Bruce Bennett 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

Film Studies Prof, Lancaster University. Current research: Refugee Cinema. Now at @brucebennett.bsky.social

[Bruce Bennett 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @BruceTBennett]

'Cinema tells the whole story of the bicycle. The erudite Bruce Bennett guides us on this magnificent exploration of the two, and even offers a GoPro vision of their intriguing future.' - Paul Fournel.
My new book, Cycling and Cinema, can be bought here:
https://t.co/hEDCWWPZch

[Karl Hansen @karl_fh]

Why? Do the IDF have a reputation for doing unspeakable things to unarmed civilians or something?

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Julian Assange's t-shirt at Cannes lists the names of 4,986 Palestinian children aged five and under, killed by Israeli forces since 2023.

[Photos by David Fisher]

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Liz Truss on full wilting-lettuce form as she defines Western civilisation as first starving & then ethnically cleansing 2.1 million people, overseen by one of the most violent, bigoted & racist governments on earth led by a war criminal wanted for genocide by @ICJ_org

[Bruce Bennett 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @BruceTBennett]

Now that the neofascists have seized control in the US, I wonder how long it will be before they start demanding that all those American war films that treat the nazis as bad guys have to be re-edited.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Australian actor Guy Pearce stands on the right side of the history🇵🇸
WITH THE TRUTH
WITH THE HUMANITY
WITH THE OPPRESSED

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Literally a scene from a Batman movie and the dumb fuck that is in charge of 'auditing' the government thinks it's real.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

This video from 1943 illustrates fascism.

Which is exactly what has taken over the USA.

[Bruce Bennett 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @BruceTBennett]

@GivEnergy, my inverter has been offline for a month and I need your help to reconnect it. I have tried contacting you several times by phone, via your website and by email but have not yet had a response, and am now at a loss as to how to proceed.

[Falastin Flip @TOliveFern]

The fact that Israel internally publishes a guide to escape war crimes prosecution is amusing enough. Let me share below some excerpts which are even more hilarious 🤣
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[Bruce Bennett 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @BruceTBennett]

Only dip into twitter occasionally these days, and it just takes a few seconds to be reminded why I’ve stopped bothering.

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

'No matter how ruthlessly'. That should work both ways then.

[Bruce Bennett 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @BruceTBennett]

The new Painkiller record sounds like a trial run for a John Zorn/@thebugzoo collaboration. Make it happen please, Kevin.

[Bruce Bennett 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @BruceTBennett]

@NorthernSilents @JonnyWorst @MorecambeWG This is the introduction I gave to Potemkin: https://t.co/Y91BFzhcgw

[Northern Silents @NorthernSilents]

In @BruceTBennett's words, the 'dangerously talented' @JonnyWorst at the piano for Battleship Potemkin to close a great day at @MorecambeWG. Thanks to everyone who joined us for #SilentsByTheSea all-dayer.

[Bruce Bennett 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @BruceTBennett]

@NorthernSilents @JonnyWorst @MorecambeWG

[Northern Silents @NorthernSilents]

This Saturday night at @MorecambeWG it's Battleship Potemkin, introduced by @BruceTBennett

Don't miss this gripping silent film with live, improvised music by pianist @JonnyWorst

#SilentsByTheSea #Morecambe

[Bruce Bennett 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @BruceTBennett]

Very much looking to introducing a rare screening of Eisenstein’s masterpiece Battleship Potemkin at the ‘Silents by the Sea’ all-day film festival organised by @NorthernSilents and @JonnyWorst in Morecambe on November 30th. Please come and join us. https://t.co/g0hZT3auLY

[Bruce Bennett 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @BruceTBennett]

California professor says charges over pro-Palestinian protest show ‘failure in leadership’ https://t.co/3SfcPcf5VN

[Bruce Bennett 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @BruceTBennett]

Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain https://t.co/fQddsGDfwz