Eloise Ross
@cinemelo.bsky.social
I'm Gun Crazy, & I love Barbara Stanwyck so much it hurts sometimes | PhD in sound & Classical Hollywood | film studies lecturer | co-curator @melbcinematheque.bsky.social
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Eloise Ross
@cinemelo.bsky.social
· Jan 12
Stanwyck, Barbara – Senses of Cinema
www.sensesofcinema.com
Thought I would do an on-brand thing and make my first post here about my latest written work, my Great Actors piece on Barbara Stanwyck. I love her and welcome all other lovers! www.sensesofcinema.com/2023/great-a...
I have to say that despite everything going on in the world and the chaos in my life, I am very soothed by this image from a 1931 film of John Wayne's extremely nice ... *ahem* rear
January 29, 2026 at 10:51 AM
I have to say that despite everything going on in the world and the chaos in my life, I am very soothed by this image from a 1931 film of John Wayne's extremely nice ... *ahem* rear
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me watching fascism thrive, considering my options
January 29, 2026 at 5:19 AM
me watching fascism thrive, considering my options
"Albanese is thus yesterday’s man, clinging to the verities of a post-war world that has vanished, stubbornly keeping Australia locked into an increasingly unsustainable fantasy of rules-based orders..." My so-called country's government is utterly sickening at the moment.
On this January 26, Australia deserves a real leader, not a craven vassal
As the international rules-based order becomes a thing of the past, Anthony Albanese keeps Australia locked into a world where we pretend it still exists.
www.crikey.com.au
January 26, 2026 at 3:44 AM
"Albanese is thus yesterday’s man, clinging to the verities of a post-war world that has vanished, stubbornly keeping Australia locked into an increasingly unsustainable fantasy of rules-based orders..." My so-called country's government is utterly sickening at the moment.
Essential reading to make sense of some of the horror. "People like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem are deeply un-American ... in the sense that they despise what the country actually is – how it has been demographically, culturally and politically transformed by the twentieth century."
Days of Complicity • EQUATOR
A legal scholar’s diary of Trump’s return to power
www.equator.org
January 24, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Essential reading to make sense of some of the horror. "People like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem are deeply un-American ... in the sense that they despise what the country actually is – how it has been demographically, culturally and politically transformed by the twentieth century."
Waiting for something and this is my life right now.
January 24, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Waiting for something and this is my life right now.
Fun film, worth a watch!
1/23/46: Three Strangers
Nifty little #filmnoir w/a ton of talent attached:
D: Jean Negulesco W: John Huston/Howard Koch
w/Lorre & Greenstreet + Geraldine Fitzgerald, Alan Napier
More from @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social w/ @labuzamovies.com via Cinephiliacs podcast: archive.org/details/the-...
Nifty little #filmnoir w/a ton of talent attached:
D: Jean Negulesco W: John Huston/Howard Koch
w/Lorre & Greenstreet + Geraldine Fitzgerald, Alan Napier
More from @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social w/ @labuzamovies.com via Cinephiliacs podcast: archive.org/details/the-...
January 23, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Fun film, worth a watch!
When your birthday present lands 💁🏼♀️
A belated birthday gift from @cinemelo.bsky.social! The complete Night Gallery on bluray from @imprintfilms.bsky.social. Rod Serling is one of my heroes and I *love* season 2 - the only season I've had access to. Until now! Comes with a sick book of all the paintings.
January 21, 2026 at 10:44 AM
When your birthday present lands 💁🏼♀️
Post a car picture you took
January 19, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Post a car picture you took
Australian mythmaking gets crafty... I was tempted by this very cute Ned Kelly hand puppet at a market stall, but as a cultural critic I resisted
January 18, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Australian mythmaking gets crafty... I was tempted by this very cute Ned Kelly hand puppet at a market stall, but as a cultural critic I resisted
Urgent writing from @omarsakr.bsky.social on many things, including Australia's terrifying and eager capitulation to fascism sakr.substack.com/p/resignatio...
Resignations, Racism, and Resistance
Zionist Australia's cultural apartheid continues & according to Labor, it's good to be genocidal, bad to be Palestinian
sakr.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Urgent writing from @omarsakr.bsky.social on many things, including Australia's terrifying and eager capitulation to fascism sakr.substack.com/p/resignatio...
