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illy إلياس ⴻⵍⵢⴻⵙ 🇵🇸

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Youssef Chahine in Caméra Arabe (1987)

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illy إلياس ⴻⵍⵢⴻⵙ 🇵🇸

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1 year

a 30 second google search will bring up films on the subject by Kaneto Shindo, Akira Kurosawa, Yoshishige Yoshida, Shohei Imamura, and Nobuhiko Obayashi, and that's without even delving into nonfiction.

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@MediaversityRev

1 year

People seem to love #Oppenheimer but I'll just say it: I was uncomfy watching yet another movie about tortured white male genius when the victims of the atrocities glossed over by the script—Japanese people, interned Japanese Americans, and Native Americans—had no voice.

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me and the boys when we get the vaccine

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love it when the bros link up

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Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)

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1 year

i know the answer to this but at what point does this sort of thing stem from virtue signaling and at what point is it pure laziness/ignorance?

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Visited the Algiers Cinémathèque

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illy إلياس ⴻⵍⵢⴻⵙ 🇵🇸

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1 year

“Bresson is very good in an iPhone”

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@DiscussingFilm

1 year

David Lynch criticises individuals who watch films on their phones. “I always say: people think they’ve seen a movie, but if they’ve watched it on a phone, they haven’t seen anything. It’s sad.” (via: )

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2 years

2022 Sight and Sound vote tallies for African and Arab filmmakers:

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Dallas and Houston are canceled

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Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung at the Demonlover premiere

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illy إلياس ⴻⵍⵢⴻⵙ 🇵🇸

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3 years

remember when the chief film critic of the ny times basically tweeted "lol i just learned how to spell his name" when talking about objectively the most acclaimed and influential arthouse filmmaker to come up in the 21st century

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11 months

this should be required viewing for everyone, one of the essential films of the 21st century. just for context, this clip is from the first 5-10 mins. every interview is this bad. it's a 4.5 hour documentation of a vile, violent, racist colonial state.

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Michel Khleifi is best known for his fiction films, but I'm staggered by his collaborative film Route 181, a three-part road film through Israel during the Second Intifada

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illy إلياس ⴻⵍⵢⴻⵙ 🇵🇸

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2 years

The films of Safi Faye* *the ones i could track down online Kaddu Beykat (1976) Fad'jal (1979) Selbe: One Among Many (1983) Mossane (1996)

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5 months

Gone to Earth (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1950)

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2 years

In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001)

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2 years

For once they’re putting out a new release that’s actually interesting

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Mirch Masala (Ketan Mehta, 1987)

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Abel Gance went crazy with the polyvision in Napoleon

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1 year

perusing Lee Kang-sheng's instagram

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5 months

Between Heaven and Earth بين السماء والارض (Salah Abu Seif, 1959) a group of strangers stuck in an elevator in the heat of Cairo as a microcosm of society. one of the great Egyptian comedies. story by Naguib Mahfouz. good quality rip with English subs.

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illy إلياس ⴻⵍⵢⴻⵙ 🇵🇸

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6 months

had no idea that Med Hondo's first short Ballade aux Sources (1965) was a gorgeous landscape film/travelogue about his journeys through a newly independent Algeria and other parts of North Africa

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2 years

@Abid_ism To a certain extent this is the same way they talked about Bong Joon-ho and Parasite

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3 years

large file of Palestinian films, including several rediscovered via the good work of Azza El-Hassan (). also the following books: -Palestinian Cinema: Landscapes, Trauma, and Memory -Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution

File folder on MEGA

mega.nz

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1 year

🚨one of my favorite Algerian films is available to watch with english subs🚨

"The Man Who Watched Windows" Merzak Allouache (1982) English...

https://www.facebook.com/ArchivesNumeriquesDuCinemaAlgerien/Directed by Merzak AllouacheWriter: Mohamed Saïd BougermouhEnglish subtitles by Abiba Coulibaly ...

www.youtube.com

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5 years

Omg Mbappé scoring as the Saint-Étienne fans are setting off fireworks is pure cinema

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Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988)

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@irmaggievep

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qrt with THE photo of maggie cheung

