Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In don’t know but man am I jonesing for a slug of Robby’s whiskey! 011
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I love how Wilder gave these rubes the name “Berderber”. (Sam Drucker in “Green Acres”!) 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One of my favorite Hitchcockian details in “Rope” is how the San Francisco skyline darkens toward sunset as the story goes on. 020
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Have it on good authority that the GOP called this guy to bring McConnell back from the dead. 000
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026There are about 260 million adults in the US. 260,000,000 x $5,000 = $1.3 trillion. In other words, 🐂💩 000
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I've been in more than one meeting where this would've been a better strategy than what was decided. 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 09/09/202611-year-old me, already a science fiction nerd, saw it and thought, they made this just for me. Never missed an episode, and regularly practiced Mr. Spock’s Vulcan neck-pinch on my little brothers (to no avail). 020
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Featuring the most consequential birdcage liner in cinema history. Elsa Lanchester is wonderful. 020
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bad Branding In Our Time Dept: Seen on a gas station in Coronado, CA -- BTW the most expensive gas in the area. The name is "Brikho"? The logo seems determined to keep us guessing. From the my-daughter-just-got-a-degree-in-marketing-and-works-for-free school of design. 001
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Fail-Safe. Prof. Groeteschele holds court before slapping a woman: “I’m not your KIND!” 110
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Lancaster fetishizes Sarandon’s music-accompanied washing ritual as a sensual act -- when she’s just trying to get rid of the fish smell from her job. Love this pic! 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Particularly like George Macready’s chilling performance as Mireau. I’ve always thought the big scar on his cheek was a key to his blitheness in sending men to senseless deaths -- esp. the 3 men “chosen” to be sacrificed to his ego. As if the injury gave him the right. Classic Kubrick. 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Loved him in The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) with Irene Dunne. As McBragg would say, “Quite.” 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Take this sofa, combine it with disco and Nixon, and you'll know why nobody is nostalgic about the 70s.😊 030
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026In his book “Adventures in the Screen Trade” William Goldman cites this pic as an example of bad screenwriting. 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Lesson One: Remember not to write in ink on your cuff. 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Dang! What we need is a courageous crusading reporter who will expose these scofflaws! 110
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Boy could I have used this when the nuns were about to rap my knuckles. 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Of all the femmes fatale, Jane Greer is the most fatale. (Sorry Stanwyck!) 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Love the SCTV parody where Joe Flaherty utters the immortal line “Inferno! Towering Inferno!” 000
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 15/06/2026It’s easy to dismiss silents as primitive, low-tech and irrelevant. But these innovators took what they had and created pictures that still move audiences 100+ years later. “Wings”, “Sunrise”, “Potemkin”, “City Lights”, etc. Kevin Brownlow’s “Hollywood” series really opened my eyes. 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Not a movie, but one of my favorite Hollywood writer stories is the 1926 telegram Herman Mankiewicz sent to his friend Ben Hecht in NYC, trying to recruit him, which said in part: “Millions are to be made out here and your only competition is idiots.” Can’t wait to listen! 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Two favorite lines: "I! I! I! I ripped it out of the world!" "I'm so drunk I could see a snake." 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Bacall's rendition of "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine" is one of the oddest musical scenes ever. And did the chauffeur actually commit suicide? 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Of all Ozu’s explorations of the father-daughter-marriage story, this is my favorite (despite its lack of Setsuko Hara). A fitting valediction for his life’s work. 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Featuring the most meaningful beer foam in cinema history. 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Really got me in touch with my inner cost accountant. An all-time fave!❤️ 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 14/05/2026“It’s the worst movie you ever saw? Well, my next one will be better.” 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Pitch meeting: "So there's these big black things that grow and grow and threaten a small town!" "Yeah! And do they make scary noises and kidnap beautiful women and make a bloody mess?" "No, they just fall over and break apart!" 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 22/04/2026See also Buddha: “With our thoughts, we make our world.” Words to live by.🙂 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 20/04/2026This, ladies and gentlemen, is the dictionary definition of Alcoholic Behavior -- the legal equivalent of drunk-dialing your exes at 3 a.m. 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Stanton’s soliloquy near the end is an amazing piece of both writing and acting. 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 12/04/2026One of my guiltiest guilty pleasures is the deranged 1956 drama "Ride The High Iron" (1956), where PR flack Raymond Burr blackmails Rod Taylor. Paiva plays a rail yard boss who repeatedly drives his crew by yelling "Jump around! Jump around! If you can't jump around jump up and down!" 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 03/04/2026All other coffeehouses wish they could be The Yellow Door. 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 29/03/2026So many great one-liners, but I think my favorite is, “I have a very good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.”🤣 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Michael Dunn shout-out! Loved him in the little-seen 1972 TV noir “Goodnight My Love” with Richard Boone. 011
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 16/03/2026One of the blackest days of the Vietnam War. William Calley, the officer in charge of the massacre, killed over 100 people himself. Command was so frightened of exposure they covered the whole thing up, and Calley served only 3 years -- followed by a long life of not being held accountable. 000
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 11/03/2026For my money this belongs in the pantheon of the best silent pictures. So beautiful. 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 08/03/2026“Actionful” screams of a late-Friday-afternoon deadline-pushing committee decision. “Thrillful”, “Bloodful” and “Interestingful” were considered but rejected. 010
Emile Barrios @emilebee.bsky.social · 16/02/2026The scene was spoofed (with George Raft!) in a 1969 Alka Seltzer comercial. youtu.be/nJ3la-qFTTs?...youtu.beAlka Seltzer TV Advertisement - PrisonYouTube video by John J. Hamrin 030
