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I wrote the movie Around the Sun and sometimes write about other movies and work for the Roxie Theater and teach at California College of the Arts. jonathankiefer.com

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The great Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé has passed away. After seeing his award-winning film YELEEN (1987), Martin Scorsese called it: “one of the great revelatory experiences of my moviegoing life.” Read more about this incredible cinematic voice: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/m...

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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

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Yes. "It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right." newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

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www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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"He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to." --Kyle MacLachlan on #DavidLynch

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"How many shoppers scrolling for Prime Day deals recognized a mind at work?" Great piece from @taracheesman.bsky.social on the new collection of Kevin Killian's "Selected Amazon Reviews" www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/kevi...

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More great why-things-look-like-that analysis, from @vickyacab.bsky.social all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/image-withou...

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Will Tavlin runs a diagnostic on "the first studio in Hollywood history to consistently make daylight look bad." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

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Here, as gathered in a Screen Slate list, are some movies I like! screenslate.com/articles/bes...

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Worthy crowdfund alert: The wonderful and dedicated Brenda Avila-Hanna's documentary LIBERTAD, nearly 8 years in the making and as timely as ever. seedandspark.com/fund/liberta...

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Wonderful project, much appreciated

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Call me conservative but I respect traditions, such as the apparently annual ladybug orgy in Redwood Regional Park

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It’s Small Business Saturday, so here are some other boutique labels having sales on their sites, please support! Cinema Guild Arbelos Grasshopper Films Icarus Films Oscilloscope Flicker Alley Cult Epics Grindhouse Releasing Severin Cauldron

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Well I love this, of course. www.screenslate.com/articles/nic... from @nicolasrapold.bsky.social

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Rebecca Green's Dear Producer newsletter on the Hollywood product, once again telling it like it is. www.dearproducer.com/p/but-hes-di...

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Online-wandering the @mzspress.bsky.social stacks and couldn't leave empty-handed and picked up Duras/Godard Dialogues and do not regret it

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Our microclimate in San Francisco Bay Area is sensitive to the Pacific fog. You know they say the fog enters through the Golden Bay Bridge and goes right to North Berkeley? Occasionally satellite images capture this precise moment. #Landsat

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Me in my echo chamber (La vie de bohème, Aki Kaurismäki 1992)

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“When images have lost meaning and death has been rendered invisible to our scrolling eyes, forensic aesthetics…open up a space for political possibility.” www.e-flux.com/criticism/64...

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Just rediscovered this photo I took when visiting the garden of Derek Jarman, whose persuasive answer to the grimmest prognosis was make art with friends, grow life from rocks. 🌱

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From Blood in the Machine author @bcmerchant.bsky.social

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So nice to see the great Gabriel Abrantes' Os Humores Artificiais (The Artificial Humors) on Le Cinéma Club this week. Easily my favorite adorable-Wittgenstein-spouting-AI-orb-looking-for-love-in-a-Yawalapiti-village film of 2016. www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...