alex lei
@alexlei.bsky.social
lost in the sauce | “writer” and “filmmaker” | he/him
i see a number of you talking about the “Train Dreams Wars” which is quaint and all but i’m not sure you realize how in the trenches it got
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
i see a number of you talking about the “Train Dreams Wars” which is quaint and all but i’m not sure you realize how in the trenches it got
had a great talk with my old professor, Tenzin Phuntsog, about making films that are important to you and his debut NEXT LIFE filmmakermagazine.com/132497-inter...
Tibet via California: Tenzin Phuntsog on “Next Life”
An image of the Dalai Lama gives diasporic texture to an otherwise anonymous suburban American house; the camera tracks to the next room, where a father, mother, and son sit like statues.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
had a great talk with my old professor, Tenzin Phuntsog, about making films that are important to you and his debut NEXT LIFE filmmakermagazine.com/132497-inter...
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bro last night was an american canto
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
bro last night was an american canto
film criticism may be dying, but The A.V. Club let me write about Bazin’s ontology of the image, and that’s not for nothing
The closer Richard Linklater gets to remaking Breathless, the further he strays from Jean-Luc Godard
Nouvelle Vague betrays Godard, yet finds something all its own
Nouvelle Vague never becomes Breathless or finds the birth of the French New Wave. It's too deep in Richard Linklater's precise reality.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
film criticism may be dying, but The A.V. Club let me write about Bazin’s ontology of the image, and that’s not for nothing
some Friday reading for ya: wrote about Linklater, Godard, NOUVELLE VAGUE, and the looming legacy of Bazin www.avclub.com/richard-link...
Nouvelle Vague betrays Godard, yet finds something all its own
Nouvelle Vague never becomes Breathless or finds the birth of the French New Wave. It's too deep in Richard Linklater's precise reality.
www.avclub.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
some Friday reading for ya: wrote about Linklater, Godard, NOUVELLE VAGUE, and the looming legacy of Bazin www.avclub.com/richard-link...
my report of the 26th Maryland Film Festival, which surprised me on how much it bounced back from its historic low point in 2023 and is once again making Baltimore one of the great places to be for indie cinema filmmakermagazine.com/132457-revie...
Maryland Film Festival 2025: Cinema Saturation in Baltimore
If last year’s Maryland Film Festival felt like a trial run for a new era of Baltimore’s cornerstone film event, the 26th Maryland Film Festival solidified its direction. Bouncing back from the low…
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November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
my report of the 26th Maryland Film Festival, which surprised me on how much it bounced back from its historic low point in 2023 and is once again making Baltimore one of the great places to be for indie cinema filmmakermagazine.com/132457-revie...
Twitter went down because too many people watched the Magellan trailer and the site crashed
The U.S. trailer for Lav Diaz's epic #Magellan has arrived ahead of a January release.
Watch: thefilmstage.com/magellan-tra...
Watch: thefilmstage.com/magellan-tra...
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Twitter went down because too many people watched the Magellan trailer and the site crashed
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Alex Lei, the Brianna Wu of film twitter? (He's actually white)
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Alex Lei, the Brianna Wu of film twitter? (He's actually white)
re-upping this piece i wrote last year on The Journey, even though everytime i reread something i wrote on Peter Watkins’ greatest work i immediately want to update it again because, more than any film, it can only be considered in an ever-evolving present inreviewonline.com/2024/08/12/a...
A Mandated Psychosis: On Peter Watkins' The Journey | In Review Online
A new film essay on The Journey, directed by Peter Watkins, for film review site In Review Online.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
re-upping this piece i wrote last year on The Journey, even though everytime i reread something i wrote on Peter Watkins’ greatest work i immediately want to update it again because, more than any film, it can only be considered in an ever-evolving present inreviewonline.com/2024/08/12/a...
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“I had just won a Guggenheim fellowship and went down to the post office. I run into Sal, he says ‘Hey Buba, you think you’re ever gonna make it?’ It brings you back to reality.”
@honorszombie.bsky.social spends an afternoon with the Bard of Braddock, Tony Buba
@honorszombie.bsky.social spends an afternoon with the Bard of Braddock, Tony Buba
October 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“I had just won a Guggenheim fellowship and went down to the post office. I run into Sal, he says ‘Hey Buba, you think you’re ever gonna make it?’ It brings you back to reality.”
@honorszombie.bsky.social spends an afternoon with the Bard of Braddock, Tony Buba
@honorszombie.bsky.social spends an afternoon with the Bard of Braddock, Tony Buba
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I just can't understand why you'd make a movie like Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere seemingly designed to make Springsteen heads like @alexlei.bsky.social angry www.avclub.com/springsteen-...
