WEAR SUNSCREEN
Reunion Newsletter [7.3.26]
My birthday is August 1st. Going to throw party that’ll double as new issue launch for Magazine Non Grata. Will put details out in a few days. But it’ll be downtown Manhattan like 10pm-ish Saturday night. And obviously Benihana for dinner, the only respectable place for birthdays.
Studios did a great job on kids movies. There are lots of options right now. Toy Story, Minions and Moana. With a few other movies that are basically for children in their own way like Super Girl and Disclosure Day. Not a lot out there for fully formed brains. We’ve got a re-release of Backrooms with more footage, which is kinda annoying because I want to see it but I don’t want to sit through the movie again. I’ll go toward end and just watch the post-credits additional footage. WTF is Young Washington??? I haven’t been able to get to Jackass but am very sad this wasn’t a smash hit. I love them and heard this one is excellent—in whatever way they can be measured for quality. I think the Olivia Wilde comes out this weekend, that’s for adults, that’s the only new adult release I think. I had an excellent Zoey Deutch double feature the other day with Voicemails for Isabelle on The Netflix and then David Wain’s Gail Daughtry Celebrity Sex Pass. I loved them both. I cackled laughing at Gail. So much fun. Please go see it. I also realized there are more episodes of The Studio that I never watched. I thought the Golden Globes episode was the season finale and I just never finished it. So I have that. And the Larry David thing, but I dunno. First episode felt kinda tedious. Like the same joke alternating contexts. In general though, old movies continue to be the marquee draws. Incredible stuff playing right now in New York if you live here. Feels like I have something every day on my calendar that feels like a special event. It’s becoming a tired refrain from me that repertory cinema is just spectacular.
Really excited for the Isabel Sandoval retrospective AND new release Moonglow at Asia Society NYC! Linked below. 🍿🍿🍿
The Empire State Russians not being branded content, and The Odyssey not doing influencer screenings is a turning of the tide. Cool stuff.
I believe there is more to the Celtics dumping Jaylen Brown for less than nothing, considering they’re, until we learn more, stuck with Paul George for two years. If there is nothing more to it, then it’s the second worst trade I can think of after Luka. I want the Knicks to sign and old big, trade for a young big, and add LeBron. I can’t believe the world has turned so many times that we finally see a time when I actually think it would be fun to have LeBron on the Knicks. I think it’d be awesome. Peak NBA drama. I admit it. I want it.
Stay cool people, it’s ugly out there this weekend. Don’t die.
— Sean Glass @sdotglass
EVENTS
July 3+5: A. Rimbaud [Roxy] Going very strong!!
July 15-August 1: Glowing with Beth B in person [Roxy]
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THE NEWS
The important stuff on the important stuff. TL;DR + links if you want more.
| INDUSTRY |
Indie Films Turned to Roadshow Releases When Traditional Rollouts Failed — and Distributors Took Note [IndieWire]
Can Mamdani Lure Big Blockbusters Back to NYC? [IndieWire]
| ANNOUNCEMENTS |
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema launches programme to champion unreleased festival premieres [Screen Daily]
Simu Liu Joins Allison Williams & Michelle Randolph In Xavier Gens Sci-Fi Thriller Homewrecker; France Shoot Date Set [Deadline] Hilarious one of the most violent offenders (compliment) of New French Extremity working with Simu Liu and Allison Williams now. Life is long.
Filmmaker Travon Free Teams With Blink49 Creator Studios and 1Community for Documentary on New York Knicks Championship [Variety]
| FESTIVALS |
Fantasia’s 30th Edition Will Open with Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell [IndieWire]
Edinburgh International Film Festival unveils 2026 programme with 21 world premieres including UFO comedy Out There [Screen Daily]
Hudson Film Festival Reveals 2026 Lineup with Filipiñana, Barbara Forever, and More [IndieWire]
| MISC. |
Why Westerns Still Matter [NYT]
In an Era of $1,000 Tickets, $10 Watch Parties Bring Die-Hard Fans Together [Front Office Sports] Movies.
SUBSTACK RECOMMENDATIONS
WHAT TO WATCH
It’s All a BIG Conspiracy - 70mm series [FLC]
Big Swings [Paris]
Declaration of Independents! [IFC]
Universal Westerns [MoMA] 🍿
Guy Maddin series [Film Forum] 🍿
Japan Cuts 2026, opens July 8 [Japan Society] 🍿
Desire & Solitude: The Cinema of Isabel Sandoval, opens July 9 [Asia Society]
| NEW RELEASES |
Backrooms: Everything Must Go [wide]
Young Washington [wide]
The Invite [wide]
| ON FILM |
Tenet in 70mm [FLC]
Batman in 70mm [FLC]
Dune in 70mm [FLC]
The Master in 70mm [FLC]
Hamlet in 70mm [FLC]
Eight Men Out in 35mm [Paris]
Eyes Wide Shut in 35mm [Paris]
Viridiana in 35mm [Paris]
42 in 35mm [Paris]
Mala Noche in 35mm [IFC]
An American Romance in 35mm [MoMA]
America America in 35mm [MoMA]
They Live by Night in 35mm [Roxy]
A Fistful of Dollars in 35mm [Metrograph]
Terminator 2: Judgement Day in 35mm [Metrograph]
Good Time in 35mm [Metrograph]
Ashes of Time Redux in 35mm [Metrograph]
For a Few Dollars More in 35mm [Metrograph]
Universal Soldier in 35mm [Metrograph]
| REP CINEMA |
A Letter to Three Wives [Paris]
The Way We Were [Paris]
Field of Dreams [Paris]
Nazarín [Paris]
A League of Their Own [Paris]
Dynamic 01: The best of DAVIDLYNCH.COM [Angelika]
I Saw the TV Glow [Angelika]
Drive [Angelika]
Memento [Angelika]
Do the Right Thing, 4K restoration [Angelika]
Tokyo Pop, with director Fran Rubel Kuzui in person [IFC]
Seeing Red [IFC]
Sex, Lies, and Videotape [IFC]
Chan is Missing [IFC]
Blood Simple [IFC]
Cane River [IFC]
Ulzana’s Raid [MoMA]
The Hired Hand [MoMA]
Heaven’s Gate [MoMA]
The Godfather: Part II, 4K restoration [MoMA]
Sherman’s March, 40th anniversary 4K restoration [Film Forum]
Cannibal Holocaust, new 4K restoration [Roxy]
Yojimbo [Metrograph]
The Traveler [Metrograph]
Ivan’s Childhood [Metrograph]
Total Recall [Metrograph]
La Haine [Metrograph]
Blow Out [MoMI]
| STREAMING |
7 Piano Sketches [MUBI]
Fiume o Morte! [VOD]
Glastonbury Fayre [Le Cinéma Club]
Obsession [VOD]
The Prisoner - Complete series [The Criterion Channel]
Project Hail Mary [Prime Video]
Silent Friend [VOD]
Super Happy Forever [Fandor]
| COMING SOON |
| BONUS FEATURES |
The Skywalkers take the Empire State Building.
No influencers screenings for The Odyssey. Naturally these losers are crashing out.
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This NBA off season has been one for the books.
Polaroid’s new anti-AI campaign.
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