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Kyle Stevens

@cinementalist.bsky.social
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Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.

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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You Oughta Noël
Cover of Alanis Morisette’s forthcoming Christmas album. It’s Camp
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I managed to quote the copy Zizek wrote for an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog.
Zizek discussing a nude young man's photo in a 2003 Abercrombie & Fitch catalog.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
1950s gender politics, nutshelled in Executive Suite.
White dude saying “I think.”Woman saying “I think, too.”
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
On a Jean Arthur kick and just started The Devil and Miss Jones. More movies should start with sarcastic disclaimers to rich men.
Intertitle mock apologizing to the richest men in the world
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Aw, just read that Bill Oddie of (to me) The Goodies fame died. If you don't know this weird, weird, wacky '70s Titlshow it's a delight!
Title card for The Goodies
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A friend of mine (some of you know Genie!) is vacationing with family on the NC coast and just sent me an amazing portrait of the US.
A sign for a store called Biscuits and Porn that is also somehow a gas station
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ah, I think I know Hegseth's mistake. As so many do, he's confusing high tea with afternoon tea. So important to know the difference:
Infographic describing differences between afternoon and high teas
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Just immediately owned.
Post contradicting my joke about social media
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Sentences beginning chapter on Sontag's "Notes on Camp."
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Yay! And we’re talking Copper Core! As much as I loved last night’s salmon niçoise, I’m searing for the foreseeable future!
Salmon niçoise salad, with tarragon mustard potatoes. Pan con tomate not pictured.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I know how you feel! Our roses are finally appearing, along with the clematis on our little back patio!
Fiery rosesClematis vine
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Me, and shots of Boston’s quite moving Pride march. So many schools! Senior groups! Reproductive rights groups! The governor, Sen Markey shaking everyone’s hands…Lovely!
Me in a Purride shirt shrugging cause I’m wearing it yet again. Shot of Gays Hot Enough to Melt Ice groupBoston Area Pets group of folks in pup masks Teacher with sign “Everyone is welcome in my classroom”
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I haven’t seen this level of aspirational bad assery since Hepburn in the first 20 minutes of Woman of the Year.
Renata Reinsve looking bad ass with the Palme d’or
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Happy Caturday! We rescued these little gents 9 days ago. Congee and Curry. They romp and run and sleep with us and are generally perfect.
Kittens cuddling Kitten on top of dvd player Kittens sleeping by my legKittens sleeping by laptop
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
There’s more.
Hat: “Nation building is gay”Hat: “SORRY I called you gay, btw”Hat with “Actually” in cursive
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Um. Y’all? Is the hottest shop in town T*cker Carls*n’s merch page??
Hat saying FAGAHat “Neocons are gay for Israel”Hat with NYC but C is Commie signHat with “United States vs Lindsey Graham”
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This is what you want to see when you watch a movie. movie-gifs.tumblr.com/post/7432283...
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Is now a good time to announce I won a Fulbright Scholar grant? I’ll be in Oslo in the fall, baby!
Start of letter awarding me a Fulbright to Oslo
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I’m in New Haven early before a talk at Yale and wandering a cemetery. So fucking brutal reading things like this today.
Headstone bemoaning loss of life during war.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Watching Beau Brummel (1924), and it’s wild how Mary Astor and John Barrymore invented profiles.
Mary Astor and John Barrymore gazing into each other’s eyes, features so sharp they could hurt themselves.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
No doubt he has an actual shield in mind, one with his face on it. Probably straight out of Clash of the Titans (a movie I love, but he's so stuck in the 80s!).
Sexpot Harry Hamlin holding a golden sword in Clash of the Titans.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Downton parody Fackham Hall is giving 70s era humor (broad, relentless), and I am DELIGHTED.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Live shot of the NYTimes office when they hear they get to report on a Harvard professor again.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Thank you to her. She gave us so much! I was so young when I found d her. This scene changed me.
Catherine O’Hara in Waiting for Guffman.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Oh, it's Cary Grant's birthday? Let me once again beat the drum for Holiday, one of the five movies that raised me—but don't let that stop you! It's a delightful, human portrait of youthful middle class anxieties about facing a life of labor ahead.
