Rowena Bell
@rowena3.bsky.social
Literature. Film Study. Scholar. Mood on film, books, photography, music, NY sports teams, tennis.
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You know a match, like Alcaraz vs. Fils, is a balls to the walls- amazing, aggressive fight when, in the aftermath, I can barely pay attention to Dimitrov/de Minaur bc it's taking me some time to come down from that intensity.
April 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
You know a match, like Alcaraz vs. Fils, is a balls to the walls- amazing, aggressive fight when, in the aftermath, I can barely pay attention to Dimitrov/de Minaur bc it's taking me some time to come down from that intensity.
Today's mood...
from Severance (2025)
from Severance (2025)
April 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Today's mood...
from Severance (2025)
from Severance (2025)
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Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
www.freep.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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Booker, after speaking for more than 24 hours and breaking Thurmond's record, is still standing and still speaking--using his time to warn his colleagues and his country about the dangers of defunding universities and defunding scientific research.
April 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Booker, after speaking for more than 24 hours and breaking Thurmond's record, is still standing and still speaking--using his time to warn his colleagues and his country about the dangers of defunding universities and defunding scientific research.
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Yes. This is great just as a tremendous moral statement AND it's also GREAT POLITICS. You break a segregationist's record and you make people think about who this generation's segregationists are. This is STORY and DRAMA and it can make people PAY ATTENTION.
Booker is set to erase the record for speaking that was held by Thurmond
AGAINST CIVIL RIGHTS
as multiple state and corporate entities roll back to segregation
And people are wondering why this important
AGAINST CIVIL RIGHTS
as multiple state and corporate entities roll back to segregation
And people are wondering why this important
Booker is on track to erase and replace a historical record (from segregationist Storm Thurmond) at a time when we have an administration trying to erase the real history of this country. Lots of things matter. Symbols among them.
April 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Yes. This is great just as a tremendous moral statement AND it's also GREAT POLITICS. You break a segregationist's record and you make people think about who this generation's segregationists are. This is STORY and DRAMA and it can make people PAY ATTENTION.
Today's mood on film.
Princess Mononoke (1997)
dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Princess Mononoke (1997)
dir. Hayao Miyazaki
April 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Today's mood on film.
Princess Mononoke (1997)
dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Princess Mononoke (1997)
dir. Hayao Miyazaki
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***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on June 17th on Blu-ray from @milestonefilms.bsky.social via @kinolorber.com distribution: #TheAnnihilationOfFish (1999)!
New restoration! Winner of an Honorary Academy Award® for lifetime achievement, Charles Burnett remains one of our country’s
Coming on June 17th on Blu-ray from @milestonefilms.bsky.social via @kinolorber.com distribution: #TheAnnihilationOfFish (1999)!
New restoration! Winner of an Honorary Academy Award® for lifetime achievement, Charles Burnett remains one of our country’s
April 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on June 17th on Blu-ray from @milestonefilms.bsky.social via @kinolorber.com distribution: #TheAnnihilationOfFish (1999)!
New restoration! Winner of an Honorary Academy Award® for lifetime achievement, Charles Burnett remains one of our country’s
Coming on June 17th on Blu-ray from @milestonefilms.bsky.social via @kinolorber.com distribution: #TheAnnihilationOfFish (1999)!
New restoration! Winner of an Honorary Academy Award® for lifetime achievement, Charles Burnett remains one of our country’s
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Cory Booker just now as he closes in on 15 hours of his filibuster speech on the Senate floor: “How can you, in good conscience, if you’re a fiscal hawk, if you’re a Christian conservative, how could you hurt the weak to benefit the rich and powerful?”
April 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Cory Booker just now as he closes in on 15 hours of his filibuster speech on the Senate floor: “How can you, in good conscience, if you’re a fiscal hawk, if you’re a Christian conservative, how could you hurt the weak to benefit the rich and powerful?”
Looking back on his career, I am reminded that Richard Chamberlain had astonishing range. In Ken Russell's The Music Lovers, as a tortured Tchaikovsky, he demonstrated his piano skills as well. In requiem. R.I.P.
March 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Looking back on his career, I am reminded that Richard Chamberlain had astonishing range. In Ken Russell's The Music Lovers, as a tortured Tchaikovsky, he demonstrated his piano skills as well. In requiem. R.I.P.
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#RIP to the great Richard Chamberlain whose powerful turn as the torn, ambitious, ultimately selfish Father Ralph in THE THORN BIRDS obsessed me enough as a kid that I was officially that weirdo who showed up for my brief stint at Catholic school reading the brilliant Colleen McCullough epic novel.
March 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
#RIP to the great Richard Chamberlain whose powerful turn as the torn, ambitious, ultimately selfish Father Ralph in THE THORN BIRDS obsessed me enough as a kid that I was officially that weirdo who showed up for my brief stint at Catholic school reading the brilliant Colleen McCullough epic novel.
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I met Richard Chamberlain years ago - and was shocked to learn he’d NEVER SEEN TOWERING INFERNO, in which he was the bad guy.
So I went home, got my dvd of the movie, went to his apartment - where he had gathered 10 friends.
That was a great night, watching him watch himself just kill it.
RIP
So I went home, got my dvd of the movie, went to his apartment - where he had gathered 10 friends.
That was a great night, watching him watch himself just kill it.
