Mark Goble

Will definitely demand that Grok chatbot of Oswald Mosley be installed as PM

I am almost always all James, all the time but putting a weirdly Dickensian novel up against actual Dickens? I'm taking Our Mutual Friend on this one.

Allison Wiliams in the biopic when?

I’m so fucked.

Man in baseball hat that says "Foreign" from behind, on a metro train in Los Angeles, California. Black and white image.

I❤️LA. July, 2025. #NikonFA #IlfordHP5 #filmphotography

Meet some Ivy League school's new viewpoint diversity hire in 3...2..1...

Man in baseball hat that says "Foreign" from behind, on a metro train in Los Angeles, California. Black and white image.

I❤️LA. July, 2025. #NikonFA #IlfordHP5 #filmphotography

Maybe grok can Nazify the menu, work some concentration camp names into the mix…

I saw this restoration at USC too and was completely riveted by a film I’ve seen maybe 30 times and teach every other year. Just mazing work on the print and sound.

Summer movies mean slow motion and slow motion means…

There are probably other organizers on here besides @jdconnor.bsky.social and they should all be thanked for doing the work it takes to make a conference like this feel effortless.

The Hollywood Conference affirmed my love of small, thematic conferences. I saw so many inspiring talks, and there was enough downtime to have actual conversations with people I have known for a long time and with people I just met here. I hope there will be a second iteration. #HWC2025

Movie poster for Fever Pitch starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon, who is wearing a Boston Red Sox cap.

sure, Friends of Eddy Coyle is great but . . .

All of these are correct but Friends of Eddy Coyle is the most correct.

Digital look in this is so amazing I have no idea if this scene was shot at blue hour, 3am, right after lunch?

Justin Theroux in a green plaid shirt on a boat in Michael Mann’s Miami Vice.

I think this is Justin Theroux’s only line in Miami Vice(2006). Absolutely nails it.

Looking forward to this.

How Slow Motion Became Cinema’s Dominant Special Effect The turbulent late ’60s saw the technique’s popularity explode—and it’s been helping moviemakers (and literary artists) engage with the unsettling tempos of modern life ever since.

ICYMI, check out @scottwstern.bsky.social's thoughtful review in the @newrepublic.com of Mark Goble's "mesmerizing" new book, DOWNTIME: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN SLOW MOTION. bit.ly/4nJbt6a @goblemark.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

"Slow motion is, today, the most popular special effect in film and television—a designation that leads Goble to label it, in his mesmerizing new book, [DOWNTIME], 'the very least special effect.'"-Scott W. Stern, The New Republic. buff.ly/j3A9Scl @goblemark.bsky.social @newrepublic.com #SlowMotion

A little late to this but congratulations to Mark Goble on the publication of his eagerly-anticipated new book, DOWNTIME: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IN SLOW MOTION. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! tinyurl.com/y7pc948d @goblemark.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Many thanks to @scottwstern.bsky.social and @newrepublic.com!

Only 7K?!?

I got a free year of Cosmpolitan and every month when it arrived I felt like when Keanu has deja vu in the first Matrix

You’re holding out for the AI masterpieces just to come. Snob.

Would have to be bespoke bourbon! Stay on brand, Andy!

the noble eightfold path of the character actor

I'm really going to miss the scrappy, family-run Lakers that had to make do with guys like Kareem, Magic, Kobe, Shaq, LeBron, Luka . . .

If that sandwich was so great why didn’t you marry it?

Thanks Sarah!

excited to read this @goblemark.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social