Kathleen Geier
@kathygee.bsky.social
Feminist. Socialist. Chicagoan. Lover of film, theater, books, music, travel, dogs. Words @ Baffler, Nation, In These Times. She/her. kathleenageier@gmail.com
Where I am tonight.
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Where I am tonight.
My other favorite cat poster at today rally. #NoKings #HandsOffChicago
October 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
My other favorite cat poster at today rally. #NoKings #HandsOffChicago
Fascists get scratches #NoKings #HandsOffChicago
October 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Fascists get scratches #NoKings #HandsOffChicago
Chicago is representing loud and clear. #NoKkings #HandsOffChicago
October 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Chicago is representing loud and clear. #NoKkings #HandsOffChicago
Intermission time here at Cherubini's Medea at the Lyric Opera. Sondra Radvanosky is thrilling in the title role. This is the greatest, darkest live performance of any opera I have ever seen.
October 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Intermission time here at Cherubini's Medea at the Lyric Opera. Sondra Radvanosky is thrilling in the title role. This is the greatest, darkest live performance of any opera I have ever seen.
I don't have words to express how sickened, weary, and *extremely* pissed off I and my fellow Chicagoans are with Trump's fascist bullshit.
Case in point: this delightful pamphlet, which appeared this week in the lobby of my apartment building.
Case in point: this delightful pamphlet, which appeared this week in the lobby of my apartment building.
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I don't have words to express how sickened, weary, and *extremely* pissed off I and my fellow Chicagoans are with Trump's fascist bullshit.
Case in point: this delightful pamphlet, which appeared this week in the lobby of my apartment building.
Case in point: this delightful pamphlet, which appeared this week in the lobby of my apartment building.
I always thought it was lovely that Francis chose his papal name to honor Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals & the poor. He is the only pope in history to have done so.
RIP to the greatest pope of my lifetime, whose defense of immigrants & critiques of capitalism were eloquent & powerful.
RIP to the greatest pope of my lifetime, whose defense of immigrants & critiques of capitalism were eloquent & powerful.
April 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I always thought it was lovely that Francis chose his papal name to honor Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals & the poor. He is the only pope in history to have done so.
RIP to the greatest pope of my lifetime, whose defense of immigrants & critiques of capitalism were eloquent & powerful.
RIP to the greatest pope of my lifetime, whose defense of immigrants & critiques of capitalism were eloquent & powerful.
Re: Elon's Sieg Heil, I can't be the only person who thought of this.
It appears that Elon's arm, like Dr. Strangelove's, has a will of its own.
It appears that Elon's arm, like Dr. Strangelove's, has a will of its own.
January 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Re: Elon's Sieg Heil, I can't be the only person who thought of this.
It appears that Elon's arm, like Dr. Strangelove's, has a will of its own.
It appears that Elon's arm, like Dr. Strangelove's, has a will of its own.
The final film in my Kinuyo Tanaka series for UChicago's Doc Films screens tonite at 7 pm
Love Under the Crucifix is a widescreen color epic about religious persecution & tragic forbidden love. Cinefile's Ben Sachs called it "an intellectually provocative experience as well as a deeply moving one."
Love Under the Crucifix is a widescreen color epic about religious persecution & tragic forbidden love. Cinefile's Ben Sachs called it "an intellectually provocative experience as well as a deeply moving one."
May 16, 2024 at 5:47 PM
The final film in my Kinuyo Tanaka series for UChicago's Doc Films screens tonite at 7 pm
Love Under the Crucifix is a widescreen color epic about religious persecution & tragic forbidden love. Cinefile's Ben Sachs called it "an intellectually provocative experience as well as a deeply moving one."
Love Under the Crucifix is a widescreen color epic about religious persecution & tragic forbidden love. Cinefile's Ben Sachs called it "an intellectually provocative experience as well as a deeply moving one."
I am REALLY looking forward to this week's entry in my Kinuyo Tanaka series @ UChicago's Doc Films
Her 5th film as director, Girls of the Night is a gritty, noirish drama about Japan's attempt to "reform" former sex workers. It's been called her most subversive work
See it tonite, Thurs 5/9 at 7pm
Her 5th film as director, Girls of the Night is a gritty, noirish drama about Japan's attempt to "reform" former sex workers. It's been called her most subversive work
See it tonite, Thurs 5/9 at 7pm
May 9, 2024 at 4:20 PM
I am REALLY looking forward to this week's entry in my Kinuyo Tanaka series @ UChicago's Doc Films
Her 5th film as director, Girls of the Night is a gritty, noirish drama about Japan's attempt to "reform" former sex workers. It's been called her most subversive work
See it tonite, Thurs 5/9 at 7pm
Her 5th film as director, Girls of the Night is a gritty, noirish drama about Japan's attempt to "reform" former sex workers. It's been called her most subversive work
See it tonite, Thurs 5/9 at 7pm
The Kinuyo Tanaka series I programmed for UChicago's Doc Films continues with the historical drama The Wandering Princess (1960), starring Michiko Kyo.
