@willdigravio
researcher, fact-checker: extremism, conspiracies, US history critic: Paste, Time, etc. assistant editor, Cineaste PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Amsterdam The Video Essay Podcast views mine www.willdigravio.com
“Even in this fleeting moment, one sees the seeds of what would come to define Kelly’s greatness on screen: an ability to maintain a regal air while offering a deep, relatable humanity,” @willdigravio.bsky.social writes of Grace Kelly’s film debut in ‘Fourteen Hours’: buff.ly/XHs44M7
“To watch Garbo is to understand what Hitchcock meant he called silent movies the purest form of cinema,” @willdigravio.bsky.social writes. “Each glance and movement seems to convey something about the complexities of Garbo’s character.”
At just 20 years old, Greta Garbo sailed from Sweden to the United States to film “Torrent,” the first of three pictures released in 1926. In the words of one prescient newspaper writer, “Miss Garbo is scheduled for stardom.”
This is my full 50-page statement to Gov. Pritzker's "Illinois Accountability Commission," trying to explain comprehensively the depth of corruption, culture, and training problems within ICE and CBP. I hope you'll at least consider scanning through it: drive.google.com/file/d/1y0im...
Great new episode of The Video Essay Podcast from @willdigravio.bsky.social featuring @jirianger.bsky.social
thevideoessay.com/jiri-anger-o...
can’t wait to run it back in 2026
For Millennium Film Journal, my thoughts on three found footage films from this year’s Prismatic Ground:
millenniumfilmjournal.com/los-angeles-...
Thank you, Will!
And yes, pre-order here! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...
For nearly two years, I worked as the researcher on @elliotwilliams.bsky.social’s new book, FIVE BULLETS, a history of “subway vigilante” Bernie Goetz, his trial, and 1980s NYC!
It’s as timely as it is captivating!
Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...
reminding myself that every extra freelance gig is one step closer to paying off my student loans/buying an eames lounge chair
It’s not a sports documentary until an interviewee says the subject was “playing chess while everybody else was playing checkers”
should be mandated in every classroom throughout our great land
“It is in the final scene, in which Lloyd’s character completes a dashing run to win the big game, where the film distinguishes itself as a masterpiece’,” @willdigravio.bsky.social writes of ‘The Freshman’: crookedmarquee.com/with-pure-gu...
Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today.
We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today.
We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...
Hell. Yes. www.paristheaternyc.com/film/spaceba...
Very excited to have been apart of this story, but perhaps even more happy to have my academic freedom at Boston University.
Very honoured and deeply grateful: to have been elected yesterday as one of the new Fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social, an institution I have loved since it funded my PhD study many moons ago.
The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built.
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built.
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...
“For the last five seconds, we all lay there, quietly waiting for what seemed an eternity,” Edward Teller recalls in this @politico.com excerpt abt the Trinity explosion, 80 years ago this week, from my new oral history of the Manhattan Project & the atomic bombings. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
“The layering of images, combined with the cartoon-like set design, achieves an effect that is a blending of worlds: half-real, half-animation.” @willdigravio.bsky.social on the beloved Kelly-and-Jerry dance sequence in “Anchors Aweigh”: crookedmarquee.com/gene-kelly-j...
My thoughts on the best (and worst) moments in late night TV (so far) this year! For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...
Today I start a 6-month sabbatical, where my goals are to disengage from academic politics (after chairing our Faculty Council for the past tumultuous year), wander about Europe as much as possible, and write a book / make video essays about media reflexivity. Like this!
youtu.be/69Kmz4PzEHs
Bill Carter writes: Jimmy Kimmel is a brave man, or just a confident one. He's the one late-night host who seems to have no hesitation about embracing the “guest host” tradition.
🛜⚠️ @theguardian.com named @vermontgmg.bsky.social and @longlead.com’s LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET a podcast of the week. Out Tuesday—subscribe now:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shadow/id1577471264
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/70a5obPALvMVMPSzxYelik
This @parkermolloy.com interview with @juddlegum.bsky.social is solid gold. What he's built at @popular.info is incredible. That he's doing it without a paywall is really a tremendous service to news consumers. Here's why he made that choice:
When college professor Steve Ross began teaching psychology 16 years ago, he never imagined he’d one day be drawing on his love of late-night television in the classroom. But it turns out that playing a late-night host has become one of his best tools for getting through to students.
