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Dr James Slaymaker

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I am highly excited to announce the forthcoming release of my new book, 'Essay Cinema in the Digital Era', which will be published by Palgrave MacMillan early next year.

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Here is Joe Pesci getting into a physical fight with Elmo on the set of Sesame Street

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The BBC's response to universal full-fiber broadband vs the BBC's response to a 50% discount on a sit-down McDonald's burger in the middle of a fucking pandemic

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Marvel has spent the past decade monopolising the film industry to the extent that many of our finest auteurs are now struggling to get new features financed, we should at least be allowed make fun of the studio without being guilt-tripped about it

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There’s nothing wrong with legitimate criticism or not liking a movie, but the reaction to #Morbius started months before it even opened

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Gonna tell my kids this was Keir Starmer

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New Clint Eastwood movie just dropped

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Still thinking about the recorded message Leos Carax sent to the Los Angeles Film Critics Association after they proclaimed Holy Motors the “Best Foreign Language Film" of 2012

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@campbellclaret Imagine if something like this were to happen in the Middle East and one of the men responsible tried to launder his own reputation and re-brand as a centrist pundit & mental health guru. Makes you think

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The Zone of Interest absolutely floored me. Not just a film about the complicity of those who turn a blind eye to large-scale systematic violence, but a reflexive critique of the role that images play in the commodification of historical trauma

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When Corbyn led Labour, we were constantly told that there was a ton of brilliant centrists on the backbenches that weren't being given the chance to shine. Now they run the party and they're claiming that zoos are a more dangerous site of COVID transmission than schools.

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@BorisJohnson Narrator: it was not a fantastic year for Britain

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when a new Malick film is released

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Goddammit, I just ordered 500 crates of these

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"You will see me one more time if you do good. You'll see me two more times if you do bad. Goodnight."

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Serious potential to be the worst film of all time

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The cuck Paddington bear vs the chad Chuck E. Cheese mouse

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"That was the best acting I've ever seen in my whole life"

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It is 8pm and I am still waiting for Keir Starmer to comment on Priti Patel's threat to send the Navy to attack migrants crossing the Channel

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@BBCDanielS Yes but at least Netflix has ever produced a cartoon which depicts the conservative chancellor as superman

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Bridget Jones was a dedicated remainer who ultimately decided to vote for Boris Johnson in 2019 out of fear that Corbyn was going to invite Hamas & Gerry Adams to speak in parliament. Sorry if this puts a dampener on anyone's holiday season

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Well, this take aged like fucking milk.

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I love M Night Shyamalan's late-career fascination with surveillance.

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All scripts should be written like Malick's for The Tree of Life

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If you genuinely believe that the reason the British & U.S. armies were in Afghanistan was to spread feminist values, you've lost the right to make fun of anybody for believing the lies plastered on the side of the Brexit bus

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Back in the news

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My plans // 2020

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@TheSinanKose Pictured: Impartiality

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Tired: Shakespeare wrote King Lear while in quarantine Wired: The Marquis de Sade wrote The 120 Days of Sodom on a roll of toilet paper

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After a recent rewatch of Albert Serra’s Pacifiction, I feel confident in saying it's one of the greatest artistic accomplishments of the 21st century – a deeply haunting & absolutely ruthless critique of the colonial legacy & continued military presence of France in Polynesia...

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Kiarostami's windshields

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What’s your favourite type of specialty shot that a director is known for? ie: De Palma’s split diopter, a long Godard’s Weekend type tracking shot, Wes Anderson’s overhead, Tarantino’s trunk, obvious one but Hitchcock’s vertigo…..

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Pretty soon, we’ll reach a point where no new transgressive, boundary-pushing piece of audio-visual art can get funded in America, but every single counter-cultural classic from the 1960s/70s will be used as the template for a Cars sequel

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In loving memory of Terence Davies, a towering master of contemporary cinema. Like all true innovators, he went underappreciated in his own time, but is sure to go down in history as one of the great filmmakers of memory, loss, solitude, social injustice, and collective trauma

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REMINDER! Tomorrow at 6pm the #Cannes2020 Official Selection will be announced live on @canalplus and Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Dailymotion! In the meantime, check out Thierry Frémaux’s overview of this very special Selection! 👉

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Just a couple of guys being dudes.

