alex lei
@alexlei.bsky.social
lost in the sauce | “writer” and “filmmaker” | he/him
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wrote about Robert Duvall’s extraordinary physical presence www.avclub.com/robert-duval...
Robert Duvall's strength was finding the blood in stony men
A rock-solid physical presence, the Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall always let emotion dance behind his eyes.
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February 19, 2026 at 9:08 PM
wrote about Robert Duvall’s extraordinary physical presence www.avclub.com/robert-duval...
went long on the last Park City Sundance www.bruisermag.com/lei_sundance
LAST CHANTS FOR SUNDANCE [FILM DISPATCH] - BRUISER
Alex Lei reports on the festival's final Park City edition
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February 19, 2026 at 7:55 PM
went long on the last Park City Sundance www.bruisermag.com/lei_sundance
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“About a mile up the road in a strip mall was where the cinema was happening…”
@alexlei.bsky.social reports on Sundance’s final outing to Park City
@alexlei.bsky.social reports on Sundance’s final outing to Park City
February 19, 2026 at 4:13 PM
“About a mile up the road in a strip mall was where the cinema was happening…”
@alexlei.bsky.social reports on Sundance’s final outing to Park City
@alexlei.bsky.social reports on Sundance’s final outing to Park City
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wrote a few weeks ago about what i think is Robert Duvall’s finest film www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...
Shut Up and Drive
The Outfit (1973) is an audacious and violent crime film by John Flynn from Richard Stark's novel. || Alex Lei
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February 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM
wrote a few weeks ago about what i think is Robert Duvall’s finest film www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...
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“I believe in resuscitation” might as well be a manifesto for the troupe itself.
@alexlei.bsky.social reports on CIMINO’S DEFEAT, the latest production from the vital Brooklyn-based theater company Adult Film
@alexlei.bsky.social reports on CIMINO’S DEFEAT, the latest production from the vital Brooklyn-based theater company Adult Film
February 6, 2026 at 4:11 PM
“I believe in resuscitation” might as well be a manifesto for the troupe itself.
@alexlei.bsky.social reports on CIMINO’S DEFEAT, the latest production from the vital Brooklyn-based theater company Adult Film
@alexlei.bsky.social reports on CIMINO’S DEFEAT, the latest production from the vital Brooklyn-based theater company Adult Film
as the Sundance dust starts to settle, The Lake has emerged as one of my favorites—for Doc Mag, i talked to Abby Ellis about her thrilling, apocalyptic and skeptically optimistic film about the efforts to save the Great Salt Lake documentary.org/online-featu...
Environmental Horror: Abby Ellis Talks About Luring Audiences into Watching ‘The Lake’
Abby Ellis talks about ringing the alarm on the “environmental nuclear bomb” in Utah with her Sundance doc The Lake
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January 27, 2026 at 9:27 PM
as the Sundance dust starts to settle, The Lake has emerged as one of my favorites—for Doc Mag, i talked to Abby Ellis about her thrilling, apocalyptic and skeptically optimistic film about the efforts to save the Great Salt Lake documentary.org/online-featu...
went long on Magellan, and how it stands less as a new leap in his cinema and instead is a part of his longterm project excising the ghosts of Filipino history www.avclub.com/lav-diaz-mag...
There's never been a better time to get in on the guy who makes the world's longest films
Magellan welcomes a new audience to the challenging, slow-burn work of Lav Diaz with a perfectly representative movie.
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January 9, 2026 at 8:14 PM
went long on Magellan, and how it stands less as a new leap in his cinema and instead is a part of his longterm project excising the ghosts of Filipino history www.avclub.com/lav-diaz-mag...
wrote about how James Cameron used the tropes & imagery Western in the Avatar films and how his adaptation of the genre reduces it of its complexity www.avclub.com/james-camero...
James Cameron tried to bring the Western into the future, but only went backwards
Avatar: Fire And Ash shows how clearly James Cameron has regressed towards the worst tropes of the Western.
