Edirin Oputu
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Anthony Hopkins, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1937, in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales
December 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Anthony Hopkins, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1937, in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales
On the American theatre, then and now. Oh, for a time machine...
theamericanscholar.org/requiem-for-...
theamericanscholar.org/requiem-for-...
Requiem for a Lost Art - The American Scholar
Remembering the stars of theater’s golden age
theamericanscholar.org
December 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
On the American theatre, then and now. Oh, for a time machine...
theamericanscholar.org/requiem-for-...
theamericanscholar.org/requiem-for-...
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From my man @bilgeebiri.bsky.social's great piece on movie marketing:
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
December 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
From my man @bilgeebiri.bsky.social's great piece on movie marketing:
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
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Michel Piccoli was born 100 years ago today. Even an abridged list of his directors carries a whole history of film: Godard, Buñuel, Varda, Demy, Vadim, Chabrol, Sautet, Chahine, Allégret, Tavernier, Resnais, Bava, de Oliveira, Costa-Gavras, Malle, Rivette, Corbucci, Ruiz, Bellocchio, Hitchcock.
December 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Michel Piccoli was born 100 years ago today. Even an abridged list of his directors carries a whole history of film: Godard, Buñuel, Varda, Demy, Vadim, Chabrol, Sautet, Chahine, Allégret, Tavernier, Resnais, Bava, de Oliveira, Costa-Gavras, Malle, Rivette, Corbucci, Ruiz, Bellocchio, Hitchcock.
This and the Dorothy Parker series are automatically going on my viewing list. I can't wait.
STARRING BEN WHISHAW ✨ Coming to the Criterion Channel in January!
December 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This and the Dorothy Parker series are automatically going on my viewing list. I can't wait.
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
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Rob Reiner (1947–2025)
December 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Rob Reiner (1947–2025)
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This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.
December 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.
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Noah Segan appears in all three Benoit Blanc movies in three different roles. In this piece, I will show that Segan's purpose is analogous to the Irish Banshee, the figure whose presence heralds impending death.
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December 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Noah Segan appears in all three Benoit Blanc movies in three different roles. In this piece, I will show that Segan's purpose is analogous to the Irish Banshee, the figure whose presence heralds impending death.
(300,000 words omitted)
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"You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?" Christopher Plummer won his first and only Oscar at age 82 for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Beginners...
@youtube clip of acceptance speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=883H6gNZyGM
@youtube clip of acceptance speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=883H6gNZyGM
December 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?" Christopher Plummer won his first and only Oscar at age 82 for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Beginners...
@youtube clip of acceptance speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=883H6gNZyGM
@youtube clip of acceptance speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=883H6gNZyGM
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December 10, 1919: Alexander Courage, American composer of original Star Trek theme, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
December 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
December 10, 1919: Alexander Courage, American composer of original Star Trek theme, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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“Regardless, and make no mistake about it, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE is a tremendously dark film. It traffics in the language of tragedy, noir, even outright horror at times.”
It's a Wonderful Life? - Bright Wall/Dark Room
We flock to 'It’s a Wonderful Life' because it’s our therapy, a culturally endorsed, holiday-approved balm for all the miseries and disappointments that pile up around us with each passing year.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
“Regardless, and make no mistake about it, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE is a tremendously dark film. It traffics in the language of tragedy, noir, even outright horror at times.”
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I just watched a 1933 film on HBO Max and it showed me dozens more films like it, all pre-1950.
No other studio-owned streaming service platforms its library this effectively.
I worry about TCM, but Netflix better not ruin HBO Max, either. We need mainstream platforms for classic film. #FilmSky
No other studio-owned streaming service platforms its library this effectively.
I worry about TCM, but Netflix better not ruin HBO Max, either. We need mainstream platforms for classic film. #FilmSky
December 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I just watched a 1933 film on HBO Max and it showed me dozens more films like it, all pre-1950.
No other studio-owned streaming service platforms its library this effectively.
I worry about TCM, but Netflix better not ruin HBO Max, either. We need mainstream platforms for classic film. #FilmSky
No other studio-owned streaming service platforms its library this effectively.
I worry about TCM, but Netflix better not ruin HBO Max, either. We need mainstream platforms for classic film. #FilmSky
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Dave Brubeck, Jazz Pianist, Composer, Bandleader, #BornOnThisDay in 1920, in Concord, California
December 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Dave Brubeck, Jazz Pianist, Composer, Bandleader, #BornOnThisDay in 1920, in Concord, California
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the issue here, especially with TCM, is more than half of its programming came from the Turner, and later WB, library. If you remove the network from the library, how is it going to afford to license 100% of its programming?
I just heard from someone at Netflix. TCM is apparently going with the other linear networks to Discovery Global.
Here is the official comment on what WBD assets will be acquired by Netflix:
"We are acquiring the film and television studios, HBO and HBO Max."
Here is the official comment on what WBD assets will be acquired by Netflix:
"We are acquiring the film and television studios, HBO and HBO Max."
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
the issue here, especially with TCM, is more than half of its programming came from the Turner, and later WB, library. If you remove the network from the library, how is it going to afford to license 100% of its programming?
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5. ‘A Matter of Life and Death’ (P&P, 1946)
“Where were you born?
“Boston.”
“Mass.?”
“Yes.”
“That’s a place to be born. History was made there. Are you in love with anybody? No. No, don’t answer that.”
“I could love a man like you, Peter.”
“I love you, June. You’re life, and I’m leaving you.”
“Where were you born?
“Boston.”
“Mass.?”
“Yes.”
“That’s a place to be born. History was made there. Are you in love with anybody? No. No, don’t answer that.”
“I could love a man like you, Peter.”
“I love you, June. You’re life, and I’m leaving you.”
December 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Gene Kelly, Dolores Gray, Dan Dailey, Michael Kidd, and Cyd Charisse in It's Always Fair Weather (1955) 🕺
December 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Gene Kelly, Dolores Gray, Dan Dailey, Michael Kidd, and Cyd Charisse in It's Always Fair Weather (1955) 🕺
This film is a thoroughly good time and I wouldn't object to further Fletch outings.
All of this Jon Hamm talk has me thinking it’s time for a rewatch.
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This film is a thoroughly good time and I wouldn't object to further Fletch outings.
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If ever there was a time to use this meme, it's now:
December 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If ever there was a time to use this meme, it's now:
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Wilfrid Brambell, Ian Carmichael, Patrick Macnee, Fenella Fielding, Pamela Brown, Susannah York and Irene Handl in Armchair Theatre - The Importance Of Being Earnest (15th November 1964)
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Wilfrid Brambell, Ian Carmichael, Patrick Macnee, Fenella Fielding, Pamela Brown, Susannah York and Irene Handl in Armchair Theatre - The Importance Of Being Earnest (15th November 1964)
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I Claudius - Hail Who? (15th November 1976). "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them".
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I Claudius - Hail Who? (15th November 1976). "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them".