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Violet Lucca

@violetlucca.bsky.social
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Film critic. Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Jan ‘25). My writing about film has appeared in the NYT, Art in America, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and elsewhere. NYFCC member linktr.ee/violetvlucca

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
lets see, Panda Express was started by Chinese immigrants and they are still privately/family owned. personally I think immigrant voices matter and make us stronger (and you are clearly trying to erase them), but if you want to be a gatekeeping snob, you do you.
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wrong! The 4-hour Musk doc by Alex Gibney is sexual harassment because a) the subject has been covered ad nauseam and b) the director is bland AF. This has nothing to do with being conventionally attractive; it is unwanted touch!
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hilarious because this guy is featured prominently in the Elizabeth Holmes documentary
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Anjeanette Damon @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The kratom industry spends heavily lobbying states & Congress to keep the psychoactive plant available in gas stations and smoke shops. It enlisted the help of the foremost kratom researcher who hasn't been open about his financial ties to the industry. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/krat...
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The Scientist Trying to Keep Kratom Legal Has Not Disclosed Longstanding Ties to Kratom Lobbyists
University of Florida professor Christopher McCurdy has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for symposiums from the American Kratom Association. None o...
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
we literally stand on the shoulders of giants. towering figures who have exited the world. fierce intellects who believed things like "you can ban or regulate dangerous stuff" and "societies can rein in excesses," and "peace is generally preferable to war and chaos." may as well have been aliens
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Sometimes it’s nice to remember Steven Toast saying “fire the nuclear weapons”
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 15/07/2026
pete hegseth this time i guess
it's happening again giant
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I live in a prewar apartment building in Brooklyn. I closed all my windows, but... youtu.be/_nK4VnBjD24?...
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Inside-Out Fog - The Simpsons
YouTube video by steve's videos
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
@muscledistribution.bsky.social has done really great work; help them do even more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus... Also, so this trends: I was sick of hearing about Graham Platner (pro and con) months ago, but supporting him now is just psychotic.
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Help Muscle restore and rerelease four underseen indie films
We're restoring PUMPING IRON II: THE WOMEN, SPARKLE'S TAVERN, SCREAMPLAY, and OFF THE WALL so that we can bring them to new audiences.
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
@muscledistribution.bsky.social has done really great work; help them do even more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus... Also, so this trends: I was sick of hearing about Grant Platner (pro and con) months ago, but supporting him now is just psychotic. Drop the fuck out, dude!
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Help Muscle restore and rerelease four underseen indie films
We're restoring PUMPING IRON II: THE WOMEN, SPARKLE'S TAVERN, SCREAMPLAY, and OFF THE WALL so that we can bring them to new audiences.
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Happy Return of the Living Dead day to all who celebrate
Still from the movie Return of the Living dead showing the main building. Text reads
"July 3, 1984
5:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time"
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Tom Wilkinson’s character holding a shit ton of baguettes in Michael Clayton
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Tomorrow’s New York Post cover prediction: MAMDUMMY’S MINIONS [photoshop of DSA slate as minions] City Slips into Socialist Slime
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A photo of Bill Swerski’s Superfans, an SNL sketch about Chicago sports superfansPhoto of John J. Cafaro, a Trump donor who received a no-bid contract to clean and refurbish the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I’ve been following Hassan since he was doing his “reasons to visit Syria” series. (Instagram’s algorithm thinks I’m Arab and I’m fine with that.) His campaign to get people who pledged to rebuild Syria to pay up has been hilarious and inspiring. This deserves more coverage!
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Google Reader’s sharing and friends section. I miss it.
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Trump got jealous of all the attention the Knicks were getting and decided to wrap it up with Iran. Yes, I am entirely serious because this is how his brain works. Put me on MSNBC
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It’s kinda crazy that nobody gives Brian Wilson credit for inventing Daniel Johnston www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwDw...
