👀 The Criterion Collection announces 'The Complete Kubrick' UHD Set—30-disc features 4K restorations of Kubrick’s thirteen features and three shorts. www.criterion.com/boxsets/9000... #Filmsky #Kubrick 📽️
Maaisha Osman
@maaisha.bsky.social
Health policy journalist • cinephile Signal: maaisha.07
NYC’s Lincoln Center is screening Ettore Scola’s masterpiece “Una Giornata Particolare” as a part of its History, Italian Style series! My December essay on why you shouldn't miss it: www.deepfocusreview.com/una-giornata... www.filmlinc.org/films/a-spec...
A Special Day
She’s a conservative Mussolini supporter; he’s a homosexual enemy of the state. But after a chance meeting, the two share a life-changing day in 1938 that will challenge their assumptions about people...
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Some shots from Fellini’s 1969 masterpiece Satyricon! How the story never ends…
Pfizer’s CEO says U.S. companies could stop supplying drugs to European countries that refuse to pay more, arguing that drugmakers need higher prices abroad to maintain profits for R&D even as drug prices remain high in the U.S. But several this argument rests on a flawed assumption. Gift link 👇
NEW: An HHS official said Calley Means, a senior advisor and close ally to HHS Secretary RFK Jr., has been detailed to the White House Domestic Policy Council. insidehealthpolicy.com/inside-drug-...
Calley Means Detailed To WH As Admin Tightens Health Messaging Ahead Of Midterms | InsideHealthPolicy.com
An HHS official told Inside Health Policy that Calley Means, a senior advisor and close ally to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been detailed to the White House Domestic Policy Council, a shi...
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As much as I admire François Truffaut’s films, he once expressed disdain for Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road), saying he did not want to watch “peasants eating with their hands.” In contrast, Wim Wenders held profound admiration for Ray. @badideas.bsky.social
Aaron Stewart-Ahn@badideas.bsky.social · 6mo agoIn regards to what’s going on at the Berlinale film festival, here is footage of Godard & Truffaut shutting down the 1968 Cannes Film Festival in solidarity with students workers & protestors getting brutalized by police in the streets, & probably Godard’s best line about film criticism ever
NEW: Linsey Criswell, director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, will not have her term renewed, creating another leadership vacancy as the NIH faces a growing number of open institute and center director positions. Gift Link 👇
The great François Truffaut (born on this day in 1932) on the set of THE LAST METRO! 🧡 On the Criterion Channel, celebrate the master's undying love for cinema and life with our collection of his films — including THE 400 BLOWS, JULES AND JIM, STOLEN KISSES, THE SOFT SKIN, THE LAST METRO, and more!
“If this violence goes unchecked, it could indeed be a turning point, because it will create a template for other security forces more closely aligned with Trump to use force against any manifestation of opposition.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/m...
Bloody Minnesota
Daron Acemoglu thinks the recent killings of innocent civilians by federal agents mark a political turning point for the US.
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On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, enjoy images from The Glen Pearcy Collection at the Library of Congress. A rare, unguarded public moment of Dr. King smiling at a March 1965 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee meeting—a snapshot of joy amid a historic civil rights struggle—is a highlight.
Last month, @deepfocusreview.bsky.social published my essay on Ettore Scola's Una Giornata Particolare (A Special Day, 1977). Read here: www.deepfocusreview.com/una-giornata...
Una Giornata Particolare (A Special Day): A Meeting of Solitudes | Deep Focus Review
Few filmmakers have delved into the complexities of human dignity and its stark absence with as much fervor as Ettore Scola. Una Giornata Particolare (A Special Day, 1977) stands as one of his most po...
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NEW: Several NIH employees plan to resign in the coming months, with additional staff opting for early retirement, sources tell us, after employees reported last year they are having to censor and alter their research to avoid running afoul of the Trump admin. 👇
NEW: A CDC-backed study of the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose in West African nation Guinea-Bissau, funded in part by billionaire Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Foundation and Bluebell Foundation, is drawing ethical concerns from scientists in Denmark and US. insidehealthpolicy.com/daily-news/e...
