Justin C. Henry

@halfsyps24.bsky.social

Film lover, filmmaker, just a dude in the world

This gripping documentary is a portrait of Sara Jane Moore, a suburban San Francisco single mother who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975. SUBURBAN FURY is now available to rent and own on digital platforms and streaming on Kino Film Collection: knlor.com/suburbanfury

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Anna Sten in THE GIRL WITH THE HAT BOX. Sten is most remembered today as "Goldwyn's Folly." The mogul imported her to Hollywood and held back putting her in a movie, all while promising she was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Nobody, not even wonderful Anna, could live up to that hype.

This week at work, I told former SEINFELD writer turned novelist Matt Goldman about nerdily teaching myself screenplay format @ 11 & trying to join the writers room of his show & COACH. I heard back from both shows, & the kindest reply came from COACH's Barry Kemp. Today, I found my old letter. 🩵

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As a top session musician in LA during the 1960s & 1970s, Carol Kaye’s bass was the foundation for dozens of popular songs. Kaye (born today in 1935) has a famously intuitive relationship with composer Brian Wilson. Kaye’s distinctive bass playing is featured on many of the Beach Boys’ hits.

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Jean Rollin's more clinical dystopian exploration of the fantastique THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTED (1980) is an entirely different kind of zombie film, a seductively gloomy unraveling that dwells on the dread of identity loss through disease that obliterates the mind & renders the body a sorrowful prison.

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Fact: They didn’t fear what breaking the Dept of Education would do to their kids. Their kids are in fancy private schools. They are dismantling the Dept of Ed so our kids have no choice but to be undereducated and work for their kids.