Last evening walk of the unofficial end of summer and I encountered a couple taking a stroll with their British shorthair cats (the inspo for the Cheshire Cat). And…scene.
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Last evening walk of the unofficial end of summer and I encountered a couple taking a stroll with their British shorthair cats (the inspo for the Cheshire Cat). And…scene.
#LaborDay2025 #BenShahn
That too!
Labor Day must viewing: IMO the best Tracy-Hepburn, one that celebrates love at a certain age and never tries to win points by belittling her. Plus Joan Blondell, Gig Young, CinemaScope & Charles LeMaire’s mid-century career woman costume designs, which I would readily buy today. #TCMParty
I recall watching a Combat DVD set which had Altman providing commentary for one of the episodes—maybe it was Survival.
Combat really stands up—and one episode was directed by Altman.
Caught up with #SUTS feature 3 Godfathers. Could it be that I’m just one movie short (Tobacco Road) of seeing every Ford movie where people sing “Shall We Gather at the River”? youtu.be/Quu4ZB25LCg
Ben Shahn at @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social
Do you know about the 4’33” app? I learned about it here:
Reminds me of a Robert Aldrich film.
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social is so good on Crawford and Stanwyck during this period. www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...
👏👏👏👏to mcantone.bsky.social for programming #TheStoryofEstherCostello for #SUTS. So great to discover a new Joan from the 1950s, when she made some of her most interesting and risky choices. (And thanks to @benmank77.bsky.social too)
Donald O’Connor IS Danny Kaye in #DoubleCrossbones #TCMParty
Brazen.
One of my all time favorites. Thanks.
Michael Wilding’s final rendition of Tenderly reminds me of this. #TorchSong #SUTS www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAXo...
Gig Young! Now that’s a party! #TorchSong #SUTS
Nobody’s perfect!
This had better not be good. #TorchSong #TCMParty
Happy Joan Crawford Day to all who celebrate! 🎉 #JoanCrawford #TCMParty #SUTS All Joan, all day, until tomorrow morning ♥️
Gotta admit I love this movie and its snappy script. And I’d vote for Joan in a heartbeat. #GoodbyeMyFancy #SUTS
Last time my Tootsie escaped I gave her this very lecture.
Here’s what the Taylor swift and Travis kelce engagement taught me about B2B sales:
An @afm-union.bsky.social and @sagaftra.org gal. An NFLPA guy. We love a union love story. Congrats Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce!
The Columbus Dispatch is wild for this one
In addition to being one of history's most successful musicians, Taylor Swift has also successfully used a fire extinguisher.
I found out about #BeatTheDevil only because of Roger Ebert. His Great Movies books are essential reading. #TCMParty
Still smarting over the end of blueberry season.
Another gem from the show: LOTTO: THE AMERICAN DREAM by Luis Cruz Azaceta
Fanfan la Tulipe—what sly, swashbuckling fun! Am now crushing on Gérard Philipe. Thanks #SUTS programmers!
Down by the old mill stream.
I was today years old when I discovered the Lorillard-funded Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence at a great small show on prints at the Delaware Art Museum.
Great article about the pivotal role of Knoll. www.inquirer.com/arts/knoll-p...
Can’t wait to see it myself!
Fanfan la Tulipe is in the Criterion Collection FWIW. www.criterion.com/films/750-fa...
🥰 ❤️ 💕 💗 ♥️💙💜💗💛💖💖💞💓😻🧡Frank Loesser #TCMParty #GuysandDolls #SUTS
Now that’s a TV commercial www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlmP...
Just watched Sautet’s The Dictator's Guns (L'Arme à gauche, 1965) with Lino Ventura as a human Swiss Army knife. Not sure it was worth waiting almost three years to see (I first heard about it when MoMa had its Lino fest in 2022), but we take our Lino where we can.
For Henri Cartier-Bresson's birthday, some of my favourite portraits. Raymond Queneau at his desk at Editions Gallimard in Paris, 1963
Love the cab driver scene.
Carol Kane on #AlwaysSunny made me insanely happy. (And the tribute to Lynne Marie Stewart was equally wonderful.)
Mikio Naruse (with Hideko Takamine) - BOTD
Here’s the list from the LOA westerns panel mentioned below—marvelous suggestions. www.loa.org/news-and-vie...
#SUTS Cagney day recommendation: Wise’s Tribute to a Bad Man (1956). Discovered this thanks to a @libraryofamerica.bsky.social panel on the western a few years ago. Neither was first choice for their roles, but Cagney & Papas are terrific in what is ultimately the portrait of a mature marriage.
Chest hair stood for something in those days. In fact it stood for a lot.
