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Hannah Townsend
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Arts editor with great hair and terrible posture
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Happy Thanksgiving 🥰 #ynwa
Liverpool legend Conor Bradley wiping out Real Madrid player Kylian Mbappe
November 28, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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First thoughts on second viewing of Conclave: we need more films featuring Stanley Tucci’s knees. He’s got great knees.
November 17, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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One day the Kowloon will shut down (as it’s been threatening to do for years) and I will a raise a giant scorpion bowl in its honor—and also shut down, bodily.
November 11, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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I cannot start my day with a confrontation.
Excerpt from the Jan. 2024 Interview magazine conversation between Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Jonathan Bailey that has forever ROONED me. WALLER-BRIDGE: Do you still feel passionate about Shakespeare now? BAILEY: I do, actually. It’s my dirty, filthy habit. WALLER-BRIDGE: Your dirty little habit. I know what you mean, though, how if you come to it quite raw, and it’s not something that you’ve had shoved down your throat at school, there is nothing more epic and spectacular. BAILEY: And being around people who are just so committed to their vocation, whether they’re writing or creating. The smell backstage at the RSC at the Barbican was like cigarettes, stage makeup, Joe Fiennes, and hope. WALLER-BRIDGE: That’s a lot of beautiful smells you’ve got going on there. BAILEY: I know. Talk about top notes and bottom notes. I was like, “These men, these titans of theater!” Nick Miller screaming “Stop being so mean to me, or I swear to God I’m gonna fall in love with you.”
January 29, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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Never going to recover from Paul Giamatti calling someone “penis cancer in human form,” missed you, Alexander Payne.
November 9, 2023 at 2:22 AM
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Apparently this is my Letterboxd review account now
Letterboxd account review of A Star is Born (1954, dir. Cukor) which reads: “James Mason’s death scene can never be surpassed, not even by the oldest man at Film Forum staging his own by coughing through the final (devastating) 20 minutes of this film. Give me the AD tour of the Malibu house” Five stars, no notes, would still marry Norman Maine.
October 24, 2023 at 1:52 AM
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Holding a (disgusting, perfect) Dunkin’ cappuccino on the inside of an Amtrak, looking out at a Massachusetts train station Kenneth Branagh choking out the word “home” in Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk”
October 10, 2023 at 3:02 PM
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Played hooky to watch Barry Lyndon again, don’t @ me
Screenshot of my cursed Letterboxd account’s review of Barry Lyndon which reads as follows: “Barry a crucial cinematic example of the large adult son, if a large adult son also f***ed. Every time I remember that Ryan O’Neal named his son Redmond I want to scream. Zero notes, Kubrick’s best film. Also LMAO at Alamo playing the trailer for Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” before the film began, iykyk”
September 25, 2023 at 8:57 PM
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Bad sleep in mid-thirties hits different
Frasier Crane, abed and annoyed, as seen in the hit tv show “Frasier”
August 3, 2023 at 8:41 PM
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Screenshot of Letterboxd review of Oppenheimer (4.5 stars) reading “Look, I’m not proud of the way I clapped at the Christmas extraction of Niels Bohr, like he was Mr. March gasping “my little women” except about bombs
July 22, 2023 at 12:48 AM
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let her cook
“Liberty (Fran Drescher) Leading the People” (Delacroix, 1830)
July 13, 2023 at 7:49 PM
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Me (right) supporting me (left) during sticky NYC summer
Christine Baranski dabbing the glorious brow of Robin Williams in “The Birdcage” (1997, die. Nichols)
July 11, 2023 at 12:39 PM
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I’m just a girl (from Framingham), standing in front of a boy (her pallet of Raspberry Lime Polar), telling all other seltzers to suck it ❤️
July 6, 2023 at 7:33 PM
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Pivoting from books and art to maritime films and Italian cooking, watch this space
Russell Crowe looking 🤌🏻 in Peter Weir’s classic “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” Strega Nona protecting her sauce from iconic himbo Big Anthony
July 4, 2023 at 8:09 PM