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That and paranoid conspiracies, trying to divine a closed order of things, a unified field theory that will fit and explain everything. Even James hated it and brought it to an abrupt close. I just think it's quite brilliant.

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I nearly effed myself when I put a comma in a certain Kazan title.

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Cinematrix No. 922: October 4, 2026

Vulture Cinematrix No. 922: Oct 4, 2026 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2691 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

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Can you name an Oscar-nominated Elia or Zoe Kazan movie?

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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I will always have a bit of sentimentality towards A Farewell to Arms. First serious book I read in English.

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My only experience with Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, is my idea of a slogan, and Ford's film improves immeasurably on it.

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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Paul Vecchiali's ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE is one of those works that make you go: "that, too, is possible." You can plop 30s melodrama and Gallic theatricality 50 years later and have it still work and vibrate.

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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey everyone, I'm excited to share with you all this chapter from Antoine Volodine's forthcoming novel Living in Fire. It's titled "Aunt Yoanna" and it's my favorite. With intro by @brianevenson.bsky.social @electricliterature.com @uminnpress.bsky.social electricliterature.com/aunt-yoanna-...

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My Aunt's Collection of Miniature Men Is Probably Not Harmless - Electric Literature

“Aunt Yoanna” from LIVING IN FIRE by Antoine Volodine, recommended by Brian Evenson

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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we got all the simenons here for ya @ north gloucester

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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now Maldoror can be my friend!

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Big Glengarry Glen Ross (movie) vibes from these type of clickbaits.

Call everyone a "son of a bitch!" It works like gangbuster.

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Couldn't tell you I just found out...

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Oh Jaime Christley got suspended?

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Riveting cultural commentary I am told.

C.J. Prince @cjprince.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's called a lens. The refraction of light on two diopters directs light, bends it as you say.

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I compiled my thoughts on TIFF's new market along with twelve features and ten shorts from this year's festival in one (very long) post. Includes thoughts on Club Kid, La Bola Negra, The Debut, The Face of Horror, and more. Read below: acquiredcinema.substack.com/p/tiff-2026-...

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TIFF 2026: Welcome to The Market

Reviews of a dozen features and ten short films from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival

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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Top of charts discourse. The song about Texas is terrible but people have been doing mash-ups to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre's ending on TikTok so who knows if it is good or bad.

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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Memories of that French comic who reportedly at crab after his cancer diagnosis, to even the score.

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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Steal Pierre Bayard's shtick at your peril...

Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It basically boils to having to do a school assignment on the book and do a presentation on the film, choosing a possibly more tasteful scene for it, preparing it nicely as a budding cinephile would. Then learning some guy just showed the gruesome ending as a "pretty sick, uh?" kind of thing...

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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My partner has a story about that film

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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Sacred Fount by Henry James.

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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In preparation for OTHER MOMMY, I am going to watch Suwa's M/OTHER.

Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The only one of his I have seen I felt was not up to par was his Kawabata adaptation: THOUSAND CRANES. Otherwise he is definitely an artist I want to watch more from.

Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My mother sought out BLIND BEAST (Masumura) and now recommends it. I do, too.

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Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I came to Berlin partly fot another sight of this painting by Hugo van der Goes,...

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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh they're coming... not here though...