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Josh Slater-Williams
@jslaterwilliams.bsky.social
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UK-based critic and culture journalist. Bylines: BFI, Sight and Sound, Total Film, Little White Lies, IndieWire and others. Member of the London Critics' Circle. https://linktr.ee/jslaterwilliams
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 10
Updated my list of Blu-ray releases for which I've contributed booklet and video essays! Recently filed something for a very exciting box set and I'm currently working on another [redacted] due soon.

These are fun and I would love to work with *you* in the future!

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Letterboxd screenshot: My physical media contributions In order of when the Blu-rays were released. Click 'Read notes' for details of the booklet or video essays. Poster images for Typhoon Club (1985), Suzhou River (2000), Love Hotel (1985) and The Coffee Table (2022) Photo of the following Blu-ray limited editions: Typhoon Club (1985) from Third Window Films, Suzhou River (2000) from Radiance Films), Love Hotel (1985) from Third Window Films, and The Coffee Table (2022) from Second Sight
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2h
screenshot from The Insider - Russell Crowe's Jeffrey Wigand seen from behind in a white collared shirt and gray wig, standing slightly off-center (on the right side of the frame) in his dark hotel room. caption for Pacino's Lowell Bergman (in voiceover) reads, "I'm running out of heroes, man"
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Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 15h
Hot take: this is a bad idea, and I don’t want it. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
George Clooney Says ‘Ocean’s 14’ Budget ‘Just Got Approved’ and ‘We’ll Probably Start’ Filming Next Year; Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and More Likely to Return
George Clooney says 'Ocean's 14' is likely filming next year with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts and Don Cheadle returning.
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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 11h
Saoirse Ronan is apparently playing Linda in the Beatles biopic thing. I have no interest in "Beatles biopics", but an early 70s based movie about the Wings period of Paul's life would have a lot more juice as a self contained movie (and it would give Saoirse a lot to work with).
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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 10h
Was completely on purpose
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Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 13h
Threw on the new Criterion of NIGHTMARE ALLEY 2021 and forgot that the reappearance of Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen makes this the Catalina Wine Mixer of Guillermo Del Toro's oeuvre.
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Lair Of The Gurt Sherm (Stoker 1911) @gurtsherm.bsky.social · 22h
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 16h
Praying I’m not going to get jump-scared by a gen-AI ad playing before films at a certain other festival this autumn… again.
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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 16h
Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.
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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 16h
A lot of """"creatives"""" have seemingly accepted generative AI as part of art and filmmaking and I'm hear to say you're all big stinky phonies and I hate you
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 16h
London East Asia Film Festival devoting an entire programme strand to AI “Cinema”…
Screenshot of text from London East Asia Film Festival’s 2025 programme: FUTURE FRAMES: AI AI Cinema #1 - Opening Film - to be announced AI Cinema #2 Sigumun | Dir. You Hyeong-jun, Rolen Yealin Jeon, Hong Jin-wook | Korea | 2025 | 15 mins The Dream of Atlantis | Dir. Choi Young-min | Korea | 2025 | 14 mins Fragment of Falling | Dir. Kim Woon-ha | Korea | 2025 | 10 mins
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Robert King @robertking.bsky.social · 18h
For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.
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The Ankler @theankler.com · 1d
The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d
Not one government has told Israel to stop kidnapping their citizens in international waters and let them bring baby formula to starving babies. What a shameful time to be alive
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Israel intercepts another Gaza aid flotilla amid criticism over treatment of activists
Israel intercepts another Gaza aid flotilla amid criticism over treatment of activists
Israeli foreign ministry confirms interception and says those on board will be deported A new Gaza-bound aid flotilla has been intercepted by the Israeli army, days after the detention of activists on board vessels bound for the war-torn territory caused international outrage and widespread protests. The Israeli military was jamming signals with at least two boats being boarded, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said on Instagram. Continue reading...
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 1d
PERFECT BLUE is newly remastered and back in cinemas, so I wrote a primer on the screen work of Satoshi Kon for the BFI!

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Where to begin with Satoshi Kon
As Perfect Blue returns to cinemas, we introduce the small but perfectly formed oeuvre of Satoshi Kon, a visionary of grown-up animation whose films blur the boundary between reality and fantasy, and ...
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 23h
Funny if that was part of Reznor's terms for signing on.
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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 1d
You don’t need AI; AI is not “inevitable.” That’s a lie being fed to you by companies who are going to lose a fuckton of money if they don’t convince you that AI is something you can’t live without.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 2d
TWITTER EXCHANGE Whitney Cummings: Comedians did not sign up to be your hero. It's our job to be irreverent and dangerous, to question authority and take you through a spooky mental haunted house so you can arrive at your own conclusions. Stay focused on the people we pay taxes to to be moral leaders. Marc Maron replying to Whitney Cummings: Maybe add 'to be funny' to the list.
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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 1d
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Third Window Films @thirdwindowfilms.com · 1d
TONIGHT!
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Third Window Films @thirdwindowfilms.com · 19d
MAIKU HAMA DOUBLE BILL COMING TO LONDON!
Back to back screenings of Kaizo Hayashi's The Most Terrible Time in My Life + Stairway to the Distant Past on Aug 8 in London @thenickelcinema.bsky.social
Screenings introduced @jbalmont.bsky.social
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d
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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 1d
A four panel comic of Calvin’s Dad talking to Calvin. Panel 1: All bands and musical acts can be classified as either Joy Division or New Order Panel 2: Nirvana? Joy Division The Strokes? New Order Charli XCX? Joy Division Taylor Swift? New Order Panel 3: here's the thing... New Order? Joy Division, then New Order Panel 4: Calvin lies awake in bed, looking completely confused
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boryskit.bsky.social @boryskit.bsky.social · 1d
Excl: HEAT 2 IS HAPPENING...Amazon MGM division UNITED ARTISTS has beat out several companies to nab the Michael Mann crime thriller, which was put on the shopping block by Warner Bros. after budget issues. Details here: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
‘Heat 2’ Is On: Michael Mann Crime Drama Moves From Warner Bros. to United Artists; Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber Producing (Exclusive)
Mann is set to direct the follow-up to his 1995 feature, which has Leonardo DiCaprio circling to star.
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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 2d
tweet screenshot Matt the outlaw @cursedgloryhole Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"
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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 1d
Whatever you think of RTD, he knows television and knows the warning flares need to be sent up. Television and journalism need to start questioning and pushing back. Pushing back hard.
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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1d
Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 1d
"You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings," Zelda Williams wrote.

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Robin Williams' daughter does not want to see AI videos of her dad
Robin Williams' daughter does not want to see AI videos of her dad
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