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Rafa Sales Ross

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Big on cats and movies. Film writer and programmer often seen on Variety, Little White Lies, The Playlist, Letterboxd and more. Views mine, for better or for worse. 📧 For work: [email protected] 👋 Also @rafiews everywhere else. www.rafiews.com

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · Jan 6

First Monday of 2025 so here’s an evergreen reminder I am always open for commissions. Happy to jump on reviews, features, DVD essays, hosting gigs, programming work… Throw it my way and I’ll hit that ball as hard as I can! Love hearing from editors old and new, email in bio & more at rafiews.com ✨

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 22h

Incredible headline

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 22h

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 12d

Well… Yes

Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 13d

Kill me

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 17d

It's a sign of how stupid and behind the UK film scene is that Sarah Friedland's Familiar Touch - a 2024 Venice prize winner that's played festivals all over in the year since - doesn't have UK distribution. Someone pick it up!!!

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 17d

Hm…

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Joachim Trier on How Feminism ‘Helped Men’ on Set, Retaining Final Cut and ‘Not Wanting To Be’ Like ‘Sentimental Value’ Character as a Father

'Sentimental Value' director Joachim Trier praises European financing system, says feminist advancements has helped rid sets of 'macho energy.'

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Joachim Trier's answer to being asked about the parallels between being him being a father and a film director and Gustav Borg in SENTIMENTAL VALUE ❤️

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 19d

Oh my god that looks incredible

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 19d

Aura

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 21d

Co-sign: this film has been on my mind since January, and my mind doesn’t stay on much these days

Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 22d

Everybody in NYC go see PREDATORS this weekend at Film Forum, easily one of the best movies of the year

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Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com · 21d

I know it’s no grand observation to call renowned Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy great but, my god, he truly is great, isn’t he?

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 22d

9/19/80: Ordinary People
D Robert Redford 🙏 / W Alvin Sargent
w/Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, T Hutton, J Hirsch
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In praise of Robert Redford’s Ordinary People

Redford’s directorial debut holds its ground as one of cinema’s most moving explorations of loss and guilt.

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