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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 · 1h

I noticed that too!

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1h

📸 Rita Martin (1913)

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Patrick Crotty @patrickrcrotty.bsky.social · 1h

I‘m happy to shit on both. Obviously Kennedy is a far greater problem overall. But Nuzzi was sexting with him while covering the 2024 campaign. And instead of being shunned for that, she’s cashing in and building her brand. Any number of ethical journalists deserve her new job more than she does

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Strings and Sealing Wax (and other fancy stuff) @strings.bsky.social · 1h

Are people slut shaming her or pointing out that being romantically involved with a candidate while pretending to be a disinterested observer of both that candidate and his opponent is wildly unethical and leaves her with zero credibility?

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 1h

A Sé do Porto💙 é um edifício de estrutura romano-gótica, dos séc. XII e XIII, tendo sofrido grandes remodelações no período barroco (séc. XVII-XVIII). No interior conserva ainda o aspecto de uma igreja-fortaleza, com ameias...

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

Whispering in his ear, no less. 😍

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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 1d

A very wet day in the Lake District near Ashness Bridge overlooking Derwentwater. The stream was flowing swiftly down the fell over the black rocks.
#Autumn
#LakeDistrict
#Trees
#RockinTuesday
#Landscape
#Photography

Green grass in the foreground and a mountain stream flowing quickly over black rocks. Rust coloured bracken is on the fell side and autumn coloured trees. An oak tree is on the left of my photo and in the distance there is a glimpse of Derwentwater and the fells beyond shrouded in the rain and mist.

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

That suit is perfection.

Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 2h

And my oh my oh Fredric March

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2h

With Mary Brian, Henrietta Crosman, & Fredric March in ‘The Royal Family of Broadway’ (1930)

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 2h

Late-period Claude Rains was still dishy as hell.

Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2h

With Joan Greenwood & Claude Rains in ‘The Confidential Clerk’ (1954)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 2h

Today is Ina Claire’s birthday.

📸 Cecil Beaton (1931)

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 16h

🎉 Happy Birthday to #SSVanDine (Willard Huntington), #bornonthisday in 1888!
He was a key figure in Golden Age detective fiction, creating detective Philo Vance in The Benson Murder Case (1926), which inspired films and radio dramas. A puzzle mystery master! #CrimeFiction

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Monumentum @monumentum.fr · 2h

Maison du Grand Veneur à #CordessurCiel (#Tarn) Les maisons gothiques de Cordes datent de la période de prospérité de la ville, da...
Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00095536/cordes-sur-ciel-maison-du-grand-veneur

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 14h

Same! I think combining them gets credit.

Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 14h

What about “curtain up, light the lights”?

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 14h

Yes!

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 18h

“I didn’t find God in the skies. I found God in images.”

Powerful words by Jafar Panahi during his Martin Scorsese talk last week. ♥️

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 18h

At one time in my life I wouldn't donate to fundraisers if I only had a little to give. It seemed too small to make a difference so why bother? Now I know that goals get achieved when LOTS of people give those small amounts! Let's smash this hay drive one $8 bale at a time. 🍂

Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 18h

Truly, every bale matters and you can give one today for only $8! donorbox.org/mmfs-2025-ha...

2025 Hay Drive | Merrymac Farm Sanctuary (Powered by Donorbox)

Hay, grain and supplements are the #1 expense at MMFS. It's part of the foundation of the farm's daily activities. As you may imagine, we go through a LOT of it, and it's not cheap - costing $8 per ba...

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1d

With Charles Laughton on the set of ‘The Night of the Hunter’ (1955)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Lillian Gish’s birthday.

Lillian Gish

After a lengthy absence the noted screen star returns to the stage in Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”

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

My answer to that shifts around, but usually comes right back to Bleak House. It has everything.

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 19h

This is in my "Top 10 Dickens Bits That Often Run Through My Head."

"That is the only good that has ever come of it."

DickensYouSay @dickensyousay.bsky.social · 19h

Jarndyce and Jarndyce has passed into a joke. That is the only good that has ever come of it. It has been death to many, but it is a joke in the profession. Every master in Chancery has had a reference out of it.

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 19h

I bet Julie Christie was wonderful.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 20h

And here's Lillian in Vanya again, a few years later.

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Feb 4

bonus nearly random theater photo:

birthday boy Conrad Bain, Barnard Hughes, George C. Scott, Nicol Williamson, Julie Christie, Cathleen Nesbitt, Lillian Gish, and Elizabeth Wilson in Mike Nichols's 1973 production of Uncle Vanya

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 19h

Really doesn't matter how many times you text back "stop" to end, does it.

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