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Sammo Hung's Blade of Fury is my favorite kind of historical drama about national mythmaking: the kind where every position on the ideological spectrum is represented by a different martial arts fighter and there’s a quintuple decap in the first fifteen minutes

Now seated for Sammo Hung’s Blade of Fury on 35mm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social!

Now seated for The Matrix on 35mm at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social!

Split diopter in BANDITS VS. SAMURAI SQUADRON (Gosha, 1978)

Firm recommend for all my beloved followers: Thai Police Story (1986) - here is but one of the many fight/stunt sequences in it

Hideo Gosha making Nakadai's sword strokes so savage he put squibs on them....god Goyokin is so fucking good

Shares with Harakiri the greatest of all narrative structures: "waiting two hours for Tatsuya Nakadai to explode, and then he does"

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai!!!!!

After you watch his Kobayashi/Kurosawa work, I recommend THE WOLVES, a yakuza drama with Leone-esque ambition about Nakadai realizing the systems of honor he's devoted his life to are a sham, usurped by coldblooded 20th century capital. Some of his very best work.

Now seated for Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social!

Does anyone else get weird little momentary audio dropouts when uploading videos on here, they have been driving me crazy

Given it a lot of thought and I think this is my favorite part of Argento's Inferno

Favorite first-time watches October '25:
- AU SECOURS!
- BUGONIA
- BUM
- HANSEL AND GRETEL ('83)
- HAPAX LEGOMENA (I/III/V)
- HIGHWAY HYPNOSIS
- MAGIC
- MIAMI VICE: BROTHER'S KEEPER
- RESURRECTION
- SPOOKY KITARO: GHOST NIGHTER
- THE BOXER FROM SHANTUNG
- THE WOMAN WHO POWDERED HERSELF
- ZORNS LEMMA

Now seated for Bugonia on 35mm at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

Now seated for Bride of Frankenstein on 35mm at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social!

Now seated for Highway Hypnosis at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social!

Now seated for Bob Balaban’s Parents on 35mm at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social!

Now seated for Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy w/ The Three Stooges’ We Want Our Mummy on 35mm at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social…

Feelin exquisitely empty rn, there was a trailer for Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book attached to the print lol

Now seated for Hellraiser: Bloodline on 35mm at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social!

Now seated for Paranormal Activity 3 on 35mm at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social!

Now seated for Addams Family Values on 35mm at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social!

Check it out: it’s the tall stilts ghost from Abel Gance’s AU SECOURS! (1924)

Hell, maybe I should get around to posting a little more on here, nothing to lose

Thinking about how the very first shot of Don Johnson in the entire show is a split diopter

Split diopter in MIAMI VICE - "Brother's Keeper" (Carter, 1984)

Watched the pilot of Miami Vice for the first time (god-tier)...no one told me that the Girls Just Want To Have Fun needledrop is just as good as the In The Air Tonight needledrop.....

Split diopters in THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS (Carnimeo, 1972)

Split diopter in SQUILLO (Vanzina, 1996)

Split diopters in OFFICE KILLER (Sherman, 1997)

Favorite first-time watches September 2025:
- BENEATH THE SKIN
- ENCOUNTERS OF THE SPOOKY KIND
- GUN CRAZY
- KNOCKABOUT
- ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
- OUT OF THE PAST
- PATLABOR: THE MOVIE
- SPY GAME
- TENSION (1949)
- THE RAPTURE
- THE VICTIM (1980)
- TOUGH GUYS DON’T DANCE