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Rachel
@amusedmuse.bsky.social
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Photo Mistress with moving image archivist background. All around geek, but not in the bites heads of chickens sense. (She/Her)
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The final screening was a Nazi remake of F.W. Murnau's "Sunrise", "The Trip to Tilsit" ("Die Reise nach Tilsit," Dir. Veit Harlan, 1939, Germany). No explicit Nazi content, just socially conservative in the same way most Hollywood films of the same era were.
Movie poster the 1939 German Die Reise nach Tilsit.
June 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Program 11 of @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social : "Mother Joan of the Angels" ("Matka Joanna od Aniołów", Dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1961, Poland) from Filmoteka Narodowa - Instytut Audiowizualny. The nitrate era is usually cited as ending circa 1950, but the Soviets didn't get the memo.
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Movie poster for the 1961 Polish film "Mother Joan of the Angels."
June 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Will wake up early on day 4 of @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social for William Powell. Program 10 is "My Man Godfrey" (Dir. Gregory La Cava, 1936, USA) via a print with German subtitles from Filmarchiv Austria.
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Production still from the 1936 film My Man Godfrey: William Powell wearing a suit, carrying a glass of dark liquid, bends over Alice Brady, draped in fur, lying in an elaborate bed.
June 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Program 9 of @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social 2025 : Hue and Cry (Dir. Charles Crichton, 1947, UK) from Nasjonalbiblioteket. Cautiously optimistic about the content based on past Ealing films that I have seen. Very intrigued by the print's origin.
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Movie poster for the UK film "Hue and Cry."
June 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Program 8 for @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social : "Wife! Be Like a Rose!" ("Tsuma yo bara no yô ni", Dir. Mikio Naruse, 1935, Japan) via a print from the Eastman Museum collection.
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Japanese language poster for Mikio Naruse's "Wife! Be Like a Rose!"
May 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Program 7 of @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social 2025: a nearly immaculate print of "You Only Live Once" (Dir. Fritz Lang, 1937, USA) from the British Film Institute. Easily one of the most beautiful prints screened thus far at this year's festival.
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Poster for the 1937 film "You Only Live Once."
May 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Final screening of the day: Program 5 of @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social 2025: "Apenas un Delincuente" (Dir. Hugo Fregonese, 1949, Argentina) from Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken. The Criterion Channel may have recently added an "Argentine Noir" collection, but this title isn't included in it.
Movie poster for the Argentine film "Apenas un Delincuente".
May 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Program 4 of @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social 2025: "La Ronde" (Dir. Max Ophüls, 1950, France). I haven't seen this movie since 2005 when I saw it in a college class on laserdisc. Excited to see this print from La Cinémathèque française.
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Movie poster for the French film "La Ronde" (1950).
May 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Program 3 of @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social continued: "It's All in the Bag" ("L'Affaire est fans le sac", Dir. Pierre Prévert, 1932, France) an anti-fascist cult classic courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art.
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Screenshot of a masked man holding up a sack with a human form in it from "L'Affaire est fans le sac."
May 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Program 3 of @nitratepictureshow.bsky.social kicks off with "The City" (Dir. Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke, 1939, USA) via a print from the festival's hometown archives, the Motion Picture department of George Eastman Museum.
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Screenshot of a street scene from "The City" 1939.
May 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Program 2 of #NPS2025 : "Canyon Passage" (Dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1946, USA) from the Library of Congress. More glorious Technicolor! Now on location in scenic Oregon!
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May 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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First screening of #NPS2025 : "Becky Sharp" (Dir. Rouben Mamoulian, 1935, USA) from Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. The first feature film made in "glorious" Technicolor (AKA Process IV) #NitrateIsHot
May 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Pope Leo XIV rolling up like
Gif from RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked of Mystique, a curvaceous Black drag queen, in a room with purple tinted lighting, with the text, "Bitch, I am from Chicago."
May 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Without downloading new pics, where are you mentally
Screenshot of Mink Stole as Connie Marble in the film "Pink Flamingos" (Dir. John Waters, 1972, USA) red headed, wearing a teal blouse and rhinestone catseye glasses, demurely sitting at a desk with flower print curtains behind her. Overlaying the image is the quote, "I guess there's just two kinds of people, Miss Sandstone - my kind of people, and assholes." Pink Flamingos"
January 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Screenshot of a Twitter conversation: Hells Bells / @LaurenCoker99: "What's it called when you're introverted but have taken on numerous leadership and outgoing roles in your whole life? 😂" Reply from Ella Callow / @callow_ella: "Introvirtuous: I'm here to help. But I'd rather not be."
January 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Black and white drawing of Disney's anthropomorphized fox Robin Hood, whose tunic says "Sickos," standing at a window, with his hands against the glass. A speech bubble above his head reads, "Yes... Ha Ha OO-DE-LALLY!"
December 18, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
Anime art for The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today: A woman with long brown hair, in business attire, is kneeling at a Japanese style table, sharing a meal with a giant black cat wearing a striped apron.
November 12, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Happy Bi Visibility Month!
Screenshot from the movie Lisa Frankenstein, showing The Creature (Cole Spruce) and Lisa (Kathryn Newton) sitting on a tanning bed in a room with magenta, purple and blue lighting. Overlaid on this image is a screenshot of a tweet by kelly, @kellicopter, which reads, "i'm bisexual that means i'm attracted to girls who look like they just descended from heaven and boys who look like they just rose from the grave."
September 27, 2024 at 4:05 AM
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Indirect spoilers for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom:
Screenshot from the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: blonde ninja Raiden and brunette stealth soldier Solid Snake are armed with a rifle and handgun, respectively. The image is captioned: "Looks like I'm today's pick. You go ahead." Screenshot from My Little Pony: The Movie, showing the goopy purple schmooze overtaking Pony castle amid the background of an idyllic valley. Publicity image of the movie The Sound of Music, showing Julie Andrews as Maria, wearing a long dark blue dress and white apron, spinning with her arms outstretched on a green hilltop in the Alps. Screenshot from the Pokemon anime, showing an Ekans and Koffing attacking a Caterpie.
September 27, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #478,213!
September 17, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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Screenshot of Anya Taylor-Joy in film The Menu, with text over it: I can has cheezburger?
September 13, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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Just got my copy of Queer as Folklore by @sachacoward.bsky.social in the mail. So excited to read it!
A hand holding a hardback book titled "Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters." Author: Sacha Coward. Cover art is a highly accessoried, winged, narwhal-man against a solid yellow background.
August 31, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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Good job, librarians.
Screenshot of SFPL app. Text: New at the Library: Books. Images beneath are the covers of books titled, "Renters' Rights" and "The California Landlord's Law Book: Evictions."
May 18, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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I noticed the Goombrats in "Super Mario Bros. Wonder" have a passing resemblance to Leonardo DiCaprio in "Killers of the Flower Moon," and I feel compelled to share this realization with others.
Composite of 4 images: the two images on the left are frowning Goombrats from Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and the two images on the right are Leonardo DiCaprio with his stock frowning expression in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon.
December 25, 2023 at 10:23 PM
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Since one of my besties is playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the first time ever, I started a new game.
Had a productive first full day: when Blathers opens his tent tomorrow, he'll be getting a tarantula and wasp, amongst other creatures, from me.
Screenshot from the video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons: a femme avatar, with pale complexion and short wavy brown hair, in a denim cap, plaid shirt, jeans and slip on shoes, stands in a tent surrounded by fish and insect enclosures.
December 8, 2023 at 4:29 AM