Adam Benzine

Oscar®-Nominee. Filmmaker (Dir. @LanzmannFilm & @TheCurveFilm). Journalist (Bylines @Variety, @THR, etc.) Cat Dad to @winklesandflam. Digital Artist-ish.

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

I’m now on @bluesky social: https://t.co/j1OMHj6F46

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

@0x_fokki Well, no. It didn’t cost $124 bc it couldn’t have been made without the $870k spent making the original. That’s the lesson. AI didn’t make this from scratch, out of thin air. It used the $870k investment as its base. So $870,124 was spent making this. At least.

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

@BloodRecs @oliviarodrigo @LiviesHQ Blood Records: have bought & love much of your stuff. I know you won’t comment but you should listen to fans. This is sub par & overpriced. Remember you’re also competing w the official store: signed vinyl, pop up book editions, bubblegum coloured 7”s etc. gotta do better

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Canadian Actress Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Returns Toronto Film Critics Award in Response to Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech https://t.co/mfKTt2t0bP

[Nonfics @nonfics]

We recently highlighted Adam Benzine's Oscar-nominated short 'Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah' in honor of Claude Lanzmann's centenary. Now you can watch an extended version titled 'The Death and Love of Claude Lanzmann' to rent on Vimeo on Demand: https://t.co/csPSygUuZr

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

@Mollyploofkins Those saying it makes no difference to Home Depot: when you pay by credit card, retailers pay a fee to the CC company. Usually, like 2% + a flat fee of 10 cents.
So, about 10.3 cents on each 17 cent sale. When people return the scraper, the shop usually doesn't get the fee back.

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

Documentary Branch members are up in arms over the
@TheAcademy's tepid response to the beating and arrest of Hamdan Ballal, the #Oscar winning Palestinian co-director of NO OTHER LAND. My story for @THR: https://t.co/1ecKTHk9MA

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

@StatisticUrban @adamm0rgan True, although I'd almost consider that something closer to a sponsorship or mascot deal. The former PM is undoubtedly a draw for the right-wing paper, but - paradoxically - the deal's not really for his writing. He's certainly not penning 10k word investigative pieces

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

Sarah Deakins' VIOLET script is incredible - fully deserving of its top marks here. Perhaps the best unproduced Canadian screenplay in circulation? Someone fund it, for heaven's sake @Telefilm_Canada @CFCcreates @CMF_FMC @CanadaCouncil @TELUSFund @BellFund @CreativeBCS

[The Black List @theblcklst]

Join https://t.co/0Dl9HMucJP, and read material like VIOLET by Sarah Deakins. https://t.co/8ktJBEQsBB #BlackListWeekendRead @sarahcdeakins

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

@mousecrackers @DemocraticWins We? Who the fuck is “we”? Are you a billionaire? No? Then there is no we. Donald Trump doesn’t give a fuck about you. All you ever were to him was an easy mark.

You’re in for a rude awakening over the next four years. And you know what? You deserve it.

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

@paulsmi67018045 @Acyn I assume that the U.S. is the mooching neighbour borrowing tools in this metaphor? Or is your memory really that short

https://t.co/yUrwNlTEjg

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

@TravisNei @ItsDeanBlundell My man, there aren’t going to be any fruit or vegetables. It’s estimated that ~70% of US farm-workers are undocumented migrants. When Trump deports them all, as he has promised to do, the US agricultural economy will collapse.

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

@MattWalshBlog “Leftists” - 4 in 5 farm-owners are Trump-supporting Republicans. Who do you think picks all their produce? 😂

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

@simon3862 @blurofficial @Damonalbarn @alexjameshq @grahamcoxon @DaveRowntree Sadly I won’t be but thank you for the invitation ❤️

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

@simon3862 @blurofficial @Damonalbarn @alexjameshq @grahamcoxon @DaveRowntree I miss how tight-knit those BFC days were. You me Sarah Toby Martin etc - felt like a community

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

@simon3862 @blurofficial @Damonalbarn @alexjameshq @grahamcoxon @DaveRowntree Haaaaaa maybe just a tiny bit? I remember I did kick up a stink 🙈

[Blockchain North @BlockchaiNorth]

Do you agree that much of the NFT space has moved to meme coins? 🤔 - @adambenzine

Filmed at @Futurist_conf in Toronto 🇨🇦

[Adam Benzine @adambenzine]

@DarylAntony @OpenAI If you ask it to give you longer to complete your thoughts, it will. I explained to it that I often have long pauses, and it understood and remembered.