Christianham
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Some folks call me the "ham-ster"
Spurred by the release of NOUVELLE VAGUE today, I've combined the rankings of my viewings at the two film festivals I attend annually. I posted a few thoughts about each choice in earlier fest-related ranking skeets.
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Spurred by the release of NOUVELLE VAGUE today, I've combined the rankings of my viewings at the two film festivals I attend annually. I posted a few thoughts about each choice in earlier fest-related ranking skeets.
Carrying these over from my last road trip for today’s road trip. Which CDs should I subject my passengers - two 17-year-olds and my 85-year-old dad - to?
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Carrying these over from my last road trip for today’s road trip. Which CDs should I subject my passengers - two 17-year-olds and my 85-year-old dad - to?
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched After confessing to a friend that I wasn't really a Panahi fan (bad cinephile!), I watched his Palme d'Or winner and texted the friend, "I'll never say a less-than-glowing thing about Panahi again." A great film.
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched After confessing to a friend that I wasn't really a Panahi fan (bad cinephile!), I watched his Palme d'Or winner and texted the friend, "I'll never say a less-than-glowing thing about Panahi again." A great film.
Watching the 4K now.
ATTENTION, EVERYONE: Kino Lorber has a new 4K of Bertolucci's LITTLE BUDDHA. You all laughed at this movie upon release, but it's a *good* movie - good enough that I bought it on laserdisc and will now have to [say it with me] *upgrade,* particularly because it's part of the new KL Fall Sale!
Little Buddha | Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema
Drawing on Buddhist history to weave a metaphor about the tragedy of Tibetans in exile, Little Buddha is Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning religious tour-de-force starring Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda, and...
kinolorber.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Watching the 4K now.
Think my college trip tomorrow with my 17 y.o. - my fourth child - will be my last one. Weather’s supposed to be good, and I’m building in a trip to Staunton restaurant I read about in VICTUALS: AN APPALACHIAN JOURNEY. Read it if you haven’t! www.goodreads.com/book/show/28...
Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes
Winner of the James Beard Foundation Book of the Year A…
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November 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Think my college trip tomorrow with my 17 y.o. - my fourth child - will be my last one. Weather’s supposed to be good, and I’m building in a trip to Staunton restaurant I read about in VICTUALS: AN APPALACHIAN JOURNEY. Read it if you haven’t! www.goodreads.com/book/show/28...
This Arrow Blu-ray of THE TIN STAR, shot in VistaVision, is gorgeous, but my go-to review sites aren’t as wowed by it as I am. The Digital Bits comes closest: “The video transfer … clearly sourced from the original horizontal camera negative, is flawless.” thedigitalbits.com/reviews/item...
The Tin Star (Blu-ray Review)
Director Anthony Mann helmed several exceptional film noir in the late-1940s and early- ‘50s, and later directed two of the best epic roadshows of the 1960s, El Cid and The Fall of the Roman Empire, b...
thedigitalbits.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This Arrow Blu-ray of THE TIN STAR, shot in VistaVision, is gorgeous, but my go-to review sites aren’t as wowed by it as I am. The Digital Bits comes closest: “The video transfer … clearly sourced from the original horizontal camera negative, is flawless.” thedigitalbits.com/reviews/item...
Book delivery day.
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Book delivery day.
Reposted by Christianham
If a filmmaker is gonna do one for the money, the high bars are DePalma's The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible. Make it so good that it never occurs to anyone to ask about your motivation for making it. So good that they're just grateful it exists.
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If a filmmaker is gonna do one for the money, the high bars are DePalma's The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible. Make it so good that it never occurs to anyone to ask about your motivation for making it. So good that they're just grateful it exists.
Looks like the 17-y.o., having completed the Westerns portion of his high-school film class, and having requested that we watch my SHANE 4K (completed Sunday night), now wants to watch my HIGH NOON 4K. This is really all I hope for when I buy these things. It's not all about me. Mostly, but not all.
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Looks like the 17-y.o., having completed the Westerns portion of his high-school film class, and having requested that we watch my SHANE 4K (completed Sunday night), now wants to watch my HIGH NOON 4K. This is really all I hope for when I buy these things. It's not all about me. Mostly, but not all.
Holy smokes. Gotta tip the ol' hat to Joyce.
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Holy smokes. Gotta tip the ol' hat to Joyce.
Reposted by Christianham
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
Ryan Lattanzio on "Screen Talk": "I went to see PREDATOR: BADLANDS and it's horrible!" He can't figure out why so many of his colleagues love it. I thought the same of PREY, which was similarly acclaimed, so I'll probably skip this one (unless my boys want to watch it with me).
