Greg Beer
@gbeer.bsky.social
Cinephile and Screenwriter working across drama and documentary, TV and film. Credits include Madiba (BET), The Dictator’s Playbook (PBS), Age of Samurai (Netflix), Optimist's Guide to the Planet (Bloomberg) Mayday (Nat Geo), Life After People (History)
You will be visited by 3 spirits
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
You will be visited by 3 spirits
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Housetops in the Ward
A.J. Casson
1924
A.J. Casson
1924
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Housetops in the Ward
A.J. Casson
1924
A.J. Casson
1924
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December 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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40. ‘Scrooge’ (Hurst, 1951)
“This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all, beware this boy!”
“But have ye no refuge, no resource?”
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
“This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all, beware this boy!”
“But have ye no refuge, no resource?”
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
40. ‘Scrooge’ (Hurst, 1951)
“This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all, beware this boy!”
“But have ye no refuge, no resource?”
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
“This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all, beware this boy!”
“But have ye no refuge, no resource?”
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
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Remembering Jean-Luc Godard on his birthday 🎂
📷 Jean-Louis Swiners, 1963
"The films feel like they are not old, or old fashioned; they still feel fresh and touch people."
- Anna Karina
📷 Jean-Louis Swiners, 1963
"The films feel like they are not old, or old fashioned; they still feel fresh and touch people."
- Anna Karina
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Remembering Jean-Luc Godard on his birthday 🎂
📷 Jean-Louis Swiners, 1963
"The films feel like they are not old, or old fashioned; they still feel fresh and touch people."
- Anna Karina
📷 Jean-Louis Swiners, 1963
"The films feel like they are not old, or old fashioned; they still feel fresh and touch people."
- Anna Karina
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Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester at home, shortly after moving to Los Angeles, c1932.
November 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester at home, shortly after moving to Los Angeles, c1932.
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Krzysztof Kieślowski´s Hands
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Krzysztof Kieślowski´s Hands
The Straight Story (1999, Lynch)
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 AM
The Straight Story (1999, Lynch)
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Charles Brackett, Screenwriter, Novelist, Producer, #BornOnThisDay in 1892, in Saratoga Springs, New York
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Charles Brackett, Screenwriter, Novelist, Producer, #BornOnThisDay in 1892, in Saratoga Springs, New York
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RIP to the great German actor Udo Kier
Here to the right of frame as Lawrence in Lars Von Trier’s Europa (1991)
Here to the right of frame as Lawrence in Lars Von Trier’s Europa (1991)
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
RIP to the great German actor Udo Kier
Here to the right of frame as Lawrence in Lars Von Trier’s Europa (1991)
Here to the right of frame as Lawrence in Lars Von Trier’s Europa (1991)
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Let's celebrate Harpo's birthday with a few views of The Cocoanuts on Broadway!
(Whatever you do, don't go to IBDB and look up Chico's character's name. Just don't.)
(Whatever you do, don't go to IBDB and look up Chico's character's name. Just don't.)
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Let's celebrate Harpo's birthday with a few views of The Cocoanuts on Broadway!
(Whatever you do, don't go to IBDB and look up Chico's character's name. Just don't.)
(Whatever you do, don't go to IBDB and look up Chico's character's name. Just don't.)
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Robert Towne (with scenes from the Hal Ashby film "The Last Detail", screenplay by Towne) - BOTD
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Robert Towne (with scenes from the Hal Ashby film "The Last Detail", screenplay by Towne) - BOTD
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
One likes to believe in the freedom of music
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity, yeah
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity, yeah
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
One likes to believe in the freedom of music
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity, yeah
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity, yeah
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Twin Peaks: Hawk, Gordon, Cooper, Phillip Gerard, Andy and Sheriff Truman take a coffee break.
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Twin Peaks: Hawk, Gordon, Cooper, Phillip Gerard, Andy and Sheriff Truman take a coffee break.
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Happy Anton Walbrook's birthday!
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Happy Anton Walbrook's birthday!
Best intro in movie history?
Margaret Dumont: "As chairwoman of the reception committee, I extend the good wishes of every man, woman, and child of Freedonia."
Groucho: "Never mind that stuff, take a card."
Margaret: "Card? What'll I do with a card?"
Groucho: "You can keep it, I've got 51 left."
Margaret Dumont: "As chairwoman of the reception committee, I extend the good wishes of every man, woman, and child of Freedonia."
