Once again at the ballpark

I had a fantastic time talking with comrades @jasonachristian.bsky.social, @tonyjballas.bsky.social, and @ptklein.com about one of my favorite films! Check it out and follow @coldwarcinema.com!

Tonight, on the big screen:

Going to the movies with friends again tonight 😍

There is almost nothing quite as nice as sharing movies with your friends.

That’s my husband and that’s my husband and that’s my husband and that’s my husband and that’s my husband and that’s

Herr Bisch on a time crunch:

Took a dozen friends to see Chaplin’s Modern Times on 35mm tonight and I am simply on cloud nine

yOuRe GoNNa bE OuT oF A jOb ItS sO sMArT

Here’s an excerpt from my conversation with @ptklein.com about IN NIGHT AND ICE for The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever: 1912. Links in quoted post, including how to submit your top five for 1912 by Monday to be included in the overall list for the season!

To the woman who felt the need to honk, stop her car, roll down her window, and yell that people were taking too long in the cross walk, I hope you have a day that matches your energy 🥰

What we’re NOT gonna do is bad mouth Taco Time on the timeline 😡

1912 E6 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is live! @ptklein.com is the last but not least guest of the season and selects a group of films that speak to his interests: the movie that got him into silent cinema, Westerns, the Titanic, and more. Links 👇

I come back to this monologue in Sam Fuller’s Pickup on South Street often. “I have to go on making a living so I can die” so neatly captures what so many of us have felt for so long. For far too many, the measure of doing well is not saving for a rainy day but weathering the on-going storm.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage

Gay guy music video night but we’re just watching this on repeat

Tina Turner’s Winfield Cup ad is terrific for a lot of reasons: the unique cross promotion between industries, the music video quality of the inserts, the mustaches, the bulging muscle hunks and their glistening torsos…

Saw this clip of McCartney interviewed on the South Bank Show in 1978 the other day and haven’t been able to get it out of my head. It’s a one-minute crash course in creativity and success. You can’t be afraid of being seen as silly or not good enough. You just have to do the work and get it out.

This ad ran just before the feature on the original Batman VHS tape and is absolutely etched into my memory. A billowing Batman cape on a Diet Coke can? That’s camp, baby. To this day I can’t have a Coke without imitating Michael Gough’s delightfully refreshed “aah.”

To this day I maintain that Volkswagen’s Milky Way commercial from 1999 is one of the best short films ever made, tbh

The thing about AI isn’t that it will lead to a singularity in which computers enslave all of humankind, but rather that it is a dream of guiltless slavery for some: a world in which real wages race to the bottom against threats of eventual unemployment while a select class pockets excess profits.

good morning, what makes you wanna stick around?

“The risk of the technocratic paradigm: ⚠️ Efficiency becomes the sole criterion ⚠️ Profit guides decisions ⚠️ Al accelerates the problem ⚠️ Person reduced to performance”

A tremendous list of films that work through what we’re working through. One more I’ve been thinking a lot about lately: Tomorrow Never Dies, the Bond franchise’s prescient commentary on billionaire interference in the news and geopolitics.

EXT. ALLEY - NIGHT REBA corners a THIEF against a grimy brick wall. It glistens in the moonlight. He cowers, his eyes bloodshot with fear. REBA You think you’re a survivor? She raises her gun to his temple. Cocks it. A sly smile. REBA A-Reba-derci, motherfu— BANG!

Leg day 🍗🍗

Tonight’s new-to-me movie, a Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins penned murder mystery:

Truly so much fun buying your friends’ books

Duo Mobile asking if I am enjoying using Duo Mobile plz you can’t be serious

On a train maybe I’ll take a gay guy train selfie

Have you considered going to a crowded gay bar and dancing today

Gonna have pizza for breakfast and I am so excited

It’s her time

tbh this is exactly what Bluesky is like

Baseball popcorn is not as good as movie theater popcorn but it’s still popcorn and that’s a plus

good morning it’s

Not to get you guys excited but it’s the pool day of the summer 😎

Those of us with exposed staches have our own little secrets too!

Kind of insane that critics met McCartney’s Ram, a perfect record, with indifference during its initial release. All of the sketches and doodles of his self-titled debut but fully realized, along with some of the most honest lyrics of his career.

Oh I’m officially Kumori pilled

The Sheep Detectives is an early contender for one of the year’s best films. It’s a remarkably moving parable about the power of collective memory and kinship in driving back those that seek to harm the flock. If you can, see this in a crowded auditorium. An absolute delight!

Diva let’s investigate! 🕵️‍♂️ Tonight, on the big screen:

“But the best of Cuban cinema is complex and nuanced, not the one-dimensional didacticism imagined by detractors, and the creators always prioritize aesthetic concerns…” A terrific read from @coldwarcinema.com’s @jasonachristian.bsky.social on his recent visit to Cuba.

Got one of those clip-on lavalier microphones for 💫 portable podcasting 💫 😍 What insufferable, quotidian item should I clip it to and hold instead of attaching it to my shirt?

good morning, you are loved 🫂

Season 2 isn't over quite yet! This week we close out our three part series on teen movies and the moral panic around juvenile delinquency, but coming up next is TOMORROW NEVER DIES with International Man of History @ptklein.com!

There have been working products on the market to solve for “reading names quickly at commencement ceremonies,” but why use those when we can all pay more for a *new* product with the hottest tech and ruin a very big day for hundreds of people?

Chat what is your chipotle order