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Girish Shambu

@girishshambu.bsky.social
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I live in Buffalo and write about film culture. Book: “The New Cinephilia”.

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Packing up for a move — and found this shirt that students made for me *ages* ago! #IYKYK 🩸 🗡️
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 22/05/2026
The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:
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Who’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students?
“Ah! He just ran over my fucking foot!”
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
They kept dropping hints, and now, here it is. Film Comment has relaunched as a quarterly digital magazine. Up now: Erika Balsom on Lucrecia Martel, Jonathan Rosenbaum on his 1970s columns, Amy Taubin’s interview with Michaela Coel … www.filmcomment.com
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Film Comment
Blair McClendon on Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters, Riley joins The Film Comment Podcast, Erika Balsom on the films of Lucrecia Martel, Devika Girish interviews Martel about Our Land, Amy Taubin profile...
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 04/05/2026
Cold Magazine: What is it like watching the influence Orlando has had on cinema today, thinking of how hard it was to get it made at the time? Sally Potter: Revenge! On all the doubters. On all the rejections. A great interview to read today if you're struggling with those voices.
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'Orlando' Forever! An Interview With Sally Potter at The Rio
I’m standing in the much-mythologised screening room of the Rio Cinema in Dalston as projectionist Andrew Woodyatt walks me through its history. In the 1970s, the Rio had a stint as an adult film cine...
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/05/2026
soooo when are we going to have a serious discussion of Spike's consistent caping for abusers, going all the way back to the way he shit on The Color Purple for being too mean to men like Mister to spending his social capital on Nate Parker Just wildly unrepentant anti-feminist. (I'm being kind)
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"In order to render the strange logic of dreams, Freud quoted the old joke about the borrowed kettle: (1) I never borrowed a kettle from you, (2) I returned it to you unbroken, (3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you."
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Quite literally the only reason to tell people this is to convince them to commit crimes
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Lisa Laman @lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The following women haven’t directed a feature film since either 2020 or 2019: Dee Rees Regina King Eliza Hittman Autumn de Wilde Regina King Alice Wu Reed Morano Melina Matsoukas Roseanne Liang Sarah Gavron Lorene Scafria Lulu Wang Sophia Takal Shannon Murphy Radha Blank Amy Seimetz Miranda July
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 02/04/2026
My answer to the q what's the scariest film you've seen is always JESUS CAMP (Rachel Grady & Heidi Ewing, 2006), a doc about homeschooled evangelicals. This girl of 8 has had her mouth taped shut for an anti-abortion protest. The preacher says "Isn't that the most beautiful thing you've seen"?
Composite of images from the film JESUS CAMP showing a mega church on the left background, and in the right foreground a white prepubescent girl with red tape over her mouth that says, in marker pen, LIFE.
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Pleased to have an article in the new issue of @socres.org — “Hollywood’s GASLIGHT and the Gendered Dynamics of Gaslighting.” Fascinating to re-visit the film in today’s climate. 🔥 🔥🔥
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I've been a bit quieter than usual these past months because @astra.bsky.social and I have been going deep into what we are calling End Times Fascism. The research has been bleak, I won't lie, but it's also been inspiring.
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Text reads:

