Eileen Jones
Contributing Editor/Film Critic at Jacobin
I write about film for Jacobin magazine and have a podcast called Filmsuck. Survived many years of teaching at UC Berkeley's Department of Film and Media.
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1 week ago |
jacobin.com | Eileen Jones
Celine Song, writer-director of the thoughtful, poignant, highly praised, Best Picture–nominated drama Past Lives (2023), has come out with her second film, a romantic comedy called Materialists. Song’s trying to be thoughtful about that too — the way the silly, swoony genre as a whole works, as well as the way the real-life perils of contemporary romance play out. But how to get the swoony and the cruelly crass together in one film?
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2 weeks ago |
jacobin.com | Eileen Jones
A lot has been written about the IP problem besetting mainstream filmmaking today. IP, or intellectual property, refers to all the preexisting material adapted to film by studios and producers. It’s a way of minimizing financial risk by relying on familiar sources that have already found favor with consumers. These include best-selling novels, popular comic […] Sorry, but this article is available to subscribers only. Please log in or become a subscriber.
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2 weeks ago |
portside.org | Eileen Jones
The IP Machine Laughs at Itself Published June 10, 2025 Alot has been written about the IP problem besetting mainstream filmmaking today. IP, or intellectual property, refers to all the preexisting material adapted to film by studios and producers. It’s a way of minimizing financial risk by relying on familiar sources that have already found favor with consumers.
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2 weeks ago |
jacobin.com | Eileen Jones
Attention all action film fans! Run, don’t walk, to the nearest movie theater to see From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. Then set aside some time a day or two later to go see it again. This is one for the ages. Ana de Armas, who’s been a star waiting for the right vehicle ever since Knives Out brought her to widespread attention in 2019, has now got a film franchise worthy of her.
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3 weeks ago |
jacobin.com | Eileen Jones
A lot has been written about the IP problem besetting mainstream filmmaking today. IP, or intellectual property, refers to all the preexisting material adapted to film by studios and producers. It’s a way of minimizing financial risk by relying on familiar sources that have already found favor with consumers.
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n this "Tribute to the Totally Forgotten," I celebrate the career of tap-dancer Eleanor Powell, who was so good she intimidated the legendary Fred Astaire, who complained, "She dances like a man." Her mentor was Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. https://t.co/JPc5zpyMi2 https://t.co/bX9HjmTn94
My review of SNOW WHITE, which is lucky to have Rachel Zegler in it, because at least she salvages something out of this trainwreck: https://t.co/v8hLw5rsyn
Latest Filmsuck episode, audiovisual and open to the public! It's the celebratory when-Dolores-interviewed-director-Todd-Haynes episode! https://t.co/j8sMlPZPBn https://t.co/KNbiPDDPNd