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Writer | Words @ The Film Stage, Fangoria, Paste Magazine, Polygon, Screen Slate, Popula, & more

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Soham

3 months

In case you missed it, I wrote about some Palestinian films that played at @PrismaticGround for @yearzerocinema : Razan Al-Salah's A STONE'S THROW Kamal Aljafari's UNDR Carol Mansour's AIDA RETURNS Michel Khleifi's MA'LOUL CELEBRATES ITS DESTRUCTION

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A STONE’S THROW

Credit: Razan AlSalah The Cinematic Image as Life, Death, and Inspiration: A Reflection on Palestinian Films at the Prismatic Ground Festival. Soham Gadre During each presentation at the fourth and…

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3 years

This is probably my favorite dog picture of all time

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Sheltered twitter opinions vs reality

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George Costanza's quote "If you take everything I've accomplished in my life and condense it down into one day, it looks decent" is one of the funniest and most relatable things I've ever heard

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If your city’s bank gets successfully robbed by 5th graders then you don’t deserve the money and they do. Simple as

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Recognize these "little rascals"? Believe it or not they just robbed the Wells Fargo at 10261 North Freeway. If you know who and where they are contact police immediately or @crimestophou at 713-222-TIPS. #HouNews

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It's pretty amazing how so many Seinfeld episodes all stem from the simple idea that a person will, without thinking, lie about something they absolutely did not have to lie about

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Arguably the most culturally relevant tweet of our time

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This is going to be the defining footage of this election. Keep it in a special place

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Want to remind @Criterion that they posted this April Fools Blu-ray cover in 2012 and it was one of the best covers they've ever come up with and they should do it for real.

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This is what all new TV show dialogue is like

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Man he is getting COOKED by that ratio lmao

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1 year

A lot of leftists on here really wanna see Japanese people get incinerated in IMAX 70mm

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This is prob just in my head, but I distinctly felt like in the mid-2010s frozen yogurt places were insanely popular and existed on every street corner. I don't think I've seen one anywhere since 2018. Where did they all go?

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Oppenheimer has unleashed the worst wave of dumb, illiterate people posting on this site since the hell triumvirate of OUATIH/Joker/Irishman in 2019. Cinema is back

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3 years

Believe it or not, movies exist outside of America

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It’s Super Bowl Sunday

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THE SHINING - 35mm scan Most of the 35mm scans like Blade Runner or Terminator 2 or The Keep are great of course, but I don't particularly think they're that much of a diff/better experience from the digital versions we have. But this.... this is something else.

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Anyway, this is how you really do it. First person, direct, honest

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1 year

A funny pic I keep in my phone… Nolan and Mike Leigh listening to Morten Tyldum talk about The Imitation Game during the HR directors roundtable in 2014.

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Watched INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS for the first time recently. Very ironic how it's Oscar Isaac's maybe least successful movie financially but his best movie and his best performance. For an actor this obviously talented, his filmography is a travesty of mediocre bullshit.

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In honor of Megalopolis I’m forcing you all to see this again

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They just called the influx of French NBA players The French New Wave on ESPN

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This is like when DRIVE MY CAR got nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars but for politics twitter

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1 year

This is the moment everyone I’ve introduced to Twin Peaks realizes they’re not watching just another TV show

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This nigga was a stone cold sandwich gooner

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9 months

Film critics using the word “confection” in their Wonka reviews

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I’ve got good news

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There should be an nba player who stands with his hands in his pocket and shrugs every time someone tries to pass to him

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3 years

I'm not the shorts dictator, I think all shorts are fine. But the Larry Bird comment was hilarious.

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Criterion: We did it. We literally found and restored the original cut of von Stroheim's GREED. This is an occassion nearly 100 years in the making. 30-somethings who rant to their therapist about their GrubHub delivery being 5 minutes late: MOONLIGHT BLU-RAY WHEN?!?!? 😠

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It’s so awesome that either list could be the “best” one or the “worst” one

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8 months

Separating “favorites” from “best” = instant hack alert.

