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Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing

@swenryan.bsky.social
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Freelance film critic, lafilmcritics.bsky.social Secretary/Events Chair, list obsessive. Host of Catalyst and Witness, co-host of 24 hours don't make an ideology. USC JD, CAMS MA.

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 5h
Me and @markkrotov.bsky.social wrote about Anne Carson and the Nobel Prize in Literature newrepublic.com/article/2164...
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Anne Carson Is (Yet Another) Perfect Nobel Literature Laureate
It’s hard to argue with the Canadian poet who was awarded literature’s most prestigious award on Thursday. That may be the problem.
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The @egyptianla.bsky.social is back and so is our screening series! Our next film will be MALA NOCHE on 10/20, with special guest Gus Van Sant in conversation with @aduralde.bsky.social. Hope to see you there! www.egyptiantheatre.com/film/lafca-m...
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The Egyptian Theatre - LAFCA Presents: Mala Noche
35mm print | Q&A with filmmaker Gus Vant Sant, moderated by LAFCA member and author of "Hollywood Pride" Alonso Duralde
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Egyptian Theatre LA @egyptianla.bsky.social · 7h
On Tuesday, October 20, the Egyptian Theatre and Los Angeles Film Critics Association will welcome Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Gus Van Sant for a special 35mm presentation of his debut 1986 feature MALA NOCHE! Get tickets: egyptiantheatre.com/series/lafca-at-the-egyptian
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Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing @swenryan.bsky.social · 8h
Happy birthday @applynorules.bsky.social!!
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Filipe Furtado @filipefurtado.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have an essay on Wu Ma's great The Dead and The Deadly on this boxset vinegarsyndrome.com/products/mad...
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Made in Hong Kong: Volume 3
While Hong Kong cinema and Taiwanese cinema often covered similar ground, they naturally remained distinct due to cultural differences and at certain times i...
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Filipe Furtado @filipefurtado.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On two little seen Howard Hawks war movies.
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Suicide rituals
Unknown Hawks: Today We Live (1933) and The Road to Glory (1936)
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 11h
Cristiano Ronaldo has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for his masterpiece "2,000 words of deranged talking points for Jorge Jesus"
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 13h
Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature!
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 13h
from 2022
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matt lynch @colonelmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Really enjoyed LATE FAME. Should be double featured with LIGHT SLEEPER.
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Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing @swenryan.bsky.social · 20h
I just passed my 10th anniversary of becoming a “professional” critic: my first ever proper review, of Kirsten Johnson’s CAMERAPERSON, went online on September 26, 2016 @ Seattle Screen Scene; can’t thank @theendofcinema.bsky.social enough for taking a chance. seattlescreenscene.com/2016/09/26/c...
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Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016)
When I first heard about the significant buzz surrounding Cameraperson, it seemed heavily reminiscent of Sans soleil, Chris Marker’s 1983 magnum opus that I regard as the greatest film I’ve ever se…
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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 20h
Those painters can say anything with a glass vase and some fruit. So can Hong, with his own additive elements (lovely to have Kim Minhee in the picture again). 2/2
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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 20h
The Hong Sangsoo variations continue: he makes essentially one segmented coherent work, which these shorter feature films are all part. NOWHERE TO LAY MY EYES is much closer to Chardin’s and Morandi’s maximally expressive minimalism than ever… 1/2
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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
… I don’t know another new filmmaker who uses sound & image in such radical ways, to provoke us to rethink what we see, what we hear, & how we need to think about our world in crisis. 2/2
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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
OVERT LISTENING. Tiffany Sia 2026. Sia is doing something new & important in her essay-poetic films, where the stakes are incredibly high... @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 22h
Wait, is it Vroom10 or Vroomio? ...Ah, crap, it's Vroomio.
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 22h
No tension here, they're friends now under Family Law
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 22h
"Oi, fought oi mighta been Rocky Balboer, didja lads? Wuz you opin to see Russell Crowe Cindereller Man join the next movie?"
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 22h
That's right, it's This Guy!
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 22h
It's Vroom Vroom Boys Passover, Charlize Theron
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 22h
NOTHING'S GONNA BEND OR BREAK ME
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 22h
"I already did the flashback once"
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 22h
"Sorry Boswell-kun, we forgot to mention Han's alive"
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 22h
Whole family's just been blowing off getting the house finished for three movies
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 23h
I can't believe they've done this
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 23h
First human contact with Vroom Vroom Boys
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 23h
Family Reuniting as Ludacris and Tyrese burn up in the atmosphere
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 23h
Tragic gamer moment
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 23h
only one remnant found in the wreckage...
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 23h
I think it's beautiful that this franchise has been engaged in a phantom thread with its audience for the past 5 movies, all culminating in them blasting nos in space
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 23h
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 23h
Only remnant of human civilization after Charlize nukes the planet
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 23h
🎵I can 🎵REACH any STAR 🎵𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕, 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕, 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕, 🎵I've got faaaaaaaaith 🎵Faith of the heaaaaaarrrtttt
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 23h
🎵I've got 🎵STRENGTH of the SOUL 🎵NO ONE'S GONNA BEND OR BREAK ME
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🎵Cause I've got 🎵FAITH of the HEART 🎵GOING WHERE MY HEART WILL TAKE ME
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🎵And I will see my dream come alive at last 🎵I will touch the sky 🎵But they're not gonna hold me down no more 🎵No they're not gonna change my mind
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🎵It's been a long road... 🎵Getting from there to here 🎵It's been a long time... 🎵But my time is finally near
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Vroom Vroom Boys are going to outer space (Eastern Europe)
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Unca Bwian only lets me eat tuna sammiches"
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is all the explanation you get for seeing a breathing, struggling Han explode. Vroom Vroom Boys XI will have an army of Han Clones battling Cyborg Idris Elba
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They should flashback the entirety of Vroom Vroom Boys 3
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dying at John Cena in a jail cell witnessing the Power of Family
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
OH NO!
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"That doesn't count, he's a puppet outside the movies" "No, a puppet in the sense that he kept the Jedi Council too civil and went along with Palpatine's emergency powers act. The guilt of paving the way for Order 66 factored into his self-imposed exile on Dagobah" "...Can I be Han Solo"
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The hair department would be fired
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oi Chewie, ifn oi were you, I'd take the quid an tell em after the fact you can't drive a car
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Clang clang clang went the trolley, 𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐌 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐉𝐎𝐇𝐍 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐀
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Vroom Vroom Creed...
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Oi, oim jus a lil ol Game a Frones, I doan know about these fantastical items you call lorries"
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Carl Garcia @carlinspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You have been excommunicated from The Vroom Vroom Boys
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