John Kinard

Delphine Seyrig in Jeanne Dielman

Clockwatchers (1997)

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

Ciaran Hinds, Frances de la Tour, and others beneath the frozen head of Albert Finney in Cold Lazarus.

Excellent as a revolutionary in very 90s Dennis Potter sci-fi miniseries Cold Lazarus. Also Diane Ladd making her work in Wild at Heart look restrained.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

The Grand Budapest Hotel

I will canvass for whichever candidate runs on putting this man in prison in 2028.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Instructor who gave U of Oklahoma student a zero on anti-trans paper removed from teaching Graduate assistant Mel Curth found Samantha Fulnecky's paper unscientific and offensive in referring to trans people as "demonic."

What is happening at the University of Oklahoma is an outrageous violation of due process.

"They hide behind vague statements & assertions of ‘trust us.’ At this point, they need to show us and not tell us."

— OU AAUP

while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article

They run an AI-generated ad on Tubi that takes place in an ersatz Tattoine cantina with all the aliens betting on celebrity baby gender reveals and global warming. It pulses with evil.

Yes

Katharine Hepburn sitting above the canals of Venice in David Lean's Summertime

Summertime (1955)

An interview with the homeowner from mayaeaglin on Insta. h/t @meghancolleen.bsky.social

Bruce Davison, Catherine Burns, Barbara Hershey, and Richard Thomas in Last Summer (1969)

Frank & Eleanor Perry's Last Summer (1969). Every performance is great but Catherine Burns manages something beyond description as Rhoda.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

What

I feel like no one talks about George Stevens anymore?

Two black bears hanging out in Highlands, NC

Making new friends on fall break

There has always been a small, noisy minority of gay people whose belief in gay rights boils down to "I shouldn't have to give up any of my prejudices because of who I am." And straight people in media have always fallen all over themselves to hire them.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

All movies should somehow include Anthony Perkins in an information silo.

Soderbergh’s Presence—a formal experiment but also just an excellent haunted house movie

Highlight of the oeuvre is Karen Black accusing a pigeon of conspiracy in Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Terrible unrepresentative movie poster for Peter Bogdanovich’s Saint Jack with Ben Gazarra.

This is a masterpiece? There should have been dozens of Ben Gazzara/Denholm Elliot movies.

Demented that Ice Storm got no acting nominations that year—Sigourney Weaver should have been given dominion over several counties in Connecticut just for the way fishes keys out of a key party bowl

Goddamnit

oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop