The Back Row Manifesto
Tom HallThoughts on film, contemporary film culture, and beyond. "Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen…"– Robert Bresson
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The BRM Archive: SHOAH
Simon Srebnik returns to Poland in Claude Lanzmann’s SHOAH
In 2013, I wrote a piece about the film I consider the most important movie ever made, Claude Lanzmann’s SHOAH, a movie that continues to resonate through time and will do so etern...
Scrapbook #8
The 2025 Montclair Film Festival (photo by Neil Grabowsky for Montclair Film)
The 2025 Montclair Film Festival
On October 26, we wrapped the 2025 Montclair Film Festival. After ten days of films, conversations, panels, Q&As, and special e...
No Authority #9: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
As our culture continues its slow, aching bend toward acquiescence and accommodation of authoritarian power, ideas, principles, and propaganda, I am writing a series about the lessons of representation of authoritarianism and resistance in...
Scrapbook #7
The 14th Annual Montclair Film Festival Is Coming October 17-26, 2025
An Apology
First and foremost, I owe my subscribers an apology.
I have not felt able to write lately.
First, politically, what more can I say than what I have...
No Authority #8: BRAZIL
Terry Gilliam’s BRAZIL
As our culture continues its slow, aching bend toward acquiescence and accommodation of authoritarian power, ideas, principles, and propaganda, I am writing a series about the lessons of representation of authoritari...
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