#filmnoir #filmsky #moviesky Neckties of Noir — Erich von Stroheim #BOTD as the devoted butler Max in Sunset Boulevard, 1950

Gloria Swanson and director Billy Wilder during production of Sunset Boulevard (1950)

A shot from the opening sequence of Vincente Minnelli's unreleased film version of Stephen Sondheim's Follies.

“Those were the reasons/ And that was New York…” “I have seen the future/ And it’s murder…” “It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again…” Happy birthday to Mr Leonard Cohen, who would have been 91 today.

My late father took me, as an impressionable nine year-old, to see Ján Kadár’s Lies My Father Told Me at the Aero theater in Santa Monica, California in 1976. That was, as the old classical Hollywood line goes, the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

berkley theater, vertical, robins, berkley, michigan, 1976

Franz Nölken (1884 - 1918) may not have been the most famous artist from Hamburg, but he was definitely the coolest. He drew this self portrait in 1904. What an attitude. Only a few years later he died in the hell of WW1. You can visit him at Kunsthalle Hamburg #Painting #Art

#filmsky #moviesky #photosky #photography Marlene Dietrich by George Hurrell

In praise of amateurs! Delighted to have this revised and expanded version of my booklet essay @criterion.bsky.social posted as part of the fall '25 edition of WeimarCinema.org #MenschenAmSonntag #PeopleOnSunday #FilmSky cc: @weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social www.weimarcinema.org/essay/Isenberg

Not sure why, but that once politically lethal "basket of deplorables" comment keeps reverberating amid the din of the latest news cycles.

HBD Maggie Cheung!! Outstanding in Days of Being Wild, Mood for Love (Kar-Wai Wong x2); Irma Vep, Clean (Assayas x2) Walked by her handprints in HK!! More: Raymond Ang: www.gq.com/story/maggie... Romney: www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta... Assayas: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

Just hilariously sloppy. He'll lie and pretend it was meant to be public, but he would NEVER post "it's killing our reputation and credibility."

BTD - Actor/director Victor Sjöström - star of Bergman's WILD STRAWBERRIES - 1957 - German release poster

Claudia Cardinale #Caturday

Robert Siodmak #Caturday

Happy birthday #MaggieCheung

Lots of gems here! Sizzling new essays by @annenesbet.bsky.social, Tom Gunning, @mharrabin.bsky.social, Jan-Christopher Horak, and @noahisenberg.bsky.social. 😍 @weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social

👇👏👇YES!!!!!

Grants, New Mexico The marquee’s worn. The bulbs flicker. But the feeling? Still there. Old theater signs don’t fade. They wait for someone to look up. #photography #grantsnm #newmexico #route66 #route66newmexico

#ItalianCinema #filmsky #moviesky #BOTD Sophia Loren turns 91 today. TIME FOR A DRINK🍸

This is amazing.

Barbara Stanwyck in Baby Face (1933)

I'll keep it simple: More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history.

Twiggy, circa 1967 She was BOTD in 1949

BTD - Ricardo Cortez - THE MALTESE FALCON - 1931 - Swedish release poster

It’s Ring Lardner Jr’s birthday. When asked by the HUAC if he was or had ever been a member of the Communist Party, Lardner responded ‘I could answer it, but if I did I would hate myself in the morning.’ This led to him being held in contempt of Congress & imprisoned for 10 months. Seems relevant.

That #FridayFeeling #PeterLorre on the beach

Greta Garbo - BOTD in 1905

Good morning. #filmsky #moviesky #BOTD

Fed statement makes it official: Stagflation is in the room. "Job gains have slowed, and the unemployment rate has edged up... Inflation has moved up and remains somewhat elevated. "

The @chicagofilmsociety.org's fall calendar booklet has a timely cover, promoting the 7 p.m. Nov. 11 screening of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social. RIP Robert Redford. www.chicagofilmsociety.org/calendar/cur...

An urgent story encapsulating what we stand to lose as a nation—there are many more Narciso Barrancos, who pay taxes, raise families, are pillars of the community, threatened w/ deportation. He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

“Yes, Virginia, there is an Edgar G. Ulmer [#BOTD], and he’s no longer one of the private jokes shared by auteur critics, but one of the minor glories of cinema.” (Andrew Sarris, 1968) www.ucpress.edu/books/edgar-...

BTD - Director Edgar G. Ulmer - DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL - 1957

Marilyn Monroe by George Barris for Cosmopolitan magazine at Tim Leimert’s house in Los Angeles (1962)

No limos for him. Robert Redford hails a cab in Times Square, 1969.

If you are in NYC, join us on 9/30 at @thenewschool.bsky.social for the screening of Stanford historian Estelle B. Freedman's new doc on folksinger Faith Petric Q+A w EBF, director Christie Herring, and me to follow CLOSES WITH A SINGALONG! Sign up below, FREE! event.newschool.edu/singingforju...

The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.

The Department of Homeland Security under Kristi Noem continues to display rank incompetence rivaled only by its high level of cruelty. This time, a sensitive database critical to tracking investigative was left fully exposed for 2 months. Did DOGE have a role? www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conceptual history of the changing meanings and metaphors of “action” and “reaction." Jean Starobinski's Action and Reaction: The Life and Adventures of a Couple is now available: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Philosophy

Hannibal Lecter and I talk vegetarianism

Current mood

All new parents who do not name their babies after Charlie Kirk will be prosecuted. by Pam Bondi

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Peter Falk in "Wings of Desire" - BOTD

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For decades, Redford had a tortured relationship with acting--one critic described him as behaving like the handsome high school senior who'd grudgingly agreed to star in the class play. Here's some raw transcript from when I asked him about Mike Nichols directing him in Barefoot in the Park. (1/2)

#filmnoir #filmsky #moviesky Noir Necktie Tuesday — Lee J. Cobb is a psychologist held hostage in The Dark Past, 1948

#grindhouse #filmsky #nyc