matthewdessem.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

BEGA has asked all employees to send a list of 5 Mambos they're working on

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

My favorite shot in the movie is at about an hour in. It begins as an Edward Hopper painting, then the camera moves to reveal there is a Norman Rockwell painting going on in the kitchen...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The Boston Strangler is not one of the great movies but it is undeniably one of the most movies. Every color is deliberate, every shot has intention behind it, it wears its influences on its sleeve, and it inspired tons of later work. (De Palma has lifted more from this film than from Hitchcock.)

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I’VE ABANDONED MY CHILD!!! I’VE ABANDONED MY BOY!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

This is the worst thing to happen to the Bond franchise since Harry Saltzman blew all his money and had to bring in the suits from United Artists! If you treat pulp fictions like sacred texts, you’re always gonna be disappointed.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If I were already known as the lowest-quality streaming network, I simply would not make it more difficult to watch my shows on high-end gear. Do Rokus even pass through the original framerate and dynamic range?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

What an ambiguous preview image Criterion has chosen for “The Boys From Brazil!”

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

i need a 52 year old man with $800 billion to impregnate my wife . i am worried our offspring wont be sufficiently feeble and/or annoying

submitted 8 days ago • 368 comments

Wrote a really important post.

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

Roses are red The magician longs to see One chants out between two worlds "Fire...walk with me"

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

All this talk of Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show being groundbreaking just tells me none of you have seen Up With People’s controversial Super Bowl X performance of “The Grambling State University Marching Band Are Communist Perverts.”

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Giving the man his due, library catalog edition.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

As fate would have it, today I am repairing a 16mm print of “A Nation of Immigrants,” a 1967 TV adaptation of JFK’s book starring RFK, Sr. This country had some good ideas once, someday we should revisit them!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

If you ever wonder why newspapers have collapsed, flip through any given day’s headlines, then compare it to the kind of fierce, independent reporting you used to be able to buy for a nickel:

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Has your day been less cool than you’d like it to be? Consider “Huntington Ashram Monastery.”

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

When Eric Lipton goes on about how the New York Times is an important venue for holding Trump accountable he is at least talking about his own organization. Instead of asking us to applaud the idea that someone else will solve everything, tell us what you are doing, man, you’re a senator!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 13 days ago • 492 comments

Identified some unlabeled 16mm prints today by recognizing both Herman Goering and Robbie the Robot on sight. (Not in the same movie! An issue of Die Deutsche Wochenschau and a TV spot for Forbidden Planet, respectively.)

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Here is a passage from “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–1935” that has remained relevant, despite its use of the phrase, “He might be I.”

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I’m reading Milton Meyer’s 1955 book “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933–1945” and I understand why non-fiction writers no longer include novelistic, unverifiable details, but it’s a fun style to revisit. (I don’t think Meyer has a source for how well Kronenberg slept on Nov. 9, 1637.)

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

amazing

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Moneypenny encourages you to stay warm!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone know what the editorial logic is behind not reporting on the coup? Ok, they like Trump but what is management actually saying to reporters?

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

Still hot on the trail of the Zodiac!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I have successfully brazened my way into the launch control center at the Air Force Nuclear Weapons center by telling them I was a private citizen concerned about government spending. Do any mutuals need anything nuked today, or can I go ahead and start stripping the copper wires for scrap?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I demand that Chuck Schumer be digitized and uploaded so he can take back control of government systems from inside the computer realm

submitted 21 days ago • 305 comments

In times like these, it’s more important than ever to listen to “Cain Train Baby (feat. Rich Little),” from Tim Heidecker’s 2012 Herman-Caine-for-President concept album “Cainthology: Songs in the Key of Cain.”

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

So Dolby Stereo can fallback to stereo, but did any theaters actually have stereo playback? Seems like you would have gone from mono straight to 4.0 if you were upgrading audio at all.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

one of the great newspaper whiffs of all time, at this point www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/b...

submitted 23 days ago • 60 comments

“The Big Game Is Every Night” is better than a couple of songs that made the album.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Currently winding through a copy of a short called “British Transport Films: Let’s Go to Birmingham” and from the title alone it’s right up there with that promotional video for Flint, Michigan featured in “Roger and Me.”

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment