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A. S. Hamrah
@hamrahrama.bsky.social
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writer and film critic • author Algorithm of the Night, Last Week in End Times Cinema, The Earth Dies Streaming • member Natl Society of Film Critics
My books: https://shop.nplusonemag.com/collections/by-a-s-hamrah
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I’m saddened to hear of the death of Homayoun Ershadi, who gave one of the great performances in one of the greatest films, Taste of Cherry. english.alarabiya.net/amp/life-sty...
Iranian actor Ershadi dies at 78 after battle with cancer
Iranian actor Homayoun Ershadi died at 78 on Tuesday after a battle with cancer, state news agency IRNA reported.Ershadi rose to international fame with
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November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Do you read Danish and subscribe to @weekendavisen.dk? If so, here’s a new piece interviewing me about my two forthcoming books. www.weekendavisen.dk/kultur/borte...
Borte med blæsten | Weekendavisen
Interview. »Filmstudierne afskyr, når en film har succes og trækker folk i biograferne.« Filmkritikeren A.S. Hamrah mener, at Hollywood aktivt destruerer amerikansk film.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT, the new collection of film writing by @hamrahrama.bsky.social, is out next month. Preorder it today:
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Algorithm of the Night, by A. S. Hamrah
“A. S. Hamrah’s criticism is hilarious, irreverent, full of passionate and ingeniously defended judgments.” —Dana Spiotta
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November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Excerpt from LAST WEEK IN END TIMES CINEMA in @parisreview.bsky.social today. Book comes out Nov 25 www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11...
Rotten Tomatoes by Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling
November 4, 2025 – New books by Solvej Balle, A. S. Hamrah, Anika Jade Levy, and Cynthia Zarin.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Reading @hamrahrama.bsky.social reminds me of Richard Price’s cameo in Scorsese’s LIFE LESSONS, when he says to the painter played by Nick Nolte: “I’m an artist myself, but when I look at your work I wanna go home and divorce my wife.”
November 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Peter Watkins has died, one of the greatest and least known and most uncompromising filmmakers, a life well lived fighting power. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
Peter Watkins obituary: radical British filmmaker behind The War Game and Punishment Park
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Art in America looking forward to Last Week in End Times Cinema. www.artnews.com/list/art-in-...
6 Books We’re Looking Forward to in November
The month’s most exciting art books are by Olivia Liang, Patti Smith, Sue Roe, AS Harah, and others.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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LAST WEEK IN END TIMES CINEMA getting ups in book review section of new Harper’s. Publication date is Nov 25.
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New Books, by Dan Piepenbring
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October 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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“When you ask it what it thinks of Donald Trump, for example, it says: “I’m not sure about that; let’s talk about something fun like princesses or animals.””
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‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy
The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experime...
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September 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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We strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! off the air.
FILM CRITICS’ GROUPS DENOUNCE NEXSTAR AND DISNEY-ABC DECISIONS TO SUSPEND “JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!” We, the members of the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics, strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air. For decades, our organizations have represented a profession that is enabled by the First Amendment. Kimmel’s long-running talk show promotes free speech, including when it gives film artists the chance to discuss their work. There is only one word to describe the decision by powerful media corporations to silence an individual’s perspective due to fear of repercussions by the government: censorship. This is the antithesis of the values embodied by our work. We demand a reversal of this decision and encourage our colleagues across the industry to do the same.
September 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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@nplusonemag.com spoke with me about the dreaded Cracker Barrel rebrand. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Haunting of Cracker Barrel | A. S. Hamrah, Will Tavlin, Lisa Borst
Semiotically, it's detached from all these kinds of things that it was originally designed for. But this kind of sign was always part of the corporate blandification of the American travel experience....
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September 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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My new book from
@nplusonemag.com, Algorithm of the Night, is now available for preorder at 10% off. shop.nplusonemag.com/products/alg...
Algorithm of the Night, by A. S. Hamrah
“A. S. Hamrah’s criticism is hilarious, irreverent, full of passionate and ingeniously defended judgments.” —Dana Spiotta
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August 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Right now you can preorder my book Last Week in End Times Cinema at Bookshop for 20% off. bookshop.org/p/books/last...