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Mati Diop announcing her new production company based in Dakar is the best news I’ll hear all week

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2 years

Can we make it a 2032 goal to get some sort of consensus around Hou Hsiao-hsien, Med Hondo, Glauber Rocha, Mani Kaul

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2 years

one of my fave parts of Crimes of the Future is whenever Cronenberg sticks Viggo in these shadowy corners of the frame

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Love in the Time of Twilight (Tsui Hark, 1995)

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5 months

El Escapulario (Servando Gonzalez, 1968) this fantastic movie is just chilling on tubi:

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7 years

@TheeNerdwriter Also stuff like this:

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3 months

one of the best and most underseen masterpieces of the 21st century is now showing online for free with english subtitles

aflamuna.online / منصة أفلامنا

@AflamunaOnline

3 months

الڤبلة 🎬 طارق تقية يُعرض الآن على أفلامُنا.اونلاين حتى 17 تموز Inland 🎬 Tariq Teguia showing now on till 17 July 🔗

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Meghe Dhaka Tara (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960)

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illy إلياس ⴻⵍⵢⴻⵙ 🇵🇸

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11 months

anyway, you can find the whole film along with a bunch of other Palestinian films here:

Palestinian cinema archive: A cinema that contributes to liberating man and land

docs.google.com

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1 year

yooo these are really good and very very underseen/previously hard to find. check them out while you can!

Criterion Channel

@criterionchannl

1 year

Short Films by Fanta Régina Nacro 📽️ Now playing on the Criterion Channel! The first woman from Burkina Faso to direct a narrative film, Nacro's work addresses complex social issues with a gently subversive, lightly comic touch.

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this whole sequence from Awaara, that's the good shit right there.

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@_sillyilly

11 months

Y’all are the dumbest motherfuckers alive for misinterpreting this tweet

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@atlajala

11 months

as news of a Chantal Akerman boxset start to fill my timeline amidst this ongoing genocide it seems necessary to bring this question of her zionism back up to a film world that i am certain will leave it fully & shamefully unaddressed in their new rounds of praise.

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2 years

The Woman with the Knife (Timité Bassori, 1969)

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Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, 1975)

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dying

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illy إلياس ⴻⵍⵢⴻⵙ 🇵🇸

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3 years

bit of a nice coincidence because it's his birthday, but i put together a little something for folks who might be interested: The Films of Idrissa Ouedraogo and Other Associated Media

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2 years

Ousmane Sembène 🇸🇳 (65 votes): Black Girl (38) Xala (8) Mandabi (7) Ceddo (4) Camp de Thiaroye (3) Emitaï (2) Borom Sarret (1) Guelwaar (1) Moolaadé (1)

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K Austin Collins commentary on Mo' Better Blues

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just realized that i've now watched every film Omar Sharif starred in from 1960. an incredible year for him. all five are good (one an all-timer). lots of variance: screwball comedy, Hitchcockian romance, melodrama, and two literary adaptations (one of which is Anna Karenina).

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Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1986)

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2 years

omfg Souleymane Cissé's Min Ye is online this is not a drill!!!!

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11 months

At some point people gotta be doing this to every Israeli embassy on the planet

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The Israeli embassy in Jordan is on fire...

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Made it to the Vive L’Amour benches

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Daguerrotype (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2016)

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What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001)

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2 years

Bill Simmons losing his shit over prince harry gotta be one of the most random things I’ll hear all week

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for those who want to watch (keep in mind it's a work in progress restoration and doesn't have any sound):

Ballade.aux.sources.1965.WEBRIP.576p.AAC.mkv

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illy إلياس ⴻⵍⵢⴻⵙ 🇵🇸

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Moving (Shinji Sōmai, 1993)

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The Age of the Earth (Glauber Rocha, 1980)

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Geethanjali (Mani Ratnam, 1989)

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Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)

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Mahjong (Edward Yang, 1996)

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Billy Woodberry’s 2012 S&S ballot

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4 years

Memoirs of a Geisha Aladdin Crazy Rich Asians Slumdog Millionaire

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4 years

Four Asian movies you love, four different countries:

