Ryan, you’re just the best! Thank you.
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Ryan, you’re just the best! Thank you.
Safdies’ HOUSE OF MIRTH
As I like to say, "to what problem is ChatGPT the solution?"
WTF
I used to live in a city with a daily embarrassment of movie theater riches…sigh. 🗽
No shade to Film Forum (I love a Steve Sterner performance too!), but I’m personally more of an @anthologyfilm.bsky.social girlie 😘
Hear me out: Wes Anderson's Pride and Prejudice
Haha! I bet! Bowie’s been eyeing it…
🎞️ What happens when propaganda outlives its purpose?
From the 1920s–50s, Guatemala’s military dictatorship used film to project power. But the cameras captured more than intended — K’iche’ communities celebrating festivals, farmers combating locust plagues, laborers building roads.
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I got the LEGO movie camera like a year ago (or more?) and have been too busy to assemble it. My spouse surprised me this morning with it all made! True love 😭
common-sense approach to human flourishing: books in schools
We are very proud to announce the completion of a fully photochemical preservation of CALIGARI'S CURE, a 1982 underground ~feature film~ made by filmmaker Tom Palazzolo.
Watch the whole film for free and read all about the preservation on our website:
A preview of some of what we’re showing here in Springfield, Missouri, next week! #AmateurMovieDay2026
Footage courtesy of @chicagofilmarchives.org, State Historical Society of Missouri, and University Archives and Film and Media Archive of Washington University in St. Louis Libraries 🎞️
I bet I will! 🫡
Look what *finally* arrived at my university library! Hoping to read it during my spring break later this month. @chrisyogerst.com’s writing is always a joy to read! 🤠
www.unmpress.com/978082636838...
Hosting “Made in Missouri” Amateur Movie Day this coming Monday at Springfield-Greene County Public Library! Library prepared these flyers and the stack was quite low when I picked mine up today. Hope it means we’ll have a good turn out!
programs.thelibrary.org/event/15812550
#AmateurMovieDay2026
'In America - At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served' - The 10 February 1953 issue of the Soviet-era satirical magazine, Krokodil, ran a cartoon drawn by Ukrainian-Russian artist Yuli Ganf. You can read more about Ganf's career here: www.lambiek.net/artists/g/ga...
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Various staging ideas for this Safe In Hell (1931) publicity portrait of Dorothy Mackaill #BOTD, from the film’s pressbook (Wednesday mood calls for all five versions):
My family lore on wrong titles: my dad loves Alfred Hitchcock’s BLACK SAND. IYKYK.
He can never remember the actual title.
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."
#writerslife
AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule www.theverge.com/policy/88767...
Wow!!!!
My research is on working class women and AI and the ONE consistency among all of the interviews we’ve done so far is concerns about data centers and environmental impact. We do not bring it up - they do. Every single one.
Woohoo! Read that article “Jaws, From Shark’s POV” asap if you haven’t already. You’ll love it!
Igmar Bergman inspecting “Bruce,” one of the mechanical sharks used in production of Jaws. 1975.
Some guest speakers in “Jaws” class today reminded me of this gem of a photo. Ingmar Bergman with one of the Bruces.
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Man with film camera and Oscar, pictured: Harry Stradling with his Academy Award for Best B&W photography in Albert Lewin’s PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY (1945)
Since it’s almost #Oscars time, here’s photo of cinematographer Harry Stradling with his #AcademyAward for Best B&W photography in Albert Lewin’s PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY (1945)
Source: FILM AND RADIO GUIDE XII, no. 9 (June 1946)
archive.org/details/film...
Finally dashed off a short piece that includes an ode to my favorite genre of film history photography! Hoping pictures here make the cut.
