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BATTLE OF ALGIERS is one of the most damaging films of all time.
> Be Algerian
> Kick out the French
> Kick out the Jews
> Your country is now a dysfunctional shithole
> $6,000 GDP per capita despite immense natural resources
> Millions of Algerians move to France
> Try to burn down Paris as revenge for how much your country sucks
Trouble in NARNIA.
Why Netflix Fired Dan Lin (and the Truth About His Tension With Greta Gerwig Over ‘Narnia’) variety.com/2026/film/news/n… via @variety
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Very considerate of Searchlight to finally promote this movie for the first time
Letterboxd still bans public reviews on this man’s film.
As much as I love being the contrarian, I must report that “You Can See Everything” is indeed an extraordinary bit of filmmaking. Just from a pure craft perspective, it is unquestionably a masterpiece. An effective and emotionally layered psychological thriller in the form of a documentary — and it holds your attention for 3 hours. I don’t think anyone has ever done anything like that with the documentary genre. And I say that as someone who has made two of them. Pretty easily the best movie of the year. It wont be to everyone’s taste but it’s hard to deny that, artistically, it’s a triumph. Other filmmakers in the genre (myself included) need to up their games. Meanwhile, Nathan Fielder — across TV and now film — has never made a bad piece of media. Batting a thousand. Remarkable.
Sundance Alum thinks documentaries were accurate representations of reality before fascist Nathan Fielder destroyed them.
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You can see Amanda Seyfried and Christopher Abbott in The Testament of Ann Lee
If only Godard could see hordes of Algerians with Palestine flags burning down his country, he would be such a proud little Maoist.
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Fjord is a sobering master stroke of a film by Cristian Mungiu about the horrors of a developed secular society run by short haired progressive women. Successfully gives the viewer a migraine for 2 and a half hours, watching government try to extinguish the place of family.
A defining piece of filmmaking for the 2020s.
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Amanda calls this out seconds later. Watching her grapple with her responsibility as a storyteller was fascinating. Watching her interract with the real life cost of her work, & then proceed to portray her again, an example of our compulsion for stories, no matter their cost.
“This is not a straight documentary.”
There’s no such thing.
I loved “You Can See Everything.” But it left a sour taste: why would it be unethical for Holmes and Evans to get paid??
This is not a straight documentary. Fielder is shaping a performance amongst the 3 of them. So the conventional journalistic prohibition on paying sources doesn’t clearly apply. Framing A24’s financial interest as the neutral business of making a movie, while Evans’s as a moral failing feels flawed.
And then the part that gets sour is turning that negotiation into material. Which is quintessential Nathan Fielder, but AGAIN makes any appeal to conventional documentary ethics even less convincing.
It’s to Seyfried’s credit that she was willing to participate and open herself to criticism about her role as a creative interpreter of pseudo-reality.
Author of Bad Blood:
A ton of people have asked me for my thoughts about “You Can See Everything,” the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Here they are: nytimes.com/2026/10/17/busin… via @NYTimes
Deserves every penny
‘You Can See Everything’ Opens to a Staggering $15 Million, Securing A24’s Place as Hollywood’s Hottest Brand indiewire.com/news/box-offic…
Larry David is a comedic genius, but humor like this doesn’t work anymore.
The DSA is so cartoonish that satirizing them is impossible, and anyone who uses X can find more scathing insults against the DSA in any given week.
Don’t let these people into your country.
Anyone crying about the loss of priceless monuments, buildings, art: these monuments were built from stolen wealth and materials from exploited colonies, and maintained by the taxes, labor, and will of the working class. It belongs to the people and will fall for the people
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The Limoges town hall was built in 1883 with funds from a local resident's bequest and municipal resources, not stolen colonial wealth.
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Peter Berg, where are you?
Kaylub Giamanco was driving home from lunch when he heard gunshots and saw a gunman entering the Oregon elementary school his two young daughters attend. The carpenter ran into the school and killed the teenage suspect. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man…
