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Chairman Mao & Frank Zappa playing ping pong (Cayman Islands - Summer of 1971)

The only realist director America has ever had.

Cate Blanchett has voiced her support for the reopening of the Metropolis Cinema in Beirut, Lebanon, on Saturday. hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

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Can you recommend me writing that deftly combines reflections on organizing with theory? More like @alybatt 's "Spadework" nplusonemag.com/issue-34/polit…? I have major writers block and need to get unstuck.

"[Jocelyne] Saab’s films serve as timely reminders that neocolonial aggression has never been a defensive maneuver... Saab lived through the wars she documented, and her lyrical missives are marked both by fearlessness and vulnerability." | @CLF_Project: mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

"'At the time,' Woodberry recalls, 'we felt that the image of the Black working-class leftists tended to project was very different from the reality we knew.'" Billy Woodberry in conversation with Giovanni Vimercati. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-thun…

35 anni di Fuori Orario, passione indocile della notte Da stasera su Rai3 per l’anniversario della trasmissione. Imperdibile «La nott' e 'l giorno» di Gianni Castagnoli, compagno di Patrizia Vicinelli, dichiarato un capolavoro e poi scomparso ilmanifesto.it/35-anni-di-fuo…

A young Egyptian girl's room, Cairo, Egypt, 1970 🇪🇬

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A 70-year-long story between disruptive milestones such as the Miura and the Stratos: dive into an Italian car design myth sinking its roots in early 20th century Turin. #Echobox=1721293705" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">domusweb.it/en/design/gall…

Celluloid Liberation Front (@CLF_Project) write on Heiny Srour’s newly-restored 1984 film LEILA AND THE WOLVES, "a film of monumental resolve and ambition, determined to address the contradictions within the anti-colonial struggle." mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

"Flamboyant and anti-clerical, modernistic and anti-colonial, folkloristic and experimental, his films resist categorization and bear testament to the possibilities of the medium..." @CLF_Project consider the films and career of Med Hondo. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

@Criterion Fast & Furious 3

Name that film. . .

Very sad in more ways than one. At a time when the distinction between criticism and publicity got increasingly blurrier, CS and MP kept on practicing the noble art of taking sides.

The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived by Heiny Srour, screening at Mizna Film Series. 2/28 at 7pm @TrylonCinema TICKETS : bit.ly/miznafilmseries The film archives a forgotten moment in history, when a feminist, guerrilla movement in Dhofar rose up against the Sultanate of Oman.

Marco Ferreri's L'UDIENZA (1972), the story of a man's (un)successful attempt to meet the @Pontifex, is loosely based on Kafka's THE CASTLE.

On Solid Groundless: our tribute to the late Otar Iosseliani mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

Happy 100th birthday to the one and only Sergei Parajanov (1924 - eternity)