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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.

Older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers. “But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too,” Kyle Chayka writes.

Israel's Oscar entry, against their will, is the Palestinian film THE SEA: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/m...

Busan: ‘It Was Just An Accident’ Director Jafar Panahi Calls On Oscars To Separate Film Submissions From Government Control Panahi's Cannes Palme d'Or winning It Was Just An Accident, screening in Busan's Gala Presentations, has just been selected as France's Oscars entry.

À luz da polêmica Manas x O Agente Secreto, taí uma ideia que mais cineastas deveriam defender: a necessidade de se desvencilhar das arbitrariedades das escolhas impostas por seus países.
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O Agente Secreto candidato ao Oscar. Gostaria de ver a campanha de Sean Penn e Julia Roberts por Manas eventualmente render frutos. Já pensaram? Dois BR na disputa? O do Kleber, claro, e o de Marianna pela própria Academia? Isso se não der só o Agente, filme e filme internacional

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Análise: As lições de Gramado 2025 - Cinema Sétima Arte A 53ª edição do festival gaúcho revela os acertos, as fragilidades e o papel do maior festival do Brasil, ao mesmo tempo em que evidencia o vigor de um cinema brasileiro em expansão e em diálogo com s...

Escrevi sobre os erros, acertos, os filmes da competição do #FestivalDeGramado e as lições que ficaram da sua edição de 2025 para o @cinema7arte.bsky.social:
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ON THE ROAD - The breathtaking (and heartbreaking) Mexican film about the unlikely bond of a truck driver and a drifter on the run is one of the great films of the year and my bet for the @QueerLion tonight at #Venezia82

Spinal Tap II, Julia Roberts and Paul Thomas Anderson: the best films of autumn 2025 An original Alan Bennett screenplay, a classy star turn for George Clooney and a Bruce Springsteen biopic are all on their way to the big screen

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Primal Fear: writer-director Neil Marshall on the twentieth anniversary of his claustrophobic caving horror, The Descent • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine As The Descent turns twenty, writer-director Neil Marshall talks to Isaac Feldberg about his subterranean creature feature—one of the scariest movies ever made—and why the original ending is superior ...

The Descent: quite possibly the greatest horror film of the 21st century turns 20: letterboxd.com/journal/neil...

Trump hits Brazil with 50% tariff, in part due to trial of ally Jair Bolsonaro "The way Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro ... is an international disgrace," Trump wrote.

Trump wants to impose a tax on you so that his buddy can avoid consequences for a coup attempt.

From the headlines

American Psycho by Mary Harron | Sketches | Aesthetics Once seen as a grotesque satire of greed and masculine performance, American Psycho now reveals how easily critique can slip into aspiration.

"Twenty-five years on, American Psycho reveals how the narcissism of the 1980s metastasised into today’s algorithmic identity crises."

@wellvisky.bsky.social dives deep on how Mary Harron's 2000 classic predicted today's era of pristine hyper-masculinity.

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A Father-Daughter Swearing Lesson in “The F-Word” In Alex Cannon’s comedic short, starring Chris Gethard, a dad struggles to give an age-appropriate explanation of the expletive.

In a comedic short, a father struggles to give an age-appropriate explanation of the f-word. Watch here.

The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies Buzzy films from “Anora” to “The Substance” are undone by a relentless signposting of meaning and intent.

Very interesting piece exploring how contemporary cinema has become increasingly overprocessed and tailored for immediate consumption:
"...That sense of unmistakable catastrophe may be why we keep returning to predigested cultural comfort food."

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Cannes Competition Review: Week Two Janar Panahi's Un Simple Accident Palme characterises a Cannes line-up that will be better known for its political potential than its aesthetic content.

What remains from Cannes 2025? My final rundown for @journeyintocinema.bsky.social
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Oliver Laxe still topping @cinema7arte.bsky.social jury grid with his incendiary SIRAT. Followed by a tie between KMF's THE SECRET AGENT and Panahi A SIMPLE ACCIDENT #Cannes2025

The Sound of Falling #Cannes2025

Jury Grid for @cinema7arte.bsky.social #Cannes2025

All the films for the Queer Palm at #Cannes2025

The Politics of Cannes Rejections | Long Take | Opinion Cannes is supposed to be a festival that supports autuer cinema. So why does the festival often give its most long-standing guests the cold shoulder?

What do Cannes selections, whispered gossip, and a dash of chaos have in common? I tried to piece it all together for Journey Into Cinema and had way too much fun doing it: journeyintocinema.com/cannes-rejec... #Cannes2025

Let's just remake the bad ones plz ;)

Obvs Binoche’s vote weighs the same as the other juries, but if we’re playing this game, I'd say she wouldn't shy away from bold choices. Remember when she gave the bear to testosterone-fuelled SYNONYMS the year Berlinale had record female participation and female stories in competition? #Cannes2025

Bull Is Afraid

Cannes, o novo Festival de Veneza dos Oscars (?), e o curioso caso do alemão “The Doctor Says I'm Alright..." ops, digo, "The Sound of Falling” o segundo filme de Mascha Schilinski na Competição de #Cannes2025: www.cinema7arte.com/cannes-2025-...

78TH CANNES FILM FESTIVAL COMPETITION
 “Alpha” (Julia Ducournau) “Dossier 137” (Dominik Moll) “Eagles of the Republic” (Tarik Saleh) “Eddington” (Ari Aster) “Fuori” (Mario Martone) “The History of Sound” (Oliver Hermanus) “La Petite Dernière” (Hafsia Herzi) “The Mastermind” (Kelly Reichardt) “Nouvelle Vague” (Richard Linklater) “The Phoenician Scheme” (Wes Anderson) “Renoir” (Chie Hayakawa) “Romería” (Carla Simón) “The Secret Agent” (Kleber Mendonça Filho) “Sentimental Value” (Joachim Trier) “A Simple Accident” (Jafar Panahi) “Sirat” (Óliver Laxe) “Sound of Falling” (Mascha Schilinski) “Two Prosecutors” (Sergei Loznitsa) “Young Mothers” (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)

The 19 titles just announced in this year's Cannes Film Festival competition:

Here we go #Cannes2025

Ari Aster's #Eddington starring Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Austin Butler will have its world premiere in Cannes.

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Hamdan Ballal, co-realizador de 'No Other Land', é libertado após ser espancado e detido pelo Estado israelita - Cinema Sétima Arte Durante a detenção, Hamdan Ballal foi espancado por soldados iraelitas. Após ser libertado, foi tratado em Hebron e já está em casa, com a família em Susya

Durante a detenção, Hamdan Ballal foi espancado por soldados iraelitas. Após ser libertado, foi tratado em Hebron e já está em casa, com a família em Susya

The Current Debate: Oscars 2025, an Indie Triumph? Independent films emerged as the big winners at the Academy Awards, but will their success usher in a new era of bold, ambitious works?

“the effort to reach wide audiences with niche movies is akin to exhorting readers to buy printed newspapers and magazines; it’s an appeal to nostalgia” mubi.com/en/notebook/...

De como quase não vi “Ainda Estou Aqui” A pergunta que mais ouvi nos últimos quatro meses foi “Filipe, quando você vai assistir Ainda Estou Aqui (2024)?” Não, me incomodo com a pergunta, entendo que quem me lê queira a minha opinião sobr…

Minha crônica do mês para À Pala de Walsh: