Greg Beer
@gbeer.bsky.social
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)
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Laura Dern and David Lynch on the set of TWIN PEAKS
Dern was BOTD in 1967
Dern was BOTD in 1967
February 10, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Laura Dern and David Lynch on the set of TWIN PEAKS
Dern was BOTD in 1967
Dern was BOTD in 1967
PEOPLE OR THINGS IT TOOK YOU FAR TOO LONG TO APPRECIATE
James Baldwin
William Powell
Carole Lombard
The films of the 1930s
The films of Éric Rohmer
The films of Bertrand Tavernier
The films of Joan Micklin Silver
Norwegian licorice
James Baldwin
William Powell
Carole Lombard
The films of the 1930s
The films of Éric Rohmer
The films of Bertrand Tavernier
The films of Joan Micklin Silver
Norwegian licorice
OK, now let's play
PEOPLE OR THINGS IT TOOK YOU FAR TOO LONG TO APPRECIATE
If I may begin:
• Kim Novak
• Natalie Wood
• Moonstruck
• Richard Strauss
• Barbara Stanwyck
OK, you're up.
PEOPLE OR THINGS IT TOOK YOU FAR TOO LONG TO APPRECIATE
If I may begin:
• Kim Novak
• Natalie Wood
• Moonstruck
• Richard Strauss
• Barbara Stanwyck
OK, you're up.
February 9, 2026 at 2:24 PM
PEOPLE OR THINGS IT TOOK YOU FAR TOO LONG TO APPRECIATE
James Baldwin
William Powell
Carole Lombard
The films of the 1930s
The films of Éric Rohmer
The films of Bertrand Tavernier
The films of Joan Micklin Silver
Norwegian licorice
James Baldwin
William Powell
Carole Lombard
The films of the 1930s
The films of Éric Rohmer
The films of Bertrand Tavernier
The films of Joan Micklin Silver
Norwegian licorice
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Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
February 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
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Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon taking a break on the set of “THE APARTMENT” (1960)
🎬 United Artists
🎬 United Artists
February 8, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon taking a break on the set of “THE APARTMENT” (1960)
🎬 United Artists
🎬 United Artists
1)400 Blows
2)The Last Metro
3)The Woman Next Door
4)Love on the Run
5)Day for Night
2)The Last Metro
3)The Woman Next Door
4)Love on the Run
5)Day for Night
BOTD François Truffaut!!!
MCCT5: 5)Green Room 4)Finally Sunday 3)Day for Night 2)Soft Skin 1)400 Blows
Highly rec Truffaut on Cinema: midcenturycinema.org/node/129
More:
@davidlsims.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
MCCT5: 5)Green Room 4)Finally Sunday 3)Day for Night 2)Soft Skin 1)400 Blows
Highly rec Truffaut on Cinema: midcenturycinema.org/node/129
More:
@davidlsims.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Truffaut Essays That Clear Up Misguided Notions of Auteurism
Truffaut viewed authorship in terms of literal authority, of power, and he placed as much emphasis on the production of films as on their direction.
www.newyorker.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:23 PM
1)400 Blows
2)The Last Metro
3)The Woman Next Door
4)Love on the Run
5)Day for Night
2)The Last Metro
3)The Woman Next Door
4)Love on the Run
5)Day for Night
Joyeux anniversaire, François, tu nous manques
February 6, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Joyeux anniversaire, François, tu nous manques
Top 10 Westerns, off the top of my head, may change my mind tomorrow:
Red River
The Searchers
The Grey Fox
The Oxbow Incident
Johnny Guitar
My Darling Clementine
High Noon
Rio Bravo
Unforgiven
True Grit
Red River
The Searchers
The Grey Fox
The Oxbow Incident
Johnny Guitar
My Darling Clementine
High Noon
Rio Bravo
Unforgiven
True Grit
Saw a top 10 Westerns list in my feed, so thought I'd do one of my own.
February 5, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Top 10 Westerns, off the top of my head, may change my mind tomorrow:
Red River
The Searchers
The Grey Fox
The Oxbow Incident
Johnny Guitar
My Darling Clementine
High Noon
Rio Bravo
Unforgiven
True Grit
Red River
The Searchers
The Grey Fox
The Oxbow Incident
Johnny Guitar
My Darling Clementine
High Noon
Rio Bravo
Unforgiven
True Grit
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(PS: And, even if you disagree w/ some, most, or all of my favourites, try & catch Mr Farnsworth in ‘The Grey Fox’ if you can; I think he was splendid.)
February 4, 2026 at 9:57 PM
(PS: And, even if you disagree w/ some, most, or all of my favourites, try & catch Mr Farnsworth in ‘The Grey Fox’ if you can; I think he was splendid.)
Love Sukowa and this film so much - a ravishing fever dream
February 2, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Love Sukowa and this film so much - a ravishing fever dream
John Ford #BOTD. So much of his work is brilliant and troubling at the same time. Like The Searchers: a one-of-a-kind portrait of obsession and hatred, breathtakingly beautiful and haunted by moral rot. Feels immensely timely.
February 1, 2026 at 4:11 PM
John Ford #BOTD. So much of his work is brilliant and troubling at the same time. Like The Searchers: a one-of-a-kind portrait of obsession and hatred, breathtakingly beautiful and haunted by moral rot. Feels immensely timely.
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The full run of SCTV for free. God bless and keep the Internet Archive.
SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.
S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
January 31, 2026 at 8:15 PM
The full run of SCTV for free. God bless and keep the Internet Archive.
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I hope he was there to give her a big hug today.
January 30, 2026 at 7:15 PM
I hope he was there to give her a big hug today.
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We should all be weirder in her memory
January 30, 2026 at 6:53 PM
We should all be weirder in her memory
A Canadian National Treasure.
Catherine O’Hara. RIP.
Catherine O’Hara. RIP.
January 30, 2026 at 6:29 PM
A Canadian National Treasure.
Catherine O’Hara. RIP.
Catherine O’Hara. RIP.
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Vanessa Redgrave, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1937, in London
January 30, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Vanessa Redgrave, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1937, in London
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Anton Chekhov, Writer, Physician, #BornOnThisDay in 1860, in Taganrog, Russian Empire
January 29, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Anton Chekhov, Writer, Physician, #BornOnThisDay in 1860, in Taganrog, Russian Empire
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Happy birthday, Alan Alda!
January 28, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Happy birthday, Alan Alda!
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Andrej Rublëv, Andrej Tarkovskij (1966)
January 25, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Andrej Rublëv, Andrej Tarkovskij (1966)
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Wintering
Billie Rae Busby
2022
Billie Rae Busby
2022
January 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Wintering
Billie Rae Busby
2022
Billie Rae Busby
2022
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Alfred Hitchcock enjoying the snow with two of his grandchildren in 1960.
January 24, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Alfred Hitchcock enjoying the snow with two of his grandchildren in 1960.
January 20, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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“Obsessions are the only things that matter. Perversion interests me most and is my guiding darkness.”
HBD, 👑 Patricia Highsmith ...🖤🖤
📷Rolf Tietgens, 1942
HBD, 👑 Patricia Highsmith ...🖤🖤
📷Rolf Tietgens, 1942
January 19, 2026 at 1:35 PM
“Obsessions are the only things that matter. Perversion interests me most and is my guiding darkness.”
HBD, 👑 Patricia Highsmith ...🖤🖤
📷Rolf Tietgens, 1942
HBD, 👑 Patricia Highsmith ...🖤🖤
📷Rolf Tietgens, 1942