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Director / Writer / Producer: FEDERER, @SENNAmovie , @AMYTheMovie , @MaradonaMovie , @Mindhunter , The Me You Can’t See, The Warrior, Creature. Next: 2073
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Heads up: I’m working on a new project, been thinking about it a long time. It’s about the state of the world; politics, environment, corruption, tech, race & more. How we got here, why & where we’re going. I’ll need help, if you want to get involved, please reply, follow or DM🙏🏾
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The British didn’t let Indians make clothes from cotton or make salt from sea water. Israel forbids Palestinians from collecting rainwater for drinking, or for their land. This didn’t start a month ago, it’s been going on for decades fully supported & funded by the US, UK, EU.
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Cant quite believe DM has gone. Hard to process. He always seemed indestructible. I had 10 hours with the man!! I touched his left foot. We did our best to show the world the man, the myth, the fighter he was. The greatest
#legend
#DiegoMaradona
@MaradonaMovie
#Diego
#maradona
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@nadinebh_
This is from from a show I directed a few years ago called ‘The Me You Can’t See’, avail on
@AppleTVPlus
. Good to see it getting traction and creating a dialogue. This stuff needs to be talked about and not pushed aside, particularly at a time like this.
@nadinebh_
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Juügen Klopp couldn’t see his mum when she was sick, he couldn’t attend her funeral. He should be allowed to take time off now, he needs it. He’s mourning. At the least, he shouldn’t be doing press conferences or post match interviews. Give him a break. it’s only football
@LFC
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Imagine life in the UK if the majority of our press were genuinely impartial, cared about our country & went after bent politicians, who called out corruption, racism, sexism, abuse when they saw it. Newspapers who cared about their readers’ interests more than their owners’.
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The tone of disappointment in the delivery and the hours of radio silence after Salah’s amazing finish …
MO SALAH AT THE DOUBLE! ⭐
He capitalises on Eric Dier's mistake.
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I grew up with Margret Thatcher as Prime Minister. Hated her. I did not think it was possible to dislike the Conservative party more than I used to then. But the present klan of 2 faced, back stabbing, selfish, spoilt, corrupt, liars are worse than anything I’ve ever experienced.
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A gang of public school gangsters cheated their way into office, they’re stealing as much money as they can, sharing it amongst their godfathers who helped put them in power. Once they have broken, destroyed & bankrupted this country they will vanish like thieves into the night.
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Pardon me, but I feel I should put this out there:
Dear
#LionelMessi
, I know you’re probably busy & need a holiday, but If you’re interested in having your epic story told at some point, I’m definitely interested & available! x
#Messi
#WorldCupFinal
#DiegoMaradona
#Argentina
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Audiences around the world need let
@netflix
know that there is a real interest & demand for Season 3 of
@MINDHUNTER_
if you make enough noise, It might actually happen….
#DavidFincher
#mindhunter
Something special is coming tomorrow from David Fincher… 👀
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Leaders of the USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Sweden, the EU, you did this:
Palestinians return to their homes during the humanitarian pause to finds it all rubble.
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Heads up! In the interest of public safety watch
@MaradonaMovie
Sat 9pm
@Channel4
. There’s no
#football
,
@BBCMOTD
,
@SkySportsPL
,
@btsportfootball
how else can we get our fix? Laugh, cry, love him, hate him, yell abuse. I’ll be here if you have Qs. stay in & be safe. 🙏🏾
#Corvid_19
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I look forward to the rule change or clarification next week when we’re told the Salah goal should’ve stood.
#lfc
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Love
#Klopp
. He is guy who says the things other people are too afraid to say. They then later all jump on the bandwagon. This is what a true leader who cares about people & the wider world looks & sounds like. & he’s one of the world’s greatest coaches. Not many people are both.
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For 5 years Klopp’s LFC went toe to toe with Pep’s peak Man City & a brilliant Real Madrid in CL, with a fraction of finances, from a mid table starting position. I don’t think rivals realise (or care!) how difficult that was. Bloody hell it was some achievement, & he won it all.
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Apart from winning the World Cup, with the greatest performance by a single player of all time & winning the toughest championship TWICE with a team who have NEVER won the league before or since & winning the UEFA cup when It meant something, what did Diego Maradona achieve?
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Now that Diego Maradona has gone to the 5 a side pitch in the sky, imagine in the same season, Argentina win the World Cup and Napoli win the Scudetto.
