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A snow storm is coming!!!! I'm starting in on the first film on my snowed in watch list Hard Times (1975).

Tonight in 1971 — A CHRISTMAS CAROL debuted on ABC.

Chilling, poignant, and beautiful, this animated version from director Richard Williams would later win an Oscar.

Scrooge is voiced by Alastair Sim, star of the 1951 film.

On YouTube: youtu.be/ZTzyC9CZuOA?... #FilmSky #ChristmasMovies

I’ve had a VERY long and stressful week and I am so very happy it’s Friday. Tonight, I am going to eat some Thai, drink some wine and watch some movies starting with Nicholas Ray’s 1952 film The Lusty Men.

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YouTube video by Cinema Cities Succession but it's MGM

Succession but it's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer iykyk

"Don't see this if you are old fashioned. But the 1933 mind will appreciate. . . "

me whenever I hear anyone say they love Blue Valentine

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10/10 film

Sterling Hayden, a rugged-faced man with fair hair, leans forward and asks, "Does it have to?"

Normal people: This plot doesn't make sense.
Film noir weirdos:

Here’s Toshiro Mifune drunkenly getting ready to shoot people but Lee Marvin stays cool as a cucumber for a very good reason.
- From John Boorman’s excellent Adventures of a Suburban Schoolboy

Drop something wintery ❄️

Max Expands TCM Hub with Hundreds of Classic Titles in Major New Curatorial Investment Max expands TCM hub with hundreds of classic titles in major new curatorial investment. Turner Classic Movies is getting an even bigger footprint.

The most persistent myth I’ve encountered in streaming is “MAX has TCM."

Max has a collection of classics, increasingly sourced from Criterion, w/ TCM's brand attached.

Now TCM’s on-air curation will be better reflected on the WBD-owned streamer. It's about time.

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It’s Friday! If you need something to watch this weekend and you’re looking for brilliant independent filmmaking with spot-on 1970s bleak realism, may I suggest WANDA (1970), written, directed by, and starring Barbara Loden

I came across this ad for WAR NURSE (1930) in an old movie magazine. . .never heard of it before, but a WWI story about American nurses on the Western Front starring Robert Montgomery and Anita Page? Consider me intrigued!

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@warnerbrospictures.bsky.social why couldn’t you have given NORTH BY NORTHWEST to Warner Archive and Fidelity In Motion? Why did you have to make another crappy encode complete with consistent frozen grain noise halos? (Not to mention one completely smoothed over sequence.)

Just in time for Christmas 🎁
#filmsky #cinema #movies

Same

Also, the fact that ABC was going to air the film in primetime in 1985 is blowing my 2024 mind. The mouse would NEVAH.

Reds (1981) is unapologetically one of my favorite films, and, in my opinion, is directly responsible for radicalizing a small segment of '80s babies into some level of class consciousness—without anyone even noticing.

I'm thankful that THE THIRD MAN (1949) and HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948) are both on Tubi so I can do a "Sewer Noir" double feature tonight.

#Noirvember #FilmSky

What are 4 Christmas movies to know you by?

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.

The first edition cover of Phantom Lady gives us an artist’s take on that infamous hat, but designer Kenneth Hopkins and director Robert Siodmak had a very different vision for it in the film. #filmnoir #noirvember

just did an actual spit take on my computer screen 😂

YouTube video by The CineHistorians Podcast S1E2: Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) and the French New Wave

S1E2 of The CineHistorians Podcast is now live on YouTube. It's the second in a two-part episode on the French New Wave. In this episode we discuss Agnes Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) youtu.be/Qd9mih32xIM?...

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Typically excellent, informative video from Cinema Cities on YouTube about how Hollywood portrayed The Great Depression. If you have any interest in cinema, especially Old Hollywood, you really need to subscribe to this channel.
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Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

My energy going into 2025...

Atmospheric night shot looking from the Santa Monica bluffs south along the beach toward the pier, Santa Monica, California, 1929. This photo was taken in 1929, when there was nowhere near the development there is now, so those bright lights on the left were...headlights, maybe?

John Payne in a promotional photo for "Kid Nightingale" (1939).