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DANIEL FAIT FACE a film by MARINE ATLAN.

Marine Atlan's debut feature La Gradiva blew me away at TIFF this year, and now Le Cinéma Club is streaming her earlier 57-minute film Daniel fait face, free for the next few days i just watched it, and it's quite extraordinary: www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

lecinemaclub.com

A free, curated platform streaming one film every week.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22h

decided to make a template out of my Freelance Tracking spreadsheet this is specifically for freelance writing, and is built for Canadians working with both US and Canadian outlets (but can of course be adjusted) it has three worksheets for tracking pitches, writing progress, and invoices

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Freelance Tracking Template

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 29/09/2026

my even worse take: there was, in retrospect, clear value in rote memorization (that's my way of saying i wish i could quote Shakespeare)

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 29/09/2026

staring at the Canadian Opera Company 26/27 schedule and deciding that, yes, i will become an opera boy. gimme all that opera!

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 29/09/2026

looks cool as hell when properly maintained

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DANIEL FAIT FACE a film by MARINE ATLAN.

lecinemaclub.com

A free, curated platform streaming one film every week.

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

something to understand about the Jewish community in Toronto (and surely elsewhere) is how many have been propagandized into believing left-ish politicians are literally backing hordes of pro-Palestinian antisemites to terrorize Jews everywhere in our homes, schools, synagogues, etc

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folks i need to you to hit that subscribe button and support my pal

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026

the more i think about The History of Concrete, the more it feels like a missed opportunity and probably displays the limits of Wilson's style

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“The playing field of the social media informational environment is uneven, and it systematically benefits autocracies.” www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...

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Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

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when a movie is between 45 and 60 minutes long, the way you know it's a "feature" is like the way you know porn is porn

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 27/09/2026

Primetime and Southland Tales, similar films

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somehow had never known before that the opening act of the After Hours screenplay plagiarized a Joe Frank monologue, and oh boy was it ever plagiarized! i can kind see how it happened, having started out as a class writing assignment, but that's crazy!

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Joe Frank - Lies 1982, over After Hours 1985.

YouTube video by Cipri Brînză

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 27/09/2026

some Sunday recommendations, including The Weight, Reveries, and Mary Beard’s Religions of Rome

Back to Life; Reacher Comforts; The Weight of Reveries

A few recommendations for Sep 27, 2026

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 27/09/2026

some Sunday recommendations, including The Weight, Reveries, and Mary Beard’s Religions of Rome

Back to Life; Reacher Comforts; The Weight of Reveries

A few recommendations for Sep 27, 2026

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"In the pursuit of a certain idea of verisimilitude, we’ve allowed cinema to become devoid of real, meaningful style." @coreyatad.com on the style of MILDRED PIERCE is so good: www.justatad.xyz/p/weve-lost-...

A few words about Mildred Pierce and style

We’ve Lost Recipes

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 26/09/2026

mistakenly thought this was about Primetime, but it really could've been about so many Pattinson movies, and he delivers every. fucking. time.

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andré @andrebob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Loved reading this piece from Corey. It feels in line with what I've been thinking re: mentorship, apprenticeship, (skill) incubators, etc. How they're less and less common—especially in artistic endeavors—and it's showing.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 25/09/2026

about to get a history lesson on concrete

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 25/09/2026

"In the pursuit of a certain idea of verisimilitude, we’ve allowed cinema to become devoid of real, meaningful style." for the newsletter, i wrote about Mildred Pierce (and Obsession, and grey floors) and what it means for a film to have style www.justatad.xyz/p/weve-lost-...

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wrote about Mildred Piece and yearning for style www.justatad.xyz/p/weve-lost-...

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Daramola @izdaramola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

one of the better experiences in life is being bad at pool, but doing weirdly well against someone equally bad, and then trying to play it off for the fluke that it is, but coming off more like a hustler

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Weezer’s ‘Pinkerton’ turns 30 today. I wrote about the album, its immediate failure, its delayed success and how it has aged alongside how I’ve aged. A toast to God’s horniest soldier! defector.com/revisiting-w...

