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Violet Lucca

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Film critic. Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Jan ‘25). My writing about film has appeared in the NYT, Art in America, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and elsewhere. NYFCC member https://linktr.ee/violetvlucca

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · Oct 30

My book DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS, a biography and critical retrospective of his work, is available for preorder on Bookshop and Amazon! Oh yeah—Viggo wrote the intro (and it’s so fucking good).
bookshop.org/p/books/davi...
www.amazon.com/David-Cronen...

The cover of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials by Violet Lucca, with a foreword by Viggo Mortensen. The cover is a deep purple with a keyhole cutout; inside is a man covered in ears (from Crimes of the Future).

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so wild that white German guy successfully got away with using a black frontman for his singing like 20 years and then Milli Vanilli was somehow a bridge too far. Imagine the incredible songs we’d have if they kept going!!!

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 1d

They couldn’t get away with doing this to any other minority group, which makes it even more sickening. Antisemitism takes many forms.

Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, they do whatever they want and we just keep forking over the cash.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 2d

Our GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC conversation with @violetlucca.bsky.social on David Cronenberg's THE DEAD ZONE, released on this day in 1983:

GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: “The Dead Zone” with Violet Lucca

Listen to GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: “The Dead Zone” with Violet Lucca from One Heat Minute Productions wherever you get your podcasts!

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 6d

It’s kinda funny to get fired by your homely older brother. Rest in piss, Andrew!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 12d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 11d

It’s actually really exciting what a human brain can do compared to a large language model with rigid rules

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 11d

Underrated reply

Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 11d

You forgot someone

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 14d

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 18d

Yeah I wish there was a dad bod filter—OK Cupid used to have one. Bring it back you cowards!!!

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 19d

I’ve seen it and this is the correct take

Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 24d

Be kind to yourself 🫂

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 27d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

One Battle After Another

One Battle After Another unapologetically addresses the completely inexcusable injustices of contemporary American life while being incredibly funny, exciting, suspenseful, and poignant, particularly ...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27d

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.

What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

By @tilleckert.com

I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal.

I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

www.propublica.org

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks, Peter!

Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 26d

Wow, I’m excited to hear what you think about how PTA uses your surroundings.

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 27d

Oh I thought you meant it was literally a punchline. Nm!

Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 27d

And yeah, the idea that Bob, in the age of the internet, couldn’t look this up reinforces how he’s a piece of shit. But he’s a piece of shit who loves his daughter.

Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 27d

I recognize the thorniness of that topic, but this is something his wife experienced as the daughter of white dad who grew up without her black mom. (I’m reminded of how the use of “Les Fleur” in Inherent Vice was similarly personal.) That intimacy doesn’t seem like it’s ridicule or a joke.

Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 27d

Anderson often injects real emotion into an absurd situation, which happens a lot in his movies (and Pynchon novels). Parents can’t give their kids everything, despite how much they love them, and in this moment that’s the first thing that comes to mind for him. That doesn’t redeem or condemn him.

Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 27d

Yes but the movie goes between a lot of different emotions very quickly. Bob’s mind is racing because he doesn’t know if he’ll be able to get to his daughter, and he thinks about what he’s failed to do for her. Sergio says, “don’t go dark on me, Bob” and makes a joke to stop him from panicking.

Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 27d

Yes, I read this as a nod to Maya’s father. But not as a joke, more as “Despite all my love for my daughter, I really fucked up.”

Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 27d

It didn’t seem like a joke at all. It seemed extremely mournful.

Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 27d

Like…Trump just made “politically motivated” misdemeanors like trespassing acts of domestic terrorism. Sorry that this is the way you find out but it feels like *this* is the movie.