Exir 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
@fugalise.bsky.social
(He/him) Chinese-Iranian truck driver, Communist, poet, aspiring screenwriter.
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Doubting any horror story from one of these places is like being a gravity truther
Six former students of a now-closed "troubled-teen" facility in Arizona told HuffPost they were abused. The facility's founder, Jeannie Courtney, told HuffPost she believes her accusers are making it all up.
From @taiylersimone.bsky.social and I
www.huffpost.com/entry/troubl...
From @taiylersimone.bsky.social and I
www.huffpost.com/entry/troubl...
An Isolated Boarding School Promised To Help Troubled Girls. Former Students Say They Were Abused.
One former student called the school’s founder, Jeannie Courtney, “the all-powerful cult leader — God.”
www.huffpost.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Doubting any horror story from one of these places is like being a gravity truther
At Murnau's "The Last Laugh" and can't believe the smaller of Metrograph's two screening rooms is barely half full.
Even the art house crowd seems to have an aversion to the greatest silent films ever made.
Even the art house crowd seems to have an aversion to the greatest silent films ever made.
October 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
At Murnau's "The Last Laugh" and can't believe the smaller of Metrograph's two screening rooms is barely half full.
Even the art house crowd seems to have an aversion to the greatest silent films ever made.
Even the art house crowd seems to have an aversion to the greatest silent films ever made.
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Some very fun banter in Middlemarch about slang and dialects
October 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Some very fun banter in Middlemarch about slang and dialects
Charli xcx can do the funniest thing right now.
come on, make this White Girl Kendrick vs Drake
come on, make this White Girl Kendrick vs Drake
October 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Charli xcx can do the funniest thing right now.
come on, make this White Girl Kendrick vs Drake
come on, make this White Girl Kendrick vs Drake
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Not just a political issue of hypocrisy, but directly ties into the aesthetic issue of why a subject such as a revolutionary uprising is portrayed in such a septic, small-scale, micromanaged way on screen. No sense of expansive lived reality.
Not just a political issue of hypocrisy, but directly ties into the aesthetic issue of why a subject such as a revolutionary uprising is portrayed in such a septic, small-scale, micromanaged way on screen. No sense of expansive lived reality.
Tents cleared from park ahead of movie filming, Sacramento Homeless Union says
An unnamed movie directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Hall, among others began filming in the city last week.
www.abc10.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
www.abc10.com/article/news...
Not just a political issue of hypocrisy, but directly ties into the aesthetic issue of why a subject such as a revolutionary uprising is portrayed in such a septic, small-scale, micromanaged way on screen. No sense of expansive lived reality.
Not just a political issue of hypocrisy, but directly ties into the aesthetic issue of why a subject such as a revolutionary uprising is portrayed in such a septic, small-scale, micromanaged way on screen. No sense of expansive lived reality.
We're partying it up at home
September 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
We're partying it up at home
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#OtD 12 Aug 1887 pioneering Colombian socialist and women's rights advocate María Cano aka "flor del trabajo" ("flower of labour") was born. She gave fiery speeches to crowds of mining, oil and banana workers, and was repeatedly arrested stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8368...
August 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
#OtD 12 Aug 1887 pioneering Colombian socialist and women's rights advocate María Cano aka "flor del trabajo" ("flower of labour") was born. She gave fiery speeches to crowds of mining, oil and banana workers, and was repeatedly arrested stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8368...
Not enough ppl talk about how #Letterboxd 's "logging"-based UI is perfectly structured to give young budding cinephiles an inferiority complex about their own tastes.
You open the app to find new recs, only to be met with a wall-feed of everyone who's watched more (and obscurer) films than you.
You open the app to find new recs, only to be met with a wall-feed of everyone who's watched more (and obscurer) films than you.
August 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Not enough ppl talk about how #Letterboxd 's "logging"-based UI is perfectly structured to give young budding cinephiles an inferiority complex about their own tastes.
You open the app to find new recs, only to be met with a wall-feed of everyone who's watched more (and obscurer) films than you.
You open the app to find new recs, only to be met with a wall-feed of everyone who's watched more (and obscurer) films than you.
I'm noticing a trend (see Oppenheimer, Last Duel, and now, Weapons) where directors keep trying to use multiple POVs for the sake of a Rashomon-like effect... except they completely forget that the point of the device is to have the POVs exist in any sort of meaningful tension with each other!
August 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I'm noticing a trend (see Oppenheimer, Last Duel, and now, Weapons) where directors keep trying to use multiple POVs for the sake of a Rashomon-like effect... except they completely forget that the point of the device is to have the POVs exist in any sort of meaningful tension with each other!
between this and Celine Song saying Materialists is structurally a noir (?) and naming Zootopia her favorite, I'm starting to think the new crop of darling directors are simply very stupid
August 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
between this and Celine Song saying Materialists is structurally a noir (?) and naming Zootopia her favorite, I'm starting to think the new crop of darling directors are simply very stupid
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the connection to capitalism is even simpler: no matter what propaganda is circulating, you and your neighbors - even the ones you think are most different from you - definitely share problems.
