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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 6h

Incredible that they somehow make it sexy to have ordered fish on a train.

Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 6h

Taipei Taoyuan —well designed, airy, plenty of comfy seating and possessed of several pretty decent xiaolongbao places — would be a 10/10 airport were it not congenitally infested with travelator-standers. Or were I simply permitted to taze them.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 7h

Oi to all you folks queue-jumping the Yura Borisov train because of ARTIFICIAL. Get behind me, I've been on line since 2021 when he was called Yuriy, had 5 films premiere in one year and was differently great in all of them.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 8h

Why we're expected to trust that dude with the responsibility of ensuring the future of Hollywood when the good Lord didn't even see fit to trust him with the responsibility of eyebrows, I'll never know.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 9h

I am at the "schedule 25 mins of sitting cross legged on the Haeundae boardwalk to stare at the sea" stage of my fall festival tour, thanks for asking.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 10h

RIP Eva Marie Saint. My forever avatar is pouring one out for you, the classiest ever to to do it.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

very embarrassing to have got NYer Catalogues in one today

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you want to preserve the lolz this induces, learn from my error and do anything but look at the ejaculatory approval spunking forth from the blue-check clapping seals underneath this post on X

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So I get on the L train at 14th at 2am after a very nice party in Manhattan. Train is clean, bright, plenty of people but still plenty of space. There's a young woman stretched out fast asleep on one of the rows of seats. I think hey, good for her, and sit down nearby.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, this is (of course) fantastic.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No one will ever convince me that New York is anything but the best city on earth but America, you are also very fucked up.

NYC subway ad for some weird US ambulance-chasing lawyer that reads: Nothing says "I'm sorry" like a six-figure settlement.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Least patriotic Irish person ever born logs on to say: lol.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As a smoker, and a Nirvana fan, and of the exact vintage to still regard both those things as deeply cool, I enormously approve of Pat Smear lighting up onstage at the VMAs. I really hope it was because he was told he couldn't smoke backstage, so was like, ok then...

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So was the fictional lead of McDonagh's WILD HORSE NINE partly inspired by the real-life father of his THREE BILLBOARDS star?

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have some debilitating unrecognised condition where my otherwise relatively limber brain goes into full-on paralysis mode whenever it is forced to contemplate economics at scale, but man, even I know this is not remotely the way any of this shit works.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Heard from a friend that the performative laughter right from the start of the TIFF press screening of POSSIBLE LOVE drove him so insane that he had to leave and I just checked letterboxd and yep. (These are all different people). I'm a pretty peaceable dude but, sorry, no, immediate death penalty.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very sad to hear of the death of Patricio Guzmán, one of my all-time documentary heroes. The middle entry of his Chile Trilogy, THE PEARL BUTTON, remains one of my favourite docs ever. Just exemplary in its essayistic intimacy, political acuity and novelistic sprawl. theplaylist.net/berlin-revie...

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Berlin Review: Patricio Guzmán's Mesmerizing, Award-Winning Doc 'The Pearl Button'

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So weird that we can be sure Trump did not, in fact, use AI for this. His comms might be the last place safe from AI. They're unfakeably worse than any LLM could manage, in spades.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If I were Zendaya I would get one of these in every colour and wear only this look every day for the rest of my life which is a pretty neat encapsulation of why (among other reasons) I am not Zendaya.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

On Saturday in Venice, having a quick lunch, I realised Lee Chang-dong was one table over. Not wanting to make him uncomfortable, I tried not to stare, but I'm sure I radiated starstruckness. I think I glimpsed him visibly wondering why the blue-haired idiot opposite kept smiling into her noodles.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Well, that's a weight off my mind.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Delighted to hear the universal raves for YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER. Bassam Tariq's MOGUL MOWGLI was fantastic and too little seen.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Anyway, whatever, I'm over it. As a matter of direst urgency, everybody owes it to the world to watch NAZA, and as a matter of long-lasting, spirit-nourishing cinema, everybody owes it to themselves to watch POSSIBLE LOVE.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Good to know that in my fantasy (but still obviously rule-abiding) awards lineup I can now officially hand the Golden Lion to POSSIBLE LOVE *and* Best Actress to Jeon Do-yeon. Congratulations to both!

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Dang, the fine print. Lulled me into a false sense of security that it had already won Best Actress.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Whatever it is that's getting the Golden Lion instead of POSSIBLE LOVE, I am annoyed at it.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In advance of tonight's awards, for which my only (very uncontroversial) opinion is that POSSIBLE LOVE and NAZA must feature, my Sight & Sound review of another potential contender, WILD HORSE NINE, has just gone live.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: 1. Sucking a lollipop, tripping and having the stick rupture my throat. 2. Fish. 3. Isidora Duncaning myself whenever wearing a scarf and/or riding a bike. 4. That I might have murdered somebody and made myself forget it. 5. Leprosy.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My brother-in-law and nephew are raising funds to deliver a fully stocked ambulance to Ukraine. They're more than halfway to their goal; please consider donating if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/jeeps-for-...

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Donate to Ambulance for Ukraine - Help to Save Lives, organized by Gordon Anderson

HELP SUPPORT BEN, GORDON, ZENON AND ALEC DELIVER AN AMBULANCE FILL… Gordon Anderson needs your support for Ambulance for Ukraine - Help to Save Lives

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Joke's on me; at one point during the austere Austrian film about school bullying, we could literally hear Wonderwall through the, em, wall.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Look at this absolute snack. I miss him so much.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

An insane Catalogues today if you're not American.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And just as I arrive in Venice, my review of one of my favourites from last year's edition goes live:

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The resemblance is all-over striking, but the similarly unpleasant set of Butthead's mouth and chin is uncanny.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yep, this one can fuck right off and all.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm so naive that when the journo asked "how do you defend something like this?" I genuinely thought he meant *conceptually. But no, he just wanted to know where the gun turrets were, heigh ho.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I will say they are right as far as it pertains to the authors of this report whom I would dearly love to kick in the bollocks.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Surely the moment you accuse a friend of lying because they hold an opinion contrary to yours is the moment that friendship ends. (In, fact it's the moment you reveal that you were never much of a friend to them in the first place. It is the profoundest disrespect.) And you did that, not them.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Well, this is just goshdarned delightful.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Must turn off autoplay because all my buttons keep spontaneously unbuttoning

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you don't think too much about why it is that "not owning a Bugatti" is the thing that reveals these capri-panted dipshits to be the most pathetic losers alive — as opposed to, you know, all the rape — this is v enjoyable to witness.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Milkshake Duck is too millennial --> Gen Z needs their own version -->

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Wait, but I—" - Lake Superior "I know, man, what the fuck." - Lake Michigan

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Me, shouting at the screen during the austere Austrian movie about school bullying: "Play fucking Wonderwall"

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