Favorite first time viewings of films in July: You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine (Michael John Warren, 2025) Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937) The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan, 2026) After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998)
Robert Joseph
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Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University of Dayton. Focus on cinematic geography, American independent cinema, mediations of hell and the apocalypse, and other things. On Letterboxd at https://boxd.it/iB7b.
Favorite first time viewings of films in June: The Long Walk (Francis Lawrence, 2025) Disclosure Day (Steven Spielberg, 2026) Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenábar, 1997) I Knew Her Well (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965)
Favorite first time viewings of films in May: Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur, 1956) The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir, 1953) Who Killed Teddy Bear? (Joseph Kates, 1965) Obsession (Curry Barker, 2025)
PLAN NINE: "Your Stupid Minds! Stupid! Stupid!"
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Green Bean@iamgreenbean.bsky.social · 3mo agoBacklash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan. Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Happy Mother’s Day from Grubby’z
Rural Indexing Project@ruralindexing.bsky.social · 3mo agoGrubby’z Pierce, CO
This one was a tough read.
Lawrence Culver@lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew Orleans, “the most physically vulnerable coastal zone in the world…requires immediate action to prepare a smooth transition for people away from New Orleans, which has a population of about 360,000 people, to safer ground.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Gotta be Chopping Mall. The original is fun but by no means an untouchable sacred cow of 1980s cinema. Revisiting the film’s proto-AI anxieties in the context of the decline of communal social spaces would actually be dope.
John Leavitt@leavittalone.bsky.social · 3mo agoYou can remake any movie from 40 years ago, what 1986 film are you picking?
RIP Baudrillard, you would've loved The Devil Wears Prada 2 hiring a real artist to create an image in the style of AI slop.
Twin Peaks The Wire Mad Men Better Call Saul Arrested Development (S1-3) Breaking Bad 30 Rock Andor Firefly Deadwood The West Wing I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson True Detective (S1) Band of Brothers Ken Burns’ The Civil War
Michael D. Dwyer@michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 3mo agosimpsons the wire cheers seinfeld deadwood mad men arrested development party down 30 rock i love lucy carol burnett show conan six feet under dick van dyke the wonder years
Favorite first-time viewings of films in April: Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2013) Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord and Chris Miller, 2026) Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould (François Girard, 1993) India Cabaret (Mira Nair, 1985)
This is the way.
Dana Goldstein@danagoldstein.bsky.social · 3mo agoWith student A.I. use/abuse now ubiquitous, professors and teachers are killing off take-home essays and papers. Students are writing inside the classroom, often by hand. It's part of the big rethink happening on tech and learning. My new report here: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...
The Wachowskis built 1.5 miles of highway for their Reloaded set piece, got 300 some cars from GM that were not deemed to be road safe for consumers, and after filming one of the five best car chases in cinematic history, recycled all that material into affordable housing in Mexico
Ben@franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat's your "He actually broke his toe here" thing? The factoid you can't help but share whenever it comes up. For me, it's how the punk on the bus in Star Trek IV actually wrote and recorded the song that he's playing because he was annoyed the original song they had didn't sound punk at all.
I’m thinking about how in 20 years—basically the span of my adult life—my country went from voting rights as a consensus so popular no one dared voted against it, to this.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
Genuinely the funniest needle drop I’ve ever seen in a movie
Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.
Crambone Truther@zacksoto.bsky.social · 4mo agoWithout stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.
“Yeah, I miss the real. Recordings from back then sound like a pile of dogshit. How about it Sammy? You still got the real in you?”
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 4mo agoA Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
![“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:guthikarwozoldkzhueivkl6/bafkreihklvhtymho7wpemo5mj2f7xaiq6ulvfvcwnzo6hjstg3wixzgesy)
“pissholes in the snow”
Up next on TCM@tcm-up-next.bsky.social · 4mo agoGET CARTER (1971) — 8:00 pm ET — 1h 52m (TCM Primetime: Starring Michael Caine) Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne; directed by Mike Hodges A small-time gangster searches for the truth behind his brother's death. #TCM #TCMParty
As someone who always wanted to go to a Drafthouse but never lived in proximity of one pre-pandemic, this is a dark read www.indiewire.com/features/com...
The Absolute Hell of Watching a Movie at the Alamo Drafthouse in 2026
Once America's most promising movie theater chain, the Alamo Drafthouse has become a QR-coded symbol of corporate enshittification.
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A great American movie!
Up next on TCM@tcm-up-next.bsky.social · 4mo agoLONE STAR (1996) — 8:00 pm ET — 2h 14m (TCM Spotlight: Deep in the Heart of Texas) Kris Kristofferson, Chris Cooper, Stephen Mendillo; directed by John Sayles The sheriff of a sleepy border town investigates his predecessor's murder. #TCM #TCMParty
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com
Sterling K. Brown explains the streaming economics of why we don’t get more eps
I got lots of problems with these people but one of the biggest complaints I have is none of them know any of the pop culture references they keep using in memes. This guy literally threw the detonator out the window so no one would die
Favorite first-time viewings of films in March: Atlantic City (Louis Malle, 1980) City of Hope (John Sayles, 1991) Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, 2008) Heat Lightning (Mervyn LeRoy, 1934)