June 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
the connection to capitalism is even simpler: no matter what propaganda is circulating, you and your neighbors - even the ones you think are most different from you - definitely share problems.
"Blood-and-soil" style mystical race science in Past Lives... incel rhetoric in Materialists... casting Dasha Nekrasova... at Q&A making out-of-touch joke, while desperately stealing street-cred with fake-poverty anecdotes...
Celine Song's just a dimes-square style fascist, right? Right?
Celine Song's just a dimes-square style fascist, right? Right?
June 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"Blood-and-soil" style mystical race science in Past Lives... incel rhetoric in Materialists... casting Dasha Nekrasova... at Q&A making out-of-touch joke, while desperately stealing street-cred with fake-poverty anecdotes...
Celine Song's just a dimes-square style fascist, right? Right?
Celine Song's just a dimes-square style fascist, right? Right?
I need to watch more post-2000s movies...
(Also the movie I added was Nathan Fielder's "Finding Frances", idk why it's not showing up after I hit submit LMAO)
(Also the movie I added was Nathan Fielder's "Finding Frances", idk why it's not showing up after I hit submit LMAO)
June 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I need to watch more post-2000s movies...
(Also the movie I added was Nathan Fielder's "Finding Frances", idk why it's not showing up after I hit submit LMAO)
(Also the movie I added was Nathan Fielder's "Finding Frances", idk why it's not showing up after I hit submit LMAO)
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Sad to report that China Labor Bulletin is no more. Ostensibly due to "financial problems", six members have been detained. CLB had promoted workers' rights and news in China since 1994.
Our recent podcast would have been impossible without their work: patreon.com/posts/e106-r...
Our recent podcast would have been impossible without their work: patreon.com/posts/e106-r...
June 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Sad to report that China Labor Bulletin is no more. Ostensibly due to "financial problems", six members have been detained. CLB had promoted workers' rights and news in China since 1994.
Our recent podcast would have been impossible without their work: patreon.com/posts/e106-r...
Our recent podcast would have been impossible without their work: patreon.com/posts/e106-r...
So whenever the majority of ppl liking my letterboxd reviews haven't logged the film, it makes me wonder -- is that a good sign that people like my writing style outside of context, or is it a bad sign that those who *have* watched the movie think I don't know what I'm talking about? 😂
June 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
So whenever the majority of ppl liking my letterboxd reviews haven't logged the film, it makes me wonder -- is that a good sign that people like my writing style outside of context, or is it a bad sign that those who *have* watched the movie think I don't know what I'm talking about? 😂
I don't know why Celine Song's work makes me so mad, but something about the ideology just pushes all the wrong buttons in me. Possibly because of how obviously the ideology sits on the surface -- obviously, but also obliviously.
letterboxd.com/xenonoxide/f...
letterboxd.com/xenonoxide/f...
A ★★ review of Materialists (2025)
Like her debut feature Past Lives, only more so, Materialists is staggeringly blind towards its own ideology. She can masquerade with the gestures of social commentary and deconstruction all she wants...
letterboxd.com
June 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I don't know why Celine Song's work makes me so mad, but something about the ideology just pushes all the wrong buttons in me. Possibly because of how obviously the ideology sits on the surface -- obviously, but also obliviously.
letterboxd.com/xenonoxide/f...
letterboxd.com/xenonoxide/f...
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Sound of the Mountain (Naruse, 1954)
June 10, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Sound of the Mountain (Naruse, 1954)
The Elphaba reveal probably the worst 360 camera move I've ever seen
First trailer for ‘Wicked: For Good’
In theaters November 21
In theaters November 21
June 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The Elphaba reveal probably the worst 360 camera move I've ever seen
Me when Ingmar Bergman puts a face sideways and a face frontways next to each other
a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair and pointing at something
ALT: a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair and pointing at something
media.tenor.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Me when Ingmar Bergman puts a face sideways and a face frontways next to each other
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propaganda i’m not falling for:
- “tofu is soggy and nasty”
you just can’t cook
- “tofu is soggy and nasty”
you just can’t cook
May 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
propaganda i’m not falling for:
- “tofu is soggy and nasty”
you just can’t cook
- “tofu is soggy and nasty”
you just can’t cook
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May 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
May 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The final shot of "Blue Sun Palace" with the deliberate Lee Kang-Shengness of it all and the direct reference to Tsai MingLiang's "Days'" opening shot, except done in such a way as to reassure the audience's attention span, has got me irrationally mad for a mostly aesthetically harmless indie film
May 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The final shot of "Blue Sun Palace" with the deliberate Lee Kang-Shengness of it all and the direct reference to Tsai MingLiang's "Days'" opening shot, except done in such a way as to reassure the audience's attention span, has got me irrationally mad for a mostly aesthetically harmless indie film