If you’ve never seen The Clock (1945), James Gleason has the loveliest scene with real life wife Lucile Gleason playing his wife, and Judy Garland and Robert Walker, eating breakfast together. #TCMParty
Just watched Sammo Hung’s Encounters of the Spooky Kind. Preeeety scary, eh kids?
Rumor has it he's 89 today, but I don't have to believe it.
“Have you ever looked at your hand? I mean really really looked at it?”
So here's the discussion where John Kruk asks Tom McCarthy how the person who invented the first clock knew what time it was
Also to anyone playing the scene from Far From the Madding Crowd where he says “I've come for you, Bathsheba” on an endless loop.
I liked it so much— it felt Jamesian to me —in a jet-setter sort of way.
…And your point is?
Watched it last night—amazing.
Reading it and it’s so rich you have take it in small, rugelach-like portions.
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Watched Pedicab Driver for the first time last night. 🤜🤛
See also : The Fugitive (1947)
This is 💯
Loved this show.
The real ones get it #AndJustLikeThat
Watched the noir-y Red Fish (1955) and I think it’s Hugo Haas meets Hitchcock meets…Agatha Christie? Is that possible? Anyway, Arturo de Córdova, great as always.
To me, this is Digital Humanities
From Vogue 1945: portrait of the great Mexican director Emilio Fernández, aka "El Indio." Photo: Luis Lemus
The combination of disdain and affection that #AlwaysSunny has for its audiences is a wondrous thing.
Came across this link* and I am so ready for a #SUTS with Arturo de Córdova. www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2014-... *another example, per @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social of the value of keeping past rosters of programs available.
Nooooooooo!
My favorite line from the WaPo story about Taylor Swift’s podcast appearance: “Much of the interview went like this, as they talked about how they bonded over their similar jobs, entertaining people in football stadiums.”
….But the subtitles were often head-scratching. I wonder if this is the version that played at MoMa and elsewhere?
Somehow we missed this one when it first aired, so many thanks! (The tribute to Marina Abramović is still my favorite but now there is one more among many in close competition.)
My response after seeing Soledad’s Shawl (1952): Gabriel Figueroa, we’re not worthy!
"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." -- Alfred Hitchcock, born #OTD 1899
But have to believe there’s one more out there that could have replaced this.
*grumbles* Fair. And I am looking forward to seeing The Rebellion of the Hanged.
Good to see #SUTS honor #PedroArmendáriz but I see at least three films that should have been swapped out for much better examples from Mexico’s Golden Age. Come on #TCM, don’t let the subtitle haters scare you.
Close encounter with a Clymene moth.
Looks like Movie Detective has it. I just discovered them for some Mexican Golden Age films, and they’ve been an excellent inexpensive source so far.
My Lino Ventura holy grail is Sautet’s L’Arme a Gauche (The Dictator's Guns, 1965). It played at MoMa but seems not available otherwise.
Just watched Fernández’s Enamorada (1946) and holy hell what a movie! The opening socko credits, Pedro Armendáriz as the soulful revolutionary, María Félix sneaking a smoke, an ending that rivals Dietrich chucking it all in Morocco, cinematography by Gabriel Figueroa… I’m so in love with this.
This scene and in particular this song has been living rent free in my head since seeing this film on Saturday: Malagueña Salerosa (ENAMORADA 1946) - ENGLISH SUBTITLES youtu.be/xxDoTjNiI5w?...
What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
Suddenly I want to use the word “unregenerately.” #TCMParty
“Heh! That’s hard to say with false teeth!”
Today we are halfway between summer solstice and fall equinox. “Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years.”
I decided that it’s The Great Gatsby meets a Henry James novel told from the perspective of the baddies.
The #phillies are up three runs, so just root for them to keep going so we can hear more about John Kruk at the Franklin Institute.
The Passionate Friends (1949) is on at 4 am for #TCM #SummerUndertheStars but that doesn’t let you off the hook. It’s #ClaudeRains’ greatest role IMO and an extraordinary movie all around. (It’s also on the Criterion Channel, so you really have no excuse.)
John Kruk Visits The Franklin Institute
I feel seen.
Just watched Bonjour Tristesse (1958). Another, new reason to love a Preminger film.
#BobsBurgers “Dad-urday Kite Fever” was so great we just watched it again.
And this, from Raksin's suite. John Wilson and his pin-sharp orchestra at the 2013 BBC Proms. It sounded pretty wonderful in the vast expanse of the Royal Albert Hall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zs8...
Makes Vertigo look like a day at the beach. Also: Arturo de Córdova and Gabriel Figueroa 4VR.
His Kind of Woman (1951) And best of all, before embarking, Jane Russell sings this wonderful song. youtu.be/drrKpEhAI5o
If you play Sister Margaretta (as I did in high school) it’s a high point.
#TCMParty #TheSoundofMusic
There’s a photo of me skipping through the arbor where she sings “I Have Confidence.
