Jason Christian
@jasonachristian.bsky.social
writer / English lecturer / cinephile /
co-host: @coldwarcinema.com /
website: jasonchristianwrites.com /
LB: https://letterboxd.com/exilemagic/
📍Atlanta
co-host: @coldwarcinema.com /
website: jasonchristianwrites.com /
LB: https://letterboxd.com/exilemagic/
📍Atlanta
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Rififi (1955): Easing the Pain of Betrayal
Rififi was Dassin’s comeback film, his revenge fantasy film, a revenge not only on foes across the pond but on capitalism itself.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
I still think this essay I wrote for @bwdr.bsky.social is the critical piece I'm most proud to have written. It's on Jules Dassin's heist masterpiece RIFIFI (1955), and I'd be honored if you read it.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/08/28/e...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2023/08/28/e...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, 1956
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, 1956
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Have you heard my radio show, "Vernon, Greenfield"?
Check out the latest installment for a special report, as well as an excellent, Noir November edition of Film Rec of the Week w/ @jasonachristian.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/vernongreenf...
Check out the latest installment for a special report, as well as an excellent, Noir November edition of Film Rec of the Week w/ @jasonachristian.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/vernongreenf...
Vernon, Greenfield #18
The eighteenth installment of Vernon, Greenfield
Segments:
The Labros Report w/ Anthony Ballas
Film Rec of the Week w/ Jason Christian
Tracklist:
Here Comes That Lonely Feeling Again, Brenda Lee
...
www.mixcloud.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Have you heard my radio show, "Vernon, Greenfield"?
Check out the latest installment for a special report, as well as an excellent, Noir November edition of Film Rec of the Week w/ @jasonachristian.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/vernongreenf...
Check out the latest installment for a special report, as well as an excellent, Noir November edition of Film Rec of the Week w/ @jasonachristian.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/vernongreenf...
It's easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of chauvinism in the United States.
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It's easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of chauvinism in the United States.
It's fascinating to see that not only liberal journals but even leftist journals will turn down a pitch if it is too critical (from the left) of canonical Western Marxists. The state doesn't need to pass laws to limit discourse. Editors will gladly do it voluntarily for free.
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It's fascinating to see that not only liberal journals but even leftist journals will turn down a pitch if it is too critical (from the left) of canonical Western Marxists. The state doesn't need to pass laws to limit discourse. Editors will gladly do it voluntarily for free.
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Great thread on the extraordinary Peter Watkins. Culloden, The War Game, Punishment Park and The Commune all affected me greatly
If I said the last of the great twentieth century British film directors died last night, and very few people even remembered him by the time of his death... would you know what I'm talking about?
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
Crying for Freedom: Peter Watkins at 90
Radical British filmmaker Peter Watkins was briefly tipped by the BBC before The War Game made him a controversial pariah. But he persisted — and now, at 90, he is a hero of liberated, formally remark...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Great thread on the extraordinary Peter Watkins. Culloden, The War Game, Punishment Park and The Commune all affected me greatly
RIP to the one and only Peter Watkins, who just turned 90 years old the day before his death. Watkins was a fearless director, and criminally underknown.
October 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
RIP to the one and only Peter Watkins, who just turned 90 years old the day before his death. Watkins was a fearless director, and criminally underknown.
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NEW EP jesus rodriguez-espinoza and saheli chowdhury of @orinocotribune.bsky.social join us to discuss how we got here, why the US has its sights trained on venezuela, the latin american far right, the "war on drugs," and much more
NEXT WEEK'S PATREON
venezuela pt. 4: the empire vs. venezuela w/ jesus rodriguez-espinoza and saheli chowdhury
venezuela pt. 4: the empire vs. venezuela w/ jesus rodriguez-espinoza and saheli chowdhury
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
NEW EP jesus rodriguez-espinoza and saheli chowdhury of @orinocotribune.bsky.social join us to discuss how we got here, why the US has its sights trained on venezuela, the latin american far right, the "war on drugs," and much more
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I’m back with the @coldwarcinema.com team this week talking about art, revolution, and the creation of national myths and political imaginaries.
It’s an engaging conversation about film and the politics of form and style.
🎧 Listen here: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
It’s an engaging conversation about film and the politics of form and style.
