As #NYFF64 kicks off, @adriancurry's latest "Movie Poster of the Week" column look backs half a century to the films and posters of the festival's 14th edition → mubi.com/notebook/posts/movi…

"When an informal network of amateurs questions the work of industry standard-bearers, it is rarely a matter of raw technical superiority but rather a fundamental difference in constraints..." @SadHillDevan writes on piracy-based film preservation. mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/p…

"A work of surprisingly experimental temperament for a filmmaker best known as the nouvelle vague’s staunch traditionalist, Élisabeth exposes just how ill-fitting that reputation has always been..." Oliver Evans writes on Rohmer's newly translated novel. mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/k…

“In the Dark (2000) is one of one, but it also laid a foundation—modest but solid—for a distinctly millennial subgenre predicated on the same contradictions between social collapse and elite control explored in Salo (1975) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). In these films, the more things fall apart below a certain level, the tighter the grip grows at the top. Call it cabal-core, where evil lurks behind closed doors, embedded into the language, structure and aesthetics of bureaucracy itself...” Soraya Sebghati (@SorayaSpaghetti) writes about the history of “cabal-core,” i.e., conspiracy-based horror films about elites pulling the strings of society while it collapses: mubi.com/notebook/posts/memb…

"Realism is not real life, but a stylistic decision—a deceptively liberal one, at that—frequently used and abused to insist that a fictional world is actual rather than manufactured. The circumstances that lead to the Gheorghiu family being investigated and prosecuted in Fjord are so psychologically fraudulent, so clearly avoidable—if only a single one of these characters could act outside of the fate that [Cristian] Mungiu has prescribed for them, the entire conflict would collapse—that the film only functions as a sadistic exercise in engineering doublethink in an audience that it knows has already made up its mind..." Blake Williams (@Astrostic) on FJORD: mubi.com/notebook/posts/cann…