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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 1h

10/14/53: Fritz Lang's #filmnoir gem The Big Heat, w/Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Mr. Lee Marvin
Caution: The coffee you are about to enjoy is hot
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Jonas Vils @vils.bsky.social · 4h

@moviessilently.bsky.social One of Sweden’s oldest and biggest filmstudio have begun releasing classics for free on YouTube. SF studios classics

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Kelly Knox @kelly-knox.com · 58m

"I’m selling movies, yes. But if I can do it with art, with beauty, in a way that reaches people and touches them... that’s what makes me happy." - Drew Struzan

Struzan's painted posters for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 59m

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 48m

RIP to inspirational movie poster legend, Drew Struzan. Everything he put his pen to ended up being some canonical representation of a movie we now love. Often, the posters are more famous than the movies themselves. Poster auteurism!

We love these unused Struzan designs for Back to the Future.

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Cinapse @cinapse.bsky.social · 2h

Criterion Review: NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021) [4K UHD]

Guillermo Del Toro’s captivating carnival thriller transforms into a dazzling new noir experience with a brand-new, definitive black-and-white Extended Cut Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley remains a tantalizingly unique departure from the rest of the auteur’s filmography. While his adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel is a bewitching journey into the labyrinthine schemes of […] The post Criterion Review: NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021) [4K UHD] first appeared on Cinapse.

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Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 2h

On @cinapse.bsky.social is my rapturous rave of @realgdt.bsky.social's NIGHTMARE ALLEY, presented in a new black-and-white Extended Cut that finally makes it feel like an unearthed noir classic, unbound from the Hays Code morality of previous adaptations.

Out from @criterion.bsky.social 10/28!

Cinapse @cinapse.bsky.social · 2h

Criterion Review: NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021) [4K UHD]

Guillermo Del Toro’s captivating carnival thriller transforms into a dazzling new noir experience with a brand-new, definitive black-and-white Extended Cut Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley remains a tantalizingly unique departure from the rest of the auteur’s filmography. While his adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel is a bewitching journey into the labyrinthine schemes of […] The post Criterion Review: NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021) [4K UHD] first appeared on Cinapse.

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 2h

Just time to make a brew and grab the biccies! #PeterCushing stars in CASH ON DEMAND (1961) in 30 minutes at 3:40pm #TPTVSubtitles

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 3h

There really weren't enough pairings of Messrs. Cushing and Morell for my liking. Whether they were working together, or against one another, their on-screen chemistry is fantastic, and this overlooked gem is no exception.
And it's a Christmas movie.

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 3h

Our brew ☕ and biccies 🍪 classic matinee today stars #PeterCushing #AndreMorell in the #HammerFilms thriller

💷 CASH ON DEMAND (1961) 3:40pm #TPTVsubtitles

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 3h

It’s Roger Moore’s birthday! This piece I wrote on his book about the making of LIVE AND LET DIE went wildly viral, sent the price of used copies of the book into the thousands for a spell, and very probably was a factor in the book being reprinted. web.archive.org/web/20170424...

Roger Moore�s 1973 Book About The Making Of LIVE AND LET DIE Is Straight-Up Bonkers

This vintage movie tie-in has EVERYTHING: cheap producers, hairdresser woes, race relations, a JFK conspiracy...

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More Movies @moremovies.co.uk · 4h

John Candy: I Like Me (2025) dir. Colin Hanks 🎬
The subject of this documentary is still one of the most beloved actors of all time and if you grew up watching him you felt the loss when he died at just 43 years old. Hanks and crew did a great job creating this touching tribute.
#filmsky #moviesky

A movie poster for the documentary film John Candy: I Like Me (2025) featuring an illustrated portrait of the actor John Candy.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 6h

Lovely new Tim Curry interview for The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s 50th birthday.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7h

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and the moment his mother came at him with a knife

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 5h

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 17h

Patricia Routledge was born to play Maggie Hobson, but Michael Caine's Northern accent is very much a work in progress.

Patricia Routledge and Michael Caine in Hobson's Choice (1962)

A wonderful find on the Classic British Telly YouTube channel – everybody like and subscribe, please. Patricia Routledge was born to play Ma...

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 6h

We now know who designed the Wicker Man corn flakes box!

Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 6h

I just received an email from the designer's brother-in-law so I've updated my blog post to credit them by name:
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

Corn Flakes, Stuck Culture, & the wrong type of undead

It started off, as these things tend to do, as a light-hearted thread on BlueSky initiated by writer Ray Newman about Sainsbury’s slightly otherworldly Corn Flakes packaging design from the 1970s, whi...

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Nigel M @oxtailsoup.bsky.social · 6h

Looks like I will be launching an online film club/watch party soon. Lots of focus on Eurocult, world cinema, arthouse, etc.

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 17h

'Night all...
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Radiance Films @filmsradiance.bsky.social · 19h

Our October releases are out now 💿 Take a bite out of two Euro Horror classics from Harry Kümel, a new set of Japanese Ghost Stories plus François Truffaut's charming snapshot from the summer of '76.

Available now at radiancefilms.co.uk & other retailers

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 19h

30 years ago today Strange Days blasted into cinemas—Kathryn Bigelow’s audacious sci-fi noir still feels eerily prescient.

Explore our anniversary deep dive into this cult sci-fi masterpiece:

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 19h

Just seen that Small Change (aka Pocket Money) is ALSO out from Radiance, this month. Just RTed the announcement, as Bluesky is glitching…

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 20h

This is a lovely film, and, after Small Change, Truffaut’s most underrated and understated work, with a great cumulative power.

Radiance Films @filmsradiance.bsky.social · 6d

UK: In his first credited feature film performance, director François Truffaut stars in THE WILD CHILD as a kind-hearted doctor who takes in a feral child.

A UK Blu-ray premiere, special features include a new interview with author Ginette Vincendeau and essay by Adam Scovell.

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Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 1d

Full writeup ahead, but I'm all in on the Nightmare Alley B&W cut. It feels like the film this was meant to be. Along with new scenes, Del Toro discusses how moments "breathe" more in ways that feel natural to B&W. With the package/layout, it's also positioned as THE version to watch moving forward.

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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 20h

The shout-out to Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 masterpiece “The Battle of Algiers” in “One Battle After Another” isn’t casual — and the film itself remains earth-shattering. crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 20h

The US Department of War’s poorly planned, badly led and incompetently executed US invasion of Canada was defeated today in 1812

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 21h

Fabulous cover of Kate Bush’s Army Dreamers that crossed my timeline today (and really made me think about the lyrics). I particularly like the way the chorus is handled by two ‘arguing’ voices

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SYSTIR - Army Dreamers (Kate Bush)

YouTube video by The Anúna Collective

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