you can read my full (spoilery) review here:

i once asked an older greek anarchist how it is that greek protestors go so hard and he said that having overthrown a fascist regime in living memory, everyone knows what the cops are and whose side they're on and i think we're getting there.

i wonder which side of the line writing a 50k word wikipedia article on the years 1559-1562 in french politics falls on i wonder what side of the line looking back at that article and finding it woefully light on details falls on

amusing list name but frankly, that's too many films for all of them to have both piqued and tickled you

EU friends, please take a moment to sign this initiative, especially if you're from the countries still below the support threshold

the way i see it, alex pretti could have been a hardened violent criminal pointing a gun at the ice agents and it would still have been a crime for them to shoot him the fact he presented no possible threat to them and was a stand up fellow is besides the point

you can read my full (spoilery) review here:

tonight's watch: omar (2013), at its heart, this is a film of innocent young romance, omar has a crush on the sister of a childhood best friend, nadia, but to be with her must overcome the competing affections of amjad, and nadia's brother tarek there is one further complication, israel

k6bd crazy good this week

via the band justice i have fallen in with a bad crowd (darksynth musicians)

LYON. Rassemblement de solidarité avec les Kurdes du Rojava #Rojava #Syrie #DefendRojava #kobanêunderattack #KurdishGenocide

i dunno, if my country had overthrown the president of one if its neighbours like 3 weeks ago, and was right now plotting the conquest of another island, i'd probably be slightly less defensive when it was criticised

come on bro

imagine getting your fuckability analysed by a historian 450 years in the future

above all else this site *still* needs two features 1) the ability to make private accounts 2) the ability to turn off seeing someones reskeets without turning off their skeets

NEW— Terms of the Agreement Between the Syrian Government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF):

tonight's watch: goodnight julia (2023) my feelings on this film are complicated, it wants to be a hugely intersectional anti-racist film, taking aim at the way arab sudanese people treat black sudanese people unfortunately, it centres an arab sudanese woman who loves shooting and crying

This is now confirmed. Raqqa is now under control of the STG

the map i use to record the films i've seen is so old that it did not have south sudan on it, therefore i had to draw the border of south sudan so i could indicate this was a sudanese film though it isn't south sudanese, the film is greatly concerned with south sudan

tonight's watch: goodnight julia (2023) my feelings on this film are complicated, it wants to be a hugely intersectional anti-racist film, taking aim at the way arab sudanese people treat black sudanese people unfortunately, it centres an arab sudanese woman who loves shooting and crying

found a new title to add to me collection, marquise de trans

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

claims to be pro lifebert

excited for using these ice agents names on the internet to become as difficult as publishing soldier f's name in britain

to read my full (and quite long) review of this film, you can find it here

what the fuck jus thappened in yemen on 2 january, the stc controlled all the below territory in yellow and was making plans for a referendum to form the state of south arabia as of 9 january, the stc has dissolved itself and all their territories are under the saudi backed plc

as a society, i think we need to go to war on the style of film posters i will derogatorily describe as the 'collection of things/people in the movie' style

tonight's watch in memory of the recently deceased béla tarr, i watched one of his most famous films, werkmeister harmony superb film, tarr and hravitsky are true masters of the craft of cinema

look, i don't expect you to say 'i can't wait to participate in a riot' online, but i think the least you could do, in the wake of your government toppling that of one of it's close neighbours and lining up the straw to suck the place dry is not post shit that amounts to 'resistance is futile'

very excited for the new world cinema project box set chronique des années de braise is getting a disk release!! you could only get that film as a rip or a vhs tape before now... this is awesome

my guy... come on

after a solid month of doing my nightly exercise routine, illness and christmas caused me to get wayleighed from staying up to scratch last year this year shall be different, and to prove that it will be different, i have made a spreadsheet,,, were i to give up now, i would be betraying excel...

as the usa hurtles towards a fascist ecstasy it intends to impose by force across the americas and beyond, seeing this kind of shit is infuriating

as the usa hurtles towards a fascist ecstasy it intends to impose by force across the americas and beyond, seeing this kind of shit is infuriating

huge loss for cinema

come on bro, you're writing in 1937, you don't need to claim the french king's could cure scrofula by their touch

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

tonight's watch: my 2nd angelopoulos film: reconstruction (1970) a much simpler and tighter story than the sprawling epic that was the travelling players, here we follow the interrogation of two murderers, as well as their doomed efforts to establish alibis for themselves in the wake of the crime

listening to the bloodwork episode about carl schmitt feels very appropriate given what's happened today

Regarding the "illegality" of today's US attack on Venezuela: Those laws aren't real and won't help you. Indicticting him a third time won't be any more effective than the last two. It probably isn't illegal anyway. These avenues of "resistance" were designed by the state to defang you.

escalates pressure? fuck offfffff, makes war on

okay, it's letterboxd wrapped time, let's gooo yummy yummy data

tonight's watch, the final film of 2025, douglas fairbanks' epic, the thief of baghdad (1924) it's fair to say, a lot of this film has aged, very badly, the orientalism/general racism is off the charts, and there's some homophobia thrown in for extra spice

you can read my review of red desert here:

contractual 'i haven't showered since last year' post

tonight's watch: red desert (1964) by michelangalo antonioni released the same year as the film i watched yesterday, but a very different film, an exploration of alienation and distancing from a sick and dying world,

this is the first french film i've seen, so let's add the country to my map... just kidding

tonight's watch, a real dud, fantômas (1964) i've already watched fantômas (1913), so was hoping for a film that built on the legacy of that... kind of groundbreaking film