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Daniel Day-Lewis from Phantom Thread: “Are you a special agent sent here to ruin my evening and possibly my entire life?”

Second that this became an early major checklist that I still go to, along with Essential Cinema and The American Cinema

Yeah…I thought the potential extra shipping time was worth the better jacket. But I was secretly hoping for “Shadouw Ticket, by Thoumas Pynchoun.”

Cover of Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, published in the UK by Jonathan Cape London

Imported UK edition just delivered

PERFECT BLUE (1997, dir. Satoshi Kon)

TAMPOPO (1985, dir. Juzo Itami)

Love to be in a group with someone dubbing himself “Bobhy [sic] Peru”

YouTube video by Asia Society Dennis Lim Selects: A Conversation with Film Critic Dennis Lim

“A Conversation with Film Critic Dennis Lim” - Asia Society NY

Awww Simon, I’m so sorry. Your posts of love for her have brightened many a day here

Halloween From Italy - Cult Horror Soundtracks, by Various Artists 40 track album

On this October @bandcamp.com Friday, here’s your Halloween party soundtrack sorted: cinemahotelstudios.bandcamp.com/album/hallow...

If somebody replaced the back of this with him staring up at the eclipse, I might buy one for shits and giggles

Makes me think of Monty Python’s Meaning of Life sex ed sketch: “What's wrong with a kiss, boy? You don't have to go leaping straight for the clitoris”

“Flavor Flav Travels Through Time and Reads About Himself on Wikipedia Flavor Flav has come unstuck in time. A moment ago he was an old man, and a moment before that a teenager. Now, he is wearing a bathrobe and a Viking helmet. He wears a clock around his neck. It is silver and black but not very heavy. He is in a mansion in Encino. Flavor Flav does not own the mansion. The mansion has two dinosaurs in front of it. They are also wearing Viking hats and clocks but they are not real dinosaurs. Flavor Flav walks into the mansion's kitchen where Deelishis and New York are arguing about orange juice in front of a camera crew. Deelishis likes pulp but New York does not. Flavor Flav is upset when he approaches the two women who are not really women but contestants. He asks them what day it is. Deelishis tells him it is June first. Flavor Flav also wants to know what year it is. New York tells him it is 2006. This is the right date and year. Still, Flavor Flav asks the contestants to call a doctor.”

No story could live up to this title, but the opening line gives a good try (from James Brubaker’s 2014 collection “Liner Notes”)

YouTube video by Paul Scheer Who Would Play Jane Goodall In a Movie?

The most recent interview of Jane Goodall (RIP) I watched was a great one by *checks notes* @paulscheer.com and @robhuebel.bsky.social

There are a few very compelling characters they’ve invented, but I had this same struggle throughout.

YouTube video by CRITERION Marion Cotillard’s Closet Picks

Maybe the hottest 9-11/moon landing truther slate.com/human-intere...

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

WE HAVE LIFTOFF

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

stupid age verification demanded by ohio's gerrymandered republican legislature

Get stuffed, Ohio. (no kid would phrase it that way)

Devolves (complimentary) into Sterling Hayden in STRANGELOVE before your very eyes

Mine’s terrible #NotAllLefties

Erika Balsom’s “Ten Skies”, Matt Zoller Seitz’s “The Deadwood Bible”, Jean-Michel Frodon’s “The World of Jia Zhangke”, plus commemorative popcorn mini-bucket

Another immaculately packaged delivery from @mzspress.bsky.social and @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social, the best online arts bookstore there is!

The Only Good Shows Ever On Television I was reading a list in Variety, one of those lunch break lists where you’re chewing your sandwich and see some faces you recognize and some words underneath that make you think “huh, that’s wrong” an...

For reasons known only to him, Kaleb Horton followed me back on here. He was unflaggingly insightful and entertaining, even on something as throwaway as this recent list of “only good shows” according to an avowed non-fan of TV: kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-only-goo...

2001 in 2025

If a local theater’s showing 2001, like Tom Joad, I’ll be there.

We just lost Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, how dare we besmirch them further.

Name a better non-sexual foursome