Joel Elliott @joelpelliott

Podcaster/researcher/filmmaker/writer. Host/producer of @polaritiespod. Re-tweets are seven cats walking back and forth over my keyboard. polarities.ca Toronto Joined August 2011

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Joel Elliott @joelpelliott

5 months ago

How a century of immigration law has evaded constitutional rights. bostonreview.net/articles/the-i… Review Email Subscribers

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Joel Elliott @joelpelliott

7 months ago

Tarkovsky Marker A. Kurosawa Panahi Yang Zhangke Coens Wilder Hitchcock Scorsese

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7 months ago

Tarkovsky Marker A. Kurosawa Panahi Yang Zhangke Coens Wilder Hitchcock Scorsese

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Joel Elliott @joelpelliott

8 months ago

I agree it's odd! I wonder if there's any historical precedent for such an odd-looking hand gesture

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8 months ago

I agree it's odd! I wonder if there's any historical precedent for such an odd-looking hand gesture

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Joel Elliott @joelpelliott

a year ago

Rubbing each other's feet on the couch is known as a "Geriatric 69"

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a year ago

When Hot Docs calls, we answer

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Last night's Emergency Seder in the Street in NYC was a powerful embodiment of the spirit of Passover. The Guardian published the text of my speech: "Exodus from Zionism" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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a year ago

Video shows a what now?

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a year ago

One of the fun things about this movie is that in 36 years it looks like no time has passed. Winona Ryder looked 30 at 16 and looks 30 now. Michael Keaton has always been 60 years old. youtube.com/watch?v=e6yDan…

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a year ago

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2 years ago

Choose your anti-woke fighter:

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2 years ago

For the pro-monopoly crowd that absolutely dominated antitrust law from the Carter administration until 2020, Amazon presents a genuinely puzzling paradox: the company's monopoly power was *never* supposed to emerge, and if it did, it should have crumbled immediately. 1/

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Joel Elliott @joelpelliott

2 years ago

As a Canadian I'm sorry to report that nobody here has any interest in colonizing Buffalo

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Joel Elliott @joelpelliott

2 years ago

Help with this. Movies that unexpectedly climax/end in a dance - i.e. no musicals/dance movies, anything else obvious.

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2 years ago

July 21 should be declared a national holiday, henceforth known as "Barbie Oppie Day"

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Joel Elliott @joelpelliott

2 years ago

You think your Twitter beefs are petty, but everyday I gear up to fight the ghost of a film critic.

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2 years ago

You think your Twitter beefs are petty, but everyday I gear up to fight the ghost of a film critic.

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Joel Elliott @joelpelliott

2 years ago

Any self-described "critic" who writes a sentence like this should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

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Joel Elliott @joelpelliott

3 years ago

The Great Silence, the short archival doc I made about Woodrow Wilson and the public failure behind the 1918 influenza pandemic is now online for free on Vimeo vimeo.com/669846077/desc…

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Joel Elliott @joelpelliott

3 years ago

Reading Pauline Kael Bot every morning is like drinking the most bitter cup of black coffee in a loveless marriage neither of you feels strong enough to leave.

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3 years ago

Reading Pauline Kael Bot every morning is like drinking the most bitter cup of black coffee in a loveless marriage neither of you feels strong enough to leave.