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The Spectacular Now
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Beirut
Directed by Brad Anderson
In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success. From TMDB
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Beirut is a 2018 action thriller drama film, directed by Brad Anderson, starring Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike and Shea Whigham.
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60 of 85 · most liked firstMy answer is always how Spy Game has Brad Pitt running around 1985 Beirut in a Padres cap that didn't come out until 1992. It totally threw off my understanding of the movie timeline the first 30 or 40 times I saw it
neutral · AI labelView post →Keanu Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon on September 2, 1964. What's your favorite film or performance from the actor?
neutral · AI labelView post →A "2020 end credits" video is the mock movie ending that lists Kobe Bryant, Australia's wildfires, COVID-19 and the Beirut blast instead of actors, and it still hits different.
neutral · AI labelView post →A lot of explosions in movies are, as I understand it, gasoline explosions (which produce a [deflagration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflagration)). Those are impressive and very visible and orangy and don't actually create all that much pressure, so damage from the pressure wave or shrapnel isn't so much a thing. You can do the stoic walk out of an explosion thing. I think that the video of the Beirut explosion, which is large and filmed from a distance, so you can see the shockwave…
neutral · AI labelView post →The past doesn't fade, as long as someone guards it. In Beirut, one man is preserving Lebanon's film industry history. Bou Jaoude does that quietly, modestly, in a shop that is more of a cultural and emotional archive than a business. www.dw.com/en/the-man-s...
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the most memorable documentaries I’ve ever seen was basically a guy’s zero-budget edited together home video footage of his centenarian grandmother spanning thirty years. I saw it in a pretentious artsy cinema in Beirut about a decade ago. They exist! Limited appeal means anything with a production team will only get funded if the subject is known by audiences though.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching BEIRUT #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →MUJAWARA IN MINNEAPOLIS: On Tuesday, June 30, there will be a screening of the film Akka on my Mind, by the Palestinian director Mahmoud Albishtawi. Akka on my Mind is about the Shatila refugee camp in south Beirut and follows the stories of camp residents from Bangladesh, Syria, and Palestine.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's not as offensive as what happened with the movie The Creator (where videos of the Beirut bombing were used to create a CGI scene) but I think a little research had to be done on where that explosion was to avoid this problem.
neutral · AI labelView post →Transforming an old sugar factory in ruined Beirut is the genius of Emilio Ruiz Del Rio (Visual Effects) "Navy Seals" by Lewis Teague (1990) With Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley #Almeria #Filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Soooo many vfx artists used the Beirut explosion video for reference. Some basically put the damn thing in their movie wholesale!
neutral · AI labelView post →I recently spoke with Tina Gharavi, Tala Calil and Assaad Bouab about their film 'Shadows of Beirut', which deals with a Lebanese-English woman's experience of reconnecting with the place where she was born. www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026...
neutral · AI labelView post →Loved "A Sad & Beautiful World," a funny and poignant movie about lovers in Beirut. It's playing at the Quad Cinema in NYC through July 28.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 62nd Birthday To Keanu Reeves Keanu Charles Reeves (/kiˈɑːnuː/ kee-AH-noo; Born September 2, 1964) Is A Canadian Actor And Musician. Born In Beirut And Raised In Toronto, He Made His Acting Debut In The Canadian Television Series Hangin In (1984), Before Making His Feature Film Debut
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my favorite movie experiences was watching West Beirut with French subtitles at a time when I only had fairly basic levels of comprehension in both languages.
positive · AI labelView post →The 17th Arab Film Festival opened on Monday and will run through July 25. Screenings will take place at Sursock Museum and Dar el-Nimer in Beirut, Cinema Ishbilia in Saida, and Marsah in Tripoli.
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s a moment from your life, out of context, that’s straight from a movie? I once hitched a ride to the airport in Beirut with a UN army convoy.
neutral · AI labelView post →Baddies and grifters assemble. It's like the start of a Bond movie. Or the axis of evil meeting in Beirut in the Naked Gun. The world needs Frank Drebin...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Beirut-based artist and filmmaker’s intimate reflection on land ownership asks how imagination might be used as a tool for political change artreview.com/art-lovers-m...
neutral · AI labelView post →Beirut Veteran here 1982 - 1983. I've seen this movie before, and it will not end well for anyone. This is unconscionable and unacceptable. Full fucking stop.
neutral · AI labelView post →So apparently, the VFX people for the movie "The Creator" have used REAL LIFE footage from the Beirut harbour explosion for the movie. That's..... fucked up ....
