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Tonight’s noir: “Dark Passage.” A man in prison for a crime he didn’t commit escapes and attempts to clear his name. Fantastic performances from Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and a scene stealing Agnes Moorehead. Stunning San Francisco settings. Directed by Delmer Daves.

Lewis Morley's photograph of Christine Keeler, shot in his studio in Soho's Greek Street, is one of the iconic images of 1960s Britain...

🧵 1/3 Walter Becker, gone 7 years ago today. Achingly missed. Writer, musician, friend. Much of the literature, films, books that form the core of who I am were casually tossed by Walter over his shoulder on his way to the future. lareviewofbooks.org/article/rememb…

7 years ago today we lost the incomparable Walter Becker, RIP

Antonin Artaud #botd in 1896— writer, poet, dramatist, visual artist, essayist, actor and theatre director. Susan Sontag wrote that "the course of all recent theatre in Western Europe and the Americas can be said to divide into two periods – before Artaud and after Artaud".

“I never read contemporary fiction – with one exception: the works of Simenon concerned with Inspector Maigret.” — T. S. Eliot Georges Simenon February 13, 1903 – September 4, 1989

Look at the size, prominence, story-framing of these two pieces on the splash page of today's The New York Times:

I have been told to stop stealing muffins from the bakery. Unfortunately, it’s the only way to keep my lucrative muffin stand in business. Everyone is fine with this.

"I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music. I have never searched for a subject. They always just come along..." Werner Herzog #botd

Monica Vitti, Alain Delon & Romy Schneider at the Cannes Film Festival, 1962.

Happy birthday Werner Herzog! 🙏 ‘Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.’ Werner Herzog

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Elevator to the Gallows The American Friend The Face of Another The Sheltering Sky Phantom Thread The Hired Hand Zabriskie Point Performance Touch of Evil Mickey One Contempt Amarcord Mishima Vertigo

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The New York Times can always be counted on to scurry along behind trump, cleaning up his droppings like some underpaid nanny. They've been laundering his words for ten years now, trying to make incoherence and hate sound normal, even respectable. #HarrisWalz2024InALandslide

Donald Trump- If you are raising small children and need to define the word “gibberish” Have them watch this video. #TrumpIsTooStupid

“The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind..." Robert Pirsig #botd

The world premiere of Miloš Forman‘s AMADEUS happened in Los Angeles 40 years ago today. The eight-time Academy Award winning film includes one of the greatest performances I have ever seen in F. Murray Abraham‘s Salieri.

In 1968, Sidney Poitier was at a press conference at the height of his career. He made it very clear how he felt about the press. Funny that I had to find this on a discarded film reel with 1000s of books, Microfiche and films. Now you can see it.

Whately calls Shentone’s version of the Heroes origin story, “poignant, romantic and utterly convincing”, while acknowledging there’s no way of finding out whether or not it is definitive. theguardian.com/music/article/…

Jen Yep. At scale, reality denial is without a doubt the single greatest threat. The rise of anti-intellectualism is staggering.