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Cameron Ward (Cam's Eye View) @camseyeview.biz · 8h

Checked out an Animation is Film email and got hyped to see that @carlosfilm.bsky.social is one of the feature jury members of the fest. Dude's one of the most passionate folks around for animation among the critics I respect and follow. Very excited about this festival this year's jury & lineup.

The Feature Jury of Animation is Film 2025, including Carlos Aguilar, Hsiang Chin Moe, Jamie Lang, Jemaine Clement, Matt Braly, and Torill Kove

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 3h

Really enjoyed MARTY SUPREME. Timothée Chalamet’s performance as a wrecking ball of a person is exhilarating. He plays unbound ambition and unchecked cockiness with such bluntly disarming charm it explains why everyone who orbits him falls for his delusional promises every time.

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 10h

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s CLOUD is now streaming on @criterionchannl.bsky.social Back when it played theaters I wrote a piece for NYT on the philosophical questions and concerns that permeate his films: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/m...

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 2d

A FRANKENSTEIN day

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 4d

Mexican party for a 1-year-old baby:

“We are having a few small beers.”

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 4d

Rewatching some of Jafar Panahi’s films that I haven’t seen in a few years.

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 4d

It’s so great. Even if certainly a bleak watch

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 4d

Bertrand Bonello’s apocalyptic NOCTURAMA would make an interesting double feature with ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Bonello’s take on young revolutionaries fighting the system is bleak and brutal, while PTA’s humor-laced film opts for siding with hope.

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 8d

Paul Thomas Anderson this, Wes Anderson that. The Andersson I need back on the big screen is Roy.

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 8d

I interviewed Benicio del Toro earlier this year for LA Times. Seems like a good time to reshare. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

A 'Scheme' hatched just for Benicio del Toro: 'It's a hell of a gift'

Wes Anderson wrote 'The Phoenician Scheme' with the actor in mind. In advance of its Cannes debut, we caught up with Del Toro on the biggest role of his career.

www.latimes.com

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 9d

People posting that Bad Bunny’s visa should be cancelled so he doesn’t perform at the Super Bowl just exhibit their hateful ignorance. It has nothing to do with legality, they just hate anyone they deem foreign. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. No visa needed.

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 12d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (PTA, 2025)

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 12d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (PTA, 2025)

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 12d

If your parents got their green card through the amnesty in the ‘80s, they didn’t do it “the right way.” They just got lucky. Before that they were in the same shoes as the undocumented people being persecuted right now. The fact that some of you forget that is atrocious.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 14d

It will be available in the theatrical run in USA- but details are forthcoming

fewchrono1984.bsky.social @fewchrono1984.bsky.social · 14d

@realgdt.bsky.social I desperately need this poster for my wall! Any idea where it will be available from?? So excited for the movie!

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 14d

Jennifer Lawrence is earth-shattering in DIE MY LOVE. A wrecking ball of a performance that evinces the absurdity of normalcy, of social norms, in a breathtakingly blunt manner.

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 15d

México selected the film WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED (No Nos Moverán) as its Oscar entry for Best International Film. The film won 4 Ariel Awards from the Mexican Film Academy this weekend, including Best First Feature, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay. 🇲🇽

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 16d

It will be so stupid next year when ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER gets 10 Oscar nominations and the host and winners are asked to not make any political statements.

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 18d

SUJO is available in the U.S. on VOD www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

‘Sujo’ Review: A Darkly Lyrical Portrait of the Systems That Force Mexican Men Into the Drug Wars

Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero continue to establish themselves as the new masters of Mexican cinema with their Sundance cartel drama "Sujo."

www.indiewire.com

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 18d

My interview with Valadez and Rondero about SUJO last year for LA Times www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

With ‘Sujo,’ Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez set out to make a different kind of narco film

Currently playing at select Cinépolis theaters around the country, 'Sujo' tracks the difficult upbringing of a young man trying to escape falling prey to the same fate as his criminal father.

www.latimes.com

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 18d

SUJO by Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero won the Ariel Award for Best Film from the Mexican Film Academy (Mexico’s Oscars). Valadez and Rondero also won the Best Director award, which makes Valadez the first woman to have ever won that award twice. So deserved! 🇲🇽🏆

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 18d

One Safdie After Another

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 19d

Nuyorican filmmaker Elaine Del Valle took her autobiographical work BROWNSVILLE BRED, about her relationship with her Boricua father, from the stage to the page to the screen. The feature film opens in theaters today. I interviewed her for De Los at @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 21d

If you are writing about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER say “undocumented” and not “illegal.”

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 22d

The first time I went to Sundance it surprised me that Robert Redford still did a press conference every year at the beginning of the fest. What he started had been the most important film fest in the country for decades, and he was still there cheering on the new generations. RIP

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