neutral · AI labelView post →Reviews are in from the Venice premiere of Rami Kodeih’s Beirut-set heist film Furies. www.metacritic.com/movie/furies... “A fantastic feature debut: angry, funny, and incredibly tense.” - Mia Pflüger, NBP
neutral · AI labelView post →OK It's time for The Man with the Golden Gun. The Bond movie with the worst theme song (probably). Looks like James is about to get himself balls deep in a Beirut belly dancer.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you have Prime or Apple TV, this movie is a heart-breaking view of present day Gaza, Teheran and Beirut. Recommended by Mandy Patinkin.
neutral · AI labelView post →While I may not look it I’ve been around long enough to have seen this movie several times. Tehran, Beirut, Pan Am, Kuwait, WTC 93, 9/11, Iraq & Afghanistan. We are headed for pain & suffering bc America elected an unfit & unwell man. We didn’t learn any of those lessons.
neutral · AI labelView post →So we're reaching the "Beirut" portion of this movie? I've never been a fan of remakes.
neutral · AI labelView post →🤓🤓 Robert Redford film-watching with total camera geekery: Spy Game 1980s Beirut section with Brad Pitt as photojournalist. Leica M6 √ but not with ?un-CLA'd Canon A1 shutter sound dubbed in! (Tbh all the camera shutter sounds are the same!) 🤓🤓 #believeinfilm
neutral · AI labelView post →I Watched: Capernaum (2018) A Lebanese film about a child who sues his parents for causing him to be born because life is terrible, mostly set in the extremely poor slums and shantytowns of Beirut. Very acclaimed but I agree with one critic who called it a "sadness pile." #Filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →George Carlin: ‘on Campus (1984) : “Camouflage, what a great idea, camouflage. Have you noticed in the television film from Beirut they have on camouflage. There aren’t fucking trees within 25 miles of Beirut, man. They should have store fronts and car grilles on there, you know?”
neutral · AI labelView post →Blue hour in my friend's studio in Furn el Chebbak, Beirut. Second photo is from Jocelyne Saab's film "Letter from Beirut"
neutral · AI labelView post →He wrote a movie named "Beirut" that starred Jon Hamm. I thought it was good.
positive · AI labelView post →Christina Assi and Rani Nasr’s film No Dead Ends premieres on Wednesday at the Beirut Shorts International Film Festival. The film follows Assi’s journey after she was injured in an Israeli attack on a group of journalists in Alma al-Shaab in October 2023. youtu.be/bqWrxzZtGGc
neutral · AI labelView post →For the latest issue of Sight and Sound, I reviewed Tina Gharavi's 'Shadows of Beirut', a film you have mercifully not heard of for a very good reason! Out now in stores. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
negative · AI labelView post →#FILM #REVIEW Shadows of Beirut @strikemediaglobal.bsky.social 'a personal journey with the Beirut setting not offering as much as it promises' ⭐️⭐️⭐️ thereviewshub.com/shadows-of-b...
neutral · AI labelView post →"It's a city and a country that is always fighting to exist in its own right, with peace and with harmony" - Tina Gharavi, Tala Calil and Assaad Bouab discuss Shadows Of Beirut www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #filmsky 🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →Another recent watch: A beautiful & tender film about a Beirut couple, sweethearts at school (briefly) that meet again as adults, they're seemingly incompatible yet swiftly fall in love on the eve of the woman's departure for Germany. So she stays. It's bittersweet stuff—full of humour and sadness.
positive · AI labelView post →@gregmitch.bsky.social Greg Mitchell: My new “Hollywood Bomb” at Topanga Film Festival tonight at 6:30, and in Beirut at Lebanaese Film Festival, here is trailer: vimeo.com/1216741328/e...
neutral · AI labelView post →>Do you, as a political party or government as a whole, abandon an ally you have all sorts of ties with because a sub-section of your voters don't like that country anymore? Given the, you know, *genocide*, the answer is "yes.* >but there's no way they could have known that. Yeah, it's not like there was a whole mass movement saying *exactly that*. >The proper method is to start drawing lines with the ally and see if they cross them. Which they did, every single time. Where are the…
neutral · AI labelView post →Against erasure: The artists preserving south Lebanon’s stories. Beit Beirut holds an exhibition where villages are remembered through photography, film and personal archives www.middleeasteye.net/discover/aga...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghosts of Beirut & A Spy Among Friends - easily the best mini series I've watched this year. ASAF should have a higher rating than 7.2 for the thoughtful script and performances. GOB should also have a higher rating - even if just for the relatively even handling of the material. #movies #tv #film
positive · AI labelView post →This festival looks very interesting...would be curious to organize future location scouts in Lebanon w/ Fondation Liban Cinema (FLC) + Beirut Film Society once conflicts have subsided where it would be possible to more easily insure a film production on location+ to learn about local filmmakers.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched BEIRUT (2018) for the first time. Remembering the news reporting in the 1970s and 80s, the bombings, the ongoing conflicts… I was 7 in 1972 Excellent movie, still relevant. #moviesky #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →'Real people with real lives enduring real suffering. As the White House issue video messages of macho death threats set to music as if this were a movie or a game.' Very good by Lindsey Hilsum from Beirut for #c4news
neutral · AI labelView post →a search for her ex-husband, only to find after eight years of searching her daughter who is now 12 in Beirut. The movie is a gripping drama thriller that shows how the missed years of childhood can change a child so much that the daughter no longer recognizes her mother who was
neutral · AI labelView post →About #Arze; I haven't watched a lebaneese movie in ages, but seeing the streets of #beirut come to life in this film was so touching & heartwarming. a love letter to all moms that give with no return in #lebanon. if anyone wants to know more about lebanon, this is it absolutely loved it #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →I was turned off immediately before it was even released when I found out they used real life blast footage from Beirut in 2020 in the trailer. Not sure if it’s in the actually movie though.
