Wonderful piece, not only on THE ODYSSEY and its reception but on the medium of film. Thank you Elena
Elena Lazic@elazic.bsky.social · 7d agoEmily 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...
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"We've had nothing to do with that transmission" asserts the BBC News anchor, whose channel has just live broadcast it to c.200,000 people
Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 4w agoSo Farage got a free 30-minute advert on the BBC. No journalist will do any checking of any of his claims, and it doesn't matter, anyway, because he's already used all broadcast media to get his message out.
À propos de Disclosure Day : "The ease with which horrifying images capturing the mass atrocities in Gaza, Sudan, Lebanon and other countries have been and are ignored should throw dreams such as Spielberg’s into question" @bealoayza.bsky.social @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/the-limits-o...
The Limits of Spielbergian Humanism
Watching ‘Disclosure Day’, Beatrice Loayza wonders if Hollywood’s great empath is losing his way
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Painted Ge'ez manuscript, ca. 1721-1730. -Madonna and Child flanked by the angels Gabriel and Michael -The Dragon in the Desert -Monk Pretends Not to Fast -Thief Saved from Hanging becomes a monk taken from King Tewodros's royal library in Magdala, Ethiopia -PEMM #randomxt
For some reason I always see "The Devil Wears Prada" as "The Devil Reads Pravda"
Some research-intensive universities have been hoovering up students from other institutions, even if they don’t have enough accommodation to house them. Read my new @hepi-news.bsky.social report on the financial sustainability of the HE sector: bit.ly/4mBraMN
Rather than wondering if Trump can stop himself or if Netanyahu will be less of a coloniser, we need to put non-aligned diplomacy to work on collective divestment politics and clear targets for fiscal justice. It's odd how we denounce the international disorder but still hope the old tools succeed.
This is such a brilliant and withering dismantling of ‘Wuthering Heights’ and the entire Fennell schtick open.substack.com/pub/heatherp...
this is not an essay about Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights"
why can't we cope with ambiguity these days?
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Funding/support from American oligarchs is a FAR more significant threat to British democracy than that from the Kremlin, which has a. a fraction of their cash and b. approximately zero popularity.
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“Touch grass” has intense proxy pro-Branch Davidian vibes.
THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org: A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye. #OSINT
And to deny "male" loneliness because everyone's lonely but then specify women have poor experiences of dating... not helpful
Isn't this part of the crux, though, that girls are socialised to share and be in groups while boys are socialised to be individual?
After last year’s US election, people liked to point out that almost every OECD country saw the party in power during the post-covid inflation lose office in the next election. With one big exception: Mexico. There may be a reason for that. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
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Democracy for Sale has been working w/ @38degrees.bsky.social on a campaign to cap political donations in the UK. Our petition is now at over 49,700 signatures!! 🎉 Can we get it to 50k and send a really strong message? Please share! Ta you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
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“Yippee ki-yay…” We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.
The 19 titles just announced in this year's Cannes Film Festival competition:
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