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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 21h

Spread the word, please: Scarecrow Academy continues its 8th year w/our "60s on Film" series. It's free, online, 2pm Pacific Time Saturdays. I lead the conversations, which have been really gratifying. Join us! scarecrowvideo.org/posts/scarec...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A little somesuch from me on PRIMETIME scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Horror at the Kennedy Center unpleasantness has me looking back at three movies that spin JFK mythology. BUBBA HO-TEP is worthy of its cult love; THIRTEEN DAYS a botch; INTERVIEW WITH THE ASSASSIN ought to be better known (utterly eerie premise/execution there). scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

On BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Lots of Little Free Libraries in this Seattle neighborhood, but only one Little Free LP Library. Took home this gem.

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I visited THE END OF OAK STREET. scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Writing about ONE NIGHT ONLY. I liked. scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Reading JOHN & PAUL by Ian Leslie, continuing my religious studies. Lovely writing all around, and Leslie drops occasional drolleries with aplomb; to wit, on the subject of the Fabs' Hamburg concerts and meeting Astrid:

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Nicholson is not a singer, and yet - this isn't terrible. (Cut from ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hGX...

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Jack Nicholson - Who Is There Among Us Who Knows?

YouTube video by MisterCanning

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Much weirder and more experimental than expected. Curious: Arlo G could adopt a persona for song (sardonic/cheerful raconteur-of-the-road), but was utterly incapable of doing the same in movie performance. Charming, tho. The final shot! roberthorton.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/m...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

You can like or dislike ONE NIGHT ONLY (I liked), but disdaining its premise - I dunno - have you ever encountered "stories" before?

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Just verifying that I said this from the get-go: SPIDER-MAN 3 is the best of the Raimi trilogy. scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I wrote about THE ODYSSEY: scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Haven't seen PLENTY mentioned that often in Sam Neill think-abouts, but his presence/performance - in a necessarily limited role - is crucial to that movie. Not a sterling review here, but this is what I thought about it in '85: eightiesmovies.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/p...

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Plenty

After the kind of moronic cinematic summer we’ve just suffered through, almost anything halfway intelligent ought to be greeted with boundless gratitude. And Plenty, the first film of a fall …

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I can report from the press screening for THE ODYSSEY, because I attended this morning. In a very vivid dream I had. 1. Sat in the front row of a theatre I'd never been in before. 2. Publicists served a single shot of gin before the movie. Nice touch! 3. The relatively small screen was made up

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Getting ready to talk about BLOWUP today for Scarecrow Academy. Did not know that Veruschka's father was executed by the Nazis for his role in the July 20 plot to kill Hitler. (Every movie contains a multitude of buried factoids.)

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New radio episode in my now-intermittent show "The Music and the Movies," this one a jukebox affair that looks at great needle-drops from Paul Thomas Anderson films. Expect to hear Minnie Riperton, Shelley Duvall, and Kyu Sakamoto. voiceofvashon.org/show/the-mus...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Claudine Longet has died? Also, Claudine Longet was still alive? But really, what a strange life, well worth your rabbit-hole time.

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Best Indie Retailer of the year: Easy Street Records. This is really well deserved. Big day for West Seattle!

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Got to see a few titles showing in the now-underway Seattle Int'l Film Festival. Therefore, some blurbs. scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

In talking about movies of the 1960s lately, I've been including what Bosley Crowther was saying; sometimes, I admit, as a measure of what the square world was thinking about it all. Had totally missed, until now, that his grandson was a Sep. 11 hero. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welles_...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

We're talking about a 60s movie - THE 60s movie? - Saturday, 5/2 at Scarecrow Academy, part of our free online "Sixties on Film" series. It's PERSONA, is what it is. Register here and see you there? scarecrowvideo.org/posts/scarec...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Anjanette Comer. What happened there? All over 70s TV (incl. great COLUMBO ep), kooky yet the solid center of THE LOVED ONE. IMDb says she turned down BONNIE & CLYDE, which would put her on a long list of actresses. She's 86.

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Something on MOTHER MARY, by me. scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Oh, Nathalie Baye has died. Did I like her in the 1980s? "When Nathalie Baye smiles, the movie screen seems to flicker just a little more brightly." Yes, I did. eightiesmovies.wordpress.com/2021/09/30/a...

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A Week’s Vacation

When Nathalie Baye smiles, the movie screen seems to flicker just a little more brightly. She smiles a lot in A Week’s Vacation, which may be a bit surprising, as in it she plays a schoolteac…

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Just finished leading a 100-minute online conversation about CONTEMPT. The Cine-Club concept is not dead! (By the way, I hope people talk about this movie when Nolan's ODYSSEY comes out - please.)

