Citizeness Kane
@citizenesskane.bsky.social
Winning Pascal's Wager; wearing many hats (literally/figuratively); Paddington & Caligari stan.
Cue the music...
Cue the music...
"1899, people! Early film is amazing."
Georges Méliès is usually associated with long shots and formal compositions but this scene of reporters charging out of a courtroom to file their stories in THE DREYFUS AFFAIR is shockingly dynamic. 1899, people! Early film is amazing.
November 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"1899, people! Early film is amazing."
I will definitely make this!
I have perfected my mushroom burger! Makes lean ground juicy and stretches it financially and calorically
1 lb ground meat
8 oz. Mushrooms
Spice and season those fungi, sautee them until they give up their juices, immersion blend them, add them to the meat, form patties, tada!
1 lb ground meat
8 oz. Mushrooms
Spice and season those fungi, sautee them until they give up their juices, immersion blend them, add them to the meat, form patties, tada!
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I will definitely make this!
Reading Chris Dalla Riva's informative & entertaining book "Uncharted Territories: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs & Ourselves" (thnx @andrewhickey.500songs.com), I was shocked & delighted that there's a no. 1 hit composed by Calvin Coolidge's vice president
youtu.be/OMY2HKhutog?...
youtu.be/OMY2HKhutog?...
Tommy Edwards "It’s All In The Game" on The Ed Sullivan Show, September 14, 1958
YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Reading Chris Dalla Riva's informative & entertaining book "Uncharted Territories: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs & Ourselves" (thnx @andrewhickey.500songs.com), I was shocked & delighted that there's a no. 1 hit composed by Calvin Coolidge's vice president
youtu.be/OMY2HKhutog?...
youtu.be/OMY2HKhutog?...
The Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues", the paraphrasing of which has apparently caused a moderation kerfuffle in these parts, is so well known that when I've performed it in Spain, to audiences that don't even know English very well, they will sing along to that line about the man in Reno.
a man is playing a guitar in front of a microphone .
ALT: a man is playing a guitar in front of a microphone .
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues", the paraphrasing of which has apparently caused a moderation kerfuffle in these parts, is so well known that when I've performed it in Spain, to audiences that don't even know English very well, they will sing along to that line about the man in Reno.
Jello (or "jelly") is *back*? Some of us have been holding the fort for decades, amirite @moviessilently.bsky.social ?
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
Jelly’s back! Here are three worth making – and three that should wobble off to the bin
The traditional treat is all over Instagram and TikTok. But does it always taste as impressive as it looks? And why is it so hard to get it to set rather than slump? Time for a deep dive …
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Jello (or "jelly") is *back*? Some of us have been holding the fort for decades, amirite @moviessilently.bsky.social ?
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
The healing power of horror: "Homegrown, female-driven scary movies in which witches and zombies lay waste to invading troops are proving popular in Ukraine."
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
‘A Ukrainian witch kicks the crap out of Russian soldiers’: the new wave of horror films taking on Putin’s army
Homegrown, female-driven scary movies in which witches and zombies lay waste to invading troops are proving popular in Ukraine. But why seek out horror on screen if you have so much of it in real life...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The healing power of horror: "Homegrown, female-driven scary movies in which witches and zombies lay waste to invading troops are proving popular in Ukraine."
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
I love anagrams so of course these are delightful to me ✨️
I was making anagram movie posters on this day in 2019.
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I love anagrams so of course these are delightful to me ✨️
Moment of autumnal zen on the Tagus River this afternoon (Fuentidueña del Tajo, Spain)
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Moment of autumnal zen on the Tagus River this afternoon (Fuentidueña del Tajo, Spain)
This is the content I'm here for ✨️
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is the content I'm here for ✨️
This is the content I'm here for ✨️
“Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History”, Alex Andriesse on the world of 18/19th-century board games in which players progress chronologically through history itself: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/progress-in-play-board-games-and-the-meaning-of-history
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is the content I'm here for ✨️
"Be glad that you are here" 💙
(Extra points, on this particular morning, for being such a beautiful shade of blue)
(Extra points, on this particular morning, for being such a beautiful shade of blue)
A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek ‘EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI’
“Be glad that you are here”
Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷
📷 Corning Museum of Glass
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
“Be glad that you are here”
Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷
📷 Corning Museum of Glass
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"Be glad that you are here" 💙
(Extra points, on this particular morning, for being such a beautiful shade of blue)
(Extra points, on this particular morning, for being such a beautiful shade of blue)
Day 4 — Film Noir Ahead of its Time:
#NoirvemberChallenge
OUTRAGE (1950)
Directed, produced & cowritten by Ida Lupino, it was one of the first Hollywood films to center on a rape survivor sensitively & nonexploitatively... even though the Production Code wouldn't allow use of the word "rape".
