Ida Lupino film still from Moontide (1942). One of my favourite Ida Lupino films.

Post an album that was important to you when you were 11.

Always room for one more. Real photo postcard from my collection, no date/info.

My slumber was deep and sweet, though over far too soon.

Everything's coming up Lynchian

At last I finished writing up my favourite books of 2025 - and it's only two months late... #BookSky📚

I didn’t say I was at THE St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. I said I was at A St. Valentine’s Day massacre.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

One of Marilyn Monroe’s cheekiest publicity stunts has inspired a haute couture collection... #MarilynMonroe

Joseph has entered the chat

Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights is on Channel 4 in the UK (on catchup.) Here's my review from 2011 tarahanks.com/2011/11/20/a...

Eugène Delacroix, Mary Magdalene in the Desert, 1845 “Nothing is as rich as the simplicity of the human face, intrepid, unadorned, more awash with light than loss. With head cocked, she gazes up to her crucified Master. Her face imparts hope & despair.” - Patti Smith, from Bread of Angels, a memoir

CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray, 1964). Loved this portrait of a lonely, creatively talented young woman trapped in an unfulfilling marriage with a workaholic journalist. >> (1/3) #FilmSky

'The Towpath', Maida Hill Tunnel (1912) by Christopher RW Nevinson (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

absolutely loathed WUTHERING HEIGHTS, peak literacy crisis movie

While several media outlets have reported that Sydney Sweeney wore Marilyn's original dress at SBIFF, it was in fact a ‘nearly identical’ garment sourced from a vintage boutique in Beverly Hills. #MarilynMonroe #SydneySweeney #SBIFF

Unfortunately we couldn't stay for the final carve up.

Michael Caine lifts girlfriend Natalie Wood off the ground. Photo by Bill Ray for Life in 1966.

"Difficult? Yes. But she was a wonderful comedienne and she had a charisma like no one before or since." Marilyn Monroe, as remembered by Jack Lemmon who was born 8 February 1925.

‘What has Heathcliff done to you?’ I asked.

Outside does take a bit of getting used to - but what doesn't?? So damp.

Plenty of comparisons between the Epstein scandal and the Profumo affair being drawn today... richardluck.substack.com/p/when-chris...

Salute ✊

There is a vibrant and fascinating community in a part of #Brighton #Sussex that day visitors and tourists rarely see. David Supple's photos brilliantly capture a few of those who live and shop in the London Road area of Brighton, and he discusses the ethics of street photography

Tony: This is a cultural evening, we're having no bounce-ups in here Greta: Oh, for goodness sake, be quiet. All this quarrelling is interfering with my perceptive aura. Tony: You see, you've upset Greta now, her perceptive aura has gone for a burton! #ThePoetrySociety

Peter Mandelson embroiled in scandal on Groundhog Day. Apt.

Morning all. Photographer Nick Hedges. Child blowing bubbles, Whitechapel, London 1969.

When the devil takes you up to a high place at the end of the century, and offers you all the kingdoms of the earth, you may well find yourself on Mulholland Drive.

My January reading #BookSky📚

Doreen Spooner's shot of Christine Keeler & Mandy Rice on a break from the trial of Stephen Ward at the Old Bailey, 1963. "I knew in my gut I’d got it. I’d got the contrast of personalities. It raised my stock no end."

Ithell Colquhoun, Pioneer Surrealist Artist, Occultist, Writer and Poet. ‘Dark Fire’ is one of Ithell’s most powerful late works from 1980. While the subject can conjure up the idea of regeneration, in this context it is the destructive force which prevails. #IthellColquhoun #Surrealism

Dorothy Malone and John Ireland at The Stork Club, ca. 1954

"There you stand, all covered up and huddled together. You're real heroes, aren't ya?" ~Rod Serling - "The Loner" 1965

Signs and portents

same, sister ✊✊

#OtD 29 Jan 2024 6-year-old Hind Rajab and 6 of her relatives were attacked in Gaza by Israeli troops. Rajab survived and called an ambulance, which got permission from Israel to rescue her. Then troops killed the paramedics, and Rajab also died. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1545...

#filmsky #moviesky #filmnoir #BOTD

“It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - it is one damn thing over and over.” Edna St. Vincent Millay

Marlon Brando, internet troll

1969, W 79th St, NYC. Laura Nyro on her apartment's fire escape📸Stephen Paley

Signs and portents of the advent of Woke 2 at the grocery store.

Today I am loving this 1942 cover of Life magazine. This "lonely wife" looks like Barbara Stanwyck plotting revenge against her cheating husband in a noir thriller