John Blanco
@johnblanco.bsky.social
Likes movies, especially art, foreign, golden age, trash, silent, precode, noir.
"I hate stars. They're not actors. I've been around actors all my life and I like them, but I never had an actor as a friend. Except Dad. And Dad never thought of himself as an actor. But the best actor I ever worked with was Dad. Dad was a man who never tried to sell anybody anything."
Its iconic scene is also widely misunderstood—a far more radical invention than just a snappy dance for nondancers.
MidCenturyCinema@midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 6h ago8/5/64: Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à part w/Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey Top Shelf JLG More: @justincchang.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/entertainmen... Lopate: www.nytimes.com/2001/08/12/m... Taubin: web.archive.org/web/20011031... @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...
Marion imitated Pola, Mae Murray and Lillian Gish in the freewheeling comedy hit The Patsy (1928) with pics included in a feature for Picture Play magazine, August 1928. Trivia: Marion and Pola, good friends, were born on the same day: January 3, 1897.
Joan Blondell and Ginger Rogers in the pre-Code lingerie-centric backstage drama Broadway Bad (1933).
I was moved to read Samantha Morton talk about getting fired from the Spike Jonze movie Her in this piece. She was on the set when I was there reporting a story--her work as the voice was done live, and her commitment to what she was doing on the film was extraordinary. deadline.com/2026/08/sama...
Samantha Morton On Why She "Hasn't Worked For A Year" Since 'The Odyssey' & Why She Was "Sad" & "Hurt" After Getting "Fired" From 'Her'
Samantha Morton is opening up about not working after filming Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.
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“If the mark of a movie’s art is its staying power—its resurgence in memory long after viewing—then ‘Columbus’ is a classic for the frequency with which the tones and moods of its performances and images come to mind.” Richard Brody’s 2025 New Yorker piece on Columbus released on this date in 2017.
Dr. Alec Harvey: "Forgive me?" Laura Jesson: "Forgive you for what?" Dr. Harvey: "For everything. For meeting you, in the first place. For taking the piece of grit out of your eye. For loving you. For bringing you so much misery." Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in "Brief Encounter" (1945).
Dolores Del Rio publicity photo for John Ford’s CHEYENNE AUTUMN (1964).
This Wed at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, I’m hosting #TheNoirCollective and #TCMParty watch party of MAN HUNT (1941), airing live on TCM. Pull up a chair – and lock your door. This is noir; you never know who’s out there… @tcmparty.bsky.social Link to watch if you don’t have TCM: archive.org/details/man-...
today's not really random theater photo: birthday boy Martin Sheen, with Martha Scott, in the national tour of The Subject Was Roses (mid-1960s)
American actress Jean Hagen was born #OnThisDay in 1923. She wore this Walter Plunkett designed green flapper dress, embellished with fringe and silver sequins, in her Oscar nominated role as Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952). Norman Tipton Collection. #film #costume
"When I returned to Mexico, I joined with people eager to create the Mexican cinema. We were full of dreams and had no money whatsoever, but we were able to achieve something and open markets for our films all over the world." Dolores del Río, born 3 August 1904.
Charles Bennett (with scenes from the Hitchcock films "The 39 Steps", "The Man Who Knew Too Much", "Sabotage" and "Foreign Correspondent" for which Bennett coauthored the screenplays) - BOTD
Sydney and Curie basking in the warmth of the bankers lamp. #caturday #cats #cat #catsky #ColorADay #GreenSat #Photography #EastCoastKin #ECK #blueskyartshow #PhotographersOfBluesky
Marcello Mastroianni & Jeanne Moreau in La notte (The Night), Michelangelo Antonioni (1961)
Chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi was born on 31 July 1919.
Share a celebrity you find distractingly attractive.
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Our favorite place for #coffee and #pastries, in the shade near the entrance to the #SFBotanicalGardens @gardensofggp.bsky.social @johnblanco.bsky.social #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark #ECK #ForestFriday #Photography #EastCoastKin #landscape #PhotographersOfBluesky #scape #nature
Geraldine Chaplin in the Alan Rudolph film "Remember My Name" - BOTD
