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Venice called itself the most political festival ever, then scheduled every political film in the back half: "Naza", "Musk", and "Dau" #venice #venezia83 https://t.co/F4VFYqMc8c

[SN @stanleynolan68]

@BaliOst for sure a decline, my guess because none of the splashy big studio films are here?

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@TiloJung thanks

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Berlinale has a "political" branding problem: some filmmakers stay silent, others show solidarity for Palestine, and festival organizers try to avoid politics at all costs, turning the festival into a shitshow #Berlinale #Berlinale2026 @TiloJung @zakfilm https://t.co/2WdBIojuue

[The Film Stage 📽 @TheFilmStage]

John Waters names Ari Aster's #Eddington the best film of 2025: "If you don’t like this film, I hate you.”

See his full top 10: https://t.co/lD5a5DOpux

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

No Other Land is (finally) available in the US. All profits from tickets will go to the Masafer Yatta community. You can rent it on Apple, Google, Amazon, YouTube, Gathr. If you already watched it and want to donate to the community, visit https://t.co/5tIuYawPQ6

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

Microsoft announced it is blocking Israel’s access to technology which allowed the mass surveillance of Palestinian civilians, following an investigation we wrote. The first time that a major US tech company sanctions the Israeli military for violating Palestinian rights >

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Israeli-Aligned Billionaires Seize TikTok in Battle for U.S. Narrative Control

The White House has announced that the forced sale of TikTok will be finalized this week. The new ownership led by Larry Ellison - the largest individual donor to the IDF - will take control of U.S. user data and the algorithm which the White House says will be "retrained".

Ellison, who made his fortune developing Oracle - a database system he originally built for the CIA - already controls CBS, Paramount, MTV, Comedy Central, Showtime, Nickelodeon (which makes kids shows) as well as Channel 10 in Australia and Channel 5 in the UK. Ellison is also expected to finalize control over Warner Bros. Discovery (including CNN, HBO and the Discovery channel) before the end of 2025.

Even before the forced sale is finalised, censorship of TikTok content critical of Israel, including of the deal itself, has reached extreme levels as the platform moves to align with its prospective new owners. Fox – a Murdoch asset - is also seeking to join the Ellison consortium, a move that could enable cross-promotion between Fox and TikTok, further tightening the Israeli-aligned information bubble.

Disapproval of what Israel is doing in Gaza has risen to 60% of the US population, nearly double the approval rate of 32%.

The U.S. still has over three years of Trump left. Israeli-aligned Jewish billionaires control OpenAI, Google, Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, Palantir, CBS, HBO, and most of Conde Nast (Reddit, Vogue, The New Yorker, Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair) as well as numerous Hollywood studios, regional papers and radio stations.

Europe, meanwhile, remains largely absent, offering little real competition in the information space. Its one real success story? Telegram, which it managed to comprehensively alienate after France arrested its founder, supposedly for not handing over enough user data.

Will the EU and other U.S. allies align with the “Israelified” TikTok algorithm, or attempt to create a politicised alternative of their own?

Decentralised alternatives like Keet and Nostr offer strong resistance to censorship but are still young. Larger platforms like Telegram and Rednote carry serious risks of censorship, including eventual sell-off to other interests. For users the sweet spot may be to use both. One for political reliability, the others for a (politically temporary) audience.

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

happening now: Israeli army raiding the house of oscar winner Basel Adra after Israeli settlers attacked his village earlier and beat up his family member. Soldiers could try to abduct Basel into one of Israel's prisons which are effectively torture sites

[SN @stanleynolan68]

After “The Voice of Hind Rajab” won Venice’s Grand Jury Prize, 3,000+ filmmakers pledged to boycott Israeli film institutions and the cultural boycott gains momentum. Read my ramblings: https://t.co/1uKSkuDI36 #filmworkersforpalestine
@FW4Palestine

#VeniceFilmFestival #HindRajab

[Drew Burnett Gregory @draw_gregory]

“Every war movie, good or bad, is an anti-war movie.” - Spielberg (stupid)

"Violence is very ambiguous in movies. For example, some films claim to be antiwar, but I don't think I've really seen an antiwar film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war." - Truffaut (smart)

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Israel has just won the war crime of the century prize: The IDF used chemical weapons on UN peacekeepers! https://t.co/R5FzMK6Qa6

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

Jewish director Sarah Friedland accepted the #VeniceFilmFestival Lion Of The Future Award for Best Debut Film for ‘Familiar Touch’.

During her speech she said that she stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine and says “I am accepting this award on the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and 76th year of occupation. It is our responsibility as filmmakers to use the institutional platforms in which we work to address Israel’s impunity on the global stage” #Venezia81

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Kevin Costner at Venice for HORIZON 2 presser #venezia81

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@jonmchu don’t threaten me

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@DEADLINE an amazing documentary that is so needed at the moment in humanizing people you don’t like

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...hive-mind swarms. But this time around, they will (probably) have neither the Venice Film Festival or Academy Awards on their side, and so they’ll have to trust the box office, which has gone so well for DC recently.
#Venezia81 #VeniceFilmFestival2024 #BiennaleCinema2024

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My #JokerFolieADeux review (not good):
"It was always supposed to be the “populist” film that critics weren’t supposed to like because they are too woke or old or boring or stuck-up. Although they are true by accident (there exists a definitive bubble...
https://t.co/PUBeco5u90

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...between the insider film-critic-media world and the public), the ultras of Joker will look forward to the negative reviews because it’ll fuel their fire even more. Get ready for the biggest who-gives-a-shit debate in a month when Folie à deux is released in theaters and the...

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looks like the #Joker-heads are in full force against all dissent, even though it’s sitting above average on RT and metacritic. They like their films divisive but have no idea what that means.
Review forthcoming.