@garyharkness.bsky.social
Physicist, recreational filmmaker, booklover.
My favorite part of The Big Picture is when people get to hold forth about their niche loves. So even though I'm not a collector, I loved hearing the enthusiasm for Choose Me, Sympathy for the Underdog, Wake in Fright, Cotton Comes to Harlem and many more films that I can't wait to see.
September 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
My favorite part of The Big Picture is when people get to hold forth about their niche loves. So even though I'm not a collector, I loved hearing the enthusiasm for Choose Me, Sympathy for the Underdog, Wake in Fright, Cotton Comes to Harlem and many more films that I can't wait to see.
I would love for Quiz Show to be rediscovered. Masterpiece. It was remarkable to see that much of what that movie had to say about the quiz show scandal could be directly applied to the steroid scandal in baseball just a few years later.
September 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I would love for Quiz Show to be rediscovered. Masterpiece. It was remarkable to see that much of what that movie had to say about the quiz show scandal could be directly applied to the steroid scandal in baseball just a few years later.
Watched this today because of your post - thanks!
September 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Watched this today because of your post - thanks!
Her performance made me think she could have been a great silent film star.
August 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Her performance made me think she could have been a great silent film star.
Was just watching his movie "Bizzare, Bizzare" (Drôle de Drame 1938) last night which had a wonderful dark sense of humor. Need to check this one out!
August 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Was just watching his movie "Bizzare, Bizzare" (Drôle de Drame 1938) last night which had a wonderful dark sense of humor. Need to check this one out!
what an ending!
August 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
what an ending!
This movie made me wish that Glenda Farrell got to make a series of The Night Stalker-esque movies investigating the paranormal. At least we got the Torchy Blane films.
July 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This movie made me wish that Glenda Farrell got to make a series of The Night Stalker-esque movies investigating the paranormal. At least we got the Torchy Blane films.
I think Leni would have gone on to have one of the greatest directing career if he hadn’t died young.
July 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I think Leni would have gone on to have one of the greatest directing career if he hadn’t died young.
He has the same emphasis when he hands Ginger Roger the list of sus-PECTS in Star of Midnight.
July 22, 2025 at 4:52 AM
He has the same emphasis when he hands Ginger Roger the list of sus-PECTS in Star of Midnight.
I just read about him in Sam Kean’s book “Caesar’s Last Breath.” Why hasn’t Hollywood turned into a period comedy with early Oscar buzz?!?!
July 2, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I just read about him in Sam Kean’s book “Caesar’s Last Breath.” Why hasn’t Hollywood turned into a period comedy with early Oscar buzz?!?!
I can't stop watching this.
July 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I can't stop watching this.
Another masterpiece on love from Lean.
“If two people really love each other, they want to be together. They want to belong to one another.”
“Steven, I want to belong to myself.”
“Then your life will be a failure.”
“Why can’t there be love without this clutching and this gripping?”
“If two people really love each other, they want to be together. They want to belong to one another.”
“Steven, I want to belong to myself.”
“Then your life will be a failure.”
“Why can’t there be love without this clutching and this gripping?”
June 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Another masterpiece on love from Lean.
“If two people really love each other, they want to be together. They want to belong to one another.”
“Steven, I want to belong to myself.”
“Then your life will be a failure.”
“Why can’t there be love without this clutching and this gripping?”
“If two people really love each other, they want to be together. They want to belong to one another.”
“Steven, I want to belong to myself.”
“Then your life will be a failure.”
“Why can’t there be love without this clutching and this gripping?”
Fun movie. And it made me wonder what it would have been like if a young Dennis Hopper had played Freddie Quell.
June 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Fun movie. And it made me wonder what it would have been like if a young Dennis Hopper had played Freddie Quell.
Mild Spoiler for "The Phoenician Scheme:" In the last act of the movie, Michael Cera's character's look had to be modeled after Robert Donat in The 39 Steps.
June 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Mild Spoiler for "The Phoenician Scheme:" In the last act of the movie, Michael Cera's character's look had to be modeled after Robert Donat in The 39 Steps.
This really could be him describing the plot of "The Phoenician Scheme."
June 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This really could be him describing the plot of "The Phoenician Scheme."
Masterpiece!
May 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Masterpiece!
And this episode inspired Richard Linklater to name a college pitcher in “Everybody Wants Some” Willoughby. The character loves The Twilight Zone but his connections to this episode don’t end there.
May 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
And this episode inspired Richard Linklater to name a college pitcher in “Everybody Wants Some” Willoughby. The character loves The Twilight Zone but his connections to this episode don’t end there.
Kilmer: In the city always a reflection, in the woods always a sound.
Curtis: what about the desert?
Kilmer: you don’t want to go in the desert.
SPARTAN!!!
My wife and I love it as both a thriller and as a great source of unintentional comedy.
Curtis: what about the desert?
Kilmer: you don’t want to go in the desert.
SPARTAN!!!
My wife and I love it as both a thriller and as a great source of unintentional comedy.
April 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kilmer: In the city always a reflection, in the woods always a sound.
Curtis: what about the desert?
Kilmer: you don’t want to go in the desert.
SPARTAN!!!
My wife and I love it as both a thriller and as a great source of unintentional comedy.
Curtis: what about the desert?
Kilmer: you don’t want to go in the desert.
SPARTAN!!!
My wife and I love it as both a thriller and as a great source of unintentional comedy.
I only discovered Glenda Farrell this year and what fun! Her Torchy Blane movies feel like the 1930's equivalent of the USA Network's "Blue Sky" programming seventy years later.
April 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I only discovered Glenda Farrell this year and what fun! Her Torchy Blane movies feel like the 1930's equivalent of the USA Network's "Blue Sky" programming seventy years later.
Everyone has that first Twilight Zone episode that turned them into a lifelong fan. The After Hours was mine.
March 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Everyone has that first Twilight Zone episode that turned them into a lifelong fan. The After Hours was mine.
Peter Weir had a great run to the Elite Eight in 2023. Would love to see him pull and upset and win the whole thing.
February 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Peter Weir had a great run to the Elite Eight in 2023. Would love to see him pull and upset and win the whole thing.
This is a fun movie to pair with "How to Steal a Million Dollars." Has the same security system to thwart, came out the same year, but this time it stars Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.
February 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
This is a fun movie to pair with "How to Steal a Million Dollars." Has the same security system to thwart, came out the same year, but this time it stars Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.
Love it! Follow it up with All About My Mother!
February 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Love it! Follow it up with All About My Mother!