Cal Hudson
@paraiso-do-gelado.bsky.social
Flavor savor. Ceaselessly searching for the splendiferous.
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I've been dying to tell people I wrote the essay for TROUBLE IN PARADISE, a true Lubitsch masterpiece, and now I can. It's hilarious, it's gorgeous, there's nothing like it, and spending time with Trouble last year soothed my soul. www.criterion.com/films/723-tr....
January 16, 2026 at 6:28 PM
I've been dying to tell people I wrote the essay for TROUBLE IN PARADISE, a true Lubitsch masterpiece, and now I can. It's hilarious, it's gorgeous, there's nothing like it, and spending time with Trouble last year soothed my soul. www.criterion.com/films/723-tr....
@zachcampbell.bsky.social I don't know if you still check this site, but on the off chance you do: since you have do you happen to know if Uncas Blythe liked Zemeckis's HERE? (If you still have a line to him!)
January 10, 2026 at 7:10 PM
@zachcampbell.bsky.social I don't know if you still check this site, but on the off chance you do: since you have do you happen to know if Uncas Blythe liked Zemeckis's HERE? (If you still have a line to him!)
Post a famous bathroom scene
January 5, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Post a famous bathroom scene
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2025 didn't bring me many pleasant surprises, but Abel Ferrara's "Scene" was one of them. As were the films I watched or re-watched alongside it for research. (Gift link) www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘Scene’ Review: The Hungry Eye
Abel Ferrara’s movies are often driven by the consequences of extreme impulses. Much of his career has also been defined by a taste for immoderate behavior.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
2025 didn't bring me many pleasant surprises, but Abel Ferrara's "Scene" was one of them. As were the films I watched or re-watched alongside it for research. (Gift link) www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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Michel Piccoli was born 100 years ago today. Even an abridged list of his directors carries a whole history of film: Godard, Buñuel, Varda, Demy, Vadim, Chabrol, Sautet, Chahine, Allégret, Tavernier, Resnais, Bava, de Oliveira, Costa-Gavras, Malle, Rivette, Corbucci, Ruiz, Bellocchio, Hitchcock.
December 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Michel Piccoli was born 100 years ago today. Even an abridged list of his directors carries a whole history of film: Godard, Buñuel, Varda, Demy, Vadim, Chabrol, Sautet, Chahine, Allégret, Tavernier, Resnais, Bava, de Oliveira, Costa-Gavras, Malle, Rivette, Corbucci, Ruiz, Bellocchio, Hitchcock.
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RIP Brigitte Bardot, age 91. Farewell, beautiful.
December 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
RIP Brigitte Bardot, age 91. Farewell, beautiful.
Wishing I could read the late David Ehrenstein's take on Linklater's BLUE MOON
December 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Wishing I could read the late David Ehrenstein's take on Linklater's BLUE MOON
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Obviously THE WIRE, INSIDE MAN, TANGERINE and TREME (where he plays the most accurate on-screen stoner chef), but don’t sleep on Frank V. Ross’s BLOOMIN MUD SHUFFLE, in which he gives a casually great lead performance that he should have been offered to duplicate annually.
December 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Obviously THE WIRE, INSIDE MAN, TANGERINE and TREME (where he plays the most accurate on-screen stoner chef), but don’t sleep on Frank V. Ross’s BLOOMIN MUD SHUFFLE, in which he gives a casually great lead performance that he should have been offered to duplicate annually.
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Yeah I could watch a screener of a new movie. Or I could watch a bad VHS rip of something that aired on British television and make my soul sing.
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Yeah I could watch a screener of a new movie. Or I could watch a bad VHS rip of something that aired on British television and make my soul sing.
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LA FEMME DOUCE is a haunting film and part of that is the strange sussurations of its soundtrack.
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December 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
LA FEMME DOUCE is a haunting film and part of that is the strange sussurations of its soundtrack.
