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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 37m

Damon Runyon being quoted in a polling analysis is my first and likely only highlight of the benighted #aras25 campaign.

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 5h

Long live cinema!

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 12h

Alas my choices have received no such approbation.

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 18h

Today is the 26th anniversary of The Straight Story and an ideal opportunity to watch this true little miracle of a film by the great David Lynch.

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cinephiliabeyond.org/straight-sto...

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 16h

Audition
Lost Highway
Midsommar
The Shining

Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 17h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- The Wicker Man
- Halloween
- Suspiria

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 17h

It's great - have read six of his and struggling to recall any that were duds. His story-through-dialogue style is marvellous, almost (and I know this is a stretch) avant-garde in ways.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 17h

Never seen the movie, but the book is fantastic. Higgins definitely under-rated these days.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 20h

'After years writing westerns, in 1972 Leonard read George V Higgins’s The Friends of Eddie Coyle – “I finished the book in one sitting and felt as if I’d been set free” – and everything changed.'

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Elmore Leonard: the Dickens of Detroit who captured the downside of the American dream

To celebrate the centenary of the great American crime writer, here are 10 of the best of his 40-plus tautly written, finely crafted novels

www.irishtimes.com

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 1d

Béla Tarr’s ‘One War, One Battle, One Conflict After Another’, anyone?

(Quote from The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai- which, yes, has already been adapted as ‘Werckmeister Harmonies’)

A page of text with one line underlined: ”It was one war, one battle, one conflict after another”

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 3d

"The husband is annoyed by these machinations, even when he ostensibly benefits from them ... Ultimately he would like the status of doors not to be an issue in their marriage, and this desire sometimes takes the form of a rigid code of conduct that directly contradicts his best interests."

Short stories: Let Me Think by J. Robert Lennon

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 3d

!!

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 4d

Hard to know which is worse - the instinct to use Chat for this purpose, or the feeble nature of the final "output".

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 4d

Yes really well done.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 4d

Beyond football I always enjoy the Gavs Casey and Cooney. Jeff Passan on baseball. Zane Lowe on hoops.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 4d

Agree with names mentioned. There's another chap who writes fluently and thinks cogently.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 4d

Tbf I think you have a head start on him re the essential futility of all sporting and indeed human endeavour, John.

Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 4d

Very true

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 4d

People are so *odd*. I recognise the redundancy of that statement given you are curating one of the greatest testaments to human oddity I've come across.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 4d

Marvellous, I can picture it. My father-in-law is easily riled out of all proportion by people he considers loud; but he once had to be dissuaded from going and complaining to someone not for volume but because he found their voice itself annoying.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 4d

*Such* an odd career. There are good films he's genuinely good in! And then so much shite. Compounded by all the evidence he's an arsehole.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 5d

Have been reading Hangover Square (finally). Such a fascinating novel. What really jumps out from a London story in 1938 is just how ubiquitous fascist sympathies are in the characters.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 4d

Wait till he graduates to the Jerky Boys...

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 5d

"I only bloody asked what it's about!"

Come to Daddy video still that perfectly visualises Stephen King's nonsensical blurb of a book

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 5d

That was what I took from KP's review: she's a fantastic writer (I loved her first, clearly-defined-as-autobiog book) but has spiralled into Shtick. I agree the articles are generally hard to engage with. And she struggles when away from the PL Universe: witness the bafflingly lionised DFW piece.

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Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social · 5d

Snap.

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