This was the first widescreen, color film Tanaka directed & I'm sure it will look awesome on the big screen.
See it tonight, Thurs May 2 at 7 pm.
This was the first widescreen, color film Tanaka directed & I'm sure it will look awesome on the big screen.
See it tonight, Thurs May 2 at 7 pm.
May 2, 2024 at 4:30 PM
The Kinuyo Tanaka series I programmed for UChicago's Doc Films continues with the historical drama The Wandering Princess (1960), starring Michiko Kyo.
This was the first widescreen, color film Tanaka directed & I'm sure it will look awesome on the big screen.
See it tonight, Thurs May 2 at 7 pm.
This was the first widescreen, color film Tanaka directed & I'm sure it will look awesome on the big screen.
See it tonight, Thurs May 2 at 7 pm.
This week's entry in my Kinuyo Tanaka series at UChicago's Doc Films is Ozu's unusual proto-noir, Dragnet Girl (1933).
A young Tanaka stars in the title role as a woman who is a demure secretary by day and a gun-toting gangster's moll by night.
See it tonight, Thursday April 25, @ 7 pm.
A young Tanaka stars in the title role as a woman who is a demure secretary by day and a gun-toting gangster's moll by night.
See it tonight, Thursday April 25, @ 7 pm.
April 25, 2024 at 12:18 PM
This week's entry in my Kinuyo Tanaka series at UChicago's Doc Films is Ozu's unusual proto-noir, Dragnet Girl (1933).
A young Tanaka stars in the title role as a woman who is a demure secretary by day and a gun-toting gangster's moll by night.
See it tonight, Thursday April 25, @ 7 pm.
A young Tanaka stars in the title role as a woman who is a demure secretary by day and a gun-toting gangster's moll by night.
See it tonight, Thursday April 25, @ 7 pm.
Next up in the Kinuyo Tanaka series I programmed for UChicago's Doc Films is a delightful change of pace: a romantic comedy, The Moon Has Risen (1955).
Tanaka directed and the great Yasujiro Ozu wrote the script. Ozu favorite Chishu Ryu co-stars.
See it tonight, Thursday April 18th, at 7 pm.
Tanaka directed and the great Yasujiro Ozu wrote the script. Ozu favorite Chishu Ryu co-stars.
See it tonight, Thursday April 18th, at 7 pm.
April 18, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Next up in the Kinuyo Tanaka series I programmed for UChicago's Doc Films is a delightful change of pace: a romantic comedy, The Moon Has Risen (1955).
Tanaka directed and the great Yasujiro Ozu wrote the script. Ozu favorite Chishu Ryu co-stars.
See it tonight, Thursday April 18th, at 7 pm.
Tanaka directed and the great Yasujiro Ozu wrote the script. Ozu favorite Chishu Ryu co-stars.
See it tonight, Thursday April 18th, at 7 pm.
The Kinuyo Tanaka series I programmed for UChicago's Doc Films continues with Mizoguchi's powerful and haunting world cinema classic, Ugetsu.
Tanaka, a key collaborator in many of Mizoguchi's greatest films, plays the critical role of the potter's wife.
See it tomorrow, Thursday April 11th @ 7 pm.
Tanaka, a key collaborator in many of Mizoguchi's greatest films, plays the critical role of the potter's wife.
See it tomorrow, Thursday April 11th @ 7 pm.
April 10, 2024 at 8:05 AM
The Kinuyo Tanaka series I programmed for UChicago's Doc Films continues with Mizoguchi's powerful and haunting world cinema classic, Ugetsu.
Tanaka, a key collaborator in many of Mizoguchi's greatest films, plays the critical role of the potter's wife.
See it tomorrow, Thursday April 11th @ 7 pm.
Tanaka, a key collaborator in many of Mizoguchi's greatest films, plays the critical role of the potter's wife.
See it tomorrow, Thursday April 11th @ 7 pm.
Next up in my Kinuyo Tanaka series at UChicago's Doc Films is the first film she directed, Love Letter (1953).
Scripted by filmmaker Keisuke Kinoshita, it concerns a traumatized war vet with a job penning love letters from Japanese women to the GIs who left them behind.