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I’ve been on marches against apartheid in South Africa, the Poll Tax, for school grants, for the NHS, Stop the war in Iraq, Greta’s climate march, anti
#Brexshit
, stop bombing of Gaza. What do they all have in common? All of the people marching were on the right side of history.
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Now all journalists have woken up to human rights, will anyone ever ask the question as to why Israel can continue playing international sport, within Europe, considering their human rights record & the number of deaths their governments are responsible for over the past decades?
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Before the French authorities start their press conference I have to say as a well travelled person, who has been to games, finals, high security global events around the world, the
@UEFAcom
@ChampionsLeague
final in Paris was one of the worst organised events I’ve ever attended.
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#BorisJohnson
; All of you who stayed home, who didn’t break the lockdown, who didn’t see your parents, kids or loved ones, those of you who didn’t attend funerals, you just didn’t love your family enough. Unlike
#dominiccummimgs
, who “acted responsibly, legally & with integrity”.
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Hope today is the day in history when the general public in UK finally understand what the Tory Government are willing & able to do to protect their image. The BBC mask has slipped in the past 24 hours: Fiona Bruce, Lineker, Attenborough, 3 word slogans, fascism in the UK.
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Funny how it’s only the women who have to apologise or resign...
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So journalists in the U.K. are you going to call out the bullshit from Boris Johnson and his Tory cronies when they lie and cheat now? Or will you wait until he’s on the way out or gone?
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Just imagine what the U.K. could be and what its people might achieve if it could break free of the Class System and the self harm that comes from repeatedly putting the same narrow gene pool of Tories, no matter how incompetent, or corrupt, into power.
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I know it’s only the 1/4 finals, but do not forget that if the Tories had their way, many of the England players’ parents probably wouldn’t be allowed into the country, or if they could, they’d stick them on the 1st plane out of here. So don’t fall for their 🏴 bandwagon bullshit
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You supported it. We remember, we heard you say it.
Horrendous images coming from Rafah. As
@Keir_Starmer
has said, Netanyahu must be told to stop.
We need a ceasefire, the hostages released and aid in at huge scale.
We must move to the lasting peace of a two state solution - an independent Palestine, alongside a secure Israel.
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Why are elected politicians allowed to lie, cheat, be corrupt, journalists who support the government with lies are fine. But a journalist who swears off air gets suspended? Krishnan Guru-Murthy taken off air for swearing about ‘tough guy’ Steve Baker
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Heads up! My debut film
#TheWarrior
is on
@Film4
Monday 18th, 11:15pm. Starring
@irrfank
in his 1st leading role & 1st foreign film. When we met
#Irrfan
was thinking of quitting acting, he was bored, luckily for all of us who love cinema, he didn’t. 🙏🏾 Irrfan Bhai.
#IrrfanKhan
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Some thoughts on the wonderful, spiritual soul Irrfan Khan, who I was fortunate to meet 21 years ago in Mumbai.
@irrfank
#TheWarrior
🙏🏾
@guardian
#IrrfanKhan
'It's like losing a brother': Irrfan Khan remembered by Asif Kapadia
#TheGuardian
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If you cannot afford to eat, pay your bills, heat your home, travel to work, get an education, put clothes on your kids, Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, the Tories honestly could not care less. They genuinely don’t care about you. This is their intention. Don’t vote for them. Ever.
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Here’s a slogan:
Boris Johnson is a shit Prime Minister.
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If you’re waking up confused, remember that country was stolen from the native people who were then systematically erased, it was built by enslaved millions who it has never treated as equals, a country which loves guns, wars, money, capital punishment & TV realty stars. AmeiKKKa
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The best thing about the UK right right now are all the young sporting heroes who seem to be from mixed, diverse, immigrant backgrounds.
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Heads up: if you’re in the U.K. or if you have access to
@All4
(
@Channel4
) you can watch
@MaradonaMovie
for free …
The man, myth, genius, cheat, the golden boy who became a God, the 1 & only
#DiegoMaradona
there will never be another like
#Diego
#Maradona
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Israel kills 29,124 Palestinians including 11,422 children & I am genuinely not aware of a single word of condemnation from any leader of a major political party in the UK. You’re all an absolute disgrace & you’re all complicit in a genocide.
BREAKING: Israel has now killed 11,422 Palestinian children in Gaza, in just 11 weeks.
11,422 children.
