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@alissamarie

Reporter and film critic | Associate professor (criticism, culture, cinema) | | “Joy is not made to be a crumb”

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Aug 21

    My piece on Woodstock, WOODSTOCK (1970), and the failed promise of the so-called “Woodstock Generation” and its myth is now freely available!

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  2. 9 hours ago

    I can’t even think of a funny joke reason. That’s literally never worth doing

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  3. 9 hours ago

    Why would you ever search your name on Twitter. I cannot think of a single good reason

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  4. 12 hours ago

    It’s the last week before the relentless awards onslaught begins but I looked at the calendar for a while and I am optimistic

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  5. Retweeted
    14 hours ago

    Absolutely spectacular review by of Woody Allen's latest, its every sentence envy-inspiring. (Of her writing, not the fact that she's seen the film, which sounds every bit as cruddy as we might have guessed. Sigh.)

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  6. Aug 25

    This is both the most lovely and heartbreaking account on this site and I don’t even have a dog

    the small neighbor human. goes back to school tomorrow. so we spent the whole day together. doing our favorite things. i understand education is important. but here’s the thing. so am i
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  7. Aug 25

    Because my satellite TV app records YOUNGER I get to watch the last 10 seconds of EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND right before every episode, possibly the least YOUNGER show ever?

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  8. Aug 25

    Uh like, “of Hippo,” not “Florida”

    Surprised at the low number of reviews of WOMEN TALKING that mention the St. Augustine connections!
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  9. Aug 25

    (None of my family went to college before me, granted, but I didn't learn much about history in my elite STEM alma mater other than the history of FORTRAN, this is not a joke.)

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  10. Aug 25

    "We didn't learn this stuff in school, and we should have, because how can we be good Americans if we don't know our own history?" From the mouths of the Silent Generation.

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  11. Aug 25

    My GOP grandfather, who loves America and can't stand POTUS, told me in the car today that he learned a ton from a History Channel show he'd been watching about the fascinating history of the American West, and about "how we haven't always been the good guys, huh." TV is good.

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  12. Aug 25

    After years of wandering around in the wilderness, I am so delighted to finally have a style guide I *agree* with to assign my students (and one that is funny, too)

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  13. Aug 25

    Surprised at the low number of reviews of WOMEN TALKING that mention the St. Augustine connections!

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  14. Aug 25

    The Lover title track is an absolute mood

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  15. Retweeted
    Aug 25

    , the first film in the Obamas’ Netflix slate, is about what happened when a closed GM plant in Dayton was reopened by a Chinese company. And it’s one of the year’s best documentaries, says .

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  16. Aug 25

    I aspire some day to the kind of confidence that lets you, in the course of a couple of emails, claim that millennials are the reason we have Trump, dispute that data matters, AND end a correspondence you started with “Now please leave me alone.” Frankly inspiring

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  17. Aug 24

    Since my Woodstock piece went live I have only gotten email from Boomers, all angry: half at me, and half at their generation. Which I guess is interesting.

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  18. Retweeted
    Aug 24

    The billionaire owner of the Village Voice once called me at midnight to ask me to take down my review of CHAPPAQUIDDICK because he was worried he would get phone calls from the Kennedys.

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  19. Aug 24

    ❤️

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  20. Retweeted
    Aug 22

    Since Sundance, has haunted me, and starting Friday, it’s on Hulu. It’s a doc about Gen Z livestreaming stars, and also the people who get rich off them. Honestly a must-see.

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  21. Aug 24

    Kids, don’t make your boats from concrete

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