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Really fun to hear the filmmakers Sophie Barthes and Alex Rivera discuss their process, their view of AI, the challenges of being and independent filmmaker and other topics, after watching their two films, The Pod Generation and Sleep Dealer, in a film theater.

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Really wonderful to discuss Children of Men and its cinematic strenghs and ideological pitfalls with Jeffrey Middents, Orquidea Morales and Carmen Maria Machado at the Children of Cuarón conference in Dartmouth College.

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Damn www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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New swag

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It was fabulous to share dinner a couple of days ago with Vanessa Angelica Villarreal, and my two fabulous colleagues, Eduardo Corral and Karen Skinner!

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I am absolutely in love with this album, a delicate interpretation of the composed considered the first to write nocturnes, which influenced the compositions of Liszt, Schumann and Chopin. It’s making my snowy night beautiful.

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A new wonderful series by the Mexican Cineteca on film directors by Mexican critics, plus the Brazilian scholar who wrote a Cinema Novo volume. I hope more are on the way!

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My work lunch got cancelled over one inch of snow, so I can take a break from attesting the war against the university reading my newly bought Seferis collections, serving as a dog bed and listening to Robyn and David Bowie singing “Dancing in My Own”

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With my camarada, accomplice and friend Irmgard Emmelhainz, one of the most brilliant people I know.

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Lebanese Mexican breakfast ❤️

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Never gets old

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Reason 1476 why I love my city: the Cineteca offers free films in a big screen set in a lawn against the beautiful Coyoacán notight. Tonight, the 2023 French-Belgian film Le Temps d’Aimer, ad hoc for Valentine’s Day

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Isaac Cherem’s Déjeme estar contigo, a lovely romantic dramedy between a dreamer deported from the US and a terminally ill upper class Mexican girl, which is also a love letter to Mexico City and a small utopia against classism and borders. It delivers on its bold premises. In Mexican theaters.

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Ursula Barba Hopfner’s Corina is Mexican commercial cinema at its best, a luminous, both warm and deadpan comedy with creative-class romcom thematics and gorgeous production values, it very much demonstrates that the theses of my 2014 book continue to be current. In Mexican theaters, soon in the US

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Alonso Ruizpalacios La Cocina, a deliciously dilettante film about back-of-the-house immigrant labor, urgent by circumstance, aesthetically ambitious in many ways yet bogged down by subpar screenwriting and winks to melodrama. Worth watching nonetheless. In Mexican theaters, soon in US platforms

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Two Mexicanistas seeking Mexican films wherever they can be found the day Captain America colonized and drowned Mexican commercial screens

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Handmade quesadilla de huitlachoche con queso

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Between teaching, driving to the airport in sleet and a 25 minute connection, all I ate in 24 hrs was a sandwich. My reward, arriving in the best city in the world to me, and enjoying tacos after midnight, a pleasure for someone living in a place where it is impossible to eat decently after 10PM

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Flight companion for my providentially not delayed flight out of St Louis!

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CHE ran a RAVE about WashU's thriving English dept, which has doubled its majors in the last several years. (And it also features a glowing snapshot of the work Mel Micir's been doing as grad director.) They don't mention me by name, but my influence is implied. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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Class prep

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Timely books for Tuesday night

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Watching for class next week, perhaps the best intersection of Antropofagia, Tropicália, hippie vibes and psychedelia in cinema

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Library reorganization, gathering together my Tomás Segovia collection

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Things found while organizing my office library

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Walter Salles’s Ainda Estou Aquí, a moving drama on authoritarian violence and the long wake of trauma and loss it leaves behind. Small and enormous at the same time, the story’s emotional complexity rests on Fernanda Torres, who tackles the real-life heartbreak subtly and with dignity. In theaters.

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Amigxs de la CDMX, un recordatorio de nuestra presentación el sábado a las 4 en El Estanquillo, !pocas veces verán un roster de estudios culturales de esta naturaleza juntos en el mismo lugar! !Ojalá se animen!

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Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a slow-burning, tense film, not the masterpiece that is claimed to be, but nevertheless made by a truly spectacular third act. A brave, riveting film after all. In theaters .

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Remembering one of my favorite places in the whole world.

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Four Latin American alt-pop albums in heavy rotation this weekend

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Billy Woodberry’s Mário, a powerful documentary on Mário Pinto de Andrade, poet and founder of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, from whom a story of Pan-African struggle and anticolonial solidarity unfolds, illustrated with amazing historical footage. In the Criterion Channel

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Revolutionary Nahuatl for 2/7/25 Ayic ninopachoz. I will never bend the knee. AH-yeek nee-noh-PAH-chohs ______________________________ ayic = never ni- = I -no- = myself pachoa = bow down -z = future tense

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Within a delicious takedown of Pamela Paul, Andrea Long Chu has produced the best description of all the people who would rather enable the far right than siding with the left nymag.com/intelligence...

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Edward Berger’s Conclave is a capacious yet unremarkable thriller with formal and acting achievements eroded by narrative pitfalls, including a predictable ending disguised by a cheap twist. Without Ralph Fiennes, it would be nothing burger. Extra points for the random Mexican. In Peacock.

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Catching up with Marisol García Walls and her intelligent hybrid books, brave essays touching on the painful parts of the past and her past, grounded on an ara poetica oscillating between the intermediañ and the forensic. Must-reads

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Norman Jewison’s Moonstruck, worth watching for Cher being very Cher and Nic Cage being very Nic Cage, charming and lacking some bite, a bit aged but enjoyable. In The Criterion Channel.

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Night class on the platform infrastructures and aesthetics of MUBI

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