A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and every Western regime is complicit.
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This LFC is the consequence of not regularly strengthening the squad while we were at the top, buying big when winning the CL, PL, while we were the best team in the world. The idea that 1 great signing in the future will improve the whole team is silly. We look miles behind now.
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It’s Klopp’s spirituality which makes him special & he’s not afraid to express it. For me there’s a similarity between
#Klopp
& Ayrton
#Senna
. They’re thinking on another level, the way they’re able to deconstruct their process, set backs, emotions in 2nd languages is incredible.
Jurgen Klopp after Liverpool lost the 2016 Europa League Final to Unai Emery's Sevilla.
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#COVID19
explained: the countries with the worst leaders have the highest death rate.
1. USA
2. U.K.
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Getting my head around this: PL Refs & VAR officials are officially on the UAE payroll, approved by the head of Refs &
@FA_PGMOL
, UAE coincidentally own Man City winner of 5 of the 6 past PLs, won treble, presently being charged by PL of 115 offences, (were also charged by UEFA)
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Honestly wouldn’t surprise me if the Tories switch tactics and say being in EU is better for the UK before Labour do.
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Surely theatre directors, theatres, writers, actors, arts organisations around the world will speak out about this disgraceful attack on one of their peers. They will won’t they? Because silence is complicity & if artists don’t speak up about what is going on right now, who will?
The IDF raided the renowned Jenin cultural institution
@freedom_theatre
while children looked on "screaming and crying." Staff were seized, detained and tortured, while the theater was trashed and robbed. Artistic director Ahmed Tobasi describes the ordeal.
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Kind of PR interview a player for a nation state team sponsored by leader of state might do for a national TV channel owned by same state, referring to a controversial last min decision made in a key match against a rival in a game by ref & VAR who sometimes work for nation state
"He could've crumbled but that shows his experience, that shows his character"
Kyle Walker praises Michael Oliver's professionalism over Liverpool's penalty decision ❌
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The BBC is no longer our beloved, respected around the world public broadcaster, it is now run by Tory PR machine & is a full on Tory state broadcaster. If they can take down Attenborough, go after Lineker, imagine what they can do to silence people who have no power or influence
BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of rightwing backlash
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‘City are perhaps the most metronomic footballing entity to be created in England, they’re facing 115 PL financial charges. This is the team Klopp lost to by a single point twice. It takes an impressive degree of tribalism to conclude the story is his underachievement.’
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THIS is why countries like Saudi Arabia pay billions of dollars to sports wash, all you golfers, football teams, tennis players, F1 drivers, boxers, wrestlers, etc you’re all being paid the big bucks to whitewash & speak up to their behalf, to cover for their inhumane behaviour:
🚨BREAKING: Saudi Arabia’s Court of Appeal has decided to uphold a death sentence for child defendant Abdullah al-Howaiti.
The Saudi justice system continues to rely on the torture-induced 'confession' of a 14-year-old boy to convict him for a crime he could not have committed🧵
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The monarchy is dead. The pathetic institution died long ago, the Queen propped it up for decades. Now she’s gone, shut it down, open the palaces as museums, give the jewels back to where they were stolen from. Members of the clan can bugger off as they serve no useful purpose.
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Fábio Carvalho surely has to play from the start, we may as well play our brilliant youth if the older (once fabulous & I love them as they won the lot, legends) players have lost their edge, their legs, their touch, the will to fight for every ball. We look old, tired & injured.
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🙏🏾
@MarcusRashford
for speaking out. I’m from a working class, Indian family, from Hackney in the 70s / 80s (very different to now) both my parents worked. I had free school dinners, vouchers for my school uniform, a grant to go to college & University & a bursary to do my MA.
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Why do all these bent Tories get to resign? You’re all fired. We want you out. The damage they have inflicted on the uk will take generations to fix.
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Heads up! 7pm Friday 15 May, I’ll be doing a live chat with
#TheWarrior
cinematographer Roman Osin &
@BFI
's
@Brownstu
, discussing the experience of making the film & the joy of working with the sublime artist
@irrfank
, join us via this link
#IrrfanKhan
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The DIEGO MARADONA poster. Who wants one?
#GameOn
!!