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Jean-Luc Godard's CONTEMPT, or LE MEPRIS if you prefer, under discussion this Sat. 4/18 at 2pm Pacific Time. Part of Scarecrow Video's "The Sixties on Film" year at Scarecrow Academy. I'll lead the free online conversation. Register here/see you there? scarecrowvideo.org/posts/scarec...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Scarecrow Academy goes tomorrow (4/11) at 2pm Pacific Time. I'll lead a conversation about a little film called DR. STRANGELOVE. The free online series is devoted to "The 60s on Film," and this is definitely that. Join us, or you'll answer to the Coca-Cola company. scarecrowvideo.org/posts/scarec...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I say something about Sergei Loznitsa's superb TWO PROSECUTORS, which plays in Seattle at @siffnews.bsky.social Uptown this week. scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I found Joss Whedon's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING to be glib (somebody sign up the screenwriter, though), but this little ditty has been going through my head in the week since I watched it www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_lV...

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Sigh No More (feat. Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon)

YouTube video by Joss Whedon - Topic

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Having watched PSYCHO so many times I'm not sure how there's another way to appreciate Joseph Stefano's ear for dialogue, but this time I wrote down: "No sense dwelling on our losses" - Norman (who is very good at savoring ironies)

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Last week in Scarecrow Academy I compared the 1/2 hr post-suicide-attempt scene in THE APARTMENT to the 1/2 hr apartment scene in BREATHLESS (both 1960, both set in one apartment location), and hear me out on the way this indicates the way movie-time will evade expectations in 60s cinema ...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Read a Sports Illustrated online piece in which the author said the Seahawks had "lucked out" by missing out on some favored free agents - had bad luck, that is. Will this be a thing now, "lucking out" as a negative term? It was bad enough when "goat" became "GOAT"

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Acknowledging some bewilderment with ALPHA, looking back admiringly to RAW. scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I will be convening Year 8 of @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social Academy next Saturday. Online, free, 2pm PST. This year we go crashing through 1960s cinema, kicking off w/Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT (last 50s film, or first 60s film? Discuss). Join us? scarecrowvideo.org/posts/scarec...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Oh yes, I liked THE BRIDE!, for my Seasoned Ticket column at the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social website. scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Just got back from seeing THE BRIDE! Hard to understand how anybody who loves movies can walk out of this thing without a big fat grin.

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It seems we can conclude that a lot of people don't know how Tourette's works. Made me recall a movie on the subject, I guess forgotten: THE TIC CODE (1998), about a Tourette's kid (Christopher Marquette, excellent) who bonds with a jazzman (Gregory Hines), similarly afflicted. Nicely written by

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Had to catch up with ELLA MACCAY because any movie that poorly received must have something going for it. But not this one, it turns out. It plays like a series of discrete sketches, with a few one-liners that sound like one-liners, a central performance that could be something if the character made

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

There is no stopping it now, but the plague of NPR correspondents greeting each other with "Hey" grows more grating every day. (Does it come from early exposure to TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD? That was the first time I ever heard someone use "hey" for "hello." I tried it myself for a while as a kid.)

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Had a movie dream. Somehow involved watching a new Jarmusch film that ended with a low, sweeping shot across a beach. Movie ends and a woman turns to me and says, "He always was good with condiments." Condiments? Jarmusch? Probably true.

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I wrote about Satyajit Ray's DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST, which plays @siffnews.bsky.social Uptown in Seattle, for the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social website. What a beauty this film is. scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Wish someone had told me how delightful Donald Fagen's EMINIENT HIPSTERS is. Had to stumble upon a slightly water-stained Little Free Library hardback copy to get the gist. Among other things, he claims the first recorded "Yowzah" takes place on a Boswell Sisters record from 1932. Excellent madness.

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Weird that amid all of Neil Sedaka's cheerful pop goodies, the bitchy "Bad Blood" was his best-selling single. The Elton Effect had a lot to do with it (cf. "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night"). Unless you were alive in '75, you can't imagine how frequently the track was spun on Top 40, which

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Listened to "Band on the Run" LP for the first time in ages, having played it a few thousand go-rounds in the past. Really wanted it to defy the conventional wisdom that Macca's albums are a mix of rock-solid masterpieces and fill-in doodling. Nope. Despite fond memories, the title

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Watched Wiseman's HIGH SCHOOL. The image of the camera tracking behind a teacher as he roams the hallways looking for students who should be in class (“Got a hall pass? Got a hall pass?”) is a perfect emblem of a particular era in American schooling, a Salinger or Heller character + mise-en-scene.

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Thinking about Huston's rather remarkable film of REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE & happened on R. Ebert's appreciative 1967 review, where he's in fine pissed-off form: "There is a scene in which he [Brando] slowly breaks down and begins to cry, and his face screws up in misery. The audience laughed,

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Returned to my frequently-in-hibernation radio show to survey this year's Best Original Score Oscar nominees. Got a couple of songs in there, too, even if they don't exactly fit the category. (The link will be live for a couple weeks.) voiceofvashon.org/episode/the-...

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