Dario Llinares
@darioll.bsky.social
Writer, podcaster, educator.
Contact: [email protected]
Podcast: https://patreon.com/cinematologists
Substack: https://substack.com/@dariollinares
Contact: [email protected]
Podcast: https://patreon.com/cinematologists
Substack: https://substack.com/@dariollinares
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Dario Llinares
@darioll.bsky.social
· Oct 20
Our Cinematologists Podcast round-up of the London Film Festival is now available. We reflect on many films but focus mainly on The Mastermind, Rose of Nevada, Kontinental '25, The Stranger, and It Was Just an Accident.
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
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sad to hear that this will be the last season of the Cinematologists podcast, but enjoyed hearing Dario @darioll.bsky.social and Neil talk over One Battle After Another. Now listening to the following episode on Don't Look Now...
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PTA's latest, Redford reflections and some big podcast news
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November 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
sad to hear that this will be the last season of the Cinematologists podcast, but enjoyed hearing Dario @darioll.bsky.social and Neil talk over One Battle After Another. Now listening to the following episode on Don't Look Now...
open.spotify.com/episode/6FSK...
open.spotify.com/episode/6FSK...
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The arts, performing arts & media studies section of the #UPWeek Gallery also features great publications from @weslpress.bsky.social, @benjaminbarson.bsky.social, @wlupress.bsky.social @darioll.bsky.social & Amherst College Press https://bit.ly/3WTl7XD
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The arts, performing arts & media studies section of the #UPWeek Gallery also features great publications from @weslpress.bsky.social, @benjaminbarson.bsky.social, @wlupress.bsky.social @darioll.bsky.social & Amherst College Press https://bit.ly/3WTl7XD
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It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
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Sorry, Baby explores the thorny entanglements of power, blame, and guilt without resorting to didacticism or moral signalling. Agnes’s experiences unfold through the grain of a lived reality of disorientation, post a trauma that inflects every element of experience
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open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
November 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Sorry, Baby explores the thorny entanglements of power, blame, and guilt without resorting to didacticism or moral signalling. Agnes’s experiences unfold through the grain of a lived reality of disorientation, post a trauma that inflects every element of experience
open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
Thanks Rob. Hope you're keeping well.
New book arrived in the post today! Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory edited by Lori Beckstead and @darioll.bsky.social The amount of high quality writing in this area is happily increasing - fair play
November 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Thanks Rob. Hope you're keeping well.
Sorry, Baby explores the thorny entanglements of power, blame, and guilt without resorting to didacticism or moral signalling. Agnes’s experiences unfold through the grain of a lived reality of disorientation, post a trauma that inflects every element of experience
open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
November 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Sorry, Baby explores the thorny entanglements of power, blame, and guilt without resorting to didacticism or moral signalling. Agnes’s experiences unfold through the grain of a lived reality of disorientation, post a trauma that inflects every element of experience
open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
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This week, I found myself caught between two extraordinary films: Sorry, Baby - a razor-sharp campus comedy that quietly tears open the politics of trauma - and Souleymane’s Story, a haunting portrait of labour, migration, and survival in the shadows of Paris.
Encountering the Self and Other in Cinema
Using two recent films - Sorry, Baby and Souleymane's Story - I reflect on the ephemeral nature of the self and how we use cinema to glimpse ourselves in others, and others in ourselves.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This week, I found myself caught between two extraordinary films: Sorry, Baby - a razor-sharp campus comedy that quietly tears open the politics of trauma - and Souleymane’s Story, a haunting portrait of labour, migration, and survival in the shadows of Paris.
This week, I found myself caught between two extraordinary films: Sorry, Baby - a razor-sharp campus comedy that quietly tears open the politics of trauma - and Souleymane’s Story, a haunting portrait of labour, migration, and survival in the shadows of Paris.
Encountering the Self and Other in Cinema
Using two recent films - Sorry, Baby and Souleymane's Story - I reflect on the ephemeral nature of the self and how we use cinema to glimpse ourselves in others, and others in ourselves.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This week, I found myself caught between two extraordinary films: Sorry, Baby - a razor-sharp campus comedy that quietly tears open the politics of trauma - and Souleymane’s Story, a haunting portrait of labour, migration, and survival in the shadows of Paris.
My step-nephew (it's complicated) got his 1st pay cheque
I watched in real time as he endured that painful rite of passage: discovering how much tax and national insurance is extracted from your pay.
Cue a conversation on the realities of adulthood. Tears were shed.
Welcome to the big league son.
I watched in real time as he endured that painful rite of passage: discovering how much tax and national insurance is extracted from your pay.
Cue a conversation on the realities of adulthood. Tears were shed.
Welcome to the big league son.
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
My step-nephew (it's complicated) got his 1st pay cheque
I watched in real time as he endured that painful rite of passage: discovering how much tax and national insurance is extracted from your pay.
Cue a conversation on the realities of adulthood. Tears were shed.
Welcome to the big league son.
I watched in real time as he endured that painful rite of passage: discovering how much tax and national insurance is extracted from your pay.
Cue a conversation on the realities of adulthood. Tears were shed.
Welcome to the big league son.
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It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school
From Refusal to Blueprint: Manifesto Thinking in Cinema (Part 1)
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From Refusal to Blueprint: Manifesto Thinking in Cinema (Part 1)
Manifestos, then and now - the grammar of artistic revolt
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October 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
From Refusal to Blueprint: Manifesto Thinking in Cinema (Part 1)
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open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
Our Cinematologists Podcast round-up of the London Film Festival is now available. We reflect on many films but focus mainly on The Mastermind, Rose of Nevada, Kontinental '25, The Stranger, and It Was Just an Accident.
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
October 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Our Cinematologists Podcast round-up of the London Film Festival is now available. We reflect on many films but focus mainly on The Mastermind, Rose of Nevada, Kontinental '25, The Stranger, and It Was Just an Accident.
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Our Cinematologists Podcast round-up of the London Film Festival is now available. We reflect on many films but focus mainly on The Mastermind, Rose of Nevada, Kontinental '25, The Stranger, and It Was Just an Accident.
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
Our Cinematologists Podcast round-up of the London Film Festival is now available. We reflect on many films but focus mainly on The Mastermind, Rose of Nevada, Kontinental '25, The Stranger, and It Was Just an Accident.
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Our Cinematologists Podcast round-up of the London Film Festival is now available. We reflect on many films but focus mainly on The Mastermind, Rose of Nevada, Kontinental '25, The Stranger, and It Was Just an Accident.
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
Listen for free:
dariollinares.substack.com/p/london-fil...
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At the film’s outset, Teyana Taylor’s devastatingly uncompromising Perfidia Beverly Hills is the spark: a revolutionary diva, an elemental force of nature, an anti-heroine pushed to such extremes that she becomes almost impossible to classify.
open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
One Critical Battle After Another: Ideology v Aesthetics
Reflections on Paul Thomas Anderson's new film across the fault lines of critical and political discourse. SPOILERS!
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October 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
At the film’s outset, Teyana Taylor’s devastatingly uncompromising Perfidia Beverly Hills is the spark: a revolutionary diva, an elemental force of nature, an anti-heroine pushed to such extremes that she becomes almost impossible to classify.
open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
open.substack.com/pub/dariolli...
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A new piece out at dariollinares.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A new piece out at dariollinares.substack.com
A new piece out at dariollinares.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A new piece out at dariollinares.substack.com