they should paint little people on the side of jd vance like he was a ww2 bomber

Unregenerately!

Just watched it. We are not worthy.

Marcello

It’s reverse Stepford Wives. Loved it.

Monsters & Wives Week continues. I Married a Monster from Outer Space — trailer commentary from TFH Guru Gillian Wallace Horvat. trailersfromhell.com/i-married-mo...

How is your day going so far? Did you realize on the treadmill that you had two different gym shoes on?

The performance Borzage got out of Brent—what a miracle worker.

Mad magazine.

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

Remembering the great Japanese filmmaker, Keisuke Kinoshita (木下 惠介), on his 113th birthday! Carmen Comes Home (1951) Director: Keisuke Kinoshita

Tonight’s Kenoshita: Carmen Comes Home (1951). Hideko Takamine is the very picture of devil may care. What an actor!

Who needs terroir when you can cut it with a knife? Photo from @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social

Last night’s Kinoshita: Twenty-Four Eyes (1954). Hideko Takamine is luminous, but what sticks with me is the sense early on of how the girls are at the mercy of so many forces beyond their control.

Jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!

Happy Ned Glass Birthday+ 1 to all who celebrate. youtu.be/-6DUQi6ryEE

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Wednesday

I also loved him in Di Leo’s poliziotteschi.

Happy Richard Conte Day! #botd 🎬

Realized this was one we hadn’t seen and immediately remedied the situation—thanks for the mention! He was terrific, as always.

Tonight’s Nakadai: Okamoto’s Sword of Doom (1966)

Part 4 of my 🎶Spring Gloom🎶 series: a too-short film version of a Frank Loesser song. It has been recorded by all the female greats, but usually in a slower & more lugubrious style. (Helen Merrill will break your heart.) Deanna swings it briskly & briefly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbwR...

Grace Hartigan with friends at the Cedar Bar in Greenwich Village 📷 John Cohen, 1959 From Dwight Ripley's An Alphabetical Guide to Modern Art: Dressed to the teeth by Fath, Miss Hartigan Would still be wearing a woolly cardigan.

Last (#5) in a series of 🎶Spring songs🎶 This one is *not* gloomy. Composed & sung by the inimitable Blossom Dearie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjYn...

Last night’s Nakadai: Teshigahara’s The Face of Another (1966). Ultimately too vintage art house for my taste but amazing images and wow— what a performance.

Reminder of my favorite college poster ever.

All the Philly celebs are out for the No Kings Rally today. 🧵

Just watched Kobayashi’s Harakiri (1962). We’re not worthy.

Vuillard and Münter

Just made a special trip to see it—many thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Roy Lichtenstein, "Stretcher Frame with Cross Bars III," 1968

Tonight’s Nakadai: Kill! (1968).

Behind the scenes of Jacques Tati's masterpiece, PLAYTIME - showing next Sun 29th March at 14:45. Released in 1967, this is modernist comedy on a massive scale. Offices, airports, showrooms, all humming with chaos as characters drift and collide. 🎟️: buff.ly/74D0Nyd

Lucky he was writing in my formative years. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/a...

Just watched it. Looks amazing—mega mise-en-scène—and Nakadai is terrific.

Happy vernal equinox to all who celebrate!

This is Hank. He is incredibly invested in this plumbing project that does not require him in the slightest. 13/10 (TT: compound_interest_)

My wish for Philip Roth’s birthday: someone gives @audacityofdespair.bsky.social a boatload of money to make a limited series out of the Goodbye, Columbus stories.

Faye Dunaway photographed by Terry O'Neill at the Beverly Hills Hotel the morning after the Academy Awards, March 1977

Last night’s watch: Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident (2025). Along with The Secret Agent and the Benicio del Toro scenes from One Battle After Another…not since the 1970s have I seen films wield paranoia so well—and try to warn us so effectively.

I just want to look at endless video and stills of great art being hung on wall. www.facebook.com/share/r/1CcB...

OBAA, Secret Agent, and It Was Just an Accident form a really interesting triptych of trying-to-live-in-an-authoritarian-state stories

The only other of Menzel’s works of the Shedd Aquarium I could find; this one from 1933 is so evocative to me of the dimly but invitingly lit windows of an aquarium. Though no animals are depicted, the water feels full of light and movement.

The print was only so-so, but Félix burns up the screen, and the scene where she says goodbye to her lover (in her other role, as a brunette) over the phone is extraordinary.

Just watched Momplet’s Amok (1944) with María Félix in a blonde wig!

Watching The Secret Agent and they keep rolling out new and sexier looks for Wagner Moura like you're unlocking skins for his character

O Agente Secreto, meu (secreto) preferido do ano 💛