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Revisiting Weezer’s Cringe Masterpiece At 30 | Defector

The second project is probably always the hardest. This is especially true if it follows a successful debut. You make something great, and by some act of the gods it catches fire and becomes the new, ...

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this week in the newsletter: thoughts on Mildred Pierce (1945), grey floors, the lighting in Obsession, and our crisis of style

A few words about Mildred Pierce and style

We’ve Lost Recipes

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wrote about Mildred Piece and yearning for style www.justatad.xyz/p/weve-lost-...

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this week in the newsletter: thoughts on Mildred Pierce (1945), grey floors, the lighting in Obsession, and our crisis of style

A few words about Mildred Pierce and style

We’ve Lost Recipes

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🚨to all the Academy voting members who follow me🚨

Sophy Romvari tweeting: FYI Blue Heron was not eligible for the international feature category of the Oscars as they require films to be at least 50% non english, that being said, it *is* eligible for Best Picture against other small indies such as The Odyssey, etc.

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had a full-on emotional breakdown in the hallway of the Scotiabank Theatre coming out of La Gradiva (complimentary)

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this week on the newsletter, i'll be writing about Michael Curtiz's adaptation of Mildred Pierce, and the recipes we've lost subscribe for free! www.justatad.xyz

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“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 21/09/2026

an extraordinarily depressing Jays season

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at last, #TIFF26 is over and my big wrap-up is here, with words on the new Radu Jude, catching a screening of Mildred Pierce, and my festival Top 10 plus: my advice on how to guarantee your festival is a great one

TIFF ‘26: Wrap-Up & Top 10

A few words about having a great festival

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 21/09/2026

Jeremy Saulnier gone sicko mode

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 21/09/2026

TIFF ‘26: Wrap-Up & Top 10

A few words about having a great festival

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we don’t talk enough about how Curtiz was basically the best director ever

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because i have something deeply wrong with me, i’m taking time out of the last day of TIFF to see Mildred Pierce at the Bloor. never seen it!

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on my tenth (and potentially last) day of seeing movies at #TIFF26 i watched Everest: The Other Side and Being Heumann plus, thoughts on Club Kid 👎 and The Debut 👍

A few words about the mainstream

TIFF ‘26: Day Ten

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on my tenth (and potentially last) day of seeing movies at #TIFF26 i watched Everest: The Other Side and Being Heumann plus, thoughts on Club Kid 👎 and The Debut 👍

A few words about the mainstream

TIFF ‘26: Day Ten

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 19/09/2026

#TIFF26 is just about done (going to the awards press conference tomorrow, and maaaaaay catch Diary of a Chambermaid or the Midnight Madness People's Choice winner, if i can get tickets to one), so i'm lying in bed and throwing on some pure joy

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great ninth day at #TIFF26 with Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love, Ira Sachs's The Man I Love, and Angela Schanelec's My Wife Cries oh, and also cheap onigiri from Bestco

A few words about love and onigiri

TIFF ‘26: Day Nine

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 19/09/2026

great ninth day at #TIFF26 with Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love, Ira Sachs's The Man I Love, and Angela Schanelec's My Wife Cries oh, and also cheap onigiri from Bestco

A few words about love and onigiri

TIFF ‘26: Day Nine

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 18/09/2026

on day eight of #TIFF26 i watched the mammoth-length documentary 'Life of Jorge Luis Borges' and Sebastian Brameshuber's intimate, extraordinary film 'London' plus: thoughts on 'Clarissa' (great!), 'The Unknown' (great!), and 'Fjord' (not great!)

A few words about inner lives

TIFF ‘26: Day Eight

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 18/09/2026

#TIFF26 is winding down, and i’m at the Lightbox all day for Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love, Ira Sachs’s The Man I Love, and Angela Schanelec’s My Wife Cries three of my most anticipated of the year

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 18/09/2026