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lost in the sauce | “writer” and “filmmaker” | he/him alexlei.neocities.com

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a man in a suit is sitting in a chair with a book in front of him and the website sharktankgifts.com is visible ALT: a man in a suit is sitting in a chair with a book in front of him and the website sharktankgifts.com is visible
22.02.2026 21:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Robert Duvall's strength was finding the blood in stony men A rock-solid physical presence, the Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall always let emotion dance behind his eyes.

wrote about Robert Duvall’s extraordinary physical presence www.avclub.com/robert-duval...

19.02.2026 21:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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LAST CHANTS FOR SUNDANCE [FILM DISPATCH] - BRUISER Alex Lei reports on the festival's final Park City edition

went long on the last Park City Sundance www.bruisermag.com/lei_sundance

19.02.2026 19:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“About a mile up the road in a strip mall was where the cinema was happening…”

@alexlei.bsky.social reports on Sundance’s final outing to Park City

19.02.2026 16:13 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

oh i’m sure

19.02.2026 04:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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this is just like Twitter. incredible

19.02.2026 01:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Shut Up and Drive The Outfit (1973) is an audacious and violent crime film by John Flynn from Richard Stark's novel. || Alex Lei

wrote a few weeks ago about what i think is Robert Duvall’s finest film www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

16.02.2026 18:23 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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“I believe in resuscitation” might as well be a manifesto for the troupe itself.

@alexlei.bsky.social reports on CIMINO’S DEFEAT, the latest production from the vital Brooklyn-based theater company Adult Film

06.02.2026 16:11 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Environmental Horror: Abby Ellis Talks About Luring Audiences into Watching ‘The Lake’ Abby Ellis talks about ringing the alarm on the “environmental nuclear bomb” in Utah with her Sundance doc The Lake

as the Sundance dust starts to settle, The Lake has emerged as one of my favorites—for Doc Mag, i talked to Abby Ellis about her thrilling, apocalyptic and skeptically optimistic film about the efforts to save the Great Salt Lake documentary.org/online-featu...

27.01.2026 21:27 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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There's never been a better time to get in on the guy who makes the world's longest films Magellan welcomes a new audience to the challenging, slow-burn work of Lav Diaz with a perfectly representative movie.

went long on Magellan, and how it stands less as a new leap in his cinema and instead is a part of his longterm project excising the ghosts of Filipino history www.avclub.com/lav-diaz-mag...

09.01.2026 20:14 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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James Cameron tried to bring the Western into the future, but only went backwards Avatar: Fire And Ash shows how clearly James Cameron has regressed towards the worst tropes of the Western.

wrote about how James Cameron used the tropes & imagery Western in the Avatar films and how his adaptation of the genre reduces it of its complexity www.avclub.com/james-camero...

26.12.2025 19:28 👍 63 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 4
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“Ahead of its latest installment playing at New/Next, I kept asking around about what the hell Reveries actually was. ‘It’s hard to describe.’ ‘You just have to see it.’ ‘It’s, like, two guys riffing. But trippy.’”

@alexlei.bsky.social interviews the trio behind the REVERIES series

19.12.2025 16:09 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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“Withholding Information Makes You More Engaged”: Elena Oxman on “Outerlands” After a run-in with a new coworker at the laundromat, Cass (Asia Kate Dillon) has a drunken hookup with Kalli (Louisa Krause). Kalli seems to take an immediate trusting to Cass, and after Cass tells…

had a great chat with Elena Oxman on her stunning debut OUTERLANDS, which effortlessly bounces between a first-person realism and a surprising poetic inflection filmmakermagazine.com/132649-inter...

16.12.2025 19:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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they blew up the pigeon population in Mumbai last night

07.12.2025 14:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i’ll circle back on this around 2am

06.12.2025 02:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

let me hit the casino and get back to you

05.12.2025 22:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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How to Open a Volunteer-Run, Non-Profit Video Store in Your City (like we did in Bmore!) | [ON PATREON HIATUS] Eric Allen Hatch Get more from [ON PATREON HIATUS] Eric Allen Hatch on Patreon

re: WB-Netflix

physical media is more important than ever and it should be accessible to people everywhere. Baltimore has had a nonprofit video store for year’s now, and one of its co-founders @ericallenhatch.bsky.social wrote about how it can be replicated www.patreon.com/posts/24007106

05.12.2025 20:57 👍 59 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 1
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i see a number of you talking about the “Train Dreams Wars” which is quaint and all but i’m not sure you realize how in the trenches it got

26.11.2025 02:04 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Tibet via California: Tenzin Phuntsog on “Next Life” An image of the Dalai Lama gives diasporic texture to an otherwise anonymous suburban American house; the camera tracks to the next room, where a father, mother, and son sit like statues.

had a great talk with my old professor, Tenzin Phuntsog, about making films that are important to you and his debut NEXT LIFE filmmakermagazine.com/132497-inter...

25.11.2025 22:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

bro last night was an american canto

23.11.2025 21:42 👍 65 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

film criticism may be dying, but The A.V. Club let me write about Bazin’s ontology of the image, and that’s not for nothing

21.11.2025 22:32 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Nouvelle Vague betrays Godard, yet finds something all its own Nouvelle Vague never becomes Breathless or finds the birth of the French New Wave. It's too deep in Richard Linklater's precise reality.

some Friday reading for ya: wrote about Linklater, Godard, NOUVELLE VAGUE, and the looming legacy of Bazin www.avclub.com/richard-link...

21.11.2025 22:31 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Maryland Film Festival 2025: Cinema Saturation in Baltimore If last year’s Maryland Film Festival felt like a trial run for a new era of Baltimore’s cornerstone film event, the 26th Maryland Film Festival solidified its direction. Bouncing back from the low…

my report of the 26th Maryland Film Festival, which surprised me on how much it bounced back from its historic low point in 2023 and is once again making Baltimore one of the great places to be for indie cinema filmmakermagazine.com/132457-revie...

20.11.2025 17:55 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Twitter went down because too many people watched the Magellan trailer and the site crashed

18.11.2025 14:14 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

they’re trying to demoralize us

18.11.2025 14:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

speak on it

18.11.2025 14:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Alex Lei, the Brianna Wu of film twitter? (He's actually white)

04.11.2025 00:10 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0