Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing
@swenryan.bsky.social
Freelance film critic, lafilmcritics.bsky.social member, list obsessive. Host of Catalyst and Witness, co-host of 24 hours don't make an ideology. USC JD, CAMS MA.
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Tonight! 🔥
Join us as we welcome director Marta Mateus for a double bill of her acclaimed debut FIRE OF WIND and the new restoration of a rare short from 1969 by Portuguese master João César Monteiro—8pm @2220arts.bsky.social .
🎟️ 🔗: link.dice.fm/L66ddbe88ef5
Join us as we welcome director Marta Mateus for a double bill of her acclaimed debut FIRE OF WIND and the new restoration of a rare short from 1969 by Portuguese master João César Monteiro—8pm @2220arts.bsky.social .
🎟️ 🔗: link.dice.fm/L66ddbe88ef5
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Tonight! 🔥
Join us as we welcome director Marta Mateus for a double bill of her acclaimed debut FIRE OF WIND and the new restoration of a rare short from 1969 by Portuguese master João César Monteiro—8pm @2220arts.bsky.social .
🎟️ 🔗: link.dice.fm/L66ddbe88ef5
Join us as we welcome director Marta Mateus for a double bill of her acclaimed debut FIRE OF WIND and the new restoration of a rare short from 1969 by Portuguese master João César Monteiro—8pm @2220arts.bsky.social .
🎟️ 🔗: link.dice.fm/L66ddbe88ef5
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it's almost that time of the year
gotta focus. gotta get in Carol mode
gotta focus. gotta get in Carol mode
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
it's almost that time of the year
gotta focus. gotta get in Carol mode
gotta focus. gotta get in Carol mode
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ice cubes are ridiculous. like yeah lemme just get a piece of water
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
ice cubes are ridiculous. like yeah lemme just get a piece of water
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colleges are a lot like beers, in that it doesn’t really matter which one you pick. they’re all equally good and indistinguishable from one another
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
colleges are a lot like beers, in that it doesn’t really matter which one you pick. they’re all equally good and indistinguishable from one another
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And this year I was part of a jury for the first time ever, for their Best International Short competition. Every one of the shorts in the competition were very good, and it was a great and humbling experience talking through them with my fellow jurors.
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The Things We Lose On Our Way to the Sky
A reinterpretation of memory through the main motif of the color blue, grappling with both cultural and personal dissonance.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
And this year I was part of a jury for the first time ever, for their Best International Short competition. Every one of the shorts in the competition were very good, and it was a great and humbling experience talking through them with my fellow jurors.
sdaff.org/2025/film_ty...
sdaff.org/2025/film_ty...
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Arguably the worst draft pick in Seattle sports history. Four pitchers were taken in the six picks after the Mariners selected Morrow: Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer, Tim Lincecum, and Andrew Miller.
Brandon Morrow
Pitcher
Debut: 2007 - Retired: 2018
LAD - SEA - SDP - TOR - CHC
Pitcher
Debut: 2007 - Retired: 2018
LAD - SEA - SDP - TOR - CHC
Brandon Morrow at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Brandon Morrow
baseball-reference.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Arguably the worst draft pick in Seattle sports history. Four pitchers were taken in the six picks after the Mariners selected Morrow: Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer, Tim Lincecum, and Andrew Miller.
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New for subscribers only: I watched and wrote about a couple of recent Japanese TV series: the Netflix rock musical Glass Heart, starring Satoh Takeru, Baby Assassin Takaishi Akari, Cloud's Suda Masaki, and more; and KyoAni's follow-up to their classic Nichijou, CITY the Animation (on Amazon Prime).
Glass Heart (Goto Kotaro and Kakimoto Kensaku, 2025) & CITY the Animation (Ishidate Taichi, 2025)
Reviews of a pair of recent Japanese TV series
www.thechinesecinema.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
New for subscribers only: I watched and wrote about a couple of recent Japanese TV series: the Netflix rock musical Glass Heart, starring Satoh Takeru, Baby Assassin Takaishi Akari, Cloud's Suda Masaki, and more; and KyoAni's follow-up to their classic Nichijou, CITY the Animation (on Amazon Prime).
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On Sunday, we present Nadav Lapid’s YES, one of the year’s most incendiary films, as the closing night selection of Directors’ Fortnight Extended 2025 at the DGA!
The festivities begin tonight and continue throughout the weekend! 🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68eaea...
The festivities begin tonight and continue throughout the weekend! 🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68eaea...
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
On Sunday, we present Nadav Lapid’s YES, one of the year’s most incendiary films, as the closing night selection of Directors’ Fortnight Extended 2025 at the DGA!
The festivities begin tonight and continue throughout the weekend! 🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68eaea...
The festivities begin tonight and continue throughout the weekend! 🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68eaea...
