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Martin Tsai
@martintsai.bsky.social
critique de cinéma. mots dans sight and sound, awards watch, screen anarchy, los angeles times etc.

camarade de national critics institute et power of diverse voices. membre de galeca, aaja et nlgja. il/le

ouvert au travail: [email protected]
Pinned
it took two decades of trying for me to land a piece in
@sightsoundmag.bsky.social

at this rate i will be 60 before i get a staff job somewhere.

anyway. i'm not going shut up about my review of "peter hujar's day": bit.ly/47utCi1

#filmsky @filmforumnyc.bsky.social @filmlinc.bsky.social
“Whishaw delivers the 55 pages of monologue with the impressive illusion of spontaneity.”
– Martin Tsai, Sight and Sound bit.ly/47utCi1

"Peter Hujar's Day" is now playing at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social and @filmlinc.bsky.social

#filmsky
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
oh

i thought we were finally getting “i don’t know her: the movie”
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
like i said
yes

and the lesson is to stop settling for centrists who stand for nothing on account of electability
The Democrats have learned their lesson.

by Susan Collins
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
yes

and the lesson is to stop settling for centrists who stand for nothing on account of electability
The Democrats have learned their lesson.

by Susan Collins
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
the first thing that comes to mind is an eight-letter word that starts with “d”
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
in honor of the release of radu jude’s “dracula,” here is a selection of movie posters probably generated by a.i. that i’ve *speculatively* curated for @ifccenter.bsky.social and posteritati
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
if you missed out on its *extremely* limited release at cinema village, please track this down on the platform formerly known as max
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.

State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
as a cinephile i am truly disturbed by pioneer’s decision to discontinue optical drives

anyway i managed to find this dead stock for a song
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
someone obviously took a page from netanyahu’s playbook
@jessicatarlov.bsky.social: “The government has killed 32 people in 7 strikes with no proof they were traffickers. The admiral leading the mission quit. If we had evidence, they’d face a court, not a drone.”

Seven strikes. Thirty-two dead. Zero indictments.
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
comment?
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
an actual text exchange
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
i am not a trained psychologist but he sounds like a classic narcissist to me
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
at the risk of dating myself, do they still teach home economics and shop at schools in 2025? i assume civics is a thing of the past because look at what is happening
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
just the other day after rewatching “the lobster” at the metrograph, i made a snarky comment to my partner that nobody cares about humans getting maimed and mutilated. but as soon as animals are getting harmed, all bets are off
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE
coloradosun.com/2025/11/07/i...
Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE
The father of four, who had settled in Colorado and gotten his commercial driver’s license, was driving a truck through Indiana when he was taken by masked ICE agents in October
coloradosun.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
top unsolicited recs of the criterion sale
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM