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Elliott Sobotka

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No fear. Just like Tom Fucking Cruise.

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Michael Arias @michaelarias.net · 03/10/2026
FOUND IT! An iPad/Pencil storyboarding app that combines minimal drawing tools and basic edit features with which I can preview/tweak/output scenes as video + also print to same beautiful e-konte style format I like. 🚀❤️✍️ Very cool. #SHOTGLIDE #storyboard #絵コンテ もちろん、日本語もOK! www.shotglide.com
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ShotGlide | iPad Storyboard App for Directors
Storyboard freely. Reorder instantly. Organize by scene. ShotGlide is the storyboarding app built for directors on iPad.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New poster for "MUYI", directed by Julien Chheng. The first French animated feature film produced at Studio La Cachette (Kairos, Primal, Star Wars Visions, Unicorn Warriors Eternal, Love Death and Robots, Mune, Le Collège Noir...).
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 29/09/2026
A very good read. Pirating the Pirates - Notes from the underground of film preservation, by Devan Scott mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pi...
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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Halt and Catch Fire made the 100 Best Shows of the 21st Century.
This drama began in the early days of the personal computer evolution—before social media, before FOMO, before AI angst—to tell the story of a Quartet of tech pioneers, who looked at those clunky beige desktop boxes and saw kaleidoscopic future. Computers were “the thing that gets us to the thing,” the latter thing being connection, empowerment, even a new kind of art. What began as a familiar tail of business-suite intrigue—“mad men” with processors—became a rich, heartfelt, human exploration of the cost and rewards of work and the necessity of failure. Its portrait of 80s and 90s techno-optimism may seem quaint now, but its rendering of the love of creation remains bleeding-edge. —James Poniewozik
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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The next James Bond should be Gary Oldman in his Jackson Lamb persona.
Actor Gary Oldman playing Jackson Lamb in the Slow Horses TV series. He is scruffy, unshaven, with lank, greasy hair.
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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
teenage sex and death at camp miasma is pornography for video essayists
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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cyclumbo
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When his eyesight began to fail, Monet labeled paint tubes so he could choose colors by name rather than sight. More and more, the composition happened in his mind rather than on the canvas.
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Vnr Herzog @vnrherzog.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Revu : Le corps de mon ennemi. Cette histoire de vengeance froide gisrcardpunk s'installe de + en + comme un de mes Belmondo et un de mes Verneuil favoris. Le casting parfait, la narration mouvante, la mise-en-scène rugueuse, les dialogues astucieux, la tristesse du temps qui passe... chef-d'œuvre.
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fell down a Ron Francis rabbit hole after seeing this post earlier. Sublime
Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Hope’ Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Home Fires’Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Russell Williams’ Tree’Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Room With a View’
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Cyril Pedrosa also directed a trailer for "Nanbanjin", his graphic novel with Taiyou Matsumoto. >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-08...
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First Print @firstprintfra.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
⚠️ ARRÊTEZ TOUUUUT !! ⚠️ @blackysan.bsky.social est de retour sur notre podcast pour discuter dans le fond de son travail avec @mathieubablet.bsky.social sur Shin Zero tome 2, tout juste sorti au Label 619 ! À écouter et partager pour donner de la force !! ▶️ smartlink.ausha.co/firstprintfr...
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ᴄᴀʟᴜᴍ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴛ @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴇʀᴍɪɴᴀʟ ᴇɴɢɪɴᴇ
Digi-painting of woman and robot companion, standing next to a future/medieval style wall, with the tag: The Terminal Engine over the image. 
Painted in Sketchbook Pro, graded in Photoshop CS3, and text created in Affinity Designer. 2025
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 02/09/2026
Takeshi Kitano for Canon 📽️
magazine ad for Canon cameras featuring a stoic Takeshi Kitano in a black suit impassively holding said camera
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Michelle Swope @redheadfrommars.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My idea of going to church on Sunday is watching MOTHER MARY for a second time.
Still from the movie Mother Mary with Anne Hathaway in a golden dress and a gold halo on her head.
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Humanoid History @humanoidhistory.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Phil Tippett explains the painstaking art of stop-motion behind the scenes of “The Empire Strikes Back.”
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New teaser for "We are Aliens", available in 4K on Youtube, to enjoy all the small lines in the drawings. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIUo...