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Dolly Parton channeling Delphine Seyrig 🍎🥔
January 17, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Dolly Parton channeling Delphine Seyrig 🍎🥔
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Killing journalists.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
August 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Killing journalists.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
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Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is our client and we are proud to represent her. This cancellation is unjustifiable, morally and legally.
Authors withdraw from festival after Palestinian Australian author dropped
After Randa Abdel-Fattah was dropped from Adelaide Writers' Week by the Adelaide Festival Board, a slew of authors, including Michelle de Kretser, have withdrawn from the event.
www.abc.net.au
January 8, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is our client and we are proud to represent her. This cancellation is unjustifiable, morally and legally.
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I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.
January 8, 2026 at 5:28 AM
I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.
I can't remember if I've seen this and I was wondering why I might have bought it - until I saw that the only special feature is a commentary by Vivian Sobchack (one of my heroes).
January 6, 2026 at 1:41 AM
I can't remember if I've seen this and I was wondering why I might have bought it - until I saw that the only special feature is a commentary by Vivian Sobchack (one of my heroes).
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
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Me when I go to Berlin next month:
January 3, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Me when I go to Berlin next month:
Me when I go to Berlin next month:
January 3, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Me when I go to Berlin next month:
Actually @letterboxd.social this is discrimination! Proof!
January 3, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Actually @letterboxd.social this is discrimination! Proof!
This makes me look really dull but I promise I actually have great style and varied taste.
January 3, 2026 at 4:06 AM
This makes me look really dull but I promise I actually have great style and varied taste.
More great films.
Best short films I watched in 2025
I watched 122 short films and while I don't generally rate them, some really truly stood out. I thought it was worth making a list to acknowledge them. (This includes films of 30 mins or less - slight...
boxd.it
January 3, 2026 at 3:49 AM
More great films.
2020: Kajillionaire, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
2021: Annette (weird bad year)
2022: Top Gun Maverick, Stars at Noon
2023: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, May December
2024: La Chimera
2025: First Light
2021: Annette (weird bad year)
2022: Top Gun Maverick, Stars at Noon
2023: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, May December
2024: La Chimera
2025: First Light
Halfway through the decade! What are your favourite films each year so far?
2020: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
2021: Memoria
2022: Pacifiction
2023: Eureka
2024: Queer
2025: The Ice Tower
2020: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
2021: Memoria
2022: Pacifiction
2023: Eureka
2024: Queer
2025: The Ice Tower
January 2, 2026 at 8:52 AM
2020: Kajillionaire, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
2021: Annette (weird bad year)
2022: Top Gun Maverick, Stars at Noon
2023: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, May December
2024: La Chimera
2025: First Light
2021: Annette (weird bad year)
2022: Top Gun Maverick, Stars at Noon
2023: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, May December
2024: La Chimera
2025: First Light
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Conservative outlets love this pocket-watching hypocrisy trope, especially as some sort of gotcha for WOC, by willfully conflating left politics with forced universal aceticism.
To them, socialists are not supposed to be stylish or attractive. Rama's both, and on her own terms, not maga aesthetic.
To them, socialists are not supposed to be stylish or attractive. Rama's both, and on her own terms, not maga aesthetic.
January 1, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Conservative outlets love this pocket-watching hypocrisy trope, especially as some sort of gotcha for WOC, by willfully conflating left politics with forced universal aceticism.
To them, socialists are not supposed to be stylish or attractive. Rama's both, and on her own terms, not maga aesthetic.
To them, socialists are not supposed to be stylish or attractive. Rama's both, and on her own terms, not maga aesthetic.
Finished 2025 the best way. The right way. letterboxd.com/cinemelo/fil...
A ★★★★★ review of When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
- "I knew the way you know about a good melon." - "Hid behind a tree...She looked very nice to me!" - This whole thing would be perfect already (screenplay, chemistry, storytelling economy, music, etc...
letterboxd.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Finished 2025 the best way. The right way. letterboxd.com/cinemelo/fil...
Whittled down a list of 40 highlights of Old New-To-Me films I saw this year. Alphabetical order. Good times. letterboxd.com/cinemelo/lis...
Best old new-to-me 2025
A list of 40 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Alligator (1980), American Madness (1932), As Above, So Below (1973), Backroads (1977) and Body and Soul (1925).
letterboxd.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Whittled down a list of 40 highlights of Old New-To-Me films I saw this year. Alphabetical order. Good times. letterboxd.com/cinemelo/lis...