Everyone talks about Gene Tierney's sunglasses, swimsuits, and ice blue slippers in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN - and rightly so - but it's really all about her exquisite salmon pink wide-leg slacks. These are perfect in colour, form, and execution. And I want a pair!

This article is very good, and very well-written. Gets exactly the point across.

A controversial category; here's some great neo-noirs for Noirvember.

More noir! World noir!

For those of you doing some Noirvember, or just wanting to watch some really good movies!

It's #Noirvember and also the @overlandjournal.bsky.social Subscriberthon! Here's a piece on the joys of themed viewing I wrote for Overland a few years ago, plus a reminder to: watch noir and support great independent publications. overland.org.au/2022/11/noir...

The first three noirs I've watched this month already, all featured carnival music. It sure sounds unsettling!

Keeping track of my Noirvember viewing here, 4 noirs in already and many more to come boxd.it/PRtYU

October 31st / November 1st

I watched 42 horror films in October - some spookier than others, some surely better, but importantly, all awesome - my list here

October 31st / November 1st

A true gift from the weird film heavens, Teuvo Tulio is a bona fide original and I am thrilled to have a booklet essay included here on his early 70s Sirkian smut extravaganza SENSUELA

A great way to spend a spooky night 💀

On the train to my last teaching day of semester, which means I've had my last 5.20am alarm of semester!

Wow! Will definitely need to visit this when I can get back to NYC (...in four years maybe).

If you missed Friday's online briefing on uni governance reform you can watch the recording: zoom.us/clips/share/... Lots to report: Victoria's new inquiry, plus many more moves towards genuine reform of the way our universities operate. www.nteu.au/News_Article... #HigherEducation #AcademicSky

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Great thread! Her focus is the No Kings protests in the US, but it applies equally to anti-genocide & anti-fascist protest everywhere. Protest reclaims community & the public sphere when neoliberalism wants to atomise us & media & the internet are ideologically captive, enshittified & sloppified

I'm totally over the moon about this set - I've got a commentary and an essay on there - because it looks so beautiful! This stuff is so wild and I cannot wait to see just how gorgeous the films are all together.

I'm totally over the moon about this set - I've got a commentary and an essay on there - because it looks so beautiful! This stuff is so wild and I cannot wait to see just how gorgeous the films are all together.

Guess I should have said dorky broads. Still fantastic.

Just over a year ago I rewatched the quintessential cool broads film. It's just so good and I love Diane Keaton - indeed, all of them - so much.

Israel lies and the world lets it.

Watched two wildly different horror movies tonight and I picked the bad guy correctly in both of them 😊

On AI and anti-intellectualism. High marks shouldn't be an aim without a process - the learning is the point. I'm trying to embed this approach into my classes.

I've long been obsessed with carnivals and amusement park settings, so I quickly put together this list. Only films that I've seen so it'll keep building. Long live the ghost train!

I've long been obsessed with carnivals and amusement park settings, so I quickly put together this list. Only films that I've seen so it'll keep building. Long live the ghost train!

It's been a tradition for my partner and I, on the first night of October, to watch two big horror sequels. This year we couldn't schedule it until tonight, the first Friday. Worth it!

Might go slow because I have a not-horror project this month, but I've started my October diary here. letterboxd.com/cinemelo/lis...

The Palestinian photojournalist who Israel killed an hour ago, Yahia Barzaq, was a newborn photographer. I’m sharing here some of his photography.

I made fresh ricotta for the first time. (I also made this bowl!)

Joan Fontaine is so proper and glamorous but clearly being in Australia got to her because here she is in an episode of Parkinson where she says "turned on the telly" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn5p...

Incredible blouse on Joan Fontaine here, very very 1977, would wear today

PILLOW OF DEATH (1945)

See what I mean!!!

My ★★★½ review of The Suspect on Letterboxd boxd.it/baHy7T

These photos of Claudia Cardinale feeding cats spaghetti should honestly replace the Italian flag

A lovely read where Kim Novak shares some reflections on art and life. I do love her.

Reading through Walter Murch's newest book and folks... he just doesn't care anymore. He knows that Gordon McCallum of Pinewood Studios was actually the first person to mix a film (SUPERMAN) in the split-surround LFE format (aka 5.1). But McCallum is no longer alive. Murch is.

Interesting to note that Palantir is on this list. They are working for Coles Myer in Australia, with intent to surveil customers and staff in Coles supermarkets. Also interesting to note that Kmart (Coles Myer) has just been exposed as illegally surveiling customers for the last 2 years. #auspol

We've all been there, Richard Hart in Green Dolphin Street.

We live in a fascist state. The signs have been everywhere for a while now.

Final night for Barbara Stanwyck in a pair of pre-code rarities! LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT (1933) screens tonight, Friday September 19th, at 7:00pm paired with GAMBLING LADY (1934) at 8:40pm. 35mm prints of both!

Last four watched. All Redford all the time.

See: some thoughts on my last rewatch of this top-tier comedienne performance from Barbara Stanwyck letterboxd.com/cinemelo/fil...

I love this film so so so much. It's v silly but a great representation of "Manhattan" in the late 30s and a girl gang using their feminine training to solve crime. It deserves attention so I'm thrilled it's getting a bluray update! (Any more updates, though, pls get me involved for a commentary.)

I guess the only way to get Australians to care about climate change is to say it will reduce property values. But also: – climate disasters kill tourism – 'uninsurability' kills infrastructure investment – heatwaves too dangerous to work in lose 0.5% GDP – people can't relocate for work

The perfect double feature tonight for my 6-year anniversary with @soundslikecin.bsky.social (a little sweet romance, a little serial murder, and just a smidge of maybe-ate-some-people-nausea thrown in 💗)