Anita Abbasi

writer•director || Tiohtià:ke📍|| aikidoka•🥋|| salvi•pakistani || 🇸🇻•🇵🇰

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

they tried playing Michelle Yeoh off with music, and she said "Shut up, please! I can beat you up, okay? And that's serious." LOL I love her

#GoldenGlobes

[MUBI @mubi]

Peter Falk. Born on this day in 1927.

[Anita Abbasi @cinematekkitsch]

Iran must immediately stop the execution of two Iranian LGBTQ+ rights activists, Zahra (Sareh) Sedighi Hamedani and Elham Chubdar. @khamenei_ir @UNHumanRights @UN @USEnvoyIran @SecBlinken @MEMOrganization @POTUS #StopTheExecution #LGBTQRights #اعدام_نکنید
https://t.co/ezIRgtbZEi

[Anita Abbasi @cinematekkitsch]

Literally crying 😭

[Anita Abbasi @cinematekkitsch]

@SeanFraserMP Danilo De Leon's has 4 days until his deportation. He's a community leader & essential worker who contributes to Canada's economy. We ask your help to stop his deportation while the gov't is developing a Regularization Program.
#LetDaniloStayInCanada #RegularizeNow

[Anita Abbasi @cinematekkitsch]

@JustinTrudeau Danilo De Leon's has 4 days until his deportation. He's a community leader & essential worker who contributes to Canada's economy. We ask your help to stop his deportation while the gov't is developing a Regularization Program.
#LetDaniloStayInCanada #RegularizeNow

[Anita Abbasi @cinematekkitsch]

Just posted a photo @ 1981 https://t.co/MHNyjvPQeZ

[Anita Abbasi @cinematekkitsch]

#MidnightCinemaThoughts 😅

[Anita Abbasi @cinematekkitsch]

Rewatched Dogfight (dir. Nancy Savoca) tonight and I was on the verge of tears throughout. It’s just beautiful. Lili Taylor is something else. A fav. So much love.

[Anita Abbasi @cinematekkitsch]

I mean, is it me? Or do a lot of actors born of that era (teen actors of the ‘80s) just had a unique ease, a disregard of aesthetics most of the time, a strange ability to have us see them see others through performance?

[Anita Abbasi @cinematekkitsch]

E.G. Daily had a whole ass career before she became iconic to child millenials as the voice of Tommy Pickles. Love catching her name in the opening credits of some fav 80s/early 90s flicks

[The River Phoenix Gallery @phoenixsgallery]

“He picked me to direct. He was already attached to the movie. He was 10 years younger than me, but he was my teacher. This was my first studio film” - Nancy Savoca on working with River Phoenix in Dogfight (1991)

[Yasmine Mathurin @Yazbegrams]

I was in the CSA zoom room when the speech was made and my jaw dropped. I was the only Black person in the room. I’ve been processing what happened since... I’m glad to see these statements are being made. I feel less alone in the frustration I felt in that moment. (1/6)

[Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov]

Oscars was where a Native American woman was boo'd while asking for equality. Where Blackface and Yellowface was celebrated. Where Michael Moore was boo'd for trying to stop genocide in Iraq and child rapists were given awards. Can we not do this.

[Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov]

The Academy nominated American Sniper 6 times. The Bradley Cooper film celebrating a real life war criminal who said he killed "damn savages" for "fun" and bragged about looting homes of innocent Iraqi families at the site of Fallujah massacre of civilians with chemical weapons.

[Dr. Amit Arya @AmitAryaMD]

Welcome to the next phase of the pandemic: Where we knew the most about how to protect people from COVID (e.g. N95 masks, vaccine passports, ventilation upgrades, booster doses)…but did the least.

[Ms. Andry Noir, PhD @keatingssixth]

Chris Rock’s one “joke” was rooted in misogynoir, texturism, & ableism. Degrading a Black woman, in a room full of her peers, on live TV.

The fact ya’ll don’t see that as violent is beyond me.