Last Week in End Times Cinema
Check out Last Week in End Times Cinema - <b>An almanac of every bad thing that happened in the film industry from March 2024 to March 2025.</b><br><br>From A. S. Hamrah, the film critic at <i>n+1</i>...
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August 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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I’m teaching an online course on film criticism this fall through @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Anyone can join!
July 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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It's workshop time! In addition to the annual Publishing Workshop you know and love, we're hosting two summer writing workshops with Katie Kadue and Nadja Spiegelman—and later down the line, with A.S. Hamrah and Lauren Markham. Learn more at lareviewofbooks.org/learn
June 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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The new issue of @nplusonemag.com is out and includes my Oscar movies piece. Please subscribe!
June 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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The new issue of the Whitney Review of New Writing includes my piece on Charlie Haas’s new novel, The Current Fantasy. Haas wrote the movies Gremlins 2 and Over the Edge.
May 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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My recent piece on Oscar movies reappears in the mighty 50th issue of @nplusonemag.com, out now. Please consider subscribing, if you don’t already.
May 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
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May 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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You wouldn't tariff a movie
May 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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April 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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For @screenslate.bsky.social I interviewed Alexander Horwath about his excellent new doc Henry Fonda for President, now playing at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/pre...
President of the Nameless: Alexander Horwath on Henry Fonda for President
Henry Fonda starred in some of the best American films made from the 1930s through the 1980s, and one in Italy, Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, from 1968. Fonda was of course also the fat...
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April 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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We join our colleagues in @nyfcc.bsky.social, @lafilmcritics.bsky.social and @bsfc.bsky.social in condemning the attack on NO OTHER LAND co-director Hamdan Ballal.
U.S. FILM CRITICS’ GROUPS 
CONDEMN VIOLENCE AGAINST HAMDAN BALLAL We, the members of the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Boston Society of Film Critics, express our support for the Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal and condemn, in the strongest terms, the brutal and unlawful attack he suffered this week at the hands of Israeli settlers, as well as his detainment by Israeli authorities. We are gravely concerned for Mr. Ballal’s health and safety, as well as the safety of his loved ones, and, now that he has been released, extend our hopes for his full recovery from his injuries. Mr. Ballal was assaulted near his home in Khirbet Susya, a village in the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank. Attacks on the residents of Masafer Yatta are nothing new, as we have seen from “No Other Land,” the Academy Award-winning documentary that Mr. Ballal co-directed with Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor. As critics representing four of the numerous organizations that honored “No Other Land” as the best documentary of 2024, we are infuriated that a filmmaker’s brave and principled advocacy has made him even more of a target in a community where Palestinians already exist under continual threat of displacement and violence. One of the most powerful aspects of “No Other Land” — and the reason so many have tried, in vain, to limit its reach and silence its message — is that it is itself a rare feat of collaboration between Palestinian and Israeli journalists, activists, and artists, united by their belief in dignity and equality for all. By the very nature of its form and creation, the film represents, and dares to imagine, a more peaceful future. We applaud Mr. Ballal and his colleagues for the courage and artistry with which they have advanced that vision and affirm that it will never be forgotten.
March 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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That’s right, I’m on the @hitfactorypod.bsky.social discussing AI in movies because of that piece I wrote for @fastcompany.com
danielgranville.bsky.social Daniel Granville @danielgranville.bsky.social · Mar 14
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An excellent @hitfactorypod.bsky.social with guest @hamrahrama.bsky.social discussing the philosophical and sociological implications of the ill-starred and reflexive adoption of generative A.I. into contemporary American studio filmmaking.
BONUS: A.I. Goes Hollywood feat. A.S. Hamrah
Hit Factory · Episode
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March 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Todd Solondz’s film Palindromes (2004) is getting rereleased this week. I interviewed him for @screenslate.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/eig...
The Eight Avivas: An Interview with Todd Solondz about Palindromes
Todd Solondz and his cinematic worldview of discomfort and sorrow burst upon the American indie filmmaking scene with the festival success of his second movie, Welcome to the Dollhouse, in 1995, and i...
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March 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM