Kyle Stevens
Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
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- Thank you to her. She gave us so much! I was so young when I found d her. This scene changed me.
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- Reposted by Kyle StevensHere's hoping that Sam Altman continues praising Donald Trump, that his remarks are widely disseminated, and that all those using or considering using ChatGPT hear them.
- "President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country." Such a courageous statement from Sam Altman to OpenAI employees. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
- Reposted by Kyle StevensICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
- This shit really gets my goat. I haven't seen the film, but I'm sick of gay directors' films being called "excessively decorous," or some such euphemistic suggestion they should stay in the worlds of interior decorating and flower shops. It has plagued directors from Almodovar to Tom Ford.
- “It is a notorious tendency of the scholarly folk tradition to place combustible content in neat boxes and much the same happens to the emotional content of this sensitive but excessively decorous film” Jonathan Romney reviews. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
- Back in 2009 I wrote an essay that put the predicament for out gay directors like this: "make a stylish film and it will be dismissed as the product of an 'aesthete' or make a non-stylish film and it will just be dismissed."
- Watching the excellent cozy period murder mystery Bookish on PBS, and aside from many charms it has given me the phrase “I’m in a state of advanced refreshment” as a euphemism for drunk. 🙏
- I think Jesse Plemons might be so good that people forget he’s acting his ass off.
- While we’re mulling over the Oscar nominations (which is usually about what we would’ve done), I’ll say that my own supporting actress category would’ve included Celia Weston for A Little Prayer.
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- Partner surprised me with a visit to a used/antique cookbook shop today. I usually hate surprises but not this one!! Amazing.
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- Reposted by Kyle StevensSo to keep people in the loop, one of the biggest school districts in the state is closed Tuesday and Wednesday because they need to give teachers time to build hybrid options for families worried about their children getting kidnapped on the way to school by lawless masked armed federal goons.
- There it is.
- Brett Ratner directed the Melania slop doc flop!? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- Oh, it's Cary Grant's birthday? Let me once again beat the drum for Holiday, one of the five movies that raised me—but don't let that stop you! It's a delightful, human portrait of youthful middle class anxieties about facing a life of labor ahead.
- To the one who came up with color-coding subtitles on programs: a MacArthur; 9 Guggenheims; a Nobel; and a nice dinner out.
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- Peter Hujar's Day: Masterpiece of a meditation on the mediations of memory. The trials of writing history, of writing queer history, of writing personal history--with all the questions of fictionality and narcissism flowing through.
- Inspired by @annakornbluh.bsky.social’s yummy dinners, here’s a random series of some of my my favorite things I made in 2025. (I cook every day I can! Insta saw them first.)
- Reposted by Kyle StevensThe evidence is also clear that “elite” universities do not offer objectively better education. There is no Secret Extra Learning obtained there. Just a route into other kinds of elite that is closed, by definition, to everyone else.
- "The evidence is clear: when talented students who have faced greater barriers gain access to elite universities, they flourish precisely because opportunity, not ability, was the binding constraint." Prof Lee Elliot Major, University of Exeter #highered #edchat www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- Did I realize going in that Wong Kar Wai’s Shanghai Blossoms would be 30 episodes long (at around 45-50 minutes per)? No. And would that commitment have scared me? Yes. But I’m on episode 6 and never want it to end!
- Uh, Roofman is great?? Good score, Dunst *always* kills it, and Tatum delivers some serious acting! It’s the dramedy we need!
- I was wearing my “Written and Directed by Elaine May” shirt on in NYC and Paul Rudd pointed at me on the street and said “nice shirt.”
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- Jet-lagged from holiday travel and didn't mind throwing 3½ hours away, so we caught Avatar: Fire and Ash yesterday. Scenes with dim "lighting" were beautiful. That's the only nice thing I can say. Its attitudes towards sex, gender, warfare, ecology, etc. are a MESS.
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- Reposted by Kyle Stevens“I’ve often said this and I don’t think I’m exaggerating too much: America may be the only country that hates art. Money is the only thing that’s considered a healthy habit. Art is considered neurotic, or it just shows that you have problems, whereas having money is somehow seen as totally healthy.”
- Reposted by Kyle Stevens14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
- Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
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- Whatever ideas you might have about Sophie Kinsella's books, I found them charming and witty, and found an often-needed perspective. Rest in peace.
- Hamnet sure had a lot of acting! Jessie Buckley is really great: the physicality, the dynamics she found in simply written scenes, etc. But the overall film can’t help but undermine any faith in fiction, in metaphor. It makes everything literal, and so, feel empty.
- Rewatching The Killers and, um, let this be your reminder to, too.
- Waded into All’s Fair out of anthropological interest. Ryan Murphy remains the ultimate Karen. What’s surprising(ish) is that Glenn Close is worse than Kim Kardashian.
- Watched the first episode of Wong Kar-wai’s Shanghai Blossoms. Incredible. All his sumptuous style and historicizing + flashes of pulpy mystery fun. Already crave more.
