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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · 1d

#BlueMoon is a companion piece to earlier #RichardLinklater film on another turning point in US theater history #MeAndOrsonWelles. In a tour de force performance #EthanHawke delivers a sharp critique of his former partner's #Oklahoma which suggests a general dumbing down of 40s American culture

Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · 1d

#TheMastermind is another fine piece of work from #KellyReichardt. Single out performance by the ubiquitous #JoshOConnor, typical good use of small town and rural locales, and jazz score by #RobMazurek

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · 1d

Recently saw The Mastermind and Blue Moon. Will post short blurbs on

Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · 8d

Recently caught up with films: Ballad of A Small Player, Good Fortune, Urchin, and Fairyland. Each has different merits, but it is Fairyland that lingers in my mind, possibly because of my own connection to San Francisco.
It is a sad story that nonetheless celebrates a glorious period of urban life

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · 8d

I wasn't planning to waste time on it, based on what I had already heard

Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · 20d

#BoneLake as a four character psychosexual intrigue (that climaxes in some rather grisly bloodshed) isn't bad and is better as horror than some of the more mainstream and bigger budgeted similar genre offerings. Am gonna try for the #RaoulPeck #Orwell documentary this weekend

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · 26d

#Anemone which opened here Thurs is the welcome return of #DanielDayLewis, who also co wrote and whose son Ronan is( 1st time )director.
Intriguing juxtaposition of sustained, brooding interior scenes (two terrific monologues) probing closeups , with stark, stormy #NorthernEngland seaside settings

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · 28d

In case I didn't mention, also check out Redford's The Company You Keep. Both his and Lumet's film deal with aspects of the radical on the run predicament which PTA to my mind doesn't deal with in as satisfying a manner.

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · 29d

Films I resaw in Sept that especially stand out

1) Fox and His Friends
2) Love With The Proper Stranger
3)A Night to Remember
4) Running on Empty
5) The Smallest Show on Earth

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · 29d

Best films new 2 me seen in Sept

1) The Baltimorons
2) The Company You Keep
3) Heavens Above!
4) The History of Sound
5) The Last Castle
6) Lions for Lambs
7) Little Fauss and Big Halsy
8) One Battle After Another
9) Spy Game

Some films with or directed by Redford were better than I expected

Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 29

3) Every #PaulThomasAnderson film I have seen has had much merit and great interest, except maybe for the rather misbegotten Phantom Thread, and taken as an oeuvre they are one of the most accomplished by any current US director .

Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 29

2) BUT, as applies 2 #OneBattleAfterAnother, I am still grappling with the coherence of the whole. In the meantime, several earlier titles with the same basic theme, #RunningOnEmpty by #SidneyLumet and #TheCompanyYouKeep by #RobertRedford are well worth checking out

Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 29

1) My 1st #PaulThomasAnderson ,There Will Be Blood reminded me of #KingVidor & I feel the rating of Vidor by Michael McKegney friend #AndrewSarris (More great moments, fewer great films) somewhat applies now. There are 3 scenes in #OneBattleAfterAnother that are as good as anything I’ve seen in 2025

Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 21

2) Reading about #TheHistoryOfSound afterwards, I was intrigued that key footage of the protagonists first meeting and performing songs was filmed in a #Hoboken eatery called #10thAndWillow which is across the street from where I lived in the 80s, though the place didn't exist then.

Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 21

1) We've had some rather good new films opening here recently: #ALittlePrayer, #TheBaltimorons and now #TheHistoryOfSound. I was touched by how this story of two young students in the WWI era become friends, and something more, as they team up to collect forgotten folk songs in #Maine

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 20

Hey cinephiles let's welcome mjhousiaux12.bsky.social . I have missed seeing his astute and suggestive posts since I left the Elon Musk site.
Be sure to engage him about #GeorgeCukor.

mjhousiaux12.bsky.social

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 15

3) More suited to what I wanted after this grim week, than a film about a future US military dictatorship, was the exhilarating romantic comedy of #TheBaltimorons. I had seen a few #DuplassBrothers productions before,but this is the first that has made a strong impression for me.

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 15

2) #TheLongWalk, as I expect others have already said, is kind of a cross between #StandByMe and #TheHungerGames, so derives some of its interest,,besides the sheer thriller aspect, from that particular tension, and from the playing of a good group of young actors.

Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 15

1) The films of most interest to me this past weekend were :
Splitsville
Twin less
The Long Walk
The Baltimorons
I chose the last two, based on the convenience of locations and showtimes, and am especially glad I chose #TheBaltimorons
Continued...

Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 11

So glad that you got to see it and that you liked it.

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 9

Lemme know . I was gonna see Sunday but timing didn't work out

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 1

How about Our Daily Bread and The Fountainhead?

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 1

Memorable eve when my brother Eugene played there and, in honor of guests Eddie Muller and Lisa Ryan, did a song referencing On Dangerous Ground. I liked the fish and chips they brought in

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 1

Funny I just watched the interview on The Hit dvd the other night even though it isn't really about that film.

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Lawrence Chadbourne @ephesus1guard.bsky.social · Sep 1

Fascinating info.

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