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December 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
wrote about how James Cameron used the tropes & imagery Western in the Avatar films and how his adaptation of the genre reduces it of its complexity www.avclub.com/james-camero...
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“Ahead of its latest installment playing at New/Next, I kept asking around about what the hell Reveries actually was. ‘It’s hard to describe.’ ‘You just have to see it.’ ‘It’s, like, two guys riffing. But trippy.’”
@alexlei.bsky.social interviews the trio behind the REVERIES series
@alexlei.bsky.social interviews the trio behind the REVERIES series
December 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“Ahead of its latest installment playing at New/Next, I kept asking around about what the hell Reveries actually was. ‘It’s hard to describe.’ ‘You just have to see it.’ ‘It’s, like, two guys riffing. But trippy.’”
@alexlei.bsky.social interviews the trio behind the REVERIES series
@alexlei.bsky.social interviews the trio behind the REVERIES series
had a great chat with Elena Oxman on her stunning debut OUTERLANDS, which effortlessly bounces between a first-person realism and a surprising poetic inflection filmmakermagazine.com/132649-inter...
“Withholding Information Makes You More Engaged”: Elena Oxman on “Outerlands”
After a run-in with a new coworker at the laundromat, Cass (Asia Kate Dillon) has a drunken hookup with Kalli (Louisa Krause). Kalli seems to take an immediate trusting to Cass, and after Cass tells…
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December 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
had a great chat with Elena Oxman on her stunning debut OUTERLANDS, which effortlessly bounces between a first-person realism and a surprising poetic inflection filmmakermagazine.com/132649-inter...
re: WB-Netflix
physical media is more important than ever and it should be accessible to people everywhere. Baltimore has had a nonprofit video store for year’s now, and one of its co-founders @ericallenhatch.bsky.social wrote about how it can be replicated www.patreon.com/posts/24007106
physical media is more important than ever and it should be accessible to people everywhere. Baltimore has had a nonprofit video store for year’s now, and one of its co-founders @ericallenhatch.bsky.social wrote about how it can be replicated www.patreon.com/posts/24007106
How to Open a Volunteer-Run, Non-Profit Video Store in Your City (like we did in Bmore!) | [ON PATREON HIATUS] Eric Allen Hatch
Get more from [ON PATREON HIATUS] Eric Allen Hatch on Patreon
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December 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
re: WB-Netflix
physical media is more important than ever and it should be accessible to people everywhere. Baltimore has had a nonprofit video store for year’s now, and one of its co-founders @ericallenhatch.bsky.social wrote about how it can be replicated www.patreon.com/posts/24007106
physical media is more important than ever and it should be accessible to people everywhere. Baltimore has had a nonprofit video store for year’s now, and one of its co-founders @ericallenhatch.bsky.social wrote about how it can be replicated www.patreon.com/posts/24007106
i see a number of you talking about the “Train Dreams Wars” which is quaint and all but i’m not sure you realize how in the trenches it got
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
i see a number of you talking about the “Train Dreams Wars” which is quaint and all but i’m not sure you realize how in the trenches it got
had a great talk with my old professor, Tenzin Phuntsog, about making films that are important to you and his debut NEXT LIFE filmmakermagazine.com/132497-inter...
Tibet via California: Tenzin Phuntsog on “Next Life”
An image of the Dalai Lama gives diasporic texture to an otherwise anonymous suburban American house; the camera tracks to the next room, where a father, mother, and son sit like statues.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
had a great talk with my old professor, Tenzin Phuntsog, about making films that are important to you and his debut NEXT LIFE filmmakermagazine.com/132497-inter...
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bro last night was an american canto
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
bro last night was an american canto
film criticism may be dying, but The A.V. Club let me write about Bazin’s ontology of the image, and that’s not for nothing
The closer Richard Linklater gets to remaking Breathless, the further he strays from Jean-Luc Godard
Nouvelle Vague betrays Godard, yet finds something all its own
Nouvelle Vague never becomes Breathless or finds the birth of the French New Wave. It's too deep in Richard Linklater's precise reality.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
film criticism may be dying, but The A.V. Club let me write about Bazin’s ontology of the image, and that’s not for nothing
some Friday reading for ya: wrote about Linklater, Godard, NOUVELLE VAGUE, and the looming legacy of Bazin www.avclub.com/richard-link...
