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His brother went to the vet without him. Here's how he feels about it:
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Uh, so NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang is dive-bombing selfies at Essex Market and made the mistake of trying one with my spouse.
@nycDSA
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I just want you to sit with this for a moment: The IDF vet accused of using a chemical spray against pro-Palestine students at Columbia is suing the university, claiming it was a "non-toxic fart spray" and a "harmless expression of speech."
A Jewish student filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Columbia claiming it went through “biased misconduct proceedings” for their actions at a Jan. 19 protest, at which students allege they were sprayed with a foul-smelling chemical.
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This is just a small part of what our students have been up against.
Chat logs leaked to the Washington Post show a group of billionaires who wanted to make sure the NYPD crushed student protests on the Columbia got a private meeting with Mayor Adams a few days before the NYPD crushed student protests at Columbia:
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I taught at Columbia when
@bariweiss
helped front a vicious, racist, mendacious and, thankfully, failed attempt to smear many of my colleagues. The fact that she can even pretend otherwise, and that she has any voice at all at
@nytopinion
, is astonishing.
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Residual checks came in and I just want to thank whoever it was in France who rented Lust, Caution this summer.
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Today
@columbia
the faculty showed up for the students and the students showed up for the faculty.
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Gotta say, happy to see my name figure in such wonderful company on THIS letter, as opposed to, well, that other letter....
Dozens of prominent Jewish Americans—including Judith Butler, Tony Kushner, Elliott Gould, Deborah Eisenberg, Molly Crabapple, Ariel Dorfman, and more—have signed an open letter opposing AIPAC's interference in Democratic politics. Read the letter here.
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Feeling very grateful today to my
@IndignationFilm
cast & crew.
@LikelyStoryFilm
@LoganLerman
@SarahGadon
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Woke up this morning to fond memories of that time Randy Quaid pretended to sue me over his Brokeback Mountain compensation and then pretended I settled his imaginary lawsuit.
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I shared some thoughts on being Jewish
@Columbia
in this moment, and how my Jewishness is being weaponized by those aligned with, well....
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Screener for this movie came today - anybody know who wrote and directed it?
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So she is not horrified by her statements but is rather horrified by other peoples’ reactions to them.
“I am horrified by the fact that statements I made on a recent podcast offended the Black and LGBTQIA+ communities, communities I truly love and respect,” Margulies said in an exclusive statement to Deadline
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Please, just, already,
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As you know, the WGA leadership and Negotiating Committee do not leak, but I am breaking ranks here to report that the entire Neg Comm is lovingly roasting our hero
@adamconover
with this right now like there’s no tomorrow
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I am so grateful to be in such wonderful company. Thanks to everyone who has added their much-needed voice in defense of our shared common humanity.
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I don't often post here in my capacity as a member of the WGA negotiating Committee, but at moments like these I'm compelled to express my gratitude to WGA staff, leadership, and members for their level-headedness, smarts, and collegiality. THIS is how we will end this strike.
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My village in upstate NY has 1 of the last indie video stores in America. I asked Steve to pose next to the poster for one of his favorite movies,
@edgarwright
. Dramas are organized by star. Lots of Chantal Akerman on VHS. The world is sometimes wonderful.
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Was asked for a statement: “Harvey Weinstein is the one going to jail, but the entire film business - all of us who have sustained and benefited from the hierarchies of power that allowed his crimes to continue and his victims to multiply - it is we who were found guilty today.”
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Wow! 300 more good souls joined - this feels momentous: Alan Menken, Sarah Sherman, Alex Winter and Larry Charles Join Jewish Creatives Supporting Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars Speech in Open Letter (EXCLUSIVE) via
@variety
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@GovBillWeld
@realDonaldTrump
Uh, guv, it's not actually a "conscience" if you don't exercise it because a racist "insists" you ignore it.
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Who, the NYPD asks, is radicalizing our students?
UN experts are "horrified" at the mass graves unearthed in the Gaza Strip -- 390+ bodies at Nasser & Al Shifa hospitals, including of women and children, "many reportedly showing signs of torture & summary executions" and potentially "people buried alive.”
