A S Hamrah
2,498 posts
writer and film critic • @nplusonemag, @bookforum, @harpers, etc. • member @thensfc • my NEW books, link below
Joined February 2012
- Killers of the Flower Moon is the first film I’ve ever seen with an “Owl Advisor” in the credits.
- Filmmakers today can’t stop showing their math, like they’re gonna be graded on it. Stuff like this doesn’t matter. What matters is if the film is good. The guy who did the Crow remake had a whole list too.Materialists movie syllabus via Celine
- You mean you took him for a ride.Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos reveals that David Lynch was working on a limited series with the streamer that “would have been his last project.” “It was a David Lynch production, so filled with mystery and risks but we wanted to go on this creative ride with this genius.”
- I don’t understand how Alice Rohrwacher’s new film, a 39 minute mini masterpiece Christmas movie based on something by Elsa Morante, ended up on the Disney Channel as a “Disney+ Original.” It’s a Christmas miracle, a Gentileschi in a field of princess crap.
- This is the stupidest thing ever written about documentary filmmaking in the entire history of writing about documentary filmmaking.
- After not giving him his due in his heyday, NYT now admits Abbas Kiarostami was “a modern master.” And recommends one of the two films you should start with is . . . Certified Copy? God forbid Times readers should have to see two films made in Iran.
- Abel Ferrara should make the RFK Jr biopic








