Happy Holiday #LetterboxdFriday! #LastFourWatched 👀 #FilmSky #MovieSky

'Tis the Season!

Home movies by Dick Powell & Joan Blondell, courtesy of the @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social #FilmSky #MovieSky #JoanBlondell #DickPowell

Outgrowing spunky, teenage girl roles, LADY ON A TRAIN provided Deanna Durbin with a chance to play a sophisticated part. The film is a thriller set around Christmas, but with generous helpings of the fast-paced comedy at which Durbin excelled.

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was #botd in Lucca, Italia. He was among the 5th generation of musicians in his family. After attending a performance of Aida, he found his drive to compose operas. A lifelong cigar smoker, he died of throat cancer in 1924. #OperaSky #Puccini

Male Call #Liberace

I'm reading the Epstein Files. It's a quick read!

TCM's Annual Merrython! #TVSky #FilmSky #MovieSky #TCM

Merry #LetterboxdFriday🎄 #LastFourWatched 👀 #FilmSky #MovieSky

The 🎄 is up and trimmed. The fragrance of pine - "Eau de Tree" - O Tannenbaum!

Era Ender #FilmSky #MovieSky #Oscars #AcademyAwards #YouTube #TVSky

R.I.P. #RIP #RosaVonPraunheim 🏳️‍🌈 #FilmSky #MovieSky

Sheena Easton, Ruben Studdard, Peabo Bryson and Ilya Serov at last night's "Home for the Holidays" concert at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall. #MusicSky #SheenaEaston #RubenStuddard #PeaboBryson #IlyaSerov #SanFrancisco #DaviesSymphonyHall

Happy #LetterboxdFriday 🎉 #LastFourWatched 👀 #FilmSky #MovieSky

@voguetheatersf.bsky.social has revived the 3D version of "Kiss Me Kate" and it's a stellar stereoscopic sensation. Tommy Rall's tour jetés over the audience, Ann Miller tossing her gloves into the crowd during her striptease, Bob Fosse and Carol Haney showing us what's to come. #FilmSky #MovieSky

December 10, 2025

Here is Berthe Morisot, sitting on the balcony in Édouard Manet's painting "Le Balcon" as seen at San Francisco's Legion of Honor. Though it was interesting to learn about their relationship and their mutual influence, the show lacked some crucial works. #ArtSky #LegionofHonor #Morisot #Manet

R.I.P. #RIP #FrankGehry #AchitectureSky

Celebrated Deanna Durbin's Birthday and finally checked another Alfred Hitchcock off the List. Happy #LetterboxdFriday 🎉 #LastFourWatched 👀 #FilmSky #MovieSky

Born in Canada and raised in California, Edna Mae Durbin was recommended to MGM studios at 14 and was put in a musical short with youngster Judy Garland. Universal signed her and her first movie - Three Smart Girls - saved the studio from bankruptcy. #botd #DeannaDurbin #FilmSky #MovieSky

Lest We Forget: December 2 is the birthday of Maria Anna Cecilia Sophia Kalogeropoulos, aka: Maria Callas; aka "La Divina". Raised in Queens by her Greek immigrant family, she moved to Athens at age 13 to study music, one of the greatest vocalists of the 20th century. #botd #OperaSky #MariaCallas

Here's Hitch with his leads in "Young and Innocent" (1937). After decades of search, I was finally able to watch this and see Alfred Hitchcock solidifying his style. I'm down to only a few of his films that still elude me. "Strauss' Great Waltz" anyone? #FilmSky #MovieSky #Hitchcock #Young&Innocent

SF's Silent Film Festival and life kept me from seeing many contemporary movies in November. Finally watched Godard's delightful "Bande à Part", yet most of my favorites of the month were revisits. Top Five Below, with honorable mention for Colbert's "Cleopatra" and "The Sting". #FilmSky #MovieSky

Kaleidoscopic movie director William Berkeley Enos was nicknamed after the Broadway star, Amy Busby. Samuel Goldwyn brought him to Hollywood to direct Eddie Cantor musicals, but it was at Warner Bros where he found his footing. Had a cameo in 1970s The Phynx. #botd #BusbyBerkeley #FilmSky #MovieSky

A Night at the Opera. World Premiere of Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's "The Monkey King" presented by the San Francisco Opera. Tenor Kang Wang sang with clarion tone and remarkable character. Basil Twist's puppets! #OperaSky #SFO #MonkeyKing #HuangRuo #DavidHenryHwang #KangWang #BasilTwist

Happy #LetterboxdFriday 🎉 #LastFourWatched 👀 #FilmSky #MovieSky

Meanwhile, it's the morning of Thanksgiving Day at the Munsters...

