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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 8m

Italian poster for THE WAY OF THE DRAGON (1972)

Poster features a painting of Bruce Lee karate chopping a dude with a gun in the neck.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 22m

Spanish poster for DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1931), directed by Rouben Mamoulian - BOTD in 1897

Poster features a painting of fiendish Mr. Hyde staring at Dr. Jekyll with sinister intent.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 25m

Marlene Dietrich and director Rouben Mamoulian

Mamoulian was BOTD in 1897

Black and white photo of Marlene Dietrich and Rouben Mamoulian sitting at a table at a fancy gathering.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 44m

Ida Galli in a publicity photo for QUEENS OF EVIL (1970)

She was BOTD in 1939

Black and white photo of Ida Galli with crazy hair and a large tattoo on her chest.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1h

The Jersey Devil

He's pretty cool when you get to know him

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 12h

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

Black and white photo of a woman contemplating a handwritten sign in the front window of a store that says: "Streaker Uniforms".

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1h

Wednesday mood

Color photo of Bunta Sugawara looking cooler than cool in STREET MOBSTER (1972).

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 13h

Boris Karloff on set of Freund’s THE MUMMY (1932)

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 20h

Not a bad film per se--it's competently made and features some cool carnage. But DEAD SNOW's one of those horror flicks that exist primarily to pay homage to other, significantly better movies. With so many exciting horror films out there, it's hard to work up enthusiasm for something so unambitious

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 22h

Big Bullet (1996)

Top notch Hong Kong action flick in which a Dirty Harry-like cop recruits a bunch of misfits to help him take down gangsters

Directed and co-written by Benny Chan

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 22h

Carmel Myers and Norma Shearer in a publicity still for the silent comedy THE DEMI-BRIDE (1927), directed by Robert Z. Leonard -BOTD in 1889

Sadly, only a one-minute fragment of the film is currently known to exist

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 23h

Poster for the silent romance PEACOCK ALLEY (1922), starring Mae Murray and directed by then-husband Robert Z. Leonard - BOTD in 1889

Only a partial print of the film is currently known to exist

Poster features a painting of Mae Murray performing in a nightclub.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 23h

1970s jumpsuits ad

Ad features a photo of a man in a blue jumpsuit and a woman in a white jumpsuit.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 23h

Images from films featuring special effects by Screaming Mad George - BOTD in 1956

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: The Initiation (1990)
Freaked (1993)
Tales from the Hood (1995)

Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: The Initiation (1990)

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1d

Debbie Harry

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1d

Publicity still for the Three Stooges short WE WANT OUR MUMMY (1939), directed by Del Lord - BOTD in 1894

Black and white photo of the Three Stooges posing with a scary mummy.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 21h

Poster for the ant-drug exploitation movie NARCOTIC (1933), directed by Dwain Esper - BOTD in 1894

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 13h

32 years ago today, Sideshow Bob first met his old archenemy: Rakes. "Cape Feare," first aired October 7, 1993.

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Pabst Blue Ronin @pabstblueronin.bsky.social · 15h

Buster Keaton notably liked to stay current, not wishing to be like his surviving contemporaries who "had never heard a Beatles record"

Buster keaton, quite old, in a Rat Fink surfing shirt

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Filmes & Filmes @filmesefilmes.com · 15h

Stanley Kubrick dirigindo Danny Lloyd e Shelley Duvall na icônica cena do labirinto do Hotel Overlook em "The Shining", obra-prima de 1980.🎬🔥

#theshining #stanleykubrick #dannylloyd #shelleyduvall #oiluminado #overlookhotel

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 1d

Georgia Hale, 1925. She had recently been handpicked by Charlie Chaplin as the feminine lead in The Gold Rush (1925).

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A l i c e @astoehr.bsky.social · 1d

tom allen on desperate living for the village voice in 1977 (reviewed alongside rabid & bertrand blier's femmes fatales)

But I will swear by the following observations: There is not a single, gratuitous camera angle or shot in Desperate Living. Beneath the sleaze and the uniformly hysterical pitch of the acting, Waters is an austerely economical director who is figuratively comparable to Bresson. He is a driven, integral stylist. His troupe are beautiful ogres because they collaborate in absolute harmony with his ends, and are, therefore, not exploited. To paraphrase Rex Reed, Where else would these people go when the sun goes down?
None of these comments come easy; they are hard begrudged because to extrapolate praiseworthy style from chillingly alien content is to skate on thin ice and to risk critical dandyism.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 12h

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 12h

I was underwhelmed by The Neon Bible when I first saw it at the NYFF decades ago, but it's grown on me a bit since. Davies didn't seem to think highly of the John Kennedy Toole novel it's based on. During the NYFF q and a, he theorized that Toole's mom had actually written it.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d

www.villagevoice.com/witnessing-a...

The ultimate underground movie--a lyrical junkyard allegory annotated w chunks of mainly ’30s found footage. “A documentary showcase for the underdog’s spontaneous, uncontrolled fantasy” (Parker Tyler), desperately, despairingly beautiful, never more relevant.

danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social · 1d

Star Spangled to Death (2004; Ken Jacobs)

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