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A lot of film culture is proudly ahistorical and hellbent on propegating the lies that the current era is the only era where there is diversity in art.

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It would be funny if 900K people from China used this opportunity to force the Academy to recognize THE BATTLE AT LAKE CHANGJIN

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Oscars: Twitter’s Top Fan-Voted Film Will Be Recognized During Broadcast (Exclusive)

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I can't express enough how glad I am that DUNE 2 is stealing IMAX screens from Marvel dogshit

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Lmfaooooooo

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@eclecticbrotha what's up

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Schrader character bedroom

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finally all unpacked at the new apt

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@BleacherReport @VinceGoodwill Funny how this keeps happening with every team CP3 is on

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@adamjohnsonCHI Best finger snap of all time

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At the MEGALOPOLIS world premiere!!! Everyone looks ecstatic! Great energy in the room! #cannes2024

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Has Spielberg ever had a more embarrassing Best Director loss?

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@thejoshl I can reasonably imagine kids and their parents collectively enjoying something like this, but you just know its a theater filled with 35 year old sweaty guys going nuts

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Trump taking the nuclear codes on his last day in office

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Only two geniuses in the last 20 years of cinema have had the balls to purposefully squeeze millions out of a major Hollywood studio for a project of pure self-indulgent insanity and force of will

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Every theater seeing huge lines form for the Deadpool movie:

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No one will ever top this film festival first reaction tweet

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Not gonna pretend being surprised or whatever (and I love a lot of Spielberg's movies). But it does prompt me to post this from the man, Jonathan Rosenbaum, who has always been ahead of everyone else on basically any politics discourse when it comes to Hollywood filmmakers:

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Steven Spielberg Breaks Silence on Israel-Hamas War: “Never Imagined I Would See Such Unspeakable Barbarity Against Jews”

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"WOW! This is the wildest film I've ever seen!" [proceeds to suggest the director should make a movie for the dullest most unimaginative studio on earth]

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AFRO PUNKS KICKSTARTER LAUNCHES 09/02/24!

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Just started watching #RRRMovie and BITCH WTF dis the WILDEST film I’ve ever seent and I’m only 15 minutes in. Somebody get Feige on the phone because the creators of dis needs to make a #Kingo film or something…

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@coopercooperco Only argument I saw was that "this has de facto been the case since Nixon and this is just the first time they admitted it in writing"

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THE SEARCHERS (John Ford, 1956)

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The virgin "I watch TV at 1.25x speed" vs the chad "I didn't realize this Tsai Ming-liang film was actually on pause for the last 15 minutes"

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I used to love talking/arguing endlessly about movies w/ people in my early 20s. After I started writing and reading a lot more about film, now anytime someone asks me what I think about a movie I just say "it was good" or "I liked it" with zero explanation lol

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Betty White was born before Eisenstein made BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN lol

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It’s so funny to me that Paul Thomas Anderson premiered THERE WILL BE BLOOD, an absolute masterpiece and his artistic apex (imo) not at Cannes, Berlin, or Venice or even TIFF….. but at Fantastic Fest, the fest founded by the AICN and Alamo Drafthouse guys lol

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Telling people they HAVE to support billion-dollar Disney tentpoles with their money so that POC talent can get more opportunities/financing for lower-budget movies is just Reaganomics for the film industry. It sucks.

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that ship you don’t play about

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@asapsage_ @xRB4x @BleacherReport @Sportando Nah, Booker actually lost to a good team though. Jimmer lost to some part-time fruit vendors in the Chinese league

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@Sturgeons_Law Why did human beings stop building things like this?

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Cause for alarm for what exactly??? lmao

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I shouldn't even dive into this cesspool of a discourse, but I don't think its weird that for a movie that's aimed at being a "theatrical experience" didn't revel in the visuals of what the actual destruction looked like.

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Gonna be pedantic here and say it’s more-so one person avoids saying anything of value or ever standing up for anything they believe and the other will say whatever psychotic shit comes to their deep fried brain and we’d all accurately guess who was who even in 2009.

