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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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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What if they gave the money to a filmmaker (or filmmakers) with vision who is under the age of 60 and isn’t named Robert Eggers
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I used to say “I claim this chest in the name of Spain” to my first serious boyfriend (even though he wasn’t cool enough to have seen the sketch)
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But the commercial said that it’s for a vulnerable baby’s safety, and definitely not because they wanted to show off AI! (A VFX or actor baby definitely were not options!)
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why the fuck do we have to keep hearing about this guy? Are new horror movies really that boring?
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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
Just because the joke works for the meme doesn’t make it true!!!
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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 · 12/09/2026
Thank you 🙏🏻
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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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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Idk Trump was ready to smooch Zohran the first time they met
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I can’t reveal my source but I have it on good authority that it’s not fat but muscle
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you don’t use alt text I will 🌊 𝓀❕𝓁𝓁 𝓎🌺𝓊 🌊
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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
It makes me so happy when kids have media literacy (and pick up on the hints buried in the Hays Code). Mitchum forever!!!
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It used to be a Starbucks, which is part of the reason why it looks like that 😔
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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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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Big ass truck guys (myself included) feeling very betrayed rn
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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 · 15/07/2026
Jesse I love you, but shut the fuck up
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I have posted and deleted this four times because 1) I thought I got Platner's first name wrong 2) Bluesky flagged it as self-harm 3) link didn't work 4) I realized I had Platner's first name correct the first time
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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!
kickstarter.com
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 · 03/07/2026
I would suggest you read these two articles and reassess whether or not MAHA is winning. Their donors sure are. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u... www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...
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Trump Administration Delivers Lucrative Win for Its Kratom Allies
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“The buildings are too close together” —actual critique of NYC I heard after Mamdani’s win from an anarchist
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
BTW this shit is personal. Don’t do the shitty centrist “they voted for it, therefore they deserve to die” thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amiw...
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Iowa’s Cancer Rate Is Skyrocketing. Our Tests Prove Why.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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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
This is all to say: I understand Mamdani’s reasoning outside of kissing the ass of the establishment. I really don’t think it came from that place.
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I wanted Ossé to run, but NYC-DSA voted on this. The biggest arguments against his endorsement were that 1) Ossé had joined and left DSA previously 2) Ossé didn’t endorse Eon Huntley, who’d run for state assemblyman 3) Members needed to push through Tax the Rich and support existing members’ races
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I had hoped so! They went with a much duller, minionless headline
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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
Versatile character actor!
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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
Getting massive Chicago Bears fan vibes from this man
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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 · 18/06/2026
I’m not actually Italian so I love winding up Italian-Americans by saying shit like this
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Every time I see this restaurant mentioned I hear Tom Scharpling roasting the producer of Double Threat for five minutes because he pronounced it “Buca D’BePP”
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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 · 10/06/2026
Ding Dang is the second-most perfect song. Shortnin’ Bread is the first
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
(mournfully) Bing Bong
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Yeah I saw all that but TACO is real
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Somehow there is not a Kalshi market for “Will Trump actually show up to MSG” and I’m quite upset
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Did he actually show up!?!?
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Bond is like the Pope: a fundamentally conservative institution. He’s not gonna go on a mission to dig wells in Uganda. He will shoot some goons in a hallway in Moscow while wearing a Rolex specially designed for the film. The franchise cannot contain anything but this
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