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere has no idea why Nebraska is a great album
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere tries to know Bruce Springsteen at the moment the musician knew himself the least.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I just can't understand why you'd make a movie like Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere seemingly designed to make Springsteen heads like @alexlei.bsky.social angry www.avclub.com/springsteen-...
went long on Nebraska and why Scott Cooper’s approach to Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is so deeply misguided www.avclub.com/springsteen-...
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere has no idea why Nebraska is a great album
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere tries to know Bruce Springsteen at the moment the musician knew himself the least.
www.avclub.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
went long on Nebraska and why Scott Cooper’s approach to Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is so deeply misguided www.avclub.com/springsteen-...
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Hoagy Carmichael: Deliver Me From Nowhere
October 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Hoagy Carmichael: Deliver Me From Nowhere
talked to Paula González-Nasser about wonderfully subtle and quietly devastating debut THE SCOUT for InRO inreviewonline.com/2025/10/23/p...
Between the Production and Real Life: Paula González-Nasser on The Scout | In Review Online
Before she directed a feature of her own, Paula González-Nasser spent years location scouting for shoots in New York City. It turned out to be a fortune Between the Production and Real Life: Paula Gon...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
talked to Paula González-Nasser about wonderfully subtle and quietly devastating debut THE SCOUT for InRO inreviewonline.com/2025/10/23/p...
recreating the Twitter experience
October 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
recreating the Twitter experience
how come my account doesn’t have the “rude” tag. fuck you guys
October 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
how come my account doesn’t have the “rude” tag. fuck you guys
one of the biggest surprises of New/Next this year was Connor Sen Warnick’s atemporal synthesis of political and poetic cinema set in early 70s Chinatown, CHARACTERS DISAPPEARING. talked to the debut director for Filmmaker filmmakermagazine.com/132242-inter...
Interview: Connor Sen Warnick on “Characters Disappearing”
A half-hour into Connor Sen Warnick’s Characters Disappearing, left-wing revolutionary Mei (Yuka Murakami) hangs up a poster declaring “The East is Red.” Until that point, the film seems to take place...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
one of the biggest surprises of New/Next this year was Connor Sen Warnick’s atemporal synthesis of political and poetic cinema set in early 70s Chinatown, CHARACTERS DISAPPEARING. talked to the debut director for Filmmaker filmmakermagazine.com/132242-inter...
talked to Sabrina Greco about her rip-roaring debut Lockjaw for InRO inreviewonline.com/2025/10/17/s...
A Never-Ending Pile-On: Sabrina Greco on Lockjaw | In Review Online
An interview with filmmaker Sabrina Greco, director of Lockjaw, for film review site In Review Online.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
talked to Sabrina Greco about her rip-roaring debut Lockjaw for InRO inreviewonline.com/2025/10/17/s...
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A joy to speak with Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha about the legacy of LINDA LINDA LINDA, an underdog indie that continues to capture the hearts of new fans. For @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy
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Oral HIstory: Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha on “Linda Linda Linda” at 20
Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha on the making of their cult classic “Linda Linda Linda.”
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October 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A joy to speak with Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha about the legacy of LINDA LINDA LINDA, an underdog indie that continues to capture the hearts of new fans. For @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy
filmmakermagazine.com/132226-oral-...
filmmakermagazine.com/132226-oral-...
talked to Tucker Bennett and Chris Corrente about their handmade, PKD-esque internet dystopian romp IN THE GLOW OF DARKNESS filmmakermagazine.com/132229-inter...
“The Algorithm of It All”: Tucker Bennett and Chris Corrente on “In the Glow of Darkness”
Drawing heavily from internet aesthetics that feel at once contemporary and dated, In the Glow of Darkness is a sprawling, hand-made cyberpunk ensemble film following detectives, streamers, pop stars…
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October 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
talked to Tucker Bennett and Chris Corrente about their handmade, PKD-esque internet dystopian romp IN THE GLOW OF DARKNESS filmmakermagazine.com/132229-inter...
we got the gonzo coverage of New/Next online
“I felt out of place: I didn’t have a film in the festival, and I had my backpack on. That is to say, no tote bag.”
Lukas Armstrong-Laird goes gonzo at New/Next Film Festival
Lukas Armstrong-Laird goes gonzo at New/Next Film Festival
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
we got the gonzo coverage of New/Next online
okay who’s in charge here
October 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
okay who’s in charge here
do people on Bluesky like Jay Kelly. do you talk about Jay Kelly
October 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
do people on Bluesky like Jay Kelly. do you talk about Jay Kelly
people on Bluesky don’t even know about Two Skateboards
October 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
people on Bluesky don’t even know about Two Skateboards
you people have no idea the discourses we can bring to this app. you’re not ready
October 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
you people have no idea the discourses we can bring to this app. you’re not ready