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Chicago's Fine Arts Building: Music, Magic, and Murder is out now from Trope Publishing. Get monthly magic delivered to your in-box by subscribing to Graff Paper: keirgraff.com/newsletter
After a blistering noir and a searing portrait of alcoholism, Billy Wilder’s next film was . . . a Technicolor musical comedy starring Bing Crosby! Why did Wilder make The Emperor Waltz? @michaelmoreci.bsky.social and I are just as puzzled as you are.
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He’s the GOAT!
16.09.2025 17:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Filmographers Podcast Season 2, Episode 2 Billy Wilder: Mythmaker
If you thought Billy Wilder’s storytelling was creative in his movies, just wait until you hear the stories he told about his own life!
“Billy Wilder: Mythmaker” available on all podcatchers. But only Patreon is ad free!
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The Filmographers Podcast: Season 2 Announcement!
This morning, @michaelmoreci.bsky.social and I announced the subject of Season 2 of @thefilmographers.bsky.social: a legendary writer-director whose hit-to-miss ratio was one of the best in the business. Aren't you DYING TO KNOW WHO IT IS???
Available on all the platforms: filmographerspodcast.com
Is Chicago's Fine Arts Building haunted? Find out Tuesday, when my podcast with @keirgraff.bsky.social drops and we discuss his new book about the historic building on Michigan Avenue. Full podcast will drop here: www.youtube.com/@YesAndTheSe...
29.08.2025 13:31 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
August writing news!
Feat. @storystudiochicago.bsky.social, @chicagowrites.bsky.social, @tombarnas.bsky.social & more!
Deets: open.substack.com/pub/keirgraf...
#booksky
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Excited to help fund the beautiful hardcover omnibus edition of ROCHE LIMIT by my pal @michaelmoreci.bsky.social & friends! zoop.gg/c/rochelimit
03.07.2025 22:35 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Tenth floor of the FAB--one of the loveliest places in Chicago!
11.06.2025 22:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👇👇👇👇👇
11.06.2025 22:10 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I loved this conversation! (And I love that picture of Beman--iconic!)
10.06.2025 13:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thanks, Jim! It's a Chicago treasure that (gulp) almost didn't make it.
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Is Wes Anderson trapped in his own aesthetic obsessions? Can cinepodcasters overuse the word “aesthetic”? How many times can a director copy himself before the quality of his work degrades? These questions and more on @thefilmographers.bsky.social! youtu.be/cgX921YG3z8?...
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And the #1 event to attend in June is...
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We not only review MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING in our latest episode, but we also ranked all the movies in the franchise!
Watch us on YouTube, find us wherever you get your podcasts, or join our Patreon--the best place to find all our episodes!
patreon.com/TheFilmographersPodcast
Strap on your parachute, pack your life-like mask, and get ready to join the world of the IMF as @michaelmoreci.bsky.social & I discuss not only the latest entry in the Mission: Impossible franchise, but the growing messianic tendencies of a certain podcast host.
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Friendly reminder that Graff Paper is written by a human being, not AI, and frequently includes reading recommendations.
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Come on out for the launch of CHICAGO'S FINE ARTS BUILDING: MUSIC, MAGIC, AND MURDER
7pm on Friday, June 13 at the FAB (410 S Michigan)
Books for sale by Exile in Bookville!
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I can't say enough about how much I enjoyed this conversation!
09.05.2025 16:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can't wait to see which Fox host Trump picks to be the next Librarian of Congress. Steve Doocy?
09.05.2025 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So cool! Get to cross this off my John Green bingo card!
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Today in grave robbery: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/w...
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“In Chinese, there is an idiom to describe how the government operates: “qi’ruan pa’ying,” or “bully the weak and fear the strong.” The Communist Party in China has long acted like a street bully. But the party rarely rewards submission with benevolence.”
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Loved this!
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Support local news, folks!
"The fences were pulled back less than 24 hours after the Chicago Sun-Times contacted Trump Tower management and the city’s Department of Planning and Development to ask why the barriers were blocking the public way."
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🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨 On @thefilmographers.bsky.social, @michaelmoreci.bsky.social & I talk to the incomparable Ben Tanzer, who channeled his grief for his father and their love Martin Scorsese into a book called “After Hours: Scorsese, Grief, and the Grammar of Cinema.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQ_...
#protip from @markjacob.bsky.social:
"If you can cut the words 'critics say' and it’s still undoubtedly true, then you should cut the words 'critics say.'"
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This week, we're playing films from France, Puerto Rico, Japan, Canada, Georgia, and the UK.
Visit our website for more info & check out these "National Security Threats" at the Music Box: musicboxtheatre.com
Good sentence: "I stopped at a bar for a drink and felt worse after finishing it, as I knew I would, given alcohol’s peerless capacity to italicize whatever mood the drinker is already in."
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