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alex lei

@alexlei.bsky.social

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lost in the sauce | “writer” and “filmmaker” | he/him

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alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 6h

Bluesky Jay Kelly starter pack and it’s just Ethan

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 6h

you’re not supposed to swear on Bluesky

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 7h

is there a starter pack of people that post about Jay Kelly

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 7h

okay who’s in charge here

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 7h

that’s the soundtrack to Bluesky

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 7h

truth nuke

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 8h

you don’t get stuff like this here

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 9h

do people on Bluesky like Jay Kelly. do you talk about Jay Kelly

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 9h

people on Bluesky don’t even know about Two Skateboards

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 14h

Dan coming on Bluesky just to reheat his old tweets…

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 14h

this would’ve been viral on Twitter by now….

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 15h

when i was writing about the Moullet retro i tried to find a standardized way to write it (is it Mac-Mahon like the theater? why do most English sources write it Mac Mahon?) and then i found academic things saying “Mac Mahonian” rather than “Mac Mahonist” and gave up

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 15h

you people have no idea the discourses we can bring to this app. you’re not ready

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 15h

in a way this place is Elon’s dream platform: Twitter, but with Reddit humor

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 15h

can you insight violence and make direct threats on this site? that’s really the only functionality that Twitter’s missing

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 15h

how do you use Grok on here

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 15h

i think that discourse did happen very briefly

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 16h

trying to think of a discourse hand grenade to throw in here before inevitably not checking the app again for a month. maybe “OBAA could’ve been made for half the budget” or something like that, those takes always go gangbusters

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 16h

you get film twitter on here and people will start leaving Bluesky

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · 16h

Bluesky stinks

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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 13d

A home-grown, DIY sci-fi from Albert Birney, OBEX is having its Baltimore premiere tonight at the New/Next Film Festival

@alexlei.bsky.social goes behind the scenes on its production ethos

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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · Sep 4

French New Wave is alive! @alexlei.bsky.social found it in New York

Film dispatch from a Luc Moullet retrospective and the launch of the ultra-cinephilic magazine Narrow Margin

alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social · Jul 9

got one of my favorite edit notes from you while writing this, basically saying “i don’t know if this piece needs a whole history of the internal politics of the Filmmakers’ Union”

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · Jul 9

Fascinating anniversary piece on Come And See, a film that became an unlikely sensation for extremely online cinephiles (it's #3 on Letterboxd's Top 250 movies??) www.avclub.com/come-and-see...

Come And See is a poster child for shock films, but its reputation misses what it's really about

Come And See is a poster child for shock films, but its reputation misses what it's really about