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Miriam’s Vintage Classics

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Hopelessly devoted to expanding the love for #ClassicFilms #OldHollywood #FilmNoir #DouglasSirk ✧ By Miriam Figueras ✧ Find me at Substack and my YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@MiriamVintageClassics?si=gqkJ-I8Qn7jcYeUB

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Miriam’s Vintage Classics @miriamclassics.bsky.social · May 23

Colonel Brandon once brought Marianne sheet music. I bring you a new post in honour of Jane Austen’s 250th. I look into SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995), its revealing DVD commentaries, its unexpected links to old Hollywood and more!

📚 Read here: miriamsvintageclassics.substack.com/p/behind-the...

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 1d

Along with directing an episode of TWIN PEAKS, Diane Keaton also directed four movies (one doc, three features).

I’ve only seen two: HANGING UP and WILDFLOWER. They’re both flawed but interesting and make me wish she’s directed more films. I gotta track down the other two.

Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, and Lisa Kudrow in Keaton’s HANGING UP

Patricia Arquette in Keaton’s WILDFLOWER

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Miriam’s Vintage Classics @miriamclassics.bsky.social · 13h

Another favorite of Diane Keaton’s more recent films is MORNING GLORY (2010). She’s not in it as much as I’d like her to be, but it gave us a wonderful old-style banter with Harrison Ford. Love it.

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Miriam’s Vintage Classics @miriamclassics.bsky.social · 13h

The primary source of my love for Diane Keaton comes from BABY BOOM (1987). As the daughter of a single mum, its final scene always gets me. She starred in more iconic films, but her J.C. Wiatt will always be my favorite. For her incredible work and presence, I'm so grateful, and heartbroken today.

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Oh, no 🥺

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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 8d

Buster Keaton was born 130 years ago today, on October 4, 1895

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Paco Alcázar @pacoalczr.bsky.social · 11d

Este mes Cinemanía está de cumple: nada más y nada menos que 30 años en los kioscos, casi un milagro...En fin, desde mis cofcof dieciocho años de colaborador en la revista, alzo mi copa y le envío abrazos mil al equipo y lectores! ⚡

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RTVE Noticias @rtvenoticias.rtve.es · 11d

⚫Hoy decimos adiós a la primatóloga Jane Goodall.

Maravillosa su entrada el pasado mes de abril en @larevueltafans.bsky.social, enseñando a Broncano a hablar chimpancé.

D.E.P.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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Miriam’s Vintage Classics @miriamclassics.bsky.social · 12d

In the mood for "un p’tit vin chaud avec des Spéculoos.” #LeFabuleuxDestind'AméliePoulain #autumn

Miriam’s Vintage Classics @miriamclassics.bsky.social · 13d

Another highly rewarding video for me to make was the one on the trailblazing Silent Serial Queens like Helen Gibson, Ruth Roland, Pearl White, and other cliff-hanging heroines who defined early action cinema but eventually faded from the screen. #SilentMovieDay

Watch here: youtu.be/3jJFvdKjX2w?...

The Forgotten Silent Serial Queens | Early Female Action Heroes of Cinema #FilmHistory

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Miriam’s Vintage Classics @miriamclassics.bsky.social · 13d

Happy #SilentMovieDay!

Three years ago I explored Buster Keaton’s unique vision on love and the lessons I got from his films. Still one of my favorite videos to have worked on.

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5 Unique Love Lessons from Buster Keaton's Brilliant Films

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Adicine @adicine.es · 15d

LOS DOMINGOS, dirigida por Alauda Ruiz de Azúa y distribuida por Bteam, gana el Premio Irizar al Cine Vasco del 73 Festival de San Sebastián.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17d

The film restoration festival in Bologna has swelled from what was once a quiet, five-day affair to a sprawling showcase of more than 400 films that draws 140,000 movie buffs to the city.

The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration

Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life.

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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 15d

We actively are seeking hosts for future Women and the Silent Screen conferences, including WSS 2027!

A helpful potential host info sheet & the application form can be found here: www.wfhi.org/about-wss.

If you are interested in hosting WSS 2027, please submit a proposal by 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.

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Filmin @filmin.es · 18d

Barcelona, però que bonica ets ❤️

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Miriam’s Vintage Classics @miriamclassics.bsky.social · 20d

Do you remember? This season is

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Andy Wolverton @awolverton.bsky.social · 24d

Today I'm exploring Alfred Hitchcock's final silent film, The Manxman (1929), AND giving you a Hitchcock trivia question. Good luck!
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The Alfred Hitchcock Project #9: The Manxman (1929)

Hitchcock's final silent film... Is it a good one? PLUS a Hitchcock trivia question!

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LadyKdesigns @ladykdesigns.bsky.social · 24d

One of the most devastating scenes in #filmnoir and in my opinion, film in general. Thelma plays this to utter perfection. #FilmNoirClub

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Miriam’s Vintage Classics @miriamclassics.bsky.social · 24d

Sad to hear of Pat Crowley’s passing. For fellow melodrama fans, I recommend Sirk’s THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW (1956), which I covered on my channel. A sharp look at the cracks in the “happy family,” with Crowley giving one of my favorite performances in the film.

Watch here: youtu.be/FXUG5bbjZHc?...

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Glasgow Film Theatre @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social · 25d

Surrender to the drama this Autumn 💔

Feel it all at GFT with Too Much: Melodrama on Film — a season of cinematic melodrama from the US, Europe & Asia - plus Queer Hollywood gems & a Tennessee Williams spotlight.

Screening this October and November. Book now via our website 🎟️

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Miriam’s Vintage Classics @miriamclassics.bsky.social · 26d

He will, and should, be remembered for so many contributions. In a little corner of my mind, I’ll always see him tapping and singing, bare-chested, along to Singin’ in the Rain, just like he did in Ivan Reitman's LEGAL EAGLES (1986). Thank you for everything, Mr. Redford.

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bathnewseum.bsky.social @bathnewseum.bsky.social · 29d

Regency streets! Jane’s big day out.

Bath hasn't seen so many people in Regency dress since - well, since Regency times. Two thousand people were the official number of Jane Austen fans taking part in the annual Jane Austen Festival Promenade through the central streets of the city. This year's…

Regency streets! Jane’s big day out.

Bath hasn't seen so many people in Regency dress since - well, since Regency times. Two thousand people were the official number of Jane Austen fans taking part in the annual Jane Austen Festival Promenade through the central streets of the city. This year's event doubled in number to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of this Regency novelist who lived in Bath for a time and wrote about the city and its social life in her novels.

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Kinótico @kinotico.bsky.social · Sep 10

✨ El @sitgesfestival.bsky.social ha avanzado novedades respecto a la programación de su edición de 2025, que se celebrará entre el 9 y el 19 de octubre

🔗 kinotico.es/actualidad/2...

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Page One Media @pageonem.bsky.social · Aug 8

🧵(3/4) Jane Austen gets the royal treatment: The Folio Society (@soi128.bsky.social) is releasing The Complete Novels in an exquisitely bound, illustrated edition for her 250th birthday. @thebookseller.com page1m.co/456hDos

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Out of the Past @filmclassics.bsky.social · Sep 9

#BOTD Jane Greer y Robert Mitchum en una foto publicitaria para Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)

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