Wrote on this a few years ago and now happy to see it translated to English.
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Yet again more delights in this morning's post. Very happy to be part of this handsome production, which is now on sale. The Richard Dyer component is the talk he gave on Rock Hudson at the NFT and is typically wonderful.

Repost of the Day:
From Us - Ten Iranian Films:
midcenturycinema.org/2025/07/09/n...
Plus one: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...

Tucker Carlson is not wrong here but he is also a rat jumping a sinking ship he helped build.

He's an out and out traitor isn't he?

Any words on these being the most shaming words ever uttered by a US President?

Orwell 2+2=5 (Raoul Peck, 2025) I enjoyed watching ‘Orwell 2+2= 5’ even though I felt that the point its trying to make is one we already know: that we now live in a 1984-esque world of constant surveillance where we are taught t…

In cinemas now and worth seeing. notesonfilm1.com/2026/04/04/o...

472 – Sirât Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Sirât is all about tone, and the time it takes to establish it. It begins with an array of massive speakers being se…

I loved this film. Mike was less convinced. The discussion was mutually illuminating but I think at the end he leaned more towards my point of view. This is the film Jacob Elordi is urging everyone to see, understandably. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2026/04/03/4...

The War in Iran has exposed the complete corruption and immorality of the US congress. Does anyone there have principles? Is there anything they believe in, aside from their careers and bank accounts?

When does a 'military action' become a war requiring the approval of Congress?

UK ‘weeks away’ from medicine shortages if Iran war continues, experts say Concern that supply chain disruption could hit health essentials – and prices – from painkillers to cancer treatment

Donald Trump, making the world safer for everyone all over the world: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Me with my then boyfriend. I’m wearing a white vest and a Pride badge, my boyfriend a tshirt with an AIDS awareness ribbon on his sleeve. Photo by William Short.

In 1992 I worked with the AIDS Positive Underground Theatre Company in Brighton on a show, Freedom to Party, which imagined a world where HIV was cured - but stigma persisted.
Today we can treat HIV effectively and prevent it being passed on, yet stigma still persists.
Photo: Brighton Pride 1992.

470 – Wuthering Heights (2026) Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Those to whom Emily Brontë’s only novel, Wuthering Heights, is important, have approached Emerald Fennell&#821…

The film is receiving a lot of blowback. We had a really good time, though not always for the same reasons. Extended discussion below. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2026/03/24/4...

Misha Zakharov has curated an exciting program on Carceral cinema, featuring his own work and also providing a rare opportunity to see John Greyson's 1980's video art classic, MOSCOW DOES NOT BELIEVE IN QUEERS. It's part of
@flatpack
and free to attend.
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Judge reinstates 1,000 Voice of America employees, deems wind-down illegal A federal judge ruled that the administration’s dismantling of Voice of America was unlawful and ordered more than 1,000 employees back to work.

Breaking news: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s dismantling of Voice of America was unlawful and ordered more than 1,000 employees, who have spent a full year on paid administrative leave, back to work.

The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals.

We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.

3/13/70: Claude Sautet's The Things of Life
w/Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider
From us on Sautet: midcenturycinema.org/2024/04/29/n...
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@josearroyo.bsky.social: notesonfilm1.com/2013/10/27/l...
@scottemarks.bsky.social: www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2020/ju...

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel kills more journalists than any nation on record: Media watchdog Israel responsible for 84 of 129 journalist killings in 2025 tracked by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Israel responsible for 84 of 129 journalist killings in 2025 tracked by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

So Epstein buddies Andrew and Mandelson have been arrested in the UK. And in the US? Zero, zip, nada | Marina Hyde At least the British gave us the perp-walk shots. But I fear that any Americans seeking real justice will have to wait, and wait, and wait, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Come on, America – you’ve got to arrest someone. Haven’t you? Even just one, for appearances’ sake?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If we know anything about Trump, it's that he'll throw his most loyal lieutenants under a bus as soon as it's expedient. I predict that Miller, Noem, Hegseth et all will be in jail within a year.

it will really be something if the Epstein Files unseat a British Prime Minster who isn't in them, and not the American President who was Epstein's best friend.

Join us: The A.V. Club is hiring a Film Critic Join us: The A.V. Club is hiring a Film Critic

We were perhaps Too Hot To Handle for LinkedIn but the info is here www.avclub.com/hiring-film-...

Yup, it is actually true. Good work on defending your city/country against cruelty, corruption, and deadly force.

The world's nightmare has come true. There's an insane person in the White House with access to the nuclear codes.

Elaine Stritch: An Appreciation THR's lead theater critic pays personal tribute to the legendary Broadway performer, whose exacting professional standards were as renowned as her tart tongue and eccentric style.

BOTD Elaine Stritch!!
Outstanding in Company (Pennebaker) Providence (Resnais) September (Allen - www.nytimes.com/1987/12/21/m...
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@david-rooney.bsky.social: www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Domestic Terrorism in Plain Sight: White Supremacy, State Violence, and the Assault on Democracy The United States is under siege, not by a foreign enemy, but by the Trump administration, which has transformed governance itself into a form of domestic terrorism in the service of a white supremaci...

'This is a regime that has turned against its own people. It governs through disappearance, terror, and the routinization of cruelty. Harm, misery, violence, and murder are no longer deviations from democratic norms; they are the norms.' www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/30/d...

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.