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farah

@farahonfilm

5 months

his imdb bio still being the one his parents wrote gets me every time. that last line is so sweet

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@mescalist

5 months

why did i start tearing up

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pretty much everyone who says this does so because the movies they’ve watched are bad. and not to be rude but her “i can’t even watch my own movies” is evidence of that lol

Pop Crave

@PopCrave

5 months

Millie Bobby Brown says she doesn’t watch movies: “I don’t watch movies. People come up to me and say, ‘You should definitely watch this movie, it would change your life,’ and I’m like, ‘How long do I have to sit there for?’ Because my brain and I don’t even like sitting for my

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9 months

chanel are doing a show in manchester today and the local paper is doing live updates

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@farahonfilm

1 year

going “arrakis mode” (standing in the worm part of the bus)

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4 years

ever seen cinematography so sexy you audibly gasp

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@farahonfilm

5 years

bong joon-ho gave sharon the night off at the @neonrated after-party: “drink, just drink”

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@farahonfilm

2 years

you know what else is a crime

Variety

@Variety

2 years

Roman Polanski's producer says France is icing the filmmaker out, as it's almost impossible to get the director's new film sold in his adopted country: “If this film doesn’t get released in France, it’s a crime.”

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@farahonfilm

9 months

sorry but we’ve got to get the obamas out of cinema

Variety

@Variety

9 months

Barack Obama would send script notes to #LeavetheWorldBehind writer-director Sam Esmail. “I definitely pushed things a lot farther than they were in the film, and President Obama, having the experience he does have, was able to ground me a little bit on how things might unfold

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@farahonfilm

5 years

gonna tell my kids this was the beatles

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@farahonfilm

4 months

@clementineultra he’s not!

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@farahonfilm

6 years

Lil B's birthday: 17 August Young Thug's: 16 August Chief Keef's: 15 August the father, the son, and the holy ghost 😌

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@farahonfilm

1 year

btw, if there’s any doubt that what Google’s AI is doing isn’t plagiarism, here’s a side by side of @mattzollerseitz ’s original writing on EEAAO and what the AI “says” about the movie. beyond egregious

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@farahonfilm

4 months

google have switched from displaying the rotten tomatoes critic score for a film to the RT audience score on search results, despite the other three ‘score’ metrics it already displays all being non-critic averages anyway. great move guys👍

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@farahonfilm

2 years

‘the fabelmans’ this, ‘empire of light’ that — what if ‘fire of love’ is actually the year’s best film about film?

Review of ‘Fire of Love’ (2022)

phenomenal editing, and writing that refuses to rest on the awesome power of these images. and what images: the earth subsuming and dissolving itself, people defying not just good sense but…

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@farahonfilm

1 year

if what AI is threatening to do to Hollywood isn’t depressing enough, take a look at Google’s new generative AI search feature, which scrapes text from online publishers (like film criticism sites!), reformulates it, and presents it to users so they never have to leave Google🙃

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@farahonfilm

5 years

watched ‘the thomas crown affair’ (1968) for the first time tonight. sexiest cinematography i’ve seen in a long time. haskell wexler knew how to bring out the antidepressant properties of 35mm film. reminded me why cinema is the medium that does it for me

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@farahonfilm

1 year

falk loved filming this episode so much he got a speeding ticket reminiscing abt it

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@ColumboScreens

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@farahonfilm

4 years

i’m genuinely, sincerely fascinated by the number of people who class themselves as scorsese fans but don’t actually get his work at all

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@farahonfilm

6 months

for anyone looking for ways to provide direct aid to palestinians: this is a daily updated spreadsheet of gofundmes, with a special focus on highlighting those that are the most under-funded

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@farahonfilm

4 months

pretty electric atmosphere at tonight’s presentation of ‘to a land unknown’, the only palestinian feature screening at cannes this year. free palestine 🇵🇸

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@farahonfilm

4 years

last pic is a renaissance painting

Amy

@mynamesamy_

4 years

Insta v Reality

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10 months

@Kruegxrs that gateway toast 😭

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@farahonfilm

7 months

like an early scorsese

Just A Normal Guy

@papasteve303

7 months

A fight broke out while I was singing Unchained Melody at karaoke last night

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1 year

this one gets me every time… NAHHHHH

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@farahonfilm

10 months

those “controversial comments” 🙃 free palestine

One Take 🎬

@OneTakeNews

10 months

Melissa Barrera Dropped From ‘Scream VII’ Due To Controversial Comments More details here:

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@farahonfilm

1 year

the idea of a 56yo man deleting wife pictures off his instagram is sending me

Jocelyn Silver

@silverjocelyn

1 year

AAAAH SACRÈ BLEU!!!!!!!

