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Justine Peres Smith

@redroomrantings.bsky.social
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Writer. Programmer of Underground Section at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Montréal/Tiohtià:ke

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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 37m
Anthony Jeselnik teaching men to read. He's for real the Ms Rachel for white, CIS men.
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 5h
My friends and family who think it's a bad idea for me to move are so close to convincing me but it's too late! I am moving! And now I'm just depressed and unmotivated.
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sid @sidvicious.ca · 23h
i bring you love
a drawing of mr Burns as the alien in the Simpsons episode but in sids style
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For those who missed it, I've launched a newsletter on Substack to write about movies and other stray thoughts. If you like my writing, I'd love if you could subscribe! afilmdiary.substack.com
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Red Room Rantings | Substack
Justine Smith is a writer who has been published in Little White Lies, Roger Ebert and Ultra Dogma. She programs the Underground Section at the Fantasia International Film Frstival. Click to read Red ...
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Surprise, I edited a bookazine! With in-depth original writing and cool archival pieces, THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE HUNGER GAMES (100% unofficial!) explores the novels, movies, stage show, and so much more. Out 30th Oct in the UK and a few weeks later in the USA. shop.kelsey.co.uk/products/the...
The Essential Guide to The Hunger Games bookazine
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Deciding to move, even though I think in the long run it will supremely benefit my life, has made every single day a living hell.
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For my latest newsletter, some emo vibes and then my favourite reading and writing for the September afilmdiary.substack.com/p/wake-me-up...
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Wake Me Up When September Ends: The Best Reads and Watches of the month
Oops I did it again… got really depressed and spiralled hard
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Best Films I watched in September 1. The Dreamed Adventure 2. Life of Jorge Luis Borges 3. All of a Sudden 4. The Unknown 5. My Wife Cries 6. Primetime 7. The Man I Love 8. Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney 9. Once Upon a Time in Harlem 10. Resident Evil
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Looking for some deep cut horror recommendations for fall. I'm especially open to short films because I'm going to be busy!
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Best Films I watched in September 1. The Dreamed Adventure 2. Life of Jorge Luis Borges 3. All of a Sudden 4. The Unknown 5. My Wife Cries 6. Primetime 7. The Man I Love 8. Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney 9. Once Upon a Time in Harlem 10. Resident Evil
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For my latest newsletter, some emo vibes and then my favourite reading and writing for the September afilmdiary.substack.com/p/wake-me-up...
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Wake Me Up When September Ends: The Best Reads and Watches of the month
Oops I did it again… got really depressed and spiralled hard
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
4 best first-time viewings of September 2026 The Butterfly (Moon Seung-wook, 2001) The Call (Lee Chung-hyun, 2020) Coyote vs. Acme (Dave Green, 2026) Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong, 2026)
The Butterfly (Moon Seung-wook, 2001)The Call (Lee Chung-hyun, 2020)Coyote vs. Acme (Dave Green, 2026)Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong, 2026)
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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 30/09/2026
I'm back on my substack where I wrote a newsletter about my extrmely busy September. I wrote 25 different pieces during the month!!
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September: Writing, Festivals, and more writing
Welcome to my newsletter! Every month you’ll receive this update featuring all of my writing, and my favorite film and television watches
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey Montreal! My friends are looking to have someone take over their lease for Nov 1. $1500 in NDG for 2 bedrooms, near 105, 138 and 420 bus. Great location and beautiful place!
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eight books to become a better film critic (according to me) afilmdiary.substack.com/p/eight-book...
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Eight Books to Become a Better Film Critic
It’s just like my opinion, man
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of my very best friends who literally lives down the street from me who I hang out with like 3 times a week is moving to BC and I am SAD
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For @cultmtl.com I interviewed Jay Baruchel about playing Ken Carter in Michael Dowse's The Stunt Driver cultmtl.com/2026/09/jay-...
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Jay Baruchel plays 'an archetype of Canadian ambition' in The Stunt Driver
An interview with Jay Baruchel about portraying Canadian stuntman Ken Carter in Michael Dowse's new film The Stunt Driver.
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The @cultmtl.com Screen Team's last round of TIFF reviews including Ladies and Gentlemen Brian Mulroney, Bucking Fastard, The Debut, Nobody’s Violence, The Man I Love, Possible Love, Misty Green and more cultmtl.com/2026/09/tiff...
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TIFF 2026: Ladies and Gentlemen Brian Mulroney, Bucking Fastard, The Debut, Nobody's Violence and more
Winners and runners up from the People's Choice Award for documentary, midnight madness. Films starring Julianne Moore, Rooney Mara and Cole Sprouse
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the depths of fall film festival season I ask myself, "Do I even like Film Festivals?" afilmdiary.substack.com/p/do-i-even-...
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Do I even like Film Festivals?
Are film festivals fascists? Can they be saved? Do I even like movies?
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Originally published in 2016, a short piece I wrote on Joan Didion and Hollywood with some amendments and footnotes afilmdiary.substack.com/p/joan-didio...
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Joan Didion and Hollywood: Amended and footnoted
On Panic at Needle Park, A Star is Born and Play it as it Lays
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Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finally they made a movie for people who heard Stars' "Your Ex-Lover is Dead" and wondered which direction they were headed when they "drove in silence across Pont Champlain." Was this a party on the South Shore? Do they live in the suburbs now? What's up with this geography???
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André Lavoie @andrelavoie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Décès de la cinéaste Anne Claire Poirier, une grande figure de l'Office national du film du Canada. J'ai eu la chance de la rencontrer à l'été 2020 pour revisiter ses souvenirs de Mourir à tue-tête (1979). Un moment précieux. Condoléances à ses proches. www.ledevoir.com/culture/cine...
