Lokke Heiss
@lokkeheiss.bsky.social
Writer, physician, film historian, Dracula Scholar. I love silent films, pre-Codes & Film Noir. Other areas of interest include Victorian Lit, in particular the writings of Emily Gerard, author of Land Beyond the Forest.
My website is lokkeheiss.com
My website is lokkeheiss.com
Grab the leftovers, rest your feet and join a Saturday #WatchParty
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November 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"Top of the world, ma!"
Thanks for participating in our turkey tradition again this year! I hope everyone had a wonderful day yesterday, and enjoy the rest of the weekend. Clint WILL return! See you in December!
#BMovieManiacs
Thanks for participating in our turkey tradition again this year! I hope everyone had a wonderful day yesterday, and enjoy the rest of the weekend. Clint WILL return! See you in December!
#BMovieManiacs
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Gearing up for the switch from #Noirvember to the Yuletide season with a list of Scandinavian noir. Starting with the Norwegian entry Death is a Caress (1949). boxd.it/Qni20
Scandanavian Noir
A list of 15 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Girl with Hyacinths (1950), Hemsöborna (1944), Mannequin in Red (1958), Rider in Blue (1959) and Lady in White (1962).
boxd.it
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Gearing up for the switch from #Noirvember to the Yuletide season with a list of Scandinavian noir. Starting with the Norwegian entry Death is a Caress (1949). boxd.it/Qni20
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Well now we know why 47 and Hegseth were so upset when Senators made their statement about refusing illegal orders. The SOUTHCOM commander resigned, and the JAG stated in writing that the strikes are illegal. The chain of accountability is clear and must be investigated and prosecuted.
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Well now we know why 47 and Hegseth were so upset when Senators made their statement about refusing illegal orders. The SOUTHCOM commander resigned, and the JAG stated in writing that the strikes are illegal. The chain of accountability is clear and must be investigated and prosecuted.
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Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
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The always insightful @naomiaklein.bsky.social on surrealism and its aesthetic doppelgänger, fascism.
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The always insightful @naomiaklein.bsky.social on surrealism and its aesthetic doppelgänger, fascism.
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Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
JENNA: It could be an injured pilot.
AVON: It could be a trap.
GAN: It's not a very good one, then. We're suspicious of it already.
AVON: The test is not whether you are suspicious but whether you are caught.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/65
JENNA: It could be an injured pilot.
AVON: It could be a trap.
GAN: It's not a very good one, then. We're suspicious of it already.
AVON: The test is not whether you are suspicious but whether you are caught.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/65
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
JENNA: It could be an injured pilot.
AVON: It could be a trap.
GAN: It's not a very good one, then. We're suspicious of it already.
AVON: The test is not whether you are suspicious but whether you are caught.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/65
JENNA: It could be an injured pilot.
AVON: It could be a trap.
GAN: It's not a very good one, then. We're suspicious of it already.
AVON: The test is not whether you are suspicious but whether you are caught.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/65
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#filmnoir #moviesky #filmsky #MildredPierce #NoirvemberChallenge #FilmnoirFeaturingFood
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
#filmnoir #moviesky #filmsky #MildredPierce #NoirvemberChallenge #FilmnoirFeaturingFood
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving
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Dinah Shore with servicemen on Thanksgiving Day at the Hollywood Canteen in 1943.
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Dinah Shore with servicemen on Thanksgiving Day at the Hollywood Canteen in 1943.
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Happy Thanksgiving from the Louise Brooks Society louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2025/11/happ...
Happy Thanksgiving from the Louise Brooks Society
Louise Brooks, Louise Brooks Society
louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from the Louise Brooks Society louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2025/11/happ...
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“Children in my day were either cornfed or milk-fed. I was both.” –Joe Cobb hometownstohollywood.com/oklahoma/joe...
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“Children in my day were either cornfed or milk-fed. I was both.” –Joe Cobb hometownstohollywood.com/oklahoma/joe...