See it on Thurs 4/4 @ 7 pm.
Scripted by filmmaker Keisuke Kinoshita, it concerns a traumatized war vet with a job penning love letters from Japanese women to the GIs who left them behind.
See it on Thurs 4/4 @ 7 pm.
April 3, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Next up in my Kinuyo Tanaka series at UChicago's Doc Films is the first film she directed, Love Letter (1953).
Scripted by filmmaker Keisuke Kinoshita, it concerns a traumatized war vet with a job penning love letters from Japanese women to the GIs who left them behind.
See it on Thurs 4/4 @ 7 pm.
Scripted by filmmaker Keisuke Kinoshita, it concerns a traumatized war vet with a job penning love letters from Japanese women to the GIs who left them behind.
See it on Thurs 4/4 @ 7 pm.
My UChicago Doc Films series Kinuyo Tanaka, Actress and Auteur, continues with one of the all-time bangers, Mizoguchi's searing Sansho the Bailiff,
Tanaka's appearance in the electrifying final scene is perhaps her most indelible moment as an actress.
See it tomorrow, Thursday March 28 at 7 pm.
Tanaka's appearance in the electrifying final scene is perhaps her most indelible moment as an actress.
See it tomorrow, Thursday March 28 at 7 pm.
March 27, 2024 at 1:33 PM
My UChicago Doc Films series Kinuyo Tanaka, Actress and Auteur, continues with one of the all-time bangers, Mizoguchi's searing Sansho the Bailiff,
Tanaka's appearance in the electrifying final scene is perhaps her most indelible moment as an actress.
See it tomorrow, Thursday March 28 at 7 pm.
Tanaka's appearance in the electrifying final scene is perhaps her most indelible moment as an actress.
See it tomorrow, Thursday March 28 at 7 pm.
Tonight's the night! The Doc Films retrospective Kinuyo Tanaka, Actress and Auteur, kicks off with the film that is said to be her masterpiece, Forever a Woman. Showtime is 7 pm.
Richard Brody calls it "one of the great movies about a writer": www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...
Richard Brody calls it "one of the great movies about a writer": www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...
March 21, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Tonight's the night! The Doc Films retrospective Kinuyo Tanaka, Actress and Auteur, kicks off with the film that is said to be her masterpiece, Forever a Woman. Showtime is 7 pm.
Richard Brody calls it "one of the great movies about a writer": www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...
Richard Brody calls it "one of the great movies about a writer": www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...
The film series I programmed for UChicago's Doc Films, Kinuyo Tanaka, Actress and Auteur, kicks off on Thursday, March 21 with the film that's reputed to be her masterpiece, Forever a Woman. You won't want to miss it.
Complete schedule & program notes here: docfilms.org/calendar/Spr...
Complete schedule & program notes here: docfilms.org/calendar/Spr...
March 14, 2024 at 1:25 AM
The film series I programmed for UChicago's Doc Films, Kinuyo Tanaka, Actress and Auteur, kicks off on Thursday, March 21 with the film that's reputed to be her masterpiece, Forever a Woman. You won't want to miss it.
Complete schedule & program notes here: docfilms.org/calendar/Spr...
Complete schedule & program notes here: docfilms.org/calendar/Spr...
Baker's dozen of albums to know me by
March 7, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Baker's dozen of albums to know me by
DAY 14 #Noirvember #neonoirnovels
William Hjortsberg - Falling Angel (1978)
In 1950s New York, low-rent private eye Harry Angel is hired by a mysterious client to find missing singer Johnny Favorite, last seen in a mental ward some 15 years earlier.
William Hjortsberg - Falling Angel (1978)
In 1950s New York, low-rent private eye Harry Angel is hired by a mysterious client to find missing singer Johnny Favorite, last seen in a mental ward some 15 years earlier.
November 16, 2023 at 4:22 AM
DAY 14 #Noirvember #neonoirnovels
William Hjortsberg - Falling Angel (1978)
In 1950s New York, low-rent private eye Harry Angel is hired by a mysterious client to find missing singer Johnny Favorite, last seen in a mental ward some 15 years earlier.
William Hjortsberg - Falling Angel (1978)
In 1950s New York, low-rent private eye Harry Angel is hired by a mysterious client to find missing singer Johnny Favorite, last seen in a mental ward some 15 years earlier.
DAY 13 #Noirvember #neonoirnovels
Jake Hinkson - Hell on Church Street (2011)
“It hit me like divine inspiration. Religion is the greatest graft ever invented because no one ever loses money claiming to speak for the invisible man in the sky.”
