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Alex Billington@alexb.bsky.social |
498 followers 392 following 667 posts
Cinema lover, dog lover, photographer, wanderer, life-long geek, and a citizen of the world. 🐶🌍 I run the movie website FirstShowing.net + live in Berlin. Hackers, Sneakers, WarGames are what I grew up on. 💾📡
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Jarrod Baker
@jarrodbaker.bsky.social
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imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists
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Preeti Chhibber
@runwithskizzers.bsky.social
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i feel like ppl need to remember that a person's public facing social media is, like, just a small piece of their life?? there is so much happening on the other side of the screen that you will never, ever see.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social
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and here's the street art side of things
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Alex Billington
@alexb.bsky.social
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LET! ⚔️ THEM! 🛡️ FIGHT! 🏛️ The hot actor battle of the decade going down in this. Pedro Pascal vs Paul Mescal!!
Watch the official trailer for Ridley Scott's sequel Gladiator II here: onfs.net/4bCVPlq Will this be any good? Will it live up to the original? I hope so... #Gladiator2 #RidleyScott
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Witney Seibold
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#FlyMeToTheMoon is unexpecredly excellent. It has the magical zip/pop of classic Hollywood, populated by funny, overwhelmingly charming movie stars expertly delivering funny zingers, while amusingly relitigating an American institution. I loved it.
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Alex Billington
@alexb.bsky.social
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Harrowing af. This is NOT good... At all. And we need to be more combative in response - all of this A.I. is useless and we need to keep emphasizing this point and refuting all the "but it's a tool we can use" bullshit every single day until this bubble finally bursts.
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Christopher R. Rice
@ravenpenny.bsky.social
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You know it would happen.
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Sergio 📷🔭🌲
@sergiospototo.bsky.social
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Finally had a few days with clear skies, so while i'm getting on it again, leave this photo i made of Altaír, the brightest star of Aquila, the eagle constellation. A very young star, "only" 16yl far from us. Wish you an stellar weekend ahead!!✨📸🔭
#astrophotography #photography #nature
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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Consider this your reminder to watch Scavengers Reign on Netflix and juice the fuck outta its numbers and convince whoever needs convincing that there’s a place for amazing, adult-audience animation in the world. Thank u.
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Alex Billington
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Went to see the kitty movie today - A Quiet Place: Day One. Very good film. It's pretty thrilling that Michael Sarnoski took this A Quiet Place concept and wrote this clever screenplay for it that is minimalistic in many ways yet still big on action & big on heart. More good movies like this please.
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evacide
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What you need to understand about the World Wide Web in 1994, is that it was incredibly ugly: www.fastcompany.com/91140068/how...
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Marie Phillips
@mariephillips.bsky.social
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Nico has voted #dogsatpollingstations
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Alex Billington
@alexb.bsky.social
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Scared the hell out of me. Still afraid to ever rewatch it. Those freakin' Wheelers... 🫣😱
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Alisha Grauso
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
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Return to Oz - a movie that had a subplot about Dorothy being committed to a psych ward and given electroshock therapy because everyone thought she was delusional - was a thing that all of us just watched. As kids!
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Alex Billington
@alexb.bsky.social
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But enjoying sushi and travel with your favorite person is entirely worthwhile and joyful. 😊
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Tasha Robinson
@tasharobinson.bsky.social
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I can barely begin to tell you how excited I am that STRANGE DARLING, one of my favorite experiences at 2023's Fantastic Fest, is finally coming out next month. This one's for anyone who enjoyed BARBARIAN — and it's a classic "Go in blind, you'll be so glad you did" genre experience.
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Paul Tobin
@paultobin.bsky.social
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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.
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Alex Billington
@alexb.bsky.social
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Got a good feeling Twisters is going to be even better than we're expecting. I trust director Lee Isaac Chung. And this footage looks rad. Going to be intense! Which is what I'm hoping for. 🌪️🌪️ Here's another fun #Twisters featurette: onfs.net/4br1prg
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Gaijin Rando
@gaijinrando.bsky.social
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Images from films written or co-written by Robert Towne, including The Last Detail, his best screenplay imo. RIP. The Last Detail (1973) Orca (1977) The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
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Alex Billington
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Yep. Because they just can't deal with the reality that these are not just nice people with a different political opinion. They also don't like to accept that you can't fight fascism simply by voting. It's all too scary for many to realize where we really are right now.
