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Faded films: non-existing holiday spirit

Tamim Alnuweiri November 19, 2018

My parents were not big on any sort of celebrations growing up, when I was younger I thought it was because they were cruel but

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Faded films: Back from the brink

Tamim Alnuweiri April 13, 2018

So I guess a few weeks ago now I had a semi public meltdown which I used this increasingly bizarre “””column””” to advertise. But I

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Faded films: Old, withered and weird

Tamim Alnuweiri March 22, 2018

I recently spent a weekend afternoon crying after I  made a series of bad decisions that though I knew they were going to blow up

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Faded films: aesthetics and ambience (part 2)

Tamim Alnuweiri February 22, 2018

Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri. You know I forget that people read the shit that I put on the internet but every once in a

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Faded films: confabulation (or becoming the least reliable narrator)

Tamim Alnuweiri January 30, 2018

When did my memory get so bad? In college it was actually a running “””joke””” among my friends that I had the memory of an elephant

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Faded Films: All men are trash

Tamim Alnuweiri November 21, 2017

Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri. Honestly sometimes this column feels like a postcard I’m writing to an abyss in the Internet where I reveal my

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Faded Films: shit yourself this Halloween

Tamim Alnuweiri October 25, 2017

Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri. Halloween aka THE PURGE is coming up. I never fully “got” Halloween (and still don’t really tbh) until last year

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Faded Films: I don’t know what I did this summer

Tamim Alnuweiri September 19, 2017

Film column by Tamim Alnuweiri. Most summers I can trace with some certainty—I spent a lot of time at Double Down Saloon or I contracted

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Faded Films: Aesthetics and Ambience

Tamim Alnuweiri June 14, 2017

I remember going to see Avatar with my family on New Years Eve (I was really cool in high school!) and thinking what the fuck?

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Faded Films: Post-Bildungsroman

Tamim Alnuweiri April 25, 2017

A few weeks ago I watched the Trainspotting sequel which left me with a few thoughts. First, out of every movie from the ’90’s, who thought

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Faded Films: Hell is Other People

Tamim Alnuweiri April 11, 2017

I haven’t read Sartre’s No Exit since 11th grade when I discovered Hemingway and decided that existentialism was the most profound ideology I could commit

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Faded Films: Geriatrics

Tamim Alnuweiri February 21, 2017

Oh man. Time for some unnecessary and bizarre insights into my psyche. When I was a child, I spent a lot of time visiting my

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Faded Films: National Nightmares

Tamim Alnuweiri February 8, 2017

This column is late and I want to have a good excuse, like I was backpacking through Guam, but I don’t I’ve just been so

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Faded Films: Purge Your Friends

Tamim Alnuweiri January 13, 2017

Last halloween my best friend and I got really obsessed with the idea of the Purge, as in that horrible Ethan Hawke horror movie. We

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Faded Films: Straight To TV

Tamim Alnuweiri December 29, 2016

I canceled my cable TV subscription because it was costing an insane amount and honestly I didn’t get the point of it. It was this

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Faded Films: Get me out of here

Tamim Alnuweiri November 28, 2016

Sometimes a seminal work of art or pop culture event will reveal deep and dark societal fears and psychosis. Vladimir Nabokov said that after Lolita

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Faded Films: Summer’s Over

Tamim Alnuweiri September 7, 2016

I graduated from college in December which means this whole end of summer thing feels a little weird. I’m getting anxiety about the prospect of

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