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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Roger Moore, Donald Sutherland & Sean Connery — France, 1981

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

John Lavery’s ‘The Green Coat’ (1926), Ulster Museum, Belfast

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"I shall never forget the weekend Laura died” Otto Preminger’s LAURA, starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, was released in NYC, New York #OnThisDay in 1944. With Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson.

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Edirin Oputu @edirinoputu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"From the pointedly artificial sets, to the off-putting sound design...to the frantic performances, the whole film feels designed to aggravate. It’s like being trapped inside a tuba for two hours" www.vulture.com/article/revi...

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Digger Is a Brazen Act of Self-Sabotage

The Tom Cruise–starring climate-change satire is a torturous experience — sometimes purposely so, often unintentionally so.

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Dan BANSHEEhan @dansheehan.memyon.org · 10/10/2026

Here's Michael Giacchino #BOTD channeling his inner John Barry with his James Bond-inspired jazz score for THE INCREDIBLES (2004) Director Brad Bird's first choice was Barry, who didn't want to be seen as repeating his earlier Bond work. But Giacchino delivered the goods: #filmsky #moviesky #jazz

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The Incredibles (2004) Scene: Syndrome's Island.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it.

A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Farewell to Eva Marie Saint, the sharpest and sexiest of the Hitchcock blondes who got to wear one of the best dresses in cinema history

Full shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dress

Side mid shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dress, sharing a drink with Cary Grant

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Film Forum @filmforumnyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Eva Marie Saint (1924-2026) 🕊️ R.I.P. to the luminous star of the silver screen.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Queen of Clubs, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, Art Nouveau pioneer and Glasgow School Artist #WomensArt

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Despite being a famous Hollywood star if you want to know what sort of person DAVID NIVEN was, the largest wreath at his funeral was from the Porters at Heathrow Airport. It read: “To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a Porter feel like a King.”

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Classic Movie Hub @classicmoviehub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Celebrating Christopher Reeve born Sept 25, 1952. Over 45 roles incl Somewhere in Time, Deathtrap, The Remains of the Day - & Superman (1978, 1980, 1983, 1987). His advocacy work included leading the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation and co-founding the Reeve-Irvine Research Center. #botd

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Edirin Oputu @edirinoputu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Pattinson plays Hansen as if he’s a pod person who has decided to live among humans, or maybe a minor demon who took a job in TV hoping to corrupt as many people as possible." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/prim...

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Primetime review: An ethics drama with a horror movie heart

"Primetime" gets under your skin and stays there.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.

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Classic Movie Hub @classicmoviehub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Remembering Walter Pidgeon, born Sept 23, 1897. Over 135 roles incl Madame Curie, Mrs. Miniver, The Miniver Story, The Bad and the Beautiful, Million Dollar Mermaid, Funny Girl, Forbidden Planet, How Green Was My Valley and Advise & Consent. #botd www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/walter-…

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Classic Movie Hub @classicmoviehub.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

9 Classic Movie Birthdays Today 9/21 incl Gail Russell, Chuck Jones, Larry Hagman, Lloyd Gough (pictured in that order), and more. #botd Full List: www.classicmoviehub.com/database/bi…

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 20/09/2026

Who could ever *not* pause to watch this magic. 🙂

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On this day in 2009, Mad Men aired "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency."

blood splatters all over Paul, HArry, and two other Sterling Cooper employees

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s David McCallum’s birthday. Love this pic of him.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today is Anne Bancroft’s birthday.

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Classic Movie Hub @classicmoviehub.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

7 Classic Movie Birthdays Today 9/16 incl Lauren Bacall, George Chakiris, Isabel Jeans, Jerry Wald (pictured in that order) plus Alexander Korda, and more. #botd Full List: www.classicmoviehub.com/database/bi…

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

‘We’ve gone on holiday by mistake’

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Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Orson Welles bursting out of his grave in righteous fury…

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Dan BANSHEEhan @dansheehan.memyon.org · 13/09/2026

Happy Maurice Jarre's birthday! Let's celebrate with one of the great match cuts in cinema history paired with one of the great themes in film score history. A score written in just six weeks by Jarre (1924-2009) who was David Leans's THIRD composer choice! Goosebumps, every time. #filmsky #moviesky

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LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) - The Match Cut

This is the famous match cut from LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) directed by David Lean - followed by the segue to the desert and the sweeping main theme by Maurice Jarre

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Universal Pictures publicity photograph of Edmond O'Brien from 1946, by Ray Jones.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 10/09/2026

I wonder if Ketchup Entertainment likes the Muppets

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Classic Movie Hub @classicmoviehub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Adele Astaire, born today, Sept 10, in 1896. Danced with brother Fred Astaire for 27 years in Vaudeville and Theater. Did You Know? In 1932, she retired from the stage to marry Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish, the second son of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire #botd

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Edirin Oputu @edirinoputu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I love this, Jeff (and long for a DVD release)! I hope you enjoy it too.

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Edirin Oputu @edirinoputu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That was a seriously tough year. Almost as bad as 1939.

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Edirin Oputu @edirinoputu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Happy #StarTrekDay everyone! This is a favourite track from my favourite Star Trek score. #StarTrek60 youtu.be/ihY-_eviPA8?...

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Enterprise Clears Moorings

YouTube video by James Horner - Topic

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Dan BANSHEEhan @dansheehan.memyon.org · 08/09/2026

This is still one of the greatest scenes in the entire history of the Star Trek franchise - in large part thanks to the brilliance of writer/director Nicholas Meyer and composer James Horner. #StarTrekDay #StarTrek60

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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Is Wile E. Coyote the last living silent-film star?

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet, #BornOnThisDay in 1886, in Matfield, Kent, England From ‘The Last Meeting’: “I know that he is lost among the stars, And may return no more but in their light. Though his hushed voice may call me in the stir Of whispering trees, I shall not understand.”

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Edirin Oputu @edirinoputu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Jennifer (Veronica Lake) in 'I Married a Witch'

Veronica Lake as Jennifer, the titular witch in 'I Married a Witch'.

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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Alec Guinness, Kind Hearts & Coronets

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Who wore it better: Elizabeth I (born this day 1533) in the Ditchley Portrait in 1592, or Glenda Jackson playing Elizabeth in 1971?

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset. Writer, patron, builder, fighter. Gorgeous portrait with a lot of character, as befits its subject, painted in 1618 by William Larkin. Today is his day.