Julia Sirmons
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Co-host @1999thepodcast.bsky.social
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The acidity of Lumet and Chayefsky's classic 'Network' - released on this day in 1976 - has been duly noted. But what about its heart? @juliasirmons.bsky.social explains: crookedmarquee.com/the-cynical-...
The Cynical Sentiment of Network — Crooked Marquee
The acidity of Lumet and Chayefsky's classic - released 45 years ago - has been duly noted. But what about its heart?
crookedmarquee.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The acidity of Lumet and Chayefsky's classic 'Network' - released on this day in 1976 - has been duly noted. But what about its heart? @juliasirmons.bsky.social explains: crookedmarquee.com/the-cynical-...
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November 14, 2024 at 11:14 PM
It’s crazy how no one at the New Republic understands that someone could fake a company website.
I just rewatched SHATTERED GLASS (and reread the article, which being by Buzz Bissinger is great) and it's really a portrayal of a very specific moment - that brief period when people didn't realize that the internet let everyone factcheck, but before rampant shamelessness.
Honestly the combination of the alleged source betrayals and secret recordings and the way this has rolled out has just fundamentally fucked us all in a way that’s bigger than the Stephen Glass scandal by a significant margin, and I think everyone is grappling with that in real time
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
It’s crazy how no one at the New Republic understands that someone could fake a company website.
Coming up on @1999thepodcast.bsky.social !
should we do a group watch of shattered glass as therapy
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Coming up on @1999thepodcast.bsky.social !
When she’s right, she’s right.
[FATAL ATTRACTION] It’s about men seeing feminists as witches, and, the way the facts are presented here, the woman is a witch. She terrorizes the lawyer and explains his fear of her by calling him a faggot. (1987)
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
When she’s right, she’s right.
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But Scorsese is also the most carnal of directors—movement is ecstatic for him. (1976)
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
But Scorsese is also the most carnal of directors—movement is ecstatic for him. (1976)
The inspiration for Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d?
Obligatory reminder of how a Rubella infected woman broke quarantine to meet the pregnant Gene Tierney, leaving her 3lb baby with severe mental disabilities & defects. Tierney's daughter was institutionalized & the depressed Tierney later had shock treatments.
My Point: GET YOUR MMR Vaccines!
My Point: GET YOUR MMR Vaccines!
Gene Tierney
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The inspiration for Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d?
We at @1999thepodcast.bsky.social hope they get hazard pay for this sort of thing. youtu.be/MODlCaeiT0M?...
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We at @1999thepodcast.bsky.social hope they get hazard pay for this sort of thing. youtu.be/MODlCaeiT0M?...
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Good morning. This article by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching?
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Good morning. This article by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
about AI and documentaries is closely researched, often horrifying, and very important. I'm sharing a gift link because I hope everyone reads it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Russell Crowe's eyes! Bonus Debi Mazar! And a prophetic line: "What got broken here doesn't go back together."
It's a long-awaited episode as @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @juliasirmons.bsky.social are joined by investigative journalist @beyerstein.bsky.social to (finally!) talk about Michael Mann's investigative journalism-themed THE INSIDER
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
1999: The Podcast #085 - The Insider - with Lindsay Beyerstein
Investigative journalist Lindsay Beyerstein join us to talk about journalism, Russell Crowe, and CBS News in "The Insider"
www.cageclub.me
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Russell Crowe's eyes! Bonus Debi Mazar! And a prophetic line: "What got broken here doesn't go back together."
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Had so much fun doing this. Although #1 was never really in doubt…
Julia Sirmons (@juliasirmons.bsky.social) ranks classic French heist movies... you know, apropos of nothing... crimereads.com/french-jewel...
The 9 Best French Jewel Theft Films
Last month’s daring jewel heist at the Louvre museum, which captivated the world, seems to be reaching its dénouement. Two of the perpetrators of the escapade –a daylight smash-and-grab that nabbed…
crimereads.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Had so much fun doing this. Although #1 was never really in doubt…
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Carole Lombard's talents were not of the highest, but her spirits were, and in her skin-tight satins she incarnates the giddy, absurd glamour of thirties comedy. (1967)
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Carole Lombard's talents were not of the highest, but her spirits were, and in her skin-tight satins she incarnates the giddy, absurd glamour of thirties comedy. (1967)
Excellent programming happening at Inwood Library
November 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Excellent programming happening at Inwood Library
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"I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists."
Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Pier Paolo Pasolini.
November 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists."
Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Long overdue first watch; a little NYC election programming.
November 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Long overdue first watch; a little NYC election programming.
When your partner doesn't like horror and you need something witchy.
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
When your partner doesn't like horror and you need something witchy.
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I saw a werewolf with a dang QR code in his hand
October 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I saw a werewolf with a dang QR code in his hand
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
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“By playing with the tropes of horror movies,” @juliasirmons.bsky.social writes, ‘Mr. Death’ expands the documentary form to examine “how odd, flawed people can blunder their way into — well, if not evil itself, then aiding and abetting it.” crookedmarquee.com/the-mad-scie...
October 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“By playing with the tropes of horror movies,” @juliasirmons.bsky.social writes, ‘Mr. Death’ expands the documentary form to examine “how odd, flawed people can blunder their way into — well, if not evil itself, then aiding and abetting it.” crookedmarquee.com/the-mad-scie...
I’m back on the Errol Morris beat, suggesting a little Halloween counter programmin.
“By playing with the tropes of horror movies,” @juliasirmons.bsky.social writes, ‘Mr. Death’ expands the documentary form to examine “how odd, flawed people can blunder their way into — well, if not evil itself, then aiding and abetting it.”
crookedmarquee.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I’m back on the Errol Morris beat, suggesting a little Halloween counter programmin.
www.euronews.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Jack Cardiff shot this one, and it looks gorgeous; it ticked me to think of him dealing with making shit look as good/unobtrusive as possible.
Watching the 1978 Death on the Nile with Judith, aka @mzspress.bsky.social .
Lois Chiles rides a horse through a panoramic shot. Everything in the frame is tiny. Judith says the horse dropped a load. I've never noticed that. We Zapruder it. Five apples. I always said she had a great shit detector.
Lois Chiles rides a horse through a panoramic shot. Everything in the frame is tiny. Judith says the horse dropped a load. I've never noticed that. We Zapruder it. Five apples. I always said she had a great shit detector.
October 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Jack Cardiff shot this one, and it looks gorgeous; it ticked me to think of him dealing with making shit look as good/unobtrusive as possible.
Please excuse new parent—sleepiness. First watch for me; I liked it a lot more than I thought I would!
Wanna hear me, @juliasirmons.bsky.social (or Steve?), and @soozuk.bsky.social talk about the 2nd-highest grossing movie of 1999 and its plot-twisty, spooky legacy?
THE SIXTH SENSE (Julia's Version) - with Sooz K... by 1999: The Podcast
Actor, comedian, singer, and Sonic and Knuckles expert Sooz Kemper joins us for some spooky fun with "The Sixth Sense"
cms.megaphone.fm
October 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Please excuse new parent—sleepiness. First watch for me; I liked it a lot more than I thought I would!