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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 35m

two stray Digger thoughts: - at one point i got annoyed because it seemed like the movie was metatextually arguing it was unfunny on purpose, and then i realized that no, it *does* think it's funny, which is so much worse - Tom Cruise should find a cave and hibernate for a decade

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 1h

if you're heading out to the movies this weekend and want to see a stylish satire about how we got to our present moment, might i suggest... Primetime i wrote about Lance Oppenheim's new movie this week at the newsletter

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Into Madness

A few words about ‘Primetime’

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 15h

well, Babel is among them lol

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 23h

"Facsimile is jettisoned for narrative truth in a story about truth’s fungibility, where the blurry lines between fact and fiction are manifest in the very idea of performance." for the newsletter, i wrote about reality, and Lance Oppenheim's Primetime

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Into Madness

A few words about ‘Primetime’

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 16h

Digger. i dunno, probably one of the worst movies i’ve ever seen.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 20h

fuck yeah! i'm so happy to hear this

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 23h

possibly the only piece about Primetime that also references Michael Moore's acceptance speech at the 2003 Oscars

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 23h

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Into Madness

A few words about ‘Primetime’

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 01/10/2026

just got out of a 20th anniversary revival of choreographer Sasha Ivanochko‘s dance piece Heaven, at The Theatre Centre three dancers, in the nude and in silence, and i really know nothing about dance but i was mesmerized four more performances through Saturday theatrecentre.org/event/heaven...

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 30/09/2026

i believe genocide has been committed in Gaza, “genocidal acts,” etc, but i’m theoretically open to the idea that some genuinely see the situation differently, i’ll hear out the argument except that just about everyone i encounter who “sees it differently” also ends up caping for war crimes huh!

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 30/09/2026

“Each piece of information would, if confirmed, surely point to a war crime, but the only overarching pattern is Israel’s willingness to loosen to a sickening degree its rules of engagement and warfare.“ it fails to prove a war crime… by establishing a pattern of war crimes???

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 30/09/2026

wild that this guy outlines how the movie is an almost perfect illustration of “banality of evil” in action, but sees that as a “muddled” message because apparently he disagrees with the idea that cogs in the machine reflect the ideological goals of the machine.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 30/09/2026

it’d be easier to respect this writer if he just said outright, “I do not think Israel is committing genocide, and the only thing wrong with Israel’s actions is scale and rhetorical callousness, and suggestions otherwise distract from criticism of Netanyahu.”

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 30/09/2026

this is a truly bizarre review, written with clear ideological motive but totally unwilling to spell it out

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 30/09/2026

the short is featured on the Altered Innocence Vol. 1 Blu-ray set, where you can see it looking beautiful in all its 16mm glory someone also posted a shitty but still watchable rip on YouTube

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After School Knife Fight (2017)

YouTube video by Tyler Durden

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 30/09/2026

just watched Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel's 2017 short After School Knife Fight, shot by La Gradiva director Marine Atlan, and this shot where light from an iPhone is very brazenly faked with proper light source kinda just knocked me right the hell out