Some good news, for a change: my latest translation - of the Spanish filmmaker/ critic Victor Erice's text on the late works of Nicholas Ray - can now be read at the @Metrograph's Journal.

3. Sunday at MoMI at 5pm, Giuseppe Boccassini will show and discuss his brilliant montage works, 'Ragtag' and 'Desire'.

2. Saturday night at the Lefferts Historic House in BK, a FREE outdoor screening of Cheryl Dunye’s 'The Watermelon Woman,' part of @AlfredasCinema's ongoing summer series.

A busy weekend of films being put on by my friends coming up:. 1. On Saturday afternoon at Metrograph, a Nicholas Ray-Victor Erice double feature presented by @theater_matters.

The myth of liberal academia as refuge is dead. Next for the trash heap of history: the fiction of Israeli legitimacy/ morality.

RT @Metrograph: "The best of Nicholas Ray’s work will forever live in the space, real and imagined, of myth.". New translation of Víctor Er….

Last call for 'The Dancing Soul of the Walking People' at Maysles, tonight at 7pm.

As for the piece, it is a beauty, one that clearly illuminates a murky, difficult period in Ray's creative life - particularly the oft misunderstood 'Lightning Over Water' - and links author and subject in a way that is very touching.

Both films, showing in 35mm, are highly recommended. Many thanks to the TotM troupe, and to Erice for his blessing.

The translation was commissioned by The Theater of Matters (@theater_matters) for their upcoming Ray/Erice double bill on Saturday, July 26, at said Metrograph.

Read on, and follow this link to buy tickets to Saturday's super-rare screening at @MayslesCinema ✨

Another day, another detailed appraisal of 'The Dancing Soul of the Walking People' by a writer, initials JB. This time, it's Judith Bloch's 1981 review for Film Quarterly, and it's no less an evocative text than all the others I've shared.

Nfn, but I think of this dude often.

One week until 'The Dancing Soul of the Walking People' at @MayslesCinema on Saturday, 7/19. Don't miss this incredibly rare chance to see Paula Gladstone's ode to Coney Island with the filmmaker in person. Click through for tickets 🌡️

Stills from Skip Norman's 'Strange Fruit,' now streaming on Ultra Dogme's Patreo Movie Club, for a fee:

Lest we forget, the other byproduct of capitalism.

Night, from the brothers and I 🌳

You won't have to imagine it for much longer; join me on Saturday, July 19 in the heart of Harlem, at the height of the summer, to see and hear it for yourself ✨

Two weeks until 'The Dancing Soul of the Walking People' at @MayslesCinema. Here, from his book The Front Line 1983, is the great Jonathan Rosenbaum with a word about the film.

On Saturday, July 19, you can join me and the filmmaker at @MayslesCinema and finally lay eyes on it. I hope to see you there.