He had a plan to stick it to the man. Super Fly. Released on this day in 1972. Directed by Gordon Parks Jr. Starring Ron O’Neal and Carl Lee.
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Crime is a state of mind. Top Ten Film Noirs ... That Aren't About Crime — Part 1 #filmnoir www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/top-ten...
Top Ten Film Noirs ... That Aren't About Crime — Part 1 — Paul O'Connor
Go beyond the gumshoes with these genre-bending noirs.
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Japanese poster for Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO (1958)
"Louis Armstrong's station in the history of jazz is unimpeachable. If it weren't for him, there wouldn't be any of us." (Dizzy Gillespie) Louis Armstrong, born 4 August 1901.
𝐂𝐌𝐂 '𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬' 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 // #𝟖 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟒 // 𝐍𝐄𝐖! '𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘕𝘦𝘪𝘭' (1977) 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 '𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘁' 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝘁, 𝟭𝟵𝟲𝟴
Seen all but one of these. Idiosyncratic list, as you'd expect from Ellroy. "Brief Encounter" is an outlier here, but it's a great film. I'd overlooked the crime roots of Band of Outsiders, mostly I remember the dance, & the way Anna Karina ran like a little girl. www.criterion.com/current/top-...
James Ellroy’s Top 10
The acclaimed crime-fiction writer selects some of his favorite films, including noir classics by Jean-Pierre Melville and Samuel Fuller.
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Duke Ellington by Tony Bennett, c. 1993 Bennett signs his artworks "Benedetto"; he was born Anthony Dominick Benedetto in Queens, New York, 100 years ago today. #Benedetto100 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdNX...
Join us Tuesday night at 8pE for our watch-party of THE BIG HEAT (1953) with Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame. We'll keep the coffee hot for ya! :) #TCMParty ^JW
"He can neither believe, nor be comfortable in his unbelief; and he is too honest and courageous not to try to do one or the other... he has a very high and noble nature, and better worth immortality than most of us." Nathaniel Hawthorne writing of his friend, Herman Melville, #BOTD.
With Hobbit-like determination, this non-Tolkien suspense thriller finally found its market after better than 1000 days in the market. All the numbers and lessons behind "A Finger For Frodo." www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/frodo-b...
"As we fill our hours and days with the work of rewriting, our fictions will not be written by any one self but by the spectrum of selves we're always becoming, even as the novel is becoming alongside us." Matt Bell, Refuse To Be Done #WritingCommunity www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/refuse-...
Refuse To Be Done — Paul O'Connor
Why we edit.
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Originally ran on a double bill with The Redundant Duplication.
Miles Bennell@milesbennell.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Giant Behemoth 1959
📚 #OnThisDay in the #History of #Literature 30 July 1935, Sir #AllenLane of the Penguin Press revolutionised the #publishing industry by releasing new affordable paperbacks. A huge hit with booksellers and readers, they were originally colour-coded according to genre. Iconic.
With Hobbit-like determination, this non-Tolkien suspense thriller finally found its market after better than 1000 days in the market. All the numbers and lessons behind "A Finger For Frodo." www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/frodo-b...
Frodo By The Numbers — Paul O'Connor
You read that right. A THOUSAND days in the market …
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Maybe not so cool as the opening to "Shaft" -- because nothing out-cools Shaft -- but it's in the discussion.
JPSea ..🦩🦚@jpsea83.bsky.social · last wk.SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977) dir. John Badham #Cinema 🎟📽 🎞✴️ #FilmSky
My mind map of a Ross Macdonald crime classic. Diagraming Ross Macdonald #CrimeFiction #crimewriting #writingcommunity www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/diagram...
Diagraming Ross Macdonald — Paul O'Connor
Holy crap, Ross!
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With Hobbit-like determination, this non-Tolkien suspense thriller finally found its market after better than 1000 days in the market. All the numbers and lessons behind "A Finger For Frodo." www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/frodo-b...
Frodo By The Numbers — Paul O'Connor
You read that right. A THOUSAND days in the market …
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You don't have to wait for Halloween to do a monster movie Top Ten. Top Ten Classic Monster Movies -- Part 2 #HorrorMovies #horror #monsters www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/top-ten...
Top Ten Classic Monster Movies -- Part 2 — Paul O'Connor
My classic horror movie countdown continues with genuine terror … but the #1 movie on this list is a gentle flight of fantasy.
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