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Lubezki’s latest projects - the David O. Russell movie Amsterdam, and an upcoming Alejandro González Iñárritu movie
November 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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I love book’s
A stack of books, which include, from top to bottom: -Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, by Roland Barthes -Mythologies, by Roland Barthes -The American Cinema, by Andrew Sarris -Ed Wood, Made in Hollywood USA by Will Sloan -Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., by Rudolph Grey -Radioactive Dreams: The Cinema of Albert Pyun, by Justin Decloux -The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture, by David Bordwell -When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade, by Dave Kehr -Two hardcover James Agee collections from Library of America -The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties, by J. Hoberman -Hallelujah Junction, by John Adams -Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber
October 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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new haircut for Freya
Photo of a girl with a new haircut
September 20, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Watched this in prep for Lucile Hadžihalilović‘s latest movie screening at Fantastic Fest in just a little over a week.

Beautiful, and very unsettling.
Poster for Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Innocence (2004)
September 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Bug
An alien
August 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Of all the awful places online, the one that’s driving me insane right now (even at a glance!) is r/stephencolbert. Literally tens of thousands of users just sucking Gavin Newsom’s dick
Post in r/stephencolbert saying “The next President of the United States” and it’s a generic picture of Gavin Newsom looking Very serious Post from r/stephencolbert saying “California Governor’s Office is NOT holding back!” And it’s a Twitter post of Newsom’s account saying “SAY, DT. I HEAR YOU LIKE ‘EM YOUNG?”, paraphrasing Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us
August 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Pleasantly surprised to be ma’am’d at the gas station today! Pic unrelated
A post from r/dreams of someone saying “I saw this in my dream, what does it mean?”, and the pic is a pair of feet with abs on them
August 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Norm MacDonald’s famous and sarcastic line, “All the Stars Are Here!”
August 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Love that the bus app has a “healthiest” option, i.e. walking 3 hours in 90+ degree heat
August 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000
A shot from Twilight (1990)
August 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Been wearing braces for the past seven months to correct an underbite, and the main consequence is my smile keeps getting more and more like that of beloved ‘30s character actor Edward Everett Horton
Edward Everett Horton Edward Everett Horton, again
August 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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More relevant to movies - Rosenbaum talking about “engineering” vs. “architecture” in reference to Raiders of the Lost Ark vs. Fritz Lang’s Indian epic
Rosenbaum: “The difference between RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and the Indian films is the difference between engineering and architecture (and it is important to recall that Lang, the only son of an architect, originally planned to follow in his father’s footsteps), Spielberg/Lucas construct an engine to get us as efficiently as possible, in bite-size TV units, to nowhere in particular, shedding images like petals en route. Lang, more interested (like his villains) in foundations that last — images and ideas alike — builds a temple (or tomb) around these ancient supports. Working in a genre that he all but invented himself half a century earlier, he allows his rage for design to fester in every shot — whether it’s getting his hero to smash together two red-turbaned heads, comic-book style, in the opening sequence, dressing his heroine in polka dots, or filling his geometrical décors wi.th other obsessively repetitive patterns. The result is a kind of dream architecture, a pulp India where all the characters become lost in one another’s obsessions.”
August 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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E.g. this section on Roland Barthes (plus a quote from him) is fun and makes me want to read more from Barthes
Rosenbaum: “Somewhat like the late virtuoso jazz pianist Art Tatum, who swamped and devoured any musician he tried to accompany, Barthes’ voice is sufficiently mellifluous to crowd out other voices — even the ones he is occasionally called upon to sponsor or introduce. That’s why an essay such as “Pierre Loti: Aziyadé,” the last in this collection — about a writer and book I doubt I’ll ever encounter firsthand — comes across not as a gangplank leading to something else, but as a flamboyant, extended circus act in its own right. Consider the opening sentence. which amply explains how film critic Gilbert Adair could once describe Barthes’ style to me as creamy:” A quote from Barthes: “‘In the name Aziyadé, this is what I read and what I hear: first of all the gradual explosion (like a bouquet of fireworks) of the three brightest vowels in the French alphabet (the opening of the vowels = the opening of the lips, of the senses); the caress of the z, the sensuous, plump palitalization of the y, this entire sonorous series sliding and spreading, subtle and rich; next a constellation of islands, stars, peoples, Asia, Georgia, Greece; and then a whole literature: Hugo who in his Orientales uses the name Albaydé, and behind Hugo all of philhellene romanticism; Loti, a traveler specializing in the East, the bard of Istanbul; the vague notion of a feminine character (some Désenchantée); finally the prejudice of dealing with an insipid, sweetish, old-fashioned novel: in short, from the (sumptuous) signifier to the (paltry) signified, utter disappointment.’”
August 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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America, a.k.a. Vespucci’s domicile, Vespucci’s domain, the land of Vespucci, Vespucci’s two whole freakin continents, yearns for more things named after Italians
Picture of an article titled “New CT restaurant named after Italian explorer. Food aims to be quite an adventure too.”
August 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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An aisle in the frozen foods section of a grocery store, with a sign for “Meatless” hanging over boxes of sausage, egg and cheese sandwiches.
August 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Happy to have The Beast to Die remind me that my favorite performances are often outlandish perversions of human behavior. Yusaku Matsuda is real scary in it
Yusaku Matsuda in The Beast to Die (1980)
August 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature?

Two movies about some very normal people
A poster for Paul Vecchiali’s The Strangler (1970) A poster for Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing
July 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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FRANK SINATRA [with the Rat Pack] [instantly deciding who he’s gonna make fun of that night]:
Remmick, the main vampire from Sinners, yelling “SAMMIE!”
July 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Inside you there are two wolves
A drawing of a man frowning A drawing of a man laughing
June 9, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Office day
June 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Forget it Jake it’s
June 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Shout-out to the 1970 movie The Strangler for featuring the Frenchest-looking man ever
May 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Scrolled through letterboxd today and saw this poster for Internal Sleuth (1973)
March 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Left: Persona (1966)
Right: Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (2012)
The famous shot from Persona where Liv Ullman’s face juts into Bibi Andersson’s A similar shot from Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
February 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Could be based off him, too
Bill Maher’s quoted as saying “I get the Playboy thing a lot. People assume I go out with bimbos. I couldn’t go out with bimbos if I tried! I scare them off! The women that like me are smart. So I go to the Playboy Mansion four or five times a year, but people think I go all the time.”
February 20, 2025 at 6:31 AM