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Filmspotting Fest 2025 and a Trip to Film Criticism Mecca

April 12, 2025

Two weeks ago, I signed off at the end of my SXSW 2025 post-mortem by looking ahead to the upcoming Dallas International Film Festival. Please allow me to now pull a Tarantino and go back to the week before SXSW started. In the crush of activity over the four days between what I’m about to describe and the first day of South By – it was a flurry of laundry, the day job (because I’m only given so much PTO in a given year!), and preparing for my trip down to Austin – I barely had time to recover from another film festival (let alone getting anything written about it) before I was out the door again.

But I need to go back even further.

Ebert Interruptus 2022 and My Cinematic Dark Period

April 22, 2022

I don’t think I knew what Ebert Interruptus was until 2013, when Roger Ebert died. In the myriad obituaries and tributes dedicated to the film-criticism titan that I read in the wake of his passing, I saw a few mentions of what was, at the time, still called Cinema Interruptus. What I read seemed to hold an almost mythic quality to it.

Ebert Interruptus is one event of dozens that make up the Conference on World Affairs, which is held each year on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus.

I attended Ebert Interruptus for the first time this year, and I wrote about my experience.

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Filmspotting Fest 2025 and a Trip to Film Criticism Mecca

Ebert Interruptus 2022 and My Cinematic Dark Period