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Brandon D. Wilson

@geniusbastard.bsky.social

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Cinéaste maudit. Educator. Dad of 2. Quinquagenarian. Man of Appetites. Film writer. UCLA '94, M.F.A. '99. 2nd gen native Angeleno. Pro-union. Anti-fascist. Clearly not the actor from NICKEL BOYS. He/Him.

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · Nov 10

This is my second feature: SEPULVEDA.
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SEPULVEDA

Three friends (Kristina Elena Amaya, Karla Jovel, Leslie Reyes) decide on a whim to drive the entirety of Southern California's longest street but end up learning…

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 3h

The stupidest fucking people are running the country. They're cruel and heartless, but they're also just really stupid.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 5h

a woman is standing in front of a bulletin board with a sign on it that says ' where can i help you '

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 6h

God Alvy is so awful.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 6h

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 10h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I've been in the Capitol, and there's two things I couldn't find this week: I couldn't find anywhere the Epstein files and also couldn't find the Republican plan to fix the absolutely destroyed health insurance industry."

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 7h

This trailer to LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR rules. youtu.be/cikARr2qMeA?...

Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) Original Trailer

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 8h

This scene is when I finally wept. Everything good, fades. But the worst of us endure.

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah I’m watching ANNIE HALL and don’t give me any shit about it.

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 8h

Always.

Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 9h

I am not OK.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 9h

A tough, but worthy sit: Looking for Mr. Goodbar. For my money, Diane Keaton's best performance. A deft comedian, to be sure, but there's nothing comic about either film or character. Theresa is an essentially good, caring person, which makes it easier to sympathize with her and her...choices.

Theresa at the bar with a glass of red wine and a cigarette.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 9h

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 10h

I wish producers would understand that all Jared Leto is is photogenic. photogenic is a dime a dozen out here, why are you still casting this creep

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 10h

Hollywood keeps threatening to use AI to cut runaway production costs, as opposed to firing the people who greenlit a $180 million TRON sequel with Jared Leto as the biggest name in the cast.

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 12h

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

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How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11h

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

Zach Schermele
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NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being
"decimated," as one person described.
"They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another.
"I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward."
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Hoai-Tran Bui @htranbui.bsky.social · 1d

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT: I chuckled at the WAITING FOR GODOT name-drop. A darkly comic morality play that balances on the razor's edge, while earnestly exploring cycles of violence done to us, and done to each other. So glad I got to see this with Panahi in attendance

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 10h

I think we will be seeing a lot of VV films in the next few years.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 12h

Thoughts on OHMSS. boxd.it/bkJxlT

A ★★★★ review of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

This one has become a cult film, in part because it was fun to reappraise it favorably after it was initially dismissed in large part due to George Lazenby's sole outing as James Bond. No two ways abo...

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.bsky.social · 15h

The news of this proclamation is hardly surprising, but why does @npr.org keep doing the “some experts say” bullshit in even after this regime has already cut off their funding?

NPR @npr.org · 17h

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans. n.pr/4h2pwRc

Trump issues a Columbus Day proclamation to 'reclaim' the explorer's legacy

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 14h

Fred Zinnemann’s film of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical OKLAHOMA! premiered 70 years ago today. It was shot in its entirety in both Todd-AO 70mm (30 fps) and 35mm CinemaScope (24 fps). The cast: Gordon McRae, Gloria Grahame, Eddie Albert, Rod Steiger, and Shirley Jones.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23h

US activist Angela Davis and novelist Toni Morrison walking together in 1974, by photographer Jill Krementz #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth US

Monochrome photograph of two Black women walking down a street towards the viewer, the subject to the right looks at the other as if in conversation, while the other looks down as if listening

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matt lynch @colonelmortimer.bsky.social · 23h

Ocean waves

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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