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film scholar @ UT-Austin & exec director UTNY + UTLA | author, We’ll Always Have ‘Casablanca’ (W.W. Norton), ed., Billy Wilder on Assignment (Princeton) | bylines: The Nation, NYT, New Republic, NYR Daily, et al. | views = mine www.noahisenberg.com

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Episode 26: Beauty and Brains: The Hedy Lamarr Story In Episode 25 of

Delighted to have been among the interviewees on this podcast episode devoted to #HedyLamarr and her endlessly fascinating life and career. #FilmSky #MovieSky #TCM

h/t: producer Emily Morantz

www.lbi.org/projects/pod...

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Barbara Stanwyck in #FilmNoir Double Indemnity (1944)

06.03.2026 13:53 👍 68 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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Yes, it’s the #JoanShawlee centennial (b. 5 March 1926)

Sweet Sue forever!

#FilmSky #MovieSky #TCM

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Cartoon by
Jeff Stahler
🎯🎯🎯

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2026 so far...

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Not Markwayne of Tulsa, we need Bruce Wayne of Gotham

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Prost!

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📽 Mirror shot of Paul Henreid in #FilmNoir Hollow Triumph (1948) (a.k.a. The Scar)

Paul Henreid is a fugitive crook who assumes the identity of his identical twin, a psychiatrist, leading to a web of double-crosses and suspense...

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Harry and Dean The late stars of Paris, Texas

BOTD Dean Stockwell!!
MCCT5: 5)Psych-Out 4)Gardens of Stone 3)Compulsion 2)Paris Texas 1)Long Day's Journey
More:
@sheilakathleen.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/tributes/the...
@ashcclark.bsky.social:
ashleyclark.substack.com/p/harry-and-...

05.03.2026 16:18 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The 100 Greatest Cinemas In The World Right Now Classic kinos, cult film temples and fabulous picture palaces from across the planet

Thanks to #TCMFF I have been to two on the list:

#51: Egyptian Theatre
#1: TCL Chinese Theatre

Can confirm both are great venues. Hoping to visit the New Beverly for the first time next month before TCMFF starts.

#TCMParty

05.03.2026 17:11 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Every day is World Book Day as far as I’m concerned

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A black-and-white film photo. A man stands leaning against his food stand on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas. Wednesday, January 21, 2026.

A black-and-white film photo. A man stands leaning against his food stand on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas. Wednesday, January 21, 2026.

Street Vendor • Austin, Texas, USA

Rolleiflex 3.5 MX-EVS • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2026

#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #ATX #TX #Downtown #Austin #Texas #Street #Vendor #People #Sixth #Street #Evening #Outdoors #January_21_2026

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for World Book Day

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Happy #WorldBookDay to those who celebrate.

#MarilynMonroe #BookSky #FilmSky #MovieSky

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Drop something ORANGE 🎃🦺🖤🍊🦁

05.03.2026 13:18 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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#filmsky #moviesky #songsky

Mamie Van Doren
washing her Jaguar XK120
Life magazine (1954)

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Watching God Save Texas, an HBO collection of three Texas docs by Texan filmmakers Richard Linklater, Alex Stapleton, and Iliana Sosa.

I've seen the Linklater one before, but not the other two.

On Crave in Canada.

#FilmSky📽️

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I do love a nice, loud, inviting title card. Some movies should bring them back.

#FilmSky📽️

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#filmnoir #filmsky #moviesky #NoirNeckties

“If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.”

Tyrone Power & Gene Tierney
The Razor’s Edge, 1946

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A woman with red hair, wearing a black dress, is seated at a dining table with a dish of huge shrimp in front of her.
She's looking at someone with an imploring, wide-eyed expression.
Catherine O'Hara, born on this day in 1954 (d. 2026), as Delia Deetz in a scene from the film BEETLEJUICE (1988)

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Filmsky moviesky MOVIES films botd happy birthday Hollywood legends comedy genius rip

(tap for more) A woman with red hair, wearing a black dress, is seated at a dining table with a dish of huge shrimp in front of her. She's looking at someone with an imploring, wide-eyed expression. Catherine O'Hara, born on this day in 1954 (d. 2026), as Delia Deetz in a scene from the film BEETLEJUICE (1988) Tags Filmsky moviesky MOVIES films botd happy birthday Hollywood legends comedy genius rip

Good morning.

#BOTD #filmsky #moviesky

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Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

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Photo of Catherine O’Hara

Photo of Catherine O’Hara

Remembering 💔
Catherine O’Hara
on her birthday

#botd March 4,1954
and gone too soon💔

She brought us joy.
#Actor #comedy

Catherine O’Hara

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#filmnoir #filmsky #moviesky #tcmcruise

“I should’ve booked the TCM cruise.”

Michèle Morgan w/ Robert Cummings
The Chase (1946)

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Opinion | The Nation Faces a Crisis. Colleges Have a Unique Role to Play.

A powerful and remarkably timely piece by the president of @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social Michael S. Roth on today's @nytimesoped.bsky.social page.

The Nation Faces a Crisis. Colleges Have a Unique Role to Play. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...

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Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe by Earl Leaf at the Los Angeles premiere of How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

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Observe the birth of the modern police procedural in Jules Dassin’s “The Naked City,” restored via the Criterion Collection. From modern programs like Lucifer, The Flash, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Blue Bloods to more classic ones like Law and Order, The Mod Squad, and Hill Street Blues, each of these procedural variants ow…

3/3/48: Jules Dassin's The Naked City
Landmark NYC procedural
More:
@spectrumculture.bsky.social: spectrumculture.com/2021/04/26/r...
Sragow on Goldstein doc: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@elmntsofmadness.bsky.social: elementsofmadness.com/2020/09/07/t...

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Opinion | Nine Law Firms Surrendered. Four Law Firms Won.

Nine Law Firms Surrendered. Four Law Firms Won. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...

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This is an encapsulation of his entire heads-I-win-tails-you-lose world view.

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Alfred Hitchcock (1965)

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Ellen Barkin by Ruven Afanador (2009)

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