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Luke West
@lukecinemawest.bsky.social
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Cult Cinema Enthusiast 📽🎞😃 Favorite genres include: Eurocult French New Wave New Hollywood Film-Noir Commedia all'italiana Fleischer studios cartoons Can also be found at: https://letterboxd.com/Lukecinemawest https://www.instagram.com/lukecinemawest
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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 3d
Thieves Like Us (1974)

Starring: #KeithCarradine #ShelleyDuvall #JohnSchuck #BertRemsen #LouiseFletcher

Cinematography by #JeanBoffety

#ThievesLikeUs #1970s #gangsterfilm #crimemovie #romance #neonoir #perioddrama #newhollywood
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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 3d
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)

Directed by #MaxOphüls
Starring: #CharlesBoyer #DanielleDarrieux #VittorioDeSica

Based on the play
by #ArthurSchnitzler
Cinematography by #ChristianMatras
Music by #OscarStraus

#TheEarringsofMadamede #1950s #classicfilm #FrenchCinema #Cinémafrançais
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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 3d
Mystère (1983)

Directed by #CarloVanzina
Starring ##CaroleBouquet #DuilioDelPrete #JohnSteiner #GabrieleTinti #PeterBerling

Music by #ArmandoTrovajoli
Cinematography by #GiuseppeMaccari

#Mystère#1980s#Thriller #neonoir #Giallo #Giallofilms #ItalianCinema #Italianfilm #Cinemaitaliano
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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 3d
Black Sabbath (1963)

Directed by #MarioBava
Starring #BorisKarloff #MichèleMercier #MarkDamon #SusyAndersen #LydiaAlfonsi #GlaucoOnorato #JacquelinePierreux

Cinematography by #UbaldoTerzano
Music by #RobertoNicolosi

#BlackSabbath #Horrorfilm #Horror #ItalianCinema #Cinemaitaliano
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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 4d
Happy 130th birthday, Buster Keaton!

As well as being a genius, he was a cat lover. Of course. ♥️ #Caturday
Famous photo of beautiful young Buster in coat and tie, wearing a kitten on his head. B&W
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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 3d
Here is the full lineup of films, in alphabetical order. See the website for details on discount accommodations and more: silver.afi.com/events/detai...
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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 3d
Is fall festival season causing FOMO? Consider The AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend in Silver Spring, Md. It returns Nov. 6–9 with restorations, rarely-screened gems, silents with live musical accompaniment, delicious pre-Codes, 35mm prints. I'll be introducing a few! silver.afi.com/classic-film...
Classic Film Weekend | AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 2d
Happy Carole Lombard's birthday!
Carole Lombard as Lily Garland in Twentieth Century.
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 6d
Carole Lombard by Edwin Bower Hesser, 1929. (Thread)
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 3d
Carole Lombard by Eugene Robert Richee, 1931. #botd (Thread)
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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 3d
#31DaysofHorror Day 5

HELL HAS NO BOUNDARY (1982), Yang Chuan

While on a birthday excursion with her beau / reincarnated brother (don't think about it), rookie cop May's body is hijacked by her apoplectic toddler past self to wreak vengeful havoc with elevators, toilet paper or whatever's handy.
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#31DaysofHorror Day 4

SPLIT OF THE SPIRIT (1987), Fred Tan

A ghosted dancer attempts to end her life while simultaneously a woman is killed by her lover so he can marry a socialite; but when these two jilted souls converge for comeuppance carnage, they prove breaking up is indeed hard to do.
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#31DaysofHorror Day 3

POSSESSED 2 (1984), David Lai

A detective & his family move into an apartment with a palatial cemetery view & let me tell you it's a real bargain if you don't mind hedonistic dog meat grubbing ghosts who enjoy murder, spanking each other & possessing your wife & child.
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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 5d
Parenting 101
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#31DaysofHorror Day 1