Ethics Questions Raised On West Africa Hep B Study Funded By CDC, Ackman Foundation | InsideHealthPolicy.com
A CDC-backed study of the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose in West African nation Guinea-Bissau, funded in part by billionaire Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Foundation and the little-known Bluebell Foun...
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My latest essay
Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review@deepfocusreview.bsky.social · 8mo agoCheck out the new essay on DFR by @maaisha.bsky.social, who deftly analyzes Ettore Scola's A SPECIAL DAY (1977), what it has to say about fascism, and how its lessons remain achingly relevant today. Read: www.deepfocusreview.com/una-giornata... #FilmSky #MovieSky
Robin Feldman on Pfizer obligations to SEC to disclose details of price deal with Trump. insidehealthpolicy.com/share/151134
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It seems like a good time to release my essay about CABARET (1972) from behind the paywall. Enjoy: www.deepfocusreview.com/definitives/... #MovieSky #FilmSky
Cabaret (1972) | The Definitives | Deep Focus Review
Cabaret changed everything audiences knew to be true about musicals in 1972.
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In the wake of a mass shooting in Minnesota that left two children dead and 17 others injured, RFK Jr. again suggested a link between psychiatric medications -- particularly antidepressants -- and violent behavior. But what do scientists say about such claims? 👇
Another EO about grants, this one directing the attorney general to investigate "lobbying" in the form of "taxpayer funds ... being spent on grants with highly political overtones." Expect we'll see more targeting of universities by the DOJ.
Use of Appropriated Funds for Illegal Lobbying and Partisan Political Activity by Federal Grantees
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SUBJECT: Use of Appropriated Funds for Illegal Lobbying and Partisan Political Activity by Federal Grantees By
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RFK Jr. said NIH will launch studies into whether antidepressant drugs and other psychiatric medications contribute to violent behavior, including mass shootings. He claimed NIH has authority to access the medical histories of shooters through IRB approval. insidehealthpolicy.com/daily-news/r...
RFK Jr.: NIH Will Study Psychiatric Drugs’ Potential Role In Mass Shootings | InsideHealthPolicy.com
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday (Aug. 28) the National Institutes of Health will launch studies into whether antidepressant drugs and other psychiatric medications contribute to...
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1. NEW: The U.S. Commerce Department has launched an aggressive review of Harvard University’s management of patents tied to federally funded research, accusing the Ivy League institution of violating disclosure laws under the Bayh-Dole Act. 👇
NEW: European pharmaceutical imports will be hit with a 15% tariff under the U.S.-EU agreement when the Section 232 duties are implemented, a White House official said today, clarifying that the rate is the maximum that will apply to EU pharma products.
NEW: NIH Director met privately with current and former agency employees on Monday where he affirmed support for dissent, academic freedom, and LGBTQ+ health research “as long as it’s not ideological.” They spoke about grant terminations, forward funding model and more.
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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has tapped George Tidmarsh -- former CEO of several biopharma companies -- to lead CDER, a pick that contradicts Makary’s repeated vows to purge industry influence from the health agency. insidehealthpolicy.com/share/149608
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Rather than pursuing an outright ban that could spark legal battles, HHS is weighing targeted measures to make DTC drug ads harder and costlier to produce. An industry insider says the pullback is unlikely without regulation & warned an outright ban could leave a vacuum for unregulated misinfo.
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EXCLU: Sen. Bernie Sanders wants an investigation of Health Secretary RFK Jr.’s recent decision to fire all 17 members of the nation’s top vaccine advisory committee. via @margaretmanto.bsky.social www.notus.org/health-scien...
Sen. Bernie Sanders Wants an Investigation of RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Firings
Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate Health Committee, made the request of Sen. Bill Cassidy, the committee chair, in a letter obtained by NOTUS.
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