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@farahonfilm

5 years

tell me again how Hollywood has dealt with its abuser problem?

Variety

@Variety

5 years

Margot Robbie to Co-Star With Christian Bale in David O. Russell’s Next Film

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@farahonfilm

5 years

@jakestaybossinq if it’s anything similar to arabic it looks like it says hello gay mickey

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@farahonfilm

2 years

you don’t have to have followed that trial at all to be able to feel the misogyny thick and virulent in the air

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@farahonfilm

2 years

that’s one of her flaws

sara hinkley

@boneysoups

2 years

tell me why she has a whole chicken in the microwave

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@farahonfilm

5 years

every time i try to find a takeaway to order from in liverpool i’m derailed by an absolutely unreal review. here are some of my favs

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@farahonfilm

2 years

underwent the most profound spiritual transformation of my life watching this on my own at the mall multiplex

Film Daze

@filmdaze

2 years

Martin Scorsese's ‘Silence’ starring Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield was released 6 years ago today.

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@farahonfilm

2 years

can’t believe people complained so much about this… stars have been referring to their lovers as a “friend” for decades it’s actually mysterious and chic its very hayes code wink-wink… i won’t let them take it away from us

Pop Crave

@PopCrave

2 years

Austin Butler has now credited Vanessa Hudgens for helping him with ‘Elvis’ role after receiving backlash: “I was with my partner at the time. We’d been together for so long and she had this sort of clairvoyant moment and so I really, I owe her a lot for believing in me.”

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4 years

@eeikuobaj i used to DM myself “” so i didn’t have to leave the twitter app when i wanted to search something

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@farahonfilm

1 year

ironically, by killing off sites that publish writing written by actual humans, AI won’t have anything to plagiarise and we’ll all be stuck taking recommendations and advice from a lifeless algorithm

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@farahonfilm

4 years

one of the best ❤️ inna lillahi w inna ilaihi rajioon

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

4 years

Bollywood actor #IrrfanKhan dies at 53 after a long battle with cancer

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@farahonfilm

6 years

movies about space always feel spiritual to me but ‘for all mankind’ is something really special. i wrote about it this week, including how it influenced ‘first man’

One Perfect Shot

@OnePerfectShot

6 years

If you've seen First Man, you should watch this pioneering space documentary from 1989.

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@farahonfilm

1 year

hard to overstate how much of an existential threat this feature (which is still in “experiment” status for now) looks like it will be to literally any site that publishes anything — bc without traffic, how will any site survive

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@farahonfilm

5 months

prayers up for the poor people in new zealand who had to watch ‘mister organ’ in the worst conditions possible

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@farahonfilm

4 years

me omw to rescue amy adams and mark ruffalo from whatever force made them do that ‘imagine’ video

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@farahonfilm

7 years

here is my full-length tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson, whose untimely passing is an incomprehensible loss to cinema:

One Perfect Shot

@OnePerfectShot

7 years

A tribute to modern cinema’s most fearless composer.

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@farahonfilm

5 years

not now justin the world is burning

Justin Bieber

@justinbieber

5 years

2 hours. #yummy

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@jesusfreak8888 real ebenezer scrooge activities

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@farahonfilm

5 years

if lil b is proclaiming celibacy in 2019 then according to my calculations we can expect to see it hit the mainstream 2027 at least

Lil B THE BASEDGOD

@LILBTHEBASEDGOD

5 years

ITS PROB BEEN A YEAR OR MORE SINCE I HAD BOOTY FROM A CHICK AND I DONT WANT ANY BOOTY FROM THEM IMA KEEP IT REAL LOL IM GOOD. IM WORKING ON GOING YEARS NO BOOTY AND GETTING MYSELF PREGNANT TO HAVE MY OWN KIDS BIG FACTS TO MUCH TRUTH AND BUSINESS FOR THE SUCKAS!!! - Lil B

