Adam Lubitow –

• Film studios adopt new strategies to save their biggest releases – 1/1/21

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo: Michelle Latimer’s Indigenous Identity Under Scrutiny, Khashoggi Doc Unwanted By Streaming Services, Village Voice Rises From the Dead – 1/4/21
• RIP Michael Apted, IFP Rebrands as the Gotham, Oscar Doc Feature Submissions Will Break Record – 1/11/21

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized December 2020: Nomadland, Promising Young Woman, Monster Hunter & More – 12/2/20

Christopher Schobert –

• Screening Buffalo: Curate your own Queen City-themed virtual film festival – 12/1/20

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo: The Whickers Cost of Docs Survey 2020, Sundance Offers Robust Online Platform, RIDM Award Winners – 12/7/20
• Monday Memo: 14th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Nominations, Obomsawin & Latimer Receive DOC Institute Honours, Docs on Public Servants Soothing in 2020 – 12/14/20
• Monday Memo – 12/21/20

Adam Lubitow –

• ‘Photo City’ is a snapshot of Rochester – 11/2/20

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized November 2020: Mank, Ammonite, Sound of Metal & More – 11/3/20
• Anomaly Film Festival 2020 Review Thread
• DOC NYC 2020 Review Thread

Christopher Schobert –

• Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: PTA, American Utopia, Christopher Nolan, and A is for Auteur – 11/19/20
• 2020 New York Film Festival roundup, from Almodovar to Michelle (Pfeiffer) – 11/30/20

Jeff Simon –

• Democracy, journalism win out in election night TV coverage – 11/5/20
• Remembering the amazing Alex Trebek – 11/10/20
• Jeff Simon: David E. Kelley having terrific second life on TV with ‘The Undoing’ – 11/23/20

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo: IDA Awards Shortlists, IDFA Competition Lineup Revealed & Art of the Real Goes Online – 11/2/20
• Monday Memo: DOC NYC Reveals Short List, Distributors on Selling Through COVID-19, Peabody Awards Adds Arts Category – 11/9/20
• Monday Memo – 11/16/20
• Monday Memo: DOC NYC 2020 Wraps Up, Simon Kilmurry Stepping Down From IDA Post, Valentina Pedicini Dead at 42 – 11/23/20
• Monday Memo: ‘Decolonize’ The Documentary?, IDFA Awards, and the Rise of COVID Docs – 11/30/20

Adam Lubitow –

• 2020 Witness Palestine Film Festival explores Middle East conflict, goes virtual – 10/2/20

Matt Marshall –

• I’m Back! – The Post-Quarantine Return to the Theater in New York State – 10/26/20

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized October 2020: Possessor, Fire Will Come, Synchronic & More – 10/3/20
• Nightstream 2020 review thread

Christopher Schobert –

• Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Goodfellas, Kelly Reichardt, Oliver Stone, Cannon Films, and More – 10/15/20
• 2020 AFI Film Fest and Chicago International Film Festival rundown – 10/27/20

Jeff Simon –

• Jeff Simon: Remembering Joe Rico, whose impact on jazz in Buffalo was immeasurable – 10/15/20
• Jeff Simon: Golden age of Buffalo film exhibition is over – 10/21/20
• Jeff Simon: Jeffrey Toobin’s unfathomable act is nothing to laugh about – 10/22/20

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo: Field of Vision Launches Online Journal, DOC Releases COVID19 Best Practices & IDFA Reveals Best of Fests Lineup – 10/5/20
• Monday Memo: Justine Nagan to Exit AmDoc, Nanfu Wang Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant, AFI Fest & DOK Leipzig Lineups Unveiled – 10/12/20
• Monday Memo: RIP James Redford, New IDFA plans, $100k prize for Alanis Obomsawin & more – 10/19/20
• Monday Memo: Justine Nagan to Exit AmDoc, Nanfu Wang Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant, AFI Fest & DOK Leipzig Lineups Unveiled – 10/26/20

Adam Lubitow –

• Rochester Fringe Festival, Day 7: ‘Disturbances a Deux’ – 9/21/20

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized September 2020: I’m Thinking of Ending Things, The Nest, Antebellum & More – 9/3/20

Matthew Passantino –

• Emmy Analysis: Outstanding Comedy Series – 9/19/20

Jeff Simon –

• Jeff Simon: Athletes do a lot more than ‘just dribble’ – 9/1/20

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo – 9/7/20
• Monday Memo – 9/14/20
• Monday Memo – 9/21/20

