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Noah Isenberg

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film scholar @ UT-Austin & exec director UTNY + UTLA | author, We’ll Always Have ‘Casablanca’ (W.W. Norton), ed., Billy Wilder on Assignment (Princeton) | bylines: The Nation, NYT, New Republic, NYR Daily, et al. | views = mine www.noahisenberg.com

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Noah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social · Nov 19

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 15h

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 20h

In the original Broadway cast of Hair, 1968 (photo by Richard Avedon)

B & W photo of Diane Keaton with the original cast of Hair. She has her hands to her face and a startled, somewhat bleary expression, as if she's emerging from a daze.

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Noah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social · 18h

Diane Keaton, a Star of ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘First Wives Club,’ Dies at 79 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/m...

Diane Keaton, a Star of ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘First Wives Club,’ Dies at 79

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 21h

This hurts. 😢

Sleep sweet, doll. 🤍🕊️

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 1d

Fred Zinnemann’s film of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical OKLAHOMA! premiered 70 years ago today. It was shot in its entirety in both Todd-AO 70mm (30 fps) and 35mm CinemaScope (24 fps). The cast: Gordon McRae, Gloria Grahame, Eddie Albert, Rod Steiger, and Shirley Jones.

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 1d

Siouxsie Sioux at Music Machine, London, by Ray Stevenson, 1977.

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The latest report from the terror-ridden streets of #Portland.

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 2d

#filmsky #moviesky #filmnoir

Neckties of Noir
Dana Andrews & Gene Tierney
Laura, 1944

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 2d

congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog

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Noah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Live Updates: María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 3d

Yes please. youtu.be/PA07EmbZ0b0?...

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER | Official Trailer | Coming Soon

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Noah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social · 3d

They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats.

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I'm told this is where the Portland antifa operatives are gathering and holding their resistance meetings.

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Noah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social · 3d

Morning coffee à la Keaton

#FilmSky #MovieSky #Buster

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 3d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 4d

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You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 5d

Frank Sinatra in SUDDENLY - NYC premiere this day in 1954 - Italian release poster

Sinatra is backed up against an alley wall, checking the gunshot in his shoulder, beside him a woman cowers

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Will 🎬 @wor-will.bsky.social · 4d

Breathless (1960)

#FilmSky #Movies #Cinema

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4d

The Oatmeal, ladies and gents. Really thoughtful illustrated essay on the use and misuse of AI art and why it often feels…bad

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Noah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, Virginia, there is a Black Cat!

#TheBlackCat #EdgarGUlmer #DavidManners #JacquelineWells
#FilmSky #MovieSky #HalloweenFavorites #UniversalHorror

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