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Chris Oxley

@chrisoxley.bsky.social

ASIDES: https://christopheroxley.substack.com/ Actor in AMBROSIA! Screenings now; hope to stream soon. Trying to live a creative life, personally and professionally.

151 Followers  |  160 Following  |  43 Posts  |  Joined: 30.08.2023  |  1.8294

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COLUMN: The Projectionist #4 America, Summer 2025

New column up at Zona Motel:
open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

07.08.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Paycheck for Cash Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, Alderson, prison gigs and prison life

The Venn diagram circles of Johnny Cash and Johnny Paycheck overlap locally here (and more).
christopheroxley.substack.com/p/paycheck-f...

01.08.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Drop a bad guy you actually love.

And for Hagman to pull this off after being ingrained in brains as Major Nelson is a feat as well.

25.07.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d love to see a series of Bond short films by different directors like Aki KaurismΓ€ki, Alice Rohrwacher or Wes Anderson.

24.07.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Would love this. They do this in comics where an anthology would have different writers/artists take on a character.

24.07.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's like what Mike Leigh said his James Bond take would be: visiting his mother, having tea.

24.07.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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July 15: 1st Anniversary Post A quick "thank you," plus a few July 15 events

Thank you! And more...
christopheroxley.substack.com/p/july-15-1s...

15.07.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Leave 'Em Wanting Lore Fiction for consumerism

Another interesting fun aspect of consumerism...
christopheroxley.substack.com/p/leave-em-w...

11.07.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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COLUMN: The Projectionist #3 Kurzel's Moment

For the 4th, I wrote about an Australian filmmaker
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04.07.2025 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Goldfinger's Reprieves Architecture, creative revenge, banned film, an actor's act of heroism

Goldfinger's Reprieves christopheroxley.substack.com/p/goldfinger...

20.06.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

BLAZING SADDLES (I'm wearing a poster-emblazoned t-shirt right now, in fact). He let me watch DIE HARD when I was 12, and then we rented & watched all the Bond movies from DR. NO to then seeing LICENSE TO KILL in the theater. So, clichΓ©d examples for my age group, maybe, but I wouldn't trade 'em.

16.06.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Cold-weather shot; both Jane and Henry are in wool coats; a marquee for ON THE BEACH is visible in the background

Cold-weather shot; both Jane and Henry are in wool coats; a marquee for ON THE BEACH is visible in the background

Just under the wire for Father's Day: Jane Fonda with father Henry Fonda, Times Square, 1959. Photograph by Leonard McCombe

16.06.2025 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 99    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
Brian Wilson - Love And Mercy (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RHINO Brian Wilson - Love And Mercy (Official Music Video)

Wishing Love and Mercy to the late, great Brian Wilson

youtu.be/2y3J46DhoL0?...

11.06.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

I've seen him perform live more than any other person or band, I'd wager. Just pure joy. What a genius. What a legend. May he rest in peace.

11.06.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Losing Brian Wilson and Sly Stone the same week feels monumental, like when Bergman and Antonioni passed within a day of each other. #RIP

11.06.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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COLUMN: The Projectionist #2 Middle Eastern Miracle Films

I have a new PROJECTIONIST column up over at Zona Motel... open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

04.06.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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McPartland's Pulpy Art & Life Imitations His non-fiction, pulp fiction, movies, and real life

Because of all the clippings, this one appears to be a longer read than it really is... but it's fascinating, if you don't know the story.
christopheroxley.substack.com/p/mcpartland...

22.05.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yardley Knew Ye Classification, Herbert Yardley, memoirs, movies

While they decide whether or not Pete Hegseth violated the Espionage Act, this codebreaking mail-reading dude caused the government to amend it over 90 years ago...
christopheroxley.substack.com/p/yardley-kn...

06.05.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lightholder Titanic to Dunkirk and paralysis in between?

Just in time for the close of the anniversary of the Titanic disaster. This dude's life... wow.
christopheroxley.substack.com/p/lightholder

15.04.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

they're going to be really surprised when they find out this place is being run by apes now

18.03.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 352    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

As soon as I posted this, the WV legislature passed their particular food additive ban legislature, and it's now headed to the governor's desk.

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Dye Hard West Virginia's ban, 1933 Chicago's World Fair, Lash Lure's eyelash dye

Local food dye news brings to mind a strange dangerous dye chapter in our nation's history.
christopheroxley.substack.com/p/dye-hard

14.03.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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When you’re in halls of residence together at uni & then decide to share a house in the second year

13.03.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 143    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Now available for pre-order in Ye Olde Shoppe, Royal Tenenbaum prints!

There are two sizes- the standard 9x12, and a very limited run (think 10) of larger 11x17s.

You can find them both right here!

www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products

03.03.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 129    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

He was stellar. I'd love to know who his writers were tonight, too.

03.03.2025 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Smart. Us cut-the-corders were stung.

03.03.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe terrestrial broadcasting isn't dead.

03.03.2025 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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In 1981 New York City you could spend New Year’s Eve with a ventriloquist act, some new pop singer and David Johansen. It was a happier time.

01.03.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Winter 2025: The Band is all gone, and now the Dolls are gone.

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David Johansen - Reach Out (I'll Be There)
YouTube video by ksdaman David Johansen - Reach Out (I'll Be There)

RIP David Johansen
Brilliant live performer & this is just a magnificent cover.
youtu.be/WVrIRwI-f9A?...

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