Alan Mattli
@alanmattli.bsky.social
Film critic for Filmbulletin. By-lines in Maximum Cinema, Swissinfo, Filmexplorer, MUBI Notebook, and Filmmaker Magazine. University of Zurich American literature post-doc. Loves cats. Will rate your Werner Herzog impression. Any pronouns.
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Das ist übrigens Eugenik.
Wenn du einmal beginnst zu selektieren, wem du hilfst und wem nicht, dann gehst du einen Weg, der nicht aufzuhalten ist.
Streeck ist Mediziner und weiß das natürlich. Das macht es so perfide. Vor allem, weil er zwei rhetorische Tricks verwendet:
Wenn du einmal beginnst zu selektieren, wem du hilfst und wem nicht, dann gehst du einen Weg, der nicht aufzuhalten ist.
Streeck ist Mediziner und weiß das natürlich. Das macht es so perfide. Vor allem, weil er zwei rhetorische Tricks verwendet:
Hendrik Streeck fragt: Sind teure Medikamente für Senioren wirklich nötig?
Hendrik Streeck fragt: Sind teure Medikamente für Senioren wirklich nötig?
Der CDU-Gesundheitspolitiker Streeck fragt: Sollen 100-Jährige wirklich noch teure Medikamente bekommen?
www.t-online.de
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Das ist übrigens Eugenik.
Wenn du einmal beginnst zu selektieren, wem du hilfst und wem nicht, dann gehst du einen Weg, der nicht aufzuhalten ist.
Streeck ist Mediziner und weiß das natürlich. Das macht es so perfide. Vor allem, weil er zwei rhetorische Tricks verwendet:
Wenn du einmal beginnst zu selektieren, wem du hilfst und wem nicht, dann gehst du einen Weg, der nicht aufzuhalten ist.
Streeck ist Mediziner und weiß das natürlich. Das macht es so perfide. Vor allem, weil er zwei rhetorische Tricks verwendet:
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Musk and others on the far right are obsessed with things like Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons because they see fantasy worlds as reinforcing their own beliefs about immutable hierarchies of race, gender, and by extension morality www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Musk and others on the far right are obsessed with things like Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons because they see fantasy worlds as reinforcing their own beliefs about immutable hierarchies of race, gender, and by extension morality www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
I'm always saying this.
At one time the greatest whaling people in the world, the Dutch and Germans are now among the least
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I'm always saying this.
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Congratulations to the Cuomo team: it takes a lot of dedication and money to lose one election twice.
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Congratulations to the Cuomo team: it takes a lot of dedication and money to lose one election twice.
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Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
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on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
It speaks to how normalised the Republicans' fascism has become that a sitting senator can just casually refer to a Muslim Democrat as a jihadist and expect little to no media blowback.
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It speaks to how normalised the Republicans' fascism has become that a sitting senator can just casually refer to a Muslim Democrat as a jihadist and expect little to no media blowback.
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Adams has railed against vaccines, and science in general, for many years. Kennedy cut funding for promising work including mRNA vaccines for prostate cancer. Just, the audacity here.
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Adams has railed against vaccines, and science in general, for many years. Kennedy cut funding for promising work including mRNA vaccines for prostate cancer. Just, the audacity here.
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I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Just let out an actual "Oh my god" when Samuel L. Jackson showed up in JOHNNY SUEDE.
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Just let out an actual "Oh my god" when Samuel L. Jackson showed up in JOHNNY SUEDE.
Revisiting COMMUNITY, it is pretty striking how perceptive a show that ended two weeks before Trump launched his 2016 campaign manages to be about the idiotic forces that would come to take over America in the ensuing decade.
November 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Revisiting COMMUNITY, it is pretty striking how perceptive a show that ended two weeks before Trump launched his 2016 campaign manages to be about the idiotic forces that would come to take over America in the ensuing decade.
