Excavation https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76244/
February 14, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Excavation https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76244/
International Relations is Gender: "Neorealist" IR theory as Dudebro Machismo. In this essay, I will...
The right wing always pretended they don’t like gender studies because they think it’s unserious woke nonsense, but it turns out, they just don’t want us to see what they’re up to.
Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.
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February 14, 2026 at 5:30 PM
International Relations is Gender: "Neorealist" IR theory as Dudebro Machismo. In this essay, I will...
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on May 12th on Blu-ray in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #TheDelta (1996)!
The complexities of race, class, and sexuality collide within a Memphis community in the strikingly raw debut feature from director Ira Sachs. With neorealist immediacy,
Coming on May 12th on Blu-ray in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #TheDelta (1996)!
The complexities of race, class, and sexuality collide within a Memphis community in the strikingly raw debut feature from director Ira Sachs. With neorealist immediacy,
February 13, 2026 at 4:47 PM
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on May 12th on Blu-ray in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #TheDelta (1996)!
The complexities of race, class, and sexuality collide within a Memphis community in the strikingly raw debut feature from director Ira Sachs. With neorealist immediacy,
Coming on May 12th on Blu-ray in the US from @criterion.bsky.social: #TheDelta (1996)!
The complexities of race, class, and sexuality collide within a Memphis community in the strikingly raw debut feature from director Ira Sachs. With neorealist immediacy,
Hasan Hadi's The President's Cake reveals ordinary courage under tyranny with Neorealist clarity. The film follows a girl confronting fear and power, showing truth through ethical action. If science seeks evidence, cinema reveals resilience.
“The President’s Cake” Movie Review: A Neorealist Treasure from Iraq
The first feature by Hasan Hadi, set in 1990, depicts the agonies of war and dictatorship as experienced by a schoolgirl in the course of a high-stakes day.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Hasan Hadi's The President's Cake reveals ordinary courage under tyranny with Neorealist clarity. The film follows a girl confronting fear and power, showing truth through ethical action. If science seeks evidence, cinema reveals resilience.
The President's Cake follows a schoolgirl under siege, a Neorealist pulse that reveals truth. Healing starts when memory is tended, not erased, and trauma can birth unity when every life is honored. How can we turn grief into compassionate action?
“The President’s Cake” Movie Review: A Neorealist Treasure from Iraq
The first feature by Hasan Hadi, set in 1990, depicts the agonies of war and dictatorship as experienced by a schoolgirl in the course of a high-stakes day.
www.newyorker.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
The President's Cake follows a schoolgirl under siege, a Neorealist pulse that reveals truth. Healing starts when memory is tended, not erased, and trauma can birth unity when every life is honored. How can we turn grief into compassionate action?
The President's Cake portrays a nine-year-old girl's suffering under war and dictatorship in 1990 Iraq, using neorealist storytelling to expose poverty and fractured identity.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:20 PM
The President's Cake portrays a nine-year-old girl's suffering under war and dictatorship in 1990 Iraq, using neorealist storytelling to expose poverty and fractured identity.
“The President’s Cake” Movie Review: A Neorealist Treasure from Iraq
In the city, the story splits in half: Lamia gets separated from Bibi (for reasons I wouldn’t dare disclose) and searches for the one person she knows there, a classmate’s father, who supposedly works at an amusement park. At the…
In the city, the story splits in half: Lamia gets separated from Bibi (for reasons I wouldn’t dare disclose) and searches for the one person she knows there, a classmate’s father, who supposedly works at an amusement park. At the…
“The President’s Cake” Movie Review: A Neorealist Treasure from Iraq
In the city, the story splits in half: Lamia gets separated from Bibi (for reasons I wouldn’t dare disclose) and searches for the one person she knows there, a classmate’s father, who supposedly works at an amusement park. At the venue, she espies the classmate, a boy named Saeed (Sajad Mohamad Qasem), picking someone’s pocket. When the police give chase, Lamia runs off with him.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:16 PM
“The President’s Cake” Movie Review: A Neorealist Treasure from Iraq
In the city, the story splits in half: Lamia gets separated from Bibi (for reasons I wouldn’t dare disclose) and searches for the one person she knows there, a classmate’s father, who supposedly works at an amusement park. At the…
In the city, the story splits in half: Lamia gets separated from Bibi (for reasons I wouldn’t dare disclose) and searches for the one person she knows there, a classmate’s father, who supposedly works at an amusement park. At the…
Just watched. An earnest, beautifully photographed neorealist film with mostly non-professional actors about the founding of the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota, which I know nothing about but sounds like a rich untapped vein of history en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpart...