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«Mourir à tue-tête»: le sale viol d’une jeune fille douce
Traiter de l’agression sexuelle du point de vue de la victime, façon «Mourir à tue-tête», d’Anne Claire Poirier.
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Film Combat Syndicate @fcsyndicate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Film critics: What inspired you to become film critics? Also, what were some of the ways in which you worked on becoming better film critics over time? What did you learn to consider/avoid in disseminating your opinions and views? Any pet peeves you've noticed from other critics in this regard?
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Leonard Cohen’s music is so cinematic. Such a beautiful use of it in My Wife Cries
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Republishing an article I wrote in 2015, I watched all of the films in competition for the 1985 Cannes Film Festival and did a deep dive into the trends and talking points of that year. A really stacked lineup including Pale Rider, Detective, Insignificance. afilmdiary.substack.com/p/a-deep-div...
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A Deep Dive into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival
A repost of an article written in 2015, a look at the past to better understand the present
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you missed it from earlier this year, I put together my yearly canon of favourite films afilmdiary.substack.com/p/justines-c...
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Justine's Canon 2026
AKA an impulsive, not particularly well thought out list of favourite films
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CTVM.info @lilianetremblay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📣 SODEC – Deux programmes sont ouverts jusqu’au 29 octobre : ✦ Développement entrepreneurial ✦ Initiatives innovantes 💻 Dépôt via SOD@ccès ⏰ 29 octobre, 23 h 59 👉 ctvm.info/sodec-depot-... #SODEC
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SODEC - Dépôt programmes Développement entrepreneurial et Initiatives innovantes
ACTUALITÉS
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On one of my favourite films of the year that is still looking for a distributor, Messy Legends - the Anti-Mile-End Kicks Montreal film about housing, crashing out and the millennial dream that never was afilmdiary.substack.com/p/the-origin...
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The Original Messy Legends: Montreal, Millennials and Pranks with Kelly Kay Hurcomb and James Watts
The Anti-Mile-End-Kicks (sorry, not sorry)
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Earlier this year I interviewed Simón Mesa Soto about his masterful film, A Poet afilmdiary.substack.com/p/embracing-...
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Embracing Ugliness in Simón Mesa Soto's A Poet
A Conversation with Simón Mesa Soto
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For my substack, A Guide to Touch: Or new ways of seeing and feeling, a beginning of a manifesto on film criticism afilmdiary.substack.com/p/a-guide-to...
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A Guide to Touch
Or new ways of seeing and feeling
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eight books to become a better film critic (according to me) afilmdiary.substack.com/p/eight-book...
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Eight Books to Become a Better Film Critic
It’s just like my opinion, man
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026
Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Originally published in 2016, a short piece I wrote on Joan Didion and Hollywood with some amendments and footnotes afilmdiary.substack.com/p/joan-didio...
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Joan Didion and Hollywood: Amended and footnoted
On Panic at Needle Park, A Star is Born and Play it as it Lays
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some recent signs of life
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the depths of fall film festival season I ask myself, "Do I even like Film Festivals?" afilmdiary.substack.com/p/do-i-even-...
afilmdiary.substack.com
Do I even like Film Festivals?
Are film festivals fascists? Can they be saved? Do I even like movies?
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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Al Goldstein's rave review of Carolee Schneemann's experimental film classic FUSES in Screw Magazine
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't have any time to watch anything in October and yet I am making a really extensive Halloween watch list
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I started a column of the best "Overheard" comments, questions and observations from TIFF. I will likely continue this series. “Why do you say cinephile like it’s a slur?” “Because it is a slur.” afilmdiary.substack.com/p/overheard-...
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Overheard in TIFF: A list of musings
People are talking in Toronto and we’re listening
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2026)
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 28/09/2026
The most popular movies and TV shows streaming in Canada right now #Backrooms
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The most popular movies and TV shows streaming in Canada right now
Streaming guide JustWatch has revealed the most popular movies and TV shows streaming in Canada right now.
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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My latest: a defense of piracy in the name of film preservation. It's not often one gets commissioned to write one's dream piece, yet here we are! Featuring @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social @jamesflowerfilm.bsky.social and @willaharlowross.bsky.social
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Pirating the Pirates
Notes from the underground of film preservation.
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Before TIFF I reflected on losing my father last year and trying to run away from grief afilmdiary.substack.com/p/confession...
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Confessions of a Film Festival Runaway
Or how I failed to escape death by running to Toronto
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 28/09/2026
One last post (for now) on this wee entry about writerly dishonesty (mine), then back in its box it goes.
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To Tell the Truth
[a confession]
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Republishing an article I wrote in 2015, I watched all of the films in competition for the 1985 Cannes Film Festival and did a deep dive into the trends and talking points of that year. A really stacked lineup including Pale Rider, Detective, Insignificance. afilmdiary.substack.com/p/a-deep-div...
afilmdiary.substack.com
A Deep Dive into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival
A repost of an article written in 2015, a look at the past to better understand the present
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am moving this month and if you guys have any underrated tips, hit me up!
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CTV News Montreal @ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Commuters taking the metro at the Place-des-Arts station tomorrow will hear the iconic three-note tone that plays daily transformed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
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Montreal Symphony Orchestra reimagines metro chimes at Place-des-Arts
Commuters taking the metro at the Place-des-Arts station tomorrow will hear the iconic three-note tone that plays daily transformed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you missed it from earlier this year, I put together my yearly canon of favourite films afilmdiary.substack.com/p/justines-c...
afilmdiary.substack.com
Justine's Canon 2026
AKA an impulsive, not particularly well thought out list of favourite films
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sorry, I think logging onto Bluesky for the first time in months broke the site.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you student journalists/editors.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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