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Brian Wilson - Rings
YouTube video by Eddie the Amateur
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It’s kinda crazy that nobody gives Brian Wilson credit for inventing bed rotting
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
(mournfully) Bing Bong
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Ted Turner buried Cronenberg’s CRASH after he watched it over breakfast with Jane Fonda. He founded CNN. But also he let TCM and Adult Swim do their thing. In conclusion, Ted Turner is a land of contrasts.
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New season of BEEF started off a little rocky but, among other highlights, the use of the “meow meow meow meow” version of “What Was I Made For” and OLDBOY fight fucking got me.
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is like J. G. Ballard’s Crash, except sex has been swapped for money—which is somewhat Ballardian
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
ATLiens and others who live in Atlanta: @videodrome.bsky.social and the Atlanta Film Festival are putting on a special screening of eXistenZ! I will be there to discuss the film—please come through! www.plazaatlanta.com/movie/plazad...
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Plazadrome: eXistenZ
**ATLFF 2026 badge-holders: 50 seats are held for you, so simply show up prior to the screening and flash your badge to claim your seat while they last!** Plazadrome, The Atlanta Film Festival and A ...
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It’s kinda crazy that nobody gives Brian Wilson credit for inventing bed rotting
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The most degrading part of NY Post reporters attending NYC-DSA endorsement forums is that you know they’re only paying $5/month dues (or have applied for a waiver). It’s horseshit!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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Tyler Coates @tylercoates.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
it must suck when someone steals your work :(
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Charles Pieper @inherentcharlie.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
oh hell yes www.architecturaldigest.com/story/kriste...
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Kristen Stewart’s Bold Plan to Bring a Beloved Los Angeles Theater Back to Life
How the actor-director is restoring the historic Highland Theatre as a community-centered home for adventurous cinema in LA
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I hate thinking about Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, or Soon-Yi, but this exchange is worth drawing attention to.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
ahh a nice night out at the movies. now time to check my phone and see what our mad pedophile king and his evil scheming viziers are up to
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Amber T @amber-tee.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Today I read @violetlucca.bsky.social’s piece on THE SHROUDS, Hunny the “extreme obsequiousness” of AI chatbots and how Cronenberg’s films are “extensions of what currently exists”. Have had this essay bookmarked for a while,& today of all days, I really needed it. violet.substack.com/p/wild-hunny
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Wild Hunny
On The Shrouds, Hunny, Grok, Ani, and Elon Musk
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Eyes Wide Shut posting will continue until all files have been redacted
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Disgusted that this doesn’t have more likes
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
That skeet was inspired by this incredible object: youtu.be/BLitwlP-m7c?...
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The Hospice - Robert Aickman
YouTube video by From the Library of the Late Dr John Rant
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Yeah I could watch a screener of a new movie. Or I could watch a bad VHS rip of something that aired on British television and make my soul sing.
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Amanda @mandalikewine.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
My 15yo convinced my 11yo to watch The Fly with him. Apparently she loved it so much she wrote a review.
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I have a fraught relationship with the term “body horror.” Yet I couldn’t resist writing about it for @criterion.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
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Mutation as Metaphor: Body Horror’s Visceral Transformations
Classics of the genre—including Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession and David Cronenberg’s The Fly—explore the gory extremes of corporeal experience.
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 21/10/2025
Our GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC conversation with @violetlucca.bsky.social on David Cronenberg's THE DEAD ZONE, released on this day in 1983:
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GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: “The Dead Zone” with Violet Lucca
Listen to GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: “The Dead Zone” with Violet Lucca from One Heat Minute Productions wherever you get your podcasts!
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
It’s kinda funny to get fired by your homely older brother. Rest in piss, Andrew!
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
It’s actually really exciting what a human brain can do compared to a large language model with rigid rules
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
these people are stealing from you and laughing at you
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
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One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another unapologetically addresses the completely inexcusable injustices of contemporary American life while being incredibly funny, exciting, suspenseful, and poignant, particularly ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2025
NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com
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I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal.
I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
reverseshot.org
One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another unapologetically addresses the completely inexcusable injustices of contemporary American life while being incredibly funny, exciting, suspenseful, and poignant, particularly ...
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