@flvd.bsky.social
film critic & programmer, currently based in Bucharest. occasional poet and photographer. 🦥🪷 🇵🇸🇺🇦
Yeah Carmen, remember when the festival you work for cracked down on its own invited guests and its staff for saying the very same thing and then you sent some pretty terrible and rude DMs to the people who joined a boycott against said festival? "One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This"
16.09.2025 08:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you!! ❤️ Haven't been tweeting that much recently but it's nice to see that people still remember me
16.09.2025 08:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0>>> Sight & Sound poll
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Really proud to have Sam Goff's guest on the Klassiki podcast to discuss a handful timeless Romanian films that will be available to stream on their website– don't miss them, they're truly the ABCs of pre-1989 Romanian cinema!
You can listen to the episode here: klassiki.online/romania-befo...
In Woody Allen’s ANNIE HALL (1977), Alvy and Annie meet a couple under the marquee of the Thalia theater, which reads: “Ophuls Prize Film: The Sorrow and the Pity.”
A watercolor of the same scene by Babak Ganjei
RIP, Marcel Ophuls (@nytimes.com) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/m...
Here’s THE SORROW AND THE PITY (1969) in Woody Allen’s ANNIE HALL (1977) and a watercolor by @babakganjei.bsky.social
Very sad to learn of the passing of Marcel Ophuls, today, at ninety-seven; his achievement in the art of documentary is historic, both as moral reckoning and political activism: he created nonfiction forms for memory in a time and place of planned forgetting and enforced silence.
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Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw
25.05.2025 22:40 — 👍 15549 🔁 3947 💬 334 📌 163didn't get to post this in the heat of the moment – but here's Todd Haynes speaking about the influence of Douglas Sirk and R.W. Fassbinder at his Carrosse s'Or masterclass, definitely one of the highlights of this year's edition of the Quinzaine / Cannes at large (to me at least):
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I'm dating Wario..........
24.05.2025 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0lmao I can't believe walking out of Sirat saved me from being stuck in the middle of the big blackout haha
24.05.2025 08:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can't wait for that one Romanian critic to write a piece about how the Nadav Lapid is good because it's not an activist film
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Moirée Podcast #2, posted yesterday, features critics Mark Peranson, Flavia Dima, Daniel Kasman, Öykü Sofuoglu, Vadim Rizov, and Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal joining me to discuss SIRÂT, NOUVELLE VAGUE, DIE MY LOVE, MIRRORS NO. 3, and EDDINGTON.
soundcloud.com/moiree/moire...
mfw when someone says Moirée is more highbrow than Cahiers
21.05.2025 14:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Moirée has a podcast now, and we raised the curtain yesterday by inviting critics Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal, Jordan Cronk, Daniel Kasman, Elena Lazic, and Vadim Rizov to discuss Cannes 2025 films Mission: Impossible, Two Prosecutors, Sound of Falling, and Enzo.
soundcloud.com/moiree/moire...
ultra happy to have been on the second episode of the Moirée podcast, where we had lots of fun together with Danny Kasman, Blake Williams, Vadim Rizov, Öykü Sofoglu & Pedro Segura 🖤 discussing New Wave, Mirroirs no. 3, Eddington, Die My Love & more –
m.soundcloud.com/moiree/moire...
too many people are screaming Raoul at the Debussy this year
20.05.2025 13:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You love them so much that you mixed up two of the films and put Parasite in 2020 instead of 2019, when the festival competition was cancelled due to COVID.
13.05.2025 16:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0happy to be returning to Cannes this year as well! 🌴 hope to see as many of you around & catch my ratings over at moir.ee!
08.05.2025 16:14 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Amazing blunt rotation
28.04.2025 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Never thought we'd do this but...
Use discount code ALGORE for 30% off titles from Theodor Adorno
“Pierre Bourdieu receives a letter from Jean-Luc Godard” @icarusfilms.bsky.social (1’33”) www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Dm...
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A million thanks to MATCA, which is steadily becoming one of the best outlets for film criticism in Romania. The piece is originally in Romanian, but you can read it in English by clicking the following link:
matcaliterara-ro.translate.goog/lair-du-temp...
I'm slowly moving out of my critical hiatus – starting w/ an essay abt. how film festival's positions on 🇵🇸 have shifted over the last year + 3 remarkable short films from this year's edition of Visions du Reél: ANOTHER OTHER, HAPPINESS and FAR FROM THE LIGHT OF DAY.
matcaliterara.ro/lair-du-temp...
“What is new in these posthumous films is the amount of access they offer into Godard’s working process, his thinking about films, and his working relationship to his collaborators in the last two decades of his life.” - @feuilladist.bsky.social on Godard's posthumous films
24.04.2025 06:40 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0nothing really prematurely kills a film for me other than the seeing filmmakers calling their own work "haunting" in the synopsis. it's a litmus test: almost invariably, said films are overly pretentious and full of artifice.
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Héroïne d’un documentaire sélectionné à Cannes en mai prochain, Fatima Hassouna, photojournaliste palestinienne, a été tuée aujourd'hui par l'armée israélienne
www.humanite.fr/culture-et-s...
UK SC's definition of 'woman' is a serious affront to decades of labour in queer studies to decouple sex & gender that even WHO recognises. It's a colonial-racial chokehold to safeguard power of TERFs & GCs. Moving forward, all women will have rights curtailed.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...
Got around to seeing the Tiger Award winner of the year, FIUME O MORTE! What a deeply fun and imaginative film – and probably the best performative reenactment doc I've seen in recent years (and is becoming an increasingly visible genre). Has all the playfulness of a Varda film (big words, I know!).
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proud to have published this exhaustive analysis of what's happening in post-new wave Romanian cinema for the prestigious @filmkrant.bsky.social – thank you so much for the invite, Hugo Emmerzael & Joost Klein! 🌟
notes on financing, laws, Jude's astronomic rise & more —
filmkrant.nl/artikel/cine...
The cover of Outskirts Film Magazine Nº3 features an image from Vittorio De Seta’s I DIMENTICATI (1959)
In various fonts, Outskirts offers “a taster of what’s inside”: a dossier on Vittorio De Seta, an interview with Francis Ford Coppola, and articles on the Vietnamese Film Institute, Mexican and Japanese wrestling cinema, Shimizu Hiroshi, and Lucía Seles
It’s been a little over a year and a half since the last issue appeared, and I was beginning to wonder ...
But Outskirts Film Magazine Nº3 is now available for pre-order — outskirtsmag.com
A bit more on what’s inside — www.instagram.com/p/DIYs5nEK5h...
