Lenny Ginise
@lennyginise.bsky.social
Always curious about cinema. The views expressed here are my own thoughts.
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Eight years ago, I wrote this essay about Seattle’s historic moviehouses, focusing on 7 theaters that were at least half a century old and still operating. Now only 3—the Admiral, the Uptown, and the former Cinerama—are still open; the rest are just memories. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Explore Seattle’s romantic — and vanishing — historic moviehouses
All of us go to the movies to feel something: to laugh, to cry, to be frightened, to be thrilled, to lose ourselves in a story. And that experience might feel just the littlest bit richer in a place w...
www.seattletimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Eight years ago, I wrote this essay about Seattle’s historic moviehouses, focusing on 7 theaters that were at least half a century old and still operating. Now only 3—the Admiral, the Uptown, and the former Cinerama—are still open; the rest are just memories. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
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I wrote about DOG DAY AFTERNOON and its complicated legacy among trans viewers for my reader's choice series. My co-writer Caden Mark Gardner will be discussing many of these same topics tonight on TCM before this film is shown. Please tune in!
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November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I wrote about DOG DAY AFTERNOON and its complicated legacy among trans viewers for my reader's choice series. My co-writer Caden Mark Gardner will be discussing many of these same topics tonight on TCM before this film is shown. Please tune in!
www.patreon.com/posts/144308...
www.patreon.com/posts/144308...
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One year ago today, I woke up & wrote 5K+ words about Bob Rafelson's masterpiece FIVE EASY PIECES without stopping. Still proud of this piece.
www.patreon.com/posts/114386...
www.patreon.com/posts/114386...
October 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
One year ago today, I woke up & wrote 5K+ words about Bob Rafelson's masterpiece FIVE EASY PIECES without stopping. Still proud of this piece.
www.patreon.com/posts/114386...
www.patreon.com/posts/114386...
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gonna keep bumping my profile of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, of which I am very proud, would love if you read, at @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/jafa...
www.vulture.com/article/jafa...
October 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
gonna keep bumping my profile of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, of which I am very proud, would love if you read, at @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/jafa...
www.vulture.com/article/jafa...
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“I didn’t find God in the skies. I found God in images.”
Powerful words by Jafar Panahi during his Martin Scorsese talk last week. ♥️
Powerful words by Jafar Panahi during his Martin Scorsese talk last week. ♥️
October 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“I didn’t find God in the skies. I found God in images.”
Powerful words by Jafar Panahi during his Martin Scorsese talk last week. ♥️
Powerful words by Jafar Panahi during his Martin Scorsese talk last week. ♥️
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🎬 McCabe & Mrs. Miller was released 54 years ago today.
Robert Altman’s anti-Western masterpiece, drenched in melancholy and snow, remains one of the most hauntingly beautiful films ever made.
Explore its making, legacy, & enduring power:
🔗 cinephiliabeyond.org/mccabe-mrs-m...
Robert Altman’s anti-Western masterpiece, drenched in melancholy and snow, remains one of the most hauntingly beautiful films ever made.
Explore its making, legacy, & enduring power:
🔗 cinephiliabeyond.org/mccabe-mrs-m...
How Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like Fine Wine • Cinephilia & Beyond
By Koraljka Suton The legendary director Robert Altman was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2006, “in recognition of a career that has repeatedly reinvented the art form and inspired filmmakers and ...
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June 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🎬 McCabe & Mrs. Miller was released 54 years ago today.
Robert Altman’s anti-Western masterpiece, drenched in melancholy and snow, remains one of the most hauntingly beautiful films ever made.
Explore its making, legacy, & enduring power:
🔗 cinephiliabeyond.org/mccabe-mrs-m...
Robert Altman’s anti-Western masterpiece, drenched in melancholy and snow, remains one of the most hauntingly beautiful films ever made.
Explore its making, legacy, & enduring power:
🔗 cinephiliabeyond.org/mccabe-mrs-m...
A set of lithographs of Kurosawa’s storyboards for RAN signed by him and gifted to an art dealer friend on loan to the Japan Society in New York for tonight’s screening of the film.
June 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
A set of lithographs of Kurosawa’s storyboards for RAN signed by him and gifted to an art dealer friend on loan to the Japan Society in New York for tonight’s screening of the film.
Seeing this tonight.
My heart beat faster because of the sudden switch in her [Kaede’s] personality… I knew right away that I had to get that role.”—Mieko Harada
The only actress that Kurosawa offered the role to, Harada would declare, “frankly, I think she’s really super.”
RAN screens 6/20 in 35mm: japansoc.org/Ran
The only actress that Kurosawa offered the role to, Harada would declare, “frankly, I think she’s really super.”
