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John Blanco

@johnblanco.bsky.social
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Likes movies, especially art, foreign, golden age, trash, silent, precode, noir.

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Eric “ShutterSlut” @shutterslut.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#heliconius in the Oster Rainforest @calacademy.bsky.social #GoldenGatePark, #SanFrancisco #butterfly #insects #bugsky #ColorADay #GreenSat #ECK #Photography #EastCoastKin
An orange and black butterfly with a white spot in the upper half of its wings sits on the edge of a large green jungle-looking leaf.
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Eric “ShutterSlut” @shutterslut.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#forests, #mountains, and #sky; just a small slice of #Montana ‘s impossible beauty. #ForestFriday #trees #Clouds #Skyscape #ECK #Photography #EastCoastKin #landscape #scape #nature
A photograph with a lush green mixed forest at the bottom, with a jagged snow-covered peak behind it. The top 2/3s of the image is an impossibly blue sky with pure white fluffy clouds scattered across it.
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In heaven, everything is fine @ejschuster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Let's do the Halloween PFP/name thing again, this was me in art school as Henry from Eraserhead. Grew my hair for almost a year to do this. Photo by my insanely talented friend Luke Berhow.
A chiaroscuro photograph of a young man with giant hair looking at the viewer with a vacant intensity
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Graham Greene (with scenes from the Carol Reed film "The Third Man", written for the screen by Greene) - BOTD
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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Twilight Zone. Premiered this day in 1959 with "Where is Everybody", written by Rod Serling, directed by Robert Stevens, and starring Earl Holliman.
a distraught Earl Holliman finds a mannequin in the passenger seat of a deserted car
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Eric “ShutterSlut” @shutterslut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#SanFrancisco City Hall in the autumn twilight, from 2025 #ColorADay #BWFri #bw #ClassicMono #Monochrome #B&W #Urban #ECK #Photography
A high-contrast black and white photograph of the ornate Beaux Arts dome of San Francisco City Hall.

The building is a solid black, with the setting sun hidden behind the upper part of the dome and the steeple that tops it. From the cameras viewpoint there is a glowing halo around the dome and diffusing out into the bright gray sky behind it.
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Laurence Harvey, born 1 October 1928.
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The older I get, the more I think about this Kurosawa quote: ‘I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.’
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Eric “ShutterSlut” @shutterslut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Heading into #October like … #Urban #StreetPhotography #ECK #Photography
A photograph of a filthy clown doll with an open mouth, feet towards the camera but both twisted to the left, lying on a cracked asphalt parking space. It’s a slightly creepy image.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Edna St. Vincent Millay by Arnold Genthe, c. 1917 Thomas Hardy said that her poetry was one of only two great things in the United States, the other being the skyscraper. #NationalPoetryDay
The young poet stands beneath a tree with magnolia blossoms
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Everett Sloane in the Orson Welles film "The Lady from Shanghai" (with Rita Hayworth) - BOTD
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Miss Kimmi Kitty Mama @miss-kimmi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yoko Ono and Keith Richards
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John Blanco @johnblanco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Yes, I’m a Witch”
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
From 1963, Jeanne Moreau by Georges Dambier.
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Marion Cotillard in the Leos Carax film "Annette" - BOTD
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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Michael Powell, Director, Screenwriter, Producer, #BornOnThisDay in 1905, in Bekesbourne, Kent, England 📸 Cornel Lucas (1985)
Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Monica Bellucci in Gaspar Noé's "Irréversible" - BOTD
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Eric “ShutterSlut” @shutterslut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#ColorADay #RedWed #ECK #Photography #EastCoastKin #door #adoorable #Gothic #GothicRevival
Frame-filling close-up of very bright red doors in a pointed Gothic arch, part of a much larger unseen church. Decorative black iron hinges mirror each other on either side of the door, adding to the Gothic feel.
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/a... Unsettling as it ever was
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‘Begotten’: Rubbing Your Eyes in Disbelief (Gift Article)
E. Elias Merhige’s digitally restored, black-and-white horror film has its first New York run in decades at the IFC Center. Its power is undiminished.
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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Trouble with Harry. Premiered—appropriately—in Vermont this day in 1955. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Edmund Gwenn, Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, and Jerry Mathers. French poster. Art by Boris Grinsson.
Hitchcock pokes his head through the poster to watch Jerry Mathers, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick, and Edmund Gwenn contemplating Harry's corpse.
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Monica Bellucci in "Twin Peaks" (with David Lynch) - BOTD
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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Deborah Kerr, 'The Innocents', Jack Clayton, 1961 Superbe film 🖤🖤🖤
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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Innocents (1961) Directed by Jack Clayton Starring Deborah Kerr - BOTD in 1921
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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BTD: The magnificent Madeline Kahn (seen here with an admirer).
Madeline Kahn in head wrap and fox fur, Marty Feldman is peeking over her shoulder
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Virginia Bruce by George Hurrell, 1931. #botd
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/09/2026
“The photos don’t seem self-conscious or posed,” Sofia Coppola said of Joseph Szabo’s portraits of American teens. “The kids don’t have their guards up. You don’t feel he’s peering at them.” www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michelangelo Antonioni & actress Daria Halprin during the filming of Zabriske Point, 1978 A fabulous shot by Bruce Davidson!
Halprin seen through the front side window of a car. Reflected in the same window is the director, looking on.
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michelangelo Antonioni (with scenes from his film "Red Desert") - BOTD
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ande91.bsky.social @ande91.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Girl with her head out the window of a moving car.
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mary Pickford by The Campbell Studio, NYC 1920. The portrait was likely shot by Arthur F. Rice who served as the studio’s director from 1915 to 1925,
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Eric “ShutterSlut” @shutterslut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh, to spend the afternoon lounging against the Great #Cypress with a good book on a warm & sunny #SanFrancisco day #ThickTrunkTuesday #trees #treeclub #ECK #Photography #EastCoastKin #landscape #scape #nature
A photograph of a huge gnarled tree trunk that starts near the bottom of the image on a grassy knoll and rises majestically like a living cliff out of the top of the photo. The tree is so large that its crown of leaves is outside the image. 

