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Film scholar at UT-Austin & Exec Director of UTNY + UTLA | author, We’ll Always Have 'Casablanca’ (W.W. Norton), ed., Billy Wilder on Assignment (Princeton) | bylines at The Nation, NYT, Paris Review, NYR Daily, et al. | views = mine www.noahisenberg.com
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Tea Time...

Happy Birthday Isabella Rossellini, born June 18, 1952.

RIP — Beuford Smith, Photographer Who Chronicled Black Life, Dies at 89 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/a...

A slightly Siskel & Ebert vibe without the bickering. Many thanks to Jerry Carlson at CUNY TV for having me join him today for a chat about The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), part of his Weimar Cinema series at City Cinematheque! #FilmSky #MovieSky #WeimarCinema

That #TuesdayFeeling #ConradVeidt #CabinetOfDrCaligari

When store fronts were cool... 📷 Los Angeles, California

The luminous Setsuko Hara was born on this day in 1920.

"Judge Rules N.I.H. Grant Cuts Illegal, Orders Funds Restored" @nytimes.com -- scientific inquiry, 1; Trump regime, 0

Erland Josephson in "Fanny and Alexander" - BOTD

Beginning to think we shouldn’t make everything great again

THIS x 1,000,000. Honestly I don’t know who this person is (this clip popped up on social media) but I would vote for them tomorrow.

Roz Chast New Yorker, August 13, 1984 Happy #FathersDay

"Wilder’s a moralist, but a European kind of moralist. He’s not wagging his finger. He’s identifying certain timeless tendencies in humankind, and perhaps wishing things were not so, but also realizing that they are so, and that there’s no point denying it." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/30-minut...

Monday mood

"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water — I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone." Tallulah Bankhead.

6/15/60 Billy Wilder's The Apartment [W w/Diamond] w/Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray More @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social: www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta... @fauxbeatpoet.bsky.social: www.indiewire.com/news/general... @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/mzs/30-minut...

h/t @nitrateville.bsky.social

This is super cool from the NWSL team Angel City FC, which is based in LA. They distributed these tshirts at last night’s game.

This should be Trump's official portrait...

[courtesy of my friend Amy Stewart]

Love from Prospect Park, Brooklyn #Resist

The Getty Images Archive isn’t fucking around today: “85 years ago today, the residents of Paris were waking up to the sound of a loudspeaker announcement, informing them not to leave their homes—the Nazi occupation of the capital had begun.⁠” www.instagram.com/p/DK4Gg5ZNYda/

Let us honor the legacy of #MadeleineLebeau by drowning out “Die Wacht am Rhein” with “La Marseillaise” #FilmSky #MovieSky #Resist

In the City of Brotherly Love and Saquon Barkley for the flagship #nokings march tomorrow. If you believe, as I do, that democracy is worth defending against fascism, please consider joining a No Kings march near you: www.nokings.org

PARIS, TEXAS (1984) Dir. Wim Wenders One of the most achingly human films of the 1980s. A slow burning narrative which transcends the typical road movie; expanding into an epic of broken men, ghost towns, forgotten lives and love that arrives too late. #WimWenders #ParisTexas #80s

#filmsky #classicfilm #NoKings Today’s energy Sally Field Norma Rae, 1979

Happy Saturday, let's do this

‘Schande’ doesn’t even begin to describe the moral depravity of this vile creature. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

An advance look at “On Parade,” David Plunkert’s cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers

We need a full cabinet removal. We need Gavin to bring in California Closets to redo the whole thing.

Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, 1936.

Wednesday afternoon, Times Square, NYC (June 11, 2025) #HookEm #LonghornsInNYC

New York, please don't hire a serial sexual abuser.

Friday

Remembering 'Weegee the Famous' on his birthday 🎂 📷 Richard Sadler, 1963 "Weegee was always busy creating Weegee, constantly in the midst of a long campaign of self-improvement, engineering a bigger & better Weegee." - Louis Stettner

Sen. Warren sounds near tears as she heads to the Senate to speak about what she accurately calls the "assault" on Sen. Padilla. I hope she calls for the whole Senate chamber to be shut down. These ignorant, lying bullies don't get to invade our cities & treat our elected representatives like this.

Mae West in a publicity photo for "Night After Night" (1932), her first film role. Photo by Irving Lippman.

Best parasol on the Paramount lot! #SunsetBoulevard #BillyWilder #GloriaSwanson #ErichVonStroheim #FilmSky #MovieSky #OldHollywood

You guys I'm basically crying tears of joy right now

Alternative Facts

Whenever I see this photo, I say to myself, wow, what a great photo of Marty Feldman... 🫣

Rest in Peace, Sly Stone photo by Richard Avedon

Kinda fucks with the narrative when Texas is also sick of this shit.

A great comedy history piece from @emilynussbaum.bsky.social on Gertrude Berg; I hadn't considered Berg as a powerful 1930s antidote to Father Coughlin before. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...