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Eric Hynes

@eshynes.bsky.social
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Writer, Film Curator

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
(🧵History as reported by the NYT Euphemism Desk) Germany’s vision of a more robust national footprint was in tension with Poland’s border.
German troops in WWII
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Everyone thinks flopping is fine now, interesting.
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
VAR Fever. Catch it!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Though of course some of those founding fathers had some consciousness about the wrongness of slavery, and Abigail Adams famously (and fruitlessly) implored her husband to think of women's rights. That is they understood the falsenesses....
By the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation. That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend. Why then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity. Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex. Regard us then as beings placed by providence under your protection and in imitation of the supreme being make use of that power only for our happiness.  Cited here, with context: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abigail-adams-asked-her-husband-to-remember-the-ladies-as-he-drafted-americas-laws-heres-what-she-really-meant-180988452/
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This opening of the 1619 Project has long been the most ringing sentence for me about this country, its founding, and its founding document. Its truth could apply to everyone who sought to broaden and deepen equality and rights.
Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. lack mericans have fought to make them true. --essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 18/06/2026
incredible conversation between Wesley Morris and @eshynes.bsky.social about Spielberg and Disclosure Day
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'Disclosure Day' and the Genius of Steven Spielberg
YouTube video by Cannonball with Wesley Morris
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Naught Followers @naughtfollowers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Great conversation between @eshynes.bsky.social and Wesley Morris here, about #DisclosureDay Eric is maybe a little older than me, but interesting to hear him talk about a similar journey with Spielberg — a rejection over manipulation, and a coming home in the end.
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'Disclosure Day' and the Genius of Steven Spielberg
YouTube video by Cannonball with Wesley Morris
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This week in new music:
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Talked with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social about The Last Things (We) Saw at Cannes on Day 2, including FATHERLAND and PARALLEL TALES. One of these is a terrific film. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Ep. 394: Eric Hynes on Cannes 2026: Fatherland, Parallel Tales, In Waves, The Match
Podcast Episode · The Last Thing I Saw · May 15 · 35m
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
‘Michael’ Is Pure Propaganda www.nytimes.com/video/podcas...
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Video: ‘Michael’ Is Pure Propaganda
Wesley Morris and the film curator, Eric Hynes, review “Michael” and consider better approaches to a Michael Jackson biopic.
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Jonathan L. Fischer @jonfischer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
It is worth noting the Post slashed the bulk of its arts coverage, including most of the critics, ending a great tradition in journalism.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Sublime thread:
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Best film I saw at Sundance was CLOSURE. Watch online while you still can, or better yet wait for its festival rollout to see and hear it in a theater.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
David Osit’s documentary Predators, which I raved about at Sundance, is now streaming on Paramount+. It’s a knotty, complicated, and ultimately very moving account of the legacy of To Catch a Predator and the outsourcing of justice, and … you should watch it.
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A New Documentary Revisits To Catch a Predator. You May Not Like What It Finds.
We’re still living in the world that this show helped create.
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I grew up in a neighborhood that went for Cuomo +53 My current neighborhood (of twenty years) went for Mandani by +67 Willowbrook, East Williamsburg New York, New York
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Ken Jacobs (1933-2025) A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday. www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...
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Kat Stafford @katstafford.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Journalism that fails to infuse a historically informed lens is akin to covering the smoke but never asking who lit the fire. History-centered journalism should be the framework within every newsroom.
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Show me a love truer than the Times’s for the word “norms.”
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
If this monstrosity ever gets built, it's where their Nuremberg trials should be held before we put them in jail & tear it down.
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
If you live in New York—or you live in LA next week or you live in Chicago the week after that, etc.—I really can't recommend seeing PREDATORS @filmforumnyc.bsky.social more strongly. You will not see a more thought-provoking film about documentary ethics. And that's one of so many layers to this.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
the best movie at Sundance is now playing at Film Forum
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A New Documentary Revisits To Catch a Predator. You May Not Like What It Finds.
