I need to find a good but very good excuse to insist on living otherwise I don’t think this has any meaning anymore

weekly update: - lost 2kg (overall 5kg) - lost a lot of blood - and will definitely lose more - lost hope - corticosteroids are not working at all - either them or those stupid antibiotics give me terrible headaches and nausea - I can only a banana and a boiled potato without vomiting

super texte de @corent-le.bsky.social sur son rapport ambivalent à Apocalypse Now, à lire dans la nouvelle revue "critique et décoloniale" Emitaï (emitai.fr) : emitai.fr/essai/lodeur...

Nous suivre sur Instagram (pas de BS désolé) : www.instagram.com/emitairevue/ Nous soutenir (on a monté le projet sans argent) : www.helloasso.com/associations...

RDV sur le site pour lire notre édito ainsi que notre dossier de lancement, à l'occasion duquel chaque membre du comité de rédaction revient sur son rapport au cinéma, à la cinéphilie et à la critique. emitai.fr/carnet/edito...

⚡ emitai.fr est en ligne ⚡ Revue de cinéma critique et décoloniale. Fondée avec les camarades Héléna Alet-Quesneau, Lisa Durand, Simon Hoareau, Occitane Lacurie, Lola Maupas, Marcos Nuñez et Öykü Sofuoğlu. Avec un site magnifique conçu par Adrien Chuttarsing.

the wait is over. my annual film criticism wrapped stats are here

For Ultra Dogme, I wrote about the cinema of João César Monteiro, touching on a number of his films including God's Comedy, Recollections of the Yellow House and What Shall I Do With This Sword? through the perspective of Revolution. ultradogme.com/2025/12/26/j...

Et @feridemercury.com, @untrenoculto.bsky.social, et @aguilarcandanedo.bsky.social y vont de leurs choix aussi. Le cinéma avec tous ses grands écarts de goûts, de formes, et de géographies. Lisez et écoutez @outskirtsmag.bsky.social

@outskirtsmag.bsky.social: le podcast. Notre année 2025. J'y parle du JLG qui nous reste, de Meilleurat qui refait Mouchette pour le 21ème siècle, d'un monument de Fukasaku sans yakuza, et d'une bombe documentaire d'une 20aine de minutes sur le fascisme états-uniens open.spotify.com/episode/2UiC...

it's really hard to make peace with autoimmune and hereditary diseases. unfortunately i have a bunch of them and there's not a single day when i don't regret being who i am.

ophthalmologist today: did you know that you have a congenital retinal disease? me: (after spending my entire life half-blind) no shit?

Had the chance to write about Hlynur Pálmason’s delightful and invigorating The Love That Remains, whose unrestrained and malleable approach to narrative and visual economy I deeply adored. www.filmexplorer.ch/detail/the-l...

pierre clementi - visa de censure n° X

Ca y est, @outskirtsmag.bsky.social a son podcast. J'y serai régulièrement mais pas à chaque fois, mais ça vaudra la peine d'être écouté à chaque fois. La première sur Borowczyck, et pour le prochain, nous parlerons de nos expériences cinéma en 2025 - nouveautés et redécouvertes.

cherche une place pour la projection de caravaggio ce soir à mk2 bibliothèque

cherche une place pour la projection de caravaggio ce soir à mk2 bibliothèque

We're delighted to announce the launch of the Outskirts Film Podcast, a bi-monthly podcast about cult movies, experimental film, popular cinema, and everything in between and at the peripheries. Rate, subscribe & follow us wherever you get your podcasts. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Episodes hosted by Alonso Aguilar, Christopher Small, and Öykü Sofuoğlu (@feridemercury.com) and will feature regular appearances by the whole Outskirts team - Diego Cepeda (@untrenoculto.bsky.social), Raymond Shik, and Nathan Letoré (@nlltr.bsky.social) - as well as other guests.

I started writing a short story in French and I have no idea whether it's good or bad. I feel excited yet insecure about it.

Quelle chance de pouvoir écrire en profondeur sur L'Agent secret, l'un de mes gros coups de cœur de l'année. Kleber Mendonça Filho délivre un film où le cinéma opère comme source, filtre et réceptacle de la mémoire collective. À lire dans Filmexplorer : www.filmexplorer.ch/detail/o-age...

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:

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