@jtarnold.bsky.social
Film writer and commentator. Author of TCM’s The Essentials Vols 1 & 2 — and CHRISTMAS IN THE MOVIES, now in a deluxe expanded edition.
25.12.2025 03:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We say goodbye to actor, filmmaker and activist Rob Reiner.
A dedicated storyteller with sincerity that imbued his prolific work and the causes he believed in, Reiner’s heartfelt portrayal of the human condition reminds us of the power of film and its abilities to stay with us.
What a horrible weekend for humanity.
15.12.2025 06:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
LA: I’ll be presenting another rare B in 35mm this Sunday at the @amcinematheque.bsky.social THE CRIMSON CANARY (1945) is 64 mins of jazz-infused mystery and features ultra rare appearances by jazz artists Coleman Hawkins and Oscar Pettiford. A truly unique little film.
tinyurl.com/3xjz84cy
This is a film I like to watch every year around Valentine’s Day. It’s dramatic, funny, witty, sophisticated, and above all, romantic. Highly recommend to anyone and everyone. Director Frank Borzage was THE master romanticist in Hollywood in that era.
14.02.2025 23:21 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It wasn’t actually a WB tie-in although there were some WB and RKO (which they own) titles included. I really wanted to represent as many studios as possible and in the end, we got nine! 8 of the 20 films were also TCM premieres.
12.02.2025 02:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I don't know if it was a tie-in, but it was programmed by @jtarnold.bsky.social and he picked a wonderful assortment of off-the-radar stuff; I'd love a Part Two! My favorite was Passport to Destiny, a great role for Elsa Lanchester. TCM did a Letterboxd list: letterboxd.com/tcm_lb/list/...
11.02.2025 19:25 — 👍 48 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 1Thanks Farran. I too love PASSPORT, and absolutely loved doing this series with TCM. As for a Part 2, well, stay tuned, there MAY be something in the works!
12.02.2025 02:34 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s a good one! Then again, they’re all good, except maybe the last one which didn’t star Dix.
10.02.2025 02:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That’s a favorite. I love the opening in that hard rain.
25.01.2025 03:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Friends in LA, this Sunday 1/26 at 1pm, I’ll be introducing a rare 35mm screening of THE PREVIEW MURDER MYSTERY (1936) at the @amcinematheque.bsky.social Los Feliz 3. A stylish whodunit set on a Hollywood studio lot, and one of dir Robert Florey’s best B films. Details/notes: tinyurl.com/2tkw8khs
23.01.2025 01:49 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Need the lowdown on the best Xmas noir movies? Read @jtarnold.bsky.social story in NOIR CITY 39.
Digital: www.noircitymag.com/noir_city_39...
Print: a.co/d/an0Fov0
I’m the guest on this month’s Cineversary podcast, discussing MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS both as a classic Christmas film and as a brilliant musical. www.cineversegroup.com/2024/12/cine...
18.12.2024 06:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Everything in this frame looks so meticulous… including him. He’s like a chemist!
10.12.2024 23:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Google’s shiny quantum computer chip, Willow, is pictured in a gloved hand. Headline reads: "Google Makes New Quantum Computing Breakthrough." Photo credit: Google Quantum AI.
Google said its quantum computer needed less than five minutes to perform a mathematical calculation that one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers could not complete in 10 septillion years, a length of time that exceeds the age of the known universe. nyti.ms/3DaZFH5
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Tonight on CW from 8-10pm: “Best Christmas Movies Ever!”
I’m one of many interviewees in this new doc produced by my pal @moviemantz.bsky.social
LA-area friends, please come Sat Dec 7 to the Old Town Music Hall where I’ll introduce 2 holiday classics and sign books. At 2:30pm: THE BISHOP’S WIFE (1947), w/ Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven. At 7pm: the rarely shown I’LL BE SEEING YOU (1944), w/Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
06.12.2024 07:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What an incredible find!
youtu.be/FHO6qv2pTW0?...
Huge congratulations to my friend @www.johnbleasdale.com on today’s publication of his new — and first! — book. It is a brilliant read about one of cinema’s most enigmatic artists and I couldn’t recommend it more highly.
03.12.2024 17:06 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
I could watch and listen to Isabelle talking about movies all day.
26.11.2024 19:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A holy grail of lost films…
26.11.2024 02:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You can find me in this doc airing Dec 9 on CW! Thanks @moviemantz.bsky.social !
25.11.2024 18:29 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Happy birthday Jessica!
19.11.2024 04:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My dear friend @pamhutch.bsky.social writing beautifully on what is my all-time favorite film.
18.11.2024 20:22 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Tonight’s Mike Tyson fight reminds me of the time I met him in 2005. He came to a Playboy Mansion movie night. Through the screening (of CAPOTE) someone’s phone kept ringing, and we eventually realized it was his. But he had fallen asleep — and no one wanted to be the one to tap him on the shoulder!
16.11.2024 03:03 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
L.A. today.
16.11.2024 02:59 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Wow, I can actually breathe again!
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