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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
my New/Next roundup this year found a great new home over at Nothing Bogus nothingbogus.substack.com/p/highlights...
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 28/09/2026
October in Baltimore… when Station North becomes home to some of the best emerging, low-budget, and DIY filmmaking you will see all year. @alexlei.bsky.social is in with your NEW/NEXT PREVIEW, with more to come all week long ↓ www.bruisermag.com/Lei_NNpreview
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NEW/NEXT TAKEOVER [Film Dispatch] - BRUISER
*BRUISER*'s crit & culture editor Alex Lei offers a preview of what's to come at this weekend's New/Next Film Festival
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
wrote about Paula González-Nasser’s debut THE SCOUT, which reminded me more of working in the service gigs than the film industry www.avclub.com/the-scout-gi...
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More than a movie about filmmaking, The Scout is about modern work
Paula González-Nasser's debut The Scout sees the gig economy bind us all, regardless of our specific industry.
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 11/09/2026
Richard Linklater's contradictory film, which includes the most prominent "9/11 truther," still offers a way forward from the worst of times. www.avclub.com/waking-life-...
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Waking Life doused post-9/11 America in cold, invigorating ideas
Waking Life, which includes the most prominent "9/11 truther," still offers a way forward from the worst of times.
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
thank you as always to the great @jacoboller.bsky.social for being such a considerate editor, but double thank you to him in helping shape this piece which involved a lot of me thinking out loud
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
wrote about Waking Life and 9/11 www.avclub.com/waking-life-...
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Waking Life doused post-9/11 America in cold, invigorating ideas
Waking Life, which includes the most prominent "9/11 truther," still offers a way forward from the worst of times.
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 03/09/2026
“It was so obvious as we were writing this that we were writing ourselves.” @alexlei.bsky.social talks with Avalon Fast and Jillian Frank about their messy, beautiful, and heartbreaking portrait of young adulthood, DRINKING AND DRIVING
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 01/09/2026
🚨 𝘼𝙉𝙉𝙊𝙐𝙉𝘾𝙄𝙉𝙂 🚨 4 sʜᴏʀᴛ ꜰɪʟᴍs ʙʏ Cᴀʀᴏʟɪɴᴇ Kᴏᴘᴋᴏ ᴡ/ ᴀ ʟɪᴠᴇ sᴄᴏʀᴇ ʙʏ 🥩𝑺𝒍𝒂𝒃 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒆𝒂𝒕🥩 Tᴜᴇsᴅᴀʏ, Sᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 15 ᴀᴛ Nᴏʀᴍᴀʟ’s 7ᴘᴍ • $10 ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴏᴏʀ ⓝⓞⓣⓐⓕⓛⓞⓕ
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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Packed house for Tetsuo: The Iron Man/Tetsuo II: Body Hammer at Fadensonnen last night! Stay tuned for news on our next Pure Kinema screening @alexlei.bsky.social @bruisermag.com
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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@alexlei.bsky.social and I are screening the first two Tetsuo movies at Fadensonnen and you can pick up these slick mini posters from artists Sam Rivera and @camdelrosario.bsky.social for just $5! Pure Kinema presents: Tetsuo: The Iron Man + Tetsuo: Body Hammer Wednesday, August 26th at 7pm
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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Next month, I’m teaming up with @alexlei.bsky.social of @bruisermag.com for a double feature of Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer upstairs at Fadensonnen in Baltimore. 8/26 at 7pm; $10 suggested donation See you there…
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
talked with Georgia Bernstein about her wonderfully weird, watery debut NIGHT NURSE filmmaker.substack.com/p/take-care-...
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Take Care: Georgia Bernstein on “Night Nurse”
The director talks about her psychosexual first feature.
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
i got interviewed mcrf.neocities.org/hathawaylei
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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
NOW AVAILABLE FROM ANURAN PRESS Physical/digital copies of film zines “Kinema: A Japan Travelogue” and “Drying Out at the Movies” + Kinema stickers, Onomichi photo prints and a Nightmare Alley chirashi poster by @ramonvillalobos.bsky.social anuranpress.bigcartel.com
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
the only Philip K. Dick retrospective you'll read today with multiple paragraphs about Richard Linklater's worst-ever collaborator, Alex Jones
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
wrote about the greatest Philip K. Dick adaptation of all time www.avclub.com/a-scanner-da...
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A Scanner Darkly is the near-future Philip K. Dick film that always feels set in the present
20 years later, the navel-gazing of Richard Linklater's rotoscoped sci-fi take on A Scanner Darkly is as fresh as ever.
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 11/06/2026
“After I made that film, quite a few people said to me, ‘You made me look up at the windows.’” @alexlei.bsky.social talks with @lynnesachs.bsky.social about her investigative approach to filmmaking and latest film, EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
i spoke with Shunji Iwai about his writing process, music taste, digital cinematography, and more www.screenslate.com/articles/mus...
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Music and Film: A Conversation with Shunji Iwai
The perfect expression of Shunji Iwai’s filmmaking comes at the centerpoint of All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001), when a group of teen boys film their trip to Okinawa on a consumer-grade camcorder. It’s...
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
it’s a rare treat to find a filmmaker that immediately becomes one your cinematic heroes. even rarer, do you get to talk them. i had the immense honor of speaking with Želimir Žilnik documentary.org/online-featu...
