#BREAKING Iranian film director Jafar Panahi released on bail after 7 months in prison: rights group
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Elon Musk owns this platform and yet has somehow failed to identify the key characteristics of its users:
1) Everything they say is purely performative
2) So addicted to it they will never leave
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Another 23-year-old protestor, Majidreza Rahnavard, was just executed in Mashhad, Iran. No lawyer, no due process, tortured confession, sham trial. He was hanged for "waging war against God." This cruelty in the name of religion is what has secularized so many young Iranians.
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Instead of bringing back 2Pac and Michael Jackson as holograms, can I have Jonathan Miller?
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On days like today, it’s important to remember the words of the wonderful Jonathan Miller when challenging the dog whistling of Enoch Powell.
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At this point, surely they should sell all the shops and just make adverts.
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It’s the things we do that mean the most. 
#TheBeginner
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The most important video of the year was filmed in 1983.
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This is going to be normal politics until politicians realise that crisis not growth is the new norm and that the world’s realities are shattering the platitudes of partisan politics and career ambition at an ever more rapid pace.
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God Save the King is now playing over the lettuce.
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Latest update from the lettuce, disco lights have been deployed.
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One for the ages
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Fuck me, he’s nailed it. Every word. 👇
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I'm finally out of Iran and feel safe enough to talk about the situation publicly with an account bearing my name.
The crackdown in Iran is way worse than you think, even if you've been following the news.
Institutions like Amnesty International and news outlets try to stick/
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India bars -winning photographer from flying out of the country to collect her award. Clear, chilling message from the Modi government: criticize or embarrass us at your peril!!
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I was on my way to receive the Pulitzer award ( @Pulitzerprizes) in New York but I was stopped at immigration at Delhi airport and barred from traveling internationally despite holding a valid US visa and ticket.
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Nationwide protests continue in Iran, today at Tehran University students chanting for “freedom” (azadi)
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This is not what a conventional police force would do. It’s what drug cartels do. Look how the security forces in Mashhad violently arrest a protester, shoving him into the trunk. This is how they rule. #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #IranProtests2022
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I lived in Atisaz towers, across from Evin prison. I spoke now to a friend there and could hear-as reflected in this video-cries of 'death to Khamenei' and gunshots. Evin is full of political prisoners, including US citizens. Their families are terrified.
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L’acteur iranien Navid Mohammadzadeh récemment vu dans Leila et ses frères ou encore la loi de Téhéran du réalisateur Roustaee est introuvable indique sa sœur sur Instagram. L’acteur très connu en Iran a dénoncé la mort de Mahsa Amini et la répression en cours
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میترا محمدزاده، خواهر نوید محمدزاده بازیگر ایرانی، در اینستاگرم خود از ناپدید شدن برادرش، نوید محمدزاده خبر داد. او نوشت: «هیچ اطلاعی از نوید نداریم و حساب کاربری اینستاگرام او از دسترس خارج شده است. جان نوید در خطر است.»
#نوید_محمدزاده #ایندیپندنت_فارسی
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Fellow philistines, it occurred to me that ppl in other countries must understand a lot more of Shakespeare than me since they can update their translations without sending the fanclub into paroxysms of rage. So I wrote about it
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thx
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At the big 3 festivals since last year, the French winners have been:
Julia Ducournau (palme d'or)
Audrey Diwan (golden lion)
Clare Denis (silver bear)
Alice Diop (silver lion)
This is who chooses to depict the global "reconquest" of french cinema :
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La honte @lefilmfrancais vous enterrez une industrie par votre Une patriarcale dépassée. Ce sont les femmes du cinéma français qui gagnent Les grands prix internationaux. Les productrices, les cheffes op, les actrices les techniciennes portent hautes les couleurs de notre art.
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La honte vous enterrez une industrie par votre Une patriarcale dépassée. Ce sont les femmes du cinéma français qui gagnent Les grands prix internationaux. Les productrices, les cheffes op, les actrices les techniciennes portent hautes les couleurs de notre art.
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RIP Coolio. Never forget his appearance on Irish daytime chatshow Open House, who, legend has it, booked him by mistake. They hadn't arranged backing dancers, so he made the middle-age production crew dress up and do it instead. Best TV ever.
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Since people ask and I never remember, I made a list of what I saw at #VeniceFilmFestival and who might like it.
I loved Blonde (but lotta ppl gonna hate for being a pretentious load of depressing tosh) and No Bears (Jafar Panahi 🥰 should win!)
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lots of memes about speedy wikipedia editors — quick thread about what went down on wikipedia in the minutes after her death was announced
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The third one really doesn't go well.
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The moment in LIVE AND LET DIE (1973) where Bond steps across a row of crocodiles was real.
Crocodile farm owner Ross Kananga (whose Father had been eaten by a crocodile!) did the stunt, succeeded on the 5th attempt & his injuries required 193 stitches.
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This almost makes one long for the time when Cannes claimed that their booking system'd been hacked by the Russians... at least they said *something*! No official word from after 2.5 hours of this disaster.
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Petrit Halilaj was a 13yo refugee when he prepared a drawing of the Kosovo war for Kofi Annan who was visiting his refugee camp. But then he refused to give it to him.
Revisiting trauma with a child-refugee-turned artist
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#MeToo film shifts from rhetoric to action
eg - Insurance that pays to stop productions while abuse allegations investigated
- Panel of experts to hear complaints. Accountability, deterrence + proper process avoids kneejerk cancellation
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How Tom Cruise survived the end of the star era news.yahoo.com/tom-cruise-sur
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How manuscript reemerged is fascinating story itself.
Thought destroyed in '44 (to Celine's endless consternation), a ex-journo suddenly handed over the papers to heirs last year, out of the blue
Includes another book 'London' to be published this autumn
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...Celine seemed to flip in 1937 when he published his anti-Jewish diatribe 'Trifles for a Massacre'
French literary establishment still downplays that side of him while gushing about his literary skills. No mention in new book's preface, little in the reviews...
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Celine spent the war carousing with the Gestapo, fingering Jews & foreigners to the authorities and publishing racist pamphlets about Jewish world conspiracies.
Prior to that tho, he had been popular with progressives esp for his debut Journey to the End of the Night
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In the annals of separating artist from the art, they don't come much juicier than Louis-Ferdinand Celine, who wrote humanist anti-war masterpieces and then became a massive Nazi.
'War' is published Thurs, 78 years after it was lost when he fled Paris
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As women brewers become more common, they are discovering that beer actually has feminine roots.
The first recorded beer recipe was written on a piece of clay in 1800 BC as an ode to Ninkasi, the Sumerian goddess of beer.
sg.news.yahoo.com/french-brewers
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Is the metaverse going to gut TV's ad money in the same way as the internet did for press? Some say it'll happen quicker than people realise
"They even add fake gunshots and explosions"
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It's fair to say Picasso ("For me there are only two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats") would keep the think-piece writers busy if he was around today.
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By attributing the war primarily to the growth of Athenian power and the fear it caused Sparta, Thucydides proved to be a stooge and conduit of Spartan talking points, denied its agency, and was probably on their payroll.
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