The Insects' Christmas (Russia, 1913). It is a stop motion film directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz. Wikipedia link: it.wikipedia.org/wik... #silentfilm #classicfilm #cinema #film #movie

A poster wonderfully reflecting the film’s bleak tone: tundra planet raid, training slashed with betrayal and emasculation (dark knight pulling the weapon out of John Wayne’s hand), gunslinger turned to stone, and the young knight castrated.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) U.K. poster.

Happy #WinterSolstice

Ida Lupino and Dana Andrews conferring while preparing for the Lux Radio Theatre version of “Daisy Kenyon” on April 5, 1948.

The first known use of ‘conspiracy theory’ was in 1863…or so they want you to believe.

This entire weekend

As a princess bride fan I am upset

Snowfall in South Jersey:

New on FilmInt Online – a book review (Jonathan Monovich) of Every Movie is a Miracle: A Colloquy Between @leonardmaltin.bsky.social and #NatSegaloff “a heartfelt thank you to movies, the lives they shape, and the friendships they help form” #StickingPlaceBooks stickingplacebooks.com/books/every-...

Every time I teach The Killing ( #StanleyKubrick, 1956) at @rutgersupress.bsky.social , a fan club of hers appears in the class. #QueenoftheBs #filmnoir #noircity

@fulciseyefetish.bsky.social I bet you’ll be first in line!

Coming in July ‘26, edited by Murray Leeder and Gary D. Rhodes, a study of indigenous #horrorcinema in classical and recent works such as The Dead Can’t Dance, #LovecraftCountry, and @sgj.bsky.social’s The Only Good Indians: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477334133/

#documentary #orwell #raoulpeck #alexgibney www.youtube.com/watch?v=npwm...

Agnes Moorehead with her pet cat in the 1940s Moorehead was BOTD in 1900 #Caturday

KUOW - ICE stops Native American actress Elaine Miles in Redmond www.kuow.org/stories/ice-...

Arcs for The Pandemonium Waltz, my collection due out in February, should be available fairly soon. If you are a reviewer for a publication, drop me a line. Cover art by Derek Ford. And there is an interview with me by Kelly Link. TOC in 2 Comments below.

RIP Daniel Woodrell – here’s William Blick’s piece for Journal of NoirCon, from 2021: retreatsfromoblivion.com/2021/09/19/n... #noirfiction #gritlit #countrynoir

RIP Daniel Woodrell #noirfiction #gritlit

Lynn and I watched Train Dreams last night. I'd read the book when it first came out, and then again and really loved it. The movie had great acting and beautiful cinematography. Still, there are just some things fiction can do that can't be reproduced in a film. And what happened to the Wolf Girl?

#Thanksgiving2025 #twilightzone

“Just a funny little group of the strangest of #Pittsburgh people.” Loving this sentence, and Jennifer Maritza McCauley’s upcoming collection NEON STEEL (Feb 2026): #speculativefiction www.jennifermaritzamccauley.com/neon-steel

An actor playing a struggling musician, who plays a pop star – this would give #Plato a headache.

An important but widely ignored precursor to Hitchcock's Vertigo, Hammer's 1952 horror noir Stolen Face w/ Lisbeth Scott and Paul Henreid is now out on 4k in this beautiful limited edition. Includes my video essay on the film!

Our son Danny just handed me his brand-new LP yesterday evening. Wow! See first comment on the comments thread, below, to order your own copy, highest recommendation— —and that's a bit of Dad's (my) artwork on the vinyl 'hub' label. I'll be doing some one-of-a-kind ceramic originals soon with it...

#filmnoir #Noirvember #moviesky #filmsky #BOTD TIME FOR A DRINK🍸

Posters for “The Cheat” from The USA, Germany and Sweden #TCMParty #SilentSundayNights #TheCheat #SilentFilm

@franklininstitute.bsky.social – #accessibility #cerebralpalsyawareness

Many thanks for viewing and reading, Vincent Pereira! #neonoir #viewaskew DtK @arrowvideo.bsky.social produced by the wonderful @horrornonna.com!

Good time talking #CabinetOfDrCaligari with Jerry Carlson of @cuny.edu City Cinematheque. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDBA...

A reporter catches Ann Sothern in a grumpy mood, 1947: “Kissing scenes fun? ‘They're worst of all,’ she says. ‘You have to powder your lips so you won't get lipstick all over the actor. Then you get powder down your throat and you're miserable.’”

We're proud to be co-presenting the 1929 film ASPHALT at the #SFSFF on Sun, Nov 16, 5:00 pm, Orinda Theatre . Live musical accompaniment by the Sascha Jacobsen Ensemble Use use the promo code NOIRSF for $2 off at checkout: bit.ly/4p1eMFM @eddiemuller.bsky.social @moviessilently.bsky.social

Always knew I had a family of chipmunks in my back yard, and finally saw a little one:

Finally got to the source #novel of a wonderful foreign #indiethriller – Set during Italy’s Years of Lead, a surge of political crime and terrorism, the story relates the era to a child’s perspective, a boy that discovers a young victim. An interesting blend of Bildungsroman and Camus. #filmsky

"i can’t keep crying for dead and dying people without doing something about the death" –Daruis Simpson #poetry www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

www.facebook.com/share/r/1DAW... #horror #indiebookstores

Come see #Nosferatu at @gardenacinema on Sat Nov 1 (and #Halloween at @arttheatrelongbeach !!) #GRWM to go #flyering in #Gardena for our #silentfilm #horrorfilm with #livescore by #JCDEnsemble! A few #rehearsal pics #GardenaEvents #LongBeachHalloween #LiveMusic #silenthorror #fwmurnau #countorlock

Day 22: 31 Days of Horror: Now Watching: Nosferatu 1922 🧛‍♂️🩸⚰️ The 1st Nosferatu film, & still the best, imo. Groundbreaking, & paved the way for so much horror! I love Nosferatu in general cause it portrays vampires as monstrous & scary! 👹 #31daysofhorror #nosferatu #horrorsky

Tomorrow night – hope to see you at Inkwood Books, #Haddonfield, NJ: #horror #halloween #silenthorror #indybookstores

See you at Downtown #Haddonfield, NJ: #horrorfiction #silentcinema @filmsky.bsky.social #nosferatu #vampires

Hope to see you Friday night for my book signing of BECOMING #NOSFERATU at #Haddonfield, NJ’s Halloween Night Market #horrorfiction #silenthorror #horroranthology #poetry #indiebookstores

It me

#JohnWaters and #TraciLords introduce #surfrock trio #TheTrashwomen www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg0v...

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

Buster Keaton in "Film" - BOTD

"Undocumented in the U.S. South: How Youth Navigate Racialization in Policy and School Contexts" by Sophia Rodriguez www.rutgersuniversit... #Immigration #Undocumented #Education #Children #Politics #South

Next on the shortlist: Maggie Hennefeld's Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema Congrats Maggie and @columbiaup.bsky.social (also again!)