Peter Raleigh
@petreraleigh.bsky.social
movies, socialism, occasionally history. newsletters on film, horror novel in progress. he/him
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Sighs From The Depths
Witchcraft and Capital in Argento's Suspiria
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In honor of the season of the witch, I wrote about Suspiria, and about Argento's evolving vision of witchcraft as extraction. Hope you enjoy!
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In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
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Just want to say thank you to everyone who has spread word of Caden and I's upcoming TCM appearances. We're very excited about it. Love y'all <3
On November 17 and 24, @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I will be on TCM talking about films featured in our book. More details to come.
November 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Just want to say thank you to everyone who has spread word of Caden and I's upcoming TCM appearances. We're very excited about it. Love y'all <3
Happy Halloween everybody!
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Happy Halloween everybody!
Just met with an undergrad who is considering a PhD and has met with like ten different scholars for advice. About an hour into our meeting I thought to mention that any credible PhD program should offer a full tuition waiver and a salary. Not one other person had brought this up
October 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Just met with an undergrad who is considering a PhD and has met with like ten different scholars for advice. About an hour into our meeting I thought to mention that any credible PhD program should offer a full tuition waiver and a salary. Not one other person had brought this up
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Finally read this after watching Suspiria, folks it's the real deal, tap in, posthaste
In honor of the season of the witch, I wrote about Suspiria, and about Argento's evolving vision of witchcraft as extraction. Hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
Sighs From The Depths
Witchcraft and Capital in Argento's Suspiria
peterraleigh.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Finally read this after watching Suspiria, folks it's the real deal, tap in, posthaste
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Winking, self-referential hokum in a lesser filmmaker's hands becomes a staging ground for some of Carpenter's most elementally strange and unsettling ideas and images. Despite its explicit reference points, too distinctive ever to collapse into pastiche, or even simple homage
October 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Winking, self-referential hokum in a lesser filmmaker's hands becomes a staging ground for some of Carpenter's most elementally strange and unsettling ideas and images. Despite its explicit reference points, too distinctive ever to collapse into pastiche, or even simple homage
Now seated for a 35mm screening (umpteenth viewing)
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Now seated for a 35mm screening (umpteenth viewing)
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CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
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In honor of the season of the witch, I wrote about Suspiria, and about Argento's evolving vision of witchcraft as extraction. Hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
Sighs From The Depths
Witchcraft and Capital in Argento's Suspiria
peterraleigh.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In honor of the season of the witch, I wrote about Suspiria, and about Argento's evolving vision of witchcraft as extraction. Hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
Last boost of the night - thanks for reading folks
In honor of the season of the witch, I wrote about Suspiria, and about Argento's evolving vision of witchcraft as extraction. Hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
Sighs From The Depths
Witchcraft and Capital in Argento's Suspiria
peterraleigh.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Last boost of the night - thanks for reading folks
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I have probably watched SUSPIRIA seven times and nothing like the "the witches are rapacious capitalists" reading that Peter suggests here (and supports thoroughly with many downright obvious textual examples) ever occurred to me. Just right over my head. Goddamn, I gotta watch it again.
In honor of the season of the witch, I wrote about Suspiria, and about Argento's evolving vision of witchcraft as extraction. Hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
Sighs From The Depths
Witchcraft and Capital in Argento's Suspiria
peterraleigh.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I have probably watched SUSPIRIA seven times and nothing like the "the witches are rapacious capitalists" reading that Peter suggests here (and supports thoroughly with many downright obvious textual examples) ever occurred to me. Just right over my head. Goddamn, I gotta watch it again.
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By the by, if you're not reading @petreraleigh.bsky.social's film criticism blog, Long Library, you should be.
In honor of the season of the witch, I wrote about Suspiria, and about Argento's evolving vision of witchcraft as extraction. Hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
Sighs From The Depths
Witchcraft and Capital in Argento's Suspiria
peterraleigh.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
By the by, if you're not reading @petreraleigh.bsky.social's film criticism blog, Long Library, you should be.
I remember the first time I saw his name in opening credits and said "oh that's Vincent Cassel's dad. I wonder if I'll be able to tell which one he is." Lmao
Jean-Pierre Cassel in Jean-Pierre Melville's ARMY OF SHADOWS (1969)
Cassel was BOTD in 1932
Cassel was BOTD in 1932
October 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I remember the first time I saw his name in opening credits and said "oh that's Vincent Cassel's dad. I wonder if I'll be able to tell which one he is." Lmao
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Suspiria is a film I've "been meaning to get to" for over five years at this point but I'm gonna watch it tomorrow just to read this piece. If you've already seen it or don't care about spoilers read this piece right now!!!!
