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Kasia A.
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Repository for completely useless yet entirely uninteresting information. Archivopteryx. Film Blogger & Cosplayer. Actually Autistic. she/her. 🏳️‍🌈 📽️ ✍️ 🇵🇱 🍉

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Today marks the 102nd anniversary of the premiere of Look Your Best starring Colleen Moore and Antonio Moreno!

You can learn more about this presumed lost silent dramedy in Lost, but Not Forgotten: Look Your Best ('23):

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Black-and-white still of Colleen Moore in her role of Perla in Look Your Best (a.k.a. The Bitterness of Sweets) Advertisement for the premiere of Look Your Best at the Temple Theater in Detroit, Michigan. Reproduced in Moving Picture World, 9 June 1923.
February 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Kathleen Clifford photographed by Donald Biddle Keyes from Motion Picture Magazine, November 1922

original caption: "A new camera study of Kathleen Clifford who is returning to the films after an absence of several months... Remember when Kathleen used to go in for masculine impersonations?"
January 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Professor Marlene L. Daut's Henry Christophe book has been enlightening reading so far, but when I read this passage, my jaw dropped. The article she's citing was written in 1805! 1805!
An article published in Haiti's Political & Commercial Gazette presciently analyzed the broader significance of the changes US-Haitian trade relations underwent under Jefferson. The author [...] wrote that the US would one day ‘occupy a distinguished rank among the masters of the sea.’ Foreseeing the inevitable decline of 🇫🇷 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, the writer warned, ‘The same thing will befall the powers that are presently dominant; they will undergo an unmistakable decline, while the US will assume the rank to which it is destined. But this era will become deadly for the Caribbean. It will simply change masters. It will come under the yoke of the US.’ As for ongoing US slavery, ‘in the states of the south, [it] is a fire that smolders under the ashes, the eventual explosion of which will one day make tremble the hardened & deaf masters who still maintain it, despite the prudent advice of their fellow citizens of the north.’ Like Boisrond-Tonnerre, who observed that the ‘key to liberty’ for the still enslaved across the Americas could be found ‘in their own hands,’ the writer [...] prophesied that 1 day ‘some audacious avengers will reclaim with interest their natural rights that have been violated.’ [...] this article asked the Haitian people not to ignore or dismiss the serious danger next door in North America: [🇫🇷's] attempts will come crashing down like the waves of the sea at the foot of the rock of our independence, & from the mountains our rescue squad will descend upon them. But a more hidden danger, & 1 far less apparent, because it is still distant for now, threatens us anyway. It will not be from Europe that our ills must come, if we are to ever experience them; it will be from the continent of the US: their proximity, the constant comings & goings of their citizens in our ports, the ambitions that they will bring with them, if our government does not restrict them, must open our eyes to the plots that they may 1 day attempt against us. “The writer did not seek ‘to place a cloud over the conduct of the Americans, nor do I think at all that, either the present government or the individuals who are linked to it through commercial relations with that country, have thus far had any plans to dominate us, nor to meditate on our enslavement.’ Yet, he said, ‘it is no less true that the possibility of such a combination could arise from a concurrence of circumstances, if ever the United States were to erect itself to become a maritime power.’ [42] “Imperial rage followed the publication of this astonishingly prescient article. Dessalines ordered Christophe to discover the identity of the author and to have him sent to Marchand/Dessalines immediately. Dessalines worried that openly and publicly criticizing the United States might propel the trade embargo being debated on the floors of Congress. [43] Christophe soon learned from the empire's printer, Pierre Roux, that the author was Joseph Rouanez, the official English translator in the empire and editor of the Gazette. [44] Dessalines must not have punished the newspaperman too harshly. Rouanez continued to work as editor of the Gazette; and despite Dessalines's evident displeasure, events on the ground made it difficult to deny the new geopolitical threat Rouanez outlined.” from The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut Additional citation: "Du Cap," Gazette politique et commerciale d'Haïti, Oct. 17, 1805, 175. 41.
January 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Snow White (1916) with live harp and viola accompaniment at @cstpdx.bsky.social!
Photo from the rear of a movie theater with a title card for The Clinton Street Theater projected on the screen, a harp is beside the screen
January 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Yo, la peor de todas (1990)

Director: María Luisa Bemberg
Cinematographer: Félix Monti
January 16, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Library hold came in sooner than I expected!
Large hardcover library copy of The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut held up in front of bookshelves
January 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Brother-in-law said a little too late that he didn’t want my annual cookies this year so now I’m preparing for a sugar high that will launch me into orbit this weekend 🚀
Photo of a mound of chocolate chip walnut cookies on a decorative red plate
January 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Watch More Movies ’24: Annual Roundup has arrived!