Grant beams at a luminous Kate Hepburn likening her own face to that of a stuffed giraffe.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Zaatar halloumiShrimp toastSalmon ravioli en brodo Haddock soufflés
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Poke cupsChicken & cashews (a staple but still)Beef & broccoli Celeriac in salt crusts
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Mushroom ras el hanout soup Peshwari waffle and paneer kormaEggplant lasagna Stuffed artichokes
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Inspired by @annakornbluh.bsky.social’s yummy dinners, here’s a random series of some of my my favorite things I made in 2025. (I cook every day I can! Insta saw them first.)
Guinness chocolate cakeSalmon rillettes Le Bernardin styleChicken congee Mushroom parm tart
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Rewatching The Killers and, um, let this be your reminder to, too.
Young Burt Lancaster serving as the blueprint for Jacob Elordi.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Huge crowd.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
And if you don’t think what she did in Something’s Gotta Give changed the game, go back and listen to her deliver “It’s just soap.”
Diane Keaton
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Horses charging through the legs wins it for me.
Tawdry DVD cover of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Me, preparing my arsenal.
Tom Wilkinson carrying 17 baguettes from Michael Clayton.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Like I'm not gonna post this preview of the next season of Interview with the Vampire. I mean. (It's also the best series currently on TV.)
Lestat in maroon pants: shirtless, shoulders back, head cocked, with golden locks cascading around the planes and angles of his face. Garbo and the angel Gabriel heard weeping.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Of course A24 puts the final nail in metaphor’s coffin.
Poster for new film with rich white people called Materialists. And one of them is Dakota Johnson, so.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Four that leapt first to mind!
Opening scene of Funny GirlCocteau's Orpheus. They travel to the underworld via mirrorsKate Hepburns has several iconic mirror scenes in Lion in WinterPublicity card from The VIPs. Liz Taylor smashes her hand on a giant mirror
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Screenshots of Chungking Express
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I was searching for a post (which is obvious) and OMG.
Google AI search results explaining it is logical that there was a car Hitler in Cars 2
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
SCMS Conferencers! Here’s a lil preview of my title slide! I’m on a roundtable discussion all about spectatorship and labor (and refusing that labor!) Thursday morning. It’s first session, but I hope to see you there!
Leo pointing meme repeated in circles and various pastels.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Logged on to FB for the first time in a while and saw this response to a post from a former grad school professor. We are so, as they say, cooked.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Oh, I love film history.
AI bullshit search result explaining Julia Roberts won a Golden Globe for When Harry Met Sally after Meg Ryan turned it down.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Not proud of my sticker skills, but why does this seem so right?
Paul Reubens’s inbred aristocratic 30 Rock character holding Musk’s idiotic chainsaw.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A propos of nothing (but striving to have a non-political skeet): Amy Irving would’ve been amazing in a Lauren Bacall biopic. It’s all there: the look; the Jewishness; the “cast cause you’re prettier than talented but still kinda great.”
A young Amy Irving A young Lauren Bacall
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Welp.
Designer Patricio Campillo wearing a t-shirt, which will presumably be sold, that reads El Golfo De México
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Oh, sure. I have the mental and emotional capacity for this now. Oh, absolutely. Why wouldn't I?
Cover of Joan Didion's upcoming book, Notes to John. She's looking frail and haunted, right at the camera, warning us that she's bared her soul yet in the most moving and eloquent way yet again.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A Harris fundraising email for the DNC today??
Nicole Kidman, tears in her eyes, looking like she’s about to SNAP.
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Not even gonna pretend to be nonchalant about winning the @scmstudies.bsky.social award for Best Essay in an Edited Collection. Woo hoo!
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Struggling to “find the joy” today, then I saw this.
Ralph Fiennes on the cover of Vanity Fair in 1995 looking like a shirtless twink who just rode a motorcycle in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (hair is insane).
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Conservatives today.
Lucille Bluth saying “isn’t it fun to talk like this?”—i.e., bigoted bs you know isn’t acceptable.
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