Jake Hinkson - Hell on Church Street (2011)
“It hit me like divine inspiration. Religion is the greatest graft ever invented because no one ever loses money claiming to speak for the invisible man in the sky.”
November 15, 2023 at 3:08 AM
DAY 13 #Noirvember #neonoirnovels
Jake Hinkson - Hell on Church Street (2011)
“It hit me like divine inspiration. Religion is the greatest graft ever invented because no one ever loses money claiming to speak for the invisible man in the sky.”
Jake Hinkson - Hell on Church Street (2011)
“It hit me like divine inspiration. Religion is the greatest graft ever invented because no one ever loses money claiming to speak for the invisible man in the sky.”
DAY 12 #Noirvember #neonoirnovels
Chester Himes - Blind Man with a Pistol (1969)
Things fall apart in this, the sixth and final novel in Chester Himes' legendary Harlem Detectives series. It's the late 1960s and Harlem is being torn apart . . .
Chester Himes - Blind Man with a Pistol (1969)
Things fall apart in this, the sixth and final novel in Chester Himes' legendary Harlem Detectives series. It's the late 1960s and Harlem is being torn apart . . .
November 14, 2023 at 12:13 AM
DAY 12 #Noirvember #neonoirnovels
Chester Himes - Blind Man with a Pistol (1969)
Things fall apart in this, the sixth and final novel in Chester Himes' legendary Harlem Detectives series. It's the late 1960s and Harlem is being torn apart . . .
Chester Himes - Blind Man with a Pistol (1969)
Things fall apart in this, the sixth and final novel in Chester Himes' legendary Harlem Detectives series. It's the late 1960s and Harlem is being torn apart . . .
DAY 11 #Noirvember #neonoirnovels
George V. Higgins - The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1970)
Eddie Coyle is an aging, small-time gunrunner for the Boston mob. He's just been busted for driving a truck full of hijacked liquor, but he can't bear the prospect of going to prison—again.
George V. Higgins - The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1970)
Eddie Coyle is an aging, small-time gunrunner for the Boston mob. He's just been busted for driving a truck full of hijacked liquor, but he can't bear the prospect of going to prison—again.
November 12, 2023 at 9:03 AM
DAY 11 #Noirvember #neonoirnovels
George V. Higgins - The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1970)
Eddie Coyle is an aging, small-time gunrunner for the Boston mob. He's just been busted for driving a truck full of hijacked liquor, but he can't bear the prospect of going to prison—again.
George V. Higgins - The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1970)
Eddie Coyle is an aging, small-time gunrunner for the Boston mob. He's just been busted for driving a truck full of hijacked liquor, but he can't bear the prospect of going to prison—again.
DAY 10 #Noirvember #neonoirnovels
Gar Anthony Haywood - Cemetery Road (2009)
Three young African-American men pull off a heist that goes so horrifically wrong that they set fire to the loot and agree to split up, never to meet again.
Gar Anthony Haywood - Cemetery Road (2009)
Three young African-American men pull off a heist that goes so horrifically wrong that they set fire to the loot and agree to split up, never to meet again.
November 12, 2023 at 7:07 AM
DAY 10 #Noirvember #neonoirnovels
Gar Anthony Haywood - Cemetery Road (2009)
Three young African-American men pull off a heist that goes so horrifically wrong that they set fire to the loot and agree to split up, never to meet again.
Gar Anthony Haywood - Cemetery Road (2009)
Three young African-American men pull off a heist that goes so horrifically wrong that they set fire to the loot and agree to split up, never to meet again.
DAY 9 #Noirvember #neonoirnovels
Sara Gran - The Infinite Blacktop (2018)
In the third and most recent novel in Sara Gran's detective series, the driven, depressive, hard-living private eye Claire DeWitt attempts to solve three possibly related mysteries.
Sara Gran - The Infinite Blacktop (2018)
In the third and most recent novel in Sara Gran's detective series, the driven, depressive, hard-living private eye Claire DeWitt attempts to solve three possibly related mysteries.
November 9, 2023 at 4:07 PM
DAY 9 #Noirvember #neonoirnovels
Sara Gran - The Infinite Blacktop (2018)
In the third and most recent novel in Sara Gran's detective series, the driven, depressive, hard-living private eye Claire DeWitt attempts to solve three possibly related mysteries.
Sara Gran - The Infinite Blacktop (2018)
In the third and most recent novel in Sara Gran's detective series, the driven, depressive, hard-living private eye Claire DeWitt attempts to solve three possibly related mysteries.