In our latest, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police
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screenshot from the linked Vanity Fair article reading as follows: Though the BAFTAs aired on a tape delay, the slur was nevertheless included in the 7 p.m. broadcast—though the BBC did not air outstanding-British-debut winner Akinola Davies Jr. saying “free Palestine” at the end of his speech, according to Deadline. (The BBC told Deadline that “all edits were made to ensure the program was delivered to time.”) Sinners production designer Hannah Beachler wrote on X that while the Davidson situation “is almost impossible…it happened 3 times that night, and one of the three times was directed at myself on the way to dinner after the show.”
airing the BAFTA award ceremony on a tape delay, leaving in a slur, but editing out "free Palestine"??
that too is a choice, and an egregious one at that!
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see that's that bullshit
a tic is involuntary, but BAFTA not saying anything to Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan afterwards is a choice
“I’m very happy to pay tribute to 10 great films from the past year whose titles you won’t hear mentioned during the Oscars on March 15,” writes @timgrierson.bsky.social, naming projects like FAMILIAR TOUCH and ON BECOMING GUINEA FOWL.
Statement from Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal: This afternoon, nearly a year after we won the Oscar, the same settler who attacked me shortly after l returned from Los Angeles-Shem Tov Lusky-again led an attack against my home and my family. Four of my family members are currently arrested and one is in the hospital. I invite all journalists and diplomats to come visit me and my family this Tuesday, February 17, to hear about how the situation has gotten worse in the year since we won the Oscar, as it has across the West Bank. Email me to coordinate your visit: hamdanalhrane90@gmail.com Two weeks ago we managed to get a decision from the Israeli court that the area around my home is closed to non-residents, but the settlers break that order and still come with their flocks almost every day. We call the police, they do nothing. The army comes, they do nothing. Today, Shem Tov Lusky-the settler who attacked me in my home shortly after I won the Oscar last year-came with his flock to my home. My brother called the police to report the incursion. The army came first and immediately raided our house, attacking everyone inside. Then they arrested two of my brothers, a nephew, and cousin. Another brother was badly injured and is now in the hospital. The Israeli court decision was supposed to make things a bit quieter for us. But the opposite has been true. The settlers have ramped up their harassment and the Israeli authorities have done nothing to enforce the decision, and today they joined the settlers in the attack. 8 hours ago
From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.
I loved Akinola Davies Jr's overwhelming swirl of memory and politics in MY FATHER'S SHADOW when I saw it at Cannes.
It love it even more now. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
Cannot tell you how thrilled I am to have written about ten of my favorite short films from Sundance, one of which you can actually watch online right now. I cried at some, cackled at others, some were by existing favorites and others were fresh new discoveries. Long live short cinema!!!
Not only is it Black History Month. It’s also its 100th anniversary!!
To commemorate its centennial, I wrote a list of 10 Black films, one from each of the last 10 decades, to stream.
Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.
nine years old
For MLK Day on @letterboxd.social I decided to do a list of essential Civil Rights and Black Liberation movies.
"Abolish ICE" in the gilmore girls font floating above a sepia-toned stars hollow
There’s a big difference between ICE, which shoots people in the street, and the regular cops, who shoot people in the street
I have been on the Byrne-Cannavale reptile beat since October, thank you very much.
well that’s beautiful
Tatti Ribeiro’s VALENTINA is one of my favorite films I saw in 2025. Really hope it gets distribution!
Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.
Over the last 5+ years I have interviewed over 130 female directors, cinematographers, or talent who have starred in a film directed by a woman
All of the interviews are linked in the notes of this @letterboxd.social list: letterboxd.com/oldfilmsflic...
It's important to note that this means that only 8% of the top 100 GROSSING films are directed by women. It doesn't mean that 92% of all films are directed by men. It means the films by women are not making as much money. But the directors are there and making films.
Shout out to this shout out from Them. Please watch me actin'a fool and lovin' unconditionally and whatnot on "Clean Slate".
Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.
Detailed article from Berkeleyside on Rainbow Families Action's success getting Sutter Health to maintain care for trans kids + summary of what hospitals in California are doing.
Potentially coming up: legal action to get hospitals that aren't providing care to follow CA law and provide care.
genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.
I get to share some lovely personal news to end the year: NEON are picking up worldwide rights to IT ENDS! variety.com/2025/film/ma...
GAZA IS DROWNING IN RAIN WATER AND THEY ARE ALL IN TENTS AND ISRAEL IS STILL FIRING ON PEOPLE AND THIS ISN'T A MAJOR NEWS STORY BECAUSE OF RACISM
Today I was in a room full of Jews and Muslims when I found out that a gunman had shot up a Jewish event. We all shared the pain together. A Palestinian man from Gaza who happened to have moved here 2 weeks before October 7 expressed his pain at our tragedy. Many of his family members are dead, and many others are in tents now. And still, he stood with us. These moments will be used to divide us. Thats the whole reason they are committed. To tear us all into different factions so one can win and one can lose. Buying into that worldview hands the shooters and bigots a win by creating the world they want. The only actual way to defeat them is to stand firm in building a world of dignity for all. This is what the Palestinian in the room did for us. It is what the Muslim man who risked his life to save Jews did. This is the way to win. This is how we beat those who want a world of division and violence. @eladnehorai
Baby fish mouth is sweeping the nation 💔
Vox headline: We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones. What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine
Lmfao every AI defense piece is like "AYY I FUCKIN SUCK BRO HOPEFULLY THIS FUCKIN STEAL YOUR SHIT MACHINE WILL MAKE ME SUCK SLIGHTLY LESS OK"
