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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 19h

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies

#1,194 -- Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) dir. Tim Burton

Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens), an eccentric child-like man, loves his red bicycle and will not sell it to his envious neighbor, Francis (Mark Holton). While Pee-wee visits his friend Dottie (Elizabeth Daily), the bike is stolen. Thinking his bike is at the Alamo, Pee-wee sets off on a trip, where he meets many remarkable people, including waitress Simone (Diane Salinger) and a motorcycle gang. Eventually, Pee-wee discovers that his bike is being used in a movie and tries to recover it.

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Jayne4Freedom @jayne4freedom.bsky.social · 1d

Woohoo @Maddow is getting a Edward R Murrow award!
Congratulations Rachel, you deserve it. 👏👏👏👏 we love you!

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Bonnie Metcalf 215 pioneer @bonnie215.bsky.social · 19h

We were talking about how nothing feels right... I'm posting Halloween stuff but I feel numb... I'm not feeling Thanksgiving or xmas like the holiday spirit has been stolen by grinch or some shiit
Fokn weird

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Zebby. He finally managed to catch his tail. Super proud of the accomplishment and would like to pretend no one saw the part right after. 12/10 (IG: zebbythegolden)

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 1d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies

#1,195 -- Sword of the Beast (1965) dir. Hideo Gosha

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers. Disgraced, the swordsman (Mikijirō Hira) must go on the run and eventually finds solace with a band of outlaws.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 2d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies

#1,196 -- The Pornographers (1966) dir. Shôhei Imamura

A pornographic filmmaker (Shôichi Ozawa) faces threats from gangsters, the police and his own family.

The film is a satirical black comedy, depicting the underbelly of the Japanese post-war economic miracle, in this case pornographers and small time gangsters in Osaka. It has been called Imamura's best-known film outside Japan.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 3d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies

#1,197 -- Irrational Man (2015) dir. Woody Allen

On a small-town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19d

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Cartoon by John Deering.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 4d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies

#1,198 -- Cafe Society (2016) dir. Woody Allen

Looking for an exciting career, young Bobby Dorfman leaves New York for the glitz and glamour of 1930s Hollywood. After landing a job with his uncle, Bobby falls for Vonnie, a charming woman who happens to be his employer's mistress. Settling for friendship but ultimately heartbroken, Bobby returns to the Bronx and begins working in a nightclub. Everything falls into place when he finds romance with a beautiful socialite, until Vonnie walks back into his life and captures his heart once again.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 5d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies

#1,199 -- Sunshine (2007) dir. Danny Boyle

In the not-too-distant future, Earth's dying sun spells the end for humanity. In a last-ditch effort to save the planet, a crew of eight men and women ventures into space with a device that could revive the star. However, an accident, a grave mistake and a distress beacon from a long-lost spaceship throw the crew and its desperate mission into a tailspin.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 6d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies

#1,200 -- United 93 (2006) dir. Paul Greengrass

On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists seize control of United Airlines Flight 93 and three other planes. As realization of the imminent horror dawns on passengers, crew and loved ones on the ground, the courageous acts by those held hostage in the air count down in actual time.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 7d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies

#1,201 -- Hard Boiled (1992) dir. John Woo

A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 8d

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Jackie Daytona @irr777.bsky.social · 8d

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 8d

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 8d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies 🛋️ #Pixar

#1,202 -- Il Postino: The Postman (1994) dir. Massimo Troisi

When exiled Cuban poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) arrives on a tiny Italian isle, there's so much new mail that Mario (Massimo Troisi), an unemployed, uneducated layabout, is hired as a postman. His job is simply to deliver Neruda's daily mail. Mario soon becomes a student of the poet, learning the art of poetry to woo a local barmaid (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) and tell about the struggles of the working-class villagers. A firm friendship develops, and the postman turns into a changed man.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 9d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies 🛋️ #Pixar

#1,203 -- Wonder Wheel (2017) dir. Woody Allen

Four peoples' lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny's rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty's long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartment.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 9d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies 🛋️ #Pixar

#1,204 -- Inside Out (2015) dir. Pete Doctor

Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) is a happy, hockey-loving 11-year-old Midwestern girl, but her world turns upside-down when she and her parents move to San Francisco. Riley's emotions -- led by Joy (Amy Poehler) -- try to guide her through this difficult, life-changing event. However, the stress of the move brings Sadness (Phyllis Smith) to the forefront. When Joy and Sadness are inadvertently swept into the far reaches of Riley's mind, the only emotions left in Headquarters are Anger, Fear and Disgust.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 10d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies

#1,205 -- The Killing (1956) dir. Stanley Kubrick

Career criminal Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) recruits a sharpshooter (Timothy Carey), a crooked police officer (Ted de Corsia), a bartender (Joe Sawyer) and a betting teller named George (Elisha Cook Jr.), among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancee, Fay (Coleen Gray). But when George tells his restless wife, Sherry (Marie Windsor), about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 12d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies

#1,206 -- Ivan's Childhood (1962) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

When Nazi invaders destroy his Russian village and kill his family, 12-year-old Ivan (Kolya Burlyayev) is placed in a German prison camp. Ivan escapes from the camp and crosses back over to Russia, and comes under the care of Capt. Kholin (Valentin Zubkov), who wants to send Ivan to military school. Ivan refuses, requesting that he be allowed to use his powers of stealth to return to Germany to spy on the Nazis and avenge the killing of his family.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 13d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies

#1,207 -- A Rainy Day in New York (2019) dir. Woody Allen

Gatsby plans a romantic weekend when his girlfriend Ashleigh visits New York City. However, things take a surprising turn when Gatsby runs into the younger sister of one of his former girlfriends.

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Negan @rogernegan.bsky.social · 13d

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 14d

OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Combined the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Presenting the top 1,461 as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration.
#Film 📽️ #Resist #MovieSky #Movies

#1,208 -- Rifkin's Festival (2020) dir. Woody Allen

To save his failing marriage, Mort Rifkin, a film critic, attends the San Sebastian film festival with his wife Sue. However, things take a turn when Mort starts falling for Joanna, a Spanish doctor.

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Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.social · 15d

Reading: Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon

A merchant’s daughter who yearns for adventure gets more than she bargained for when she falls for a broodingly handsome stranger in this saucy romantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hurricane Wars.

“A true delight of a book! Spicy and heartfelt—this one is a winner all around.”—Katee Robert, author of Neon Gods

As the daughter of an ambitious merchant, Guinevere’s path has been predetermined: marry into a noble house of the Dwendalian Empire, raise her family’s station, and live quietly as a lordling’s obedient wife. But Guinevere longs for a life unbounded by expectations, for freedom and passion and adventure.

Those distant dreams become a sudden reality when her caravan is beset by bandits, leaving her guards slain and Guinevere stranded

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