Groucho: "Never mind that stuff, take a card."
Margaret: "Card? What'll I do with a card?"
Groucho: "You can keep it, I've got 51 left."
Leo McCarey’s DUCK SOUP, starring the FOUR Marx Brothers and practically another one, hit theaters across the U.S. on November 17, 1933. #HailFreedonia #OnThisDay
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Best intro in movie history?
Margaret Dumont: "As chairwoman of the reception committee, I extend the good wishes of every man, woman, and child of Freedonia."
Groucho: "Never mind that stuff, take a card."
Margaret: "Card? What'll I do with a card?"
Groucho: "You can keep it, I've got 51 left."
Margaret Dumont: "As chairwoman of the reception committee, I extend the good wishes of every man, woman, and child of Freedonia."
Groucho: "Never mind that stuff, take a card."
Margaret: "Card? What'll I do with a card?"
Groucho: "You can keep it, I've got 51 left."
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Martin Scorsese, Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor, Film Preservationist, #BornOnThisDay in 1942, in New York City
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Martin Scorsese, Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor, Film Preservationist, #BornOnThisDay in 1942, in New York City
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“No matter what the weather is, I wish for all of you blue skies and golden sunshine internally all along the way.”
We miss you, David. 💙
We miss you, David. 💙
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
“No matter what the weather is, I wish for all of you blue skies and golden sunshine internally all along the way.”
We miss you, David. 💙
We miss you, David. 💙
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The Grey Cup is on, so it's time, once again, to remember that Pierre Trudeau rolled up to Grey Cup in 1970 looking like this.
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The Grey Cup is on, so it's time, once again, to remember that Pierre Trudeau rolled up to Grey Cup in 1970 looking like this.
Top 5 movie genres:
- A bomber pilot cheats death through legal argument
- A forgotten man buttles then becomes a nightclub tycoon
- A film crew does their best in the south of France
- A Victorian doctor learns humanity from his doomed patient
- A town drunk and young gunslinger sing cowboy songs
- A bomber pilot cheats death through legal argument
- A forgotten man buttles then becomes a nightclub tycoon
- A film crew does their best in the south of France
- A Victorian doctor learns humanity from his doomed patient
- A town drunk and young gunslinger sing cowboy songs
Top 5 movie genres:
- A determined lady gives up millions for a laird
- A cabbage patch orphan makes good
- A determined lady tells her father what he can do w/ his shoe shop
- A pair of earrings causes nothing but grief
- A lonely lady arrives in Venice on a train & leaves days later on a train
- A determined lady gives up millions for a laird
- A cabbage patch orphan makes good
- A determined lady tells her father what he can do w/ his shoe shop
- A pair of earrings causes nothing but grief
- A lonely lady arrives in Venice on a train & leaves days later on a train
Top 5 movie genres:
- It’s a musical but everyone’s sad.
- “Damn this infernal heat!”
- It’s a Christmas movie but everyone’s sad.
- Wise-cracking gangster but he’s doomed
- It’s a western but everyone’s sad.
- It’s a musical but everyone’s sad.
- “Damn this infernal heat!”
- It’s a Christmas movie but everyone’s sad.
- Wise-cracking gangster but he’s doomed
- It’s a western but everyone’s sad.
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Top 5 movie genres:
- A bomber pilot cheats death through legal argument
- A forgotten man buttles then becomes a nightclub tycoon
- A film crew does their best in the south of France
- A Victorian doctor learns humanity from his doomed patient
- A town drunk and young gunslinger sing cowboy songs
- A bomber pilot cheats death through legal argument
- A forgotten man buttles then becomes a nightclub tycoon
- A film crew does their best in the south of France
- A Victorian doctor learns humanity from his doomed patient
- A town drunk and young gunslinger sing cowboy songs
Would love Pope Leo’s take on this gem.
Hail, Caesar! (2016, written and directed by the Coen Brothers). A great film about, among other things, classic Hollywood, religious belief, and specifically (appropriate for today) Catholic faith.
November 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Would love Pope Leo’s take on this gem.
One of the great love poems to cinema. Fitting to remember it on the day the Pope himself(!) just delivered one of his own.
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Written and directed by Woody Allen stars Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels and Danny Aiello.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
One of the great love poems to cinema. Fitting to remember it on the day the Pope himself(!) just delivered one of his own.