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Beth Stevens

@bethanyrc.bsky.social

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Poet, film buff, editor for International Cinephile Society

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Beth Stevens @bethanyrc.bsky.social · Nov 13

I become the cat
in my arms, a series of agile
leaps, porch to windowsill to countertop
never touching down

needing
to rouse someone in time, I shout
and brandish the cat

my cries
drop down, yet I'm
still smiling –

Beth Stevens @bethanyrc.bsky.social · 6h

Lady and the Tramp

Beth Stevens @bethanyrc.bsky.social · 9h

Bought it. Will have to wait until after I've read Queen Demon, though.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 1d

No need to hunt all over for Antifa headquarters. It's located in Arlington National cemetery. There are 400,000 members there.

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Beth Stevens @bethanyrc.bsky.social · 14h

Currently reading The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley. Just finished The King's Messenger, which my sister recommended and which I loved.

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My Neighbor Totoro

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Anatomy of a Fall

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Persona

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icsfilm.bsky.social @icsfilm.bsky.social · 3d

John Lynn circumnavigates the world in Lav Diaz's MAGELLAN, a gorgeous, hypnotic, and contemplative epic about conquest, conversion, mythmaking, and family #NYFF63 buff.ly/L7XEATL

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icsfilm.bsky.social @icsfilm.bsky.social · 6d

John Lynn finds something rare in Masao Adachi's ESCAPE, a film about the erosion of conviction under the weight of time, and one that insists revolution is not a historical event but a lifelong condition #NYFF63 buff.ly/1QOIfxb

New York 2025 review: Escape (Masao Adachi)

"A work of genuine conviction made by an artist who has lived his politics" "A sunflower, even when cut down, still stands upright." Escape, the latest

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icsfilm.bsky.social @icsfilm.bsky.social · 7d

John Lynn develops a fear of water in Milagros Mumenthaler's THE CURRENTS, a film with Hitchcockian tension and hypnotic, dream-like rhythm #NYFF63 buff.ly/pUfLdQy

New York 2025 review: The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler)

"Will surely grip with its Hitchcockian tension and its hypnotic, dream-like rhythm" Playing in this year’s New York Film Festival’s Main Slate is

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icsfilm.bsky.social @icsfilm.bsky.social · 8d

John Lynn explores the realities of queer life in Lucio Castro's DRUNKEN NOODLES, a film about the moments that don’t have closure, the friends and lovers who drift in and out of our lives, and about how memory holds them all #NYFF63 buff.ly/Sw407nF

New York 2025 review: Drunken Noodles (Lucio Castro)

"Castro explores the realities of queer life with delicacy and honesty" In a festival with so much curation as the New York Film Festival, where each day

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icsfilm.bsky.social @icsfilm.bsky.social · 9d

Milani Perera drives the backroads of Iran in Hassan Nazer's WITHOUT PERMISSION, a film that proves that when you're not allowed to speak, sometimes the only way forward is to film in secret and hope the world is listening #BIFF2025 buff.ly/t4qGRTJ

Busan 2025 review: Without Permission (Hassan Nazer)

"A film that doesn't yell, but hums with defiance" At the centre of Without Permission, Hassan Nazer's quietly radical piece of docu-fiction that

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icsfilm.bsky.social @icsfilm.bsky.social · 11d

Matilda Hague sees masks slip in Hong Sang-soo's WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU?, a film whose visual approach deliberately blurs cultural detail into something recognizably human: the comedy, and the terror, of being seen #NYFF63 buff.ly/QWWrlzL

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icsfilm.bsky.social @icsfilm.bsky.social · 12d

Matthew Joseph Jenner is profoundly moved by Joachim Trier's SENTIMENTAL VALUE, a film that never abates in its willingness to challenge conventions through its subtle, poetic approach to the human condition #NYFF63 buff.ly/tYRNwbO

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icsfilm.bsky.social @icsfilm.bsky.social · 13d

John Lynn kicks a ball in Alexandre Koberidze's singular DRY LEAF, a meditative, beautiful, and deeply moving film about the unpredictability of life, the changes of culture, and the persistence of play #NYFF63 buff.ly/QZGhH0y

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Beth Stevens @bethanyrc.bsky.social · 14d

Just finished The Hunter, which joins The Searcher as one of my favorite Tana French novels. Loved the two main characters (middle-aged ex-cop and teenage mountain girl). Also loved the setting in an eccentric (and somewhat scary) Irish village.

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icsfilm.bsky.social @icsfilm.bsky.social · 14d

Marc van de Klashorst enjoys the rollercoaster ride that is Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, a film that makes light of a serious issue, while lacking the satirical bite to make the audience look past the laughter buff.ly/ErxmKij

Review: One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

"One Battle After Another makes light of a serious issue, while lacking the satirical bite to make the audience look past the laughter. The question is if

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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 15d

“For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.”

— Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · 14d

Highly skilled panda warrior!

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#bluesky #animals #nature #wildlife

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icsfilm.bsky.social @icsfilm.bsky.social · 15d

John Lynn hangs with the animals in Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani's BOUCHRA, one of the most intimate and political animations of the year that insists on new forms and a new cinematic language #NYFF63 buff.ly/A1uOkUj