Bharathan
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'Let Bosley give you your real hair back '
Absolutely terrific piece that centres what a review should and shouldn't be.
Elena Lazic@elazic.bsky.social · last wk.Emily Wilson's piece on Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY for the LRB went viral and was received very positively by many — but not by virtually every film critic I know. For @animusmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about why: animus-magazine.ghost.io/a-tale-as-ol...
Really really thankful to Animus Magazine and Elena Lazic for this opportunity and for the many suggestions which have made the piece it is.
Animus Magazine@animusmagazine.bsky.social · 9mo ago🏀 NEW LONG-FORM ESSAY 🏀 In his wide-ranging piece, returning Animus writer @bharathan.bsky.social looks at the ways sporting excellence is portrayed and/or analysed in different media, through the example of Michael Jordan. animus-magazine.ghost.io/the-invisibl...
Saw Highest 2 Lowest, and if I were to compare it with the original, it's nowhere close. Kurosawa's film is all about ethical dilemmas. Spoke Lee's version is about choices made for the social media audience. Even as a standalone film it doesn't work. A$AP Rocky's "Both Eyes Closed" is great though.
Funny that no media in the UK are sharing news about excess deaths in Spain as a result of heat
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A breathless read reflecting our breathless times. Had a lot of fun!!
Animus Magazine@animusmagazine.bsky.social · 12mo agoAfter a long hiatus… Animus long-form essays are back! John Kidwell writes about cinema’s response to the unfolding climate crisis over the last 30 years: animus-magazine.ghost.io/be-scientifi...
After a long hiatus… Animus long-form essays are back! John Kidwell writes about cinema’s response to the unfolding climate crisis over the last 30 years: animus-magazine.ghost.io/be-scientifi...
A film about CMS systems and online rage-baiting, a nerdy tech-bro troll of a film, a film for Elon-types who don’t have any sense for the inspiring grandeur or grace of Superman, of humanity, of John Williams’ theme, or—if I may—of cinema itself.
New SUPERMAN is garbage for babies. Squandering the rich Superman mythology to instead show fighting, large-scale destruction, and idiotic multiverse shit like your usual MARVEL crap.
Elisa De Almeida. What a player..just played one of the best balls I've seen live.
Really annoys me when people pick their favourite films in the Criterion closet. Raid that place for ten to twelve films you haven't seen before, dickhead! Are you fucking stupid?? What are you going to do, rewatch Harold & Maude in your home like an idiot? Get a grip
helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-... such a touching article by @helendecruz.net. Devastating news about her health and am so very thankful for her positivity and philosophy. And for her music among other things.
Can’t take it with you
I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.
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Another friend was falling under the spell of fascist YouTubers - the only thing that broke that spell was showing him how much his rants were hurting the people who he loved and trusted. He was lonely, isolated, hooked on YouTube. What brought him back wasn't clever debate, it was human company.
Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · last yr.We lost one friend in Berlin to far-right radicalisation, despite great patience. Very, very smart guy in his chosen area, totally lacking in social or political curiosity outside it. His world-leading expertise in one narrow field made him discount anything we had to say about race or sexuality.
Enjoyed reading this review so much! And it's compelled me to try watching BEAU IS AFRAID again.
Elena Lazic@elazic.bsky.social · last yr.Ari Aster’s EDDINGTON is kind of BEAU IS AFRAID for dummies, but it also very much reminded me of Jim Thompson’s crime novel masterpiece Pop. 1280 ‼️ theplaylist.net/eddington-re...
Introducing 𝓗𝓪𝓻𝓭 𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓽𝓱𝓼, a new Animus podcast with @elazic.bsky.social & @manilazic.bsky.social. Expect animated chats about cinema, digressions into unrelated topics, and trivial facts from our personal lives. Do NOT expect to immediately be able to tell us apart. open.spotify.com/episode/3oMo...
I got asked to expand a thread I wrote on here about MISERICORDIA into an article for @animusmagazine.bsky.social. Really enjoyed writing this one, would love it if you gave it a read: animus-magazine.ghost.io/alain-guirau...
In a minor key: on Alain Guiraudie's Misericordia (2024)
Instead of his Psycho. column, Caspar this week writes about Alain Guiraudie's masterpiece Misericordia.
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From the band's March 13, 2008 performance at Austin City Limits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0ws...
R.E.M. - "Fall On Me" [Live from Austin, TX]
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Don't ask questions to ChatGPT. Ask @casparsalmon.bsky.social ! Send your film thoughts for the next edition of the @animusmagazine.bsky.social advice column for cinephiles, Psycho. ✍️: bit.ly/animus_psycho
The 50 Best Club Teams of the Last 100 Years Before I get into my list of the best 50 club teams of the last 100 years, I wanted to lay out some of the criteria behind it.
This is next week! If you’ve seen and loved BETTER MAN, please consider sharing with your friends. If you haven’t yet had the pleasure, get a ticket!
Animus Magazine@animusmagazine.bsky.social · 2y agoWord of mouth has been building around BETTER MAN, the Robbie Williams biopic from THE GREATEST SHOWMAN dir. Michael Gracey. Your chance to catch the film sensation of 2024 in the cinema & with a crowd, + post-film convo to unpack what we'll have just seen. 🎟️: www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
NEW PIECE. Late in the day but without any update on the weekend I wanted some kind of update out. Plus, I still have a backlog to catch up on. In this piece I cover Marko Elez's bounce out of, and back into, government as well as the AG Lawsuit which cites me. www.crisesnotes.com/day-eleven-o...
Day Eleven of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Marko Elez’s Resignation, Return and Irrelevance
Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025 Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 & Part 6 If you are ...
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Really cannot get past how big of a fucking tool Hakeem Jeffries is Like we knew he wasn't cool but he is such a big fucking tool!!!
Posted around NYC, Chicago, DC and other cities. Be creative. Do something!
A great piece of reporting on the PCC landlord and the many other instances where he's basically been allowed to do whatever he wants just because he has lots of money. He obviously cares a lot about his image, however, so let's keep talking about him: www.londoncentric.media/p/prince-cha...
Prince Charles Cinema: Has London's "meanest landlord" met his match?
Plus: Scroll down to find out who is putting a helicopter storage facility in their south London garden, and a mysterious water contamination at the V&A.
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....helped by quislings and cowards like Starmer's Chamberlain-lite Labour Party. We're backsliding at such a rate that, since my writing this piece and it getting published the situation for LGBT+ folks has gotten drastically worse over in the USA.
@nathantankus.bsky.social Hi Nathan! I thank you immensely for your meticulous and tireless work in defending US institutions from being taken over. I write to ask how international observers who are reasonably well connected in academic and cultural spheres help amidst this crisis. 1/2.
