Missing great food this Tuesday

“General direction southwest” has cracked this case wide open! #TCMParty

I look at Jimmy John’s the same way sometimes that I can see out my apartment windows. #TCMParty

The flicker of grief in that final match lighting and role reversal gets me every time. #TCMParty #DoubleIndemnity

There’s more to Medford than meets the eye. #TCMParty

Apparently nothing that a car beer and bowling can’t fix. #TCMParty

So much for being productive this morning. #TCMParty

KEVIN!!! (Stopped by the Home Alone house on the way home.)

For Valentine’s Day, why not watch Marty’s romance about wanting the wrong thing at the right time in the wrong society. Nothing says true love like choosing duty while your heart quietly sets itself on fire. boxd.it/d7Pnkd

Starting Valentine’s Day right with Marty before heading to the Chicago Artisans Market.

Time for some Valentine’s Day jazz!

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Looks like I need to re-start that McEwan book and looking forward to reading The Director soon. @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social @tournamentofbooks.com

Loved seeing a familiar revenge saga take its proper form this afternoon in Chicago at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social boxd.it/d3u6kx

Wait’ll Percy hears about the internet! #TCMParty #NoirAlley

This tight sequence in Vice Squad says everything: a criminal smoking, a street clock, then a dissolve to a studio wall clock on a TV show set sponsored by a cigarette company. Vice, time, and media snap into a seamless loop. #TCMParty #NoirAlley

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Stop-motion magic meets train-spotting outsiders: Norstein + Gorin = history, detail, and little worlds in motion.

A melodramatic Finnish Gothic noir was just the ticket this evening: RESTLESS BLOOD (1946) from the new Teuvo Tulio @deafcrocodile.bsky.social collection boxd.it/cY4iNf

An all-timer in the pantheon of lawyer jokes. #TCMParty

“You missed the entire opera.” “Well, I only missed it by a few minutes.” Evening viewing plans confirmed. #TCMParty

Feeling conflicted about this one. Great performances and Zhao delivered. But the central idea asked more than I am willing to give. How can I metabolize generational trauma, catastrophic loss, and marital rupture in one transcendent act? I know… write a classic of world literature! boxd.it/cWLXfV

Diving in for #NoirAlley. I’ve always held off on this one because of the dog storyline. I’ll trust Eddie though and give the Charlotte Armstrong and John Alton connections a chance. #TCMParty

Morning breaks in a snowy Carolina Beach! Kudos to whomever was attempting to sled the stairs earlier with a boogie board. I like the enthusiasm.

The past hunts. The past haunts. And in Tombs of the Blind Dead, it always catches up. boxd.it/cVRjit

Current view from my front porch in Wilmington, NC. My rocking’ chair!

Meanwhile, back in the Cape Fear. It’s a little snowy at the tiki bar on Carolina Beach. Checking the surfcams periodically while getting live updates from my wife.

Oui Wisconsin! Caught the live performance of Right in the Eye this afternoon. Adding these incredible soundscapes to Georges Méliès films was transformative. A special kind of afternoon. Huge thanks to @mkefilm.bsky.social and Alliance Francaise de Milwaukee for bringing this to town.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched A lineup about looking, noticing, and sometimes wishing that you hadn’t no seen quite so much but not looking away. America, as seen from the corner of the frame.

Nothing like a fire alarm to liven up a Tuesday night. Good thing we watched vintage fire safety videos over the summer. And good luck to my neighbor who must now get Guido back on his sleep schedule.

“I never say that life doesn’t imitate art again.” Perfect use of Lady from Shanghai! #TCMParty

A tape recorder gimmick from 1993! Wild to think I saw this in the theater in 1993 with no inkling of smartphones. #TCMParty

There is no such thing as too much Double Indemnity. #TCMParty #filmnoir

Possible inspiration for a resolution reset with a new hat goal. #Casablanca #TCMParty

The exact moment Sam regrets ever learning that melody. #Casablanca #TCMParty

Brass monkey brought inside? Check!

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched From Hildegard Wither to grapes withering on the vine, with brief stops for Stan Brakhage peering into eternity and a poetry reading along the way.

If you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring your Stan Brakhage anthology in from the mailbox.