RAN screens 6/20 in 35mm: japansoc.org/Ran
June 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Seeing this tonight.
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I will never understand people who make things -- films, stories, art, music -- abdicating the making of those things in favor of a machine doing it.
The joy is in creating something, not in avoiding the work of creation.
The joy is in creating something, not in avoiding the work of creation.
Darren Aronofsky has launched a new venture alongside Google DeepMind to help develop generative AI short films.
Darren Aronofsky Partners with Google DeepMind on Generative AI Short Film Initiative
Darren Aronofsky has launched a new venture alongside Google DeepMind to help develop generative AI short films.
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May 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I will never understand people who make things -- films, stories, art, music -- abdicating the making of those things in favor of a machine doing it.
The joy is in creating something, not in avoiding the work of creation.
The joy is in creating something, not in avoiding the work of creation.
35mm, Film Forum in New York this evening.
May 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
35mm, Film Forum in New York this evening.
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Not over the cold shoulder given this awards season to the craft achievements of MEGALOPOLIS, a film I found frequently dizzying in the strength and imagination of its images.
February 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Not over the cold shoulder given this awards season to the craft achievements of MEGALOPOLIS, a film I found frequently dizzying in the strength and imagination of its images.
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Happy Friday - I wrote a little thing about Frida Kahlo and a certain image from The Substance:
sabinastent.substack.com/p/duality
sabinastent.substack.com/p/duality
Duality
Frida Kahlo and "The Substance"
sabinastent.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Happy Friday - I wrote a little thing about Frida Kahlo and a certain image from The Substance:
sabinastent.substack.com/p/duality
sabinastent.substack.com/p/duality
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January 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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This was an aside on another thread but I dig into the specific differences between the censored BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN you probably saw in film class or on the Criterion Channel and the restored version derived from an original director's cut discovered in Germany.
moviessilently.com/2014/11/23/b...
moviessilently.com/2014/11/23/b...
Battleship Potemkin (1925) A Silent Film Review
One of the most famous silent films ever made, one that gets shown time and again in art history classes. Yet, most of us have never seen it in its original form. Decades of censorship, re-editing …
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January 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This was an aside on another thread but I dig into the specific differences between the censored BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN you probably saw in film class or on the Criterion Channel and the restored version derived from an original director's cut discovered in Germany.
moviessilently.com/2014/11/23/b...
moviessilently.com/2014/11/23/b...
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January 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Brutalist Day today
January 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Brutalist Day today
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The image of Satan in Murnau's FAUST (1926) remains unequaled in film. Pure, undiluted nightmare fuel. Murnau is the definition of "sublimity."
December 19, 2024 at 2:00 AM
The image of Satan in Murnau's FAUST (1926) remains unequaled in film. Pure, undiluted nightmare fuel. Murnau is the definition of "sublimity."
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Cinephilia & Beyond's survival is more precarious than ever due to a lack of funding. With only 26 days left, we are desperately trying to raise funds to keep C&B alive.
Please donate if you can; your generosity preserves film knowledge for future generations
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cinephiliabeyond.org/donate2024/
Please donate if you can; your generosity preserves film knowledge for future generations
⬇️⬇️⬇️
cinephiliabeyond.org/donate2024/
December 4, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Cinephilia & Beyond's survival is more precarious than ever due to a lack of funding. With only 26 days left, we are desperately trying to raise funds to keep C&B alive.
Please donate if you can; your generosity preserves film knowledge for future generations
⬇️⬇️⬇️
cinephiliabeyond.org/donate2024/
Please donate if you can; your generosity preserves film knowledge for future generations
⬇️⬇️⬇️
cinephiliabeyond.org/donate2024/
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The discourse around “shots of the decade” keeps bringing to mind for me this moment in THE ZONE OF INTEREST that distills the sterile detachment and carefully compartmentalized horror of Glazer’s film to a solitary, soul-chilling frame. All that is unseen but still sensed, as if beginning to haunt.
December 2, 2024 at 5:14 AM
The discourse around “shots of the decade” keeps bringing to mind for me this moment in THE ZONE OF INTEREST that distills the sterile detachment and carefully compartmentalized horror of Glazer’s film to a solitary, soul-chilling frame. All that is unseen but still sensed, as if beginning to haunt.
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Saw this and had to repost. <3 Credit to Marpal Embroidery for the work!
November 29, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Saw this and had to repost. <3 Credit to Marpal Embroidery for the work!
James Cameron really loved HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT, didn’t he?
November 12, 2024 at 3:18 AM
James Cameron really loved HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT, didn’t he?