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whitecitycinema.bsky.social
Filmmaker (RELATIVE, MERCURY IN RETROGRADE), author (FLICKERING EMPIRE), teacher
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Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks. Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

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Bob Dylan's St Patrick's Day gift, from 2024: The Newry Highwayman (better known in the Dylan community as The Roving Blade) Introduced here as "an old ballad from the Old Country" Play all versions at bobserve.com/songinfo?id=...

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Excited to be hosting a screening of NO OTHER LAND at Oakton College in Des Plaines on Mon, 3/31, along w/ Ahalya Satkunaratnam. One of the great documentaries of recent years. FREE and open to the public:

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Prayers up for Willie

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Film noir day at College of Lake County. DOUBLE INDEMNITY and OUT OF THE PAST:

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

And the Oscar goes to No Other Land 💫 Available to stream here: releasing.dogwoof.com/no-other-land

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

And if you're a fan of Wendy Robie, that gum you like is going to come back in style. Dropping this here for no reason in particular: youtu.be/iwFmQ2Fq4zg?...

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Had a blast speaking to Grand Valley State Univ film students yesterday with critic Lee Shoquist and GHOSTLIGHT director Kelly O’Sullivan

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Screening in Intro to Film class to illustrate “neo noir”: DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Franklin)

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Film studies instructors are doomed to screen CITIZEN KANE literally hundreds of times over the course of their lives. There are fates worse than this:

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Bob Dylan writing first-person monologues in the voice of historical figures and posting them on Instagram is the best thing ever: www.instagram.com/reel/DGyV7Ko...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Screening in today’s Global Cinema class: LE BONHEUR (Varda)

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When I interviewed Sean Baker for Time Out Chicago a decade ago, it was because I saw TANGERINE at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social and was so impressed I sent him a DM on Facebook asking if he’d want to be interviewed about it

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Got the best prize for coming in LAST in the Oscar betting pool - because being the worst is the same as being the best. Thanks, @randomcha.bsky.social!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Brody’s speech being so long and dull was just salt in the wound

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

The NO OTHER LAND team on the red carpet at the Oscars!! 🇵🇸❤️

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

TIMMY loses. Boooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Congratulations to SHADOW KINGDOM cinematographer Lol Crawley on winning an Oscar for THE BRUTALIST

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I’ll also be hosting a screening at Oakton College in Des Plaines very soon. Free and open to the public

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They left Quincy Jones out of the In Memoriam montage? What the hell?

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One of the greatest moments in the history of the Oscars #NOOTHERLAND

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Mick Jagger was not joking about Bob Dylan turning down this gig

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For the first time ever, one of my Facebook friends just won an Oscar (Sean Baker)

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Isabella Rossellini wearing a “blue velvet” dress? Hell yes.

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Going with my heart instead of my head on this ballot. Always dangerous:

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Rolling up to @randomcha.bsky.social’s Oscar party tonight with cupcakes, wine and some very special coasters!

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I have never watched A Complete Unknown without @whitecitycinema.bsky.social. The streak continued!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

My ★★★★½ review of NO OTHER LAND on Letterboxd: boxd.it/8UZAwx

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