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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s actually criminal how I don’t read sci-fi considering how much I love it as a film genre. Besides some dystopian YA sci-fi (which I read back when I was a teen when dystopian fiction was all the rage) and Dune (which is more SFF than sci-fi) it’s a huge blindspot I really want to read Solaris

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Criterion Channel being geoblocked is my 9/11 (It works actually with the VPN on and I manage to update the app - they’ve overhauled the service with a new UI and have ditched Vimeo as their streaming backend but someone posted on Reddit about an email they received regarding their payment

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I really loved the new Sense and Sensibility. I never watched Normal People so this was the first time I’ve seen Daisy Edgar-Jones in something and wow, she blew me way. Does feel a bit like Austen by way of Brontë a bit (and then Brontë adaptations often don’t seem interested in the Brontë like

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Lining up North and South to reread at an eventual later date because it’s lingered in my mind after rewatching the series and I need more Margaret and Mr Thornton in my life :) I’m a sucker for Victorian literature, ngl.

Screencap of my kobo books library (the non-side loaded ones)

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Saw a post saying Imran Khan looks nothing like the Pakistani population and is white, apparently Pashtuns are white now 😭😭😭 I said it before but white westerners have such a stereotypical image in their minds of how South Asians look I’m partially Pashtun, guess I’m half white now

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m not as high on Gerwig as a lot of people are and this looks… hmm, but Narnia was a hugely formative part of my childhood, I’ll wonder if we’ll ever get a Silver Chair adaptation. I remember watching the BBC series in school but I’m talking moreso a film feature version. The Disney films from the

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I didn’t know until watching this that the site of the Al-Amiriyah bomb shelter (which the US struck with two bunker buster bombs in the 90s, killing over 400 civilians) was converted into a museum. 12 year old Haidar (the director Abbas Fahdel’s nephew) provides a sort of guided tour, pointing out

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Holy fuck man I totally forgot about this show… whoever is running the animation programming at Criterion knows their shit

EPISODIC SERIES
TERROR RESONANCE
THE CUMPLEIL SERIES
Terror in Resonance
From Shinichiro Watanabe, the visionary creator of Cowboy Bebop, this provocative anime series wraps a potent critique of nationalism and abuse of power in the guise of a tantalizing cat-and-mouse puzzle.
Operating under the name of Sphinx, two teenage boys unleash a wave of terrorist attacks across Tokyo. As demoted detective Kenjiro Shibazaki races to decipher their cryptic online clues, he gradually uncovers the shocking motive behind their campaign of destruction. With its mesmerizingly moody visuals and a gorgeous score by Yoko Kanno, Terror in Resonance emerges as a haunting meditation on trauma, alienation, and the consequences of institutional violence.

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Extremely surprised to see Shinichirō Watanabe’s Terror in Resonance here. Yoko Kanno’s score for this is the greatest thing ever. A fantastic series marred by a not-good ending, from what I remember.

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New Sense and Sensibility getting good reviews which is great because I’ve got tickets to watch it next Friday lol

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015): One of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. A monumental, gruelling and sprawling portrait of Iraq both before and after the US invasion. 5.5 hours long, ditching the conventional editorialising voiceover format, focusing on the everyday lives of Iraqi citizens.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 16/09/2026

TIL some trains in South Korea have library carriages.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it is remarkable that this has happened despite a near-unanimous effort from mainstream politicians and news media to prevent it from happening. there's some hope there

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (Abbas Fahdel, 2015)

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Absolutely vibrating with excitement reading this AAAAH

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Saudi backed forces getting routed in Yemen 25 years on from 9/11 just puts into view again how fucking weird it is that Amreeka is so tight with the GCC.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 11/09/2026

Generations of Muslim children have grown up in the world that the war on terror has created — a world in which endless war has been normalized, torture justified, and with both the state and the media painting a target on the backs on entire Muslim populations across the globe.

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25 Years Later, We Still Live in the World the War on Terror Made

The war on terror was not inevitable, nor was the extraordinary violence carried out in its name necessary.

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Galarian Borowczyk @sohamandcheese.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We have hundreds of thousands of videos of Gazans recording their own deaths. It's the single most LIVE documented genocide in human history. All these professional documentaries at fests are media guilt circle-jerk

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Aya @melangell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

U know, reading this, is it any wonder Western academia loves prescribing an “Islamic Golden Age” in which Muslims were /civilized and worthy of study only safely in the past, followed by centuries of supposed decline that just happen to culminate in Europe becoming the measure of modernity lol lmao

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Jane Austen really cuts to the core of the South Asian experience 🤣 Pakistani aunties be like:

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's so incredibly grating how the Israeli government will do this "it's us against the world and WE LIKE THOSE ODDS" schtick but the suggestion of cutting them off makes them go "oh so you want me to die??? Youd be happy if I killed myself???"

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When the main series title song drops in the middle of the episode externalising the characters’ inner turmoil and anguish >>>

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fallin' into a new instance @o-c.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki, smoking a cigarette and glancing to his right (apparently being interviewed by an offscreen figure), and saying "Action films are for women. They like the bloodthirsty stuff."

