I wrote about formal experimentation, the autobiographical impulse, and self-reflexivity in Hong Sang-soo's work, with a particular focus on his wonderful 2023 feature 'In Water', for Bright Lights Film Journal:

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Imo it's a bad thing that a Tory MP who voted consistently to expand privatisation in the NHS since 2010 now feels that he is welcome in the Labour party, despite not changing his position on privatisation in the NHS

What if somebody made a movie... about the invention of the pop tart?

Something amazingly moving to me about Godard's 2nd posthumous film at Cannes being shot and edited the day before he passed... litterely the last thing on his mind till the very end was cinema

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every right wing guy donor that made sure college campuses had to host ben shapiro and milo yianapolis 'for free speech' is currently calling for the national guard to come take care of 18 year olds who dare speak out against israels unconscionable actions.

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I love M Night Shyamalan's late-career fascination with surveillance.

Tarantino's final film should be the long-awaited sequel to It's Pat

Scorsese should return the favor by casting Seth MacFarlane as the lead in his Frank Sinatra biopic.

'Not one single word in the PM's statement of condemnation of the Israeli destruction of the Iranian consulate in Damascus', says Rochdale MP George Galloway.

Sky's Kay Burley, he adds, is 'the only person to demand that of a government minister'.

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Aggro Dune
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It's crucial to remember that political leaders across the West had ample opportunities to prevent the all-out regional war which now seems like a looming certainty. Instead they supported Israel's genocidal violence and are now acting as though Iran is acting unprovoked.

I reviewed Ena Sendijarevic's new film 'Sweet Dreams' for Film International:

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New films by Jia, Coppola, Cronenberg, Gomes, and Carax at Cannes

This was one hell of a run
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The lack of military intervention in Israel should tell you that every other military intervention in the history of modern warfare has been to secure strategic interests and not for humanitarian or noble means. This is merely a pantomime they feed us while they loot the earth.

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