Gwen Verdon rehearsing Jane and Marilyn. #TCMParty #GentlemenPreferBlondes

Lila: The picture's finished, Georgia. You're business. I'm company. Jonathan: Shut up! Shut up and get back upstairs! Lila: All right. (starts, pauses) I forgot to tell you, Georgia. I saw the picture. Thought you were swell. Elaine Stewart #BornThisDay in THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952)

Ladies and Gentlemen, direct from the Farmers Market: The Dancing Strawberry!!!

Hans Richter, Sergei Eisenstein and Man Ray, 1929.

Love this shot. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #HouseofNumbers

I feel smart when I do Wordle and dumb when I do Connections. Explain.

Happy Birthday to Howard Winchester Hawks, born 130 years ago today

One of my favourites from last week’s trip to the Fitzwilliam. Look at the light on her face!💛 Édouard Vuillard ‘The Artist’s Sister with a Cup of Coffee’ 1893.

Oddly enough, looks like we've got reviews, some text and some video, for the last six films by Ozu, all great, which are playing tonight/early tomorrow, starting at 8, on @tcmtv.bsky.social Floating Weeds, Late Autumn, An Autumn Afternoon, Equinox Flower, Good Morning, and The End of Summer:

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

Instead of engaging with me and others about the poor conditions, ICE sent in an armored vehicle and a line of armed agents that only poured gasoline on the fire. Civilians were tackled and restrained, and agents fired pepper balls and spray into the crowd. 2/4

Just watched it based on your posts—delightful.

The Laurie Metcalf monologue on the last episode of HACKS is maybe the funniest piece of comedy writing since 30 ROCK went off the air.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

1. ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ (P&P, 1945) “Have you got any beams in your room?” “Yes, why?” “Count them before you go to sleep and your wish’ll come true.” “As easy as that?” “Only the first night under the roof.”

I want to take a nap in Burt’s hair. #TheFlameandtheArrow

I love those moments in an Ozu film when people have a little too much sake and start singing. #TCMParty

Remembering Honoré de Balzac on his birthday 🎂 Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Balzac IX, 1952 Museum of Modern Art "So far as we do move we move round him; every road comes back to him; he sits there, in spite of us, so massively, for orientation." - Henry James

Bananaphone should be put in a space capsule for alien races to discover and think highly of us because of it.

what d'ya say, space pigeon

WTF is up with the masking on Ten Thousand Bedrooms? #TCMParty

Finished my rereading of Moby Dick in total awe and with a big fat crush on Ishmael.

So much great Ozu on #TCMParty tonight, including one of my favorites, Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice.

5/17/50: Nicholas Ray landmark In a Lonely Place w/Bogie, Gloria Grahame More: Imogen Sara Smith: www.criterion.com/current/post... @kristinmjones.bsky.social: www.wsj.com/articles/noi... @carrierickey.bsky.social / @libraryofamerica.bsky.social: www.loa.org/news-and-vie...

James Mason in "The Reckless Moment" - BOTD

James Mason in "Bigger Than Life" - BOTD

Yay Ben! Searching Paris for Ben Franklin, America’s ‘Least-Dead’ Founder www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/t...

Happy Birthday, Stevie Wonder 🥳🎉 "As" is such a beautiful song... 🗣Just as hate knows love's the cure, you can rest your mind assure, that I'll be loving you always......

Certainly the one that offers an extraordinary sense of melancholy consolation.

The opening credits of Two for the Road. youtu.be/wMsZGgBV3x4

@dzgallery.bsky.social in Chelsea has a terrific show, The Great Unseen Collection, from Chicago-based collectors Joel and Carole Bernstein.

Helen Frankenthaler at Gagosian.

Thanks to Lauren Wolk for a good @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social talk. 🐭

Last night’s watch: Bresson’s L’Argent. How does he get us to pay attention like that???? Is he a brain wizard?

"Sholomon, King Sholomon."

"You will care for me though. I grow on people. Like moss." #botd Mary Astor is a blast in The Palm Beach Story (1942). With Joel McCrea. 🎬

Just got back from Whole Foods. Grocery prices are very, genuinely, what-could-it-be-Michael-ten-dollars

Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adoph Green. Photograph by Stanley Kubrick!

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

miracle mile drive-in, bloomfield hills, michigan, 1986

trail drive-in, amarillo, texas, 1977

The sequence that includes Ursula Andress disposing of a body, showing off her Lord Nelson statue, and seducing Peter Sellers to The Look of Love has never been equaled.

Started rewatching Daisy Kenyon and so impressed with Dana Andrews’ performance. It’s got layers and self-awareness I don’t think he shows anywhere else.

In honor of @mayor.nyc.gov Zohran's plan for launching a public grocery in East Harlem, here's a page on Municipal Markets from a 1937 City Planning Commission report entitled "The ABCs of City Planning"! chpcny.org/the-abc-of-c...

Let's hear it once again for things that were drawn and written by humans for humans just to make something that educates (and promotes prosocial values) more fun to look at

LEONARD NIMOY with his 1964 Buick Riviera, on the Desilu Studios lot in Hollywood in 1966 during filming of ‘Star Trek’.

Neon sign from #FilmNoir MURDER, MY SWEET (1944) of Florian's ~ a seedy, upstairs nightclub in downtown Los Angeles. It serves as a key lead for detective Philip Marlowe after he is hired by the hulking ex-con Moose Malloy to find his long-lost girlfriend, Velma Valento...

Could change every day, but... All That Heaven Allows Imitation of Life There's Always Tomorrow A Scandal in Paris Week-End with Father