#MARADONA
@MaradonaMovie
#DIEGO
@sscnapoli
#naples
@Festival_Cannes
@daniarcucci
@gonbonadeo1963
@signoriniok
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Hilarious. Literally the first time any LFC fan has seen our players do this for years, in a key game, when on a rare 3 on 2 break, against a team famous for committing technical fouls, done by a player who did an identical foul a minute earlier & got a yellow. And we get charged
BREAKING: Liverpool have been charged by the FA after players surrounded a match official during their game against Manchester City last Saturday.
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Difficult to express how much l hate Boris Johnson and this U.K. government.
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All these brown Torie$ who were cool ending freedom of movement, cool hanging out with racists, smiling with fascists, who stopped all Brits working & studying in Europe, were ok sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, now proudly talking about their parents who came here with nothing.
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That’s certainly one way of looking at this:
#LocalElections2022
Elections 2022: No breakdown or big breakthrough in uncomfortable night for big parties
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Like iPads but don’t know why anyone thought this ad was a good idea
It is the most honest metaphor for what tech companies do to the arts, to artists musicians, creators, writers, filmmakers: squeeze them, use them, not pay well, take everything then say it’s all created by them
Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.
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A reminder for those who haven’t been paying attention:
The Premier League has charged Manchester City with breaching its rules on more than 100 occasions over multiple years. If proven these would be the greatest offences committed by a club in the history of the competition.
Premier League charges Manchester City over alleged financial rule breaches
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Thieves. Pure and simple.
But the truth does out in the end.
And it will all have to be given back, eventually.
@guardian
India archive reveals extent of ‘colonial loot’ in royal jewellery collection
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Thank you
@BAFTA
for nominating
@MaradonaMovie
for Best
#Documentary
! 🙏🏾 Honoured to be in with this really strong selection of nominated movies. Huge congratulations + massive thank you to all of the team who worked on
#Diego
#Maradona
in London, Italy & Argentina. 🙌🏽
#GameOn
!
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Why is a soldier for a foreign country accused of war crimes & genocide allowed to come back to the UK, get on public transport in London and attack & abuse British women?
At the same time trafficked children have their nationality taken away.
“DIRTY FU*KING MUSLIMS!”
“I’M AN IDF SOLDIER!”
This man hurled Islamophobic abuse at a group of young Muslim women after he pulled the hijab off one of them.
This incident reportedly took place at Whitechapel Station.
@metpoliceuk
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Will international authors, journalists, publishers, agents, bookshops, awards organisations, readers speak up for Arundhati Roy about what is going on in India since Modi came into power: author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted over 2010 Kashmir remarks
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So will the Met Police now start investigating crimes by Boris Johnson and other Tory politicians BEFORE they commit them?
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I was lucky to have the opportunity to talk to
#LFC
boss Jürgen Norbert
#Klopp
a few weeks ago, here is a slightly longer version of our chat: ‘Inside the mind of Klopp - Faith, politics, leadership & escapism….’
@LFC
#Liverpool
#YNWA
@btsportfootball
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I’m old enough to remember 70s, 80s growing up in Hackney, Stoke Newington, Dalston, Hoxton when they were called ‘no go areas’ for white, wealthy people. Then the same people bought flats & houses there & the journalists printing all the racist shit moved in while it was cheap.
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De Niro & Scorsese are not going to shut up this awards season, thank god. Now is not the time to keep quiet about the erasure of native people in the past, what is happening now & what will come if decent people don’t stand up & speak out against fascists & authoritarian regimes
Robert De Niro had some things to say at the Gotham Awards last night and noticed that
@Apple
edited the important parts of his speech on the teleprompter so he read them from his phone…..fantastic!
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@GaryLineker
Gary, you’re using your voice and reputation for good. You’re on the right side of history. Thank you. 🙏🏽
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Just imagine what today could’ve been like at Anfield if:
1.
#LFC
were given the legit onside goal v Spurs.
2. We got a last min pen for the kung fu kick by Man City.
3. Got a penalty for basketball dribble in the area v Arsenal.
Damn VAR did us over this season in head to heads.
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US, UK German, French, Australian Canadian, EU supported Apartheid explained by someone who lives there & sees it everyday. Of course Mayor of Berlin then attacked the Berlin Film festival, director of the festival & the filmmakers. Which is why we make art & why we must protest.