In honor of the season of the witch, I wrote about Suspiria, and about Argento's evolving vision of witchcraft as extraction. Hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
Sighs From The Depths
Witchcraft and Capital in Argento's Suspiria
peterraleigh.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Suspiria is a film I've "been meaning to get to" for over five years at this point but I'm gonna watch it tomorrow just to read this piece. If you've already seen it or don't care about spoilers read this piece right now!!!!
In honor of the season of the witch, I wrote about Suspiria, and about Argento's evolving vision of witchcraft as extraction. Hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
Sighs From The Depths
Witchcraft and Capital in Argento's Suspiria
peterraleigh.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In honor of the season of the witch, I wrote about Suspiria, and about Argento's evolving vision of witchcraft as extraction. Hope you enjoy!
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
peterraleigh.substack.com/p/sighs-from...
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Pete Buttigieg endorses aid restrictions to Israel, Seth Moulton is running away from AIPAC at full speed, Mallory McMorrow says it's a genocide, meanwhile Cory Booker says that asking if Netanyahu is a war criminal is unfair.
What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.
What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.
Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed
From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Pete Buttigieg endorses aid restrictions to Israel, Seth Moulton is running away from AIPAC at full speed, Mallory McMorrow says it's a genocide, meanwhile Cory Booker says that asking if Netanyahu is a war criminal is unfair.
What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.
What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.
I really thought I was never going to go down the "in-class writing assignments only" route but the AI situation is reaching the point where I may have no other choice. Hard to even describe how bad an outcome this would be pedagogically or how dire the situation has become for writing instruction
October 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I really thought I was never going to go down the "in-class writing assignments only" route but the AI situation is reaching the point where I may have no other choice. Hard to even describe how bad an outcome this would be pedagogically or how dire the situation has become for writing instruction
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They’re doing this because it’s so successful
Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports reut.rs/4opgmAI
Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports
Meta is cutting roughly 600 positions out of the several thousand roles within its Superintelligence Labs artificial intelligence unit, Axios reported on Wednesday.
reut.rs
October 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
They’re doing this because it’s so successful
Fun as hell thread here
I'm finally starting this project to watch the entire Touchstone Pictures filmography (every film associated with the Disney label whether through production or distribution) from 1984-2016 & share my thoughts on each release in this thread. Follow along as I revisit the hits, misses & obscurities.
October 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Fun as hell thread here
Look sometimes you put on a few and a wardrobe update is expensive
These buttons SCREAMIN on the kid
The thing with Ohtani for me is that he has exactly one comp in baseball history, and it's a guy who was regarded as mythical even in his own time. And Ohtani's more talented than *that*
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Look sometimes you put on a few and a wardrobe update is expensive
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Since it's that time of year I'm going to re-share my Halloween piece from last year, about two of my favorite films of the season. Tap in if you didn't last October (or hell, even if you did!)
Friends, for Halloween I wrote about Fright Night, the Guest, and what we learn about ourselves when a stranger comes calling. Would love it if you'd read
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When The Man Comes Around
The Guest, Fright Night, and the American Stranger
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October 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Since it's that time of year I'm going to re-share my Halloween piece from last year, about two of my favorite films of the season. Tap in if you didn't last October (or hell, even if you did!)
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For its 30th anniversary I wrote about STRANGE DAYS, its prophetic vision of the future, Kathryn Bigelow’s formal mastery, and how it ends things on a bold glimmer of hope. Now live over at InReviewOnline:
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Nothing Ever Changes: Passion & Prophecy in Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days | In Review Online
You ready? Yeah, boot it. Strange Days should have launched Kathryn Bigelow’s career into the stratosphere. Having conquered land, sea, and air in 1991’s Nothing Ever Changes: Passion & Prophecy in Ka...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
For its 30th anniversary I wrote about STRANGE DAYS, its prophetic vision of the future, Kathryn Bigelow’s formal mastery, and how it ends things on a bold glimmer of hope. Now live over at InReviewOnline:
inreviewonline.com/2025/10/15/s...
inreviewonline.com/2025/10/15/s...
Whiffing on three grand juries is crazy. I didn't even think that was possible
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro lost 3x in a closely watched case that arose during the transfer of detainees to ICE outside of the D.C. jail.
~three grand jury no bills;
~one acquittal by the judge;
~one acquittal by the petit jury.
Juries are doing their jobs.
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~three grand jury no bills;
~one acquittal by the judge;
~one acquittal by the petit jury.
Juries are doing their jobs.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Jury Acquittal Hands Jeanine Pirro A Big L
Three-Time Loser In a closely watched case, a federal jury acquitted a...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Whiffing on three grand juries is crazy. I didn't even think that was possible