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@98Mikeb pretty sure it’s a bizarre interpretation of her comments here on algorithmic bias — which is something that multiple outlets have covered and independent media watchdogs have expressed concern over, so not a tin foil hat theory at all

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@farahonfilm

4 months

@james_f_thomas the fact that ts eliot’s ‘the waste land’ was originally titled ‘he do the police in different voices’

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@farahonfilm

2 years

celebrities suddenly piping up with support for d*pp now that their little PR teams are gibjng them the go-ahead bc the “right” side of history has seemingly been decided is VILEEEEEE never work again please

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@farahonfilm

12 years

@1Dneews photo of the boys on the board at an ice cream farm in Cheshire from when they visited! http://t.co/P7vLH5vln0

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@farahonfilm

5 years

timothée chalamet citing Lil B as one of his heroes suddenly makes perfect sense

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@farahonfilm

1 year

this mf is going to wind up being the internet’s oppenheimer if we don’t get vigilant

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@farahonfilm

7 years

@twothickscoops @BAKKOOONN that’s the sort of comment that sets you up with self confidence for the rest of your life 😭

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@farahonfilm

4 months

let’s gooo

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@farahonfilm

29 days

you’re finished pal @jk_rowling

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@regrttes

29 days

GUYS, IMANE KHELIF JUST STARTED FILING HER LAWSUITS FOR ONLINE HARASSMENT

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7 years

when your depression suddenly returns

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@farahonfilm

5 years

FSR’s 100 Best Movies of the Decade list is out! featuring words from me on my personal best of the decade, plus 2 of my other favourites - Silence and Faces, Places - and lots of passionate, insightful writing from my v talented colleagues

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@farahonfilm

2 years

@JohnDiLillo all hail the omni-cinema 😍

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@farahonfilm

10 months

very helpful to see exactly who is being censured by hollywood for their support of palestine laid out like this

Variety

@Variety

10 months

Top CAA agent Maha Dakhil ignited a firestorm with her Instagram posts, including one that said, “What’s more heartbreaking than witnessing genocide? Witnessing the denial that genocide is happening.” In response, Dakhil was relieved of her duties as co-chief the motion pictures

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2 years

absolutely delighted to have been approved for a press pass at sundance next year, my first time! alhamdullilah 🎉

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@farahonfilm

5 months

@picardie_aurora this is so beautiful

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@farahonfilm

3 years

i turn 28 today, the age i mistakenly spent half of the last year thinking i already was 🥳

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@farahonfilm

4 years

this sounds so perfect i want to go there right now 🥺

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@farahonfilm

5 years

@jakestaybossinq ok fr it’s farsi and it says “hi what are you saying”... rip gay mickey tho

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@farahonfilm

2 years

half of film twitter found screaming sobbing and throwing up following claire denis winning 2nd place at cannes

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5 years

i can’t get over this

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@farahonfilm

3 years

one of the few occasions i’ll concede to be on cannes’ side is in the netflix debate... sorry but you cant claim to respect cinema if you refuse to distribute your films in brick-and-mortar theatres after such a financially disastrous year for them (and a boom year for streamers)

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4 years

my eyesight's a bit shite, might just pile everyone i love into the car and see if i end up killing them or not

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4 years

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@LILBTHEBASEDGOD bees

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2 years

the more i’m on social media atm the more i despair that a) so many people feel their parasocial reading of a celebrity’s character counts for more than a woman’s actual experience w that person,

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@farahonfilm

6 years

a year on from beginning my internship, it feels nice to share the 60th(!) piece i’ve written for FSR here

One Perfect Shot

@OnePerfectShot

6 years

How a French meta-movie from the ’60s challenged a basic convention of filmmaking, changing cinema and TV forever. @attractionf explores:

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@farahonfilm

2 years

‘casablanca’ turns 80 today but remains as timeless as ever — i wrote about one reason why 5 years ago, on its 75th birthday

Here's Looking at Casablanca's Refugee Story, 75 Years On

How the Golden Age classic bears remarkable similarity to a forgotten film about child refugees.