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Winner of the SACD Prize for best French film and Europa Cinemas Label for best European Film at the 2025 Directors’ Fortnight, Valéry Carnoy’s teen boxing drama WILD FOXES comes to the DGA this Sunday as part of Fortnight Extended! 🥊
🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68e97b...
🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68e97b...
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Winner of the SACD Prize for best French film and Europa Cinemas Label for best European Film at the 2025 Directors’ Fortnight, Valéry Carnoy’s teen boxing drama WILD FOXES comes to the DGA this Sunday as part of Fortnight Extended! 🥊
🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68e97b...
🎟️: directorsfortnightextended2025.eventive.org/films/68e97b...
At long last a new Stephen Cone film, thank God www.instagram.com/p/DQw7E-LDnl...
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
At long last a new Stephen Cone film, thank God www.instagram.com/p/DQw7E-LDnl...
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Of the two new movies in which a film-industry father seeks to reconcile with his two neglected daughters, I'm a bit surprised to find myself preferring the honest schmaltz of JAY KELLY to the coy self-satisfaction of SENTIMENTAL VALUE. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Bad Show-Biz Dads of “Sentimental Value” and “Jay Kelly”
In new films from Joachim Trier and Noah Baumbach, success in filmmaking proves depressingly incompatible with success in fatherhood.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Of the two new movies in which a film-industry father seeks to reconcile with his two neglected daughters, I'm a bit surprised to find myself preferring the honest schmaltz of JAY KELLY to the coy self-satisfaction of SENTIMENTAL VALUE. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The San Diego Asian Film Festival has just kicked off. Arguably the best showcase for Asian film in North America, they're playing a whole bunch of great stuff again this year, including the new films from Hong Sangsoo and Bi Gan.
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sdaff.org/2025/films-b...
Films by Section
Films by Section
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November 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The San Diego Asian Film Festival has just kicked off. Arguably the best showcase for Asian film in North America, they're playing a whole bunch of great stuff again this year, including the new films from Hong Sangsoo and Bi Gan.
sdaff.org/2025/films-b...
sdaff.org/2025/films-b...
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voted for zohran again
November 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
voted for zohran again
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i don't click on new york post articles but i can't honestly say it's because of any principled stand. it's because it has so many ads that if you let it all load the page weight is around 2 gigs. you could load one article claiming that sidewalks are bad or you could run about 500 copies of doom
November 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
i don't click on new york post articles but i can't honestly say it's because of any principled stand. it's because it has so many ads that if you let it all load the page weight is around 2 gigs. you could load one article claiming that sidewalks are bad or you could run about 500 copies of doom
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THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND, EPISODE 1. | Secret Base
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November 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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i wanted to be mayor. i would have run for mayor if i knew there was going to be an election. do another one
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
i wanted to be mayor. i would have run for mayor if i knew there was going to be an election. do another one
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one time pitcher john denny knocked reggie jackson down with a brushback pitch. next time up reggie blasted a moonshot home run off him. denny kept chirping at him as he rounded the bases and wouldn't stop, so reggie stepped on home, charged the mound and beat his ass. andrew cuomo is john denny
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
one time pitcher john denny knocked reggie jackson down with a brushback pitch. next time up reggie blasted a moonshot home run off him. denny kept chirping at him as he rounded the bases and wouldn't stop, so reggie stepped on home, charged the mound and beat his ass. andrew cuomo is john denny
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i heard the sandwich guy was acquitted. i bet he went up to the judge and said "i'll have an acquittal sandwich with lettuce and tomatoes!" or something like that. i'm just kidding, i doubt he did that. this post is just for fun really
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
i heard the sandwich guy was acquitted. i bet he went up to the judge and said "i'll have an acquittal sandwich with lettuce and tomatoes!" or something like that. i'm just kidding, i doubt he did that. this post is just for fun really
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More Milkyway Image coming soon from Chameleon Films: Johnnie To's much demanded A Hero never Dies and Soi Cheang's paranoid thriller Accident. Both have been in the works for a while now with A Hero Never Dies even undergoing a digital restoration. New subtitles by me as well.
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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More Milkyway Image coming soon from Chameleon Films: Johnnie To's much demanded A Hero never Dies and Soi Cheang's paranoid thriller Accident. Both have been in the works for a while now with A Hero Never Dies even undergoing a digital restoration. New subtitles by me as well.
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
More Milkyway Image coming soon from Chameleon Films: Johnnie To's much demanded A Hero never Dies and Soi Cheang's paranoid thriller Accident. Both have been in the works for a while now with A Hero Never Dies even undergoing a digital restoration. New subtitles by me as well.
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shoutout to 7'9" Quebecois teenager Olivier Rioux for becoming the tallest human being ever to play college basketball www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Pe...
7'9" Oliver Rioux checks into a game for the FIRST TIME & makes history | ESPN College Basketball
YouTube video by ESPN
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November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
shoutout to 7'9" Quebecois teenager Olivier Rioux for becoming the tallest human being ever to play college basketball www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Pe...