Closest I've ever seen Werner come to a smile

Also unmissable in Visconti’s Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa

Second-best moustaches, imo

Really burying the Monica Bellucci Is Single lede here

Can it beat a movie with an age appropriate, actually sexy romance? I say no.

As the French social study The Taste of Others turns 25, Manuela Lazić revisits Agnès Jaoui’s clear-eyed directorial debut and the decades-long impact of her collaboration with Jean-Pierre Bacri. boxd.it/2IW

Just read a 1969 interview with John Mitchell where he says "Of course, you don't talk about your confidences with the president any more than you do about your confidences with your wife," and man, that's a Chekov's gun of an aside.

this list kicks off with a tribute to BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, a little gift of a movie that everyone should give themselves at least once

Posted on TCM's YouTube channel two days ago. Good timing.

I think one thing that makes this scene so good is that it underscores how a completely understandable, sympathetic, and rational impulse like this can lead to horror and destruction youtu.be/5X9XqD_k6TQ?...

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Should Soderbergh have directed this one? Sarah wisely says maybe yes.

TIL that Agatha Christie was once an aspiring opera singer and a lifelong admirer of Wagner.

It would also help if human reporters avoided things like "released by Warner Bros in 1942" — a total howler pretty clearly picked up from Google AI, which says WB was original distributor. It was not. I can't say it enough, that cute Google summary is wrong about old movies 99 times out of 100.

obsessed with this 21 savage/Amadeus edit

Doing homework for something super cool, but it means reckoning with these moustaches...

I recently rewatched The Insider; forgot that the news outlet in it is CBS’s 60 Minutes. In the end, Pacino’s character walks out. He says: “what got broken here doesn’t go back together.”

Randomly recalling that scene in I, Claudius where Caligula is announcing Tiberius's death to the assembled senators and a slave comes running out and says "He's still alive, he's asking for his dinner" and Macro has to go back in and smother him with a pillow, great scene

Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future

Episode 652: We are joined by @juliasirmons.bsky.social to discuss the legacy of 1999 in film and she gives us her Top 10 movies of 1999! Watch: youtu.be/M3PmpAR6lfc Listen: linktr.ee/insessionfilm

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oh Connecticut. my beautiful home state. you know I love you. but this is just a lie.

In My Man Godfrey, there’s this ludicrous line: “if other people can have five children, then so can other people.” And the way she nails the delivery makes it pure gold.

Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast. That’s how five-year-old me learned that cinema is magic.

Debbie Nelson was one of the best professors I ever had at U of C. This is profoundly disappointing.

As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.

My therapist at the time said this one was like being stuck with a particularly horrible patient for 90 minutes (compliment).

The Death of Stalin “This is factionalism!” (When the household does not agree with me) Trouble in Paradise “I want to see that moon in the champagne” (When I want something extra nice ) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance “Print the legend” (When I want credit for something I don’t totally deserve”)

Huh I forgot that The Insider is about 60 Minutes.

If you watch the Renée Richard’s 30 for 30 documentary, the counter to this is Billie Jean King, who supported Richards’s right to play in the US Open.

Rewatching Goldeneye and it's wild that they thought they could pass Robbie Coltrane and Minnie Driver off as Russians.

I'm a big Henry James head and this is even too digressive for me.

Thinking about how without PBS we wouldn't have four fully-staged Sondheim musicals filmed for audiences then and now

Liz Lemon was really onto something when she asked if Mirren is a wizard.

After 40 years it creaks and chafes in places, but it has a strange allure and undeniable power that I couldn’t shake.

On @1999thepodcast.bsky.social we talked about this one with @alexsteed.bsky.social — the way it satirizes Woodstein is indeed prescient.

It’s like Bizarro Cabaret! Relevant to our times! Very upsetting but I liked it

If you're not subscribed to @hifemme.bsky.social 's piercingly intelligent, vivid conversation about Showgirls with @deepimpactcrier.bsky.social. It crackles; makes me want to watch the movie again pronto.

Forgot that in Out of Sight, a lot of the sexy trunk talk is about movies from the 70s.

As much as I think that the surprised “I’m a pretty girl, Mama!” Is a ridiculous thing to come out of Natalie Wood’s mouth, she is really fantastic in Gypsy.

i have a lot of affection for KILL BILL and one thing i want more than anything is just a big remaster that presents both volumes as a single feature.

Why does this movie have a funk soundtrack and no original Muppet songs? Is it because Gonzo belongs to a race of Afrofuturist aliens? This movie sure isn’t going to explain it to you!

I wouldn't have guessed that an Austen adaptation would do well with a soupçon of Wes Anderson, but it's working here.

Always a joy to talk to a group of whip-smart women about movies and clothes. Sandy Powell is one of the great geniuses working in cinema today.

My sexual orientation is Elliott Gould lighting matches on every surface he can in The Long Goodbye

@1999thepodcast.bsky.social Big Jason Nesmith energy.

In which I become a Trekkie by default, and Annie rightly questions any fandom that makes you read a map.

Guys, the final deadline for being shocked that Mamdani’s mom is Mira Nair is next Monday, June 30th, write it down