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A warning to my colleagues
@columbia
: The witch hunt is coming for us, and there is no evidence that it is slowing down, even as the atrocities in Gaza pile up. My latest:
The ‘blurred lines’ of Columbia’s Task Force on Anti-Semitism
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This👇. And just to add one note: I head back to LA this weekend to resume work at the bargaining table with the studios as a proud member of this year’s Writers Guild negotiating committee, in hopes we can conclude a deal and avoid a strike. And this is exactly who we fight for.
Long ass thread about why I'm NOT voting YES on the WGA SAV.
I've been poor my entire life. I moved to LA with no financial support system, ended up living in my car for two months, before finally landing an assistant job on a long-running show (CSI).
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In my next think piece for the
@nytimes
I interview a bunch of Hitler voters one year after he burned down the Reichstag and am surprised to find they still voice cautious optimism for Germany's future.
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So tonight,
@columbia
President, The Baroness Shafik of Camden and Alexandria, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, announced a midnight deadline to disperse, and thousands poured on to campus. Then, at midnight, it was announced the deadline has been moved to 8am.
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Just landed at JFK. Ali, from Yemen, is supposed to drive me home. Instead, we went right to Terminal 4.
#NoBanNoWall
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@pmgentry
Thank you! I was literally going to waste a half-hour of my morning composing a roast on just that point, but can now go back to my own writing!
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Endless gratitude to the brilliant and kind young colleagues who invited me to be a part of this adventure, and to my old friends
@bleeckerstfilms
for welcoming us. So much love for
@jpirro
@AndrewAhnFilms
@MrKentSanderson
Kindred Spirit Andrew Karpen Shivhans and the whole team
EXCLUSIVE: Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang will star in Bleecker Street and Shivhans Pictures’ remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 romantic comedy “The Wedding Banquet” from director Andrew Ahn.
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To, like, another planet?: "After climate loss, Ivanka moves on"
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So appreciate my Columbia University colleague Joe Howley, who, alongside a growing number of wonderful faculty, is working overtime to protect our students from an intense campaign of repression.
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Some folks get upset when they hear the word "genocide" here, saying that perhaps it's "technically" genocide, but it's not "real" genocide, and I just want to say that that's kind of the whole point - that it's genocide precisely because it's technically genocide.
Netanyahu said today he is actively working to ethnic transfer of Palestinians out of Gaza in a Likud meeting today. The problem, he said, is which countries will take them.
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Finally, a sequel worthy of Ang's movie.
Trump's Walk of Fame star smashed again, this time by someone dressed as the Hulk
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Mark Zuckerberg took out a full page ad in The Times today.
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On Sunday Steve Bannon attends the Zionist Org of America gala, making official the marriage of neo-Nazism with ascendant Israeli fascism
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Not going to retweet it, but all respect to the guy who set the Cawthorn video to the Mentos theme song.
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Sometimes on Twitter, in the midst of the raging torrent of darkness and crisis, a lonely soul reaches out to touch another, and reminds me of all that was important before the pandemic arrived.
@JamesSchamus
Wikipedia told me you prevented Eastern Promises 2, so I hope you stub your toe in a spa.
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We walked the line.
In awe tonight of the 11,000+ writers who, together, and with so much support from so many other workers, made his happen.
The WGA and AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement. This was made possible by the enduring solidarity of WGA members and extraordinary support of our union siblings who stood with us for over 146 days. More details coming after contract language is finalized.
#WGAStrike
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Sometimes on Twitter, in the midst of the raging torrent of darkness and crisis, a lonely soul reaches out to touch another, and reminds me of all that was important before the pandemic arrived.
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I continue to wonder how my colleagues who signed that letter attacking Jonathan Glazer's Oscar speech don't see what is so clearly and brazenly happening.
Why are Israeli soldiers uploading photos of themselves inside with Palestinian detainees to their dating profiles? Beyond the "uniform effect," some experts say the violent militarism seen on dating apps is leading to disturbing trends in Israeli society
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As this remarkable
@vulture
piece about Scott Rudin's assistants affirms, we knew that one reason we had such an incredibly hard time getting
@AssistantFilm
financed and made was because it was about a lot more than Harvey Weinstein.
