My Xmas (sic) re-viewing: THE HANDS OF ORLAC (Robert Wiene, 1924), starring the sublime Conrad Veidt.

The bleakest Xmas season after the hardest year of my life. Please 2026, no catastrophes eh?

DEADLINE EXTENDED for the MASCULINITIES IN WEIMAR CINEMA collection!!! It was 15 November 2025 and it now is 7 JANUARY 2026: works.hcommons.org/records/5249a-1fz33 academia.edu/143948408/WEIMAR_CFC Please feel free to contact me at [email protected] for ANY query! Remember: 7 JANUARY now! 🙂

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Emil Jannings in THE LAST COMMAND (Josef von Sternberg, 1928).

Please sign to prevent the closure of Modern Languages at Nottingham.

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Tonight's re-viewing: ASPHALT (Joe May, 1929). Wow. I'd forgotten how good this film was! ❤

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The Government is planning to roll out mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...

Call for Chapters: MASCULINITIES IN WEIMAR CINEMA

- MASCULINITIES IN WEIMAR CINEMA - Call for Chapters!

@mharrabin.bsky.social Dear Molly, how can I share this Weimar film-related Call for Chapters? Any help much appreciated!

@weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social Hello there! Could I possibly ask you to share this CfC on Masculinities in Weimar Cinema? :)

Potsdamer Platz by Night (Lesser Ury, ca. 1922) My ❤ is there.

Israel plans to take over Gaza City. Starmer says their plan is wrong & they must rethink it, but the UK is still supporting Israel with arms sales, training, RAF surveillance flights & more. Sign the petition: tell Keir he MUST end this support: 38d.gs/hwpb

Israel plans to take over Gaza City. Starmer says their plan is wrong & they must rethink it, but the UK is still supporting Israel with arms sales, training, RAF surveillance flights & more. Sign the petition: tell Keir he MUST end this support: 38d.gs/hwpb

Which is the best biography (in English) of Thomas Mann?! I've read everything about Klaus and Erika.

Wow, I've just had to use facial age estimation to prove I'm an adult, here on Bluesky. It was painless.

STEFAN ZWEIG 💔

Struggling through unprecedented personal shite including my partner's cancer, I remind myself of my work, the best part of myself: this is a very old piece, published in 2016 I beleive. I'm proud of it: www.screeningthepast.com/issue-41-fir...

Pola Negri ❤️

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Well, hello, Ernst Deutsch. ❤ ❤ ❤

Eschatology: ‘the end of the world’ or ‘end times’, from the Greek ‘eskhatos’ = ‘last’.

'COFFIN?!' The sublime Joseph Cotten in what is probably my fav film ever, THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed, 1949). Happy Heavenly birthday, Joseph Cotten ❤

HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY, SIGMUND FREUD! Thank you for inspiring some of my best work. Grateful you were spared the horrors surrounding your final years, and died in London.

Konrad (Helmut Berger): 'There's no such a thing as a clean break.' Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno / Conversation Piece (Luchino Visconti, 1974) 💔❤️💔 He is right...there isn't.

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

Current mood:

Alone on the globe.

Remembering Paul Robeson on his birthday #botd

Homage to the American labour activist and tragic hero Joe Hill, sang by the magnificent Paul Robeson, and based on the poem by Alfred Hayes, who was born a British Jew in Whitechapel, London. Art and humanity meet in mysterious ways ❤

Ever-increasing affinity with my adored Stefan Zweig ❤️💔❤️💔

Waterloo Bridge, Overcast Weather, 1901 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10850

Young Sigmund Freud.

The Bridge, Amsterdam, 1874 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8278

Houses of Parliament, Sunset 02, 1904 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10931

In addition to being 1 of 4 directors of No Other Land, Hamdan Ballal appears several times in the film. In one memorable scene, he argues w/ one of his Israeli co-directors about their relative position of safety & privilege. As he walks off, he adds, "Let's keep talking." This news is sickening.

Deep Winter (Cuno Amiet, 1904) Someone rescue me.

'Divided from herself and her fair judgement'. OPHELIA (John Everett Millais, 1851)

Nabokov taught a European fiction course at Cornell in the 1950s. His exam questions, here on BLEAK HOUSE, are something else (reproduced in his "Lectures on Literature" volume).

STRUGGLING.

WAKE UP, DEMOCRATS!