Robert Rubsam
@rob_rubsam
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Books, movies, the arts: NYT Magazine, Baffler, Washington Post, Atlantic, Paris Review, Liberties. Commonweal Contributing Writer. Hire me: [email protected]
New York City
Joined July 2009
Now that cinema is more or less dead I think we can definitively say this is the best sunglasses ever looked in a movie
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Should have been Alice Rohrwacher
Christopher Nolan explains how he approached the mythological aspect of THE ODYSSEY: “One of the things I needed to crack was how to approach mythological elements in a sort of real-world way. The big breakthrough creatively in thinking about the gods was that everything that is
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Your memories do this for free
need an app where you pick point A, point B, give it a time limit, and it generates the nicest possible walk between them
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Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
oklahomawatch.org
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who...
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Awful awful movie
A film that stays with you. Critics hail TRAIN DREAMS as "the best film of the year." Starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon and William H. Macy. For your consideration - Best Picture. Now playing in select theaters and on Netflix November 21.
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tweet one: people are too darn political nowadays. they should be more like me, a person with no politics whatsoever tweet two: since the dawn of time, woman has SCHEMED against man
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The claim that Iran may have funded Palestine Action was planted in the British press by a PR firm working for an Israeli weapons company.
novaramedia.com
As the Home Office rallied support to proscribe a non-violent protest group for the first time ever, a convenient allegation emerged in the British press about a shady regime funding the activists.
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If Arab immigrants hadn't lived in Dearborn to work in the auto industry and then stayed there and built a functioning community it would have been like one of many other totally abandoned and burnt-out apocalyptic midwestern Rust Belt cities. Now you're blaming them for that.
Dearborn, MI is the perfect example of what happens when mass migration goes unvetted and unrestrained. What has become of Dearborn cannot become of the West. Who else agrees?
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Underrated One Battle line: "I know how to drink and drive, honey."
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Official trailer for Lav Diaz's MAGELLAN. Philippines’ submission for Best International Feature at 98th annual Academy Awards. Coming to theaters January 9th
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All of culture is now just the dumbest people you have ever heard slouching in ginormous chairs
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Jenny Erpenbeck knows well what it is like to come of age in the wreckage of an empire. In “Things That Disappear,” she writes on ruins—and the virtue of unproductive places and idle things. https://t.co/4icsHkIV7r
thebaffler.com
In “Things That Disappear,” Jenny Erpenbeck grapples with ruins, revealing the virtue of unproductive places and idle things.
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U Talkin Vatican II 2 Me
So the rumors were true: Adam Scott did indeed meet Pope Leo today at the Vatican during an audience dedicated to the world of cinema.
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