Ian Sullivan 🎞️

I watched so many films that I really should make two posts for January #Filmsky

idc if you saw it want your sex at Sundance it should have happened to me instead

listening to Blonde On Blonde in an Edie Sedgwick-honoring fashion

a Sakamoto alltimer back in print - possibly a top 3 Sakamoto for us - all oddball, light but emotionally crushing pop interiors made with hi-gloss synths and unexpected edits, from farm animals to percolated drum machines = absolute core curriculum ✨

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Shin G makes me sick to my stomach in a good way kinda like the first film itself

Additionally,

Happy 85th birthday to Sensei Miyazaki! Omedetou!

spent the weekend with the 'On Fire' films and they're all killer

A LOT OF GREAT QUEER POP CULTURE STUFF TO CELEBRATE EVEN THOUGH THIS YEAR WAS HELL

Democrats Keep Misreading the Working Class Many in the party see workers as drifting rightward. But new data show they’re more progressive than ever on economic issues—if Democrats are willing to meet them there.

Working-class Americans have grown more progressive over the past two decades—not just on economic justice but also on immigration and civil rights. Today’s working class stands farther to the left than when it helped elect Barack Obama in 2008.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Black Film Pioneer Oscar Micheaux Gets Definitive Collection The surviving films of early Black American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux get a 5-disc deluxe release from Kino Lorber.

The surviving films of early Black American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux get a 5-disc deluxe release from Kino Lorber.

Homeland Security tweets: It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

Librarian for the people Under the leadership of Carla D. Hayden, AM’77, PhD’87, a revered institution is connecting Americans with their country through its treasures.

Dr. Carla Hayden is a people's librarian.

Her term goes until 2026 and should remain that way.

Don't comply with unjust laws and practices.

#FreedomtoRead @librarycongress.bsky.social

mag.uchicago.edu/hayden

Queer Club Culture's Blueprint: An Interview With DJ Blackcat Aurora Sol maps the history of dance music as a "movement of movement."

"For queer people of colour especially, carving out space for themselves has been an essential and political act of survival, and a fight that continues to this day without any signs of easing," writes Aurora Sol (@atomicnumber88.bsky.social)

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YouTube video by Mani Animated Soviet Propaganda - American Imperialist S01E04: Ave Maria (1972, EN sub)

Incredible Soviet animated short about the abject cruelty and destructiveness of American imperialism.

#Filmsky

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Becoming Led Zeppelin, Surviving Sly and the Family Stone Two recent documentaries capture the rise of era-defining bands in the late 1960s and early ’70s—but only one gets to revel in a legacy.

𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘦𝘥 𝘡𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯 has the quaint “band versus the world” narrative of an Amazon Prime rockumentary aimed at boomers—only with better archival footage

Per his attorneys, Mahmoud Khalil asked to address the court at his immigration hearing today, where a judge gave the green light to the Trump admin to deport him.

“This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family.”

comedy peaked with Muriel's Wedding!

I had mixed feelings about the White Lotus finale but it was smart to time it to the economic collapse

sometimes the side chick ain’t even a side chick

#OtD 6 Apr 1968 17-year-old Black Panther, Bobby Hutton, was murdered by police in Oakland, California. The first recruit to the Party, he was unarmed, shirtless and had surrendered to police when they shot him at least 10 times. More on the Panthers: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

it's technically a Commodores tune, but" Too Hot ta Trot" has gone quadruple platinum in my house