Listen for “Put the Blame on Mame” which pops up somewhere here…a nice h/t to Glenn Ford who appeared in GILDA. #TCMParty #TheBigHeat ^JW
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“Pragmatic and somewhat buzzy”— The New York Times
Knocked flat by the story “It’s All Good” in Sigrid Nunez’s new short story collection.
Let us speak in praise of the great Sir Ken Adam (1921-2016). He brought an elegant, clean style to so many of the Bond films. Stanley Kubrick liked his work on DR. NO so much he hired him for DR. STRANGELOVE wherein he designed one of the single greatest sets ever.
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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PW spoke with author Matthew Burgess and illustrator Matthew Forsythe about their new picture book, ‘If the Moon,’ a spare, incantatory bedtime reverie
‘Let’s Sculpt This Together’: PW Talks with Matthew Burgess and Matthew Forsythe
PW spoke with author Matthew Burgess and illustrator Matthew Forsythe about their new picture book, 'If the Moon,' a spare, incantatory bedtime reverie.
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Matthews, assemble! What a great gig to talk with these two picture book luminaries for @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social
Children's Bookshelf@pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 6d agoPW spoke with author Matthew Burgess and illustrator Matthew Forsythe about their new picture book, ‘If the Moon,’ a spare, incantatory bedtime reverie
Highly recommend the source novella, I Married a Dead Man by Cornell Woolrich.
Van Stanwyck@vanstanwyck.bsky.social · 2w agoAnd so the #NoirAlley SUtS doldrums begin. Get your weekly fix of darkness with #TheNoirCollective Wednesday watch party. Next up: Barbara Stanwyck grapples with fate and a dead husband in NO MAN OF HER OWN (1950), hosted by me. Run over to @thenoircollective.bsky.social for more details. #TCMParty
Rocky: I think every guy should at one time try to name an animal or something.
More convinced than ever that Odysseus should have been played by Sean Connery as James Bond during his Dr. No-From Russia With Love era.
"There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK!"
Delivered the memorable line “First John I’ve ever gone round with.”
Jonathan Calder@lordbonkers.bsky.social · 2w agoAfter Casino Royale, Pettet switched back to drama as the wife of a crime boss, played by Stanley Baker, who tries to dissuade him from carrying out a railway heist in Robbery, based on the real-life 1963 Great Train Robbery. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Theadora Van Runkle’s outfits for Fate Dunaway: 👏👏👏👏 #ThomasCrownAffair #TCMParty
Tom D’Andrea’s cabbie in Dark Passage is one of the most potent supporting characters in noir, to the point of practically upstaging Humphrey Bogart. #thenoircollective
Add Tom D'Andrea to the #CabbiesOfNoir Hall of Fame. #NoirAlley #DarkPassage #TCMParty #TheNoirCollective
You'll not convince me this isn't the historically accurate Odysseus.
A reminder that Johnny Guitar, playing tonight at the Roxy at 9:30pm in 35mm., is the very touchstone of the cinema, the movie that best defines the singular essence of movie acting and its fusion with directing: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Johnny Guitar”: One of the Greatest Westerns and the Furthest Extreme of the Hollywood System
Nicholas Ray’s movie, starring Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden, is a theory of cinema in motion.
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Study Finds There Aren’t Enough Occasions Where You Get To Eat Rolls https://theonion.com/study-finds-there-arent-enough-occasions-where-you-get-to-eat-rolls/
It's strange what passed for exciting 60 years ago. I put on From Russia With Love and the trumpets were blaring the loudest part of the 007 theme while James Bond was simply checking into his hotel room.
Legal Eagles. It was a scorching Chicago summer. The person I was with grumbling about the movie and I finally said “Shut up and enjoy the air conditioning.”
Defector@defector.com · 3w agoWhat's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...
MISSED CONNECTION: You were leaving the dog park, I was arriving. Our eyes met... There were sparks. I need to see you again. My chip # is 148A27J98614Z. Have your person track me.
Brings back memories of my “Greek Thought and Literature” Common Core class at UChicago.
Jack Grimes@jackapedia.design · 3w agoFurious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
The Simple Genius of Jon Klassen | The New Yorker
The Simple Genius of Jon Klassen
The author and illustrator of “I Want My Hat Back” understands how children see.
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