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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · 12h

I love book’s

A stack of books, which include, from top to bottom:

-Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, by Roland Barthes

-Mythologies, by Roland Barthes

-The American Cinema, by Andrew Sarris

-Ed Wood, Made in Hollywood USA by Will Sloan

-Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., by Rudolph Grey

-Radioactive Dreams: The Cinema of Albert Pyun, by Justin Decloux

-The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture, by David Bordwell

-When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade, by Dave Kehr

-Two hardcover James Agee collections from Library of America

-The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties, by J. Hoberman

-Hallelujah Junction, by John Adams

-Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 2d

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)

A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.

www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · 7d

A week ago someone described a movie to me as “Soy Tarantino”, and now I can’t stop imagining QT making The Face while looking at a big pair of feet

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · 9d

Many of these have recent blu-ray releases and should be available online *somewhere*:

The Beast to Die (1980)
The Strangler (1970)
Twilight (1990)
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (1978)
Park Row (1952)

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Logan Rees @jlrees.bsky.social · 10d

We’ve set up a gofundme to help pay for legal fees and other expenses. Please share and donate if you can!

gofund.me/7e1563d0d

Donate to Help Barbara Fight for Her Future After ICE Detention, organized by Nikki Groton

Support Barbara’s fight to stay with her family and community!!!! … Nikki Groton needs your support for Help Barbara Fight for Her Future After ICE Detention

gofund.me

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Logan Rees @jlrees.bsky.social · 11d

My good friend Barbara has been disappeared by ICE. Looking for any contacts or resources to help find her.

@laist.com @latimes.com @lataco.bsky.social @aclusocal.bsky.social
@nlg.la

My name is Tucker May. In April I married the love of my life, Barbara Marques. Right now I fear for her life.

A week and a half ago she was taken by ICE at our properly scheduled green card meeting at the Federal Building downtown. At the end of what we were told was a successful meeting, the officer used the excuse of a broken copier to trick her into walking away from our lawyer. Once separated from her legal counsel, she was arrested. The reason for her detention was a missed court date from 2019 which my wife was never notified about.

We have been working with lawyers since that time to correct the situation. The Adelanto detention center has actively been keeping my wife from correspondence with her lawyer by delaying in giving her documents that were mailed to the facility.

Last night, she was taken from the Adelanto facility to an undisclosed destination despite our lawyer having filed a temporary restraining order to stop this from happening. They could be sending her anywhere in the world and we have no way of knowing.

I'm asking for help in bringing to the attention of media and authorities these multiple lapses in due process and proper procedure through the unwarranted deportation of a woman whose legal marriage has been duly recognized as legitimate by immigration through the 1130 petition process.

Please, if you have any contacts who could help, send them this information.

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · 10d

Just tbc - neither of these things got in the way of me being moved by the film

Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · 10d

(Not to mention one flat-out irritation: a prop character who exists solely to facilitate two of my least-favorite moments of the movie, take a guess who it might be!)

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · 10d

I liked One Battle After Another, though I am very unsure about the way it flattens ’60s/‘70s-style revolutionary groups into a 21st century timeline. I understand it’s resonating due to *handwaves at everything in the US*, but I wouldn’t have a problem with it if it was just a period piece.

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · 17d

The English dub is good, watched it recently

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · 18d

new haircut for Freya

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Joe Ruthvennryte @joelastname.bsky.social · 20d

(movie person after watching a movie that has probably been seen by anywhere from thousands to millions of people before) I discovered this movie

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · 20d

I, a faithless heathen, am the only one who knows how to read the Bible the right way: after taking a shitload of mushrooms and forcing your roommate to read it as you’re coming down, letting The Word pummel you like a tidal wave

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · 20d

Christian co-worker said she was reading the Bible “like a novel”, prompting a Catholic co-worker to say “that’s not how they taught it at school.”

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · 23d

Watched this in prep for Lucile Hadžihalilović‘s latest movie screening at Fantastic Fest in just a little over a week.

Beautiful, and very unsettling.

Poster for Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Innocence (2004)

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 27d

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

Magma Suit @magmasuit.bsky.social · 27d

I haven’t seen one news channel show a clip of him speaking in the last 4 hours

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · 27d

He had very bad letterboxd takes iirc

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · Sep 4

Also been in and out of a bad frame of mind about my social skills… i took myself out of some friendly online communities earlier this year and have dithered about going back, due to a - yes, irrational - fear of inadequacy.

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · Sep 4

Been in a crap state of things this week, due to a bad combo of “overstimulated“ + “don’t feel like doing anything at all”. Didn’t help to find out my elderly cat had a large growth which turned out to be *only* an abscess.

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

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Gold Ninja Video @goldninjavideo.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you're in America and wanted to buy a copy of OPEN DOOM CRESCENDO, but now can't due to the mailing problems - The Writer/Director of the film has you covered. Just fill out this form and e-mail him at "the terry chiu at gmail dot com" and he'll hook you up with a digital file of the movie!

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · Aug 26

Bug

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Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · Aug 24

this trans woman was taken into ICE custody tonight over a 3-year old weed charge. she faces torture in men’s detention centers or self-deportation and leaving behind everything she knows (if she can afford that option). please support if you’re able

Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · Aug 24

www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...

Donate to Justice for Alice Correia Barbosa, organized by AJ Timoteo

Alice Correia Barbosa, is a Brazilian trans woman, who was brutally, and wrongfully arre… AJ Timoteo needs your support for Justice for Alice Correia Barbosa

www.gofundme.com

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · Aug 24

If you don’t have time for all, i’m just gonna recommend Thunder as a starting point

youtu.be/diDmlUyJf6A?...

Takashi Ito - 03 - Thunder (1982)

YouTube video by Mirza Mulalic

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Freya @bortknox.bsky.social · Aug 24

Doing great things with my afternoon by going thru this Ito playlist

(***Do Not Watch if Photosensitive***)

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

takashi ito - YouTube

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