February 8, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Just watched. An earnest, beautifully photographed neorealist film with mostly non-professional actors about the founding of the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota, which I know nothing about but sounds like a rich untapped vein of history en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpart...
what does it mean that almost all my night terrors are more neorealist than surreal? like, if i have to wake up screaming, why does it have to be all "my things have been stolen" or "I get back with my ex i hate" or just general loss. i want the ones where knife penis monsters chase you for miles
February 7, 2026 at 4:54 PM
what does it mean that almost all my night terrors are more neorealist than surreal? like, if i have to wake up screaming, why does it have to be all "my things have been stolen" or "I get back with my ex i hate" or just general loss. i want the ones where knife penis monsters chase you for miles
The best argument that Picasso had ADHD: he painted all four of these in the same year
February 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The best argument that Picasso had ADHD: he painted all four of these in the same year
Praying for better days: Brigitte, captured by the lens of Jack Garofalo, c. 1957. {colourised}
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February 6, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Praying for better days: Brigitte, captured by the lens of Jack Garofalo, c. 1957. {colourised}
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Vittorio de Sica: I Bambini Ci Guardano (The Children Are Watching Us) 1944
February 6, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Vittorio de Sica: I Bambini Ci Guardano (The Children Are Watching Us) 1944
Iraq's entry for the international film Oscar is the story of two kids living their daily lives under the shadow of Saddam Hussein months before 1991 Gulf War. Feels like an Iranian movie from the 90s. Many neorealist touches, including a nonprofessional cast. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
The President's Cake review: Making sweets for Saddam
This is a substantial and promising debut that could propel Hasan to either homegrown or international importance.
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February 6, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Iraq's entry for the international film Oscar is the story of two kids living their daily lives under the shadow of Saddam Hussein months before 1991 Gulf War. Feels like an Iranian movie from the 90s. Many neorealist touches, including a nonprofessional cast. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
It's a #LetterboxdFriday miracle! 🎬 🎥 Here are my #LastFourWatched. Some proto-neorealist Italian cinema from Roberto Rossellini, a disappointing Oscar-nominated documentary, and a so-bad-it's-still-bad-but-also-kinda-fun coked-up '80s horror cheeseball film
February 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM
It's a #LetterboxdFriday miracle! 🎬 🎥 Here are my #LastFourWatched. Some proto-neorealist Italian cinema from Roberto Rossellini, a disappointing Oscar-nominated documentary, and a so-bad-it's-still-bad-but-also-kinda-fun coked-up '80s horror cheeseball film
watched BITTER RICE @filmforumnyc.bsky.social and it is glorious. neorealist working class politics meet sweaty oversexed melodrama. some very nice camerawork too. playing for another week, highly recommended. boxd.it/d0AhT9
A ★★★★½ review of Bitter Rice (1949)
This is glorious. It's got strong leftist politics (if sometimes a bit bluntly portrayed), a neorealist working class focus and extensive location shooting, impressively intricate camerawork (a near 3...
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February 6, 2026 at 4:34 AM
watched BITTER RICE @filmforumnyc.bsky.social and it is glorious. neorealist working class politics meet sweaty oversexed melodrama. some very nice camerawork too. playing for another week, highly recommended. boxd.it/d0AhT9
Another season of Film Club at The Picture House, and thanks to everyone at Sony Pictures Classics and Falco who helped us start off with "The President's Cake," a delicate, carefully observed neorealist drama that, while wholly original, may remind you of Jafar Panahi's classic "The White Balloon"
February 5, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Another season of Film Club at The Picture House, and thanks to everyone at Sony Pictures Classics and Falco who helped us start off with "The President's Cake," a delicate, carefully observed neorealist drama that, while wholly original, may remind you of Jafar Panahi's classic "The White Balloon"
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five* classes you took in college:
1. European cinema
2. Italian neorealist cinema
3. Films of the Nouvelle Vague
4. Surrealism
*There were only four that didn't require me to read books
1. European cinema
2. Italian neorealist cinema
3. Films of the Nouvelle Vague
4. Surrealism
*There were only four that didn't require me to read books
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Russian for Russian Specialists
2. Translation as Literary Crime
3. Sociology of Medicine
4. Clinical Ethics
5. Tree Climbing
1. Russian for Russian Specialists
2. Translation as Literary Crime
3. Sociology of Medicine
4. Clinical Ethics
5. Tree Climbing
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
January 31, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five* classes you took in college:
1. European cinema
2. Italian neorealist cinema
3. Films of the Nouvelle Vague
4. Surrealism
*There were only four that didn't require me to read books
1. European cinema
2. Italian neorealist cinema
3. Films of the Nouvelle Vague
4. Surrealism
*There were only four that didn't require me to read books
This is a rubbish movie, which tried to imitate the then successful Italian neorealist movies and in reality, trying to find success in the male gaze.
January 29, 2026 at 2:44 AM
This is a rubbish movie, which tried to imitate the then successful Italian neorealist movies and in reality, trying to find success in the male gaze.