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This is the funniest "apology" I've ever heard

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hahahaha let’s fucking gooooooooo

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BREAKING: Biden says he will 'respect the limits of power,' after Supreme Court immunity ruling

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@GraceRandolph

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Being a film nerd as a kid is quantitative. As an adult, it's qualitative. You should have by age 30 developed an accurate radar for what kind of movies you absolutely do not give a shit about and be completely at peace with never paying attention to them.

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One of the funniest quotes of all time

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There's probably no winning in a situation like that. It's like, why didn't Spielberg film *inside* of the gas chambers in Schindler's List? Because that movie was about people who survived, which itself was a decision that was hugely criticized.

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SORCERER (William Friedkin, 1977)

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@CantEverDie Good night sweet prince

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Radioactive levels of screenwriter-brain operating here lol

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Intrigued by the affinity among young film school types for Tarkovsky/Tarr/Akerman type of slow meditative cinema. Part of me admires the desire to step outside the mainstream. Part of me suspects it's a lazy attempt to bypass the hard work of creating compelling story & drama.

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Jessica is unfortunately correct and it is a massive problem with this industry

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This makes the rounds a lot and the technical achievement is of course grand but I think more should be taken from how it’s such a clear and obvious example of how form informs politics.

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BLACK NARCISSUS - these 4 shots all happen in the span of 2 min. There are a million 2.5+hour long movies that don't get 4 shots this good.

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A movie about making Flaming Hot Cheetos now has more Oscar nominations than anything Frederick Wiseman has ever directed

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@paynushurts It's such a perfect bait for 'telling on yourself' that they got mad at what is very clearly a perfectly decent plate of food.

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Guy who calls Ryusuke Hamaguchi “The Gooch”

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Challenge for my mutuals: see how many seconds of this you can watch before drinking bleach and ending it all

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Eddie Redmayne and the cast of #Cabaret perform together at the 2024 #TonyAwards

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My favorite humorous (but concerning) trend of the last several years is people who like a particular kind of "nice, kind, gentle" movie are the quickest to turn into foaming psychos at the prospect of people not liking the same.

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William Friedkin has a new movie that’s premiering *this year* at Venice. Can’t imagine the atmosphere of what that’s going to be like

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@speakwomanese My opening line:

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In regards to Nic Cage, you can be a great actor and also do a ton of dogshit movies, idk why people act like it has to be either one or the other

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@WorldWideWob The Bradley Beal Stance should be it

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Cinesthetic guy doing a CRUISING screenshot post but it’s just 4 pictures of Karen Allen

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Yeah I wouldn't call them "critics" either. I think a more accurate label would be "studio dick-riders" or "bootlickers" or "doormats" or "worms" or "hacks" or "illiterates" or

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DECISION TO LEAVE (Park Chan-wook, 2022)

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Several film critics noted that Schindler's List made the Holocaust, an incalculable tragedy, "accessible" to Americans for better and for worse. I think you can criticize Oppenheimer for this "accesibility" too, but it's a discussion beyond the boundaries of any one film.

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Eminem had a song on one of his albums at the height of the Iraq War where he said he would assassinate George W Bush. How are people MORE sensitive about this shit now than back then???

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this is genuinely batshit crazy man. what the fuck are we doing here?

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@LanceStLaurent I think a lot of people who've never seen Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Casino just assume Pacino is in them.

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tfw you only started watching movies by women because you wanted to impress high school aged girls on twitter

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@frivolousisme Major downgrade imo

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Damon Packard apparently made a new AI short this year

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Figure I'd share this again. Indian cinema has really really benefitted from third-party online file-sharing in revitalizing a cinematic history that has been mostly neglected by the government and butchered by large distribution conglomerates

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@pixelatedboat Stylin'

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Pretty much everything you know about hydration is wrong.

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One of my least favorite days at work was in 2019 when, because I was the “movie guy” at work, no less than 9 different people in the office tried to rope me into a conversation about JOKER

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