Best part of the article. This is one of the main reasons the Noir book won't ever get a faithful adaptation, as people are too scared of the book's uncomfortable realness, and would rather riff on old detective stories and "wow so retro" aesthetics.
She couldn’t anticipate that western communists would suddenly become ultra dickriding supporters of the anti communist theocratic regime that purged iranian communists.
Tatiana Maslany speaks out for Palestine while promoting her Apple TV show Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed
“There is no ceasefire in Gaza. Israel is continuing to bombard it. The US & Canada & the UK are all complicit. We have to keep remembering Palestine.”
Not even remotely what happened. He saw Republican forces repress the anarchist communes and the Trotskyist POUM. He hated Stalin, but remained pretty sympathetic towards socialism.
He also despised Franco.
- Hasan Piker watches porn
- Graham Platner had some bad relationships but he eventually got better
- Abdul El-Sayed is running against a woman
The left has a real sexism problem.
I enjoy reading negative criticism of films I like but we have to have better critiques than calling something “qualityslop” a term that means absolutely nothing
i love boosters was a work of art and it oozes passion and personality from every pore of its being, of course as a director i want as many people to see it, and i am glad boots is making sure him and his cast get the recognition and run on screens that they deserve
it’s crazy to take this whole thing as “this guy is being annoying” and not “wow this guy has to work a million times harder to get the same recognition as other directors trying way less to connect with their audiences”. and also then not make the connection as to why that is
Persepolis is one of the the few (only?) pieces of dissident literature very famous outside Iran which chronicles the plight of Iranian women without resorting to gross caricatures to satisfy westerners. RIP
I don’t care if I lose my job. Charlie Kirk got what he deserved.
My name is Lyndsey Fifield and I am a 40-year-old right-wing hack and outrageous liar
the satrapi convo loves strip all nuance bc yeah she was against forced hijab in iran but she was also against hijab bans in france. it’s about freedom. yall hate humans for bunch of so called communists
This is the big difference between Democrats and Republicans. GOP got Kavanaugh over the hump and Trump elected twice by just steamrolling critics. Democrats meanwhile ran Al Franken out of the Senate by social media fueled hysteria.
I like how Platner “scandals” are decreasing in severity the closer we get to the election:
- blackwater
- nazi tattoo
- extramarital texting
- gossip from scorned exes
At this rate the October surprise will be that at age 6 he lied about his uncle working for Nintendo