Lips of Revelation #FilmNoirTitles #TCMParty #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential

Third Person Confidential (Lupo referring to Lupo) #TCMParty #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential

Crooks and thugs in suits! Imagine! #TCMParty #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Looking the other way is a skill he's perfected for decades

No one will be seated during he iconic tense-elevator-descending scene. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential

Is traditional legacy media incapable of meeting a moment in which power relies on propaganda and political theatre?

I think that shot of them voting the hit against a backdrop of the open skyline would have been meant as a shocker. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential

Wait, so you can't use emoji's on Bluesky?Or is it just Bluedeck...

Maybe he knows. Maybe he’s deluded himself into believing this, or is so enfeebled that he can’t make distinctions. He is fundamentally not a pathological liar but a bullshitter. He doesn’t give a shit about the truth. He’ll say anything that he thinks will be useful to him in the next ten seconds.

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

Wow! Did anyone ever do better at making smooth sinister than Richard Conte! #TCMParty #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential

Check out the body a woman was allowed to have back then! #MarilynMaxwellsShape #TCMParty #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential

He Had A Penchant for Nice Things #IffyFilmNoirTitles #TCMParty #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential

They Made Her Leave the Table #FilmNoirTitles #TCMParty #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential

Tom Powers from Double Indemnity! (Babs's to-be-offed husband) #TCMParty #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential

Steven Geray! (Uncle Pio in Gilda) #TCMParty #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential

"She was cute as lace pants." #BestMikeMazurkiLineEver #TCMParty #NoirAlley #NewYorkConfidential

category is: albums made by female artists well into their 30s that showed creative and artistic depth

Description of Act I, a movie about Moss Hart, on my tv screen: "The life of playwright Moss Hart is portrayed to reveal how she struggled in 1929 and was rejected ... until an off-B'way manager took a chance on her on condition she convince top comedy writer George S. Kaufman to help." #TCMParty

Thanks so much @hollyeh13.bsky.social ! I've wanted to see that for a long time and it was great to see it with all of you! #CineJanes

Am I way behind bc of ads? Am I the only one getting ads? #CineJanes

"That seems like quite a problem!" 😂 #CineJanes

The look of concern when she says she's an interior decorator! 😂 #CineJanes

Thanks @culturalgutter.bsky.social and @driveinmob.com for another great #DriveInMob! See you soon, kiddos!

I don't think that the hands of Joan Blondell's hand-double reflect the character's age. #DriveInMob

Damn! My feed started buffering. Where are we? #DriveInMob

Which, courtesy of Rod Steiger, features some of the greatest gum-chewing in the history of western civilization. #DriveInMob

would anyone really behave the way Jack Weston does here? It always seems so implausible to me. #DriveInMob

I love Joanie needling EGR in this. #DriveInMob

I wonder if Joan Blondell and Eddie G. were ever in a movie together in the 30s. #DriveInMob

According to Google AI, Ken Grant, who played the shoeshine boy, is now a retired healthcare executive living in the Maryland area. 1) How can that be? and 2) What the hell does that mean--"the Maryland area"? #DriveInMob

What's the noir with the villainous queer-coded masseuse? (And why in the world am I thinking of it now?) #DriveInMob

Was that the guy who crawls under the carousel in Stranger on a Train? #DriveInMob

Tough watch. Don't know about the rest of you, but I feel very chastened. Thanks for hosting, @driveinmob.com and @culturalgutter.bsky.social . You're the best! #DriveInMob

Well, this is very Breughelian. #DriveInMob

That wee shack would now set you back about $12 million. #DriveInMob

Bad shirt alert! #UnnaturalFibers #DriveInMob

CW: Now things get really scary. They form a bookclub. #DriveInMob

Oh, now the bugs are swaggering. That's uncool. #DriveInMob

They're literate now. Comes from eating all that raw meat. #DriveInMob

In the 70s everyone who was depressed slept on a prison cot. #DriveInMob

I just thought of a great tagline for this movie: "It's a feature, not a bug!" #DriveInMob

I think that steak's about to char itself. #DriveInMob

The girlfriend catching fire--now THAT was cool! #DriveInMob

Bark twice if you contac-papered a cookbook poorly in the 1970s. #DriveInMob

Girlie-friend is SO familair. Who is that actress? #DriveInMob

Men's pants in the 70s. How did we live through that? #DriveInMob

I thought he said, "Her hair was pretty badly damaged. they still don't know how badly her hair was impaired." 😂 #DriveInMob