Fedor Tot
@redrightman
Yugo-born, Wales-raised, Brasil-based. Film critic + curator at various places. Opinions own. He/Him. Email: fedor.tot@gmail.com
My grandfather is not in this photo, but he did take it. He was friends with the fellow, and family lore states that he rang him up personally a few days before his death and said "they finally got me!"
Anyway, digging through some old family photos, and here's a shot of my grandfather (grey hair in the bottom right) talking to Muammar Gaddafi.
There is perhaps one place on earth I truly feel at home, and yet it's always such a fleeting feeling. Oj Karlovci, mesto moje drago!
Visiting Assisi today and holy shit I can't believe I'm using the very same car park St. Francis would have parked in all those centuries ago!
For whatever reasom, bsky gets upset if I try and upload a bunch of photos at the same time. Here's another.
One for the La Chimera heads out there: visited an Etruscan necropolis with some kick-ass paintings, full of tombs which have been excavated. Alas, they've all been emptied already, not by tombaroli but by archeologists (lame!)
If you're gonna Weekend at Bernie's a political figure, it's much cooler if it's someone taking you out of a dictatorship than someone taking you into one.
Somewhat belated best 1st watches - June 2026 Backrooms (Kane Parsons, 2026) Garrincha: Joy of the People (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1963) undertone (Ian Tuason, 2025) Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2012)
Belated best 1st watches - May 2026 The Blue Dahlia (George Marshall, 1946) Lust, Caution (Ang Lee, 2007) Send Help (Sam Raimi, 2026) Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024)
Google's scraping of game schedules and results has gotten a lot iffier lately, probably a result of AI infecting the code. Anyway, who's playing the conference finals?
Best 1st watches - April 2026 No Other Land (Basel Adra/Hamdan Ballal/Yuval Abraham/Rachel Szor, 2024) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Nia DaCosta, 2026) RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987) Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch, 2025)
I stumbled on Pasolini's Petrolio (oh wow) in a used bookstore in Brasil (oh nice)...but it's in German (ah fuck)
Best 1st watches - March 2026 Kelti (Milica Tomović, 2021) Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (Quigley Tarantula, 2025) Nomad (Patrick Tam, 1982) The Edukators (Hans Weingartner, 2004)
I lived in Wales for the vast majority of my life (26 years), and yet my heart is fully with Bosnia tonight for World Cup Qualification, and for very good reason:
And the reason why I am is because I have the patience to put up with this bullshit.
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping/As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door/“Tis some visitor” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door/Only Jose Cuervo and nothing more"
Massively appreciative of anyone who combines two of my favourite things (cinema and football)
Best 1st watches - Feb 2026 Antonio das Mortes (Glauber Rocha, 1969) Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène, 1966) Together (Michael Shanks, 2025) Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux, 1920)
Been really getting into John Prine lately and kicking myself for not getting into him sooner. I'm fascinated by his late '70s/early '80s stretch mostly because of the album covers, where he looks either like a porn star, or a retired porn star hucking his autobiography
gotten myself hooked on The Pitt in the last week and catching up quick. Am very pro-team Mel especially as she is a fan of my cat