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I wrote a thing: Hollywood thinks it can divide and conquer the writers’ strike. It won’t work | James Schamus
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In the midst of all, what a pleasure - if a bittersweet one - to be in Madison this weekend to celebrate the life of David Bordwell with the remarkable community of scholars at friends
@UWMadison
he so cherished.
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BREAKING: So excited that the Academy is going to hand out the new Popular Movie
#Oscars
award during its own tv spot in the middle of a Super Bowl ad break, thus assuring the biggest possible audience for it.
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Fellow Writers Guild members, this is a crucial moment in our negotiations with the conglomerates: let’s show them some collective superpower and vote YES on this authorization!
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Two decades ago I was sat next to Stephen Sondheim at a dinner. That evening, on returning home, I told my kids I'd just met the smartest person I'd ever meet in my life. He sensed immediately how intimidated I was at finding myself unexpectedly next to 1 of my heroes, and...
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Arts & Sciences faculty vote of "No Confidence" in
@columbia
's president, the Baroness Shafik, passes with a two-thirds vote
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A tremendous loss. “As a filmmaker, I can describe David’s friendship as unnervingly generous. His astonishing critical intelligence never got in the way of his enthusiasms, and .../
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Analysis | 86 percent of Trump counties make less in a year than 27 Trump staffers are worth
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You know, I get the neoliberal hypocrisy. I get the abject fealty to the Israeli regime. I get the knee-jerk authoritarian intolerance. What I don't get is the sheer *stupidity* - the
@Columbia
administration is all by itself radicalizing an entire generation of students. 👍
This is extraordinary. The Columbia Law Review's board took down the entire website, falsely saying it was under maintenance, because the student editors published an article on the Nakba.
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I've watched this a number of times, and it's not just inspiring, it also has an almost classical Greek tragedy structure, inflected, as it is, by that final, Beckett/Lori-Parks punchline.
Morehouse students grill their President on having Biden @ graduation
"There's a possibility of a genocide happening & we're seeing our government continually sending more & more weapons."
"We the students telling you we see it as 'that's being complicit!'"
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Amidst the wreckage of what's left of our private equity streaming leveraged "content" mess, take a moment to celebrate the miracle that has been ten years and counting of a truly independent - *the* truly independent - band of kickass cinema lovers that is Bleecker Street.
I cannot believe it's been 10 years, but what a 10 years it has been
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One would think I would already have cancelled my
@nytimes
subscription for all the obvious reasons, but for some reason this may well be the final straw.
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This Trailer for the New JonBenét Ramsey Documentary Is Straight Out of a Horror Flick via
@TeenVogue
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It's been over a quarter century since I first got to know the Sony Classics folks when we worked together on Todd Haynes' masterpiece, Safe. Then came Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. And now, I'm thrilled to welcome them to the We Grown Now team!
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42 years ago I stumbled upon this tiny masterpiece on public television and have been recommending it ever since: Who Am I This Time?
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Apologies for bragging, but 50 reviews in and
@AndrewAhnFilms
's
@DrivewaysFilm
is STILL 100% fresh on RottenTomatoes. Congrats team Driveways!
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Happy 20th anniversary to one of Ang’s boldest, most original, and visionary films.
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Hi Columbia University administration people. Quick question: As a member of the faculty, am I breaking the rules when I reply to this post by pointing out that your post is, in and of itself, a "distressing event" I am now banned from mentioning online?
Columbia uses social media to share news and information, and to connect with the University community. We welcome your feedback on our posts. To maintain this space for productive dialogue, we are introducing a social media comment policy.
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he soon picked up on my Film Noir fandom, sharing his love of John Farrow's The Big Clock. For 20 minutes, he walked me through every detail of the film, from Laughton's make-up to Seitz's lighting; he knew every frame and edit. A joyful, loving, unexpected master class. A god.
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FOMO alert: It's John Waters month in LA (an Academy Museum retrospective and exhibition, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star), which means luminaries like Gus Van Sant, Gregg Araki, and Marcus Hu are gathering. Can u imagine what American cinema wd be without these handsome devils?
