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Raquel Stecher

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Film Historian and Critic. Writer for TCM, Quelle Movies. Co-host of the #CineHistorians podcast. Passionate about world cinema. www.raquelstecher.com

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 17d

A few years ago I interviewed screenwriter Daryl Henry for a TCM article about his film The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974). He was such a delight and even sent me behind-the-scenes photos from the film including this one of him on set. I just learned he passed away this July. Godspeed.

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 17h

here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 17h

My favorite Criterion Closet videos are the ones with directors talking about other directors' work. I loved this one with Luca Guadagnino especially when he talked about the "invisible hand of violence over women" in Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl (2001). www.youtube.com/watch?v=fodK... #filmsky

Luca Guadagnino’s Closet Picks

YouTube video by CRITERION

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 1d

God speed Diane Keaton

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 1d

Cleansing the timeline www.youtube.com/watch?v=8day...

The Funniest Wolf Howls Are Lazy Ones

YouTube video by Wolf Conservation Center

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 1d

Watched Pablo Larrain's The Club (2015) yesterday and I am not well. It's so deeply disturbing and as a dog enthusiast I wished I had just skipped this one.

Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a scaredy cat but I'm really curious about this one.

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 2d

For a split second I thought I was looking at a picture of Jonathan Brandis.

Vulture @vulture.com · 2d

Lukas Gage’s new memoir, ‘I Wrote This for Attention,’ was written by an actor dissatisfied with his own history: ‘’Get famous’ and ‘get jobs’ are different.”

‘I’ve Overshared Already, and I’m Bored of It’

Lukas Gage’s new memoir, ‘I Wrote This for Attention,’ was written by an actor dissatisfied with his own history: ‘’Get famous’ and ‘get jobs’ are different.”

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely not common amongst middle-class or working women. I thought of this while watching Mad Men and I noticed that the working women wore clip ons and the wealthy women of leisure had pierced ears.

Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 4d

Leila and the Wolves (1984) #CriterionChannel #FilmSky

Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 4d

There is a correlation between clip-on earrings and women working jobs as secretaries and phone operators in the '50s and '60s. Easy to slip off and on. The pain of wearing an earring with a backing on the phone is excruciating. Clip-ons meant you could be functional & stylish.

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 4d

I can't stop thinking about this blouse that Miranda July wears in Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005). It's perfection.

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 4d

Fun assignment in Film History I’m going to try next week with the Hays/Motion Picture Production Code. Pick a recent media artifact you enjoy that definitely wouldn’t pass the Code and then outline some strategies you’d use to remake the work to earn the seal of approval.

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 4d

great idea for an assignment!

Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 4d

New fave: Close to You (2023)

Elliot Page & Hillary Baack are absolutely brilliant in this. Their chemistry was electric. I love the film's free-flowing, improvisational style. It did linger a bit too long with the family scenes. Still I adored it.

Could pair it with You Can Live Forever (2022)

Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 5d

Yes! I joke that we don’t take our dog for walks but rather hunting expeditions. He loves searching for rabbits, moles, squirrels, etc. The instinct is strong.

Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 5d

My dog is part Jack Russell and a rat hates to see him coming.

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Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social · 6d

Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 5d

Who wants to go see Bugonia with me

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WBUR @wbur.org · 6d

The movie "Absolution," staring Liam Neeson, received $5.2 million in tax credits from the state for filming in Massachusetts.

'Absolution' and other films received millions in state aid last year

The movie "Absolution," staring Liam Neeson, received $5.2 million in tax credits from the state for filming in Massachusetts.

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 8d

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 8d

I love that Cillian Murphy watches the Criterion Channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Ze...

Cillian Murphy’s Closet Picks

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 9d

Very sad to hear the news of Patricia Routledge's passing. I'm one of many Americans who watched Keeping Up Appearances on PBS throughout the '90s and early aughts. And yes it was pronounced BOUQUET!

God speed.

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Patricia Routledge: Keeping Up Appearances star dies at 96

She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played the BBC's amateur sleuth Hetty Wainthropp.

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 9d

Jim Mitchum, ‘Thunder Road’ Actor and Son of Robert Mitchum, Dies at 84 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... via @thr.com

Jim Mitchum, ‘Thunder Road’ Actor and Son of Robert Mitchum, Dies at 84

He also appeared in the 1960s war films ‘The Victors,’ ‘In Harm’s Way’ and ‘Ambush Bay.’

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 9d

Greatly looking forward to this @atriabooks.bsky.social

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 9d

Eastern Columbia Building

Built in 1930, the thirteen-story Art Deco building was constructed in the Broadway Theater District of Downtown Los Angeles. One of the city’s most photographed buildings, it is considered the greatest surviving example of Art Deco architecture in L.A

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