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Matthew Sorrento
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Editor of FilmInt Online and Retreats from Oblivion: Journal of NoirCon / Film Studies Lecturer, Rutgers-Camden / Cerebral Palsy Parent / Becoming Nosferatu: Stories Inspired by Silent German Horror, now available from BearManor Media
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An important but widely ignored precursor to Hitchcock's Vertigo, Hammer's 1952 horror noir Stolen Face w/ Lisbeth Scott and Paul Henreid is now out on 4k in this beautiful limited edition. Includes my video essay on the film!
Stolen Face Limited Collector's Edition
Film Noir femme fatale Lizabeth Scott gives a searing performance in this macabre melodrama that offers a dark twist on the Pygmalion myth.
hammerfilms.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Our son Danny just handed me his brand-new LP yesterday evening. Wow! See first comment on the comments thread, below, to order your own copy, highest recommendation—

—and that's a bit of Dad's (my) artwork on the vinyl 'hub' label. I'll be doing some one-of-a-kind ceramic originals soon with it...
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Posters for “The Cheat” from The USA, Germany and Sweden
#TCMParty #SilentSundayNights #TheCheat #SilentFilm
November 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Many thanks for viewing and reading, Vincent Pereira! #neonoir #viewaskew DtK @arrowvideo.bsky.social produced by the wonderful @horrornonna.com!
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Good time talking #CabinetOfDrCaligari with Jerry Carlson of @cuny.edu City Cinematheque.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDBA...
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI - City Cinematheque
YouTube video by CUNY TV
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November 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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A reporter catches Ann Sothern in a grumpy mood, 1947:

“Kissing scenes fun? ‘They're worst of all,’ she says. ‘You have to powder your lips so you won't get lipstick all over the actor. Then you get powder down your throat and you're miserable.’”
November 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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We're proud to be co-presenting the 1929 film ASPHALT at the #SFSFF on Sun, Nov 16, 5:00 pm, Orinda Theatre . Live musical accompaniment by the Sascha Jacobsen Ensemble Use use the promo code NOIRSF for $2 off at checkout: bit.ly/4p1eMFM
@eddiemuller.bsky.social @moviessilently.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Always knew I had a family of chipmunks in my back yard, and finally saw a little one:
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Finally got to the source #novel of a wonderful foreign #indiethriller – Set during Italy’s Years of Lead, a surge of political crime and terrorism, the story relates the era to a child’s perspective, a boy that discovers a young victim. An interesting blend of Bildungsroman and Camus. #filmsky
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
"i can’t keep crying for dead and dying people
without doing something about the death"
–Daruis Simpson #poetry

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
October 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
October 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Come see #Nosferatu at @gardenacinema on Sat Nov 1 (and #Halloween at @arttheatrelongbeach !!) #GRWM to go #flyering in #Gardena for our #silentfilm #horrorfilm with #livescore by #JCDEnsemble! A few #rehearsal pics #GardenaEvents #LongBeachHalloween #LiveMusic #silenthorror #fwmurnau #countorlock
October 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Day 22: 31 Days of Horror: Now Watching: Nosferatu 1922 🧛‍♂️🩸⚰️

The 1st Nosferatu film, & still the best, imo. Groundbreaking, & paved the way for so much horror! I love Nosferatu in general cause it portrays vampires as monstrous & scary! 👹

#31daysofhorror #nosferatu
#horrorsky
October 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Tomorrow night – hope to see you at Inkwood Books, #Haddonfield, NJ: #horror #halloween #silenthorror
#indybookstores
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Hope to see you Friday night for my book signing of BECOMING #NOSFERATU at #Haddonfield, NJ’s Halloween Night Market #horrorfiction #silenthorror #horroranthology #poetry #indiebookstores
October 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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It me
October 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven
October 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Buster Keaton in "Film" - BOTD
October 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"Undocumented in the U.S. South: How Youth Navigate Racialization in Policy and School Contexts" by Sophia Rodriguez

www.rutgersuniversit...

#Immigration #Undocumented #Education #Children #Politics #South
September 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Next on the shortlist: Maggie Hennefeld's Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema

Congrats Maggie and @columbiaup.bsky.social (also again!)
Death by Laughter | Columbia University Press
Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate—or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would ha... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
September 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM