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Brandon D. Wilson

@geniusbastard.bsky.social
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Cinéaste maudit. Educator. Dad of 2. Quinquagenarian. Man of Appetites. Film writer. UCLA '94, M.F.A. '99. 2nd gen native Angeleno. Pro-union. Anti-fascist. Clearly not the actor from NICKEL BOYS. He/Him.

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Steve King♿️ @stevemking.bsky.social · 3h
Fancy that
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 4h
Also: the cruelty inflicted on the unhoused is a barometer of the state violence we're willing to tolerate.
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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 4h
The thing about the "AI will put your face in movies and games" is that there's this occasional trend where you can buy a book with your kid's name inserted for the protagonist This is something grandparents buy for small children This is what tech bros are calling the future of art
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 4h
Way too many people are responding to this saying that it would involve paying musk money, when the option of seizing all his assets after prosecuting him for fraud and election interference and his many many other alleged and sometimes almost seemingly admitted crimes is like… right there.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3h
#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h
I’m finishing up a book about how the Civil Rights Division built itself up from nothing in the 1960s and it looks like that’s going to be something we have to do again soon
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 16h
I should get this framed.
A still from My Brother’s Wedding projected on the big screen with Charles Burnett’s name just above mine as moderator.
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 21h
My God. Powerful. Nothing really to add.
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 22h
Seated for NAZA. There are two counter protesters outside handing out flyers with the film’s title and a QR code making it look like it’s related to the film. Classy. Imagine waking up to ratfuck a documentary.
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Got my ticket for Sunday.
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Morning still life.
A hat, a book on documentaries, a highlighter, an espresso, a pistachio croissant, and a sunglasses case on a cafe table.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this execution by firing squad is brought to you by crypto dot com
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed in Bolivia 59 years ago today.
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Polly Jean Harvey turns 57 today.
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Troy Davis should be celebrating his 58th birthday today.
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sir Steve McQueen turns 57 today. boxd.it/zwlsK
boxd.it
Sir Steve McQueen Ranked
A list of 12 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Lovers Rock (2020), Hunger (2008), Mangrove (2020), Occupied City (2023) and Uprising (2021).
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Guillermo Del Toro turns 62 today. boxd.it/PB72W
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Guillermo Del Toro Ranked
A list of 13 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Frankenstein (2025), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), The Devil's Backbone (2001), Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) and Nightmare Alley (2021).
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
John Lennon was born on this day in 1940 and Sean Ono Lennon turns 51 today. youtu.be/xLy2SaSQAtA?...
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INSTANT KARMA! (WE ALL SHINE ON). (Ultimate Mix, 2020) - Lennon/Ono with The Plastic Ono Band
YouTube video by johnlennon
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Steve King♿️ @stevemking.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Well, yeah. They're being hunted like the goddamn X Men.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
lemme go out on a limb and guess that viewing a live murder will not require age verification.
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Pete Hegseth vows to make first firing squad execution in decades ‘public’ | CNN Politics
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in an interview this week that the execution of the man who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 would be “public.”
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Guillermo Del Toro is 62. Here he is on the Weinsteins:
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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I didn't realize Target was somehow involved in this until reading this statement. We really need to boycott that company out of existence.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do you find me daft? What you are saying is 099 shit
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/10/2026
NYC is on track to have its lowest rate of shootings EVER, and the thing that is going to ruin that is the presence of ICE. If the police commissioner cannot pick the side of New Yorkers, she obviously has to be fired. The numbers do not lie.
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(Others have gotten close, but only Ossoff is fully doing what people really want in this moment. Not a fan of pres handicapping this early but I've lowkey thought for a while that it'll be him.)
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/10/2026
Klan ass federal government
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Reminder: I am moderating a Q&A with the great Charles Burnett tomorrow at the Aero Theater after a screening of the newly restored MY BROTHER’S WEDDING. www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
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MY BROTHER'S WEDDING - American Cinematheque
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The level of violence the US is about to go through for at least the next 4-5 months
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Les-Boogie @lesboogie.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
Lordt
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hasan was paralyzed in the shooting, so as if this wasn't all bad enough already, sit with the image of him being executed while in a wheelchair for that extra frisson of barbarity.
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I wrote a little review for Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens’ latest doc.
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s also Louise Archambault Greaves’ birthday. She’d have turned 94 today. Libras stay marrying each other.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
John Schlesinger’s MARATHON MAN turns 50 today.
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Marathon Man: Is It Safe?
ALT: Marathon Man: Is It Safe?
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And of course, Greaves made SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE, one of the most amazing films of the last 100 years. youtu.be/_7EHDIQLi-U?...
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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Trailer CCA)
YouTube video by CCA Manager
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Dr Kate Thagrinus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @katelaity.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
Local indie theatre and every film poster is some dude.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026
Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. nyti.ms/4yCUebH
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Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’ll be writing my review of OUATIH today. Extraordinary film.
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Before you see ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM, which is a towering and thrilling work of non-fiction, check out this Greaves documentary from 1968, narrated by Ossie Davis, about the Black middle class. They make a great double feature. youtu.be/nHcusYwUofg?...
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Inside the Negro Middle Class (1968)
YouTube video by Blacker The Berry
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
William Greaves was born 100 years ago today.
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He was special. Knew more than he knew.
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David Lynch Smoking
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Shoutout to the fucking Dodgers for slithering to the White House to give Baron Harkonnen, who now can’t stop talking about our city being nuked, a goddamned World Series ring. Just repugnant.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
FKA Twigs Is Finally Free From ’Unlawful’ NDA With Shia LaBeouf
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FKA Twigs Is Finally Free From ’Unlawful’ NDA With Shia LaBeouf
“Twigs stood up for something larger than herself, all female survivors of sexual abuse,” her lawyer said.
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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jesus Christ.
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