BODY MELT (1993), Philip Brophy

Commodified self-improvement causes detergent chugging, tentacled torment in this erratic glandular absurdity of iffy beta-testing, incendiary mucus, aggressive mutant placenta &—my personal favorite—exploding phalluses. Giddy up.
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So glad I can unwind after a long day of pretending to not be depressed by watching gialli ✌️ @vinsyn.bsky.social
#justsaying #giallo #physicalmedia #nw
Photographic evidence of my physical media addiction featuring VS’s Bloodstained Italy Blu-ray set containing Death Falls Lightly, Obscene Desire, & The Bloodstained Lawn next to 5 Dead on the Crimson Canvas. It’s probably fine.
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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 8d
Georgia’s dream sequence from Roger Vadim’s ...Et mourir de plaisir (Le sang et la rose) aka BLOOD & ROSES (1960)

#filmsky #horrorsky #indreams
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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 9d
But not Martha, she's too nasty...
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Shuddering with the unexpected agony of an intimate conversation overheard without context, Vadim's BLOOD & ROSES (1960) is more complex in its delicate subtlety than many of its descendants, characters constricted by the weight of performative social expectation, ancestral trauma & unrequited love.
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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 11d
just me and my dog and an impossible view

Black Sunday (1960), Mario Bava // The Grapes of Death (1978), Jean Rollin // Damned in Venice (1978), Ugo Liberatore // The Beyond (1981), Lucio Fulci

#sidebyside #filmsky #horrorsky #me&mydog 🐾
Barbara Steele (and her canine companions) in Mario Bava's Black Sunday standing in the archway of a crypt wearing a black cape and a dour expression Brigitte Lahaie stands atop stone stairs in a sheer white nightgown flanked by two large dogs in Rollin's The Grapes of Death Haunting and misty mirage of a young girl (Gloria Bozzola) standing by the water with a greyhound in Liberatore's gothic masterpiece Damned in Venice Cinzia Monreale and her seeing eye dog Dickie in Fulci's The Beyond standing ominously in the middle of the road
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Birthed in the piteously unwholesome gloom perhaps known only to Venetian set horror or Goya, Ugo Liberatore's DAMNED IN VENICE (1978) attaches its ectopic antichrist narrative askant an awkwardly cold, desaturated & depressed fugue of inverted mundanity more disquieting than anything it imitates.
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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 12d
I have risen. Hallelujah.
(I missed you guys 🖤)

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), Jean Epstein
A series of images from Jean Epstein’s 1928 adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher that depict a woman tangled in a bridal veil rising from her grave with the caption “We have put her living in the tomb!” A series of images from Jean Epstein’s 1928 adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher that depict a woman tangled in a bridal veil rising from her grave with the caption “We have put her living in the tomb!” A series of images from Jean Epstein’s 1928 adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher that depict a woman tangled in a bridal veil rising from her grave with the caption “We have put her living in the tomb!” A series of images from Jean Epstein’s 1928 adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher that depict a woman tangled in a bridal veil rising from her grave with the caption “We have put her living in the tomb!”
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Dick Scott @dickscott.bsky.social · 6d
Karen Black & sunlight☀️THE DAY OF THE LOCUST 1975▪️ Director John Schlesinger▪️Cinematographer Conrad L. Hall▪️Costume Designer Ann Roth▪️
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Dominique Revue @dominiquerevue.bsky.social · 7d
Spent most of my summer (re)watching silent films in a "Roaring '20s steps out with Pre-Code" vibe (letterboxd.com/dominiquerev...) with no regrets—and while I (re)watched a lot of Louise Brooks, Alice White, and Clara Bow, the one actress who stood out for me was Betty Compson.

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Betty Compson for THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (1928) Betty Compson in THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (1928)
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Dominique Revue @dominiquerevue.bsky.social · 7d
I have watched Betty Compson in films before, but . . . to watch so many—at times in different films back-to-back—made her stand out to me and appreciate her all the more.

If you have yet to seek out her work, I encourage all film fans to do so.

ltbxd: x.com/DominiqueRev...

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THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (1928) THE LADY REFUSES (1931) WEARY RIVER (1929)
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