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Cult Cinema Enthusiast 📽🎞😃 Favorite genres include: Eurocult French New Wave New Hollywood Film-Noir Commedia all'italiana Fleischer studios cartoons Can also be found at: https://letterboxd.com/Lukecinemawest https://www.instagram.com/lukecinemawest

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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 6h

Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977)

Diane Keaton
(January 5, 1946 – October 2025)

#DianeKeaton #rip 😢

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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 1d

Describe your Bluesky account with a single image

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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 1d

Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

Directed by #GusVanSant
Starring:
#MattDillon #KellyLynch #JamesRemar #JamesLeGros #HeatherGraham #WilliamsBurroughs

Cinematography by #RobertYeoman
Music by #ElliotGoldenthal

#Drugstorecowboy #1980s #drama #Indiefilm

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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 1d

The Designated Victim (1971)

Directed by #MaurizioLucidi
Starring #TomasMilian #PierreClémenti #KatiaChristine #LuigiCasellato #MarisaBartoli

Cinematography by #AldoTonti
Music by #LuisEnriquezBacalov
#NewTrolls

#TheDesignatedVictim #Eurocult #Giallo #Thriller #ItalianCinema #Cinemaitaliano

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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 1d

Alphaville (1965)

Directed by #JeanLucGodard
Starring: #EddieConstantine #AnnaKarina #AkimTamiroff #HowardVernon

Cinematography by #RaoulCoutard
Music by #PaulMisraki

#Alphaville #1960s #Frenchnewwave #Scificinema #Scififilm #frenchcinema #Frenchfilm #Cinémafrançais

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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 1d

The Conversation (1974)

Directed by #FrancisFordCoppola
Starring
#GeneHackman #JohnCazale #AllenGarfield #CindyWilliams #FredericForrest #HarrisonFord

Cinematography by #BillButler
Music by #DavidShire

#TheCoversation #neonoir #thriller #1970sfilm #newhollywood #CultFilms #CultMovies

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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysofHorror Day 10

ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK (1972), Sergio Martino

Haunted by visions of murder, Jane's post-miscarriage grief is a puzzle to be solved, presented placebos for a deciduous dropping of depressed mood as manifold as the variegated foliage around her in this atypical giallo gem.

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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 1d

when the face card is lethal

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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 1d

🍂🍁 manifesting 🍁🍂

All the Colors of the Dark (1972), Sergio Martino // Images (1972), Robert Altman // Symptoms (1974), José Ramón Larraz // The Devonsville Terror (1983), Ulli Lommel

#filmsky #horrorsky #autumnalhorror #fallvibes

Edwige Fenech walks down a curved path pursued by someone as she crunches fallen leaves beneath her boots, the trees filled with yellowing greenery in All the Colors of the Dark (1972), directed by Sergio Martino

Susannah York wearing a fetching cream toned ensemble with a plaid lap throw crafts lines for her next children's book beneath a tall tree, the mountains full of changing autumnal hues in the background in Images (1972), directed by the goat Robert Altman

Lorna Heilbron wearing her best quizzical expression and her coziest umber chunky knits stands in front of fanned autumn leaves deep in the woods, backlit by blue and green light in Symptoms (1974), directed by José Ramón Larraz

Ultimate muse Suzanna Love wheels her bike in fall appropriate navy tartan through a field of safety orange foliage and evergreen trees in The Devonsville Terror (1983), directed by Ulli Lommel

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 2d

Ann Sothern with a super-cute white floof dog. I don't have any more information than that, but how much more do we need, really.

Sothern has on a chic little black hat and a fur jacket. She is holding the small(ish) dog. The dog has floppy floof ears, a big black nose, and fur almost covering its eyes.

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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 6d

#NowWatching my comfort movie

A scene from Dario Argento's TENEBRAE dialogue as follows:
Oh Christ!
Hey, what's bugging you?

A scene from Dario Argento's TENEBRAE dialogue as follows:
I thought we agreed.

A scene from Dario Argento's TENEBRAE dialogue as follows:
OK, no ties, but you don't have to rub my face in it.

A scene from Dario Argento's TENEBRAE dialogue as follows:
Not your face, honey. Not tonight.

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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 5d

#31DaysofHorror Day 6

EXORCISMO (1975) Juan Bosch

The power of Naschy compels you to ogle this cash-in clone on the cusp of post regime censorial slippage, probing the corruption of the nuclear family in a patriarchal dogfight like a cyst on the soul full of teenage ennui & that devil hippie dope.

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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 4d

#31DaysofHorror Day 7

DEMONIA (1990), Lucio Fulci

Interred just beneath a lackluster garden flowering with disappointment is classic Lovecraftian Fulci: an outsider in the thrall of the uncanny, a town's secret shame, killer cats, specters sans skivvies, ocular trauma & mesmerically absurd deaths.

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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysofHorror Day 8

THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER (2015), Osgood Perkins

A perfectly doom drenched trip if your vibe is hiding on picture day in a bathroom with blinking fluorescents, a creaky echo through empty library stacks or a lone footprint edged in muddy melt slowly filling with falling snow.

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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysofHorror Day 9

FATAL FRAME (2014), Mari Asato

Taken on its own outside of the titular source game this haunting Carmilla meets Picnic at Hanging Rock aptly weaves an eerie, distinct spell of lover's pact suicides, lesbian jesus christ superstar hysteria & secrets drowned by uncanny baptism.

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 4d

Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942)

The unmatched classic Hollywood legend & Oscar-nominated screwball comedy queen

"I've lived by a man's code designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time, I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick."

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 4d

Remembering popular & Oscar-winning silent/classic Hollywood legend Janet Gaynor on her 119th birthday.

#BOTD on 10/6/1906

Seen here as The Wife (with The Man) in F.W. Murnau's 1927 masterpiece SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS.

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 3d

Happy 66th Birthday to the great Dylan Baker, criminally underrated Tony/Emmy-nominated character actor who always understands the assignment.

#BOTD in 1959

As Owen in PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES (1987)

As Principal Steven Wilkins in TRICK R TREAT (2007)

As Biff Simpson in HUNTERS- TV show (2020-2023)

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 2d

Remembering legendary Armenian-American film and theater director Rouben Mamoulian on his 128th birthday.

#BOTD on 10/8/1897

Seen here with Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins on the set of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1931).

#filmsky

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 2d

9) Dee Wallace-

THE HOWLING (1981)
#31DayHorrorChallenge #31DaysOfHorror #31DaysOfHalloween
@nofspodcast.bsky.social

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 1d

10) Masters of Horror: Tobe Hooper

#31dayhorrorchallenge #31daysofhorror #31daysofhalloween
@nofspodcast.bsky.social

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 1d

"I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth."

- Guillermo Del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social

Happy 61st Birthday to the fantastic and darkly imaginative Oscar/Emmy-winning filmmaker, author, and artist.

A gift to us all!

#BOTD in 1964

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 72nd Birthday to the always brilliant Tony Shalhoub, marvelous Emmy/Tony-winning actor.

He doesn't just understand the assignments; he redefines them.

#BOTD on 10/9/1953

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 1d

"If you still feel like shooting a gag a year later, it means it's a good one."
- Jacques Tati #BOTD on 10/9/1907

Remembering the expert and inventive Oscar-winning French mime, filmmaker, actor and screenwriter on his 118th birthday.

#filmsky

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 6d

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978, Ralph Bakshi)

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