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It’s #FemaleFilmmakerFriday! As I did last year, I’m beginning my new #DirectedByWomen thread with an Indie Spirit contender. And, since it’s Christmastide, I'm bearing witness to the religious musical bio-pic THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025) by Mona Fastvold. #52FilmsByWomen #1 #Filmsky 📽️

Meta strongly appears to be an enemy of democracy in the US. Proceed accordingly. If you're a politician, activist, or organization on the left, you HAVE to build your presence off of Meta and X - which basically means here and Mastodon. Bring your audience over as much as possible. It's critical.

I'll say this: Still not convinced by the direction but the woodwinds are 🔥🔥🔥

Still a bit jetlagged and made it to MANON at SF Opera with just a minute to spare. Not yet convinced of all the performances but the reflective set is inspired. The costumes, which I can only describe as deranged period dress, put me in mind of THE BRIDE! (complimentary).

I think you all know who I'm hoping the mystery actor is #iykyk

We have to think about collapsing Trump poll numbers and Rs turning on him the same way we'd think about finally being able to corner a rabid raccoon in your garage. Good news: he's out of options. Bad news: he's a rabid raccoon.

F*cking men

[1977] Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene 4. The surviving clip of Legs & Co's sleek dance to the futuristic French classic.

Noticing the same hate campaign for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia movie that we saw for Supergirl. Always when it’s a female director and/or female led action movie. Amazing how that works!

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

Today in French country living: tramping through field and forest gathering mushrooms

Explosive. I miss teaching La Haine. Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with a visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Topical at this moment. youtu.be/FKwcXt3JIaU?...

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

I have now entered the final phase of my French recharge trip: the Burgundy country house. Long lunches, long walks, my cousin's pâté de pommes de terre and her husband's bœuf bourguignon, reading by the fire, and most importantly, games.

It's true. When I think of the French countryside, I think of the Addams Family. How can you not?

French recharge trip so far: 7 Mariage Frères tea refills 6 new paperbacks 5 different regions 4 cousins 3 train trips 2 national parks 1 bouillabaisse

Current status: Thinking about how my life would change if I could travel between SF and LA in two and a half hours by train as one can do between Bordeaux and Paris (also 6+ hours by car).

Imagine if you will, wandering the Gascon countryside and stumbling upon a dwelling that is part abandoned fairytale cottage and part hippie commune and you have an idea of where I've been the past few days.

Posting from 10000 feet (in my second national park of the trip) with my cousin who is braver than me.

I must say, first impressions of Toulouse are pretty good

The gamer in me is very excited #iykyk

Adieu to Provence and the mistral and on to Carcassonne and the Pyrénées!

A flamboyance of flamingos in La Camargue

La maison close, Arles

I'll be sad if I'm still in France when it happens. But not that sad.

Le Mistral don't play

On y danse...

Current status: Living a Provençal cliché

I haven't even been in France three days and I've already eaten more than ten kinds of cheese.

"Macron. He, at least, had a French teacher."

Check out our latest Birthday Loot, where our host @thiefcgt.bsky.social talks about five films he received as "gifts" for his birthday. Celebrate with us! #FilmTwitter The Movie Loot - The Birthday Loot 2026 www.buzzsprout.com/850063/episo...

This reminds me that I really need to rewatch DAS BOOT

it’s october 3rd 💗

PRAISE BE TO THE CINEMA GODS!! 2026 IS REDEEMED! 🙏

Thank god. I work almost exclusively on my old laptop because I hate my newer one with Windows 11 and Office 2021 so much.

"This is your brain on drugs." Because people were hungry for that fried egg.

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS from the first row Grand Tier.

When you get a royal blue nano as a last line of defense, you name her Nut, mother of Isis and goddess protector of the living and the dead.

“In addition, giraffes are now tall horses. Because that’s what they are. They’re just tall horses. Everybody knows it, they just don’t say it. I’m not afraid to say these things. And those so-called capybaras will be known as ultimate guinea pigs.”