It was truly a pleasure to discuss Jean Renoir's GRAND ILLUSION with @cinemaroni.bsky.social on her podcast Seeing Faces in the Movies. Link below: seeingfacesinmovies.com/episodes/gra...

Humanities or athletics department?

I wasn’t born to study indoors on a Sunday I was born to have a margarita on the roof 😭

Good morning

Whoomf made breakfast burritos for the team today?

Opened an email from Awry (gay guy underwear) thinking it was from Away (millennial luggage) and got VERY confused about the direction the business was taking

Hope is the kernel of resistance. Movies are meaningful parts of our culture. They are political. And in our own uniquely shitty times, the films of Charlie Chaplin offer a radical optimism that connects the struggles of the past with those of the present. Watch here 👉 youtu.be/LPF30AqxVFE?...

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🍿 Ann Arbor and Michiganders! 🍿 I’ll be introducing Creature from the Black Lagoon in 35mm and anaglyphic 3-D NEXT SATURDAY, 4/18, at 1:30 PM. Grab your glasses and let’s dive into this terrific creature feature together! 🎟️ Tix here: marquee-arts.org/event-page/?...

Why do gay men love Titanic? It’s a question I explored a few years ago on Piece of Pie: The Queer Film Podcast. Listen here as I go long on the power of resilience, spectacle, and history 👉 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Good morning! Titanic departed Southampton and began its fateful voyage today 114 years ago. Here is part of a British Pathé newsreel released post-disaster, with footage of Titanic on 2 April leaving Belfast.

Gosh this is so special. Just absolute movie magic over here.

My Presidents' Day opinion is that we should replace it with Union Day on April 9, where the POTUS, VP, Cabinet, 535 members of Congress, 9 SCOTUS Justices, & 50 governors assembled at Appomattox to remember who actually won the war & why we fought it & that we should finally finish Reconstruction.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day to every patriot in the land!

ebook central you will never know peace

Post-margarita Pink Floyd >>>

Treating myself to a Cherry Coke Zero today cause Benjamin told me 🍒😎

For your Oscar consideration: @ptklein.com as Nate in the Delta safety video

Good morning mon amours, it’s Rex Manning Day!

Who wants to come over and listen to the empire records soundtrack all day

In the future someone is gonna watch the credits to a film like Empire Records and wanna write that he was a truly dominant force in our society decades before his ascendency to the highest order of power, and I want them to know that he was loser and a laughingstock then, too, and we all knew it.

📢 JOHN 📢 GAVIN 📢 !!! 📢

Hope is the kernel of resistance. Movies are meaningful parts of our culture. They are political. And in our own uniquely shitty times, the films of Charlie Chaplin offer a radical optimism that connects the struggles of the past with those of the present. Watch here 👉 youtu.be/LPF30AqxVFE?...

Pink Floyd and leg day >>>

Like so many silent films, A Trip to the Moon has a wild story. The hand-painted color version of the film was thought to be lost for more than 90 years. A deteriorating print was discovered in 1993, setting off a restoration project that took nearly two decades to complete.

Upgraded to a margarita

Weekly retail therapy time but it’s just downloading and filing PDFs 😍

Treating myself to a Coke Zero cause gosh darnit I deserve it

Good morning, let’s go the moon ___ Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon, Georges Méliès, 1902)

Incredibly well said. Repetition isn’t reportage!

Good morning, this is how I’m dressed today ___ Jesus Christ Superstar (Norman Jewison, 1973)

Well I’ve discovered the most homophobic place on earth (regional airport without iced coffee????)

I’m at the University of Wisconsin-Madison today talking about how the aesthetics and technologies of 3-D cinema make the visual and social pleasures of the movies palpable.

Just saw four bunny rabbits playing in the grass 🥹

Huge, huge thanks to everyone who listens to @jasonachristian.bsky.social, @tonyjballas.bsky.social, and I over on @coldwarcinema.com every few weeks. It’s so rewarding to share these movies and to have conversations about how and why movies and history matter.

Good morning Madison! 🦡

It’s 1914 and boys are kissing boys! It’s not Heated Rivalry, it’s Charlie Chaplin. So why watch old movies? It’s to find evidence of yourself. Watch the whole video here 👉 youtu.be/LPF30AqxVFE?...

The way an airport McDonald’s hashbrown absolutely hits 😮‍💨

It’s 1914 and boys are kissing boys! It’s not Heated Rivalry, it’s Charlie Chaplin. So why watch old movies? It’s to find evidence of yourself. Watch the whole video here 👉 youtu.be/LPF30AqxVFE?...

Who wants to get a nacho hat with me?

gym and movies and movies and gym

Lovely @coldwarcinema.com shout out here 🥰 Can’t wait to speak with @historyonfilm.bsky.social again!

Ok I’m halfway through (work gets in the way) This is a fantastic conversation! And so well edited to bring in all these clips. 👏👏👏

I’m on Silly Humans this week talking about drag, desire, and Charlie Chaplin! Join me to think about how we find queer undercurrents where supposedly none exist, Chaplin's radical politics and his Cold War exile from America, and why his films remain urgently relevant. Watch/Listen here👇

Good morning! Was yesterday weird for anyone else?

Thinking about making chicken cutlets for dinner…

Today in a nutshell. 🧮 ♻️ 🎥 🍋