#seret

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Will solos ur favs

[kwoojii]

my special talent is getting attached to off screen relatives who we'll never ever see

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by Brendan O'Neill

Every now and then you see an event and you think to yourself: ‘This will go down in history.’ Last night’s revolt of the Jews of London against a ‘pro-Palestine’ mob is one such event.

Jews and their allies gathered at the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley to defend its showing of a film about Hamas’s fascistic massacre at the Nova music festival on 7 October. Unbelievably – or not, perhaps – the ‘Palestine solidarity’ set wanted the screening to be cancelled. No way, said the Jewish rebels, loudly and proudly, many of them draped in the Israeli flag. It was truly stirring stuff, a bold act of people’s defiance against cancel culture and the slow, lethal creep of a new anti-Semitism.

Let’s call it The Battle of Phoenix Cinema. On one side there was a motley crew of Palestine flag-wavers, curiously irate that a cinema was showing a film about the evils of Hamas. And on the other side a boisterous gathering of Jews and their supporters. Two thousand of them. ‘I’m still standing’ by Elton John blasted from a loudspeaker. Many young Jews were there, some clearly angry, pushed to their limit by the ceaseless demonisation of the Jewish State and the left’s shameful lack of solidarity with the Jewish community as it has come under attack these past seven months. These people really have had enough.

Some of the younger Jews chanted ‘Terrorists supporters off our streets’. It felt like a brilliant modern twist on the slogan of The Battle of Cable Street in 1936 – ‘They shall not pass’. Back then, Jews and their working-class allies gathered in East London to see off Oswald Mosley’s fascists. Yesterday they gathered to see off that mob that obsessively hates Israel and which seems hell-bent on hiding the truth about Hamas’s fascist-like crimes. You shall not pass, the protesters were essentially saying, as they protected a cinema from the McCarthyite rage of the Israelophobes.

The Phoenix Cinema’s ‘crime’ is that it agreed to host the Seret film festival, a festival of Israeli cinema that is supported by Israel’s culture ministry. This is a mortal sin in the eyes of anti-Israel activists who boycott everything that emanates from Israel; who seem to believe that moral cleanliness entails exorcising every Israeli film, foodstuff, product and even person from your life and your community.

Ken Loach and Mike Leigh resigned in a huff as patrons of the Phoenix in response to its hosting of Seret. Loach, of course, gets funding for his films from the British Film Institute, which itself is government-funded and distributes lottery cash. So he’s happy to get cash from an organisation backed by a government that waged catastrophic wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya but he’ll run a mile from a cinema showing films backed by the Israeli government? Make it make sense, Ken.

[cinematicjourney]

Losing Ground (1982) | dir. Kathleen Collins

[edwordsmyth]

Losing Ground, Kathleen Collins (1982)

[dearly]

LOSING GROUND (1982) dir. Kathleen Collins

[leatherhearted]

LOSING GROUND (1982, dir. Kathleen Collins)

[yumeyumeappleo]

GUESS WHOS WATCHING SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF

[davidhudson]

Happy 74th, Seret Scott.

Kathleen Collins’s Losing Ground (1982).

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[uraandri]

srbi: gubi nam se srpski jezik sve samo neke tuđice ovi mladi više ne znaju srpske nazive za stvari

srpski nazivi u pitanju: šrafciger, lajsna, ambulanta, doktor, balkon, ruža, garderoba, kavaljer, masaža, pita, trpeza, kofer, escajg, šminka, časopis, naslov, brak, odeljenje, lopov

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- Secrets Post #814, July 28th, 2023

[transgayhawkeyepierce]

The funny thing about the MASH fandom is that when someone goes on anon, you have a pretty good idea of who they are

[randomrichards]

LOSING GROUND:

Repressed professor

Retreats with Artist husband

Acts in student film

[akkpipitphattana]

THEYRE SO SICK AND TWISTED

[deceiver-a-day]

The Imaginary World of Visioba Seret

• [x] exists in Visioba Seret’s imagination 

• [x] isn’t real

• [x] provides escape for Visioba Seret 

• [x] glitters brighter than reality 

• [x] lacks death and disease

• [x] introduce an abundance of handsome catboys