On the blog you'll find: favorite 1st-time watches, deets on the when, where, who, and why of what I watched, chatter about some film-related books, & a summary of my researching/writing/cosplaying in '24.

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Collage graphic with text in a decorative font that reads: "2024 Year in Review" The collage is of films stills from some of my favorite first-time viewings of '24. Pictured: Si muero antes de despertar (1952), Eugenia Grandet (1946), The Vourdalak (2023) Quilombo (1984), Yo, la peor de todas (1990), Wedding in Galilee (1987), Le altre (1969), Eleven P.M. (1928), and Smouldering Fires (1925)
January 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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First library holds of '25 successfully obtained!
Photograph of two books and a flyer sitting on a brown, patterned scarf. The first book is Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies. The second book is If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga. The flyer is An Afrofuturism Reading List.
January 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Surviving one more trip around the sun means the photo on the left is now 20 years old. I might be older. I might be wiser. But I still pull the same faces.
January 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Cosplay the Classics: Alida Valli in Walk Softly, Stranger ('50) has arrived!

Over on the blog I dig into the background of Valli's American period & her penultimate film before returning to Europe:
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Black-and-white medium close-up, self-portrait of me styled after Alida Valli as Elaine Corelli in Walk Softly, Stranger (1950).
December 20, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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Illustration of Alla Nazimova by Ralph Barton from Photoplay, August 1921
Black and white caricature drawing of actress Alla Nazimova
December 11, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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Marie Prevost by Alfred Cheney Johnston for Motion Picture Magazine, April 1923 #silentfilm
Black-and-white full length portrait of Marie Prevost seated on a stool with a large pile of books on her lap. She's wearing a jaunty velvet or velour suit with a coordinated oversized beret. She has one hand holding the stack of books and the other on her hip as she looks off camera. Original caption: "Someone said the flappers—the younger set—of the screen lacked erudition. So Marie Prevost posed for the above photograph before she began work on 'Brass,' a screen version of the Norris novel. It would seem to belie the implication. Incidentally, Miss Prevost verifies the rumor of her engagement to Kenneth Harlan. They will be wed in the green Springtime"
November 22, 2024 at 1:18 AM
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Dark City (1998)... but make it Twilight Zone

#TwilightZone #Noirvember #Filmsky
Black-and-white edit of a shot from Dark City ('98)—a close-up shot of hands holding a postcard showing a scenic shoreline with text that reads "Greetings from Shell Beach" with a cartoon winking sun in the upper corner Black-and-white edit of a shot from Dark City ('98)—close-up of Rufus Sewell as John Murdoch on a subway car, lit dramatically from above Black-and-white edit of a shot from Dark City ('98)—a low-angle shot of Murdoch from behind as he's looking up at a decorative facade featuring a giant face of Neptune, in lights above the head: "Neptune's Kingdom" Black-and-white edit of a shot from Dark City ('98)—a wide shot of Murdoch from behind, lit from above by streetlights. He's standing before a painted mural of a beach scene with a smiling woman in a bikini waving. In large letters across the top: "Shell Beach"
November 21, 2024 at 2:30 AM
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A proper November feeling: picking up your holds at the library right before a big rainstorm rolls in #librarylove

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Flat-lay photo of two library books on a patterned scarf. One is Thyme Travellers ed. by Sonia Sulaiman and the other is Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing ed. by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean. Also featured are two Multnomah Country Library bookmarks for Trans Day of Visibility.
November 20, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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from Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y. (1937) #filmsky
Black-and-white screen capture from the short film Seeing the World ('37) featuring a woman poking her head out from behind a white wall, looking directly into the camera, and sticking her tongue out
November 15, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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“On a microscopic piece of sand that floats through space is a fragment of a man’s life. Left to rust is the place he lived in & the machines he used. Without use, they will disintegrate from the wind & the sand & the years that act upon them.”