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My top ten films for
@SightSoundmag
’s Greatest Film of All Time
#SightAndSoundPoll
@BFI
Vertigo
Raging Bull
2001
La Jetée
Once upon a Time in the West
Don’t Look Now
Godfather II
Come and See
Yojimbo
In The Mood For Love
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Hugely honoured to receive the
@bbc
@griersontrust
Trustees’ Award. Share it with my collaborators on
@SENNAmovie
@AmyTheMovie
@AmyFilmUK
@MaradonaMovie
Dedicate the Award to my Mum & Dad for giving me the confidence to follow my dreams to make films. 🤎
@laheggessey
@jwoodfilm
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I’m interested
The Government says it is not in the public interest to know whether it acted unlawfully in spending hundreds of millions or billions on duff PPE with its 'VIPs'.
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RIP legend AYRTON SENNA.
Making the film
@SENNAmovie
changed my life in so many ways. I know Ayrton had that effect on millions in 🇧🇷,
@F1
& around the world.
Sounds silly but here’s my
#SENNA
mouse mat. Without thinking, he’s there, beside me every single day. 🙏🏽❤️
#SennaSempre
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In the end, it was all about the mega wealthy hiding their money and not paying taxes
#brexshite
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Enjoyed the
#BAFTAs
last night. Saw this sign buying a coffee this morning. Good advice for filmmakers. Don't quit!
http://t.co/FJ7h7saO
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The genius of sport washing (like the mega wealthy getting into politics) is making not only your fans, but most importantly fans of rival clubs believe you’re the underdog. Using expensive PR to fool people into believing an oligarch buying success is for the good of the game.
That was the 2021-22 season - the most geopolitical of winners for the most geopolitical of campaigns.
The beauty of final day masks some ugly truths the Premier League should ask of itself
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My experience of CINEMA:
Lost in the world of the film, get out of the cinema, get on the tube home & for a moment, I forget where I live.
Me & STREAMING:
I’m always aware I’m at home, wondering if there’s any dark chocolate hidden somewhere.
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5 years ago today ....
#AMY
❤️ 🙏🏾 28 Feb 2016....
@AmyTheMovie
@AmyFilmUK
@A24
@TheAcademy
#AmyWinehouse
@AltitudeFilms
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I directed a mad dance film called CREATURE during lockdown. It’s full on, intense, visually, aurally stunning & totally different to anything you might have seen me (or anyone!) do before, although the themes will be familiar. It’s on the big screen today, please check it out 🙏🏽
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Upcoming
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Guardian
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Times
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Little White Lies
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Empire
@AsifKapadia
's (Senna, Amy) astonishing new film is out today!
#CreatureFilm
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“We truly did everything we could” To let as many people die as possible? To try Herd immunity? To get rich during a global pandemic? To make sure BrexShit happened? To be racist? To make the fish happy? To let poor children starve? To ruin businesses? Blame the experts? To lie?
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No one wants to strike. There’s enough money to go around. Tories want it for themselves, their friends, the 1% at the top. Tories & their collaborators in the press expect workers to do multiple jobs, survive off charity & food banks rather than being paid a fair living wage.
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Very disappointed
@HOME_mcr
to learn you cancelled this event.
This April, we're celebrating Palestinian voices, with readings from Don’t Look Left by
@atefabusaif
, plus other poetry & writing, performed by special guests Ahmed Nehad, Shamshad Khan,
@kamilashamsie
, Maxine Peake, Kingsley Ben-Adir & others.
Book now >
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I was lucky enough to sit down & speak to the Boss
#J
ürgenNorbertKlopp yesterday! Top man! I asked him about his spirituality, politics & other things.
Thanks
@btsportfootball
🙏🏾 for the opportunity.
@LFC
I hope we can do it again one day for longer (than 20mins!)
#LFC
#Liverpool
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People have realised going to the cinema is better than watching films on TV at home.
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Sometimes, v rarely, it’s good to meet your heroes. 8 years of Jürgen Norbert Klopp have given
#LFC
fans so many amazing memories on the pitch, he & his team won the lot! But importantly he’s never been afraid to speak up about inequality & social issues off the pitch. Love him.
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Sharing my (50th!) birthday today with Al Pacino, Johan Cruyff, Ella Fitzgerald and my regular editor Chris King! 🎈
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Heads up
#DiegoMaradona
& cinema fans in the U.K.:
@Everymancinema
s open up again next week 👏🏾, a few select cinemas will show
@MaradonaMovie
on the big screen 🙌🏾, please check locally. I’ll do Q&As if possible!
#Diego
#Maradona
#EVERYMAN
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