Some humble musings on Kevin B. Lee's Afterlives. feridemercury.com/2025/11/18/e...

Altyazı'nın 21. Yüzyılın En İyi Filmleri çalışması için yolladığım kişisel liste:

if you hear of any freelance - remote or paris-based - jobs related to copywriting or VOD platforms around you pls let me know. going through some desperate times atm 🥲

Mon entretien avec Rita Azevedo Gomes autour de son nouveau film Fuck the Polis est désormais en ligne. Je suis très heureuse d’avoir pu discuter longuement avec elle et d’explorer sa vision du cinéma en profondeur. debordements.fr/rita-azevedo...

Luca Guadagnino (photo by yours truly)

outfit idea for my upcoming luca guadagnino interview

I don’t want to complain about it too much but after five years, I still feel like an outsider among French critics and when I go back to Turkey, I feel the same because Turkish critics always tend to ignore me and never acknowledge the work I’ve been doing. It’s exhausting.

my humble contributions to this year's viennale catalogue:

Geçtiğimiz hafta takip etme şansı bulduğum Adana Altın Koza'dan izlenimlerim yayında. Bu ülkede fikirlerimizi, eylemlerimizi, mücadelemizi, hattâ neredeyse tüm varoluşumuzu “rağmen” edatının kırılgan zemini üzerine inşa ettiğimizi hatırlatan filmlere dair... altyazi.net/yazilar/seyi...

lee kang-sheng's carbon footprint > taylor swift's carbon footprint

Had a busy few weeks after Locarno and Venice, so I’m only sharing this now: my interview with the remarkable editor Dominique Auvray, to whom we owe films by Duras, Pedro Costa, Wang Bing and many others, is in @outskirtsmag.bsky.social's 3rd issue. Many thanks to Dominique and Christopher!

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today, i went to a park.

sorry but i really don’t like when outlets commission filmmakers to write essays or interview other filmmakers. like, girl?? they already have jobs. do you see me directing films? no!! they should stick to their job and you should be commissioning me.

writing horoscopes, listening to moirée podcast and eating turkish-style pickles dipped in peanut butter... what can a girl want more

i wasn't raised in a religious family, so the only instance that feels as if i'm committing a sin is when i update my linkedin profile.

cahiers has Nadav Lapid's yes on their cover in the new issue. and while I can see why some people think it's an important and urgent film, I don't see them ever talking about Palestinian cinema, let alone putting a palestinian film on their cover.

Apaçık Radyo'da @apacikradyo.com.tr, İlksen Mavituna'yla beraber Venedik'teki Gazze tartışmalarını ve The Voice of Hind Rajab filminin etik sorunlarını konuştuk. Dinlemek için linke tıklamanız yeterli! apacikradyo.com.tr/podcast/acik...

i have -3.5 diopters of astigmatism and -11 diopters of myopia. if you showed me a shitty 360p copy and another on vistavision, i probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. even with glasses, this is pretty much how i see:

i usually wake up in the morning and wish i were dead or living in my teenage years. i don't know what the next day would bring but usually it's depressing, terribly depressing.

incompetent, mediocre journalists are creating empty discourses about actors, while intelligent and informed writers and critics, who could have had meaningful conversations about films, are shut out by press agents at festivals because they're not popular enough.

I had the chance of interviewing Kamal Aljafari at the Locarno Film Festival following With Hasan in Gaza’s premiere. It’s usually really hard to engage in-depth conversations during festivals. But I think I nailed it with this one: www.filmexplorer.ch/detail/with-...

hello my hand looks so long and big

every time i watch a radu jude film, i can't help but find similarities between turkey and romania. i mean, look at this.

cherche artistes tatoueur-se-s sur paris

j’aime beaucoup ma boite mail

with the amount of stress i'm currently experiencing in my life, i'll probably die from colon cancer in 10 years. and it's okay because i'm already too tired of struggling. i want it to stop.

thank you for edifying my ignorant third-worlder brain about the nyt and making me realize what a terrible person i am for creating a best films of the 21st century ballot! that's so westerner of you, i truly appreciate it.

I wish Kiyoshi Kurosawa had released Cloud as an NFT and promoted it with the same interface of the website we see Ryosuke using in the film

i hope i'll die before people start wishing i was dead. old age is terrible, even when you merely witness it. it's a reality that makes you face your own moral failures.

The much-anticipated #Cannes2025 ballots are now live on MUBI Notebook's website. Check out mine, along with other amazing contributions from fellow critics: mubi.com/fr/notebook/...

is anyone planning to go to fidmarseille this year and interested in booking a place together?

coming soon to theatres: öykü sofuoğlu’s “legally blind” 🤡🤡🤡

now that my left eye has 4% visual acuity, maybe i should start wearing an eyepatch so that i can look like a real “cineaste” (the other one is at a whopping 30%, bless her)

the self-hate that nadav lapid incessantly deploys in yes! strikes me as an insidious and dangerous instrument, as his relentless insistence paradoxically produces an egotistic, self-justifying victimhood for which I have neither patience nor esteem.

revealing clothes ban my ass

last year's cannes was so wholesome for animals. we had dog on trial, black dog, flow, ghost cat anzu. and then, look at this year's selection, i honestly don't want to see one more animal getting killed in a film #Cannes2025

In Oliver Laxe's Sirat, the end of the world comes after a rave. I'm curious whether — or how — this depiction was influenced by October 7th and its aftermath. #Cannes2025

A note of solidarity from Ken Loach and Paul Laverty to those who made the film "PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK" to be premiered in Cannes in 2025, and to the many who will see it in the future.

The overly heterosexual, millennial nostalgia that fuels Leave One Day is bland and uninteresting—even for the French audiences it aims to charm. The sugar-coated depictions of class, gender, and generational differences woven into the narrative fail dramatically. #Cannes2025

Moirée is back for this year’s Cannes. Follow along starting today: moir.ee/editions/can...

Reconnecting with friends you only get to see once or twice a year > Watching the year’s most anticipated arthouse films #Cannes2025

i wish all my freelance mutuals a very pleasant late night motivation for work open.spotify.com/track/64Fyqb...

"tous ces gens qui chantent, moi, tu comprends, ça me fait mal, j'aime mieux le ciné !"

I'm beyond thrilled to announce that our first joint project with my dad for an international outlet has been published on Filmexplorer! My piece on Guan Hu’s BLACK DOG, accompanied by the beautiful hand-drawn illustrations of my dearest @sefasofuoglu.bsky.social www.filmexplorer.ch/detail/black...

folks, i'm looking for "jeanne et le garçon formidable" and it's quite urgent. if anyone could find it in good quality, it would be a great help :(

RIP Tomonari Nishikawa, a good dude who I will miss dearly. We were in SUNY Binghamton's Cinema program together, class of 2003. He was the best of us. Watch his movies today: vimeo.com/tomonarinish...

Récompensé par le Léopard d’or au Festival de Locarno l’été dernier, Toxic sort aujourd’hui dans les salles françaises. Découvrez mon entretien avec la réalisatrice Saulė Bliuvaitė sur le site de @sorocine.bsky.social www.sorocine.com/chroniques/r...

Bluesky’da X gibi. Devlet ne diyorsa X gibi Bluesky’da aynısını yapıyor. Türkiye Bluesky’a 59 hesaba erişim engeli talep etti. Bluesky ise 13 hesaba erişim engeli getirildi.