Favourite first-time watches in October:
Cure (1997)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Die My Love (2025)
Possession (1981)
Silent Friend (2025)
Candy Mountain (1987)
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)
Twinless (2025)
I Love You, I Leave You (2025)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Le Chantier (2025)
Cure (1997)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Die My Love (2025)
Possession (1981)
Silent Friend (2025)
Candy Mountain (1987)
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)
Twinless (2025)
I Love You, I Leave You (2025)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Le Chantier (2025)
November 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Favourite first-time watches in October:
Cure (1997)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Die My Love (2025)
Possession (1981)
Silent Friend (2025)
Candy Mountain (1987)
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)
Twinless (2025)
I Love You, I Leave You (2025)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Le Chantier (2025)
Cure (1997)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Die My Love (2025)
Possession (1981)
Silent Friend (2025)
Candy Mountain (1987)
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)
Twinless (2025)
I Love You, I Leave You (2025)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Le Chantier (2025)
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This is largely it. It didn't matter what Dems said or pushed. The GOP? Trump drove the narrative of what the Dems were supposedly "emphasizing", often claiming it was things they never ever supported. Meanwhile things like Project 2025 were often dismissed as Dems being hysterical
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is largely it. It didn't matter what Dems said or pushed. The GOP? Trump drove the narrative of what the Dems were supposedly "emphasizing", often claiming it was things they never ever supported. Meanwhile things like Project 2025 were often dismissed as Dems being hysterical
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To the craven "comedians" who are STILL not speaking up: The manager at the Chicago Laugh Factory was arrested by ICE. They filed no charges, he's a US citizen, and his family doesn't know where he is.
They are coming for all of us. Grow a fucking spine and say something while you still can.
They are coming for all of us. Grow a fucking spine and say something while you still can.
October 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
To the craven "comedians" who are STILL not speaking up: The manager at the Chicago Laugh Factory was arrested by ICE. They filed no charges, he's a US citizen, and his family doesn't know where he is.
They are coming for all of us. Grow a fucking spine and say something while you still can.
They are coming for all of us. Grow a fucking spine and say something while you still can.
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Does it matter that the "critics" here are bad-faith fascists and the criticism they are making is laughably false?
October 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Does it matter that the "critics" here are bad-faith fascists and the criticism they are making is laughably false?
After hearing your blurb-hunting tale, I'm assuming you're also familiar with the movie LEGEND hiding the Guardian's two-star review on the poster, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social.
October 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
After hearing your blurb-hunting tale, I'm assuming you're also familiar with the movie LEGEND hiding the Guardian's two-star review on the poster, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social.
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even the democratic consultants are evaluating the democratic party according to the caricatures put out by republican-aligned media
Incredible to claim that “abolish the police” is in any way a Democratic policy
October 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
even the democratic consultants are evaluating the democratic party according to the caricatures put out by republican-aligned media
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Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis.
Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.
Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.
DHS posted a disturbing video today featuring a song that’s popular with Nazi creators
DHS Posts Video Featuring Song Popular With Nazi Creators
The agency denied making
gizmodo.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis.
Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.
Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.
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The fourth paragraph is politically obtuse, framing this as a battle between Trump’s heartfelt desire to put an “imprint” on the White House versus “the sensibilities of many in Washington.” NO! This is an attack upon the citizenry at large and upon the basic principles of republican governance.
October 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The fourth paragraph is politically obtuse, framing this as a battle between Trump’s heartfelt desire to put an “imprint” on the White House versus “the sensibilities of many in Washington.” NO! This is an attack upon the citizenry at large and upon the basic principles of republican governance.
Ich spiele ja selten die Experten-Karte, aber ich glaube, die FRANKENSTEIN-Diskussion von Olivia und mir im MXC-Podcast ist eine Ausnahme. Zwei promovierte Literaturwissenschaftler*innen mit mehrjähriger FRANKENSTEIN-Unterrichtserfahrung haben ✨Meinungen✨ www.maximumcinema.ch/podcast-90-t...
Podcast #90: «The Woman in Cabin 10» & «Frankenstein» | MAXIMUM CINEMA
Folge 90 des Maximum Cinema Filmpodcasts widmet sich den Filmen «The Woman in Cabin 10» und «Frankenstein».
www.maximumcinema.ch
October 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Ich spiele ja selten die Experten-Karte, aber ich glaube, die FRANKENSTEIN-Diskussion von Olivia und mir im MXC-Podcast ist eine Ausnahme. Zwei promovierte Literaturwissenschaftler*innen mit mehrjähriger FRANKENSTEIN-Unterrichtserfahrung haben ✨Meinungen✨ www.maximumcinema.ch/podcast-90-t...
Ab morgen läuft SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE im Kino. Meine Kritik für Filmbulletin: www.filmbulletin.ch/articles/spr...
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere – die Reise nach «Nebraska»
Das Bruce-Springsteen-Biopic möchte mehr als Genrekonvention bieten. Es bleibt beim hehren Wunsch.
www.filmbulletin.ch
October 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Ab morgen läuft SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE im Kino. Meine Kritik für Filmbulletin: www.filmbulletin.ch/articles/spr...
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The symbolism is a bit heavy-handed imo
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The symbolism is a bit heavy-handed imo