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Farran Smith Nehme

@selfstyledsiren.bsky.social

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Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found. https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · Aug 25

I spent many happy working hours this summer preparing for an interview about the life and art of Jean Harlow, who I've worshipped and adored since I was a kid. It will be part of
@criterion.bsky.social's HELL'S ANGELS 4K/Blu-ray release in November. Details here: www.criterion.com/films/28987-...

Jean Harlow standing up in the swimming pool, arms akimbo with a big grin.

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 3m

I suspected as much! Glad to hear it.

Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 1h

I want to rescue Kristi.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 18h

well for sure I am going to look at THAT

Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 18h

I want to urge anyone interested in FRANKENSTEIN to see it at a theater where the big screen will let you bask in the visuals. And do it soon after the movie opens (Oct. 17) because I don't think Netflix plans a long stay in cinemas.

johnshutt.bsky.social @johnshutt.bsky.social · 19h

I want to check this out when it comes to the Lightbox. This was made to be seen on the big screen

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 18h

I've seen nature films of wolves (which are enormous! as a kid reading fairy tales I had no idea) chasing down field rodents!

Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking of! Aren't a lot of terriers bred over centuries to go after rats?

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 20h

My heart goes out to you, this is terrible. Please forgive the unasked-for suggestion, but — The Manhattan ACC is overflowing with cats that need homes? I am *terrified* of all rodents, but when we have a cat I never see them. I'm told certain breeds of dogs have the same effect?

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 21h

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 21h

C'est moi, c'est moi, I'm forced to admit ...

Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 21h

As a romantic (in life) and a Romantic (in college studies) I loved Del Toro's Frankenstein—the sweep, the beauty and the headlong emotion of it. Its visual and thematic echoes range from Burke & Hare to Ingres to Hammer, but it's no pastiche—it's a vividly individual film.

Frankenstein's laboratory, with rose window

Edinburgh used as background in Frankenstein

Mia Goth calling up visions of Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville in Frankenstein

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h

“I found ‘One Battle After Another’ in 4DX to be slightly more suspenseful and slightly less funny than the other versions — when Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) jumps out of a moving car ‘like Tom Cruise,’ it’s scarier in 4DX because the audience’s own chairs threaten to catapult them through the air.”

I Saw ‘One Battle After Another’ Six Times in Six Formats in Six Days

We compare Paul Thomas Anderson's latest masterpiece in VistaVision, 70mm IMAX, digital IMAX, regular 70mm, DCP and 4DX to see which is best.

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Old Hollywood @theoldhollywood.bsky.social · 23h

The Mamas and the Papas performing on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1967

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Pope Leo to visit Turkey and Lebanon on first overseas trip

Pontiff expected to appeal for peace across the Middle East and speak about the persecution of Christians in region Pope Leo’s debut overseas trip will be to Turkey and Lebanon, where he is expected to make appeals for peace across the Middle East, the Vatican has announced. Leo, who was elected pontiff in May after the death of Pope Francis, will visit Turkey between 27 and 30 November and Lebanon from 30 November until 2 December. Continue reading...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

#OnThisDay in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe passed away under mysterious circumstances. Of all the artists who gave life to Poe's macabre tales over the years, perhaps none captured them quite so brilliantly as the Irish artist Harry Clarke: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h... #OTD #EdgarAllanPoe

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Monumentum @monumentum.fr · 1d

Ruines du château à #Villandraut (#Gironde) Château construit par le pape Clément V au début du XIVe siècle. Parvenu jusqu'à nos j...
Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00083861/villandraut-ruines-du-chateau

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 1d

I can think of one left in Chelsea and there may be a few others, but otherwise yeah, it's Walgreen wall-to-wall

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 1d

With spooky season just around the corner we thought we'd share again this atmospheric and unique photo of the Undercroft.

This is possibly the only known photo showing the space partitioned, and looking as it would have done when it was an almshouse.