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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is really embarrassing from Schrader. What do you mean you can't stop AI? You absolutely can shelf your garbage project instead of making it??

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Reminder, specially to those who see Iran's regime as an anti-Imperialist force for good, that this government is monstrous scum and our people will never be free while the Islamic Republic is in power. They are using the distraction of war to cover up rampant executions and human rights violations.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Translation: "From this point forward, if you defend your territorial waters against a foreign aggressor, we will commit war crimes against your civilians."

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Truly one of the most beautiful looking films I've ever seen.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In case you're wondering how things are going...

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/04/2026

or unless you’re Spike Lee making Malcolm X

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I don't think I've ever read a sentence as unappealing as "Jim Caviezel is Jair Bolsonaro."

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

1. The Master 2. One Battle After Another 3. Phantom Thread 4. Boogie Nights 5. There Will Be Blood

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This is the first time since Silence of the Lambs in 1991 that my favourite film of the year wins best picture at the Oscars. My heart is full.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Beautiful to see Homayoun Ershadi's face included in the In Memoriam.

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 05/03/2026

Carney *explicitly campaigned* on increased funding for the CBC. Just a straight up lie.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Good time to post my top 10 of the year on here, which includes Cutting Through Rocks, the amazing Iranian film about a rural woman running in elections against all odds. And now the film is nominated for Best Documentary at the Oscars! My heart is so full. boxd.it/RTNiQ

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2025 Favourite Films

Not for the first time in recent years, 2025 ended up being one of those years that seem quite lean until about October or so, and then flood us with a flurry of great films. What felt like an underwh...

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

If you're wondering how the situation in Iran is going, the Islamic regime has massacred more than 12,000 people in the past couple of days under a total communications blackout, and is sending invoices in the thousands of dollars to their families for the cost of the bullets used to kill them.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

My ranked list of every single best picture winner, with Cavalcade and The Greatest Show on Earth firmly at the very bottom: letterboxd.com/amiresque/li...

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Ranked List of Best Picture Winners

Updated as of March 2025.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Rest in peace, Homayoun Ershadi. Thank you for everything, but most specially for Taste of Cherry.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

It's the hope that kills you.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I do not have the nerves for a seventh game.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Heading to bed, because I can't take this anymore. Fairly sure the game will still be on when I wake up.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

All these reports about Trump say his poor health is "raising concerns" when all I see being raised is excitement.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Netanyahu called Iran's response to Israel bombing Iran 'premeditated murder of civilians, women and children' and I really think Netanyahu has proven once and for all that power gives itself the right to define and redefine words as to render them meaningless

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I have also received first hand reports from my cousins that residential apartments in their neighbourhoods in Tehran have been struck.

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Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Jafar Panahi has won the Golden Lion at Venice (THE CIRCLE), the Golden Bear at Berlin (TAXI), and now the Palme d'Or at Cannes (IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT). He is the fourth director to win top honors at all three festivals, after Clouzot, Antonioni, and Altman.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

True (and cute) story about my mom's furniture, that somehow keeps ending up in films.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

In case you're wondering what level of batshit crazy the propaganda of the bloodthirsty Israeli government has reached: the prime minister of Israel is accusing Yair Golan, the former IDF chief of staff(!!!!), of "antisemitic blood libel".

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"Some online critics" = Zionist genocide apologists

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A good reason to celebrate the Liberals' victory!

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Literally every single demographic who voted for Trump now regrets it. Great job folks! Thanks for throwing the world into chaos.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

At this point I'm certain Trump's brain is just a pile of rotten mush. This literally reads like an Onion piece, but it really is Trump just bragging about costing Canada's Conservative party the election.

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Roxana Parsa @roxanaparsa.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

discourse is so focused on how terror will creep over these arbitrary separations of non-status/citizens, criminals/law-abiding, when really an attack on anyone is an attack on all and needs to be considered as such

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This is my favourite film of 2024. Don't miss it!

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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

What James said -- and it continues to depress me that Poilievre is just the latest in a long line of Conservative politicians who's realized they can say absolutely anything they want into a microphone and never be held accountable for it.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Extremely distressing news about the co-director of No Other Land being beaten and abducted by the Israeli forces.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Who's gonna tell him that he IS the "very vicious outside world"?

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Extremely saddened to hear about Émilie Dequenne's passing at such a young age. Her performance in the Dardennes' Rosetta is an all timer, and one of my personal favourite.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Criterion's May releases are to die for.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 13/02/2025

arguing that the Oscars are bad because they're out of touch with the movies people actually like is so fucking stupid who gives a fuck what people like? the average person is a Grade A moron happy bingeing the worst garbage ever filmed by humans (and, increasingly, generated by AI)

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

What would he be charged with anyway? Human decency?

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Company known for stealing people's data and creative work without permission complains that other companies may be using its model without permission. The jokes write themselves. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Chinese firms ‘distilling’ US AI models to create rival products, warns OpenAI

ChatGPT maker cites IP protection concerns amid reports DeepSeek used its model to create rival chatbot

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Very ironic for the actress from Emilia Perez to say "the light always wins over darkness" when Emilia Perez just won over Anora and Challengers.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Has anyone else been having buffering issues with Mubi? I'm on the verge of cancelling my subscription after years; it's become impossible to watch without getting choppy 144p resolution every minute. I don't have this issue with any other streaming service on the same internet.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Devastating news from Iran: legendary new wave filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui (of THE COW, among many others) has been stabbed to death in his home, along with his wife. He was one of greatest icons of Iranian cinema. I'm speechless.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Genuinely devastated about Sinéad O'Connor. What a sad loss.

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Amir Soltani @amiresque.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

This would deserve a strike in and of itself. It's beyond grotesque and unethical.

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