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Ryan Lattanzio on "Screen Talk": "I went to see PREDATOR: BADLANDS and it's horrible!" He can't figure out why so many of his colleagues love it. I thought the same of PREY, which was similarly acclaimed, so I'll probably skip this one (unless my boys want to watch it with me).
Maybe the movie of the year. DC folks: It’s at Landmark Bethesda, Atlantic Plumbing and a theater in Leesburg, the name of which escapes me.
TRAIN DREAMS is out in limited theatrical release today. It will be on Netflix in a couple of weeks, but here's the thing: If you are at all able to, you really should see it on a big screen. You will not regret it.
www.vulture.com/article/sund...
www.vulture.com/article/sund...
Train Dreams Is a Staggering Work of Art
Netflix is releasing one of the best films of the year but please, for the love of God, don’t watch this masterpiece on your phone.
www.vulture.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Maybe the movie of the year. DC folks: It’s at Landmark Bethesda, Atlantic Plumbing and a theater in Leesburg, the name of which escapes me.
Another Friday off and I am watching HARD TRUTHS. Remember when Marianne Jean-Baptiste wasn’t even nominated for the Best Actress Oscar?
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Another Friday off and I am watching HARD TRUTHS. Remember when Marianne Jean-Baptiste wasn’t even nominated for the Best Actress Oscar?
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched Took a second look at FRANKENSTEIN on the big screen and lowered my rating a half-star.
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched Took a second look at FRANKENSTEIN on the big screen and lowered my rating a half-star.
Angelina Jolie: Hero
No, I won't be taking any questions at this time.
No, I won't be taking any questions at this time.
'They refuse to give in,' Angelina Jolie says on her Kherson, Mykolaiv visit
During her visit, Jolie was shown how medical and educational institutions in Ukraine's southern front-line regions have been moved into reinforced underground spaces to continue their operations, acc...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Angelina Jolie: Hero
No, I won't be taking any questions at this time.
No, I won't be taking any questions at this time.
People say Bluesky came into its own on the day certain widely hated figures died, but I, not liking such celebrations, hereby declare that Bluesky came into its own today in the wake of the Sandwich-man verdict. Sandwich puns! This is the content that sets Bluesky apart!
November 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
People say Bluesky came into its own on the day certain widely hated figures died, but I, not liking such celebrations, hereby declare that Bluesky came into its own today in the wake of the Sandwich-man verdict. Sandwich puns! This is the content that sets Bluesky apart!
Tonight's free member movie at Angelika was LITTLE AMELIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN, and it is a delight - childlike yet dealing with deeply existential questions about God and death. GKIDS has another winner on its hands.
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Tonight's free member movie at Angelika was LITTLE AMELIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN, and it is a delight - childlike yet dealing with deeply existential questions about God and death. GKIDS has another winner on its hands.
Peckinpah has joined Bluesky
it’s nine PM on the east coast and polls have closed
bring me the head of andrew cuomo
bring me the head of andrew cuomo
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Peckinpah has joined Bluesky
One of the most important things I thought I should post about today is that I have discovered a new favorite flavor of beef jerky. What’s yours?
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
One of the most important things I thought I should post about today is that I have discovered a new favorite flavor of beef jerky. What’s yours?
Gonna be a good day to stay off BlueSky, friends.
November 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Gonna be a good day to stay off BlueSky, friends.
I'm not quite as high on BLUE MOON as Mark is (although I liked it), but a big yes to what he writes here about NOUVELLE VAGUE, which is delightful.
I just saw Nouvelle Vague and loved it--a movie about the creation of a great work of art that feels (aptly) casual, tossed-off, impolite, just as Blue Moon is a movie about theater that feels (aptly) like good theater. I don't think anyone in movies is having a better year than Richard Linklater.
November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I'm not quite as high on BLUE MOON as Mark is (although I liked it), but a big yes to what he writes here about NOUVELLE VAGUE, which is delightful.
I know the book's title includes the word "Prayers," but it's wild to me to see an ad for a Matthew McConaughey book in ... Christianity Today. (I did read his previous book, fwiw.)
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I know the book's title includes the word "Prayers," but it's wild to me to see an ad for a Matthew McConaughey book in ... Christianity Today. (I did read his previous book, fwiw.)
Your periodic reminder that the NFL doesn’t hold a candle to MLB.
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Your periodic reminder that the NFL doesn’t hold a candle to MLB.