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Time to watch I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! again
We've picked up a couple of fellas in 2 days - see what we can do by the end of the week.
December 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Time to watch I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! again
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Last month, I spent four days in Knoxville attending FILM FEST KNOX where I watched cool regional cinema and basked in the sights. Wrote about it at length for @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy. Please check it out. filmmakermagazine.com/132553-revie...
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Last month, I spent four days in Knoxville attending FILM FEST KNOX where I watched cool regional cinema and basked in the sights. Wrote about it at length for @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy. Please check it out. filmmakermagazine.com/132553-revie...
Big day for @hamrahrama.bsky.social 😔 (We're gonna need a bigger almanac)
December 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Big day for @hamrahrama.bsky.social 😔 (We're gonna need a bigger almanac)
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The plaque at Raul Ruiz’s house in Santiago is almost unreadable at this point. Almost thinking of doing a fundraiser to clean it or replace it.
December 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The plaque at Raul Ruiz’s house in Santiago is almost unreadable at this point. Almost thinking of doing a fundraiser to clean it or replace it.
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Some insufficient, drive-by thoughts on MARTY SUPREME, one of the funnest and funniest movies of the year. Was happy with it not being “about” much, but then it reveals its hand at the last minute and everything snaps into place…
Josh Safdie’s #MartySupreme is a propulsive, epic melodrama that finds Timothée Chalamet reaching a new pinnacle, tapping into a vein of reckless self-destruction and a willingness to sacrifice charisma.
Read @fauxbeatpoet.bsky.social's Critic's Pick review: thefilmstage.com/marty-suprem...
Read @fauxbeatpoet.bsky.social's Critic's Pick review: thefilmstage.com/marty-suprem...
December 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Some insufficient, drive-by thoughts on MARTY SUPREME, one of the funnest and funniest movies of the year. Was happy with it not being “about” much, but then it reveals its hand at the last minute and everything snaps into place…
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An incredibly poignant moment in 8 1/2, hidden away without explanation.
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Yes. No.
Looks like I’m definitely stuck teaching my Films on Film course again next year, but it’s no tragedy, I enjoy it and I can swap out the films each time. I suspect though that I’l…
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November 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
An incredibly poignant moment in 8 1/2, hidden away without explanation.
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How do people feel about The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) these days? I've always been fond of it. RIP Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
How do people feel about The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) these days? I've always been fond of it. RIP Tom Stoppard
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Happy birthday, Maestro.
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Happy birthday, Maestro.
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I WALK ALONE interestingly anticipates some more modern crime flicks -- Leone, Boorman... dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/n...
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I WALK ALONE interestingly anticipates some more modern crime flicks -- Leone, Boorman... dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/n...
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My friend Imogen Sara Smith wrote several times about Tatsuya Nakadai's unique qualities, such as here in 2020 at Bright Lights Film Journal. brightlightsfilm.com/japanese-cin...
Japanese Cinema's Uncommon Man: Tatsuya Nakadai's Dissidents, Outcasts, and Shadow Warriors - Bright Lights Film Journal
"Like Hollywood's new postwar men, he offered a multifaceted, ambivalent masculinity far from monolithic wartime ideals."
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November 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
My friend Imogen Sara Smith wrote several times about Tatsuya Nakadai's unique qualities, such as here in 2020 at Bright Lights Film Journal. brightlightsfilm.com/japanese-cin...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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A long thing I wrote some time ago about #ConradVeidt when my natural estrogen levels were higher. dcairns.wordpress.com/2020/07/24/a...
‘A face you will never forget’ – But apparently have: Love Letters To Conrad Veidt.
Conrad Veidt, breaking arms with one sweep of his eyelashes since 1893. ‘He was tall, lean, almost transparent. He had an extremely intellectual face. Above all, he was not handsome in the us…
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November 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
A long thing I wrote some time ago about #ConradVeidt when my natural estrogen levels were higher. dcairns.wordpress.com/2020/07/24/a...