Adam Lubitow –

• FILM | “Journeys Through the Finger Lakes” – 8/5/20
• Eastman’s film preservation efforts go digital – 8/21/20

Jared Mobarak –

• Fantasia International Film Festival coverage – 8/20 – 9/2
• Posterized August 2020: She Dies Tomorrow, Tesla, La Llorona & More – 8/5/20

Jeff Simon –

• On Ellen DeGeneres, and kindness – 8/6/20
• Reality breaks the reality TV of ‘America’s Got Talent’ – 8/14/20
• HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ pulls H.P. Lovecraft mythos into mainstream – 8/28/20

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo – 8/3/20
• Monday Memo – 8/10/20
• Monday Memo – 8/17/20
• Monday Memo – 8/24/20
• Monday Memo – 8/31/20

Adam Lubitow –

• Loud and proud: Must-see films for Pride month viewing – 7/2/20

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized July 2020: The Rental, Palm Springs, The Painted Bird & More – 7/3/20

Matthew Passantino –

• The Best Movies of 2020, So Far Movie Review – 7/1/20
• Top 10: 90s Action Movies – 7/24/20

Jeff Simon –

• Jeff Simon: Music on WEBR is sensational – 7/21/20
• Jeff Simon: The brave new TV ad world of Ocasio-Cortez – 7/24/20

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo: Kevin Rafferty Dead at 73, Academy Invites 819 New Members, and a Question: How Does Film Shape the Fight for Racial Justice? – 7/6/20
• Monday Memo: A Call for Accountability, UK Cinemas Test the Waters After Lockdown & Fall Film Festivals Vow To Collaborate – 7/13/20
• Monday Memo: Tiger Production Controversy Breaks Out Over Representation, Telluride Cancelled Due to COVID19 & IDFA Forms Filmmaker Support Department – 7/20/20
• Monday Memo: Doc Editor Jonathan Oppenheim Dies at 67, Maysles Doc Center Launches Online Series, TIFF to Open With Spike Lee/ David Byrne Concert Doc – 7/27/20

Adam Lubitow –

• Tackling race in film – 6/4/20
• Black stories across film genres – 6/12/20

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized June 2020: Da 5 Bloods, Shirley, Tommaso, and More – 6/5/20

David Palmer –

• History of the Summer Blockbuster – 6/11/20

Christopher Schobert –

• Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Parasite Storyboards, David Lynch’s Dune, Céline Sciamma & More – 6/10/20

Jeff Simon –

• George Floyd’s death reminds us of our endless battle with fear – 6/3/20
• We’ve got to stop expecting real cops to act like TV cops – 6/12/20
• America’s Racial Reckoning with Itself Gets Even Tougher on Television – 6/18/20
• New ‘Perry Mason’ is as good as TV gets – 6/26/20

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo: Street Protests, Christo RIP, Hot Docs & More – 6/1/20
• Monday Memo: Firelight Launches ‘Beyond Resilience’ Initiative, Jonathan B. Murray Center Maps Doc Landscape, DOC Releases COVID-19 Impact Survey – 6/8/20
• Monday Memo: Black Defiance at the Movies, Academy to Develop “Representation” Standards, AFI DOCS & Sheffield Doc/Fest Announce Lineups – 6/15/20
• Monday Memo: North American Queer Festival Alliance Founded, Grasshopper Launched Projectr – 6/22/20
• Monday Memo: Fall Festivals Are Making Big Plans, Others Are Asking If Movie Theaters Are Safe – 6/29/20

Adam Lubitow –

• Self-isolation film guide: Sometimes there’s no place like home – 5/1/20
• Local drive-in theaters set to reopen – 5/15/20
• The future of film festivals – 5/29/20

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized May 2020: Liberté, Spaceship Earth, The Vast of Night, and More – 5/1/20

David Palmer –

• Biggest Summer Box Office Flops of All-Time – 5/17/20

Jeff Simon –

• Learning a new way to see old movies on YouTube – 5/1/20
• A historic and perfect quarantine book about Andy Warhol – 5/15/20

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo: The Ethics of Doc Production in a Pandemic, POV Announces 33rd Season, Human Rights Watch Goes Online, Locarno & Karlovy Vary Cancelled – 5/4/20
• Monday Memo: POV Spark Announces Public Update, Peabody Noms Revealed, AFI Docs and Hot Docs Go Virtual, Lincoln Center Unveils New Structure – 5/11/20
• Monday Memo: Film Festivals Are Creating a Better Future, A Guide to Filming in the Time of Corona & Critics Mourn Cancellation of Cannes 2020 – 5/18/20