Happy Silent Film Day! Celebrated with a viewing of The Golem (1920). 105 years old; still slaps. #SilentFilmDay

Side quest today at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Chicago showing out today for fall…even if it is still in the 70s

This has to be one of the most urgent and essential films I’ve ever seen. Downright harrowing at times. It’s a universal study of occupation, resistance, and the politics of control. No matter how much things change, the struggle remains the same. boxd.it/bckBi3

A film so nice, I had to see it in the theater twice. Ocean waves, ocean waves…

Thoughts running back home tonight. H and I have not been kind the past few years.

In a world wrestling with new technologies, old fears, and existential risks, Dr. Strangelove reminds us that the line between sanity and catastrophe has always been thinner than we’d like to admit. boxd.it/bbDQbv

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched No obvious throughline here, other than posters featuring closeups and films that each subvert expectations.

Halloween Fright Club #14/31, Anthology Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee prove in The House That Dripped Blood that even a stiff upper lip can’t keep the weirdness from dripping in. boxd.it/bb7n21

Old school cat videos went hard. #TCMParty

Up to 20,000 newsreel stories available on newsreel.net is incredible. But what happened to Elizabeth Taylor’s voice? #TCMParty

I don’t always bid on silent auctions (in fact, I’ve never before bid on one before) but was happy to support Milwaukee Film. @mkefilm.bsky.social

One Battle After Another is a rush and reckoning. Leo, Penn, del Toro, Taylor, and Infiniti map the fault lines of family, ideals, and polarization. And that car chase? Less road and rubber than steel titans colliding on an undulating sea of desert highway. PTA is at full power here. boxd.it/baD6Od

Now seated for One Battle After Another in 70mm! @mkefilm.bsky.social

Halloween Fright Club #13/31, 70s Horror The Pyx (1973) is moody and atmospheric but far too disjointed for its own good. The supposed horror barely justifies the runtime. Interesting in places, but ultimately more curio than classic. boxd.it/ba5kzj

@benderoni.bsky.social I hear you are joining for the Act of Violence discussion Thursday. I saw Angels Flight 9/24/24. Just missed perfect timing by one day!

Les Blank’s A Poem is a Naked Person captures Leon Russell at his peak, with unforgettable performances, cameos by George Jones and Willie Nelson, and moments that reveal the beautiful chaos around the music and the era that helped create it. boxd.it/b9y8NH

Rewatched The Naked Island for film club. Gorgeous, hypnotic rhythm of labor and survival. Can’t decide though if the father is a stoic or total turd, leaving the mother to do everything. Still, the boys’ fishing and the tiny rituals make it unforgettable. boxd.it/b8EsWx

An astounding watch on this week’s #NoirAlley. A film made of ruins about ruins trying to rebuild something from the pieces. I didn’t realize at first Berlin Express is showing next week but was thinking of that one as a comparison. boxd.it/b8tE0X #TCMParty

Natürlich. Adding to my Christmas Noir list as soon as this is done. Might go right after Blast of Silence. #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Because it’s apparently not a film noir in post-war Berlin without a terrifying clown: The Murderers Are Among Us (1946) vs. Berlin Express (1948) #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Halloween Fright Club #12/31, Folk Horror Loving the Fess picks from @vinsyn.bsky.social! Eco-horror levels here up into folk horror of the Anthropocene. boxd.it/b8azpZ

Halloween Fright Club #11/31, Asian Horror The Demon’s Baby (1998) is a delirious Hong Kong splatter fest where a cook and a Taoist priest battle five evil spirits in a chaotic mix of gore, martial arts, and absurd comedy. boxd.it/b85crj

September 19, 1986 (USA)

I’ve got my coffee (sadly, no cherry pie) and am going in!

Watching A Photographic Memory felt deeply personal. Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s journey through her mother’s photographs is moving and meditative, exploring loss, memory, and the fragility of connection. The loneliness running through the story really hit me. boxd.it/b7nN6f @mkefilm.bsky.social

Solid lineup of documentary shorts about nature and creativity on the first night of the Dialogues Documentary Festival in Milwaukee. #LetterboxdFriday #LastDourWatched @mkefilm.bsky.social

Off to a great start at the Dialogues Documentary Festival! @mkefilm.bsky.social

It is a damn fine evening on the East Side of Milwaukee! Time for some shorts about nature and creativity before returning to my regularly scheduled Bills bullshit. #GoBills

Fulci’s turns a haunted New England home into a tomb where creeping dread, a gravestone in the floor, and a bat attack make terror feel personal. Bob and Mae’s bond carries the story into the realm of the dead, turning horror into something eerie, tragic, and strangely tender. boxd.it/1oNi

#NowWatching Fulci’s The House by the Cemetery (1981). Living in a house built on a cemetery with a murderous doctor in the basement sounds rough. But there’s always time for some Fiddle Faddle.

It’s almost time!

Doctor today: “Can you think of any reasons why you are having trouble sleeping?” Me: “Nope. I’ve got nothing.”

Halloween Fright Club #10/31, Supernatural Monster. Devil Doll blends sleek visuals with a gripping investigative plot, where hypnosis, control, and the uncanny collide in unsettling ways. boxd.it/b5X4bN

Halloween Fright Club #9/31, Alien Monster. What if humanity’s endless wars made us easy prey to space invaders? Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell mixes low-budget sci-fi and horror with a sharp anti-war edge and a chilling look at human nature. boxd.it/b4PL8R

Halloween Fright Club #8/31, Aughts Horror. Larry Fessenden’s Wendigo (2001) turns American folklore into a chilling coming-of-age story about family, violence, and the monsters we inherit. boxd.it/b4I9SD