negative · AI labelView post →Yes! I imagine she has to go to a salon for shampoo & drying. Or do you think she can do it herself? It reminds me of a charming 2007 movie about the women at a salon in Beirut. One of the Lebanese customers had long black hair but wasn't sure if she wanted to keep it long. g.co/kgs/43UECMg
neutral · AI labelView post →Excerpt from the 1975 film The Land of the Fathers by George Sluizer. Shot in a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. A film everyone should see. What is happening now in Palestine/Gaza/West Bank is not. Israel, since the founding has always been about getting the Palestinians out, one way or another.
neutral · AI labelView post →I mostly only know about that movie from them using Beirut explosion footage in the trailer. How is it?
neutral · AI labelView post →So… I very much don’t like this. Apparently the movie “The Creator” used actual Beirut ammonium nitrate explosion disaster footage in special effects. Was spotted by the “Corridor Crew” SFX artist YouTube channel though someone else tipped them off. https://youtu.be/_lDM1nAmPHI
neutral · AI labelView post →Friday Later: Turist / C.U.N.T.S. with Ernesto Chahoud – Funkhaus, Vienna – part of the Viennale Film Festival… Surf/Cumbia/Highlife live action followed by female rap five piece… evening closed by Beirut Groove Collective… floor friendly action from start to finish…
neutral · AI labelView post →"Ghassan Salhab’s first feature film, PHANTOM BEIRUT, ought to be placed in a lineage of cinema of revenants, strangers, and unexpected or unwelcome guests..." Read Hicham Awad on PHANTOM BEIRUT, now streaming on OVID courtesy @severalfutures.bsky.social metafilm.ovid.tv/2026/10/08/h...
neutral · AI labelView post →Shadows of Beirut: Tina Gharavi, Tala Calil & Assaad Bouab reveal the secrets behind the film...... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv2Q...
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Shadows of Beirut’ director and cast take us behind the scenes…. anygoodfilms.com/shadows-of-b... #shadowsofbeirut
neutral · AI labelView post →Does the world need one more film about Beirut? Discuss.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tales Of Syria’s Disappeared; Lebanese Wartime Adoption & Palestinian Mental Health Set For Cinemed-Aflamuna Project Incubator https://www.byteseu.com/2396879/ France’s Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, also known as Cinemed, and Beirut-based Arab cinema platform Aflamuna have unveiled …
neutral · AI labelView post →A woman returns to the city of her birth to try to reconcile with her dying father in Shadows Of Beirut www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/shado... #filmsky 🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →"It's a city and a country that is always fighting to exist in its own right, with peace and with harmony" - Tina Gharavi, Tala Calil and Assaad Bouab discuss Shadows Of Beirut https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026-09-23-interview-with-tina-gharavi-tala-calil-and-assaad-bouab-about-shadows-of-beirut-feature-story-by-jennie-kermode #film #Beirut #Lebanon #movies
neutral · AI labelView post →@lffstubs.bsky.social @lffstubs.bsky.social Selling ticket 4 movie "Shadows Of Beirut+QA" UK Preview. -Curzon Camden: Fri 25 Sep(15:30-18:00 BST)(£12.61 Fv) (Happy 2 Negotiate) -Vue Piccadilly: Fri 25 Sep(13:45-16:00 BST)(£14.78 Fv)(Happy 2 Negotiate) Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=34AP...
neutral · AI labelView post →"Shadows of Beirut finds light in the shadows of the city." SHADOWS OF BEIRUT is in UK/ROI cinemas from Friday. Read Benjamin Poole's review at www.themoviewaffler.com/2026/09/shad... #ShadowsOfBeirut #film #movies
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