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[REC] (2007), a Spanish found footage horror movie in which a tv news reporter and a cameraman accompany emergency workers to an apartment building that turns out to be having a bit of a zombie problem

Starring Manuela Velasco

Written and directed by Paco Plaza and Jaume Balaguero

Classic Corner: Seconds John Frankenheimer’s paranoid thriller, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, is a bleak snapshot of the American psyche circa 1966.

The horrifying and haunting 'Seconds' was released on this day in 1966. For @crooked-marquee.bsky.social:

Buster and Eleanor Keaton with their pet cat

Buster was BOTD in 1895

#Caturday

This was always the plan.

Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

a man is holding a woman in his arms while the sun is setting behind them . ALT: a man is holding a woman in his arms while the sun is setting behind them .

WHO WILL SURVIVE AND WHAT WILL BE LEFT OF THEM?

🩸 #OTD in #Film #History 1 October 1974, #TobeHooper premiered his cult #horror classic THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE in his hometown of Austin, Texas.

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

Adobe pushing AI might be the absolute dumbest move ever. Talk about not understanding your audience. At all. A significant majority of the people who use their apps (sorry I don't count Acrobat or whatever) are creatives who's jobs are at risk because of AI.

"Imagination is everything.

It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

-Marcello Mastroianni #BOTD

Ossoff: "There's a deeper story here about corruption in politics which is something Dems need to focus on. Trump is a symptom of deeper corruption. How is that we have a demagogue who promises to tear it all down elected twice? It's in part because much of the public has lost faith in our system."

Jimmy Kimmel was on fire again last night.

Bonsoir
(Claudia Cardinale)

Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”

@time.com
time.com/7319963/bruc...

it is admittedly a little bit funny to consider that maybe the rapture did happen and god said “just Claudia Cardinale actually, thanks”

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

Claudia Cardinale, glamorous star of The Leopard and Once Upon a Time in the West, dies aged 87 The husky-voiced, chain-smoking actor had a reputation as a fiercely independent, free-spirited woman

everyone should take three hours out of their day and watch THE LEOPARD, a total masterpiece of a film. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Claudia Cardinale, who worked with some of the great Italian directors, including Visconti, Fellini and Sergio Leone, has died aged 87...

Claudia Cardinale sits in a director’s chair with her name on it.

Three films with Visconti, including THE LEOPARD. Fellini’s 8½. Zurlini’s GIRL WITH A SUITCASE. Leone’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. Herzog’s FITZCARRALDO. Monicelli, Verneuil, Skolimowski, Ferreri …

Rest in peace, Claudia Cardinale.

@thr.com — www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis

I’m worried it can still get stupider

Édouard Manet
Un bar aux Folies Bergère
1882

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening.

It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

Black and white photo portrait of Greta Garbo looking glamorously enigmatic.

Greta Garbo - BOTD in 1905