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@farahonfilm

3 months

i wish some of you weren’t so fucking horrible

Mittens

@JUSTcatmeme

3 months

This is the scariest video I think I’ve ever seen

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4 months

a baby chick fell asleep in my hand earlier. goated day

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@farahonfilm

4 years

everyone say "thank you donald e. thorin"

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@farahonfilm

2 years

BREAKING: rebecca hall stunning

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@farahonfilm

2 years

guy who thinks EEAAO is the sequel to EO in which the donkey yawns whenever it brays

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@farahonfilm

2 years

@JFrankensteiner its probably a translation nuance thing but the quote i’ve always heard is “psychopathic killer” which is just so out of pocket it kills me

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@farahonfilm

3 years

read and wrote so much abt the man in this piece last week that i’ve started dreaming abt him... do me a favour n read my article on the unlikely inspiration behind ‘nightcrawler’ and ‘dr strangelove’ so the spell can be lifted

The Man Who Inspired 'Nightcrawler' (and Other Movies)

What connects 'Nightcrawler,' 'Dr. Strangelove,' and 'The Naked City'? One 1930s crime scene photographer by the singular name of Weegee.

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@farahonfilm

9 months

ladies and gentlemen… we have our answer, courtesy of director richard loncraine

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@farahonfilm

6 years

i love summer, and i love movies set in summer, so writing about these less well-known gems was nothing less than a joy. the film bitch highly recommends!

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@OnePerfectShot

6 years

The warmer months provide the perfect backdrop for atmospheric movies; films that come with a strong sense of tone, time and place. It’s as if the sizzling heat bakes the narrative right into its setting as each sun-soaked minute passes by.

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@farahonfilm

6 years

@jovanhiII i thought that was the name of a medication i really went and googled it and everything

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@farahonfilm

1 year

always wanted to visit the place they filmed this (a big country estate in the peak district) so i looked it up last year and do you know how much entry per person is? 30 english pounds. if i’m spending 30 quid to get in matthew macfadyen better be there in full hair & makeup

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@farahonfilm

5 years

nine schmine, they’re fire

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@farahonfilm

3 months

curse needed @LILBTHEBASEDGOD

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3 months

This Lil B erasure is actually egregious beyond belief

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robert redford: great actor, shitty hairdresser, according to meryl streep

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@farahonfilm

3 years

lil b invented NFTs in 2013 when he’d post selfies and say “COLLECT THIS!!!”

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@farahonfilm

2 years

put on ‘the french connection’ to enliven me and don ellis’ music in this scene just made me sit straight up in bed

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@farahonfilm

7 years

great thread lads, give it a read 👇

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10 months

damn, i just found out fred lyon died last year — RIP to an incredible taker of photos, such as these from his ‘san francisco noir’ set

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@farahonfilm

1 year

guess who’s going to cannes iA ALHAMDULLILAHHHHHHH 🎉🎉🎉

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@farahonfilm

3 months

congrats to them but the craziest thing in the world to me is that mary from ‘pride & prejudice’ (2005) was married to elon musk not once but TWICE

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@SolaceCinema

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster is now married.

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very happy to officially be back at cannes this year! will be interesting to see if this young upstart calling himself “francis ford coppola” is any good or not

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@farahonfilm

2 years

happy birthday to my beautiful son

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@farahonfilm

2 years

jerzy skolimowski, director of EO, dedicated his entire acceptance speech to shouting out the 6 donkeys that took part in his film ❤️

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@farahonfilm

1 year

nice bit of news after a stressful week — instead of being listed as a rotten tomatoes “legacy critic” as if i’d died i’m now an official tomatometer-approved one!

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@farahonfilm

6 years

@ehjovandied 26

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@farahonfilm

3 years

just when i think 'columbo' can't surprise me anymore, they go and drop an edith head cameo. peep the academy award flex too

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@farahonfilm

8 days

he thought this was funny but look at how readily the camel trusted him, how he ate from his hands without fear, and now his innocence — his belief in the goodness of man — is gone, shattered. was it worth the likes

Nature is Amazing ☘️

@AMAZlNGNATURE

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This camel’s reaction to being tricked into eating a lemon

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