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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 16h

It is a tough one to see and definitely a lesson in unavailability. I love this article and the title is great too. It is behind an academic paywall, but worth tracking down. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Looking for Looking for Mr. GoodbarOr, Strategies for Sitting with the Abject Archive

When Paramount Pictures released its “controversial classic” Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) for the last time in 1997, it promised viewers, “nothing can prepare you for this film's shocking ending.” T...

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Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social · 19d

The power of synchronicity when doing research. I randomly purchased the April 1952 "Popular Photography" from eBay for a project where I'm tracking the number of companies that were selling commercial films to the home market. This issue is not digitized as far as I can tell.

Page forty form the April 1952 "Popular Photography." Includes two photographs showing David Bradley filming with a Bole camera and a shot from his amateur movie "Peer Gynt." The article's title and subtitle are "An Amateur Crashes Hollywood: David Bradley started making 16-mm film stories in prep school. Now he's a full-fledged director for the world's largest studio." The article is by Will Lane. The caption next to the image from "Peer Gynt" reads "Success came to David Bradley (left) after much hard work, many setbacks - as believers in the Horatio Alger legend knew it would. Bradley, at 11, borrowed a 16mm camera, shot 100 feet of film, put on a show for neighbor kids in Winnetka, Illinois. It was a flop. But he persisted, and at 15, filmed Treasure Island; at 17, Emperor Jones and A Christmas Carol, then a full-length Oliver Twist—all with a faithful old $45 obsolescent camera. Then he bought newer equipment and produced Peer Gynt (see still above)."

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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 1d

Watched the Barney Miller episode with Kenneth Tigar in it last night and since learned that he is a translator (Brecht, Wedekind) as well. www.imdb.com/name/nm08630...

Kenneth Tigar | Actor, Soundtrack

Known for: The Avengers, Lethal Weapon 3, Creator

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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 5d

Mr Keyes, I’m a Medford man, Medford,Oregon. Up in Medford we take our time making up our minds.

Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 5d

Porter Hall (September 19, 1888 – October 6, 1953) #WhatACharacter

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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 8d

I do like the new Cate Le Bon, but do I sound old if I admit that Cyrk remains my absolute favourite? www.newyorker.com/culture/pop-...

The Uneasy Prophecies of Cate Le Bon

The Welsh musician’s latest album, “Michelangelo Dying,” offers strange solace in chaotic times.

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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 8d

Super excited to see Rose of Nevada. Not sure if anyone picked it up for distribution in Canada, but I am hoping that Mongrel or Films We Like might have grabbed it. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Rose of Nevada review: Tide travel

Vividly shot on 16mm, Mark Jenkin’s film about two Cornish fishermen who return from sea to find they have slipped 30 years in the past is a tale of the fantastic, but it’s rooted in the bleak politic...

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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 8d

I do highly recommend Hlynur Pálmason's NEST, which is up for free at Le Cinéma Club this week: www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

NEST

NEST a film by HLYNUR PÁLMASON.

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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 11d

An incredible cover. That yellow.

Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 11d

“Doris Day cuts up” on Good Housekeeping in October 1965

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The Kristin Hersh Archives @thekharchives.bsky.social · 11d

It's the 40th anniversary of the release of @throwingmuses.bsky.social's "Doghouse Cassette", the blueprint for their debut album that was recorded with the help of Gary Smith and Geoff Patterson. #TMDoghouse40 Every cassette inlay was colored by hand.

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Elizabeth Klinck @eklinck.bsky.social · 11d

Remembering Kris Kristofferson (1938-2024) ....Kris Kristofferson parks his bike at Oxford University, where he studied English literature as a Rhodes Scholar.

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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 11d

News via @sabzian.bsky.social that Hartmut Bitomsky has died. I've, embarrassingly, seen only a few of his works, but there's no doubt he's central to the history of the essay film. sabzian.be/news/hartmut...

Hartmut Bitomsky (1942-2025)

The German writer, film critic, documentary and essay filmmaker Hartmut Bitomsky has passed away.