Nouvelle Vague betrays Godard, yet finds something all its own
Nouvelle Vague never becomes Breathless or finds the birth of the French New Wave. It's too deep in Richard Linklater's precise reality.
www.avclub.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
some Friday reading for ya: wrote about Linklater, Godard, NOUVELLE VAGUE, and the looming legacy of Bazin www.avclub.com/richard-link...
my report of the 26th Maryland Film Festival, which surprised me on how much it bounced back from its historic low point in 2023 and is once again making Baltimore one of the great places to be for indie cinema filmmakermagazine.com/132457-revie...
Maryland Film Festival 2025: Cinema Saturation in Baltimore
If last year’s Maryland Film Festival felt like a trial run for a new era of Baltimore’s cornerstone film event, the 26th Maryland Film Festival solidified its direction. Bouncing back from the low…
filmmakermagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
my report of the 26th Maryland Film Festival, which surprised me on how much it bounced back from its historic low point in 2023 and is once again making Baltimore one of the great places to be for indie cinema filmmakermagazine.com/132457-revie...
Twitter went down because too many people watched the Magellan trailer and the site crashed
The U.S. trailer for Lav Diaz's epic #Magellan has arrived ahead of a January release.
Watch: thefilmstage.com/magellan-tra...
Watch: thefilmstage.com/magellan-tra...
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Twitter went down because too many people watched the Magellan trailer and the site crashed
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Alex Lei, the Brianna Wu of film twitter? (He's actually white)
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Alex Lei, the Brianna Wu of film twitter? (He's actually white)
re-upping this piece i wrote last year on The Journey, even though everytime i reread something i wrote on Peter Watkins’ greatest work i immediately want to update it again because, more than any film, it can only be considered in an ever-evolving present inreviewonline.com/2024/08/12/a...
A Mandated Psychosis: On Peter Watkins' The Journey | In Review Online
A new film essay on The Journey, directed by Peter Watkins, for film review site In Review Online.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
re-upping this piece i wrote last year on The Journey, even though everytime i reread something i wrote on Peter Watkins’ greatest work i immediately want to update it again because, more than any film, it can only be considered in an ever-evolving present inreviewonline.com/2024/08/12/a...
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“I had just won a Guggenheim fellowship and went down to the post office. I run into Sal, he says ‘Hey Buba, you think you’re ever gonna make it?’ It brings you back to reality.”
@honorszombie.bsky.social spends an afternoon with the Bard of Braddock, Tony Buba
@honorszombie.bsky.social spends an afternoon with the Bard of Braddock, Tony Buba
October 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“I had just won a Guggenheim fellowship and went down to the post office. I run into Sal, he says ‘Hey Buba, you think you’re ever gonna make it?’ It brings you back to reality.”
@honorszombie.bsky.social spends an afternoon with the Bard of Braddock, Tony Buba
@honorszombie.bsky.social spends an afternoon with the Bard of Braddock, Tony Buba
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I just can't understand why you'd make a movie like Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere seemingly designed to make Springsteen heads like @alexlei.bsky.social angry www.avclub.com/springsteen-...
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere has no idea why Nebraska is a great album
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere tries to know Bruce Springsteen at the moment the musician knew himself the least.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I just can't understand why you'd make a movie like Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere seemingly designed to make Springsteen heads like @alexlei.bsky.social angry www.avclub.com/springsteen-...
went long on Nebraska and why Scott Cooper’s approach to Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is so deeply misguided www.avclub.com/springsteen-...
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere has no idea why Nebraska is a great album
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere tries to know Bruce Springsteen at the moment the musician knew himself the least.
www.avclub.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
went long on Nebraska and why Scott Cooper’s approach to Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is so deeply misguided www.avclub.com/springsteen-...
