The California Theater building in Berkeley has been bought by... some guy who owns a nudist swinger resort in Palm Springs?

BAMPFA's next season is trickling in and they're showing Dorsky's Arboretum Cycle, one of my absolute S&S 10-level all timers, but it's after I will have already moved for school 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 bampfa.org/program/nath...

This is so neat: Haghefilm has a virtual tour of their film labs with short 360° panoramic videos of someone at work in each room haghefilm-virtualtour.nl/virtual-tour...

Our long cinephiliac nightmare is over.

wow, fuck Target

"There is an urgent need for places where languages meet, stories cross, & people recognize their connection to one another." With community support, CAT is opening a permanent home for literary translation. Read the news in @publisherswkly.bsky.social. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Today's Our Gang short Wild Poses features character actor Franklin Pangborn as photographer "Otto Phocus", who had a long career playing fastidious and easily flustered characters (IMDB lists 242 credits): www.imdb.com/name/nm06594... Anyway, come escape the rain at our theater. Showtime is 3pm!

Fuckin sucks

Rohmer's only novel is getting an English translation this summer: www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/elis...

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Update: just discovered the Niles is screening a deepcut Borzage silent while I am in LA so I may no longer be going-to-be-okay...

No don’t arrange your bookshelf by color ur so sexy

We do not need ways to make writing easier so there's more of it. We need ways to make writing harder so there's less of it.

Good god–the first of three volumes!

Aline MacMahon AND a celery vase! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celery_...

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

Good day...

Mikio Naruse and Hideko Takamine, one of the greatest director-star creative partnerships Takamine was BOTD in 1924

Forget the Oxford comma or the em-dash:- bring back the dog's bollocks.

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

Your periodic reminder that you should give these good people who do good programming more of your money.

Joan Crawford by Eve Arnold, 1959

Just realized that the one, single, sole Naruse I had to miss in BAMPFA's retrospective is screening in LA when I'm there next month.

Well, shit, they're doing a Mitchell Leisen retro at Ritrovato this year...

Memories from the heart of the Aids crisis Gideon Mendel’s The Ward began in 1993 when he spent a number of weeks on the Charles Bell wards in London’s Middlesex Hospital. All the patients on the ward were dying with the knowledge that there was no cure for the disease. gideonmendel.com/the-ward/

Stop showing me things Elon Musk says I do not care!!!!

So recently I got this device called the Instruo Pocket Scion. It takes electrical signals from plants and passes them through a sound engine. I hooked it up to this calla lily in my garden and here's what happened:

every so often I like to look at my notes from when we discovered the uncensored BABY FACE in the @librarycongress.bsky.social collections

Post four fictional characters you relate to and let people assume things about you.

Philippe Chancel's photos of the Nazi hunting Rockabilly street gangs of 80s Paris.

Well I guess now comes the time of finding out

🎉🎉🎉The Big Roxie is getting motorized masking! 🎉🎉🎉

I am begging the Bay Area's film orgs to get a shared calendar. Doclands is the second weekend of SFFILM. CAAMFest is the same weekend as SFSFF. DFF is the same weekend as MVFF. Stop doing this!

why is Steam so bad at letting me give them money

Worthy GoFundMe Alert: Support Shapeshifters Cinema, Brewery & Café www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...

Shapeshifters Cinema is an absolutely essential home for the Bay Area's film-going and film-making community and needs to fundraise $60k in the next two weeks. Help them out and spread the news!

Ad for costumes for ushers to wear during screenings of the perverse horror classic THE BLACK CAT (1934) #Caturday

"Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people."

Supreme House of Cheese Toluca, IL

Timed driving back from LA today just so I can sit in the dark for three hours and cry every drop of moisture from my entire body

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there’s a pretty cool series coming up at the Orinda Theater starting next month, check it out!

the technology the left is excited about is 16mm projectors

Also, noting that this set is intentionally NOT billed as a "Vol. 1," BFI folks said on FB that this must sell out, "and not years from now," if they're going to do another set. OrbitDVD has it in stock if you're in the US (and it's only $40 for a 5 film/3 disc set w/ bound booklet—which is crazy).

"In lieu of flowers, the family and Zipporah Films kindly request that you support your local PBS affiliate or independent bookstore in Frederick Wiseman’s memory."