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Alex Billington
@alexb.bsky.social
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Yes. This. All of this. 👏🏻👏🏻
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Anne Billson
@annebillson.bsky.social
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RIP Robert Towne. THE TWO JAKES: no masterpiece like CHINATOWN & Nicholson's directing is fine but not on Polanski level. But the main problem: its sensibility was 1970s New Hollywood, not 1990. You should watch it at least once, if only for scorchio Madeleine Stowe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUyM...
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Dog in random Situations
@dogsituations.bsky.social
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David Bowman
@dlbowman76.com
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“Cinema” (fountain pen on paper)
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Kandy
@kandyelmo.com
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bringing this here because i've had it
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John Gholson
@gholson.bsky.social
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Michael Sarnoski made a truffle movie and a pizza movie and I think we're all waiting to see what food comes next.
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Spooky Sara
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Anthea Butler
@antheabutler.bsky.social
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African Americans will tell you that this country has never been fully a democracy, and white people are about to find out how the little democracy left is about to go up in a puff of smoke should Trump get back in the White House.
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Paulie in the act of existing
@yopauliefl.bsky.social
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The German kids that have their faces painted in the colors of the German flag One face painted yellow One face painted red One face painted Oh NO NOOOOOOOOO
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Sommerjam
@sommerjam.bsky.social
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Who is going to leak that Wile E. Coyote film?! C'mon!
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R.Case
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I keeping seeing stuff about A I and it’s effect on power, the environment and copyright. I think there needs to be a study of its effects on the human brain because the mental atrophy being displayed by A I bros is nothing less than astounding and is accelerating
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drow zelensky
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My two most radical leftist beliefs are actually both about personal autonomy: "open all borders" and "give people tons of government funds."
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Alex Billington
@alexb.bsky.social
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Second day of #KVIFF 2024 views. 📸 Pupp Hotel and the Čas Cinema. 🇨🇿 Watched the new Ti West film tonight and also a series of B&W shorts from director Juho Kuosmanen earlier.
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Alex Billington
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Fair point! And yes there is so much more everyone can and should be doing.
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Alex Billington
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Which will absolutely guarantee that the worst of the two of them will win... Which is not... what you (or I) want either. 👎
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Rufus Hickok
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It's very hard to make art in a society where it is deeply ingrained that the serious work of your life is making money for other people and taking care of your loved ones, and art is a slightly self-indulgent hobby for yourself.
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Alex Billington
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Not trying to sound snarky, just an honest thought: isn't admitting this truth, talking openly about it, and actually discussing this still contributing to trying to make a difference? It still seems taboo, IMO, especially with many "regular" folks. Yes, you're right, "we know" indeed, but still...
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Listen I'm Scary OK
@katiemcvay.bsky.social
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I don’t want to hear opinions on how bad the world is from most people (we know). I want to hear what you’re doing in response to that truth.
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Alex Billington
@alexb.bsky.social
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First day vibes at the 2024 Karlovy Vary Film Festival in Czechia. 🇨🇿 Kicking off today showing tons of indie cinema favorites over the next few weeks. It's always a huge party here.
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Steve Kopian
@unseenfilms.bsky.social
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Now that Biden is dead to me- the only logical choice (I'd vote Dalek by they are in the UK)
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Microplastics Sommelier
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
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Alex Billington
@alexb.bsky.social
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I don't know why there are these super cool shark sculptures in a park at a castle in Prague... but I kinda love it. Look at these little sharky rascals. 🦈🦈
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Katie Mack
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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Frank Conniff
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Difference between Fury Road and Furiosa? The greatest action sequence of all time in Fury Road comes near the end of the movie. The greatest action sequence of all time in Furiosa comes in the middle. Start to finish, both films are fucking masterpieces.
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Dr Artyom Trakhanov
@vor-bokor.bsky.social
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Favorite line in Furiosa
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Alex Billington
@alexb.bsky.social
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This looks like it could be really good. Yes it's a bit of a gimmick, similar to watching a play set in one room, but I hope Robert Zemeckis pushes this to its limits. View the official trailer for Zemeckis' Here starring Tom Hanks & Robin Wright - all set in one living room: onfs.net/3VWPXiy
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Alex Billington
@alexb.bsky.social
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Very curious to hear what you think of it...
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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In the time it takes you to read this, Stephen Soderbergh will have written and directed a subtly anticapitalist feature-length genre film starring a professional wrestler
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Derf Backderf
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Alisha Grauso
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
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11 steps seems like a lot, but it's not. I just did this and it took me two minutes.
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