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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 28d

Enjoying some organic Audio Narrative Content as the two girls at the table behind me—who have skipped class to study together for an upcoming quiz—realize that the quiz is, in fact, happening right now in the class they skipped.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · Aug 12

Little Murders was a flop on Broadway and a flop as a movie and it is amazing. (Streaming on Prime) I saw it for the first time in June. In Q&A Elliott Gould said that Jean Renoir(!) had written a letter to Alan Arkin praising the film. Here's the letter, as read by EG on the bluray commentary track

February 6, 1971
Dear Alan Arkin,
Your picture will never be forgotten. It is not only a good picture, but what is more important, it is a record of a stage of the destruction of our world. You managed to do what pleases me the most in the art of directing movies: I mean to forget that there is a camera. We are the unseen witnesses of a terrible drama in which not only your heroes are involved but also all our contemporaries. It is a terrifying film, treated as lightly as a Broadway comedy. Thank you for having shown to me this modern version of a Greek tragedy.
[signed] Jean Renoir
[punctuation mine]

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · Aug 9

1. Several million people are about to learn the term "transference."
2. I always thought that what Daniel Paul Schreber really needed was a front-facing camera.

NYMagazine headline: Unpacking the TikToker who Fell in Love With Her Psychiatrist. Blurb: In the latest really long story to hit TikTok, Kendra Hilty believes she was manipulated into developing feelings for her psychiatrist.

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · Jul 18

*Forgetting how gay slang works* Sooooooo, which one of you is the Master and which one is the Commander?

Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · Jul 18

Alright, who wants to go see all three screenings with me?

American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.social · Jul 18

New 4K Restoration! Celebrate the 45th anniversary of Frank Ripploh’s TAXI ZUM KLO (1980) with our LF3 limited engagement.

Unapologetically explicit & deeply personal, TAXI ZUM KLO shattered taboos upon its release + remains a landmark of queer cinema.
www.americancinematheque.com/series/frank...

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · Jul 9

Had dinner outside at the sidewalk rotisserie chicken joint before an evening screening of TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN and they played the entire Meat is Murder album. No amount of cops, cybertrucks, or poorly done dermal fillers will change the fact that L.A. is the greatest city on earth.

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · Jun 1

Methinks part of the LA Times homepage didn't update. Otherwise, uh,

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · May 28

Beginning an expedition to find the worst-received Frederick Wiseman doc

Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · May 8

My job is so cool

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The Haunting of RandBall's Stu @randballsstu.bsky.social · May 8

gotta be the first pope who conceivably has tried malort

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · May 3

Channel surfing through various dogshit B-movies while I wait for PAIN & GAIN to come on at 10:15pm like I'm a goddamn civil war re-enactor

Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · May 3

Watching linear television in 2025 feels like going to a ren faire. Like I'm "watching" a "program" on a "channel." Wait never mind now Pluto is showing me a commercial for Brendan Schaub's podcast what the fuck

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · May 3

Watching linear television in 2025 feels like going to a ren faire. Like I'm "watching" a "program" on a "channel." Wait never mind now Pluto is showing me a commercial for Brendan Schaub's podcast what the fuck

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · May 2

writing a 33 1/3 for one of those fake bands they put on Brandy Melville tees

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · Apr 25

Sinners in 70mm IMAX was superb, but I couldn’t bring myself to get a Smoke or Stack popcorn bucket once I saw the Accountant 2 swag

A plastic airstream trailer that could function as a popcorn bucket

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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · Apr 24

No offense to Mr. Pizzaballa, but it's extremely weird to imagine the possibility of a Gen X pope. The pope is supposed to be guided by voices, not out here having opinions about Guided by Voices.

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · Apr 23

Earth Day in Los Angeles!!! The L.A. Dash buses are free, but this time it's on purpose!

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · Apr 22

Frederick Wiseman's Conclave

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · Apr 16

Trying to decide what the best part of MEN OF WAR was. The full suit of samurai armor? The revelation that the failed Venezuelan coup scheme was launched in a Miami WeWork? The Spanish-language cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World? Impossible to say.

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · Apr 15

creating a plugin that nukes any reddit comment that starts with "Ehhh,"

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Apr 3

"The cat iss obscene, a creature of pure decadence, in an existence didicated only to leisure and consumption. There is a purity to it that iss horrifying, a singular hunger for [in the most fucked up way imaginable] lasagna that obliterates everysing it touches."

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · Apr 3

genuinely unnerving how much jim davis and werner herzog look like each other

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · Apr 2

I won't pretend I know what's good or cool or appealing but I am 100% bullish on Hermann Hesse's NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND—monks, homoeroticism, artistic philosophy, all the stuff that people who like the idea of liking books would like to have in their books. I read it before it was popular etc etc

Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · Mar 31

Norman Rockwell understood exactly what the Optimal Content Consumption Experience looked like

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · Mar 24

This Hamdan Ballal news is so sickening. NO OTHER LAND is such a special collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers who are united for a just and peaceful future. To understand that as a threat worthy of violent retaliation is straight-up evil.

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Maddie @maddiewhittle.bsky.social · Mar 13

It’s grotesquely poetic that a municipal government is *terminating a theater’s lease agreement* to punish it for showing a movie about discriminatory forced displacement

Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · Mar 12

The mayor of Miami Beach is proposing to terminate a lease agreement and discontinue thousands of dollars in financial support for an independent film theater after it screened an Oscar-winning documentary about the ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank.

Miami Beach mayor moves to end O Cinema lease after screening of Israeli-Palestinian film

Meiner is introducing city legislation that seeks to terminate the lease agreement with the cinema, which rents space from the city.

www.miamiherald.com

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · Mar 5

plotting horse movies in a grid along the two axes of NATIONAL VELVET—MY FRIEND FLICKA and EQUUS—DEATH OF DICK LONG