Have on Once Upon a Time in China while handing out candy, please appreciate this platonic ideal of “British guy in a Hong Kong movie” delivery

Great Robert Ryan anecdote from a Richard Brooks interview collected in Backstory 2

From the speech by an American fascist dictator that closes Nathanael West’s A Cool Million, commemorating a “martyred” American boy, the unfortunate main character Lem Pitkin

Watching the Pialat doc that’s on the Criterion Channel (Maurice Pialat: Love Exists), and he reflects on making The House in the Woods as, “the only fond memory I have, of all my films,” and the one time he had ideal conditions to do his best work

@videosyncrasy.bsky.social picked this up at a thrift store yesterday and thought you might get a kick out of it