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is very “guy who has seen only boss baby/getting a lot of boss baby vibes from this” and with how significant the scope of The Odyssey is on western literature, but I did think while reading The Odyssey (and watching the Nolan film) that the strong emphasis on breaking the laws of guest right

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Planning on watching Primetime in the cinemas (after that incredible trailer + the Pattinson hook), have been checking for a release date regularly and A24 have announced the UK release date today…. and it’s on October 30th, a full month after the US 🫩

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

She opposed the “Zionism is a form of racism” UN motion, was among the many who spread the genocidal lies about Palestinians being mass rapists on Oct 7th and was allied with an organisation that has killed millions of black and brown people worldwide. Sounds about white.

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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

anyways

which Steinem denied. "15. Steinem defended her relationship to the CIA, saying: "In my experience the agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable." 75. Steinem also stated that she considered the CIA allies in
promoting U.S. government policy against communism during the early Cold War.

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One of my all time favourites, Pakeezah, has received a 4K restoration - due to premiere at a film festival in the UK, really hope it’s made more widely available, I love this film so much.

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B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.com · 02/09/2026

Every time I see this poster, this is all I can think of

The Last Temptation of Christ poster but the red thorns are covered with '90s Cherry Coke

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Gone With The Wind is pretty weird because I found it to eventually degenerate into a dull slog despite enjoying the first half (the Lost Cause pro confederacy racism is unfortunately more prominent in that section, though) but also because from my memories of the book I remember tearing through it

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

When the vocals come in on the end of “Hades” with the wailing of all the shades in the background on The Odyssey soundtrack >>>

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you’ve never seen it, I recommend the film Quo Vadis, Aida? which is about the Srebenica massacre, an atrocity orchestrated with direct oversight by Ratko Mladić. The film handles it carefully. Every day I wake up and hope this fate meets that other genocidal Islamophobe, Netanyahu.

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edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The commander of the UN peacekeeping forces, Thom Karremans, holding a glass of rakija, with smiling Ratko Mladić, while his soldiers were carrying out genocide a few miles away. Srebrenica, July 1995.

Photo of meeting in July 1995 -- Left side Mladić, smiling, 2nd from right Thom Karremans, commander of the UN peacekeeping forces, holding a toast drink while Mladić's soldiers were carrying out genocide a few miles away

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

stop fucking crying. shut the fuck up. you are the weak men of your apocryphal aphorism about good times. you were given almost everything, you took the rest, and now youre crying about how this is all our fault. fuck off! god

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i am so tired of all of this shit. im tired of people getting vaporized wantonly with my tax dollars. im tired of being ruled over by mafiosos. im tired of the demands that normal people sop up the crocodile tears of bad faith wreckers. im tired of the alternating threats/self pity of trillionaires

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

that this gutter racist and islamophobe can say this -- ancd countless things just like it -- without any pushback at all, while we enter day XXXX of pikermania is very illustrative of our political moment

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/08/2026

Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour, giant of resistance art, dies aged 79 aje.news/2xzmvt

Suleiman Mansour was among the Arab world’s most renowned visual artists and the creator of the iconic Palestinian painting Mount of the Bearers. [Courtesy of Sliman Mansour]

Rituals under Occupation (1989), one of Suleiman Mansour’s most prominent works, captures the suffering of Palestinians living under occupation and their daily resilience. In this oil painting, a highly symbolic funeral scene unfolds: vast crowds carry the coffin of a Palestinian, draped in the Palestinian flag and depicted as a large cross, evoking the Christian narrative of the crucifixion of Christ. [Courtesy of Sliman Mansour]

The Portrait (Portrait of a Man; 2017 and 2019), clay and acrylic on wood. [Courtesy of Sliman Mansour]

Olive Grove depicts a natural landscape of stone terraces and olive trees. [Courtesy of Sliman Mansour]

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

God bless the person who posts the detailed translation guides on r/AYearOfMythology 😭🙏 have been indispensable for my research on translations to go with for Sophocles and Aeschylus

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

When I read posts I feel confused and unsettled but when I read a book I feel calm enjoyment. Ah well, time to read several hundred posts

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951)

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I got the itch to read more poems and plays due to The Odyssey and the ending of this one surprised me in how crushing it is. Blanche DuBois is one of those great figures of tragedy - simultaneously pathetic yet pitiful. Williams’ writing conjures up an atmosphere suffocatingly thick with tension

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

✨Announcing our SEPTEMBER 2026 Criterion Channel lineup!✨ www.criterion.com/current/post...

Promotional poster for "September on The Criterion Channel" featuring a header image of actor Christopher Walken at the top. Below the title text is a grid of six curated film series and spotlights:

Girl Bands!: Features a blue button graphic and a photo of young women against a wall.

Abel Ferrara: Features bold red text with a black-and-white portrait of the director.

Starring Madonna: Features a red-toned, close-up portrait of Madonna.

Shohei Imamura: Features white text listing his films alongside a collage of black-and-white movie stills.

The Craft of Acting: Features an interview with Paul Dano conducted by Isaac Butler.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Features series titles and an illustration of the purple and green EVA-01 mech.

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m reading A Streetcar Named Desire and imagine my shock when I discovered there’s a literal streetcar named desire in the play, silly me…

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Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁 @anee1a.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Muslims were ethnically cleansed from East Punjab and likewise Sikhs and Hindus from West Punjab. However they did have places to move to across the newly formed borders, in mutually recognised sovereign states. A far cry from non-contiguous bantustans. Where would Palestinians “relocate” to?

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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

How the fuck is he still in prison

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