I am fine with hailing 1994 as a great year for movies as long as it means we're finally giving Whit Stillman's BARCELONA its due.

#HBD, Greta Gerwig! Here in Whit Stillman's DAMSELS IN DISTRESS.

“How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.” —Dr. Johnson

Christophe Honoré a livré sa vision du cinéma américain au public de #Deauville2024 🇺🇸 🪩 Parmi ses films de chevet ? LES DERNIERS JOURS DU DISCO de Whit Stillman 📸 Camilla Canalini

Ukraine's #Kursk Offensive: A "Masterstroke" - Geometry, not Geography nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ukra…

Manhattan's Collegiate School (est. 1628) in cinema (& TV): Peter Bogdanovich, Cesar Romero, David Duchovny, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Sam Robards, Wallace Shawn, David Benioff, myself et al. Pretty paltry for 4 centuries but few films the first two.

1889 Expo Exhibit Remains a Notorious Eyesore, #Paris

Stolen shot at Grand Central - tried to suggest to police it was a "wedding video" but no go; got reverse angle at LIRR Penn station late evening. Criterion Collection

The Trollope book that needs to be written would feature Trollope’s women characters.  He arguably was the first male novelist who wrote about real female human beings, not the saints and villains of many of his predecessors and contemporaries like Dickens, Thackeray and Collins

« La Dame en blanc au jardin à Sainte-Adresse » (1867) Monet est aussi le peintre de la lumière de l’été

🇵🇱🇺🇲🇺🇦 Poland's Foreign Minister spoke out against the absence of a decisive strategy from the Biden Admin, and their continued fear that deep strikes would be too escalatory. "“We would like to have a strategy for winning this war rather than just for Ukraine to endure,”

The Very, Very, Very Last Days of Disco

Journalism again missing the story: The new rage for tariffs should be Highly Beneficial for the Smuggling Industry, creating thousands of jobs. Both directly (smuggler) & indirectly (customs inspector, police).

I think it was Teddy Roosevelt who argued, rather eloquently, that it is far better to be a dancer oneself than a critic of other peoples' dancing.

Kenya's president visits Haiti - where Kenyan police lead the multinational security mission - en route to UN General Assembly with enhanced support for #Haiti on agenda Miami Herald miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo…

On September 22nd, 1939, roughly one month after signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Nazis and Soviets held a military parade in Brest-Litovsk to celebrate their joint conquest of Poland.

Birds of a Feather: #GenFlynn #JillStein & Vlad the Christian-Impaler at "Russia Today" banquet

At Harvard RFK Jr. famously dealt drugs: an early start in public health or his only private sector job?

Exactly how elite are they?