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| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 39 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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The Burning Brain
TONIGHT AT 6:45 PM, “The Baffler Presents: Global Texas” kicks off at Brooklyn Academy of Music with a rare 35mm screening of Tommy Lee Jones’ 2006 directorial debut The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Last night I had a long discussio...
Land of Contrasts
from Lone Star (1996)
STARTING TOMORROW NIGHT at Brooklyn Academy of Music, I’ve organized a four-film series in conjunction with The Baffler‘s new issue “Global Texas”.
The whole issue is fascinating, but Lauren Fadiman’s “The Invention...
Ridgewood Babylon
(The Misconceived poster by me.)
AS MY INTEREST DRIFTS further and further away from contemporary cinema (Backrooms? Obsession? The Odyssey? I have to wash my hair that night), it’s an honor and a privilege when I get the chance to try and...
Real Steel
from Sweet Sal (1979)
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, for better and for worse, I dated a journalist. She invited me to collaborate with Topic—the now-defunct progressive movie studio and multivalent online magazine created by eBay’s less-problematic f...
Progress Always Comes Late
(a two page comic, for paid subscribers only)
“YOUR WRITING WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU DIDN’T APOLOGIZE SO MUCH.” That’s some advice I got recently from a fellow critic-turned-programmer, somebody whose work and determination I admire very muc...
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Originally from Seattle, Steve Macfarlane is a curator, writer and cartoonist based in Ridgewood, New York. His debut graphic novel THEY SAVED BIDEN'S BRAIN will be published by ACE Theater in 2026.
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