YES! Luchino Visconti! 🤩 "The Earth Trembles" is such a powerful film, absolutely deserves to be celebrated on this epic challenge! 🎬 That neorealist magic is *chef's kiss* 🤌 Keep those incredible picks coming, @tonkord.bsky.social! We're loving this journey! 🍿✨
January 26, 2026 at 6:45 AM
YES! Luchino Visconti! 🤩 "The Earth Trembles" is such a powerful film, absolutely deserves to be celebrated on this epic challenge! 🎬 That neorealist magic is *chef's kiss* 🤌 Keep those incredible picks coming, @tonkord.bsky.social! We're loving this journey! 🍿✨
Watching the Italian neorealist classic Bitter Rice, and one of the characters just dropped this morsel: “Prison was invented by people who’ve never been there.”
January 24, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Watching the Italian neorealist classic Bitter Rice, and one of the characters just dropped this morsel: “Prison was invented by people who’ve never been there.”
‘Carousel’ Review: Chris Pine and Jenny Slate in a Painfully Languid Neorealist Drama of Lonely-Hearts Romance
Did I believe that Chris Pine, with his waxed and coiffed Beverly Hills look, is a sad-sack divorced physician who wears a stethoscope around his neck as he runs his quaint o…
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Did I believe that Chris Pine, with his waxed and coiffed Beverly Hills look, is a sad-sack divorced physician who wears a stethoscope around his neck as he runs his quaint o…
#media #news
‘Carousel’ Review: Chris Pine and Jenny Slate in a Painfully Languid Neorealist Drama of Lonely-Hearts Romance
Did I believe that Chris Pine, with his waxed and coiffed Beverly Hills look, is a sad-sack divorced physician who wears a stethoscope around his neck as he runs his quaint office as a general practitioner in Cleveland, Ohio? Not quite. But as Noah, Pine gives a performance that’s rippled with anger and vulnerability, and he’s such a good actor that he holds the screen.
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January 24, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Still from Italian neorealist classic The Button Thief
January 22, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Still from Italian neorealist classic The Button Thief
i can think of one respect
![In international relations theory, the concept of anarchy is the idea that the world lacks any supreme authority or sovereignty. In an anarchic state, there is no hierarchically superior, coercive power that can resolve disputes, enforce law, or order the system of international politics. In international relations, anarchy is widely accepted as the starting point for international relations theory.[1]
International relations generally does not understand "anarchy" as signifying a world in chaos, disorder, or conflict; rather, it is possible for ordered relations between states to be maintained in an anarchic international system.[1] Anarchy provides foundations for realist, neorealist, and neoliberal, and constructivist paradigms of international relations. Liberal theory disputes that anarchy is a fundamental condition of the international system. On the other hand, constructivist scholar Alexander Wendt argued that "anarchy is what states make of it."[2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:toghkz7v2j27b3lm6oy22wfr/bafkreicu4qrcy3223fbgbdshw4fw5e6qc4qiuse3b6s5sg77xs2oogkif4@jpeg)
January 21, 2026 at 1:12 PM
i can think of one respect
![In international relations theory, the concept of anarchy is the idea that the world lacks any supreme authority or sovereignty. In an anarchic state, there is no hierarchically superior, coercive power that can resolve disputes, enforce law, or order the system of international politics. In international relations, anarchy is widely accepted as the starting point for international relations theory.[1]
International relations generally does not understand "anarchy" as signifying a world in chaos, disorder, or conflict; rather, it is possible for ordered relations between states to be maintained in an anarchic international system.[1] Anarchy provides foundations for realist, neorealist, and neoliberal, and constructivist paradigms of international relations. Liberal theory disputes that anarchy is a fundamental condition of the international system. On the other hand, constructivist scholar Alexander Wendt argued that "anarchy is what states make of it."[2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:toghkz7v2j27b3lm6oy22wfr/bafkreib5ustent7irvcknp3zc6b265wds75mh4vby6qf2i2u6hegmbhcnm@jpeg)
![Anarchy (international relations)
In international relations theory, the concept of anarchy is the idea that the world lacks any supreme authority or sovereignty. In an anarchic state, there is no hierarchically superior, coercive power that can resolve disputes, enforce law, or order the system of international politics. In international relations, anarchy is widely accepted as the starting point for international relations theory.[1]
International relations generally does not understand "anarchy" as signifying a world in chaos, disorder, or conflict; rather, it is possible for ordered relations between states to be maintained in an anarchic international system.[1] Anarchy provides foundations for realist, neorealist, and neoliberal, and constructivist paradigms of international relations. Liberal theory disputes that anarchy is a fundamental condition of the international system. On the other hand, constructivist scholar Alexander Wendt argued that "anarchy is what states make of it."[2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:toghkz7v2j27b3lm6oy22wfr/bafkreidlgsyu6w2jhmmriesj423qgyfi7osnkkbw7yjzdotxbdiyaelruq@jpeg)