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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 8d

Just watched it. Complete opposite of the aggressive jingoism of This Happy Life. Thanks for the recommendation!

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 11d

Wartime Naruse

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 11d

Original that I bought for 99 cents off eBay.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 12d

Watched the Blu-ray of Tout Un Nuit (I had only previously seen a rip of a 2007 dvd) and it’s right up there with 7 Women as a game-changing upgrade.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 13d

Tokyo Twilight (Ozu, 1957)

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is a trap. Run, Nicolas, run!

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · Aug 28

Whoah!

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · Aug 28

I saw The Sugarcubes open for Public Enemy open for U2 at old Texas Stadium.

Greg ✨️ @gsarafan.bsky.social · Aug 28

What is your biggest concert flex?

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just watched the new Blu-ray of Ford’s 7 Women, a transfer I’ve waited decades for, and it is staggering.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · Aug 13

Labeling Dwan images as “graphic media” is the smartest thing stupid AI has ever done.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Spirit of the Flag (Dwan, 1913)

In the early 1910’s, Griffith was prose and Dwan was verse: repetition, visual rhyming, the texture of faces and of the walls backgrounding the faces, and the peculiar Dwan miracle of women being at their most expressive when their backs are against the camera.

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Brett Wright @brettsplittooth.bsky.social · Jul 21

Incredibly sad to hear that Joel DeMott passed away last week. DeMott's films 'Seventeen' and 'Demon Lover Diary' are absolute classics. I wrote more on her work at the link below but seek out the films. They deserve so much more attention!
www.splittoothmedia.com/demon-lover-...

Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul: Joel DeMott’s 'Demon Lover Diary' (1980) - Split Tooth Media

DeMott's classic 1980 documentary is a volatile portrait of a crew trying, and often failing, to summon a horror movie out of very thin air.

www.splittoothmedia.com

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · Jul 18

Devil’s Doorway (Mann, 1950)

The transformation of Robert Taylor’s half-Shoshone character from white Union soldier to “full indian” is fascinating.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thanks!

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · Jul 16

I was just about to go on a western kick. Give me an unheralded gem to check out.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · Jul 14

I can keep you up to date on his hot takes:

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy Fuck Some Shit Up Day

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · Jul 6

Quote with your favorite anti-fascist film.

Historias de la revolución (Alea, 1960)
The progression from television studio set to mountaintop idyll to urban battleground is more formally radical than anything in Soy Cuba.