@CLF_Project

Adversarial criticism visible to the naked eye from outer space.

 Cayman Islands
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Joined August 2011
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Chairman Mao & Frank Zappa playing ping pong (Cayman Islands - Summer of 1971)
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The only realist director America has ever had.
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Cate Blanchett has voiced her support for the reopening of the Metropolis Cinema in Beirut, Lebanon, on Saturday. hollywoodreporter.com/movies…

Cate Blanchett Lauds Metropolis Cinema Reopening in Beirut: “This Is a Remarkable Achievement”

The movie complex in Mar Mikhael district, which opened its doors Saturday to support Lebanese and Middle Eastern cinema, replaces one devastated by the city’s 2020 port blast.

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"[Jocelyne] Saab’s films serve as timely reminders that neocolonial aggression has never been a defensive maneuver... Saab lived through the wars she documented, and her lyrical missives are marked both by fearlessness and vulnerability." | @CLF_Project: mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/l…

Life During Wartime: On the Films of Jocelyne Saab

The late filmmaker’s lyrical missives from her own besieged Lebanon and elsewhere are marked by both fearlessness and vulnerability.

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"'At the time,' Woodberry recalls, 'we felt that the image of the Black working-class leftists tended to project was very different from the reality we knew.'" Billy Woodberry in conversation with Giovanni Vimercati. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…

A Thunderous Quiet: The Life and Films of Billy Woodberry | Los Angeles Review of Books

Giovanni Vimercati profiles the L.A. Rebellion filmmaker on the occasion of his latest film, the documentary “Mário.”

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35 anni di Fuori Orario, passione indocile della notte Da stasera su Rai3 per l’anniversario della trasmissione. Imperdibile «La nott' e 'l giorno» di Gianni Castagnoli, compagno di Patrizia Vicinelli, dichiarato un capolavoro e poi scomparso ilmanifesto.it/35-anni-di-fu…

35 anni di Fuori Orario, passione indocile della notte | il manifesto

Da stasera una programmazione speciale su Rai3 in occasione dell’anniversario della trasmissione. Imperdibile «La nott' e 'l giorno» di Gianni Castagnoli, compagno di Patrizia Vicinelli, al tempo...

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A young Egyptian girl's room, Cairo, Egypt, 1970 🇪🇬
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A 70-year-long story between disruptive milestones such as the Miura and the Stratos: dive into an Italian car design myth sinking its roots in early 20th century Turin. domusweb.it/en/design/galler…

Bertone’s car design in 10 legendary models

A 70-year-long story between disruptive milestones such as the Miura and the Stratos: dive into an Italian car design myth sinking its roots in early 20th century Turin.

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Celluloid Liberation Front (@CLF_Project) write on Heiny Srour’s newly-restored 1984 film LEILA AND THE WOLVES, "a film of monumental resolve and ambition, determined to address the contradictions within the anti-colonial struggle." mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/r…

Resistance on Multiple Planes: On “Leila and the Wolves”

Heiny Srour’s multi-temporal, anti-narrative historical epic tells the stories of Arab women resisting both colonialism and male chauvinism.

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"Flamboyant and anti-clerical, modernistic and anti-colonial, folkloristic and experimental, his films resist categorization and bear testament to the possibilities of the medium..." @CLF_Project consider the films and career of Med Hondo. mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/m…

Med Hondo: Alter-Modernist

A consideration of the films and career of Med Hondo, in light of the recent resurgence of his work.

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Very sad in more ways than one. At a time when the distinction between criticism and publicity got increasingly blurrier, CS and MP kept on practicing the noble art of taking sides.
Cinema Scope@CinemaScopeMag24 Jan 2024
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The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived by Heiny Srour, screening at Mizna Film Series. 2/28 at 7pm @TrylonCinema TICKETS : bit.ly/miznafilmseries The film archives a forgotten moment in history, when a feminist, guerrilla movement in Dhofar rose up against the Sultanate of Oman.
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Marco Ferreri's L'UDIENZA (1972), the story of a man's (un)successful attempt to meet the @Pontifex, is loosely based on Kafka's THE CASTLE.
😶‍🌫️patrick preziosi😶‍🌫️@PatrickPreziosi18 Jan 2024
Kafka’s The Castle is the greatest book ever
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On Solid Groundless: our tribute to the late Otar Iosseliani mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/t…

The Unorthodox Poetry of Indolence: Remembering Otar Iosseliani

The Georgian director and his liberating, humanist films questioned the status quo, imagining a fantastic world devoid of many divisions.

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Happy 100th birthday to the one and only Sergei Parajanov (1924 - eternity)
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Your hospitable and stateless cinema, your destitute aristocracy have metaphysically ennobled this world. It will be a lonelier place without you, Otar Iosselliani (1934-2023).
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We thank everyone for their continued support and look forward to seeing more of you on board. Please subscribe to the print edition at cinema-scope.com/subscriptio…!! With 20 new subscribers, we will release the Cinema Scope Top 10 of 2022 online next week...
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Iconic Napalm Rights Advocate Dead At 100 bit.ly/3uwPyYI
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