We’re still living in the world that this show helped create.
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
All you got is this moment. Twenty-first century's yesterday.
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Shoot this into my veins
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Also wouldn’t mind if the mayor of NYC actually liked NYC.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“A Theater Near You,” curator David Schwartz’s salute to 17 landmark New York screening venues, opens @ MOMA on Thursday ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
The New Yorker Theater marquee in May 1960 advertises a double feature: Alfred Leslie and Robert Frank’s PULL MY DAISY (1959) and Orson Welles’s THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942). Photo via MoMA and Toby Talbot
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Q: Alpha? A: omega
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Cannes 2025: The Return of the Academy Ratio
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It’s so funny when people try to make sense of his ramblings. “It’s hard to figure out how he would implement such a plan” lol he’s an impulsive moron who doesn’t understand shit, it’s like ascribing complex motives to a dog eating another dog’s poop
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.
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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Jeffrey Katzenberg's 1991 memo (the inspiration behind JERRY MAGUIRE) about the state of Hollywood and the need to get back to the “singles and doubles” philosophy that drove the launch of Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures is unfortunately more prescient than ever.
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 16/04/2025
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"A snapshot of the most exciting voices working in American and international cinema today––and with a strong focus on newcomers" - The Film Stage selects 7 films to see at First Look @movingimagenyc.bsky.social this weekend. thefilmstage.com/7-films-to-s...
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7 Films to See at MoMI’s First Look 2025
A snapshot of the most exciting voices working in American and international cinema today––and with a strong focus on newcomers––the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival returns this week,...
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
This feels like a major inflection point. If ICE can apparently unlawfully arrest & disappear a permanent resident and it is not immediately met with strong opposition from the public, officials, and courts, there is no going back.
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The Redstone @movingimagenyc.bsky.social wuz robbed.
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Jeff Seelbach @sievefistedfind.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
David Osit going deep on his excellent doc Predators with @eshynes.bsky.social (and Chris Hansen 👀)
Filmmaker David Osit and film curator Eric Hynes sitting in a faux living room set discussing Osit's new film Predators
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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Profoundly grateful to have my first book event here in Columbia, MO at Skylark Bookshop this week — thanks to @eshynes.bsky.social for being a phenomenal first conversation partner and to everyone who came and bought books and asked questions.
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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Columbia, MO: come hear me give my VERY FIRST reading of "We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine" tonight!!! Skylark Bookshop, 6:30pm, with the great @eshynes.bsky.social. It's not out till 3/11 so you're getting a sneak peak! www.skylarkbookshop.com/new-events/2...
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Alissa Wilkinson presents WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES: JOAN DIDION AND THE AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE, Thursday, February 27, 2025 — skylark bookshop
We’re thrilled to welcome New York Times film critic and author Alissa Wilkinson to Skylark for what is going to be an outstanding evening of conversation about one of the most iconic figures of Ameri...
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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
After many years in the making, I'm very excited to share the news that my book "SICK AND DIRTY: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness" is coming from @BloomsburyPub in June. You can preorder now! geni.us/sickanddirty
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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 19/02/2025
For Reverse Shot, I spoke with Zeinabu irene Davis about the rejuvenation of her incredible classic COMPENSATION — a film I think is one of the great films about Chicago, deafness and Black life.
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Zeinabu irene Davis (Compensation)
when I initially designed the sound, I wanted there to be a full expression of it for deaf and hard of hearing audiences to actually feel the sound design. Deaf people can experience sound. But they d...
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Kevin Kiniry @comickev.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We won’t disappear just because you change a website.
Sign outside the Stonewall National Monument park with the word Transgender written in pink chalk between the words National and Monument.
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Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 13/02/2025
‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.
A national park service webpage about Stonewall.

"Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer (LGBQ+) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in
the quest for LGBQ+ civil rights and provided momentum for a movement."
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