Four Movies for Thanksgiving Viewing. #FilmSky 🦃 #MovieSky 🍗 #Thanksgiving #ForYourConsideration #PiecesofApril #HomefortheHolidays #Miracleon34thStreet

'Tis the Season #Thanksgiving #FilmSky #MovieSky

Born in Mexico City, Dreamboat Ricardo Montalban played bit parts on Broadway before making movies in Mexico. MGM hired him to fill their Latin Lover slot in 1947, typecasting he fought over the years - quite successfully in "Mystery Street". #botd #RicardoMontalban #Dreamboat #FilmSky #MovieSky

I don't want my page to become a cemetery, but we're losing so many giants lately... R.I.P. #RIP #JimmyCliff #ReggaeSky #Music

R.I.P. Udo Kier #RIP #UdoKier #FilmSky #MovieSky

Lest We Forget: Arthur "Harpo" Marx (November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964) #botd #HarpoMarx #FilmSky #MovieSky #MarxBrothers #LestWeForget

R.I.P. Gary Lakes (September 26, 1950 - November 11, 2025) #RIP #GaryLakes #OperaSky

He was appearing on Broadway in "Magda" when director Frank Tuttle offered him a film part in 1928. He mostly played villains until 1936 when he was featured in the comedy "My Man Godfrey" and was nominated for an Oscar. He made over 60 Amercian films. #FilmSky #botd #MischaAuer #MovieSky

Final day of the 2025 San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Today's fare includes Ernst Lubitsch' play on "The Taming of the Shrew" - "Kohlhiesels Töchter" (1920) with Emil Jannings and Henny Porten. Silents please! #FilmSky #MovieSky #SilentFilm #SFSFF #Lubitsch #KohlhieselsTöchter #EmilJannings

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of Edgar Ulmer's "Detour". Shot on a shoestring budget, the B-movie Noir is a celebration of fate gone wrong. "You're telling everyone I know I'm on your mind each place you go..." #Detour #FilmSky #MovieSky #FilmNoir #EdgarGUlmer #AnnSavage #TomNeal

My third night at The San Francisco Silent Film Festival features Anny Ondra as "Saxophine Susie". #FilmSky #MovieSky #SilentFilm #OrindaTheater #SFSFF

My second night at The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is lit with Cecil B. DeMille's "The Affairs of Anatol" with an all-star cast. They're ready for their closeups Mr. DeMille! #FilmSky #MovieSky #SilentFilm #OrindaTheater #SFSFF #CBDeMille #GloriaSwanson #BebeDaniels #WallaceReid #MonteBlue

This Viennese beauty made her American debut with the first of her 19 roles at San Francisco Opera in Der Fliegende Holländer; three years later she made her Met debut as Lady MacBeth. Her career would be littered with triumphs. She passed in 1998. #botd #LeonieRysanek #OperaSky

My first night at The 2025 San Francisco Silent Film Festival finds me swept away by the French Foreign Legion. "Nobody'll ever know how brave them soldiers was!" #FilmSky #MovieSky #SFSFF #SilentFilm #RonaldColman #NeilHamilton #RalphForbes #NoahBeery #WilliamPowell

Enjoyed "The New Yorker in Dog Years" exhibition featuring cover illustrations by Mark Ulriksen and others at The Museum of the Dog [40th & Lexington]. #ArtSky #Woof #MarkUlriksen #NewYorker #MuseumoftheDog #MansBestFriend

My partner & I went to the Museum of the Dog [40th & Lex] today, thus proving that just about any museum can find a reason to include classic films. 😉 #Woof #FilmSky #MovieSky #Lassie #YukonGold #MuseumoftheDog

R.I.P. #RIP #PaulineCollins #ShirleyValentine #FilmSky #MovieSky

Just a reminder...

Lest We Forget: Today is the Birthday of Jon-Erik Hexum November 5, 1957 – October 18, 1984 #RIP #botd #Jon-ErikHexum #TVSky

#Resist #Vote