Joshua Harold Wiebe

obviously i'm not counting the "woke movie advocates violence" goofballs

the thing that weirds me out about one battle after another is how much everybody likes it -- like, that's probably the strangest movie to have such (near) unanimous approval (which rules, to be clear)

i went to see vladdy play his second game for the jays, truly moving to see him like this

vladdy going to make me cry

very fun game

prep for my halloween horror movie marathon is really starting to amp up

blockbuster lineup

YouTube video by Lyrics & Images Johnny Guitar - Best Scene Piano

always a great moment in the western class when we finally get to spend three quarters of an hour on three minutes from johnny guitar
www.youtube.com/watch?v=92lw...

Mike Davis, from the 2006 preface to City of Quartz...

ive watched three westerns today, but only two of them were for work. that third one was for me.

Jelly king undefeated

The mock neck is so good

I consider this particular post part of my slow process of acquiring that aeneid translation....

These kind of posts are my favorites

which horkheimer text is this from

neil young wandering around in a junkyard in Journey through the Past (1973, Young)

god bless the eternal present

Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Wiebe

Huge congrats to Dr. @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social on becoming a doctor of cinema!
www.cinema.utoronto.ca/news/congrat...

Thanks James!!!!!

the great thing about half-caf coffee is that i can have six of them before encountering a wall of anxiety

the height of culture

Its high noon adjacent but technicolor and the villain is named "mccarty"

Would add Allan Dwan's Silver Lode

I will never be following up on this piece of information bc i would hate to find out it wasnt true

the best special effect in the world is 3000 cows moving through a valley

defended this ol' thing yesterday, am now a doctor :)

i'd watched metropolis and vampyr before, and admired them, but i didn't really enjoy them until after i'd gotten more accustomed to the language

the emails from the cinémathèque française make my heart ache regularly

A big pair for me were The Unknown (1927, Browning) and The Docks of New York (1928, von Sternberg), for demonstrating the entertainment-value of the silent film -- up to that point I'd always thought of them as a bit of a chore.