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3 years

Favorite movies that I watched in 2021

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Sunstroke ضربة شمس (Mohamed Khan, 1978)

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Hou Hsiao-hsien says that watching Pasolini's Oedipus Rex (brought to him by Edward Yang) was what flipped the switch for him when it came to his appreciation and understanding of film syntax

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Min Ye (Souleymane Cissé, 2009) full film with hardcoded French subtitles and softcoded English subtitles

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storyboard sketches by Shadi Abdel Salam for The Night of Counting the Years

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Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar is a masterpiece and one of the best movies i’ve seen in a long time. a caustic, thorny appeal to pan-Africanism and maybe the best film i’ve seen about Islam and Islamic society. just an incredibly rich film. i found it to be deeply moving.

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Djibril Diop Mambéty 🇸🇳 (67 votes): Touki Bouki (49) Hyenas (12) The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (5) Contras City (1)

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3 years

does criterion actually use the money from selling mainstream stuff to fund the restoration and release of lesser known films or is that just something people like to tell themselves

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@_sillyilly

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tired of watching new movies. here are my favorite films of 2023, according to elyes availability date:

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Días de Otoño (Roberto Gavaldón, 1963)

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Niagara (Henry Hathaway, 1953)

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it's one thing to use it for the purpose of constructing the greatest wides imaginable, quite another to use it as a way to build layer upon layer of montage.

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top 10 of the 80s Do the Right Thing A City of Sadness The Land Before Time Mirch Masala Wedding in Galilee Sarraounia Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting The Thing Reds Love Massacre

graham 🇵🇸

@middlemanchette

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Do the Right Thing A Rustling of Leaves An Autumn’s Tale Rosa La Rose If This Ain’t Heaven The Home and the World Bless Their Little Hearts Losing Ground Personal Problems

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The Lion Has Seven Heads (Glauber Rocha, 1970)

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Cruces Sobre el Yermo (Alberto Mariscal, 1967)

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assortment of posters in Med Hondo's Les Bicots-negres, vos Voisins (1974)

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film program of the year. if this wasn't so spaced out i'd seriously fly up to Boston for it. still might tbh

Med Hondo and the Indocile Image - Harvard Film Archive

Med Hondo (1935-2019) belongs in the pantheon of the Pan African struggle for emancipation. He will forever reside alongside historians Cheikh Anta Diop and Joseph Ki-Zerbo; political leaders Kwame...

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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark, 1983)

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Chronicle of the Years of Fire is one of the great Algerian films and the only African film to win the Palme d'or. is this the US premiere of its restoration? i could be wrong here but i don't think its screened in the United States in over 30 years.

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@ScreenSlate

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There's a huge series of films preserved by Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project at @AnthologyFilm right now, including movies from Iran, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Mexico, Hungary, Turkey, Algeria, India, Egypt, and Kazakhstan

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3 years

a lot of people who bring up the World Cinema Project when going to bat for Scorsese don't really give a shit about international cinema

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@movieboy69

3 years

Reply to this with your HOTTEST MOVIE TAKE 🔥 Make people angry. Lets do it

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4 months

I’m personally ok with shaming anyone engaging in pro zionist discourse but that’s just me

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policing a filmmaker's likes on Twitter is huge HR behavior

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Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)

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Labyrinth of Dreams (Gakuryū Ishii, 1997)

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Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark, 1984)

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2 years

Ending the year with my first De Seta (The Age of Swordfish). So beautiful.

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2 years

The Dupes (Tewfik Saleh, 1972)

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5 months

something to put on your watchlist: the short film Drums (1968) by Said Marzouk, about an actor who is late to a film shoot. features some of the most radical editing i've seen in an Egyptian film. only 25 mins! no subtitles needed.

طبول .. Drums .. للمخرج سعيد مرزوق

التليفزيون العربي يقدمالفيلم القصير: طبولموسيقى : سليمان جميلفكرة وسيناريو وإخراج: سعيد مرزوقبطولة:الراقص مرجانبالاشتراك مع:چورچ سيدهم - سمير غانم - عادل نصي...

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10 months