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Ida Lupino and Howard Duff in a “Mr. Adams and Eve” episode recalling different versions of the characters’ engagement story — originally aired Feb. 15, 1957
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Ida Lupino and Howard Duff in a “Mr. Adams and Eve” episode recalling different versions of the characters’ engagement story — originally aired Feb. 15, 1957
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Snow hill with Ravens, Caspar David Friedrich.
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Snow hill with Ravens, Caspar David Friedrich.
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He still so badly wants to be accepted in Manhattan.
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
He still so badly wants to be accepted in Manhattan.
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Ida Lupino co-starred as Steve McQueen’s mother in “Junior Bonner” (1972). She was only 12 years older than McQueen, but said she liked the role so much she would have been happy to play his grandmother.
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Ida Lupino co-starred as Steve McQueen’s mother in “Junior Bonner” (1972). She was only 12 years older than McQueen, but said she liked the role so much she would have been happy to play his grandmother.
Great article!
I have an answer for John Waters, who famously asked the question, “Why would [Dorothy] go back to Kansas?” It’s implied several times in the film that “over the rainbow” is a euphemism for death.
Dorothy wasn’t ready for “that last great adventure” & chose to go back to her family!
I have an answer for John Waters, who famously asked the question, “Why would [Dorothy] go back to Kansas?” It’s implied several times in the film that “over the rainbow” is a euphemism for death.
Dorothy wasn’t ready for “that last great adventure” & chose to go back to her family!
My latest for @tcmtv.bsky.social! An article on the history of The Wizard of Oz (1939) just in time for TCM's new website relaunch www.tcm.com/articles/afi...
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
www.tcm.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Great article!
I have an answer for John Waters, who famously asked the question, “Why would [Dorothy] go back to Kansas?” It’s implied several times in the film that “over the rainbow” is a euphemism for death.
Dorothy wasn’t ready for “that last great adventure” & chose to go back to her family!
I have an answer for John Waters, who famously asked the question, “Why would [Dorothy] go back to Kansas?” It’s implied several times in the film that “over the rainbow” is a euphemism for death.
Dorothy wasn’t ready for “that last great adventure” & chose to go back to her family!
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Ida Lupino on the back cover of the Chilean fan magazine Ecran in 1941
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Ida Lupino on the back cover of the Chilean fan magazine Ecran in 1941
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Anton Walbrook and Ludmila Tcherina during the filming of 'The Red Shoes' at the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, France, June, 1947
November 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Anton Walbrook and Ludmila Tcherina during the filming of 'The Red Shoes' at the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, France, June, 1947
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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Wrote this last year about the conondrum of beauty in Hollywood -
BOTD Gene Tierney!! M
MCC v #Noirvember T5: 5)Advise & Consent 4)Whirlpool 3)Where the Sidewalk Ends (Preminger x3) 2)Night & the City (Dassin) 1)Laura (Preminger)
More:
@meganabbott.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@christinalefou.bsky.social: www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
MCC v #Noirvember T5: 5)Advise & Consent 4)Whirlpool 3)Where the Sidewalk Ends (Preminger x3) 2)Night & the City (Dassin) 1)Laura (Preminger)
More:
@meganabbott.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@christinalefou.bsky.social: www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Gene Tierney and the pitfalls of being 'the most beautiful woman in movie history'
Film star Gene Tierney was worshipped for her looks – but they were also a poisoned chalice. Nearly a century on, has the way we consider beauty changed all that much?
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Wrote this last year about the conondrum of beauty in Hollywood -
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Watched the Last Week Tonight segment on freight trains last evening and... *Wow*... they animated a whole Thomas the Tank Engine riff and got Matt Berry to narrate it 😂 This is absolute *peak* satire!
The Sad Story Of Henry The Engine (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)
YouTube video by MilkyThomas
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November 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Watched the Last Week Tonight segment on freight trains last evening and... *Wow*... they animated a whole Thomas the Tank Engine riff and got Matt Berry to narrate it 😂 This is absolute *peak* satire!
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I’d marry her just for that excellent handwriting. #TCMParty #MagnificentObsession
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I’d marry her just for that excellent handwriting. #TCMParty #MagnificentObsession