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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social Science and technology journalist. Psychedelic science and culture. First book, Trip Reports: Stories From an Australian Psychedelic Renaissance, out September 1st, https://unsw.press/books/trip-reports/
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
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steph harmon @stephharmon.bsky.social culture editor of Guardian Australia
Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social Psephologist, polling analyst and poll transparency advocate, political commentator, ecologist, chess player/admin. No party loyalties. Not-A-Pollster.
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Melbourne Cinematheque @melbcinematheque.bsky.social Established 1948. Screening significant films on 35mm and in restorations. Independent and volunteer-run. Wednesday nights at ACMI
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Mehdi Jahan @jahanoir.bsky.social Filmmaker | Assistant Professor @Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata.
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ROUGH CUT @roughcutfilm.bsky.social An independent publication for film reviews, interviews, and reflections.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social Film reviewer at the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. Longer weekly essays at Moving Targets (www.jakewilson.com.au). Programmer at Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema (www.facebook.com/BBBCinema).
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RE:VOIR Video @revoir.bsky.social RE:VOIR is a label that publishes and distributes DVDs of classic and contemporary experimental cinema. Our catalogue includes over seventy titles: https://re-voir.com/shop/en/
Fun City Editions @funcityeditions.bsky.social Works of cinema and music that exist outside of their time.
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Jon W. @rarefilmm.bsky.social Man on a mission to find and preserve the rarest and most obscure films ever made. Posts mostly film & TV related content.
Stuart Romeo-Richards @stuartrichards.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies @ Adelaide University. Interested in queer film, adaptations, Agatha Christie, Gothic Horror and much more.
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Myke Bartlett @mykebartlett.bsky.social Writer-type, tea drinker, existentialist vicar.
Laurence Barber @laurencesmb.bsky.social Writer, sorta. Award-winning film & TV critic, once upon a time. Ex-journo. Character actress. Celebrity bee attack researcher. Nancy in a state of crisis on a cloud. (Twitter/Insta: @laurencesmb)
Kimberly Pierce @kpierce624.bsky.social Critic. Archivist. Author.
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Andrew F Peirce @ghostjingles.bsky.social Part time person who does stuff. Mostly on TheCurb.com.au. Do not feel obliged to follow back.
Rochelle Siemienowicz @milan2pinsk.bsky.social Writer and Australian arts/screen journo. Author of 'Double Happiness', a novel, and 'Fallen', a memoir. Emerging crone. MEAA union member. Substack: https://rochellesiemienowicz.substack.com/
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Cineaste Magazine @cineastemagazine.bsky.social America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema
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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social Socialist writer. Read me at The People's Line at http://www.peoplesline.org. Other links at https://linktr.ee/carlbeijer
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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social Novelist, critic, books about crooks.
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Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social JACOBIN film critic, FILMSUCK podcaster
Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social Chief film critic, Variety. Beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters.
Stephen A Russell @stephenarussell.bsky.social Glasgow-born, Naarm (Melbourne)-based arts journalist and award-winning critic obsessed with film, theatre and a whole lot more. Live on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation. Snorts generally included. He/him, quite gay.
Substack: Orion's Shoulder
Debbie Zhou @debbiezhou.bsky.social Small but loud. Film & TV producer / usually with opinions (and locked out of my Twitter acct RIP). Ocean baby transplanted in London.
Jini Maxwell @astroblob.bsky.social Curator of videogames for work and queer films for fun | they/them
Daniel Lammin @dlammin.bsky.social Theatre maker. Film critic for SWITCH. Host of INK & PAINT podcast. Occasional thirst-trapper. Based in Meanjin (Brisbane). Art is subjective and so are my opinions.
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Posts on daily entries and/or other stuff that I like.
Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social Film scholar, director of the Cinémathèque Suisse. Research @goethe_uni Frankfurt: http://konfigurationen-des-films.de http://ceditraa.net https://age-c.eu/
Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/
Miklós Kiss @mikloskiss.bsky.social Associate Professor of AV Arts & Cognition @rug.nl, author of this http://bit.ly/2SJM29Q, this http://bit.ly/2a4zvaw and this http://bit.ly/3A0KrPG.
