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mimikramer.bsky.social
Just another refugee looking to recapture what we had. Essayist, culture critic, and lapsed classicist writing a serial potboiler about art, sexual harassment, acting, perceptions of reality, and the abuse of power. https://mimikramer.substack.com
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In this is seems very like the Soviet version of King Lear based on Pasternak's script. #CineJanes

I've only seen five minute of this and I'm bowled over by the political subtexts. #CineJanes

That fiddle tune they were playing is a Civil War ditty called The Year of Jubilo. #CineJanes

Ohhh, it looks cute! Are the beavers all stuffed animals? #CineJanes

Are you really watching a movie called Hundreds of Beavers? #CineJanes

There's a bat loose in the house and it's gone into my bathroom and I'm afraid to go in there and the cats are just kicking back and downing brews and going through the motions every once in a while. What to do? Where are VIncent Price and Agnes Moorehead when you need them? #CineJanes #DriveInMob

This movie is very dark about marriage. #The39Steps #TCMParty

Is Ben the king of dad jokes or what? #The39Steps #TCMParty

Premise: the 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too much is all about Englishness and the 1956 version is all about being American. Discuss. #TheManWhoKnewTooMuch #TCMParty

In many ways this is a much more interesting version, but one feels that Hitchcock has not yet become a master of suspense. #TheManWhoKnewTooMuch #TCMParty

Strewth! Why did they go to all the trouble of establishing that Edna Best is a sharp shooter? #TheManWhoKnewTooMuch #TCMParty

I've forgotten: are we dealing with Chekhov's gun here? I mean does she end up shooting anyone? #TheManWhoKnewTooMuch #TCMParty

No one will be seated during any of the iconic celery-eating scenes. #TheManwhoKnewTooMuch #TCMParty

Guys, this was brilliantly curated and a total delight, but I'm all wrung out from dental surgery and can't keep my eyes open, so I'm gonna bail for the evening. Thanks, @driveinmob.com and @culturalgutter.bsky.social for a splendid cartoon medley! Night, all. 😚🥰 #DriveInMob

I didn't know that was the original Batman music. #DriveInMob

Evidently bad guys don't shave regularly! #DriveInMob

The arm-wringing! #DriveInMob

This is so inventive and ingenious! #DriveInMob

I bet they collected for war bonds between features. #DriveInMob

Okay well that was in fairly bad taste. #HiroshimaJoke #DriveInMob

There's nothing quite like really great war propaganda. #DriveInMob

Clearly the war has made everyone more sophisticated as though overnight. #DriveInMob

Cinderella as soubrette. #DriveInMob

Gosh that was swell! #DriveInMob

I love the way their posture and bearing echo the fashion of 1930s actresses. #DriveInMob

This is so great I'm having an out of body experience. #DriveInMob

And I think it's through-sung! #DriveInMob