alex lei
@alexlei.bsky.social
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lost in the sauce | “writer” and “filmmaker” | he/him
i see a number of you talking about the “Train Dreams Wars” which is quaint and all but i’m not sure you realize how in the trenches it got
about 22 hours ago
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had a great talk with my old professor, Tenzin Phuntsog, about making films that are important to you and his debut NEXT LIFE
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Tibet via California: Tenzin Phuntsog on “Next Life”
An image of the Dalai Lama gives diasporic texture to an otherwise anonymous suburban American house; the camera tracks to the next room, where a father, mother, and son sit like statues.
https://filmmakermagazine.com/132497-interview-tenzin-phuntsog-next-life/
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Not the Guy
3 days ago
bro last night was an american canto
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film criticism may be dying, but The A.V. Club let me write about Bazin’s ontology of the image, and that’s not for nothing
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some Friday reading for ya: wrote about Linklater, Godard, NOUVELLE VAGUE, and the looming legacy of Bazin
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Nouvelle Vague betrays Godard, yet finds something all its own
Nouvelle Vague never becomes Breathless or finds the birth of the French New Wave. It's too deep in Richard Linklater's precise reality.
https://www.avclub.com/richard-linklater-jean-luc-godard-breathless-nouvelle-vague
5 days ago
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my report of the 26th Maryland Film Festival, which surprised me on how much it bounced back from its historic low point in 2023 and is once again making Baltimore one of the great places to be for indie cinema
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Maryland Film Festival 2025: Cinema Saturation in Baltimore
If last year’s Maryland Film Festival felt like a trial run for a new era of Baltimore’s cornerstone film event, the 26th Maryland Film Festival solidified its direction. Bouncing back from the low…
https://filmmakermagazine.com/132457-reviews-maryland-film-festival-2025/
6 days ago
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Twitter went down because too many people watched the Magellan trailer and the site crashed
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8 days ago
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23 days ago
Alex Lei, the Brianna Wu of film twitter? (He's actually white)
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re-upping this piece i wrote last year on The Journey, even though everytime i reread something i wrote on Peter Watkins’ greatest work i immediately want to update it again because, more than any film, it can only be considered in an ever-evolving present
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A Mandated Psychosis: On Peter Watkins' The Journey | In Review Online
A new film essay on The Journey, directed by Peter Watkins, for film review site In Review Online.
https://inreviewonline.com/2024/08/12/a-mandated-psychosis-on-peter-watkins-the-journey/
26 days ago
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27 days ago
“I had just won a Guggenheim fellowship and went down to the post office. I run into Sal, he says ‘Hey Buba, you think you’re ever gonna make it?’ It brings you back to reality.”
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spends an afternoon with the Bard of Braddock, Tony Buba
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Jacob Oller
28 days ago
I just can't understand why you'd make a movie like Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere seemingly designed to make Springsteen heads like
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angry
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere has no idea why Nebraska is a great album
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere tries to know Bruce Springsteen at the moment the musician knew himself the least.
https://www.avclub.com/springsteen-deliver-me-from-nowhere-biopic-fails-nebraska-album
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went long on Nebraska and why Scott Cooper’s approach to Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is so deeply misguided
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere has no idea why Nebraska is a great album
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere tries to know Bruce Springsteen at the moment the musician knew himself the least.
https://www.avclub.com/springsteen-deliver-me-from-nowhere-biopic-fails-nebraska-album
28 days ago
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Drew Powell
about 1 month ago
Hoagy Carmichael: Deliver Me From Nowhere
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talked to Paula González-Nasser about wonderfully subtle and quietly devastating debut THE SCOUT for InRO
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Between the Production and Real Life: Paula González-Nasser on The Scout | In Review Online
Before she directed a feature of her own, Paula González-Nasser spent years location scouting for shoots in New York City. It turned out to be a fortune Between the Production and Real Life: Paula Gon...
https://inreviewonline.com/2025/10/23/paula-gonzalez-nasser-on-the-scout/
about 1 month ago
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recreating the Twitter experience
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about 1 month ago
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how come my account doesn’t have the “rude” tag. fuck you guys
about 1 month ago
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one of the biggest surprises of New/Next this year was Connor Sen Warnick’s atemporal synthesis of political and poetic cinema set in early 70s Chinatown, CHARACTERS DISAPPEARING. talked to the debut director for Filmmaker
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Interview: Connor Sen Warnick on “Characters Disappearing”
A half-hour into Connor Sen Warnick’s Characters Disappearing, left-wing revolutionary Mei (Yuka Murakami) hangs up a poster declaring “The East is Red.” Until that point, the film seems to take place...
https://filmmakermagazine.com/132242-interview-connor-sen-warnick-characters-disappearing/
about 1 month ago
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talked to Sabrina Greco about her rip-roaring debut Lockjaw for InRO
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A Never-Ending Pile-On: Sabrina Greco on Lockjaw | In Review Online
An interview with filmmaker Sabrina Greco, director of Lockjaw, for film review site In Review Online.
