ptklein
@ptklein.com
Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures at U Michigan. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, in Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
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I’m in @metroweekly.bsky.social this week with a piece about the profound personal and political importance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, audience partici…pation, and fifty years of absolute pleasure and queer liberation. 🫦
Read my essay and the rest of the issue here 👇
Read my essay and the rest of the issue here 👇
Rewatching Barbie and gotta say it slaps even harder than I remember
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Rewatching Barbie and gotta say it slaps even harder than I remember
Every time I read about Vertigo I am further convinced that most folks haven’t actually watched Vertigo
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Every time I read about Vertigo I am further convinced that most folks haven’t actually watched Vertigo
Real ones just tune in every week for @shane.wlm.sn’s New Music Friday.
Trust your bros, not the bots!
Trust your bros, not the bots!
The algorithm failed music
True music discovery has suffered.
www.theverge.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Real ones just tune in every week for @shane.wlm.sn’s New Music Friday.
Trust your bros, not the bots!
Trust your bros, not the bots!
I have acquired the Edmund Fitzgerald copypasta
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I have acquired the Edmund Fitzgerald copypasta
When you get to the last set of a good workout and you know if you just hit the gas you’re gonna crush it >>>
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
When you get to the last set of a good workout and you know if you just hit the gas you’re gonna crush it >>>
Johnny Cash at San Quentin kind of morning
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Johnny Cash at San Quentin kind of morning
Alright what movies are we watching tonight, team
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Alright what movies are we watching tonight, team
Having to talk about AI as if it’s a serious concern and not a money laundering scheme is taking years off my life
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Having to talk about AI as if it’s a serious concern and not a money laundering scheme is taking years off my life
If you need me I’ll be here
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If you need me I’ll be here
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courage is wildly contagious, and it's so powerfully cool that you can peer pressure cowards into acting like they have it
We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
courage is wildly contagious, and it's so powerfully cool that you can peer pressure cowards into acting like they have it
Fascinating use of mise-en-peèn
A glimpse from the Andrew Cuomo official watch party at Ziegfeld Ballroom, via NYPost's Matthew Fischetti
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Fascinating use of mise-en-peèn
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"If there's one thing I know it is that power can always be made ridiculous. The bigger that fellow gets, the harder my laughter will hit him." - Charlie Chaplin, on laughing at fascists, as discussed in this great @ptklein.com piece: www.howtoreadmovies.com/how-to-laugh...
The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"If there's one thing I know it is that power can always be made ridiculous. The bigger that fellow gets, the harder my laughter will hit him." - Charlie Chaplin, on laughing at fascists, as discussed in this great @ptklein.com piece: www.howtoreadmovies.com/how-to-laugh...
Good morning
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“The Restless Consumer” Neil Young
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“The Restless Consumer” Neil Young
November 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Good morning
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“The Restless Consumer” Neil Young
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“The Restless Consumer” Neil Young
Watched a reel about mortadella and now I can’t stop thinking about mortadella
![A sobbing little girl from the “why can’t I stop dreaming about waffles” meme with the doctored caption “Crying about [mortadella] intensifies.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:six47dus7fdnxv35ka75fizz/bafkreigf7u5zdzurij6upnxbspjhiqs5t2f3bqkr7b5mo27g7txkvgutmy@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Watched a reel about mortadella and now I can’t stop thinking about mortadella
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Had a very @ptklein.com weekend.
(Watched baseball and went to the movies)
(Watched baseball and went to the movies)
November 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Had a very @ptklein.com weekend.
(Watched baseball and went to the movies)
(Watched baseball and went to the movies)
If you’re just waking up from a late night double feature, don’t miss me in @metroweekly.bsky.social talking about the supreme midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and fifty years of absolute pleasure and queer liberation.
🫦: online.fliphtml5.com/zzppy/jdov/#...
🫦: online.fliphtml5.com/zzppy/jdov/#...
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
If you’re just waking up from a late night double feature, don’t miss me in @metroweekly.bsky.social talking about the supreme midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and fifty years of absolute pleasure and queer liberation.
🫦: online.fliphtml5.com/zzppy/jdov/#...
🫦: online.fliphtml5.com/zzppy/jdov/#...
Another season come and gone ⚾️
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Frank Capra)
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Frank Capra)
November 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Another season come and gone ⚾️
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Frank Capra)
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Frank Capra)
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An excellent essay about Rocky Horror's legacy by @ptklein.com ! online.fliphtml5.com/zzppy/jdov/#...
November 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
An excellent essay about Rocky Horror's legacy by @ptklein.com ! online.fliphtml5.com/zzppy/jdov/#...
Reposted by ptklein
1925’s Phantom of the Opera features an incredible color sequence photographed in the Technicolor II process, which captured twin negatives with red and green light filters.
Costly to produce and with easily damaged prints, only 32 films, photographed between 1922 and 1926, used the process.
Costly to produce and with easily damaged prints, only 32 films, photographed between 1922 and 1926, used the process.
November 23, 2024 at 12:44 PM
1925’s Phantom of the Opera features an incredible color sequence photographed in the Technicolor II process, which captured twin negatives with red and green light filters.
Costly to produce and with easily damaged prints, only 32 films, photographed between 1922 and 1926, used the process.
Costly to produce and with easily damaged prints, only 32 films, photographed between 1922 and 1926, used the process.