"The Lonely" premiered OTD 65 years ago! #TwilightZone
Black-and-white closeup shot of actress Jean Marsh in her role as Alicia, an android who appears human. She is smiling with a bright look in her eyes. Black-and-white closeup shot of actor Jack Warden in his role as James A. Corry. He is smiling warmly. Black-and-white closeup of Warden as Corry with a dismayed/distressed expression. In the background are arid mountains. Black-and-white closeup of Alicia the android on the ground with her humanoid face destroyed, showing intricate mechanical workings.
November 14, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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Just thinking about this fantastic Candyman mural I saw in Richmond, VA earlier this year

The mural is titled "Sweets for the Sweet" by artist Chris Visions (and, yes, he sells prints: chrisvisions.bigcartel.com/products) #TonyTodd
Photograph taken on an overcast day of a large colorful wall mural depicting Tony Todd in the role of Daniel Robitaille aka Candyman from the 1992 film.
November 13, 2024 at 1:45 AM
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Some of those long cross fades in The Seventh Victim (1943)
Single frame in the middle of a dissolve between a close-up of a woman crying and a man working at his home office at night from The Seventh Victim Single frame in the middle of a dissolve between a medium shot of a woman sitting in an antique armchair gripping the arms of the chair, staring at a glass of wine on the table in front of her and a wide shot of two men in an apartment waiting around, one seated and one looking out a window both with their backs to the camera from The Seventh Victim Single frame in the middle of a dissolve between a medium shot of a seated man in overcoat and hat looking off the side and a medium shot of a one-armed woman in evening wear playing the piano idly from The Seventh Victim Single frame in the middle of a dissolve between a shot of a woman with her back to the camera entering an apartment, in the small apartment is a noose, and a wide shot of a group of people seated facing the camera directly from The Seventh Victim
November 11, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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Category is: queer women vampires + long, flowy red dresses with plunging necklines and color-coordinated statement jewelry
Ingrid Pitt as Carmilla in The Vampire Lovers (1970) Celeste Yarnall as Diane LeFanu in The Velvet Vampire (1971) Delphine Seyrig as Elizabeth Báthory in Daughters of Darkness (1971)
November 7, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Illustration of Nazimova as Salomé by V.R. Haveman inspired by Aubrey Beardsley printed in Motion Picture Classic, October 1922
November 6, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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My somewhat ambitious #Noirvember '24 list is done!

(FYI if you're a US-ian with a library card, kanopy has a whole mess of noir films available)
Covers/posters for the 18 noir films I hope to watch this month including: The Fallen Idol '48, The Small Back Room '49, Corridor of Mirrors '48, The Crooked Way '49, A Double Life '47, Crepúsculo '45, Víctimas del pecado '51, La diosa arrodillada '47, Si muero antes de despertar '52, Rikollinen nainen '52, Woman in Hiding '50, Aventurera '50, The Man Between '53, Over-Exposed '56, The Man Who Watched Trains Go By '52, A Dama do Cine Shanghai '87, Gun Crazy '50, and Woman on the Run '50
November 5, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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Bebe Daniels by Rolf Armstrong from Photoplay, August 1921
Close-up portrait of Bebe Daniels painted done by Rolf Armstrong for the cover of the August 1921 issue of Photoplay magazine
November 4, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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I also run a side blog called Twilight Zone in Close-ups where I tested my working theory that every Twilight Zone story could be conveyed by each episode’s close-ups alone.

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November 2, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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In How'd They Do That?, I take articles about SFX and stunts from the 1920s and 1930s and combine them with gifs and stills to illustrate how movies were made back in the day!

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BTS photo from Wings (1927) printed in Photoplay, November 1927 via Lantern
November 2, 2024 at 11:38 PM