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Robert Horton

@citizenhorton.bsky.social
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National Society of Film Critics, Scarecrow Academy, author, lecturer, a real goer. You can see a lot of the world from railings.

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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 22h
So, this Billy Preston documentary - I'd forgotten they picked him to sing "My Sweet Lord" at the memorial concert for George Harrison. Entirely right (he's recorded it before Harrison himself), but what a way to round off the film.
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
First thought goes to Tourneur/Lewton, so it has to be I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE for me. Also second and third thoughts, tbh.
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wrote about Agnes Varda's CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 for the ongoing series "Nouvelle Femmes: Modern Women of the 1960s French New Wave," showing @siffnews.bsky.social Uptown in Seattle, curated by Greg Olson. (I wrote one for next week's screening of LE BONHEUR; don't miss it.) www.siff.net/media/blog/f...
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Film Notes: Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) film notes by Robert Horton for the Nouvelles Femmes series, presented by Alliance Française, SIFF, and Greg Olson Productions. Series curated and written by Greg Olson. Inspir...
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Saturday's online Scarecrow Academy discussion will be about Shirley Clarke's THE CONNECTION (1961), part of our "Sixties on Film" semester. Do you like talking/thinking about the movies? This may be for you! It's free, too. 2pm Pacific Time. scarecrowvideo.org/posts/scarec...
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On the subject of THE SOCIAL RECKONING: scarecrowvideo.org/posts/the-se...
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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 · 28/09/2026
No idea why, but this line of dialogue goes through my head with some regularity. Would love to know how that particular city got the nod here.
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This made me think of a cousin to these, THREE CASES OF MURDER, with 1 Maugham story in its trio. That story looks suspiciously as though it was at least partly directed by its leading man - a chap named Welles. There's choice Alan Badel in all three segments.
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolutely wonderful book.
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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 · 27/08/2026
Saw it on my first dewy-eyed trip to NYC from the hinterlands of Seattle. It was pretty fantastic. Saw the Kevin Kline/Linda Ronstadt PIRATES OF PENZANCE on that trip, too.
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Oh, agreed! But you don't need that opening "Almost."
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The article alludes to it: during that time Seattle was seen as a place where hard-to-categorize movies could get a second life (or a first one, in the case of ANDROID, which played for a loooong time there). Happened to CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER and CUTTER'S WAY, too.
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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 · 09/08/2026
Ha! That's great. Conjures up dim memories of Hooper's EATEN ALIVE, set in a bayou hotel like no other (amazing cast in that one, actually).
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Absolutely. Wilder's father was a hotel manager for a while....
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Also worldly and delicious in Wilder's Sherlock Holmes pic.
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
AVANTI! - Clive Revill in superb form as the hotel manager
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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 · 03/08/2026
Ack. Hadn't noticed that before. Will undoubtedly start spotting it henceforth.
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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 · 27/07/2026
Thank you! And may you have a good birthday, too.
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Hey, thanks!
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is terrific.
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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 · 11/07/2026
Yes! That sequence was especially compelling because it was in black and white. Nolan!!!
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
giving a presentation. Nolan fills the screen with the slides from his presentation, which are arcane notes. This goes on for a long time. 9. Great choices! 10. I wake up. 11. Two thumbs up - Nolan does it again!
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
details) with Nicolas Cage. 6. Opening credits were abstract images, set to the song "You Were on My Mind," by the We Five. 7. I already check my notebook, where I write, "Great choices!" (I never write things like that in my notebook.) 8. Next scene has Matt Damon's character, in present day,
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
of two sections, so a seam was visible throughout. 4. A huge window on one side of the theatre had its blinds open, so I got up and squinched them shut. Why am I always the only person who gets up and does things like this? Anyway, I bowed to the crowd after. 5. Cool opening scene (can't recall
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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
The Academy, 2pm Pacific Time: scarecrowvideo.org/posts/scarec...
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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 · 21/04/2026
Weirdly, I just sat down to prep a radio show about songs in PTA movies, and I rememebered that "Diamond Girl" is in LICORICE PIZZA - I think that might have triggered my new appreciation!
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Robert Horton @citizenhorton.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I disdained Seals & Crofts in high school, then a few decades later heard "Diamond Girl" and the chord change on "Can you feel the whole world turning" suddenly had me feeling like, yes, I DO feel the whole world turning.
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