RIP
A fond farewell to Richard Chamberlain, whom those of a certain generation remember from Dr. Kildare, or The Thorn Birds, an actor with more range that he was asked to display, and with real courage to acknowledge that he was gay.
I believe my stepmother Norma Connolly was in his Hamlet in 1970...
I believe my stepmother Norma Connolly was in his Hamlet in 1970...
March 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I met Richard Chamberlain years ago - and was shocked to learn he’d NEVER SEEN TOWERING INFERNO, in which he was the bad guy.
So I went home, got my dvd of the movie, went to his apartment - where he had gathered 10 friends.
That was a great night, watching him watch himself just kill it.
RIP
So I went home, got my dvd of the movie, went to his apartment - where he had gathered 10 friends.
That was a great night, watching him watch himself just kill it.
RIP
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March 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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JPM calls it “the fastest Momentum unwind in 40 years .. erased 2 years’ worth of gains and accelerated investors’ late-cycle positioning into Defensive / Low Vol ..”
March 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
JPM calls it “the fastest Momentum unwind in 40 years .. erased 2 years’ worth of gains and accelerated investors’ late-cycle positioning into Defensive / Low Vol ..”
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TAKE YOUR TIME- - -
I’M THE BOSS
AROUND HERE
I’M THE BOSS
AROUND HERE
March 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
TAKE YOUR TIME- - -
I’M THE BOSS
AROUND HERE
I’M THE BOSS
AROUND HERE
To quote Montell Jordan: This is how we do it.
Not only is French Fascist Marine Le Pen likely to do 2 years in prison for financial fraud, but she is banned from running for President in 2027.
Like in Brazil, the French courts are not backing down from the Extreme Right www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Like in Brazil, the French courts are not backing down from the Extreme Right www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Affaire des assistants parlementaires : Marine Le Pen condamnée et immédiatement inéligible
L’ex-présidente du RN a été reconnue coupable et condamnée à quatre ans de prison, dont deux ans ferme, et à cinq ans d’inéligibilité avec application immédiate. La députée d’extrême droite a quitté …
www.mediapart.fr
March 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
To quote Montell Jordan: This is how we do it.
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Don't forget to check out this week's new episode of #HoFCast featuring our incredible guest, @ptklein.com, and our visit to the Pop Culture Basement with @mikejamison.bsky.social!
Come back next week for a GREAT talk with the amazing @stephensorrentino.bsky.social!
shows.acast.com/the-history-...
Come back next week for a GREAT talk with the amazing @stephensorrentino.bsky.social!
shows.acast.com/the-history-...
Men at Work with Paul Klein | The History on Film Podcast
shows.acast.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Don't forget to check out this week's new episode of #HoFCast featuring our incredible guest, @ptklein.com, and our visit to the Pop Culture Basement with @mikejamison.bsky.social!
Come back next week for a GREAT talk with the amazing @stephensorrentino.bsky.social!
shows.acast.com/the-history-...
Come back next week for a GREAT talk with the amazing @stephensorrentino.bsky.social!
shows.acast.com/the-history-...
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An advance look at Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices,” the cover for next week’s issue. #NewYorkerCovers
March 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
An advance look at Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices,” the cover for next week’s issue. #NewYorkerCovers
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Happy Birthday to film critic and curator Iris Barry (born March 28, 1895).
Iris Barry – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
buff.ly
March 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Happy Birthday to film critic and curator Iris Barry (born March 28, 1895).
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I really, really wish some people of power at these historic studios would care about preserving their history. They've already destroyed the film vaults at WB and this studio is one of the only lots with a wealth of Golden Age architecture left.
Warner Bros. To Raze Looney Tunes Building On Lot
Warner Bros. To Raze Looney Tunes Building On Lot
deadline.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I really, really wish some people of power at these historic studios would care about preserving their history. They've already destroyed the film vaults at WB and this studio is one of the only lots with a wealth of Golden Age architecture left.
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literally every time I talk to friends
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
literally every time I talk to friends
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www.si.edu/about/admini... www.si.edu/ogc/legalhis... “The Smithsonian is not an executive branch agency and does not exercise regulatory powers, except over its own buildings and grounds. Thus, courts have held that the Smithsonian is not an agency or authority of the Government”
Our Organization | Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution was established by an act of Congress in 1846 as an independent federal trust instrumentality, a unique public-private partnership that has proven its value as a cultural a...
www.si.edu
March 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
www.si.edu/about/admini... www.si.edu/ogc/legalhis... “The Smithsonian is not an executive branch agency and does not exercise regulatory powers, except over its own buildings and grounds. Thus, courts have held that the Smithsonian is not an agency or authority of the Government”
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This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
March 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.
Today's mood on film.
The Godfather Part II (1974)
dir. Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather Part II (1974)
dir. Francis Ford Coppola
March 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today's mood on film.
The Godfather Part II (1974)
dir. Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather Part II (1974)
dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Hope everyone is well. Spring break was restorative. Attended a Knicks game. Watched Severance episodes, read a mystery and finally dug into the Capra at Columbia blu-ray box set. What a treat! Taken with this shot from Lady for a Day- filmed through water-drops cascading in the foreground. Dreamy.
March 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Hope everyone is well. Spring break was restorative. Attended a Knicks game. Watched Severance episodes, read a mystery and finally dug into the Capra at Columbia blu-ray box set. What a treat! Taken with this shot from Lady for a Day- filmed through water-drops cascading in the foreground. Dreamy.