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Where Is Ours?: Želimir Žilnik on Collaboration, Low-Budget Filmmaking, and Eighty Plus
Želimir Žilnik discusses six decades of work from his early films to Eighty Plus, and their piercing, political critiques of Yugoslavia and modern-day Serbia
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
wrote about the state of our old friend, the reluctant analyst/supersoldier Jack Ryan www.avclub.com/jack-ryan-to...
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Tom Clancy is gone, and Jack Ryan is nothing but advertising
Once synonymous with his geopolitically mature creator, Jack Ryan has gone the way of most conservative media: emptier and more cruel.
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
had a great time chatting with Sho Miyake, who is quickly becoming one of the most quietly exciting filmmakers in Japan filmmakermagazine.com/133749-inter...
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
talked again to the legend Pete Ohs
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 07/05/2026
“…with each of the films there is this giving oneself over to the movie gods, praying at their altar and hopefully receiving their gifts. And consistently receiving them.” @alexlei.bsky.social talks with Pete Ohs about his latest film, ERUPCJA, now playing at The Charles Theater
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 04/05/2026
BRUISER PRESENTS: ‘CITY WIDE FEVER’ a film by Josh Heaps Playing Baltimore Friday, May 15th 8pm at the Mercury Theater
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
talked to Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe about her extraordinary debut, ARO BERRIA, for Filmmaker filmmakermagazine.com/133648-inter...
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
not much, just hangin out
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
good
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
online now: my roundup from the 27th Maryland Film Festival filmmakermagazine.com/133637-maryl...
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
for the 20th anniversary of Aaron Katz’s DANCE PARTY, USA premiering at SXSW, i took a look back at the scrappy legacy that gave the festival and Austin the DIY clout it rests on today www.avclub.com/sxsw-mumblec...
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SXSW has moved on, but mumblecore preserves its legacy
20 years after Dance Party USA premiered, a DIY movement, a film festival, and a city have all taken a turn.
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
wrote about Robert Duvall’s extraordinary physical presence www.avclub.com/robert-duval...
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Robert Duvall's strength was finding the blood in stony men
A rock-solid physical presence, the Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall always let emotion dance behind his eyes.
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
went long on the last Park City Sundance www.bruisermag.com/lei_sundance
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LAST CHANTS FOR SUNDANCE [FILM DISPATCH] - BRUISER
Alex Lei reports on the festival's final Park City edition
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 19/02/2026
“About a mile up the road in a strip mall was where the cinema was happening…” @alexlei.bsky.social reports on Sundance’s final outing to Park City
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
oh i’m sure
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
this is just like Twitter. incredible
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
wrote a few weeks ago about what i think is Robert Duvall’s finest film www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...
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Shut Up and Drive
The Outfit (1973) is an audacious and violent crime film by John Flynn from Richard Stark's novel. || Alex Lei
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 06/02/2026
“I believe in resuscitation” might as well be a manifesto for the troupe itself. @alexlei.bsky.social reports on CIMINO’S DEFEAT, the latest production from the vital Brooklyn-based theater company Adult Film
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
as the Sundance dust starts to settle, The Lake has emerged as one of my favorites—for Doc Mag, i talked to Abby Ellis about her thrilling, apocalyptic and skeptically optimistic film about the efforts to save the Great Salt Lake documentary.org/online-featu...
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Environmental Horror: Abby Ellis Talks About Luring Audiences into Watching ‘The Lake’
Abby Ellis talks about ringing the alarm on the “environmental nuclear bomb” in Utah with her Sundance doc The Lake
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
went long on Magellan, and how it stands less as a new leap in his cinema and instead is a part of his longterm project excising the ghosts of Filipino history www.avclub.com/lav-diaz-mag...
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There's never been a better time to get in on the guy who makes the world's longest films
Magellan welcomes a new audience to the challenging, slow-burn work of Lav Diaz with a perfectly representative movie.
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
wrote about how James Cameron used the tropes & imagery Western in the Avatar films and how his adaptation of the genre reduces it of its complexity www.avclub.com/james-camero...
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James Cameron tried to bring the Western into the future, but only went backwards
Avatar: Fire And Ash shows how clearly James Cameron has regressed towards the worst tropes of the Western.
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 19/12/2025
“Ahead of its latest installment playing at New/Next, I kept asking around about what the hell Reveries actually was. ‘It’s hard to describe.’ ‘You just have to see it.’ ‘It’s, like, two guys riffing. But trippy.’” @alexlei.bsky.social interviews the trio behind the REVERIES series
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
had a great chat with Elena Oxman on her stunning debut OUTERLANDS, which effortlessly bounces between a first-person realism and a surprising poetic inflection filmmakermagazine.com/132649-inter...
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“Withholding Information Makes You More Engaged”: Elena Oxman on “Outerlands”
After a run-in with a new coworker at the laundromat, Cass (Asia Kate Dillon) has a drunken hookup with Kalli (Louisa Krause). Kalli seems to take an immediate trusting to Cass, and after Cass tells…
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
they blew up the pigeon population in Mumbai last night
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
i’ll circle back on this around 2am
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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
let me hit the casino and get back to you
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