film people always talk like: “just watched paris texas (1984) with my boyfriend (2002) before we leave for christmas (2025). we’re flying to america (1776) to stay with his mother (1974). can’t wait for the new year (2026) my new year’s resolution is to run a marathon (490 BC)!”

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Battleship Potemkin, which took place at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on December 21, 1925. Sergei Eisenstein on the film's premiere: "APPLAUSE LIKE THE CRACKLE of rifle shots echoes through the semi-circular corridors of

Romy Schneider Photo Giancarlo Botti

On this day, 77 years ago, William A. Wellman's "Yellow Sky" (1948) had its limited released in the USA.

Freddie Francis on The Innocents (1961): "Of all the horror films I made as a director, none I think came anywhere near the fear of the supernatural or unknown as The Innocents. The horror element in the films I directed always had to be displayed graphically; that’s the way

Peter Bogdanovich on "Lubitsch Touch" & how Ernst Lubitsch directs his actors: "I had been speaking with Jack Benny and he told me about working with Lubitsch. The director had called Benny in 1939 and asked if he’d be available to do a film. “I said, ‘I’ll do it!’ And he said,

Outgrowing spunky, teenage girl roles, LADY ON A TRAIN provided Deanna Durbin with a chance to play a sophisticated part. The film is a thriller set around Christmas, but with generous helpings of the fast-paced comedy at which Durbin excelled.

My favorite part of It’s a Wonderful Life is that George Bailey never being born somehow turned Mary Hatch's eyesight to shit

How angry will Greeks get when they figure out Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY is set in the Baltic, not the Mediterranean? #omgitallmakessensenow

delaney I think tonight it’s Plurbin time!

I kid you not, Amazon Prime is running a version of this movie with this entire sequence removed—completely edited out—to make it less "dark." Sacrilege. Damn streamers. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)🎄

The dazzling Miriam Hopkins, all sass, silk, and sparkle, sings “Put a Little Rhythm in Every Little Thing You Do” as the wisecracking nightclub dancer Curly Flagg in the comedy film “She Loves Me Not” (1934).🍷🍾💘 “She Loves Me Not” is directed by Elliott Nugent and stars Bing

Françoise Hardy & Jacques Dutronc in Hardy - Dutronc (1967) Feliz Navidad, Merry Christmas, Joyeux noël 🎄

Remembering Michael Curtiz on his 139th birthday! Mildred Pierce (1945) Director: Michael Curtiz

In the finale to PLUR1BUS, did Carol Sturka’s cultural insensitivity, overweening self-entitlement, lack of personal responsibility, reactionary nature, inability to be truthful, phone manner, and low opinion of the intelligence of others imperil all Galactic lifekind? #pluribus

In the finale to PLUR1BUS, how did Manousos Oviedo know he could temporarily incapacitate the alien hive mind by simply yelling at one of them? #pluribus

In the finale to PLUR1BUS – after being freshly spazzed out by Manousos Oviedo – why should directly exposing an alien hive-minded victim to the audio frequency of the alien hive mind interfere with the enslaving effects of the alien hive mind? #pluribus

In the finale to PLUR1BUS, why should a nice gay man like Manousos Oviedo want to bring a goddamn machete to a brunch date with the world’s most famous ÜberKaren rather than mimosas? #pluribus

In the finale to PLUR1BUS, why would Carol Sturka read Ursula LeGuin’s book about a sexually bivalent human species variant that merely confirms her biases, rather than strategically useful science fiction by Robert Heinlein or Joe Haldeman or Rod Serling? #pluribus