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Dmitry Martov @domitori.bsky.social
Meiji Mo @meiji.bsky.social Film and Cultural studies writer, and martial arts studies fellow traveller.
Liz Burke @lizgracie.bsky.social Lover of cinema, horseracing and whippets. Lefty feminist. Filmmaker.
Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival- S Dan Sallitt @sallitt.bsky.social
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social film scholar + critic | books abt 60s sex films, global cinema, place | in '25: The Prop (Fordham); Wanda (BFI); toiling: Cinemas of Exhaustion | teach @ King's College London | post-soviet newyawker, ekphrastic perfume fiend | elenagorfinkel.com
Daniel Humphrey @danielhumphrey.bsky.social Professor of Film and Media Studies. Bon Vivant
Dana Linssen @danalinssen@mastodon.nl @danalinssen.bsky.social film critic NRC & Filmkrant, time traveller, curator FilmForward Vrijplaats, Slow Criticism Project, selection Berlinale Talents, mentor BT Press, teaching ArtEZ & HKU University of the Arts, Postcard Underground
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social I write the Daily column for Criterion's Current.
Charles Lieurance @charleslieurance.bsky.social Pagan Hollywood proprietor, hooked on fin-de-siècle literature, occultism in cinema, The Velvet Underground, Marianne Faithfull, The Rolling Stones (1967 - 1977), George Jones & Merle Haggard, bourbon, The Shangri-Las & National Lampoon (1970 - 1977)
the Curb @thecurbau.bsky.social Film and culture. Not content.
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www.TheCurb.com.au
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Thomas Caldwell @cinemaautopsy.bsky.social writer | broadcaster | film critic | film programmer | arts worker | Twin Peaks and Doctor Who fan | loves physical media | posts about things I like | https://linktr.ee/cinemaautopsy
Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope.
The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
ProjectedFigures.com
Silvi Vann-Wall @silvi.bsky.social Freelance film & TV critic, news writer, cultural commentator. Opinions my own. Also does musical theatre & improv comedy 🐸 They/Them. https://linktr.ee/silvireports
Glenn Charlie Dunks @glenncharliedunks.bsky.social Film type from Australia. Documentaries. Gay shit. Music. AFL Geelong Cats. Writer behind reDocumented blog. OFCS. GALECA. AFCA. FIPRESCI. Live and work in Melbourne/Naarm on Boon Wurrung land. glenncharliedks on Letterboxd. There will be typos.
Eloise Ross @cinemelo.bsky.social I'm Gun Crazy, & I love Barbara Stanwyck so much it hurts sometimes | PhD in sound & Classical Hollywood | film studies lecturer | co-curator @melbcinematheque.bsky.social
https://letterboxd.com/cinemelo/
Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social Writes for IndieWire, The Curb and The Saturday Paper – senior editorial producer and photo editor there, too. Golden Globes voter. Twin Peaks nerd. 1/4 of Tacoma Radar. Tasmanian in Naarm/Melbourne.
https://linktr.ee/andyhazel
Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social Freelancer/critic. Physical media enthusiast and essayist. Member of the Michigan Movie Critics Guild.
Contributor: Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome, Error_4444, Severin, Umbrella, Second Sight, BFI, Kino Lorber, 88 Films, Imprint, Terror Vision
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
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DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT @bradlacey.bsky.social (short little span of attention)
Perpetua Fastings @perpetua.bsky.social Real @perpetua_fastings parody account
Bradley J. Dixon @bradleyjdixon.me thought leader | www.bradleyjdixon.me
Senses of Cinema @sensesofcinema.bsky.social An online film journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema.
📢 Issue 118 Out Now
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue-118/
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Ruth Richards @ruthelizabeth.bsky.social Lecturer in Media
Interested in all things, but especially animation/feminism/television/liveness.
Josh Nelson @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social Doctor of Film. Writer in hiding. Recovering critic. Commentariat for hire.
Contributor for Arrow; Umbrella; Indicator; Imprint; Second Sight; Vinegar Syndrome, BFI and others…
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