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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 9h

Twisted Teens dropping their third album of 2026. youtube.com/watch?v=0J6q...

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twisted teens - stalks (official music video)

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 10h

I think it’s the first of his great novels, but seems to be neglected for the westerns.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 10h

Have you read Suttree? It’s about that character.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The greatest DP of color westerns. Cattle Queen of Montana (dir. Allan Dwan, 1954)

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He set the standard for b&w noir and then started over and set the standard for color westerns. Insane accomplishment.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I reread that a few years ago and was surprised how stylized it felt. When I first read it in the late 1980s, it felt like realism.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I still love early Hemingway but agree with the general assessment.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We had to read four of his novels in high school. It was an asswhip.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When I read Steinbeck’s East of Eden, I thought it was big, dumb and overwritten. But I was 16 and probably big, dumb and overwritten myself.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I blind-bought Evol on cassette when I was 14 and only listened to country music because I liked the cover. Man, did that blow up my world.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The NYT ranked him as the 19th best actor of the 21st century, but I’ve only seen his 20th century films.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And i thought my “The shortest distance between two points is Pialat’s camera angle” quip was bad science.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok I’m not waiting anymore. Gonna watch Surrender with the hard-coded French subs.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Be sure to watch Alonso’s short “Untitled (Letter to Serra),” where Misael picks up a gun.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wrote an essay on Ulmer’s “The Naked Dawn” for the latest issue of Narrow Margin Quarterly, which focuses on marginal westerns and can be ordered via the link below . www.narrowmarginquarterly.com/04

narrowmarginquarterly.com

Issue 04 — The Western: From B to Z

To return to the western today is not to nostalgically wish for the resurrection of an obsolescent genre, but to read their relics. The empty towns, overgrown trails, and abandoned tracks. The essays ...

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Agostino d'Ippona (Rossellini, 1972) The most tender shot in the history of cinema is the one where Rossellini shows the hatred directed towards trans youth in Roman Northern Africa circa 400AD

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve been looking for Masumura recs.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Watched the Criterion 4K restoration release of Mauvais Sang and I think we’ve reached the point where these digital dabblers think film grain is the enemy.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Walsh/Flynn run was one of Hollywood’s greatest.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What’s an example of perfect casting?

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You’ve become a dreaded micro-influencer.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yeah, 'New Hollywood' was big studio propaganda anyway, and Monte was the one they booted out.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Great list. The one film I would advocate for is Echoes of Silence (1965).

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Best August first watches

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Two gringo lead actors in brown face try their darndest to speak with Mexican accents in cheapo western.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet (Huillet/Straub, 1990) Where H/S show us that Renoir cast Cézanne’s An Old Woman with a Rosary in his Madame Bovary.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I have an article on it coming out this month in Narrow Margin magazine.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

50 Wagon Master (Ford) 51 Edouard et Caroline (Becker) 52 The Golden Coach (Renoir) 53 Rue de l'estrapade (Becker) 54 Sound of the Mountain (Naruse) 55 The Naked Dawn (Ulmer) 56 War and Peace (Vidor) 57 Run of the Arrow (Fuller) 58 Un giorno in Barbagia (De Seta) 59 The Crimson Kimono (Fuller)

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Last 4 Friday, my first since since my two months in the hellscape of Texas

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This was considered canonical Nouvelle vague in the 1990s, but seems to have fallen off the radar.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Samuel Fuller - BOTD Fave five: 1. The Crimson Kimono 2. Run of the Arrow 3. Park Row 4. The Steel Helmet 5. I Shot Jesse James

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My daughter is working a Guns N’ Roses concert in a few weeks. Nothing has changed since I was in high school. PROGRESS IS AN ILLUSION!

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Say what you will, but Enzo brought the 1980’s action movie villain to the World Cup. My hero.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

What my naive son texted me with 10 minutes left in the game.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

My favorite band of the 2020’s just dropped their second full album in six months.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Love The Last Dive tribute to Ronaldo.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

USMNT fans need to stop using John Denver’s faux country music slop-pop “Take Me Home, Country Roads" as their theme song, and replace it with Waylon Jennings’ “There Ain’t No God In Mexico.”

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Zeki Demirkubuz is obviously a fan of the Turkey national team but believes nobody lives with more existential dread than the Mexico fan.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I count five different westerns with this title. Which one?

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Wow Joy Division. And I thought having The Sugarcubes on my card was cool.

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Jerry @jerryj.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Every time a Mexican women pops out of nowhere to plant a big kiss on a Korean fan, I think I’m watching a Hong sang-soo film.

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