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Brit Freeze
@midwesttisbest.bsky.social
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Re-watched this recently & realized River Phoenix is more Hank William-coded in this than Tom Hiddleston was in I Saw the Light.

Also realized Peter Bogdanovich directed this!?! Certainly my 17-year-old self was oblivious to such things, but quadragenarian me was delighted to make the discovery!
DVD cover of the 1993 film The Thing Called Love picturing Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock, River Phoenix, and Samantha Morton.
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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September 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery 🏵️

Gladiola, my backyard, summer 2024.
Image of a peach and yellow gladiola in the foreground, red gladiola in the background on the left, and green gladiola foliage on either side
February 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Screenshot image of RECENT ACTIVITY on Letterboxd showing the theatrical film posters, from left to right, for the films Lee, The Wolfman, Priscilla, and A Perfect Pairing
January 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Screenshot image of RECENT ACTIVITY on Letterboxd showing the theatrical film posters, from left to right, for the films Challengers; Love to Love You, Donna Summer; Faye; and Hot Frosty.
January 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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A photograph set on a green lawn with pine trees in the background and mountains in the far distance, depicting a man, left, wearing a deerskin and fur jacket, stone-washed jeans, and donning a stunningly groomed salt-and-pepper beard and feathered blond hair, next to him on the right is a large grizzy bear.
December 24, 2024 at 4:47 AM
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Experience the Filthiest Fun Weekend of Your Life!

"Think costume contests, film screenings, themed parties & immersive activities that could only be inspired by the legendary “Pope of Trash” himself."

Public on sale starts 12.19 @ 1pm ET!

campjohnwaters.com

#filmsky #johnwaters #camp
Poster image with a sea green background and a pair of sunglasses with the reflection of pine trees on the lens with a yellow sky. Below the sunglasses is a graphic of a smile with a pencil-thin black mustache. Text across the top of the image reads The All-Inclusive Dreamland Sleepaway Weekend! On the bottom, the text reads: Camp John Waters, Guests Counselors Stephen Dorff, Amy Locane, Mink Stole, Sept. 5-8, 2025, Club Getaway, Kent, CT.
December 18, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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Aaaaaaaaand, that's a wrap on @iucinema.bsky.social fall 2024 programming. Huge heaps of gratitude to all who made it another wonderful semester! 😊🎬

Here are some sneak peeks of our spring 2025 schedule, which we'll officially go live with in early January.
A dark room with a pink couch and lamp in the foreground, a woman approaching both in the background, backlist by a white chandelier Image of a man listening to headphones with his hand over the left headphone and a small analog television lit up in the background. Image of a man facing a sign that shows a map of the southern U.S. and Mexico with the text INFECTED ZONE indicated with an icon of a gas mask. Image of a dimly lit iron-work stair case depicting several floors inside a building with a dark figure ascending the middle staircase.
December 16, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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via FIAF (Int'l Federation of Film Archives):

"Pathé Films is currently seeking the 35mm reels of Anne-Marie (Raymond Bernard, 1936) & Le Duel (Pierre Fresnay, 1941). Please contact us by email: [email protected] & [email protected]. Thank you for your valuable cooperation!"

#filmsky
Poster image of 1936 Raymond Bernard film Anne-Marie, featuring two smiling men on the left gazing at the image of woman pilot with a background featuring an image of the women without her flying gear and centered in the image a silhouette of an airplane facing down with the text Anne Marie in blue across the wingspan. Poster image of the 1941 film Le Duel by Pierre Fresnay, depicting two men in the foreground one man in a suit, one a man of the cloth, seemingly in a heated discussion, above them are the dreamy images of a women in a hat and an elderly man with a beard with the text LE DUEL in red along the bottom of the image.
December 11, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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Three of four of these watched on the big screen at @iucinema.bsky.social this week!

#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky
Screenshot image of RECENT ACTIVITY on Letterboxd showing the theatrical film posters, from left to right, for the films Magic Mike XXL, Mountains, My Own Private Idaho, and Bauryna Salu.
December 6, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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FRIDAY THE 13TH IU CINEMA HOLIDAY DOUBLE FEATURE!

Carol (2015, Todd Haynes)
7pm, $5

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, Tim Burton) 10pm, $5

cinema.indiana.edu/upcoming-fil...

@iucinema.bsky.social #filmsky
Theatrical poster image for the 2015 Todd Hayne's film CAROL, featuring Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett gazing at one another from across blurry onlookers. Theatrical poster image of the 1993 film Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas featuring Pumpkin King Jack Skellington standing atop a curly Q precipice backlit by a full moon and overlooking a valley of glowing jack-o-lanterns.
December 6, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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This week at @iucinema.bsky.social is ... well, very us. And, we hope, very you as well!

Idaho + Mountains are both FREE, thanks to our partners Out@Kelley & Folklore + Ethnomusicology, respectively.

Magic Mike, Paddington & Paris are each $5 all tix.

NTL is $12 students, $15 general admission.
Still image from the 1991 Gus Van Sant film My Own Private Idaho, depicting River Phoenix on the left of the image, mouth agape as if in the middle of speaking, and wearing a rust-colored jacket with brown corduroy collar and tousled hair and Keanu Reeves on the right of the image wearing an orange sweater with black vertical stripes and a brown leather jacket with a tan fake fur collar and a slight but knowing smile. Film still from the 2023 film Mountains about Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood, with a smiling and joyful family of 11 gathered around a young girl surrounded by pink and white flowers and a sign that reads in cursive "blessed." Film still from the film Paddington 2 depicting the entire family of five at the foot of a stairwell gathered around a smiling Paddington bear wearing his signature red hat in the center of the image. Film still from the 1984 Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas depicting a bearded and dusty Harry Dean Stanton wearing a dark grey wide pin-striped suit, white dress shirt, yellow-ish tie, and a red baseball cap, standing in front of tall rock formations resembling Monument Valley.
December 2, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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The undead in me honors the undead in you. 🙏
A 1980s image of a small tow-headed girl holding up both of her hands donned with red plastic fake claw fingernails on each finger, vampire teeth, black bat-eye-shaped sunglasses, and a white ruffled turtleneck underneath a faux denim print shirt with a red heart.
November 27, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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Been thinking about making this since Wednesday. Finally got around to it. Oh, the parallels!
Film still from 1997 film Titanic. Image shows Victor Garber, who portrayed Thomas Andrews, the British shipbuilder and naval architect in charge of building plans for the doomed ocean liner, standing near an marble fireplace after having stopped a clock at the time the ship ceased movement after hitting an iceberg, with white meme text overlaid on the lower quarter of the image that reads: "I'm sorry that I didn't build you a stronger country, young citizens," replacing the original dialogue from the film: "I'm sorry that I didn't build you a stronger ship, young Rose."
November 10, 2024 at 9:56 PM