Rafa Sales Ross
@rafiews.com
Big on cats and movies. Film writer and programmer often seen on Variety, Little White Lies, The Playlist, Letterboxd and more. Views mine, for better or for worse.
📧 For work: [email protected]
👋 Also @rafiews everywhere else.
www.rafiews.com
📧 For work: [email protected]
👋 Also @rafiews everywhere else.
www.rafiews.com
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Rafa Sales Ross
@rafiews.com
· Jan 6
First Monday of 2025 so here’s an evergreen reminder I am always open for commissions. Happy to jump on reviews, features, DVD essays, hosting gigs, programming work… Throw it my way and I’ll hit that ball as hard as I can! Love hearing from editors old and new, email in bio & more at rafiews.com ✨
Reposted by Rafa Sales Ross
With his award-winning political thriller The Secret Agent releasing in US theaters, Kleber Mendonça Filho speaks with Rafa Sales Ross about Brazilian novellas, writing a queer German tailor for Udo Kier, and using archive as a cinematic language. boxd.it/2Q2
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
With his award-winning political thriller The Secret Agent releasing in US theaters, Kleber Mendonça Filho speaks with Rafa Sales Ross about Brazilian novellas, writing a queer German tailor for Udo Kier, and using archive as a cinematic language. boxd.it/2Q2
For @letterboxd, I was thrilled to talk to Kleber Mendonça Filho about one of my favourite films of the year, THE SECRET AGENT. We chat archives, novelas, masculinity in a post-Bolsonaro Brazil, the brilliant Udo Kier and cultural hegemony. I could talk about this film forever and a little more.
Old New Blood: Kleber Mendonça Filho on the colorful history and beautiful masculinity of The Secret Agent • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
With his award-winning political thriller The Secret Agent releasing in US theaters, Kleber Mendonça Filho talks Brazilian novelas, writing a queer German tailor for Udo Kier, and using archive as a c...
letterboxd.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
For @letterboxd, I was thrilled to talk to Kleber Mendonça Filho about one of my favourite films of the year, THE SECRET AGENT. We chat archives, novelas, masculinity in a post-Bolsonaro Brazil, the brilliant Udo Kier and cultural hegemony. I could talk about this film forever and a little more.
Udo, to me, cinema itself.
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Udo, to me, cinema itself.
Oh my god it gets so much better
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Oh my god it gets so much better
If you turn off AI machine learning, Google will punish you by getting rid of your promotions/social inboxes and turning your primary into CHAOS 😭
If anyone finds a way around this, I’ll be eternally grateful
If anyone finds a way around this, I’ll be eternally grateful
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
If you turn off AI machine learning, Google will punish you by getting rid of your promotions/social inboxes and turning your primary into CHAOS 😭
If anyone finds a way around this, I’ll be eternally grateful
If anyone finds a way around this, I’ll be eternally grateful
When a great actress has to crawl to the pits of her being to find something good to say about a cash-grabbing gig and all she can come up with is “I think it actually adds up to something.” Beautiful.
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
When a great actress has to crawl to the pits of her being to find something good to say about a cash-grabbing gig and all she can come up with is “I think it actually adds up to something.” Beautiful.
I can’t seem to be able to crawl my way out of the Nuzzi-Lizza rabbit hole. The last 24h have been the best 24h in media for a long, long time.
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I can’t seem to be able to crawl my way out of the Nuzzi-Lizza rabbit hole. The last 24h have been the best 24h in media for a long, long time.
“I called my agent.
‘We have a big problem,’ I said. ‘Olivia is sleeping with (…)’”
‘We have a big problem,’ I said. ‘Olivia is sleeping with (…)’”
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“I called my agent.
‘We have a big problem,’ I said. ‘Olivia is sleeping with (…)’”
‘We have a big problem,’ I said. ‘Olivia is sleeping with (…)’”
I’m sorry but Andrew Garfield is certainly not a “new leading man”
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I’m sorry but Andrew Garfield is certainly not a “new leading man”
Yesterday, sleepless, I could not stop thinking about the remote possibility of Jay Kelly being related to Charlie Kelly.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Yesterday, sleepless, I could not stop thinking about the remote possibility of Jay Kelly being related to Charlie Kelly.
Me contemplating the state of the world
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Me contemplating the state of the world
“it’s VistaVision spectacular huge “ 😭
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“it’s VistaVision spectacular huge “ 😭
Me
Vince Gilligan says he will never use ChatGPT and wasn't thinking about AI when he wrote 'Pluribus'
The only way he'd use ChatGPT is if someone 'held a shotgun to my head and made me do it'
(via Polygon)
The only way he'd use ChatGPT is if someone 'held a shotgun to my head and made me do it'
(via Polygon)
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Me
Reposted by Rafa Sales Ross
I just learned Apple TV is ditching its almost utopian press platform where they made their entire catalogue available for journalists in favour of a case-by-case request system that will result in a heap of bureaucracy and me (and I imagine many others) taking much less of a gamble on their shows.
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I just learned Apple TV is ditching its almost utopian press platform where they made their entire catalogue available for journalists in favour of a case-by-case request system that will result in a heap of bureaucracy and me (and I imagine many others) taking much less of a gamble on their shows.
I just learned Apple TV is ditching its almost utopian press platform where they made their entire catalogue available for journalists in favour of a case-by-case request system that will result in a heap of bureaucracy and me (and I imagine many others) taking much less of a gamble on their shows.
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I just learned Apple TV is ditching its almost utopian press platform where they made their entire catalogue available for journalists in favour of a case-by-case request system that will result in a heap of bureaucracy and me (and I imagine many others) taking much less of a gamble on their shows.
Incredible things are happening on Brazilian Twitter
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Incredible things are happening on Brazilian Twitter
Just realised MAGAZINE DREAMS is finally getting a UK release, almost three years after the Majors scandal buried the film post-Sundance. Hm.
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Just realised MAGAZINE DREAMS is finally getting a UK release, almost three years after the Majors scandal buried the film post-Sundance. Hm.
Sneaky sneaky YouTube
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Sneaky sneaky YouTube
A picture perfect encapsulation of our maddening times
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A picture perfect encapsulation of our maddening times
A bit whiplashed from spending the day frantically going between catching up on furious Brazilian Ariana Grande fans and the NYC elections
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A bit whiplashed from spending the day frantically going between catching up on furious Brazilian Ariana Grande fans and the NYC elections