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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · 1d

lol and that's Nacogdoches! my point still stands 🙃

Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · 1d

Real ones know the difference in pronunciation between Natchitoches, LA, and Nagodoches, TX (and can spell them correctly).

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · 5d

I was gobsmacked by Elvis’ cover of “I Just Don’t Know What to
Do With Myself,” as an early inkling of his wide influences.

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · 16d

So disappointing, especially for us film forever stans. I saw it yesterday in 70mm at Alamo Drafthouse here in Austin and the print had three distracting scratches throughout.

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · 19d

This was my favorite at last year’s Pordenone silent film festival. Can’t wait to see it again!

Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 19d

San Francisco Silent Film Festival program is out! Nov 12-16 at the Orinda Theater. I’ll be introducing Anna Ondry in SAXOPHONE SUZY. Come join me! #FilmSky

silentfilm.org

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · 19d

Terrific appreciation. Forever grateful to the record store owner/musical sherpa (Jimmy Rink, Baton Rouge) who insisted I would love the debut LP despite its ridiculous cover.

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · 24d

"The Sad Irons," a chapter in Robert Caro's first LBJ volume about life in the Texas Hill Country before electricity.

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · 28d

immediately ran to Letterboxd and I'm OK with this lineup

a list of directors on Letterboxd I've watched the most: Bergman, Ozu, Lubitsch, Hitchcock, Bunuel, Naruse, Kurosawa, Fassbinder, Powell, and Leigh

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Sep 19

We were so lucky to work with him, weren’t we?

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Sep 9

Well deserved, Maggie, and congrats!

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Sep 7

Vandy’s discards

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Aug 24

Finish your evening at Foundation Bar, a great tiki joint.

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Aug 20

Kind of liking the Fabled Mary Pickford Theater as a permanent name change. (And both @librarycongress.bsky.social theaters -- DC and Culpeper -- screen a lot of 35mm from the collections.)

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Aug 18

Me, but also with movies. But I consider it a blessing I can often come to films fresh despite having seen them just a few years ago. I have a terrible memory for plots.

Torr 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social · Aug 18

"You’re Not Supposed to Remember the Book -

The idea that we should remember everything we read rests on a very particular and largely incorrect model of memory.

It treats the brain like a hard drive, where books are files that either load completely or not at all, but memory is not a filesystem."

You’re Not Supposed to Remember the Book

Every few months someone will admit that they read a lot but hardly remember any of it.

horacebianchon.substack.com

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Aug 13

[email protected] (the Moving Image reference desk) is always a good place to start. Last I knew we had the OCNs and preservation elements, but not a viewable copy. They can give you the latest info.

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Aug 13

lol internally we referred to it as the "director's cut"

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Aug 13

I had the great good fortune to befriend Janet (a sweetheart of the highest order) when she was the star of a Library of Congress film preservation tour in the early 2000s. The reverence with which she spoke of Hitchcock, publicly and privately, was striking.

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Aug 12

Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000.

final shot from I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Aug 12

I treasure this beautiful work. Thanks to @orphanfilm.bsky.social for introducing me to it.

The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · Aug 12

"Composer Gavin Bryars looped and layered a recording of a rough sleeper to create something hypnotic."

Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet — how a homeless man’s singing became a contemporary classic:

Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet — how a homeless man’s singing became a contemporary classic

Composer Gavin Bryars looped and layered a recording of a rough sleeper to create something hypnotic

ig.ft.com

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Aug 11

Wrote my masters thesis on Gloria at United Artists back in the 80s and enjoyed reading the unfolding trauma of the QUEEN KELLY shoot via memos and telegrams in her papers. Can't wait to see this @milestonefilms.bsky.social edition.

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Aug 1

great minds, etc

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Aug 1

For some godforsaken reason I took a first date to see PINK FLAMINGOS, she threw up, and of course no second date.

Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · Jul 31

Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema?

During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.

Mike McGranaghan @aisleseat.bsky.social · Jul 31

Someone in my audience had a very audible negative reaction to the dog scene in TOGETHER. So that was fun!

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Jul 28

From 1985-1990 I conducted HIV testing for the Texas Dept of Health. Thrilled by this news, even as I’m thinking of the many anonymous, positive samples that passed through the lab those years.

The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global

An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...

newatlas.com

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Mike Mashon @mikemashon.bsky.social · Jul 27

as someone who worked with him for 25 years, this doubles as a life hack

Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · Jul 27

Be like Geo. Be in Ohio for the 2026 Orphan Film Symposium. (Orphans 2016: LoC Packard Theater. George Willeman, Stephanie Sapienza, Andrea Callard.

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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · Jul 17

something you may not know about me is that i am a hurricane katrina survivor.

this year is the 20th anniversary of the hurricane and i am honored to be co-curating a film program at MoMA that takes a look at new orleans before, during, & after the storm. learn more: www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

moma (museum of modern art in new york) announced the series i’m curating for them. it reads: MoMA ANNOUNCES LINEUP FOR FILM SERIES COMMEMORATING 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF HURRICANE KATRINA

When the World Broke Open: Katrina and Its Afterlives Offers a Sweeping Cinematic Portrait of New Orleans and Its Enduring Cultural Legacy Across Eras and Genres

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