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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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“SCARLET STREET” (1945) dir. Fritz Lang

Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea

🎬 Universal Pictures
🎞 #Noirvember
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Lana Turner for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
One quack, two quacks, three quacks, four . . .

Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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The Peter Lorre movie in which he lusts after Lobster Thermidor has been identified as I'll Give A Million by the estimable @johnmoe.bsky.social & @dahosek.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)

The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
They really didn't come much more #noir than #BarbaraPayton, here in the role of accused killer Eden Lane in #MurderIsMyBeat (dir. #EdgarGUlmer, 1955) with #PaulLangton as Det. Ray Patrick.

#Noirvember #FilmSky #MovieSky #FilmNoir
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Now watching

SWAN SONG (2021), an American dramedy in which a retired hairdresser escapes from an assisted living facility to do a former client's hair and makeup for her funeral

Starring Udo Kier (RIP) and Jennifer Coolidge

Written and directed by Todd Stephens
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes and Robert Ryan star in the 🇺🇸 American melodrama and film noir "CAUGHT" (1949) directed by Max Ophüls

🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
🎞 #Noirvember
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Scott Joplin - BOTD
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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“No way am I letting Diane and Frank over here. She’s totally nuts and Frank’s a right shit!”

Don’t be like them, let Diane and Frank into your home this #Noirvember by watching classic #FilmNoir Angel Face (1953) on #BBCiPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Tennis #champion Billie Jean King was born #OTD in 1943.

+️39 Grand Slam titles
+Founder of the Women's #Tennis Association
+Social justice pioneer
+First female athlete in any sport to earn >$100,000 in a single season, 1971

Elton John's #1 hit song "Philadelphia Freedom" was written for her.
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving week...
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Geraldine Fitzgerald and Ella Raines in a publicity still for the 1945 noir THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF UNCLE HARRY

Fitzgerald was BOTD in 1913
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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RIP Udo Kier
‘I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.’
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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This remarkable obit carries a century of American cultural, social, racial, and political history in it. (As H. Rap Brown, Al-Amin has a one-sentence cameo in my book Pictures at a Revolution, describing Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in language not shareable here.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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BTD - Marcel Dalio - an awkward moment in Casablanca - 1942
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Boris Karloff in The Black Cat by Edgar G. Ulmer (1934)
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Remembering the late 🇺🇲 American actor and comedian Arthur "Harpo" Marx (23 November 1888 – 28 September 1964), seen here in the pre-Code comedy classic film "DUCK SOUP" (1933)dir. Leo McCarey
#HarpoMarx

🎬 Paramount Pictures
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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BOTD Susan Anspach!!
Key in many #70s films, incl Landlord (Ashby) Play it Again Sam (Ross) + Blume in Love (Mazursky), 5 Easy Pieces (Rafelson)
[NB Montenegro (Makavejev '81)]
More:
NYT: www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/o...
@huffpost.com: www.huffpost.com/entry/how-me...
5EP: Her monologue defines film
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I’m visiting my sister and brother-in-law in San Diego. They get all the shows, including Super Saturday Jew.
November 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Stephen Miller watching the Trump-Mamdani presser
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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‘B-but my swastika is only potentially divisive.’
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM