Alan Mattli
@alanmattli.bsky.social
Film critic for Filmbulletin. By-lines in Maximum Cinema, Swissinfo, Filmexplorer, MUBI Notebook, and Filmmaker Magazine. University of Zurich American literature post-doc. Loves cats. Will rate your Werner Herzog impression. Any pronouns.
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Remember in the olden days when initiatives were tested through small pilot schemes to see if they actually worked before being rolled out to vulnerable citizens…?
We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it.
AI can help us do that.
Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
AI can help us do that.
Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
Poorest pupils to be given AI tutors
Bridget Phillipson says tuition would no longer be the preserve of ‘the lucky few’
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Remember in the olden days when initiatives were tested through small pilot schemes to see if they actually worked before being rolled out to vulnerable citizens…?
Just saw MIDNIGHT on 35mm, now seated for THE TURIN HORSE on 35mm. Talk about a double feature.
January 28, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Just saw MIDNIGHT on 35mm, now seated for THE TURIN HORSE on 35mm. Talk about a double feature.
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Winterschlaf: Hiver à Sokcho
Die Verfilmung des Romans einer französisch-schweizerischen Autorin hat ein gutes Gespür dafür, welche Erwartungen sich zu unterlaufen lohnen.
www.filmbulletin.ch
January 28, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.
January 28, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.
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We don’t need AI training sponsored by the tech firms selling it. We need AI education to help people understand what it can’t do, and what dangers lie ahead if you entrust your life to it
Free AI training to be offered to every adult in the UK
Free AI training to be offered to every adult in the UK
Free AI training to be offered to every adult in the UK
www.independent.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 11:54 AM
We don’t need AI training sponsored by the tech firms selling it. We need AI education to help people understand what it can’t do, and what dangers lie ahead if you entrust your life to it
Really enjoying Amia Srinivasan seemingly lifting "knowledge … about the way things are, rather than what they ought to be" from FREAKONOMICS but yanking it away from the economists and applying to psychoanalysis instead.
January 28, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Really enjoying Amia Srinivasan seemingly lifting "knowledge … about the way things are, rather than what they ought to be" from FREAKONOMICS but yanking it away from the economists and applying to psychoanalysis instead.
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One year into Trump’s second term, some journalists have been “surprised” by the administration’s organized agenda. But Project 2025 was publicly available. Advocacy groups read it and warned us. The press read it and… 🤷♀️ www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-li...
This is Literally the Job
Political journalists need to stop pretending they don't know what Republicans are going to do.
www.readtpa.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:06 PM
One year into Trump’s second term, some journalists have been “surprised” by the administration’s organized agenda. But Project 2025 was publicly available. Advocacy groups read it and warned us. The press read it and… 🤷♀️ www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-li...
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did Italy not have enough fascist police themselves or something
BREAKING: ICE agents will have a security role during the upcoming Winter Olympics, U.S. embassy sources confirm.
ICE agents will have a security role at Milan-Cortina Olympics, US sources say
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will have a security role during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games, according to sources at the U.S. embassy in Rome.
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 10:51 AM
did Italy not have enough fascist police themselves or something
Went a little longer on the best film I saw on my two-day stint at the Solothurn Film Festival, the yearly showcase of the latest in Swiss cinema. boxd.it/cNXuiJ
January 24, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Went a little longer on the best film I saw on my two-day stint at the Solothurn Film Festival, the yearly showcase of the latest in Swiss cinema. boxd.it/cNXuiJ
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If the US can abolish USAID, we can sure as shit abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 6:09 PM
If the US can abolish USAID, we can sure as shit abolish ICE.
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remarkable how much contempt this white house has for the nation’s historical and artistic treasures
VOA's headquarters, 'the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal,' faces possible destruction as part of the Trump administration's drive for "maximum value for the federal real estate footprint." wapo.st/4a5NCsq
The stunning art trove hidden in a D.C. building marked by Trump for disposal
Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government’s Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” Advocates fear these works could be at risk.
wapo.st
January 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM
remarkable how much contempt this white house has for the nation’s historical and artistic treasures
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Anyway, Joseph Kosinski has now directed more Best Picture nominees than David Lynch did, and that’s why the Oscars, as much as they delight and entertain us nerds every year, should never be taken to heart.
January 22, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Anyway, Joseph Kosinski has now directed more Best Picture nominees than David Lynch did, and that’s why the Oscars, as much as they delight and entertain us nerds every year, should never be taken to heart.
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state-sponsored child trafficking
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM
state-sponsored child trafficking
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If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.
