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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Noiret/Tavernier partnership ranks with Scorsese/De Niro, Bergman /Von Sydow or any of the greatest actor/director teams anyone could name.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Happy Birthday Elliott Gould.

George Segal and Elliott Gould in a scene from Robert Altman’s California Split (1974)

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Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

#filmnoir #moviesky #filmsky #musicsky Wanting to stop Axis powers from jamming Allied torpedo guidance systems in 1942, actor Hedy Lamarr and film music composer George Antheil patented frequency hopping #OTD — leading to current day wireless technology.

Portrait photograph of George Antheil and portrait photograph of Hedy Lamar
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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

There’s always Amadeus, and both main characters are sadsack loser artists, each in their own way.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

On a whim, I once watched 2001 on an airplane. On the tiny back-of-the-seat screen. It was magnificent. In fact, the famous bone to space ship cut hit harder than ever.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My dad was/is a movie lover and in the early days of VHS he would bring home anything and everything. I recall watching American Werewolf in London at about ten yrs old. That Nazi demon nightmare sequence, my god.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

To the tune of MIB: Here come the two si-rens! Odysseus’s tempt-ers!

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

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Derrick Chua @derrick-chua.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Terrific start to 2026 Toronto Fringe with four shows yesterday including one that I really loved - CAMP by Ben Kopp & Margot Greve. It’s like a Family Channel Summer Camp Musical, with a talented cast of actual teens. Sold out yesterday so book tix asap! fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/...

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Let’s bring back Bo and Kawhi in the same week, why not, eh?

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

On this day in 1981, Terry Fox died. His funeral was broadcast nationwide and memorial services were held in hundreds of communities. Flags across the country were lowered to half-mast. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 buff.ly/QqZiNNK

Black-and-white front page of The Globe and Mail, dated Monday, June 29, 1981. The main headline reads Terry Fox’s courage hailed as inspiration to the nation. A large photo at left shows two people at a press conference, and a large portrait at right shows Terry Fox wearing his Order of Canada medal. Smaller columns and headlines fill the lower half of the page.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Saw this two nights ago and I’ve been trying to figure out my very tangled reaction. I was baffled and disappointed at first. But boy has it stuck with me. Woke up today almost in love with it. Your piece has helped me understand why. Thanks as always.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

They are duds but I love the film unreservedly anyway … fun thought experiment though … I like your recasting, how about Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones, circa 2020

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

whole other essay probably but would love to read a serious compare and contrast between SL and Zone of Interest in this context

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

One of the best films by one of the best directors, Howard Hawks #BOTD. Only Angels Have Wings (1939, dir. Hawks, written by Hawks and Jules Furthman). It has everything: adventure, romance, comedy, and a heart wrenching, haunting look at death.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Swimmer is another great John Cheever story www.newyorker.com/magazine/196... And the movie adaptation by Frank & Eleanor Perry (1968) is suitably strange and haunting

Janice Rule and Burt Lancaster talking poolside in swimsuits in a scene from The Swimmer (1968)

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Katrin Cartlidge in "Naked" - BOTD

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

An amazing portrait of the city. You’ll never think of Los Angeles the same way again.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Jean-Luc Godard meets Lemmy Caution in Alphaville - French premiere this day in 1965, Italian poster, art by Averardo Ciriello

Anna Karina clutches Eddie Constantine's shoulder as he trains his gun on us, in the background colorful silhouettes of dancing figures

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

How about Sandra Huller in Anatomy of a Fall and Zone of Interest

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

An epic two-part dad joke. Impressive.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Happy Birthday Lars von Trier #botd #filmsky “You will now listen to my voice . . . On the count of ten you will be in Europa.”

A scene from Lars Von Trier’s Europa (1991)

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Look forward to seeing this. Makes me think of the work of the great Canadian doc filmmaker Peter Mettler. A film like Picture of Light for example

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

“It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarreled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now.”

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

One of the all time great country songs. And what a beautiful rendition. Thank you!

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Vicenç @metforall.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Bon dia!! #BOTD Bertrand Tavernier.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It has to say something that after several years of repeat viewings, this film is one of the few my whole family will happily gather together to watch, still moved by the sweetness, still laughing til it hurts.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Saw this some months ago on Criterion. Extraordinary film. Barely over an hour and yet it feels epic. Sure, it's melodramatic, but genuinely moving. The bit with the broken cocktail glasses at the end!

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A very Happy Birthday to Elaine May - Directing A New Leaf in 1971

Elaine May stands on a box next to a movie camera set atop a skyscraper

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Good question. Similar in Toronto. My kids' public school is easily the most handsome building in my neighbourhood. Beautiful masonry, grand pillars etc. Built in 1914.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Let’s get reacquainted with bulls and schisms etc.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

RIP / Repose en paix, Nathalie Baye, here in Day For Night (1973, Truffaut)

Nathalie Baye in a scene from Day for Night (1973, Truffaut). The line she speaks: “i’d drop a guy for a film. I’d never drop a film for a guy!”

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Tico Romao 🍁 @tico-romao.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The Wages of Fear (1953) poster art. Premiered #OTD.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

#botd the great William Holden. We all know his classic movies. Check out this obscure, fun, weirdly timely movie about a joint American-Canadian commando unit in WW2: The Devil’s Brigade (dir. Andrew McLaglen, screenplay William Roberts).

Poster for the WW2 movie Devil’s Brigade starring William Holden and Cliff Robertson

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Remembering Peter Ustinov on his birthday #botd

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

His blinking, insecure Laughton is one of the most amazing impersonations I've ever seen. It's more like a full physical transformation. And SO funny.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Here’s hoping for more of the films some day, but in the meantime, a reminder that the Aubrey/Maturin books by Patrick O’Brian are a wildly entertaining read.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Interesting. I can see many of these ideas percolating in Ma Nuit Chez Maud as well

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Lothaire Bluteau in "Jesus of Montreal" - BOTD

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Delbert Mann’s MARTY premiered at the Sutton Theatre in New York City on April 11, 1955. Best Picture and Best Actor Oscar winner.

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Greg Beer @gbeer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Obvious example but I still remember the effect Catcher in the Rye had on me in high school. Is Holden Caulfield a misunderstood poet? A judgmental prick? I don't know but I'm happy to spend a lifetime mulling it over.

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David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

36 years ago today... #TwinPeaks premiered.

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Kazuyoshi Kawasaki @kawasaki1972.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Nathalie Baye avec Isabelle Huppert | Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) | Jean-Luc Godard | 1980.

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

"Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [of us all], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream." Ingmar Bergman speaking about filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, born 4 April 1932.

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