#NoirvemberChallenge
OUTRAGE (1950)
Directed, produced & cowritten by Ida Lupino, it was one of the first Hollywood films to center on a rape survivor sensitively & nonexploitatively... even though the Production Code wouldn't allow use of the word "rape".
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Day 4 — Film Noir Ahead of its Time:
#NoirvemberChallenge
OUTRAGE (1950)
Directed, produced & cowritten by Ida Lupino, it was one of the first Hollywood films to center on a rape survivor sensitively & nonexploitatively... even though the Production Code wouldn't allow use of the word "rape".
#NoirvemberChallenge
OUTRAGE (1950)
Directed, produced & cowritten by Ida Lupino, it was one of the first Hollywood films to center on a rape survivor sensitively & nonexploitatively... even though the Production Code wouldn't allow use of the word "rape".
This is the one.
#NoirvemberChallenge
#NoirvemberChallenge
#NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite #FilmNoir opening scene... Cloris Leachman in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #Noirvember
Favorite #FilmNoir opening scene... Cloris Leachman in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #Noirvember
November 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This is the one.
#NoirvemberChallenge
#NoirvemberChallenge
Reposted by Citizeness Kane
#NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite #FilmNoir opening scene... Cloris Leachman in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #Noirvember
Favorite #FilmNoir opening scene... Cloris Leachman in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #Noirvember
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite #FilmNoir opening scene... Cloris Leachman in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #Noirvember
Favorite #FilmNoir opening scene... Cloris Leachman in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) #Noirvember
Day 3
#NoirvemberChallenge
The Film Noir That Made You a Fan:
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Incredible directorial debut, impeccable script, iconic cinematography, perfect cast. Saw it as a student at the Orson Welles in Cambridge, Mass. (playing a drinking game in the mezzanine) & was hooked for life.
#NoirvemberChallenge
The Film Noir That Made You a Fan:
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Incredible directorial debut, impeccable script, iconic cinematography, perfect cast. Saw it as a student at the Orson Welles in Cambridge, Mass. (playing a drinking game in the mezzanine) & was hooked for life.
a man in a hat is talking to another man in a suit while holding a gun .
ALT: a man in a hat is talking to another man in a suit while holding a gun .
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Day 3
#NoirvemberChallenge
The Film Noir That Made You a Fan:
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Incredible directorial debut, impeccable script, iconic cinematography, perfect cast. Saw it as a student at the Orson Welles in Cambridge, Mass. (playing a drinking game in the mezzanine) & was hooked for life.
#NoirvemberChallenge
The Film Noir That Made You a Fan:
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Incredible directorial debut, impeccable script, iconic cinematography, perfect cast. Saw it as a student at the Orson Welles in Cambridge, Mass. (playing a drinking game in the mezzanine) & was hooked for life.
I love how cheery & chummy the skeleton & the departing soul look.
nīd-gedāl, n.n: an inevitable parting, the parting of body and soul. (NEED-yeh-DAHL / ˈniːd-jɛ-ˌdaːl)
Image: Miscellany; N England, mid 15th century; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Additional 37049, f. 81v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Miscellany; N England, mid 15th century; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Additional 37049, f. 81v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
November 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I love how cheery & chummy the skeleton & the departing soul look.
Watched this short yesterday thanks to the Halloween ep of @randomhorror9.bsky.social; had a train ride so set it up w/o hearing their commentary first & had no idea what I was getting into. Startled the poor woman next to me when I was literally jump-scared out of my seat.
youtu.be/qWXnt2Z2D1E?...
youtu.be/qWXnt2Z2D1E?...
My house walk-through
YouTube video by nana825763
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Watched this short yesterday thanks to the Halloween ep of @randomhorror9.bsky.social; had a train ride so set it up w/o hearing their commentary first & had no idea what I was getting into. Startled the poor woman next to me when I was literally jump-scared out of my seat.
youtu.be/qWXnt2Z2D1E?...
youtu.be/qWXnt2Z2D1E?...
