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        <description><![CDATA[ Thoughts, diaries, politics, and cinema. Mostly cinema. From Beirut. ]]></description>
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                <title>An Introduction about me</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[A Village, Two Cities, and a Curious Mind for Science and Art]]></description>
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                <title>In the Mood for Love: A Film Made of Details</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[In the Mood for Love might be the most beautiful film I&#039;ve ever seen. Wong Kar-wai doesn&#039;t tell this story through plot — he tells it through details. A cigarette ember glowing in the dark. A glance held a second too long. The same narrow stairwell, walked past each other again and again, two lives brushing against one another without ever quite touching. The cigarette smoke in this film is doing so much work. It drifts through nearly every frame like its own presence — hanging in doorways, curl...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>The Shadow That Never Quite Lands: Vampyr and the Birth of Atmospheric Horror</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[There&#039;s a moment early in Carl Th. Dreyer&#039;s Vampyr (1932) where a shadow moves independently of the body that should be casting it - a gravedigger&#039;s shadow shovels earth on its own, unmoored from the man standing beside the grave. It&#039;s a small, almost throwaway image, and it tells you everything about what this film is doing that almost nothing else from the period attempts. Vampyr isn&#039;t interested in scaring you the way its contemporaries were. It&#039;s interested in making the world itself feel un...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>This Bird Is Named Wrong and Doesn&#039;t Care</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[The pink robin lives in the cool, wet forests of southeastern Australia — Tasmania, Victoria, a bit of New South Wales — and weighs about 10 grams, roughly three sheets of paper. The male carries a genuinely rare color for a wild bird: a deep rose-pink breast set against a charcoal-black head and back. Pink almost never occurs naturally in feathers; when it does show up in birds, it&#039;s usually diet-driven, like flamingos and their shrimp. Here it&#039;s just built in, for no ecological reason anyone n...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Three Mirrors: How Ti West&#039;s X Trilogy Uses Horror to Dissect Hollywood</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Ti West&#039;s trilogy — X, Pearl, and MaXXXine — is not just a run of soft-horror comedies with a shared lead. It&#039;s a rabbit hole. The deeper you go, the more it reveals itself as a sustained project: three films, each built as a loving pastiche of a different era of Hollywood filmmaking, and each one using horror as the instrument to interrogate the industry&#039;s relationship with fame. What makes the trilogy remarkable isn&#039;t just that it references old movies. It&#039;s that each installment is made like ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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