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Aaron Hillis

@aaronhillis.bsky.social
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Subscribe FREE to thesecretscreening.com - My life is a film festival. Cucalorus curator & board secretary. Indie film consultant (Acquisitions, Development, Festivals & Marketing). #playtimewithHillis #LGM

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 7h
You ever think about how we have AI and cryptocurrency when we could have just had more Fletch movies with Jon Hamm?
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 7h
What is pediatric OxyContin?
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 8h
Strands #954 “Well, this is awkward” - 🫣😳 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 8h
Pips #422 Hard 🔴 - for old times 1:45
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 8h
Wordle 1,942 5/6 -- opened it up exactly as suggested ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 8h
Connections Puzzle #1220 -- Alfred E. Neuman smile over here 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟪🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 8h
What are vowels?
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Who is Chim Chim?
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Strands #953 “In a manner of speaking” - me talk pretty one day 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Wordle 1,941 3/6 - a little louder, please ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1219 -- alkylamide, schmalkylamide 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Secret Screening (October 9) is live: brave young globetrotters fight fascism, garage-pop bursts through darkness, putting the trans in transgressive, plus 2 questions for Annie Sprinkle (@anniesprinkle.bsky.social). Refugees welcome: thesecretscreening.com/welcome-to-earth-now-get-out
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Welcome to Earth, Now Get Out
More sprawling and every bit as gripping as its Oscar-shortlisted predecessor, Julia Loktev's six-hour epic My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile tracks a dozen dissident Russian journalists, mostly...
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Strands #948 “Color for the cure” - keep thinking of the sad Eels rocker 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wordle 1,936 4/6 - we certainly didn't ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1214 - reversed dat rainbow 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨
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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Miles Davis intensifies
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Secret Screening (October 2) is live: slicing your third eye open, hubris as breathtaking as vistas, who inspired Brian Eno to rethink Korean music, plus two questions for Alex Karpovsky at the New/Next Film Festival. Rip the tides! thesecretscreening.com/cursed-objects-we-cherish/
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Cursed Objects We Cherish
Circulating for decades as an undecipherably murky bootleg of outsized reputation, E. Elias Merhige’s experimental 1989 landmark Begotten has no dialogue or recognizable psychologies (credited charact...
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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's so good! 🎩 tip to @aaronhillis.bsky.social for the introduction.
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What is a punchin' playboy?
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What is "Buttit'sa Dryheat"?
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What is Schindler's Limo?
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Strands #941 “An instrumental destination” - oh goody 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wordle 1,929 6/6 -- we're paddling together, brother ⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1207 - your septum is in your octopussy 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Eric Freeman @freemaneric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I probably won’t see Digger but it would’ve been an A+ Letterman topic. “Hey Paul, uh, you seen Digger?” etc.
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Who is Rollie Fingers?
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nice, I'm now 15% more inclined to actually see this. Totally agreed on this century's satirical highwater marks.
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Strands #940 “Have a heart” - Great, I'll have two <3 <3 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wordle 1,928 4/6 - held my breath for it ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1206 - we are the alpha and omega 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Strands #939 “A form of art” - thinking about my favorite dad Ugolino 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wordle 1,927 4/6 - mine's only slightly truncated from yours har ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1205 -- first one works... for a bloody mary! 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whoops, I'm a day off.
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wordle 1,925 4/6 - nicely done, with or without melancholy ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟨🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1203 - this don't mean a hill of cucumbers 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Secret Screening (September 25) is live: a dream film job that’s anything but, rocking out with mis-shapes, Leeds dance-punk, plus my #NYFF 64 (@filmlinc.bsky.social) highlights. Do you remember the first time? thesecretscreening.com/i-wanna-gig-like-common-people
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I Wanna Gig Like Common People
People-watching in New York, poking around gorgeous apartments... location scouting must be a dream job, no? First-time filmmaker Paula González-Nasser spent six years knocking on strangers' doors and...
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Strands #934 “Practically paleolithic” - old as hell, like me 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wordle 1,922 5/6 - I went there, slowly and unsteadily ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1200 - rub-a-dub-dumb 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Acting the Fulemin @actingthefulemin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
there are 70 million people for whom this is the biggest song in the world. they watch comedies called like "Wives of Jim" that have run for nine seasons. they're usually pretty affable in person. in 2024 they severed the fate of humanity because of egg prices
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Strands #933 “Day and night shift” - hated this one 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wordle 1,921 4/6 - not as good as oldbo 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1199 - the yellow one was obnoxious 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Strands #932 “It's back!” - that took forever to not use a hint, whoops 🫣 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wordle 1,920 5/6 - I had one in the '90s 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1198 - yet Moz would mean Morrissey 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Zaki Hasan @zakiscorner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Whenever Gerrit Graham showed up in anything, you knew you were in for a good time. RIP legend and thank you for all the memories.
Gerrit Graham in PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE. Gerrit Graham in CHILD’S PLAY 2.Gerrit Graham in CHOPPING MALL. Gerrit Graham in USED CARS.
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Aaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Strands #929 “Shake on it” - [spits in his hand] 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵
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