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Writer; recovering film scholar; holistic grader; center-left child of the 60s.
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I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans. And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump. It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other. Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.

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50th ANNIVERSARIES OF LANDMARK FILMS IN 2025 Mirror (Mar 7) Shampoo (Mar 13) The Passenger (Apr 9) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Apr 9) Seven Beauties (May 4) 1/3

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Break time. Not entirely sure why, but this dude makes me happy. You?

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Remembering professor of language, writer, and WW I veteran J.R.R. Tolkien, who transformed High Fantasy literature, born in Bloemfontein, South Africa on this day in 1892.

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Happy New Year, I guess

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10 of the 100-something films I have seen the most 2001 The Godfather Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) King Kong (1933) Top Hat Casablanca Goldfinger The Court Jester The Maltese Falcon (1941) Rear Window Rio Bravo #filmsky bsky.app/profile/bcdr...

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Remembering poet Rainer Maria Rilke, born in Prague on this day in 1875. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.” – first elegy, ‘Duino Elegies’ (1922)

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November’s Top First Time Viewings Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924, Germany) [pictured] The Iron Claw (2023) Top Rewatches Scarface (1932) From Russia with Love (1963, UK-US) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Italy-Spain)

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The best essays make us see and/or appreciate our favorite films in a new way. This essay nearly brought a tear to my eye with its comprehensive understanding not only of what makes Paper Moon a great film, but of how it got that way. bsky.app/profile/mark...

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Written when I was conducting my own living room retrospective of Bogart’s career. He remains one of the most important movie stars of all-time, a vanishing species. Now streaming on the Criterion Channel, Tubi, and Watch TCM. letterboxd.com/eric_barker/...

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I guess since Trump is appointing everyone who worked on Project 2025 he must’ve just heard about it.

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The problem with pieces like this, which are countless, is the prevailing media assumption that left-of-center Americans need constant corrective instruction about how to be in and engage with the world, whereas right-of-center Americans are simply to be observed in awe, like rainbows or mountains.

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Happy 89th birthday to Herb Alpert, born this day in L.A.'s Boyle Heights in 1935, famous trumpeter, band leader, songwriter, and co-founder of A&M Records. Important contributor to the soundtrack of my childhood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAo1...

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Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

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I've read worse writing advice. bsky.app/profile/tbq....

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A happy 82nd birthday to the great Martin Charles Scorsese, film director, producer, scholar, teacher, and preservationist, born in Queens, New York on this day in 1942.

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