🎧 Listen here: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I’m back with the @coldwarcinema.com team this week talking about art, revolution, and the creation of national myths and political imaginaries.
It’s an engaging conversation about film and the politics of form and style.
🎧 Listen here: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
It’s an engaging conversation about film and the politics of form and style.
🎧 Listen here: coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
New episode of @coldwarcinema.com has dropped!
New episode is live!
This week we discuss Boris Barnet's Poet, a 1956 drama about the Russian Civil War that explores the role of art and literature in revolution. We also discuss socialist realism and how it shaped a national mythology in the USSR. Check it out!
coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
This week we discuss Boris Barnet's Poet, a 1956 drama about the Russian Civil War that explores the role of art and literature in revolution. We also discuss socialist realism and how it shaped a national mythology in the USSR. Check it out!
coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-7-poet...
October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New episode of @coldwarcinema.com has dropped!
New episode of @coldwarcinema.com drops at 8AM EST tomorrow!
October 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
New episode of @coldwarcinema.com drops at 8AM EST tomorrow!
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“RIFIFI was Dassin’s comeback film, his revenge fantasy film, a revenge not only on foes across the pond but on capitalism itself.“
- @jasonachristian.bsky.social
- @jasonachristian.bsky.social
Rififi (1955): Easing the Pain of Betrayal
Rififi was Dassin’s comeback film, his revenge fantasy film, a revenge not only on foes across the pond but on capitalism itself.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
“RIFIFI was Dassin’s comeback film, his revenge fantasy film, a revenge not only on foes across the pond but on capitalism itself.“
- @jasonachristian.bsky.social
- @jasonachristian.bsky.social
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Vernon, Greenfield #16
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More spooky tunes!!!
Edgar Allan Poe/Film clips/Soundtracks/etc...
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Featuring the always excellent Film Rec of the Week w/ @jasonachristian.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/vernongreenf...
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More spooky tunes!!!
Edgar Allan Poe/Film clips/Soundtracks/etc...
👻
Featuring the always excellent Film Rec of the Week w/ @jasonachristian.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/vernongreenf...
Vernon, Greenfield #16
The sixteenth installment of Vernon, Greenfield.
Cover art: James Ensor
Segments:
Film Rec of the Week w/ Jason Christian
Tracklist:
Enkatz, Kit Sebastian
The Mummy's Bracelet, Lee Ross
Kiuā, ...
www.mixcloud.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Vernon, Greenfield #16
👻
More spooky tunes!!!
Edgar Allan Poe/Film clips/Soundtracks/etc...
👻
Featuring the always excellent Film Rec of the Week w/ @jasonachristian.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/vernongreenf...
👻
More spooky tunes!!!
Edgar Allan Poe/Film clips/Soundtracks/etc...
👻
Featuring the always excellent Film Rec of the Week w/ @jasonachristian.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/vernongreenf...
Reposted by Jason Christian
This podcast centers on One Battle's contribution to popular political cinema under the authoritarian violence of the second Trump administration.
One Battle After Another
In this episode of the Superstructure podcast, Scott Ferguson is joined by independent film scholar Jonathan Haynes to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another. T…
moneyontheleft.org
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This podcast centers on One Battle's contribution to popular political cinema under the authoritarian violence of the second Trump administration.
Next reading in our anti-imperialist study group: Walter Rodney's HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA
October 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Next reading in our anti-imperialist study group: Walter Rodney's HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA
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Check out last week's installment of Vernon, Greenfield featuring Film Rec of the Week with @jasonachristian.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/vernongreenf...
www.mixcloud.com/vernongreenf...
Vernon, Greenfield #13
The thirteenth installment of Vernon, Greenfield.
Cover art: Gourmet Food Store: Feeding the Fishes (1911), Adolf Wolfli
Segments:
Film Rec of the Week with Jason Christian
Tracklist:
Sabor Dulc...
www.mixcloud.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Check out last week's installment of Vernon, Greenfield featuring Film Rec of the Week with @jasonachristian.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/vernongreenf...
www.mixcloud.com/vernongreenf...
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Rest in Power Assata Shakur
September 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Rest in Power Assata Shakur
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Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
www.whatimreading.net
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Assata's memoir was foundational for me as a younger radical. Do yourself a favor and read it, if you haven't. RIP
Rest in power Assata Shakur. You saved me. You are my hero.