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Eyal Weizman
@weizman_eyal
has written an indispensable essay for anyone wanting to understand some of the lead-up to October 7 and subsequent events: Exchange Rate
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Big thanks to Atom Egoyan
@BarryJenkins
@Criterion
and so many others for leading with this: Art-House America Campaign
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Columbia’s New “Antisemitism Task Force” Won’t Say What It Thinks Anti-Semitism Is by
@prem_thakker
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The weird thing about the suicidal feedback loop that is Late Capitalism and the corporate media, is that regardless of whether it’s correlation or causation, it’s still suicidal.
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Some personal news. My kids made fun of me last night when (honestly, only quite briefly and privately) my face dropped in abject fandom when Eric Andre walked into the restaurant and past our table.
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No apologies this time: 60 reviews and counting and STILL at 100%!
Apologies for bragging, but 50 reviews in and
@AndrewAhnFilms
's
@DrivewaysFilm
is STILL 100% fresh on RottenTomatoes. Congrats team Driveways!
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So weird how with each passing day Melania
@FLOTUS
looks more and more like Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill.
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Thank you fellow writers. Not just an overwhelming yes vote, but a huge turnout to boot. You've given your negotiating team some powerful wind in our sails.
WGA members have authorized a strike by 97.85%. Writers are ready for a deal from the studios that allows writers to share in the success of the content they create and build a stable life.
#WGAStrong
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In 1991Claire Denis came to New York and graced
@TedHope
and me with our very first production at Good Machine, the long-thought-lost but now found Keep it for Yourself. The folks at Le Cinema Club found a Japanese VHS copy, restored it, and here it is!:
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In case you were wondering who we're negotiating against: CEO Pay High In 2022 Amid Industry Shakeup, Looming Writers Strike via
@Deadline
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Kind of hard not to notice that the folks
@columbia
President the Baroness called in to protect us Jews all appear, at least in this mass formation, to have the same particular... what's the word - "hue"? "complexion"? Probably just some strange coincidence....
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So, while my company is still waiting for our tiny small business PPP payroll loan, which we may never get anyhow: The Federal Reserve Bails Out Boeing, Gives a $3 Billion Subsidy to Carnival Cruise Lines by
@matthewstoller
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Swap out "mini-majors," "studio specialized divisions" or "premium cable" for streamers, adjust for inflation, & voila, it's an annually reprintable story for each of the past 30+ years. The difference now: no ownership, no profit participations, no residuals. Uber Eats cinema.
"If $2M movies are now too expensive for equity financiers & streamers are boosting the budgets of modest indies to more than $10M, that leaves indie filmmakers with fewer options in the financing landscape."
@TedHope
@JamesSchamus
heard this one before?
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In the midst of a writers strike against the capitalist vultures wrecking our industry, and for the livelihoods especially of our younger and more vulnerable members, it’s hard to describe why the gutting of TCM hits so hard emotionally. I think it’s because TCM represents.../
A note to our passionate TCM viewers: It’s been a tough week to say the least and I’m beyond heartbroken that we are losing so many brilliant colleagues who are also dear friends. I’ve seen all of your support online and it means so much to all of us. 1/2
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Beautiful.
BREAKING: Thousands of US Jews with
@jvplive
,
@ifnotnoworg
, and
@jfrejnyc
are holding an emergency Passover seder, shutting down the streets of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s home to demand he stop sending weapons to the Israeli government as it carries out a genocide.🧵
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Can you imagine what this country would be like if we just simply believed in nurturing young people instead of extracting as ruthlessly as possible the future surplus value their hopes and dreams can be sold for?
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He's starting to sound like Ted Cruz after every school shooting.
It is shocking and deeply upsetting that three young Palestinians were shot here in Burlington, VT. Hate has no place here, or anywhere. I look forward to a full investigation. My thoughts are with them and their families.
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So,
@Airbnb
, why do you list
#MuslimBan
properties in the Occupied Territories?
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If you only have time to read one article on what writers and actors are fighting for -- and against -- read this:
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I did a keynote speech thing in Berlin about truth, screenwriting, trauma, beer, fiction, freedom, asylum, Brett Kavanaugh, and the power of NOT storytelling - Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm via
@lithub
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On this lovely Oscar™️ Sunday, took a break from writing to make a pilgrimage to my favorite childhood movie theater.
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