It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning. The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.

Top 5 movies genres: - Set in Sicily - NYC Street Noir (copious street scenes in NYC) - Gian Maria Volonté is Crazy - Jean Gabin in Love - Buster Keaton Dancing

This poor guy, essentially being ignored because he’s the driver. It’s his son! #TCMParty #NoirAlley #HighAndLow

I think it’s Mifune’s best performance. #HighAndLow #TCMParty #NoirAlley

I doubt I’ll make it to the end, but I highly recommend #HighAndLow. #TCMParty #NoirAlley

Running late? #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Blending. That’s what we call it now.

#NoirAlley tonight! It's late, it's long, it's soooooo good. 12:15a/9:15p #TCMParty #HighAndLow

Pope Leo Criterion Closet video WHEN

Watched LA SFIDA (1958) aka The Challenge, #BOTD Francesco Rosi's first film. Well made, true story of thuggish Vito taking over fruit stand biz in Naples. Still, didn't love it cuz Vito is unappealing. This Letterboxd review gives great background on Rosi and film: letterboxd.com/moonloop/fil...

Francesco Rosi made a film with Jim Belushi.

Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”

Watched TRE FRATELLI (1981) aka Three Brothers. A new-to-me Francesco Rosi #BOTD film. Three brothers return home when their mother dies. The political-personal mix doesn't totally work but the film is so moving and respectful of an old man's grief. An 89 year-old Charles Vanel broke my heart.

SALVATORE GIULIANO (1962) or ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES (1976)? To watch for Francesco Rosi #BOTD.

Italian poster for ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES (1976) Starring Lino Ventura Directed and co-written by Francesco Rosi - BOTD in 1922

Buster Keaton in Three Ages (1923)

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.

Only 10 people on Letterboxd recorded watching this. On TCM tonight 11:15p/8:15p. Directed by Lionel Barrymore. (TCM also lists Jacques Feyder).

Not loving how dark this is, hope that changes. #TheIpcressFile #TCMParty

The Scientist Vanishes! #TheIpcressFile #TCMParty

If I’ve seen #TheIpcressFile it was so long ago I don’t remember. Hope I can stay awake. 🥴 #TCMParty

Can't make any decisions about which religion to follow until all the world's spiritual leaders make their Letterboxd public.

Post someone who looks great in a hat

Why is Gabin so compelling? #PepeLeMoko #TCMParty

Thank you to TCM and Jean Gabin for keeping me company on a very stressful day. #PepeLeMoko #TCMParty

We’re about to experience heretofore unimaginable levels of “I haven’t read the story.”

Hey, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social, it wasn't just Barack Obama who professed to govern all Americans and not only those of his party. It's Trump that's the anomaly. #msnbc

Lorre-Greenstreet. Greenstreet-Lorre. #BackgroundToDanger #TCMParty

#LaBeteHumaine #TCMParty

Love how Renoir films this. #LaBeteHumaine #TCMParty

Casual acquaintance in restaurant: Why did you break up? Him: Because I wouldn't kill her husband. Acquaintance: Oh. Him: Acquaintance: Him: Acquaintance: Check please. #LaBeteHumaine #TCMParty

Funny visuals. 😊 #LaBeteHumaine #TCMParty

In the situation room?

C'est pas moi! (A bit of French I understand!) #LaBeteHumaine #TCMParty

Renoir! #LaBeteHumaine #TCMParty

You see Trump working the phones and realize White Housers are looking at this morning's emails and thinking, who cares abuot those nothingburgers we need to flip boebert so the bad stuff doesn't come out.

I think if a guy almost strangled me I'd run in the other direction. #LaBeteHumaine #TCMParty

Gabin has "crazy man's fever." #LaBeteHumaine #TCMParty

Gabin wanted to make this because of the train scenes. #LaBeteHumaine #TCMParty

This opening train scene is fantastic! #LaBeteHumaine #TCMParty

Hubba hubba. #LaBeteHumaine #TCMParty

You have two hours to clear your calendar so you can watch Jean Gabin engineer a train.

The right has become essentially a big propaganda apparatus; that's scary but also a weakness. www.unpopularfront.news/p/operation-...

Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue." Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

This is….INSANE. Like, more INSANE than regular insane.

And Saturday’s #NoirAlley!

Oh my goodness. Two (!) Jean Gabin films on TCM tomorrow. 1p/10a and 6:15p/3:15p.

23 films www.criterionchannel.com/starring-tat...

Tatsuya Nakadai in "When a Woman Ascends the Stairs" - RIP