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Stephanie Zacharek

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Film critic at TIME. I never travel far without a little Big Star. https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · Nov 18

The 100 Best Films of the Past 10 Decades, according to me. Your mileage WILL vary—which is the point! time.com/collection/1...

The 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades

See what made TIME's list of the 100 best movies of the past 100 years

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 1d

Dress for the job you want

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 1d

THE SMASHING MACHINE is an indie Oscar vehicle, not a franchise tentpole, and the idea that Johnson needs to come out and explain why it didn't have a massive opening weekend is a sign that both celebrity culture and entertainment journalism have reached new levels of delusion.

IGN @ign.com · 1d

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has issued a statement after The Smashing Machine became the Hollywood star's worst box office opening ever.

'You Can't Control Box Office Results' — Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Responds to The Smashing Machine's Disappointing Launch

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 1d

I have two and only two pieces of Georgian jewelry, but sometimes I hold them in my hand and marvel that they’re around 200 years old.

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 1d

I seem to be the only individual who disliked—maybe hated?—MARTY SUPREME. Time will tell...

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no he didn't.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 4d

Any day you see a Satyajit Ray film is a good day. First time seeing DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST, newly restored, at NYFF. A nuanced knockout. See it when/if you can.

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 5d

I walked down the aisle to "The Wedding"

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 5d

Blue Öyster Cult legal team, mobilize!

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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 6d

Another great photo of Jane Goodall, when she was very young. You can recognize her face. And with cat!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8d

before and after hegseth's directive

Sean Connery is a red strapped outfit. He's very hairy.

William Shatner as Captain Kirk. He's in a black strapped outfit and has a smooth chest.

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 9d

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 9d

Has a Claire McCardell vibe! I too love the color and the drape of the fabric (and the fact that she took a chance), but I agree it could be trimmer in the shoulders.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 12d

9/26/45: Mildred Pierce
D: Michael Curtiz from the Cain novel, w/Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
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Critic's Choice: Criterion brings 'Mildred Pierce' out of the noir shadows

It may not be as faithful or definitive an adaptation of the James M.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 12d

I always thought when it was time for a mid career change of profession there would be professions left.

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 12d

Bartender, I'll have a chicken p shot, and if the kitchen is still open, a side of hepatitas with guac on the side, please.

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks for alerting me to both of these pieces. I adore KUNDUN and consider it one of Scorsese's greatest; saying so has gotten me a lot of blank stares over the past 20-odd years. Glad to know there are others out there.

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 15d

First tried to crawl under the table, but it wasn't low enough. Now trying to crawl under the carpet.

Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 18d

Best new-baby gift ever, from @nybooks.com. You're welcome! shop.nybooks.com/products/i-a...

“I Am Born” Onesie

What better way for a baby to announce that he or she has arrived? “Chapter I. I Am Born”—the first line of Charles Dickens’s classic David Copperfield—is printed across the chest of this 100% organic...

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 20d

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · 20d

Not a Paul Thomas Anderson worshiper by any means, but Leonardo DiCaprio in a plaid grandpa bathrobe? Irresistible. On ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER: time.com/7318569/one-...

One Battle After Another Is a Potent, Exhilarating Portrait of America

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest stars Leonardo DiCaprio in an exhilarating, bitterly funny picture of a bitterly divided country.

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 21d

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 21d

Note well that this is a rousing call for journalism -- as it was and as it should be.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 22d

Damn, he's good, and right.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 21d

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

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