January 21, 2026 at 9:20 PM
If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.
"I'd say he eats more like a duck."
X's product head has multiple brushes with death from failing to chew
January 22, 2026 at 10:00 AM
"I'd say he eats more like a duck."
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The extremist lurch of the GOP is in many ways the only political story of the last 30 years and for the most part all media has done is pretend the opposite is true.
Read this excellent piece.
Buckle is right. Liberalism is alive and well -- in fact, more popular & more activist than any time since Reagan.
Liberals did not become fascists. Conservatives became fascists.
Liberalism did not die. The center-right died so the far-right might live.
Buckle is right. Liberalism is alive and well -- in fact, more popular & more activist than any time since Reagan.
Liberals did not become fascists. Conservatives became fascists.
Liberalism did not die. The center-right died so the far-right might live.
January 20, 2026 at 3:55 PM
The extremist lurch of the GOP is in many ways the only political story of the last 30 years and for the most part all media has done is pretend the opposite is true.
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Fuck this garbage. Think of all the talented artists in Glasgow who you could have chosen from to get a payday from this gig instead of the money being handed over to a slop merchant.
NEW: Glasgow City Council has just approved a massive AI-generated mural to be painted in the city centre.
The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle.
The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"
The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle.
The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"
January 20, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Fuck this garbage. Think of all the talented artists in Glasgow who you could have chosen from to get a payday from this gig instead of the money being handed over to a slop merchant.
Defending AI slop by calling its critics terminally online "keyboard warriors" betrays a spectacular lack of self-awareness, good god.
NEW: Glasgow City Council has just approved a massive AI-generated mural to be painted in the city centre.
The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle.
The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"
The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle.
The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"
January 20, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Defending AI slop by calling its critics terminally online "keyboard warriors" betrays a spectacular lack of self-awareness, good god.
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the people who were scolded relentlessly for celebrating this moment nine years ago have been completely vindicated. punching a nazi in the face now polls higher than any member of congress.
(source: i made it up but it feels very true in my heart)
(source: i made it up but it feels very true in my heart)
Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously
January 20, 2026 at 11:03 AM
the people who were scolded relentlessly for celebrating this moment nine years ago have been completely vindicated. punching a nazi in the face now polls higher than any member of congress.
(source: i made it up but it feels very true in my heart)
(source: i made it up but it feels very true in my heart)
This LRB review by Tom Johnson is such an eloquent rebuttal to a certain kind of airport book/popular historiography that seems to only want to flatten history into a variation on "People in the past! They're just like us! Immutable human nature! Nothing ever changes!"
January 16, 2026 at 3:23 PM
This LRB review by Tom Johnson is such an eloquent rebuttal to a certain kind of airport book/popular historiography that seems to only want to flatten history into a variation on "People in the past! They're just like us! Immutable human nature! Nothing ever changes!"
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As always, the gulf between the bald reality of the situation and the seeming lack of urgency among Democratic leadership in Washington is crazy-making.
January 14, 2026 at 2:58 PM
As always, the gulf between the bald reality of the situation and the seeming lack of urgency among Democratic leadership in Washington is crazy-making.
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Banning social media for kids may be good or bad but that guy is a comically obvious bullshit artist with entire books full of trite lessons extrapolated from anecdotes that are themselves barely half-true.
January 14, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Banning social media for kids may be good or bad but that guy is a comically obvious bullshit artist with entire books full of trite lessons extrapolated from anecdotes that are themselves barely half-true.
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Every obsessive critic of "wokeness" embodies the actual qualities that they attribute to "wokeness." In this case, the mentality that any obstacle you encounter is discrimination bsky.app/profile/park...
There’s a certain kind of aging provocateur who can’t imagine losing on the merits, so every loss becomes proof of discrimination.
Like... dude, you lost to Ricky Gervais. I don't think it was about "wokeness." variety.com/2026/awards/...
Like... dude, you lost to Ricky Gervais. I don't think it was about "wokeness." variety.com/2026/awards/...
January 14, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Every obsessive critic of "wokeness" embodies the actual qualities that they attribute to "wokeness." In this case, the mentality that any obstacle you encounter is discrimination bsky.app/profile/park...
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Why does this article even exist given its own third and fourth paragraphs
January 14, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Why does this article even exist given its own third and fourth paragraphs
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Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state
The woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son’s school, which linked to documents encouraging parents to monitor ICE and directing them to training. https://cnn.it/49yoNEa
January 14, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state