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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 2d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · 20d

“When you ask it what it thinks of Donald Trump, for example, it says: “I’m not sure about that; let’s talk about something fun like princesses or animals.””
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‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy

The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experime...

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National Society of Film Critics @nsfc.bsky.social · 23d

We strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! off the air.

FILM CRITICS’ GROUPS DENOUNCE NEXSTAR AND DISNEY-ABC DECISIONS TO SUSPEND “JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!”

We, the members of the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics, strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air. For decades, our organizations have represented a profession that is enabled by the First Amendment. Kimmel’s long-running talk show promotes free speech, including when it gives film artists the chance to discuss their work. There is only one word to describe the decision by powerful media corporations to silence an individual’s perspective due to fear of repercussions by the government: censorship. This is the antithesis of the values embodied by our work. We demand a reversal of this decision and encourage our colleagues across the industry to do the same.

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Sep 5

At the same time, AI companies like this, while pretending they are acting in the interest of Welles’s legacy, have no actual interest in artists’ rights. They have nothing to say about whether filmmakers today should or should not be treated the way RKO treated Welles by cutting his movie.

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Sep 5

The heirs of artistic legacies will do anything not to work and to keep the money rolling in. That is not new. Which is why this kind of thing should be stopped, so as not to tempt them.

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is worse than the Sphere Oz. The inhuman, raising-the-dead aspect here is repellent in a more troubling way. Everything with the AI people’s desecration of cinema makes you wonder about their broken brains.

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is so outrageously misguided, and the THR article is error-riddled. Even the headline is backwards. Can’t wait for their servers to melt down when they try this with Greed.

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Sep 4

Oh no, she was so great!

A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’ve been thinking about this film too!

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Sep 2

@nplusonemag.com spoke with me about the dreaded Cracker Barrel rebrand. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

The Haunting of Cracker Barrel | A. S. Hamrah, Will Tavlin, Lisa Borst

Semiotically, it's detached from all these kinds of things that it was originally designed for. But this kind of sign was always part of the corporate blandification of the American travel experience....

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Aug 29

But using commercial streaming services is even worse.

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Aug 29

I lectured a class at a CUNY school in which all the films available to show in classes were stored locally on the school’s server. It was an absurd system.

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Aug 29

I don’t understand. So how are you supposed to show films in your classes?

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Aug 16

It’s in there.

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Aug 15

My new book from
@nplusonemag.com, Algorithm of the Night, is now available for preorder at 10% off. shop.nplusonemag.com/products/alg...

Algorithm of the Night, by A. S. Hamrah

“A. S. Hamrah’s criticism is hilarious, irreverent, full of passionate and ingeniously defended judgments.” —Dana Spiotta

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Aug 13

Right now you can preorder my book Last Week in End Times Cinema at Bookshop for 20% off. bookshop.org/p/books/last...

Last Week in End Times Cinema

Check out Last Week in End Times Cinema - An almanac of every bad thing that happened in the film industry from March 2024 to March 2025. From A. S. Hamrah, the film critic at n+1...

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Aug 8

Yes, film critics for major publications never spout nonsense today.

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Jul 22

I’m teaching an online course on film criticism this fall through @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Anyone can join!

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Jul 22

Bridge of Spies & West Side Story are very good films; but as time goes on his work as director is diminished by his work as producer. He’s made good films, but the industry of franchise films he helped create and profits greatly from is ruinous crap. It’s in the process of swamping everything.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Jun 5

It's workshop time! In addition to the annual Publishing Workshop you know and love, we're hosting two summer writing workshops with Katie Kadue and Nadja Spiegelman—and later down the line, with A.S. Hamrah and Lauren Markham. Learn more at lareviewofbooks.org/learn

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · Jun 4

The new issue of @nplusonemag.com is out and includes my Oscar movies piece. Please subscribe!

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · May 30

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Chesley Bonestell: A Brush With the Future (2020)

A look back at the prolific career of the architect and painter whose futuristic paintings of the solar system inspired America’s space program.

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · May 29

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Controversial 'lost' Jerry Lewis film discovered in Sweden after 53 years | The National

A Swedish actor, who stole a copy in 1980, plans to release The Day The Clown Cried, saying 'it must be seen'

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · May 22

The new issue of the Whitney Review of New Writing includes my piece on Charlie Haas’s new novel, The Current Fantasy. Haas wrote the movies Gremlins 2 and Over the Edge.

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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · May 21

My recent piece on Oscar movies reappears in the mighty 50th issue of @nplusonemag.com, out now. Please consider subscribing, if you don’t already.

n+1 @nplusonemag.com · May 21

A. S. Hamrah (@hamrahrama.bsky.social) reviews this year’s Oscar movies: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...

Oil Paintings at the Dentist’s Office | A. S. Hamrah

As for me, my mind was blown open by Blue Velvet when I saw it college-aged in first run in 1986 at the Nickelodeon Cinema in Boston with my then-girlfriend. We could not speak when we left the theate...

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