Kicking off our Halloween movies + pizza night with BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE... and Monica Belucci is awesome but I want whatever jeans Catherine O'Hara is wearing!
a woman with red hair is wearing a black hat and asking what
ALT: a woman with red hair is wearing a black hat and asking what
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Kicking off our Halloween movies + pizza night with BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE... and Monica Belucci is awesome but I want whatever jeans Catherine O'Hara is wearing!
I rewatch these every year 🖤🧡
In the mood for even more creepy cartoon viewings for Halloween? Here's my rundown on 24 animated shorts from the Fleischer studio. I have an immense love for the cartoons of Betty Boop, Bimbo and Koko, and ramble on for nearly 5000 words about it here.
Halloween Animation: Fleischer
Animators, filmmakers, inventors, producers, brothers Max and Dave Fleischer are best known for the animated works produced by the studio bearing their family name, but Fleischer Studios didn’…
strawberrypenguin.ca
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I rewatch these every year 🖤🧡
I'm a longtime fan of the podcast @shedunnitshow.bsky.social about Golden Age mystery novels & was so pleased they dropped a fun Halloween episode 🕵♀️
www.shedunnitshow.com/halloween/
www.shedunnitshow.com/halloween/
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I'm a longtime fan of the podcast @shedunnitshow.bsky.social about Golden Age mystery novels & was so pleased they dropped a fun Halloween episode 🕵♀️
www.shedunnitshow.com/halloween/
www.shedunnitshow.com/halloween/
Had this gorgeous piece by @rob-sheridan.com running w/o sound today while I was doing guitar exercises. No matter how many times I see NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, I am always taken by how beautiful the framing of the shots is, & watching it this way actually enhances that.
youtu.be/-OIIjKS48cg?...
youtu.be/-OIIjKS48cg?...
Yule Log Ambiance ASMR 4K: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD full movie on a 1969 Trinitron TV, stormy night
YouTube video by Rob Sheridan
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Had this gorgeous piece by @rob-sheridan.com running w/o sound today while I was doing guitar exercises. No matter how many times I see NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, I am always taken by how beautiful the framing of the shots is, & watching it this way actually enhances that.
youtu.be/-OIIjKS48cg?...
youtu.be/-OIIjKS48cg?...
What's your favorite performance in a horror film?
Mine is Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castavet in ROSEMARY'S BABY: Goes from fearlessly funny (e.g. throws herself on the floor & sticks her butt into the camera to clean the carpet; the full-body "WoW!" when admiring the new kitchen) to terrifying (iykyk)
Mine is Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castavet in ROSEMARY'S BABY: Goes from fearlessly funny (e.g. throws herself on the floor & sticks her butt into the camera to clean the carpet; the full-body "WoW!" when admiring the new kitchen) to terrifying (iykyk)
a woman in a green and white polka dot shirt is sitting at a table with a plate of food
ALT: a woman in a green and white polka dot shirt is sitting at a table with a plate of food
media.tenor.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
What's your favorite performance in a horror film?
Mine is Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castavet in ROSEMARY'S BABY: Goes from fearlessly funny (e.g. throws herself on the floor & sticks her butt into the camera to clean the carpet; the full-body "WoW!" when admiring the new kitchen) to terrifying (iykyk)
Mine is Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castavet in ROSEMARY'S BABY: Goes from fearlessly funny (e.g. throws herself on the floor & sticks her butt into the camera to clean the carpet; the full-body "WoW!" when admiring the new kitchen) to terrifying (iykyk)
Amen to this! I've spent the last years of my translating career "cleaning up the badly translated texts that [large language models] produce". These computer programs can be great, but they're only as good as the translator using them -- just as a Steinway is only as good as the pianist playing it.
“Writing prompts isn’t a skill, it’s something you can learn quickly on the job if necessary. I don’t believe translators in training should learn how to prompt. To the contrary: they will be the ones that have to clean up the badly translated texts AI produces.”
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Amen to this! I've spent the last years of my translating career "cleaning up the badly translated texts that [large language models] produce". These computer programs can be great, but they're only as good as the translator using them -- just as a Steinway is only as good as the pianist playing it.
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OMG somebody please start merch-ing this
October 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
OMG somebody please start merch-ing this
Thanks to a rave review from @randomhorror9.bsky.social, we've been watching KWAIDAN (1964). Spooky & gorgeous.
October 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Thanks to a rave review from @randomhorror9.bsky.social, we've been watching KWAIDAN (1964). Spooky & gorgeous.