Sylvie 🇺🇸 🇫🇷

Half 🇺🇸, half 🇫🇷, all-around opinionated. Hitchcocko-Hawksienne. Mostly film but also books, bears, national parks, and opera.*

*everything's politics

[Sylvie 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 @sly_wit]

It’s #FemaleFilmmakerFriday! As I did last year, I’m beginning my new #DirectedByWomen thread with an Indie Spirit contender. And, since it’s Christmastide, I'm bearing witness to the religious musical bio-pic THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025) by Mona Fastvold. #52FilmsByWomen #1

[Annalea 🪷🐝🌻 @citizengatsby]

There is literally nothing that makes Platner worthy of all this. He has no qualifications, no relevant experience, no education, no vision, no integrity and no moral compass. He lies constantly. He’s told different lies about the same fucking thing. It’s what narcissists do. He’s not worth damaging the Democratic Party’s brand or throwing away hard earned credibility. He truly has no business running for Senate. There’s no there there. He’s just LARP’ing as a working class hero and saying what he thinks people want to hear (or what he’s told to say by his consultants). People need to be honest about that—even if he can’t. He’s a bad person.

[emily north @north0fnorth]

i’m convinced car dependency and suburban sprawl promoting anti-social attitudes like “being in a public place with strangers is scary and bad” majorly contributes to why so many people are extremely regressive, tribalist, and paranoid these days

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: MSNOW: “You are willing at this point to forego basically EVERY conservative issue, and let the Senate fall into the hands of Democrats if that’s what it takes to kill [AI] data centers?”

Hood County TX Conservative voter: “Yup. My entire community is going to break ranks.”😳

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Why do Republicans hate that California counts every vote?

[Farnaz Fassihi @farnazfassihi]

Marjan Satrapi wrote the story of our generation. A memoir and a history of Iran’s turbulent 20th-century politics, one comic strip frame at a time.

https://t.co/ovHqJXL10y

[Sylvie 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 @sly_wit]

😢#RIP Marjane Satrapi

[Sylvie 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 @sly_wit]

PERSEPOLIS by Marjane Satrapi
Even though I generally do not like memoirs or graphic novels, I loved this one. Probably because my oldest friend in the world also left Iran and moved to France as a kid in the 70s.

[Kris Luckenbach @KrisLuckPhoto]

In just over 2 weeks - I head back and hope to see a mom and her 3 cubs survive another winter in Alaska 🤞

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Sylvie 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 @sly_wit]

@HiroAntag @IJoukov @gaiaslastlaugh Right? It's amazing how much this fits. I buy almost all my produce at farmers markets and so I don't even have to go to an actual store weekly.

[Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings]

Sorry to circle back to the "eight bags of groceries" guy but, genuinely, are people who are buying groceries every 2-3 weeks just not eating fresh fruit and vegetables?

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Imagine if this was Obama making billions while in office

[Sylvie 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 @sly_wit]

Top 10 new-to-me watches in May:
STARLET (2012)
I LOVE BOOSTERS (2026)
HIS GREATEST BLUFF (1927)
CLERKS (1994)
MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER (2024)
NAISSANCE DES PIEUVRES (2007)
FLIRTING (1991)
THE INVISIBLE MAN (2020)
TOKYO POP (1988)
SAINT MAUD (2020)

[Sylvie 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 @sly_wit]

Top 10 new-to-me watches in May:
STARLET (2012)
I LOVE BOOSTERS (2026)
HIS GREATEST BLUFF (1927)
CLERKS (1994)
MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER (2024)
NAISSANCE DES PIEUVRES (2007)
FLIRTING (1991)
THE INVISIBLE MAN (2020)
TOKYO POP (1988)
SAINT MAUD (2020)

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

FYI this is the test Trump is bragging about “acing” 4 times

It’s a fucking embarrassment that his handlers are still letting him gloat about this like it’s some extreme act of intellect

[Sylvie 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 @sly_wit]

@tmml2021 @KassSmiley @DWLundberg @MKupperman @tim_daugherty @SWOProductions @Chitopher @oldfilmsflicker THE THIN MAN and Alice Guy-Blaché and Mabel Normand?

[Sylvie 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 @sly_wit]

Very excited about Criterion's June line-up. For one thing, looks like I can finally watch PAULINE AT THE BEACH: https://t.co/I12jHV7d4I
cc: @pkxh

[Max Weiss @maxthegirl]

I’d probably vote for Platner if I lived in Maine, but the disingenuousness of his supporters who suggest the real reason some Democrats don’t like him is because of his progressive politics drives me nuts. Dude is problematic AF.

[Sylvie 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 @sly_wit]

@mubi It's #FemaleFilmmakerFriday! I figured there was no better way to follow up THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA than with a film called SAINT MAUD (2020). It's an incredible debut by Rose Glass, but I gotta say the lack of haute couture was disappointing. #DirectedByWomen #52FilmsByWomen #31

[Sylvie 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 @sly_wit]

It’s #FemaleFilmmakerFriday! As I did last year, I’m beginning my new #DirectedByWomen thread with an Indie Spirit contender. And, since it’s Christmastide, I'm bearing witness to the religious musical bio-pic THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025) by Mona Fastvold. #52FilmsByWomen #1

[Sylvie 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 @sly_wit]

@mubi Tonight's #FemaleFilmmakerFriday selection is a film I had never heard of until I saw it was expiring on Criterion: TOKYO POP (1988) by Fran Rubel Kuzui. But, not only is it by the director of the OG BtVS, but it stars the nasty townie from my beloved SHAG. #52FilmsByWomen #30

[Anthony @edgewalker81]

In 1999, you saw this every week

[Sylvie 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 @sly_wit]

@mcrandomfaces @sobernsleepless Except most people that read TCoMC in English have read a massively abridged version with 500+ pages cut out.