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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · Jun 22

C&B has been dying a slow death for months, and it seems that no one cares.

Support articles like the one below; soon they won't be anywhere on the internet.

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · Jun 22

46 years of chestbursters, xenomorphs & pure cinematic terror!

Ridley Scott’s Alien debuted on this day in 1979—and changed sci-fi horror forever.

Dive deep into its creation with rare insights, interviews & more:

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40 Years of Hurt, Face-Hugging Dreams of Breathing: Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ • Cinephilia & Beyond

Alien poster art by Brian Taylor By Tim Pelan Ripley's words to the Xenomorph in Alien 3 sum up how we all feel: “You’ve been in my life so long, I can’t remember anything else.” And now forty years o...

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 56m

“The two memories I have of that film are I had to wear the worst wig ever created by man and Marlon Brando would always drop his pants and moon me. Well, not just me, the cast and the crew.”

Rest in peace, Diane Keaton.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 8h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 21h

Dick Cavett is joined by some of the most famous Hollywood film directors.

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Hollywood Directors Share Their Filmmaking Secrets | Spielberg, Welles & More | The Dick Cavett Show

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 22h

Personally shocked to see Ted Sarandos understand and articulate the uniqueness of human creativity more than people spouting "AI is here to stay."

Ted Sarandos and Guillermo del Toro Unveil Stop-Motion Studio Plans and Weigh In on AI: ‘The Idea that AI will Out-Imagine Things and Humans Is Pretty Unlikely’

Guillermo del Toro and Netflix boss Ted Sarandos have unveiled plans for a stop-motion studio which will be built at France's Gobelins school.

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 22h

Has anyone had the opportunity to explain the basics of mathematics to him yet? And that semi-literate lunatic is also a businessman, supposedly successful. How on earth is that possible?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 1d

For TIME I went long on the bumbling white men at the heart of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, EDDINGTON, and THE MASTERMIND.

How the White Savior Became This Year’s Cinematic Punchline

Several of this year's notable movies, including, One Battle After Another, Eddington, and The Mastermind humorously critique the political role of white men.

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Craig Carlisle @creggster.bsky.social · 1d

He looks like a character from The Walking Dead who was bitten and is about to turn.

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 1d

Can't even give away their blood money.

Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 23h

Something else makes us indescribably happy: how scared these people are of the massive criticism and absolute non-acceptance of AI by the majority. We slaughtered AI. The cataclysm of all cataclysms on the stock markets is yet to come.

Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 1d

“Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are 'legionnaires of the Antichrist' in private lectures on Christianity...”

So it's not just Greta—we are all the antichrist. 🤣

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 1d

45 years ago today, The Elephant Man arrived, reshaping cinema with its fragile beauty, humanism, and David Lynch’s daring heart.

Dive into our tribute—how an “outcast” became a beacon of compassion, creativity, and courage.

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‘The Elephant Man’: A Portrait of an Outcast Defeating His Fears and Deformities with Creativity, Wit and Compassion • Cinephilia & Beyond

By Lovorko Marić David Lynch, a name that is for many film enthusiasts the epitome for weird, surreal, and bizarre, surprised many people when he had characterised himself as a Boy Scout from Missoula...

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 1d

What a madman! 🤣

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, some of the best and edgiest comedy in recent weeks have not come from these comedians but everyone else making fun of them.

But as with all guys yammering about free speech, what they really are against is being the butt of the joke.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

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‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 1d

Murder by bonesaw, lashings for rape victims, amputation as punishment, and jail for satirists are examples of the Saudi human rights abuses that fuel the outrage directed at figures like Pete Davidson, Louis CK, Dave Chappelle, and Jimmy Carr.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Jimmy ...

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 1d

He’s the president of this country and he’s begging for an award.

What a fucking loser.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump made a last-ditch attempt to convince the powers that be that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize with a series of late-night Truth Social posts.

Trump's Desperate Last-Minute Attempts to Win Nobel Peace Prize

The president still won’t let it go.

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 1d

Rhea Seehorn. 🖤

Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 1d

Pluribus Teaser—New Vince Gilligan show 💯

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Pluribus — Official Teaser | Apple TV+

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Pluribus Teaser—New Vince Gilligan show 💯

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Pluribus — Official Teaser | Apple TV+

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 1d

Michael De Luca has been producing some of his best work recently. Aside from, obviously, writing In the Mouth of Madness in 1994. 💯

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 1d

Heartiest congratulations to Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy.

Please produce more original films from writer-directors.

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Warner Bros Motion Pictures Chairs Michael De Luca & Pamela Abdy Re-Up Contracts; WBD CEO David Zaslav Celebrates

Warner Bros Motion Picture chairs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy have re-upped their deals with the film studio.

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 2d

Screenwriter must-read: Lem Dobbs’ screenplay for The Limey

#Scriptsky #Filmsky

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 3d

26 years on, The Limey remains one of Soderbergh's most haunting meditations on time, loss & identity.

Cinephilia & Beyond explores its construction of memory:

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“Bide Your Time and Everything Becomes Clear”: The Construction of Memory in Soderbergh’s ‘The Limey’ • Cinephilia & Beyond

By Sven Mikulec From time to time, a film that is received less enthusiastically at the box office and perhaps gets overlooked by critics goes on to become a cult classic. In fact, this actually happe...

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 2d

“Bombing everywhere—Gaza, Khan Yunis, a building, a tent—this is criminal.”

Israeli tanks shelling Gazan civilians live on camera despite Fuckface Von Clownstick's announcement of a ceasefire.

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