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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 2d

excellent quote! I just revisited this (utterly superb) novel via audiobook (Hoopla) a month ago, with Teresa Gallagher's great voicing of Esther's narration

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 5d

The Philadelphia Story edges out? His Girl Friday

Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 5d

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A ★★★★½ review of Cathy Come Home (1966)

Cathy Come Home (1966) dir. Ken Loach Have long planned to watch this acclaimed docudrama style film by Ken Loach, whose great film Kes is one that I’ve taught in film history. The at times improvised...

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 6d

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A ★★★★½ review of Cathy Come Home (1966)

Cathy Come Home (1966) dir. Ken Loach Have long planned to watch this acclaimed docudrama style film by Ken Loach, whose great film Kes is one that I’ve taught in film history. The at times improvised...

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 6d

Escape from New York (1981) dir. John Carpenter [3.5]
Sholay (1975) dir. Ramesh Sippy [4.0]
L’enfant (The Child, 2005) dir. Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne [4.5]
Cloud (2024) dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa [4.0]
Now watching: Cathy Come Home (1966) dir. Ken Loach

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 6d

Escape from New York (1981) dir. John Carpenter [3.5]
Sholay (1975) dir. Ramesh Sippy [4.0]
L’enfant (The Child, 2005) dir. Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne [4.5]
Cloud (2024) dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa [4.0]
Now watching: Cathy Come Home (1966) dir. Ken Loach

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 13d

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 13d

Asst.Prof.TT job opening in global anglophone lit. with great colleagues at U. Idaho uidaho.peopleadmin.com/postings/496...

Regular Faculty - Global Anglophone Literature

The Department of English at the University of Idaho invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor of Global Anglophone Literature. This tenure-track position will begin Fall 2026 with a 2/...

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 13d

The Phantom of the Opera (1925, 1 h 34m) dir. Rupert Julian [4.0]
Baghdad Messi (2012, 19 mins.) dir. Sahim Omar Kalifa [4.0]
Death and Ramen (2022, 14 mins.) dir. Tiger Ji [3.0]
Clodagh (2024, 17 mins.) dir. Portia A. Buckley [4.0]

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 13d

The Phantom of the Opera (1925, 1 h 34m) dir. Rupert Julian [4.0]
Baghdad Messi (2012, 19 mins.) dir. Sahim Omar Kalifa [4.0]
Death and Ramen (2022, 14 mins.) dir. Tiger Ji [3.0]
Clodagh (2024, 17 mins.) dir. Portia A. Buckley [4.0]

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 15d

includes re-watch via original TV versions of The Trip series
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) [4.0]
The Trip (2010) [4.5]
The Trip to Spain (2017) [4.0]
Wings (1927) [4.5]
Votemos (2021, 14 min.) [4.0]
Café para llevar (2014, 13 min.) [4.0]
28 Days Later (2002) [4.0]
28 Years Later (2025) [4.0]

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 15d

includes re-watch via original TV versions of The Trip series
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) [4.0]
The Trip (2010) [4.5]
The Trip to Spain (2017) [4.0]
Wings (1927) [4.5]
Votemos (2021, 14 min.) [4.0]
Café para llevar (2014, 13 min.) [4.0]
28 Days Later (2002) [4.0]
28 Years Later (2025) [4.0]

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 23d

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 26d

along with many others this week, an all too timely rewatch

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 27d

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 27d

Wings (1927) dir. William A. Wellman
El Abogado (The Lawyer, 2016, 11 mins.) dir. Ignacio Rodó
Votemos (All in Favor, 2021, 14 mins.) dir. Santiago Requejo
Café para llevar (Coffee to Go, 2014, 13 mins.) dir. Patricia Font

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 27d

Wings (1927) dir. William A. Wellman
El Abogado (The Lawyer, 2016, 11 mins.) dir. Ignacio Rodó
Votemos (All in Favor, 2021, 14 mins.) dir. Santiago Requejo
Café para llevar (Coffee to Go, 2014, 13 mins.) dir. Patricia Font

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 28d

I’ve taught Our Mutual Friend as well as Great Expectations and also Dombey and Son, and have been on Master’s degree thesis committees for A Christmas Carol as well as the mediocre-wretched-except-for its opening and closing paragraphs A Tale of Two Cities, ha ha!

Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 28d

Great to revisit Bleak House via audiobook, including Teresa Gallagher’s superb voicing of Esther Summerson’s narration, also strong narration by Sean Barrett. Our Mutual Friend may (still?) be my favorite Dickens but see for instance Colin Dexter’s tribute:
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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · 28d

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miCRo: "The Visible Woman" by Alexandra Teague

Clear. Nuclear. Like the Visible Woman in her plexiglass-clear skin once lied to me I wouldn’t grow to be. One button for her heart to light up red. One for the nervy, branching rivers in her head.

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · Sep 12

Today’s poem is selected by Alina Stefanescu (@alinaetc.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.

"Punctum/Metaphor" appeared in Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry edited by George Abraham and Noor Hindi, published by Haymarket Books, 2025.

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · Sep 12

enjoyed each of The Trip series via original TV episodes--favorite is The Trip then Spain & whole arc ...
Weapons (2025) [3.5 stars]
The Trip to Italy (2014) [3.5]
The Trip to Spain (2017) [4.0]
The Ride Ahead (2024) dir. Samuel Habib and Dan Habib [3.5]
The Trip to Greece (2020, TV episodes) [3.5]

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Stephan Flores @floresspflores67.bsky.social · Sep 12

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A ★★★★ review of The Trip to Spain (2017)

The Trip to Spain (2017), via version of six 30-min. original TV episodes) dir. Michael Winterbottom I think it is not primarily my personal longstanding interest in the landscapes and history of Spai...

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