Dario Llinares
@darioll.bsky.social
Writer, podcaster, educator.
Contact: drdario22@gmail.com
Podcast: https://patreon.com/cinematologists
Substack: https://substack.com/@dariollinares
Contact: drdario22@gmail.com
Podcast: https://patreon.com/cinematologists
Substack: https://substack.com/@dariollinares
Sorry, Baby explores the thorny entanglements of power, blame, and guilt without resorting to didacticism or moral signalling. Agnes’s experiences unfold through the grain of a lived reality of disorientation, post a trauma that inflects every element of experience
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November 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Sorry, Baby explores the thorny entanglements of power, blame, and guilt without resorting to didacticism or moral signalling. Agnes’s experiences unfold through the grain of a lived reality of disorientation, post a trauma that inflects every element of experience
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Our Cinematologists Podcast round-up of the London Film Festival is now available. We reflect on many films but focus mainly on The Mastermind, Rose of Nevada, Kontinental '25, The Stranger, and It Was Just an Accident.
Listen for free:
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Listen for free:
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October 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Our Cinematologists Podcast round-up of the London Film Festival is now available. We reflect on many films but focus mainly on The Mastermind, Rose of Nevada, Kontinental '25, The Stranger, and It Was Just an Accident.
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
A new piece out at dariollinares.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A new piece out at dariollinares.substack.com
"Baldwin made many appearances on talk shows throughout the ’60s & ’70s, a time when the public intellectual still had space on mainstream television. He’s articulate, charismatic, and unflinching. The contrast with today’s soundbite-driven media is stark."
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October 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
"Baldwin made many appearances on talk shows throughout the ’60s & ’70s, a time when the public intellectual still had space on mainstream television. He’s articulate, charismatic, and unflinching. The contrast with today’s soundbite-driven media is stark."
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Some serious strawman takes on One Battle After Another.
Like: “It's not at the level of The Battle of Algiers in its ideological sincerity”.
No shit.
It's a product of mainstream film industry in 2025.
Pontecorvo was an actual fucking political Marxist.
PTA is from the San Fernando Valley FFS.
Like: “It's not at the level of The Battle of Algiers in its ideological sincerity”.
No shit.
It's a product of mainstream film industry in 2025.
Pontecorvo was an actual fucking political Marxist.
PTA is from the San Fernando Valley FFS.
September 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Some serious strawman takes on One Battle After Another.
Like: “It's not at the level of The Battle of Algiers in its ideological sincerity”.
No shit.
It's a product of mainstream film industry in 2025.
Pontecorvo was an actual fucking political Marxist.
PTA is from the San Fernando Valley FFS.
Like: “It's not at the level of The Battle of Algiers in its ideological sincerity”.
No shit.
It's a product of mainstream film industry in 2025.
Pontecorvo was an actual fucking political Marxist.
PTA is from the San Fernando Valley FFS.
A repost of my audio-essay entitled The Cinematic Voice, inspired by two films I saw this week: Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest and Alan J. Pakula’s Klute.
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September 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A repost of my audio-essay entitled The Cinematic Voice, inspired by two films I saw this week: Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest and Alan J. Pakula’s Klute.
open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
August 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
In this episode, of The Cinematologists Podcast we go deep on the immense legacy and genius of Akira Kurosawa:
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August 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
In this episode, of The Cinematologists Podcast we go deep on the immense legacy and genius of Akira Kurosawa:
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August 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
July 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My second piece from Cinema Rediscovered focuses on three, very different, but equally vivid female lead performances:
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July 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
My second piece from Cinema Rediscovered focuses on three, very different, but equally vivid female lead performances:
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