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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 11d

Cold Journey is a remarkable film and this new Blu comes with important extras like Defalco’s Bird of Passage as well. Essential.

Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 11d

In the latest edition of SHINY THINGS, I look at the new @cipictures.bsky.social Blu-ray of COLD JOURNEY -- a forgotten film that more than deserves this level of consideration.

No Way Home

In which Norm marks Canada's Indigenous People's Day by spinning up Canadian International Pictures' new Blu-ray of COLD JOURNEY.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 12d

Happy 40th birthday to Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain - released as a single on this day in 1985

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 12d

Today I am loving this 1968 cover of Jazz Journal

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 13d

A semi-regular reminder that all our photos on Flickr Commons are public domain - you don't need to ask us to use them in any way you can imagine! Though we do love hearing about how you've used them, so you can let us know if you want
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

British Library

Explore British Library’s 1,073,564 photos on Flickr!

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Susan Joudrey @sujo.bsky.social · 12d

i'm starting to suspect that we very wrongly assume people who run for & are elected to political office have some understanding of the expectations, procedures, and legalities of their position.

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 12d

Did a Liberal MP go rogue and ban the Irish band Kneecap from our country?

Um, it sure sounds like it.

On The Line Media’s @smohyeddin.bsky.social first exclusively reported this jaw-dropping story:

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 12d

The transistor and its applications by Wim van Bussel (1969)

Wim van Bussel is a Dutch author, also known for Radio and television technology (1966) and New Prisma hi-fi and stereo book (1978).

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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 14d

Sadly no! I am not in London but spotted the schedule and thought it all looked amazing.

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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 15d

What a day! New LPs from both Cate Le Bon and Emma Pollock.

Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 16d

Was great to sit down with Ben Waldman of the WFP to talk about Scrapbook. The launch is Sunday at 7.30pm at the DBC, the house that Dave built! We will walk you through the making of the book and show you some cool stuff that didn't make it in.

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Winnipeg Film Group programmer left no scrap behind

Dave Barber kept nearly everything. His family, friends and co-workers knew this, but still, when he died in 2021, members of the longtime Winnipeg Film Group programmer’s inner circle were astonished...

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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 16d

An article that makes me wish I was teaching my pop music/critical theory class this year so I could move everything around and drop it into the readings straight away.

Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · 18d

Once & for all, let's specify what "poptimism" was & wasn't, and why many people can't stop blaming it for every cultural change of the past 20 years. Most recently the esteemed Kelefa Sanneh, who's often (wrongly) said to have started it! Today in @slate.com
slate.com/culture/2025...

A screenshot of the headline of an article by Carl Wilson, reading, "Criticism's Biggest Strawman: What was 'poptimism,' and why are people still saying terrible things about it?" It's illustrated by a picture of a straw-stuffed scarecrow in a field, wearing a Taylor Swift T-shirt.

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 18d

Lightweight, portable, and reliable, the UNIS tbm de Luxe from the former Yugoslavia was the most popular typewriter in the socialist and Soviet blocs in the 1970s and 80s. Peep that Cyrillic keyboard!

This burnt-red beauty is available for you to explore in the MAL pop-up in CASE W250.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 19d

will never understand how Canadians became known for saying “eh” when we should be known for our ability to make the phase “okay buddy” mean everything from “of course I will give my life for yours” to “I am the drunkest man alive and I am going to fight you in this parking lot”

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 19d

The artist Sana Ginwalla has created an online photo archive based on 1000 uncollected negatives, slides and prints that she found in the attic of Lusaka’s oldest photo studios. What a great initiative:

www.zambiabelonging.com

Zambia Belonging

A counter-archive of found and crowd-sourced photographs from Zambia’s past.

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Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social · 19d

So the decision to ban Kneecap from Canada doesn’t seem to have been done in accordance with any formal procedure but was just a decision that Carney and Gasparro made on the fly and thought made for a good post on the socials? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Irish trio Kneecap says it got no official notice about ban from Canada | CBC News

Irish hip-hop group Kneecap has yet to receive any official communication from the federal government confirming its ban from entering Canada, it told CBC News, after an announcement by Liberal MP Vin...

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