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Victor Morton

@vjmfilms.bsky.social

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Raised on Blackpool postcards and Benny Hill, religious nut, Film Nerddom's Jake LaMotta, Japan WW2 apologist, loyal adherent to the disco movement, Deplorable.

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · May 15

If you've lost contact with me ... this is my Top 10 for the 2025 YTD:

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 2h

I do have photos and I mistemembered one minor detail … it was a Quebec flag, not a banner

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 3h

OAM won and as we waited for in-cage formalities to end, I turned around and told them “you’re holding that (horizontal) banner the wrong way.” “It’s OAM; that’s what we call him.” “Yeah but it now reads ‘MAO.’ You trying to attract Chinese communists?” They laughed, thanked me and got it right. 3/3

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 3h

Cuz it was the last fight, I and a lot of other people gravitated toward the front section and there were some Canadian fans who had a big banner reading “OAM” (his nickname) a row behind me. They were clearly hoping to catch his eye, talk, get a photo etc. as he walked back after the fight (2/x)

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 3h

This is a personal anecdote, not an international incident, but in this genre. I was at the PFL World Finals in DC a couple years ago (probably the biggest MMA event outside the UFC), and one of the fighters in the main event was Olivier Aubin-Mercier, from Montreal. (1/x)

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 3h

[StraightFace] one detail I do remember seeing on the news at the time was that a flag shop in Toronto had to put up a window sign saying (something like) “no, we will not sell an American flag upside down on a pole.”

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 3h

or if the Canadians had bombed the Baldwins and the US executed war criminals Terence and Phillip

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 3h

Decided to look up … it was 1992 in Atlanta, the Blue Jays’ first appearance, but jt was Game 2, not Game 1 (which obviously meant that the next game was in Canada). I remember there was no retaliation, after HW Bush and the Marine Corps sent an apology.

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 3h

The first time (I think) thag the Blue Jays made the World Series, the first two games were in the US (Atlanta or Philadelphia, depending). But in the Game 1 anthems ceremony, the honor guard inadvertently hung the Canadian flag upside down on the pole. International incident.

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 4h

Not especially rooting for anyone in this series, though I will be rooting for the Dodgers to lose either way.

But rooting for the Mariners is not even implied by what I said

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 4h

I mean that’s some fuckin born-yesterday shit

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 4h

Jose What?

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 4h

Joe Who?

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 12h

so … I doubt you’d like as much as I did, but you might not hate.

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 12h

The 2025-US specific-stuff I probably liked more than you would, though it offers entry points for non-fascists also. The conflict in the basement is basically between Beavis and Butthead on the one hand and a girlboss CEO who’s a bitchier version of Elizabeth Holmes

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 12h

Going in innocent of Jang, I admit the story hit me like a lightning bolt … and then the way the plot twists and then the obvious conclusions kept piling on and one-upping themselves. (Dunno how that latter compares to PLANET obv)

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 12h

To answer your question seriously …

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 12h

you hate saving the green planet?!?!

a woman in a pink shirt is speaking into a microphone and saying how dare you

ALT: a woman in a pink shirt is speaking into a microphone and saying how dare you

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 12h

You're the second person (the other being on Twitter) to ask me that in the last couple hours regarding my enthusiasm for the new Lanthimos.

I have not.

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 12h

And Day 3 at Middleburg … CHRISTY is strictly paint-by-the numbers; NUREMBERG a potentially good movie suffocated by an appallingly bad (and naive) wikifilm; but THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE saved the day (though it’s not the black comedy I thought it would be).

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 1d

I told a friend before his debut MMA fight … “now Nick, this is very important. Try to hit him more than he hits you.” I didn’t have the heart to tell him that was a line from a Barbra Streisand film (THE MAIN EVENT).

After the fight, in which he got KO’d, he said to ne “he hit me more often.”

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 1d

As for Day 2 … Brazilian political thriller THE SECRET AGENDA was terrific; Yorgos’ BUGONIA a Victor-catnip year best contender; and Park’s NO OTHER CHOICE started out great and still watchable despite loss of steam

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 1d

Day 3 at @middleburgfilm ready to go …. all dictators agenda today — Russell Crowe in NUREMBERG, Iraqi Oscar contender THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE and Sydney Sweeney in CHRISTY

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 2d

as for Day 1 … Reichardt’s THE MASTERMIND is great; the HEDDA “adaptation” and IF I HAD LEGS… were insufferable; and Linklater’s BLUE MOON and Sorrentino’s LA GRAZIA were fine

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 2d

Day 2 of Middleburg Film Festival about to start with Mendonca Filho’s SECRET AGENT, then hope to rush Yorgos’ BUGONIA, then Park’s NO OTHER CHOICE

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 3d

One of my major fall film events, the Middleburg Film Festival, gets underway today for me. On the docket: Sorrentino’s LA GRAZIA, Linklater’s BLUE MOON, Bronstein’s IF I HAD LEGS, I WOULD KICK YOU , DaCosta’s HEDDA and Reichardt’s THE MASTERMIND