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Nathanael Smith

@nathanaelsmith.bsky.social

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Here for: NFL - diehard Buffalo Bills fan UK Politics - I'm a Labour party member Cinema - Miyazaki, Malick, Marty

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Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 50m

My most hinged movie opinion is that most of the time a director famous for being great tends to be great.

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Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 1h

He seems like a teeeerrible locker room guy

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Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 1h

I have not age verified on Bluesky so can't DM you, but I work in politics and... Well you're not far wrong.

Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 1h

Drew Struzan is one of those artists who effectively redefined their art form, as important to the movie poster as Saul Bass. Impossible to choose a favourite, but I love him applying his signature style to the Muppets.

Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 6h

They're googling What Happened to Kyle Williams as you post.

Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 9h

Stick some columns and some amphora art on the front cover and we're laughing.

Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 9h

Unless of course, you want to publish my new novel Delphi, a tragic/girlboss retelling of stories about the Oracle of Delphi.

Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 9h

I think we're at capacity for literary retellings of Greek/Roman myths. Well done, everyone, that's enough now.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 1d

This was *wonderful*. So astute about a changing Britain without being all, ya know, Brexity.

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Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 1d

I think the problem is humanism. Defunct outlook on the world.

Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Celebrity Traitors and I don't know what point in the 2010s Stephen Fry tipped over from "potential national treasure" to utterly insufferable, but I think he's out of the running.

Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 2d

This is what powers Scott Hanson.

Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Tom Waits is a delight as an actor. Gravelly charm in The Old Man and the Gun, one of a group of geriatric grave robbers.

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Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 2d

I asked AI to give me reasons for hope, and it just sent me Shrek as Ghibli images.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 2d

It’s so bleak. I didn’t really have any dreams, so I asked a machine, is a bleak ‘70s novel

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Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine not wanting to dream about what your holiday could be?

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Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 2d

I asked AI to come up with some hopes and dreams for me. I asked AI to imagine for me.

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Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Well then it's not really your dream summer holiday, is it?

News headline: I asked AI to plan my dream summer holiday. Here's how it turned out.

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 3d

the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.

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Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Has the word got around yet?

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Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 4d

I don't remember who beat Jeffrey Wright to Best Actor when he was up for American Fiction, but I can guarantee they weren't as good as Jeffrey Wright.

Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 5d

Disagree with these opening lines from the BBC - nationalism is nationalism, and there may have been a "respectable" face of it for a while but it was and still is an appeal to base instincts.

Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 5d

How far north do they make it in the UK?

Nathanael Smith @nathanaelsmith.bsky.social · 6d

Martin Chuzzle-shit, #morelike

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 8d

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

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