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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 7h

Would happily finish off the rest.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 15h

This is two sentences joined by a semicolon.

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 1d

yr flesh has a limit
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NEW/OLD: Under the Sun of Satan

Two novels about unhappy priests by Georges Bernanos: The Diary of a Country Priest (1936), about a young priest in a rural French village whose physical frailty from encroaching stomach cancer paral...

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 5d

i want to save you 25 cents on monster vitamins

The B-Movie Vault @thebmovievault.bsky.social · 6d

Remember, if you enjoy life half as much as Vincent Price must have, you're doing okay.

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 6d

When Alonso comes home from a press screening for a film I haven't seen yet: "You'll love it. It's a sad movie about failure."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 8d

This will be a vote to erase 50 years of medical and psychiatric knowledge and kill gay and trans kids, because MAGA Republicans feel that in a better world, fewer of them would exist. It is that simple. Democrats must make SCOTUS expansion part of the party platform. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

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byron coley @byroncoley.bsky.social · 9d

RIP KEN JACOBS one of the last masters of lo-fi avant garde cinema. if you don't know his work, do yourself a favor and check it out

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Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 12d

Indeed.

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 12d

He laughs at me for looking up the menu online before we go but I like to have a plan and I know I'm right.

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 13d

all of them

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 13d

I will use this column to hype my dude
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a straight-up advertisement for my husband's book

I have built a subjective scale of Christmas mania and appointed myself as arbiter of truth. A simple 1 to 10, where 1 is you tolerate the holiday, 5 is you like it like a normal person, 10 is you mig...

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 16d

putting me on blast, i see

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 16d

They can't all be super meaningful. In fact, most of them just won't be.
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Look at this gorgeous tomato I just ate

I took that photo with my shitty iPhone 8. People laugh at me when I tell them that's still my level of phone but I don't care. It functions mostly. Anyway, the tomato. It's from my local farmer's ma...

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 19d

sluggish archive time

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ARCHIVE: leave it all behind

INHERENT VICE (2014) A title card in Inherent Vice references graffiti from a Paris wall in May of 1968, when French student and worker protests announced a social revolution there. That slogan — “Un...

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 19d

please enjoy one critic after another, for a total of two of them. they're nice i like them.

Christy Lemire @christylemire.bsky.social · 19d

Tonight! Come say hi to me and @aduralde.bsky.social before the 6pm showing of #OneBattleAfterAnother at CinemaWest Beach Cities. Details and tickets below ⬇️

Christy Lemire @christylemire.bsky.social · Sep 11

LA people! Come hang out with us before #OneBattleAfterAnother on opening weekend. We'll be at CinemaWest Beach Cities before the 6pm showing on Sept. 26. Say hi in the lobby bar starting around 530pm, then watch Paul Thomas Anderson's latest on their GIANT screen: web.cinemawest.com/sites/Beach-...

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 19d

BUY A BOOK. ATTEND A CONVERSATION. LOOK AT MY DUDE AND MY FRIEND.

Alonso Duralde @aduralde.bsky.social · Aug 12

Mark your calendars: I'll be in conversation with my dear friend Stephen Rebello on September 26 at Vroman's, discussing his extraordinary new book CRISS CROSS, all about Alfred Hitchcock's sublime Strangers on a Train. #filmsky #booksky 📽️ 📚 vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

front cover of "Criss Cross: The Making of Hitchcock's Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train" by Stephen Rebello

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 19d

umbrellas of blerghblergh

Linoleum Knife Podcast @linoleumcast.bsky.social · 21d

New episode! apple.co/480kXVk #filmsky 📽️

Collage of one-sheets for The History of Sound, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Twinless, Happyend, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Where to Lane

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 20d

Non-journalists really need to understand how everyone in the industry has been laid off, those who wanted to stay have joined an already massive pool of freelancers, and companies have cut freelance rates to almost nothing. Then they sent all the cash left over to their venture capital CEOs.

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 20d

It played once in Los Angeles, and it's my understanding that it's coming soon to VOD. I loved it and it loved me back.
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"The flower's insatiable passion turns its life into a circus of debauchery."

7 Walks with Mark Brown is a documentary about French plants and the paleobotanist who loves them, and when I describe it that simply to friends, sometimes their eyes glaze over and they say something...

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 22d

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Alonso Duralde @aduralde.bsky.social · 28d

S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night! Dave and introduce a 30th anniversary screening of SHOWGIRLS at the 29 Queer Film Festival. @dlelandwhite.bsky.social #filmsky 📽 www.29qff.com

Gina Gershon and Elizabeth Berkeley hold hands.

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 29d

a cute little milk chocolate dracula in a colorful foil wrapper from the vermont country store catalog's selection of halloween candy
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ARCHIVE: sucks, dude

I woke up to a text from a friend letting me know that Radu Jude's latest film, Dracula, opens at the end of October. I admire Jude's films – his exuberantly long titles alone make me pretty happy: Ba...

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 29d

I knew rescue and transport to outside wouldn't work in this case because it was one of those fast-moving little ones and it would have been zooming up my arm in seconds.

DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · Sep 15

CHARLOTTE'S WEB made me a lifelong fan of spiders and their talents. Web at a window? Great. Other bugs not coming in. Good job. I just found one making a web connecting the kitchen counter to the refrigerator door and I was like, "DID THEY TEACH YOU NOTHING AT SPIDER SCHOOL?" Anyway it's dead now.

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · Sep 15

this is about SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE
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This photo of off-brand Dr. Pepper sodas...

has nothing directly to do with what I'm writing about today. I just really enjoy Dr. Pepper and I couldn't find a decent picture to represent anything else.* I don’t often watch the Emmy Awards. I n...

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