https://inreviewonline.com/2025/10/17/sabrina-greco-lockjaw-interview/
about 1 month ago
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Blake Simons
about 1 month ago
A joy to speak with Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha about the legacy of LINDA LINDA LINDA, an underdog indie that continues to capture the hearts of new fans. For
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Oral HIstory: Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha on “Linda Linda Linda” at 20
Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha on the making of their cult classic “Linda Linda Linda.”
https://filmmakermagazine.com/132226-oral-history-nobuhiro-yamashita-doona-bae-james-iha-linda-linda-linda-20/
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talked to Tucker Bennett and Chris Corrente about their handmade, PKD-esque internet dystopian romp IN THE GLOW OF DARKNESS
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“The Algorithm of It All”: Tucker Bennett and Chris Corrente on “In the Glow of Darkness”
Drawing heavily from internet aesthetics that feel at once contemporary and dated, In the Glow of Darkness is a sprawling, hand-made cyberpunk ensemble film following detectives, streamers, pop stars…
https://filmmakermagazine.com/132229-interview-tucker-bennett-chris-corrente-in-the-glow-of-darkness/
about 1 month ago
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we got the gonzo coverage of New/Next online
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about 1 month ago
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okay who’s in charge here
about 1 month ago
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do people on Bluesky like Jay Kelly. do you talk about Jay Kelly
about 1 month ago
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people on Bluesky don’t even know about Two Skateboards
about 1 month ago
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you people have no idea the discourses we can bring to this app. you’re not ready
about 1 month ago
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in a way this place is Elon’s dream platform: Twitter, but with Reddit humor
about 1 month ago
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can you insight violence and make direct threats on this site? that’s really the only functionality that Twitter’s missing
about 1 month ago
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how do you use Grok on here
about 1 month ago
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trying to think of a discourse hand grenade to throw in here before inevitably not checking the app again for a month. maybe “OBAA could’ve been made for half the budget” or something like that, those takes always go gangbusters
about 1 month ago
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Bluesky stinks
about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
A home-grown, DIY sci-fi from Albert Birney, OBEX is having its Baltimore premiere tonight at the New/Next Film Festival
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goes behind the scenes on its production ethos
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3 months ago
French New Wave is alive!
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found it in New York Film dispatch from a Luc Moullet retrospective and the launch of the ultra-cinephilic magazine Narrow Margin
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Jacob Oller
5 months ago
Fascinating anniversary piece on Come And See, a film that became an unlikely sensation for extremely online cinephiles (it's #3 on Letterboxd's Top 250 movies??)
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Come And See is a poster child for shock films, but its reputation misses what it's really about
Come And See is a poster child for shock films, but its reputation misses what it's really about
https://www.avclub.com/come-and-see-viral-shock-anti-war-film-anniversary
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Jacob Oller
5 months ago
certified racing freak
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writes about F1 as IP (he also refers to the film as its marketing copy demands: F1 The Movie)
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devin morgan
6 months ago
interview w/ letterboxd's best user pd187 is out! thanks to
@alexlei.bsky.social
for editing and
@bruisermag.com
for putting it out
www.bruisermag.com/morgan_pd187
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pd187 interview - BRUISER
Devin Morgan talks to the elusive and illusory pd187
https://www.bruisermag.com/morgan_pd187
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David Hudson
6 months ago
Wong Kar Wai
@sightsoundmag.bsky.social
, Alan Rudolph
@bombmag.bsky.social
, Kira Muratova
@nybooks.com
, Jonathan Rosenbaum and
@alexlei.bsky.social
on Dreyer, Dag Johan Haugerud @ 4Columns,
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award-winners … Did You See This?
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Jacob Oller
7 months ago
I dont know that
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settled on a name, but he highlighted this emerging new wave last year:
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David Hudson
8 months ago
William S. Burroughs @ MUBI,
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on John Ford, Pauline Kael
@newyorker.com
, Marilyn Monroe and Candy Darling @ Texte zur Kunst, new Millennium Film Journal … Did You See This?
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Jacob Oller
11 months ago
another banger year-end piece, this one about the shifting proving ground for American indies. From
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Move over, Sundance—Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight has become the proving ground for American indies
As a new era of indie film arrives in the U.S., its home is shifting away from Sundance and towards Cannes' Directors’ Fortnight.
https://www.avclub.com/american-indie-film-shift-sundance-cannes-directors-fortnight
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Scott Macaulay
11 months ago
Love this piece by Alex Lei -- talking to designer Sebastian Pardo about his amazing title design work on Brady Corbet's "The Brutalist."
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12 months ago
"You don’t need a lot of money to make a certain kind of film." Our intrepid film writer
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interviews Baltimore's Nicky Otis Smith about the premiere of his new feature film, SATUR-19.
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Scott Macaulay
about 1 year ago
“The rural vote had turned things around.” That line landed hard for me tonight at the FilmFestKnox screening of the resplendent new 4K restoration of John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s “Northern Lights”. Appreciating this sharp interview by
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“North Dakota is Trump Country Today”: John Hanson and Rob Nilsson on the 4K Restoration of <em>Northern Lights</em> | Filmmaker Magazine
Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.
https://filmmakermagazine.com/127545-interview-john-hanson-rob-nilsson-northern-lights-2024/
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what goes on here
about 1 year ago
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