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The best-looking movie at Cannes was shot on a camera you can buy on Amazon for less than £2000

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Ferrari: An astonishing late-period masterpiece which builds on Mann's experimentation with the impressionistic qualities of digital media, but here it has evolved into a style that is more meditative & sombre than anything else in his oeuvre. It continues Mann’s career-long

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It's amazing how quickly so many of the liberals who previously claimed that Bernie Sanders & his supporters were toxic bullies have decided that he's actually adorable now that there's no longer any chance of him becoming president

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#BernieSanders in his mittens because he has zero fucks left to give and I am here for it. ❤️

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Bobby Briggs is the greatest character in the history of television and there isn't even a close contender for 2nd place

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The establishment journalists who fawned over The Zone of Interest when they could frame it as being a mere condemnation of historical violence but are losing their minds now that Glazer has highlighted its relevance to contemporary atrocities ironically prove the movie's thesis

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Preach

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SNP to table Boris Johnson 'no confidence' motion

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Just in case you're wondering how the UK's self-proclaimed 'soft left' are doing, right now they're patiently waiting for NATO to advance the international class struggle

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Incredible bravery of Swedish and Finnish social-democracy to lead the move to join NATO - after decades where the right made it their dream ... now move the politics of NATO to match

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@AhoFrank @YouGov Turns out that campaigning for Corbyn to become Prime Minister in December and then removing the whip from him 10 months later does not give the public a lot of faith in Starmer's judgement.

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Queen has unusual favourite game that she likes to play on New Year's Eve

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Terence Davies, an absolute hero

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Strange how Kanye's trajectory over the past few years has paralleled that of On Cinema's Tim Heidecker, complete with short-lived attempt to run for political office, pivot to Trumpism and final unconvincing rebirth through Christianity

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How it started/How it's going

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The real purpose of 'blackout Tuesday' to block the stream of social media posts depicting the horrific police brutality that's happening on the streets right now. That's why it's being spearheaded by corporations like Amazon & Apple.

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@greggturkington Now let's take a look at Tim's classic movie collection:

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Tired: We must acknowledge that Triumph of the Will is a formidable aesthetic accomplishment, despite it being fundamentally reprehensible Wired: When you think about it, Hitler was actually kinda woke

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@MattChorley "In Corbyn’s Britain we’d all get free candyfloss at Marx & Spencer" Don't know how to break it to you mate, but that sounds an awful lot like

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Eli Hayes was true pioneer of 21st-century cinema and one of the friendliest, most compassionate people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. He leaves behind him a towering body of work that will continue to touch and inspire filmmakers for generations.

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Licorice Pizza: the kind of film that Richard Linklater would make if he had an infinitely more sophisticated understanding of tone, composition, space and physical performance

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Modern American liberalism encapsulated in a single tweet

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@zoesqwilliams I mean... Corbyn was pretty outspoken about the dangers of Johnson's no-deal Brexit but his warnings were dismissed by most of the MSM

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Specifically, it takes aim at a certain brand of middlebrow European art cinema which presents tastefully composed images of past atrocities for the consumption of an audience seeking confirmation of their moral righteousness. And it is very aware of how the circulation of

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@BBCNews S/O to the UK press

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Counterargument

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men fundamentally can’t be yearners. no questions at this time

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Most accurate portrayal of the police in the history of film

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@guardiannews Chickens coming home to roost, etc

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@PoliticsForAlI @BMGResearch Ah, the old 'Let the bodies pile up in their thousands' bounce

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Gonna tell my kids this was Chris Marker

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Well, cinema had a good run but I think it's time to call it a day

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@Independent

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Wow, Obama's list of favourite 2019 films really took me by surprise

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Smug bastard

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Now that even the most ardent right-wing journalists are struggling to defend the government they fought to put into power, their line of attack is simply to pretend that Labour won the election instead.

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I'm not usually a Nolan fan, but Oppenheimer really impressed me. It reminded me of late-period Eastwood films, critically engaging with cultural narratives of American exceptionalism to reflexively expose the racism, exploitation and violence they are used to rationalise.

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tfw you're a first year film student and you shoot a one-point-perspective shot of a white hallway

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Kanye on his new IMAX film: “Speaking of Kubrick, they are doing some comparisons” 😂😂

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@SkyNews British TERFs right now:

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such images - and the illusory teleological narratives of progress they support - contributes to the perpetuation of atrocities in the present.

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Strong contender for the title of 'Worst Tweet of the Decade"

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SNL trying to rebrand Theresa May as a feminist icon was the absolute nadir of political satire, no question.

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It's a deeply cynical exercise in brand management attempting to pass itself off as hip, self-aware satire

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say something bad about this movie

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Never forget that Luis Buñuel receives a 'special thanks' in the credits of Jackass Number Two

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Merry Christmas, everyone!

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@madisontayt_ If the choice is between being perceived as pretentious and being smugly anti-intellectual, I know which one I'm gonna pick

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A Downton Abbey comeback is precisely the comforting, low-stakes palate cleanser we need

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Thank God the Oscars are finally rewarding popular films instead of only focusing on micro-budget avant-garde curios like Argo and The King's Speech

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January: "Neoliberalism is the only sensible way to structure the economy. Jeromby Corbyn needs to go back to his allotment and take his student politics with him" August: "If you don't buy a Big Mac right now the system will collapse"

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@BKWelles

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Do you think that the Mattel company effectively utilised girl power when it outsourced the production of its toys to third party contractors which underpay workers, force employees to work 13 hours shifts, and fail to comply with basic health & safety regulations?

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@siennamarla I was promised that with any other leader, Labour would be twenty points ahead

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