END TIMES FASCISM
AND THE FIGHT FOR THE LIVING WORLD

NAOMI KLEIN & ASTRA TAYLOR

Farrar, Straus and Giroux | U.S.A.
Allen Lane | U.K.
Knopf Canada
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Incredible, sharp, critical reflection on Habermas’ legacy from Nancy Fraser. This is the postmortem I’ve been hoping would come and also sums up so much of my relationship to his work
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Nancy Fraser | After Habermas
Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...
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Girish Shambu @girishshambu.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A brilliant talk by @shelleystamp.bsky.social on the importance & influence of “Women in Film Noir” (ed. E. Ann Kaplan, 1978, BFI)! #SCMS2026
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Save 30% on "The Essential Senghor," edited by Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall & Cheikh Thiam, which provides a new opportunity for English readers to engage with Leopold Sédar Senghor’s critical and philosophical writings. buff.ly/YqZfdvV
Cover of The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics by Léopold Sédar Senghor. The cover is a textured beige with the title in a teal serif font. Partially overlapping the very bottom of the title is a sepia colored photograph of Senghor. The subtitle is written in black to the right of Senghor and the author’s name appears directly below in italics. “Edited and translated by Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, Cheikh Thiam” appears in white on Senghor's shoulder.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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The airport perks for Congress may be drying up, not a minute too soon
Delta Airlines suspends its special congressional service, while a Senate bill could end the line-skipping perk for members of Congress.
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The only thing you need to read this Sunday!! @pamhutch.bsky.social and @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social in conversation -- talking Queen Kelly👑, C.A. Lejeune, feminist film history, silent festivals, Musidora, Iris Barry, and "the magic of film"! 🎞️❤️ oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/silent-fil...
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We All Have Our Weird Little Passions: A Conversation with Pamela Hutchinson
Silent Sundays: Interviews
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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I’ve got a long one for you today! I had so much fun talking with author, critic and film historian @pamhutch.bsky.social about QUEEN KELLY, Louise Brooks, C. A. Lejeune, HÄXAN, and so much more! Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/silent-fil...
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This piece on Feminist Film Curating Collectives has been in the works for a while!! 🎞️🏳️‍🌈 It was *such a joy* to speak to the organizers/curators of these crucial collectives! lareviewofbooks.org/article/femi... Long live the queer feminist film archive!!! ❤️🎞️📽️‼️
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The Weirdness of the Archive, the Possibilities of the Present | Los Angeles Review of Books
On the global resurgence of feminist film curating collectives.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/03/2026
Check out this new report published today providing the first in-depth, industry-wide examination of how #academicfreedom has been written into collective bargaining agreements across American higher ed. 👀 This report is useful for anyone hoping to collectively bargain meaningful AF protections.
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New Report: Academic Freedom and Collective Bargaining
A new report co-released by the AAUP and the National Center provides the first in-depth, industry-wide examination of how academic freedom has been written into collective bargaining agreements acros...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Walmart is rolling out digital price tags at all of its stores. At the same time, the corporate giant just secured a patent for "dynamically and automatically updating item prices.” Plus another patent for using machine learning to predict demand and recommend prices.
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Incredibly honored to be receiving the David Shepard Career Achievement Award at the Denver Silent Film Festival next month. (And guess which film I’ll be introducing! 😉)
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
“I have zero introspection…400 years ago it would never have occurred to anyone to be introspective”. Andreessen’s combo of neurodivergence, vast wealth, airport book executive summary knowledge and intense white guy sense of personal centrality should be studied by future historians
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Thank you Andy Jurgensen for dedicating your Oscar to your late aunt Barbara Hall, archivist extraordinaire, beloved by film historians like me. So sad she isn’t here to see you win. 🥹
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Aaron Gerow @dengerow.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Important thread about Trump's war from Chris Murphy.
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Mark Carney, February 2026: "Let's build a more cooperative, resilient world together. Canada is ready." Mark Carney, also February 2026: "Let's cut 15% of the department responsible for Canada’s environmental policies, including advisors to cooperation programs around the Arctic."
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Carney’s government is cutting hundreds of environment and science jobs. Here’s what that means for Canadians | CBC Radio
Scientists and labour leaders are warning that cuts to Environment and Climate Change Canada could significantly impact the health and safety of Canadians as well as Canada's wildlife and environment.
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
💙 Join me this upcoming Monday for my lecture on The Trans Feminine Grotesque 💙
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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Happy to make my LA Review of Books debut writing about how the spectre of photographer Francesca Woodman haunts Mascha Schilinski’s stunning film SOUND OF FALLING. Read: lareviewofbooks.org/article/perh...
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 06/03/2026
The mass exodus at the Toronto Film Critics Association is gathering pace after indigenous actress and filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her award trophy following the alleged censorship of her video acceptance speech, which included remarks in support of Palestine.
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Toronto Film Critics Association Faces Collapse After Allegedly Censoring Indigenous Filmmaker’s Pro-Palestine Speech
The mass exodus at the Toronto Film Critics Association is gathering pace after indigenous actress and filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her award trophy following the alleged censorship of her video acceptance speech, which included remarks in support of Palestine.
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Girish Shambu @girishshambu.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Thread! 👇👇
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
my new life goal is to visit every one of these beautiful cinemas. 📽️ www.timeout.com/film/the-100...
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The 100 Greatest Cinemas In The World Right Now
Classic kinos, cult film temples and fabulous picture palaces from across the planet
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Doctorow has coined some widely-used concepts, but his arguments have always felt elusively shallow and anemic to me, and this really snaps the reason into focus: It's because they're always and entirely focused on the consumer.
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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Get in, losers, we’re flipping Texas.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 25/01/2026
Private equity vampirism eats Vimeo: slate.com/technology/2... Really awful to see.
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Vimeo’s Massive Layoffs Are a Sign of Something Much Darker for the Internet
Vimeo’s layoffs raise dire concerns about what happens to the vast archive of videos the platform has hosted for two decades.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
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NainRouge420 @nainrouge420.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
What a world huh

Lemon it’s still struggling to be born
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Jennifer O’Meara @jomeara.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
In case you missed it, Film @tcddublin.bsky.social & Dr Corey Cribb have a CfP out for an international conference on French Theory and Contemporary Screen Studies next June @tlrhub.bsky.social. Abstracts due in January. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.tcd.ie/ahss/news-an...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies. Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market. This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.
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A Practice of Speculative Imaginings: On Sam Cooke and the Art of Utopia
Sometimes in a moment of overwhelming emotion you hear a song. You finally hear it. You don’t just get the meaning of the lyrics, or feel the beats and the rhythm, but you hear the unutterable in t…
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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
An extraordinary loss of a generous and bold thinker
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
one or two best essays on SINNERS? (bonus: an academic article - on genre or film industry or black cultural production or - that helps think about the movie even though not analyzing the movie?)
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Since Hamlet was Shakespeare's longest play, maybe it's fitting that my review of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao's adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's great biofictional novel, is 2000+ words. In the words of the mopey Danish prince: "Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing." slate.com/culture/2025...
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This Year’s Other Oscar Front-Runner Is Here. I Have Tragic News.
It’s based on a beloved, bestselling novel—and it butchers it.
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
On Monday, December 1, Columbia University Press will be selling all books at 50% off! (And some books at 70%!) tinyurl.com/7wzhyfmv @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
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