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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 11h

Reuters, please stop giving Trump a handjob in your headlines.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 14h

#nw Richard Linklater's Bernie.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 21h

Reminds me of the story told in Show Me a Hero where Spallone became Mayor of Yonkers claiming he's somehow going to overturn the federal order for public housing even though he knew there was no way to overturn while putting the city in danger of bankruptcy.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Worth noting that staying in character all the time is nowhere in Stanislavski's system, it is largely an American invention.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Jacobin published another poorly argued essay? You don't say.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Bugsy and Bullworth are both good though, which is what counts in the long run.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Netflix accidentally let Flanagan make art.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Running on Empty is my favourite of all these heavy hitters.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Bin Laden came from money is an understatement, his father was a billionaire and he was part of the elite of the Saudi elite.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

The NYPD being opposed to a Mayor is nothing new and always a point in their favour.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

She's business smart in an Elizabeth Holmes way.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

Was expecting a Dirty Dozen knock-off but intrigued by director & cast (Falk!). Surprised to find a slightly surreal, satirical character piece that delivers the ultraviolence in the last half hour.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 2d

#NowWatching Sydney Pollack's Castle Keep, based on the novel by William Eastlake.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

'Leave him alone.'

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 1d

#nw Rowland V. Lee's The Son of Frankenstein.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 2d

#NowWatching Sean Byrne's The Devil's Candy.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 2d

#NowWatching Sydney Pollack's Castle Keep, based on the novel by William Eastlake.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 2d

#nw William Keighley's Easy to Love.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 3d

#nw Sean Byrne's Dangerous Animals.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 3d

This is a lot of fun, the best blaxploitation horror film of the 70s.

Coming Up On TCM @comingupontcm.bsky.social · 3d

#ComingUpOnTCM

SUGAR HILL (1974) Marki Bey, Robert Quarry, Don Pedro Colley
Dir.: Paul Maslansky 10:30 PM PT

When gangsters kill her boyfriend, a woman enlists a voodoo queen to raise an army of the dead.

1h 31m | Horror Action | TV-14

#TCM #TCMParty

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 3d

I don't believe in paranoid conspiracy theories period, there are no credible sources for the '9/11 was an inside job.' The US' foreign policy had been terrible but that doesn't justify nihilist whataboutism.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 3d

No one outside of the US believed in the rationale for the invasion of Iraq.

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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 3d

Not what I was expecting: baroque, gonzo sf horror meets bildungsroman.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 4d

Finally getting around to Danny Boyle's 28 Years, screenplay by Alex Garland.

lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social · 3d

And there was no inside job, that's just a typically American paranoid conspiracy theory up there with chemtrails.

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