holy mother of pick-up lines #noirvember

a few thoughts (w/ some spoilers) on the film boxd.it/bHmNYt

Chidambaram (Govindan Aravindan; 1985) #desiwatch

Lee Grant in her first role, where she doesn’t even get a name and is just listed as “Shoplifter”, won Best Actress at Cannes and was nom’d for Supp Actress at the Oscars. comic relief in a drama and has maybe 10 minutes of screentime, her final scene is a hoot. memorable debut #noirvember

Detective Story (William Wyler; 1951) #noirvember a fight for the soul of a policeman across a single day in a busy precinct. fun (and award-winning) ensemble around Kirk Douglas, though its stage origins are evident. wish all “Oscar bait” were this good

dialogue writing in the classic noir age was something else #noirvember

Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann; 1949) #noirvember classic man comes into town and causes havoc tale. post-war noir that takes a surgical knife to the facade of valour and glory that built reputations post WWII

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A few thoughts on Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra, a very frustrating film boxd.it/bEwZZh #DesiWatch

Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra (Dominic Arun; 2025) #DesiWatch

Cry of the City (Siodmak; 1948) found its moralising slightly annoying, esp for a noir movie, generally more textured even if the Hays Code keeps things tight. Mature and Conti play a good cat-and-dog game. reminded me of Scorsese crime movies for obvious reasons #noirvember

Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise; 1959) #noirvember we finally get a Black person as the lead in a classic noir when the era of classic noir has almost ended. Harry Belafonte's coolness really is the perfect foil to Robert Ryan's edginess

"oh this is gonna end up so badly for everyone involved" - me everytime I watch a classic noir #noirvember

made a @letterboxd.social list for noir movies from the classic era. it has 142 films for the timebeing. do suggest if I'm missing out on any good ones #noirvember boxd.it/jBTX4

honestly, I wouldn’t think it possible that Hitchcock would name the killer in one of his movies Keller. that feels too on the nose even for Hitchcock (I’m watching I Confess…) #noirvember

In A Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray; 1950) #noirvember I'd liked this on a first watch but Bogart's character was so hateful that it kept me at a distance. this time around, I'm fully turned. between this and Sunset Boulevard, screenwriters in 1950 were really going through it huh

yes, Bogart, I get you #noirvember

finally began #noirvember (yes, yes, ik it's only the second day of the month), that too on a bangin' note The Naked City (Jules Dassin; 1948)

it’s #Noirvember time, y’all. new @letterboxd.social favourites

second last movie of #Spooktober

People hating on and trying to abolish wfh also seem to think its just "lazy" people who work from home who started during COVID. But the reality is that its revolutionary for sick/disabled employees, people who commute long distances, caregivers and parents. But all employers care about is control

enjoyed the first Nightmare movie so much that I decided to go back for Craven's only other installment in the series #Spooktober

onto the Raimi #Spooktober

I've written 4 short stories so far. just one published. 3 of the 4 deal with housing/houses/homes. 2 of those 3, including the published one, are about the hazards of living on rent 💀💀

2 things I love about this almost-5k word short story: 1. it's not dialogue heavy, which is generally how my writing goes. even my published one is heavy on dialogue. feels like a little progress on the writing front 2. first story I've written in first-person

onto the next #Spooktober2025

A House of Dynamite (Bigelow; 2025) just not much to this film; should've been an email, or should've been Bigelow telling us to rewatch Lumet's Fail Safe. if this is a new-century upgrade to Fail Safe we're just better off with that instead. also, cowardly to end it how it does

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update: everyone manifest publication again, cuz I have inexplicably written a second short story, a 2.7k-worder black comedy

received a nice text from a friend today

next up on #Spooktober

update: everyone manifest publication, cuz I have finished writing the short ended up at 4,978 words. had a hard stop at 5k. phew

thinking of scrapping the short story I was writing and starting a new one about a person who goes on a killing spree after a night of no sleep due to the constant bursting of firecrackers

That Louvre heist better have included a 28-minute-long wordless sequence or I swear

Hotstar has put out a fully AI-gen Mahabharata, almost everything is centre-framed as if made to easily edit for reels + looking at the camera, as if they’re breaking the fourth wall. the AI models mouthing dialogues are so unnatural, and their movements so not-human like. slop of the highest order

received an LB notif that a guy had followed me. went to their profile and saw that he was from Israel (and was no longer following me)

everyone say "good job, Narci" (wrote 640 words of my next short story)

What makes something a heist as opposed to a theft? Is it simply how cool it is?

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yk I live in India, I can watch any horror film set in India. if I'd be living in the US, I'd be able to watch any horror film set there while there. if I'd be in rural Scotland, same. if I were in space, there too. but if I were in Antarctica, there is no way I'd be able to watch The Thing

rewatch time #spooktober

ew, "formal request". sue those fuckers into oblivion

Last four watched, Spooktober edition

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Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.

i talked to @garethgore.bsky.social, author of the excellent exposé, “Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church,” last year podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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