iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Thank you very much Dan!

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

I’m sorry for seeing this so late but thank you!!!

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

Gotta say the Pialat takes the cake for me. Where do you stand with Chang Cheh? FIVE SHAOLIN MASTERS would definitely be in my top 5 of that year.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

Bruh I'm still thinking about the realism-shedding extended sequence in EXILED (2006) where the hitmen pop all bullets out of their guns, leaving only one each, then proceed to shoot what seems like infinite ammo. Setting up a logic for a shootout then discarding it is unhinged. Naturally loved it.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

The whole gang definitely evolve in ways that don't feel in-line with what American tv usually allows. The Willow episode where she kisses a new girl and suddenly becomes the misogynistic man who killed her ex girlfriend stressed me the fuck out. The symbols get *really* overloaded in this season.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

No wonder peter pan syndrome losers hate this season and want the characters to be quippy high schoolers for all eternity. I'm sorry but being mature involves being in a constant battle with mortality. I loved watching the show slowly heading into that direction.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

I'd never gotten to S07 of Buffy until now and the level of relentless Evangelion-style dread and apocalyptic anxiety is shocking. It's all sex and death. The depiction of maturity as constantly worrying someone you love might be in mortal danger or you might fuck up is inspired.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

The sincere shift towards sympathy near the end is so bold and lands perfectly. Digital has scarcely felt more natural than it does here. For all the talk about eeriness people like to associate with KK, it’s sad his (highly successful) spiritual pursuits are systematically glossed over.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

$1500 for a single autumn afternoon? You can have three months of these free of charge every year!

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

What do the percentages reflect? The amount of Tilda Swinton inside the movie?

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Japan has so much good going for it but every time i see a vlog it’s fawning over the most idiotic, juvenile Elon Musk ass idea of the future which is so obviously a way to skirt around paying for labor so I have to laugh!

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Recent one I watched was a robot arm taking orders of soft serve ice cream, literally just places the cone under the machine, and it still messed up and splashed it all over. Presented the cone to the customer with vanilla dripping down its elbow. Gross. Taking a year off, Japan now lives in 2049.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Sometimes I feel optimistic about the human race then I open my Youtube homepage and there’s still recently uploaded videos titled “Japan is literally living in 2050 😍” and it’s a grocery store with self-checkout.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

This and its sister fairytale adaptation are the two Breillats that stuck with me the most. I’ve been meaning to revisit both myself too!

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

The House of Mirth and Terence Davies’ adaptation.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Felt this one coming for a while. For no clear reason, I have been thinking about this movie non-stop for the past year. Makes me so happy.

BARBE BLEUE (Catherine Breillat) changes color to orange and climbs to the top three on Sallitt’s favorites of 2009.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

[LAUNDRY MACHINE WHIRRING] “So, you want to tell me about…” [SORRY I WASN’T LISTENING DURING THIS PART MY MOM CAME IN THE ROOM TO TALK SOMEONE FORGOT THE OVEN ON ALL NIGHT OMFG IT WASNT ME!!!]

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

I use the apple tv cube thing, it has all the apps. Have had it for multiple years, it’s so good tbh. Really cut down on me having to do things through my laptop (especially since i learned how to use plex). If found on sale i recommend it!

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Tidal is noticeably superior in sound quality. Good for tv play too as it has videos and actually well-curated playlists that don’t feel as algorithmic. Also has most artists who refuse to be on Spotify (Joanna Newsom, Joni Mitchell, etc.) who make the bulk of what I listen to anyway.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

As in the tearing down of buildings or replacing them in INHERENT VICE? Or more like THREE TIMES by Hou? If it’s the former then Jia Zhangke does it a lot. Also pick a Hansen-Love, Davies, or Rivette and you’re likely to find that too. Maybe even BONJOUR TRISTESSE counts.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

I know it’s considered mid, but Scarlet’s Walk is my current favorite Tori Amos album. Its endearingly sincere Bush era themes of “traversing the American landscape in search of answers” just lands right when her eye for astute, idiosyncratic details pushes it to unfamiliar territories. She’s good.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Oh no please rest and get better soon!

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Great scene! So dark I had no clue what was going on, and it became even more difficult to distinguish the two masked riders apart lmao

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

SHIN KAMEN RIDER is phenomenal. Great use of digital, great use of “terrible” CGI, great use of all genre conventions. Heroics in the bland midday sky. Few directors truly wring digital for all its worth, flat images and all, like Anno does here. Least cynical movie I’ve seen in a long while.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Kind of funny how film twitter attempted to rehabilitate his image as “the last Insane Imaginary” and how short-lived that was. Sometimes a big imaginary is just an okayish statistics bro who follows too many “@ ScienceIsAmazing” accounts. I’ll take him any day of the week over, say, Lanthimos tho..

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Surveying reviews on the latest PJ Harvey, the state of music criticism has to be way worse than film. Mostly muted polite praise, a particularly mean spirited one from p4k, they all share a bizarre fixation on seeing the dialect as a gimmick because it’s the only way to think of a formal decision.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

He would have pink hair and call himself neurodivergent. Tilda Swinton DESTROYS bipan leftist snowflake with FACTS and LOGIC

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

October First Time Viewings: 1. WHERE CHIMNEYS ARE SEEN. 2. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON. 3. XIAO WU. 4. NEWS FROM HOME. 5. FRONTIER MARSHALL. 6. OLD JOY.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

I have now watched the movie and I can say i_understood_that_reference.gif

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Only found a colorized copy of Heinosuke Gosho’s WHERE CHIMNEYS ARE SEEN and couldn’t re-encode it in b&w without it messing up so I had to change my tv settings to zero saturation. Colorizing movies should be punishable by law.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

BOTTOMS is in theaters now.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Naming my pet frog “Jacques Ribbitte”

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Her battles were with the bourgeoisie. Her prison? Her own mind.

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Yasser @yassmac.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

A sequel to a Rivette being the #1 movie in America in 2023 was not on my bingo card. Is this one about the battles or the prisons?

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