At the base of the tree, barely visible on the viewers left side, a woman with black pants and a beige blouse leans into the tree. Unseen in this shot is the book resting in her lap, as she takes a break from reading to enjoy nature. 

The background of the image is filled with the leafy green crowns of numerous other trees, all in all creating a compelling reason to sit and relax a bit.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pretty sure this contained my first taste of Wm. Burroughs. Found it on rotating wire racks in a local drugstore when I was about 13. Cost a me a quarter and a dime!
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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car.
Françoise Sagan in an leopard coat, posing with her Jaguar, Paris, 1963; 📷Thomas D. McAVOY (1905-1966)
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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Laura Harring, David Lynch and Naomi Watts Watts was BOTD in 1968
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Eric “ShutterSlut” @shutterslut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A lovely #GoldenOrbSpider for #MacroMonday @calacademy.bsky.social Osher Rainforest #macro #ECK #Photography #EastCoastKin #insects #spiders #arachnids
A beautiful golden spider with glossy black bands on their legs and body is seen from the underside while tending their web. 

The web shimmers like spun gold in a ray of sunlight against a blurry gray background, with two dark gray railing bars which cross the frame diagonally being the only recognizable things behind the web.
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Edward the Movie Buff 🎞🎬🎥📽 @midgetmoxie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Images of a young James Earl Jones, circa early 1960s.
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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Marina City under construction, Chicago (ca. 1962) Photo by Chalmers Butterfield
Kodachrome slide showing the Chicago river with a small red boat in the foreground, with the towers of Marina City under construction and another tall building in the background.
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Imagine making Rocky Horror Picture Show and then asking "but could I do more for the queers?"
black and white photo of brad and janet in charming underclothes
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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
"Misty Green is a woman’s story told entirely in a man’s voice, and that voice seems to hate her on a level that feels intensely personal and perverse."
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Louise with famed playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin on the set of When You’re in Love (1937), the only film he directed. Louise appeared only as an uncredited ensemble dancer in the film but the studio played her up in publicity photos.
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Coming soon to That '70s Movie Podcast:
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𝙉𝙤𝙞𝙧 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙘𝙠 ♬ @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My reaction to Eddie saying Ace in the Hole is not a film noir after I've been referring to it as #FilmNoir all week in my posts... #NoirAlley #AceInTheHole #TCMParty
Jan Sterling in Ace in the Hole (1951).
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Eric “ShutterSlut” @shutterslut.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Snack time Heliconius Melpomene Osher Rainforest @calacademy.bsky.social #Nikon #D7100 #ColorADay #OrangeSun #butterfly #insects #bugsky #flowers #bloomscrolling #macro #ECK #Photography #EastCoastKin
The image is a macro photo of a butterfly clinging to the right side of a tall green stem with a small cluster of tiny pink flowers near the top of it. The background is a blurry mix of differently colored green leaves. 

The butterfly’s base color is black, with a striped orange pattern on the lower part of the wings and a large oblong white spot in the upper part. Part of the upper wing is tattered, showing that they escaped from a predator at some point.
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Eric “ShutterSlut” @shutterslut.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The #Churchyard #Gate 1st Ch. of Christ, Scientist #SF 2026, #iphone 17pro #ColorADay #GreenSat #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn #UrbanGaze #patina #ECK #Photography
An elaborate iron gate fills the image, covered in a variable light green patina. 

The main section of the gate is evenly spaced vertical bars, in the center of them is a large disk shape – the inner portion has an eight pointed flower, surrounding that is a heavily detailed egg and dart section. 

The outer border of the gate is a scrolling floral pattern between plain bars. 

You can see the brown brick church beyond through the gate.
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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BTD: George Raft. Bolero, 1934. Directed by Wesley Ruggles. Starring Raft, Carole Lombard, Sally Rand, Ray Milland, and William Frawley. Swedish poster. Art by Moje Aslund.
George Raft and Carole Lombard strike a dance pose
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lawren Stewart Harris (Canadian, 1885–1970) "The Red Door, Toronto Houses", 1919. Oil on Canvas, 94 × 84 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It should never be forgotten MEL BROOKS had the World Premiere of BLAZING SADDLES (1974) at the Pickwick Drive-In Theater in Burbank, Los Angeles for 250 invited guests - ALL ON HORSEBACK.
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
9/26/45: Mildred Pierce D: Michael Curtiz from the Cain novel w/Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden More: @szacharek.bsky.social: time.com/collections/... @christinalefou.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/joa... @justincchang.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Critic's Choice: Criterion brings 'Mildred Pierce' out of the noir shadows
It may not be as faithful or definitive an adaptation of the James M.
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Eric “ShutterSlut” @shutterslut.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#basement storage #door #ColorADay #BWFri #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn #UrbanGaze #Urban #StreetPhotography #urbanphotography #graffiti #ECK #Photography
A black and white photograph of a graffiti-covered open cellar door set in a sidewalk, with well-worn steel steps next to a battered metal slide leading down into a basement storage area.
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Robert Bresson during the filming of "Au hasard Balthazar" (with Anne Wiazemsky) - BOTD
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