more TV like this
Truth is a slippery concept in Fielder’s experimental TV show, writes Micha Frazer-Carroll. But whether what we are seeing on screen is real or not, the series makes for a bizarre and fascinating crit...
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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This week on the Late Night Time Machine, we travel back to the night of July 5, 1982 and an early guest appearance by Pee-wee Herman on 'Late Night with David Letterman' that became a classic.
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Pee-wee Herman Takes Letterman for a Drive in the Country
This week on the Late Night Time Machine, we travel back to the night of July 5, 1982 and an early guest appearance by Pee-wee Herman on 'Late Night with David Letterman' that became a classic.
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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 10/05/2025
In May 2022, I took a team of journalists to the West LA VA. Our question was simple: “Why are vets sleeping on the sidewalk outside?” Yesterday, the results of @longlead.com’s reporting hit home:
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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Leave it to Johnny Carson to find a subtle way of letting his audience know just how he felt.
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The Night Johnny Carson Gave His Audience the Middle Finger
Leave it to Johnny Carson to find a subtle way of letting his audience know just how he felt.
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Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 30/04/2025
April will not be the cruelest month, but it does mark 100 days of Trump's second term. For @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @prithvi97.bsky.social and I look at how rhetorical attacks on disinformation researchers have become government policy. www.techpolicy.press/fantasy-beco...
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Fantasy Becomes Reality as Trump Takes Revenge on Disinformation Researchers | TechPolicy.Press
Disinformation researchers must reshape the narrative of their struggle before it is too late, write Dean Jackson and Prithvi Iyer.
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
RIP Ruth Buzzi ❤️
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 02/05/2025
Ruth Buzzi, comedy sketch player on groundbreaking series 'Laugh-In,' dies at 88.
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Ruth Buzzi, comedy sketch player on groundbreaking series 'Laugh-In,' dies at 88
Ruth Buzzi, who rose to fame as the frumpy and bitter Gladys Ormphby on the groundbreaking sketch comedy series “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and made over 200 television appearances during a 45-year career, has died at age 88.
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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Very excited to be featured on Will's return episode! Check out our conversation about my book of video essays on #BreakingBad (and the book itself at go.middlebury.edu/videographicBB )
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Johannes Binotto @sennahojottonib.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The video essay podcast is back!What a wonderful surprise. Cooking pasta right now and listening to my good friends @jmittell.bsky.social and @willdigravio.bsky.social thevideoessay.com
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The Video Essay Podcast
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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The Video Essay Podcast returns! @jmittell.bsky.social joins to discuss his new videographic book, The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad, the first in a series he edits for Lever Press. Listen here: thevideoessay.com/jason-mittel...
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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"Cut to Sound" is a group exercise prompt based on a collaborative videographic experiment, exploring the relationship between sounds, images, and words. See detailed instructions + 3 videos made by 24 participants here: www.arielavissar.work/cut-to-sound Check them out - and make your own!
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