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Barrett Bowlin @barrettbowlin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I really, really, really like this take from @mcastimovies.bsky.social on how this summer's liminal horror flicks reflect Gen X's, Millennials', and Gen Z's mounting anxieties. Read it if you want to say "holy shit, that's accurate" several times over this morning. www.avclub.com/liminal-horr...
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Taiyo Matsumoto Sketchbook" is coming. A 336-page artbook featuring drawings that the artist sent to his unofficial fanclub between 2018 and 2021. Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...
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Tampopo @tampopolarmen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Je m’épanouis sur EastAsia depuis 2019. Mais voilà, j’aimerais parler de films non asiatiques ! Voici ainsi mon nouveau site perso, dédié à ça : on commence par une critique du Dix-septième ciel sorti chez @badlandsed.bsky.social imagescomposites.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/l...
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Le Dix-septième ciel (Serge Korber, 1966)
Serge Korber fut un réalisateur à la filmographie peu commune, dans laquelle on compte aussi bien des comédies avec Louis de Funès que des productions pour adultes. En 1966, il réalise son premier …
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France Culture @franceculture.fr · 17/08/2026
Pollock disait qu’un tableau avait sa vie propre. Toute son œuvre semble partir de cette idée : ne pas dominer totalement la peinture, mais la suivre, l’affronter, la laisser surgir. Entre abandon et maîtrise, il invente une autre manière de créer. ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/d2C
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Les Contes de l'Archiviste - LCDLA @contearchiviste.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🐁 CRÉATION Affiche alternative du classique d'Alain Resnais, "Je t'aime, je t'aime", sorti en 1968 ! N'hésitez pas à la partager si l'affiche vous plaît !
Affiche alternative dans les tons rouges pour "Je t'aime, je t'aime". Le titre y est inscrit en blanc. La tête de Claude Rich semble transpercée par une zébrure rouge, il a le regard vide, perdu. En bas de l'affiche, à côté des crédits, une succession de photos se chevauchent, rappelant ses voyages chaotiques dans son passé. Une souris blanche est visible en bas à droite.
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Ongisphere @ongisphere.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Tout est là du coup archive.org/search?query...
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 30/07/2026
"The parking lot is now deserted but it would make for a great spot in any Andor’s episode." 💯 and it's the aesthetic of my childhood (on French planet Ghorman).
Credit: Alexandre Faraci
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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 28/07/2026
New on the site! Our Summer Blockbusters issue continues, with Alec Joyner's reflections on Rob Reiner and STAND BY ME 🎨: @ohhhaeee.bsky.social
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40 Notes on Rob Reiner & Stand by Me
Stand by Me is about memory. It’s about the ways in which the people who matter do keep standing by us, even after they’ve fallen away.
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Joachim Lepastier @lepastier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Et évidemment, impossible de ne pas rappeler les multiples yeux cyclopéens croisés dans une autre Odyssée, celle de Kubrick. Le quatrième vaisseau étant même une modélisation du nerf optique, celui qui connecte la vision à notre cerveau.
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Gershwin Impact @ensis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Rappel que pour contourner cette cochonnerie, il suffit d'aller dans les paramètres de votre navigateur, d'aller dans "moteur de recherche", puis dans "recherche sur le site" cliquer sur "modifier" sur la ligne Google et ajouter ce petit script dans la section URL (je le c/c dans le post d'après).
Capture d'écran de la fenêtre "modifier une recherche sur un site". Dans la ligne URL, on peut lire le script suivant : {google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s
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Bilge Ebiri @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I wrote about the ending of THE ODYSSEY. www.vulture.com/article/chri...
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Christopher Nolan Explains the ‘Key’ to The Odyssey’s Ending
On the surprise identity of the “people from the sea” and Odysseus’s urgent warning for today’s world.
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In 1861, Monet served in Algeria, where he was dazzled by North Africa’s blazing light. He later said the “richness of color” shaped everything he painted afterward.
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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 14/07/2026
Once again reminding y’all S.A. Cosby has a Luke Cage novel coming out October 13th.
S.A. Cosby Truth to Power A Luke Cage Marvel Crime Novel
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 14/07/2026
John Carpenter has released a statement on the passing of Sam Neill:
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La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Frank Quitely
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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Richard Linklater is but one filmmaker who’s tried to adapt Philip K Dick’s Ubik. There’s still a small chance that a movie version might emerge… filmstories.co.uk/news/ubik-th...