September 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Assata's memoir was foundational for me as a younger radical. Do yourself a favor and read it, if you haven't. RIP
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TERMS OF SERVITUDE documents how digital platforms and technology companies based in the United States support the Israeli settler-colonial project through censorship. @omarzahzah.bsky.social's groundbreaking new book is now available from @projectcensored.bsky.social and Seven Stories Press.
September 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
TERMS OF SERVITUDE documents how digital platforms and technology companies based in the United States support the Israeli settler-colonial project through censorship. @omarzahzah.bsky.social's groundbreaking new book is now available from @projectcensored.bsky.social and Seven Stories Press.
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"Canary Mission is not just intended to intimidate or harass. It states its ultimate goal explicitly: to eliminate job prospects for supporters of Palestinian freedom and liberation." Omar Zahzah looks at the experience of online blacklisting in an excerpt from TERMS OF SERVITUDE in today's LitHub
Omar Zahzah looks at digital settler colonialism: “Even if blacklisting is a well-worn strategy of Zionist persecution, Canary Mission constitutes an escalation.”
The New McCarthyism: On Canary Mission’s Toxic Blacklisting of Pro-Palestinian Sentiment
In February 2015, a friend texted me the following message: Hey Omar, there’s a new site you need to see… it has your name and information on it. Graduate school is hard for everyone, but I think i…
buff.ly
September 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Canary Mission is not just intended to intimidate or harass. It states its ultimate goal explicitly: to eliminate job prospects for supporters of Palestinian freedom and liberation." Omar Zahzah looks at the experience of online blacklisting in an excerpt from TERMS OF SERVITUDE in today's LitHub
New recent book acquisitions, and more resources for
@coldwarcinema.com
@coldwarcinema.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New recent book acquisitions, and more resources for
@coldwarcinema.com
@coldwarcinema.com
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ENTRAPMENT is actually pretty good?? And shoulda had a sequel?? And I maybe think it's better than THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, even though @juliasirmons.bsky.social disagrees??
Anyway, listen to us talk about it with @jasonachristian.bsky.social
Anyway, listen to us talk about it with @jasonachristian.bsky.social
ENTRAPMENT - with Jason Christian by 1999: The Podcast
Writer and co-host of the podcast Cold War Cinema joins to talk about 1999's OTHER art heist movie starring a former Bond actor, "Entrapment"
cms.megaphone.fm
September 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
ENTRAPMENT is actually pretty good?? And shoulda had a sequel?? And I maybe think it's better than THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, even though @juliasirmons.bsky.social disagrees??
Anyway, listen to us talk about it with @jasonachristian.bsky.social
Anyway, listen to us talk about it with @jasonachristian.bsky.social
Had a blast talking about the heist movie Entrapment for @1999thepodcast.bsky.social! Check it out 👇
This is a good one! @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @juliasirmons.bsky.social welcome @jasonachristian.bsky.social to talk about the surprisingly pretty good ENTRAPMENT, a movie remembered as a dull box office bomb which was neither of those things!
Here or wherever you get your podcasts.
Here or wherever you get your podcasts.
1999: The Podcast #081 - Entrapment - with Jason Christian
Writer and co-host of the podcast Cold War Cinema joins to talk about 1999's OTHER art heist movie starring a former Bond actor, "Entrapment"
www.cageclub.me
September 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Had a blast talking about the heist movie Entrapment for @1999thepodcast.bsky.social! Check it out 👇
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This is a good one! @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @juliasirmons.bsky.social welcome @jasonachristian.bsky.social to talk about the surprisingly pretty good ENTRAPMENT, a movie remembered as a dull box office bomb which was neither of those things!
Here or wherever you get your podcasts.
Here or wherever you get your podcasts.
1999: The Podcast #081 - Entrapment - with Jason Christian
Writer and co-host of the podcast Cold War Cinema joins to talk about 1999's OTHER art heist movie starring a former Bond actor, "Entrapment"
www.cageclub.me
September 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This is a good one! @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @juliasirmons.bsky.social welcome @jasonachristian.bsky.social to talk about the surprisingly pretty good ENTRAPMENT, a movie remembered as a dull box office bomb which was neither of those things!
Here or wherever you get your podcasts.
Here or wherever you get your podcasts.