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Ubik | The Philip K Dick film adaptation we never got - and why it might one day happen
Richard Linklater is but one filmmaker who’s tried to adapt Philip K Dick’s Ubik. There’s still a small chance that a movie version might emerge… He sadly died before Blade Runner brought his writing…
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Tokusatsu GIFs @tokugifs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Ultraman Trigger (2021) Episode 2
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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My headcanon is that this is what Duncan does after COMMUNITY.
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Every John Oliver Scene on General Hospital
YouTube video by Jolt - Gaming & Entertainment News
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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The team behind Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly tells the fascinating story behind making the cult classic! We've also got special, SIGNED LPs of the film's soundtrack available! store.filmstories.co.uk/products/iss...
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Tampopo @tampopolarmen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Blue Heron, c'est une charge esthétique et sensorielle qui accompagne le portrait d'un drame familial et personnel terrassant. C'est poétique, ça arrache le cœur. C'est ce dont j'avais besoin.
Affiche de Blue Heron. On y voit les personnages qui composent la famille en extérieur avec un effet de dechirure-papier sur l'ensemble de l'image.
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Le CinématoGrapheur @cinematographeur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
NOUVEL ÉPISODE de ma série "Vous avez vu ?", aujourd'hui, ce que racontent les couleurs au cinéma. De Kubrick à McTiernan en passant par Hitchcock, la preuve par l'exemple. youtu.be/-PtrAOA6AmI Merci de partager à fond, cette série peine vraiment à percer malgré l'enthousiasme des spectateurs. ❤️
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Melvin Zed @melvinzed.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Même si c'est pas la version intégrale qu'on espérait, day one, day two, day three pour l'un des plus grands films de l'histoire des grands films. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqEU...
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KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS - Official Teaser - Pray For Us All
YouTube video by Warner Bros. Clockwork
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 22/06/2026
I talked — at length! — with Julian Lucas of the New Yorker and this is what happened: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Colson Whitehead’s Big Score
As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions.
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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Storyboard artists, often closest and most integral to realizing a director's vision, are a relatively cheap part of the process. Often their role is disparaged, or not even understood. And yet one of the main goals of AI in film production seems to be to replicate what they do.
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Earthling @ziyatong.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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@nluewmist / I’m finally reading Dune. This quote which in the first few pages hit hard; “once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only let other men with machines to enslave them.”
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Dave Stokes @davestokes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
“By protecting others, you save yourself.” -Kambei/Seven Samurai (1954). Should have stopped about 15 minutes earlier, likeness veered away from me #procreate from ref, Brooks Kim pencil brushes
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026
Mamdani's speech at the Knicks parade was easily the best I've ever heard at an event of that sort. I posted the whole thing on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Highly recommended.
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Mamdani Remembers Some Knicks Guys during phenomenal parade speech
YouTube video by Aaron Rupar
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Simone Guglielmini @guglie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Almost certain it’s Renato Fratini’s work — but either way, it deserves to be shared.
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Milton Lawson @citizenmilton.com · 12/06/2026
Since we're ranking Spielberg films, here's my incomplete ranking, using the Key & Peele format
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France Culture @franceculture.fr · 12/06/2026
David Hockney, peintre, dessinateur et vidéaste britannique, est mort. Il avait 88 ans. Son œuvre a inspiré des générations d’artistes et bouleversé le regard sur la peinture contemporaine. Nous vous proposons d’écouter l’entretien qu’il nous avait accordé en 2011 l.franceculture.fr/fWs
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Blast le souffle de l’info @blast-info.fr · 10/06/2026
Au terme de dix ans d'enquête, la journaliste américaine Liz Pelly publie La Machine Spotify, réquisitoire contre la plateforme de streaming qui démontre comment Spotify a détruit l’économie du disque et réduit la musique à une simple marchandise . Par @jeansam.bsky.social
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Spotify : la musique sans morale
Au terme de dix ans d'enquête, la journaliste américaine Liz Pelly publie La Machine Spotify, réquisitoire contre la plateforme de streaming qui démontre comment Spotify a détruit l’économie du disque...
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