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Katherine

@katherinersf.bsky.social
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Introvert who loves opera, books, dogs and cats. Fan of classic film, especially silents, pre-Codes and noir. I don't say much. I drink tea and read things. she/her

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X-Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Setsuko Hara in Hakuchi (The Idiot), Akira Kurosawa (1951)
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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 9h
"To Hear Her Speak" (opening Oct 16 at the Folger) explores how Black women have engaged with Shakespeare’s work over hundreds of years through literature, performance art, fashion, and activism. Take an early look at the exhibition courtesy of @washingtonian.com: washingtonian.com/2026/10/05/a...
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An Intriguing Exhibit on Shakespeare and Black Women
The Folger looks into some under-explored history.
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 22h
"My teacher Leonard Rose was such a great cellist. I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostropovich, Jacqueline du Pré, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries..." Yo-Yo Ma #botd
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 21h
"Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe..." Irving Penn June 16, 1917 – October 7, 2009 Marlene Dietrich, 1948 • Self-portrait, 1948
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X-Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 11h
La chute de la maison Usher, Jean Epstein (1928)
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Indybay @indybay.org · 14h
Saturday 10/10: No More Techno Fascists Buying Elections in San Francisco Speak-out
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Saturday 10/10: No More Techno Fascists Buying Elections in San Francisco Speak-out
2026 Larkin St. San Francisco
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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 14h
On this day in 2014, Native Hawaiian land protectors prevent the groundbreaking of the Thirty Meter Telescope at Mauna Kea. anticolonialhistory.com/event/272/
Mauna Kea protectors managed to stop the Department of Land and Natural Resources from beginning construction on sacred Mauna Kea “until further notice.” (Photo from later 2015 demonstrations)
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
72yr old BETTE DAVIS — who left us 37yrs ago today, aged 81 — in 1980 in front of a portrait of herself from 1939
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Eva Marie Saint, 1954.
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Dominique Revue ᥫ᭡⁠. @dominiquerevue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"You know how to stay young? Go with the flow." —Eva Marie Saint 💔 (1924—2026) What a treasure. What a contribution to life and movies.
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Dominique Revue ᥫ᭡⁠. @dominiquerevue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"My mom lived to be 91, and her advice was, 'Honey, just keep moving.'" —Eva Marie Saint Ms. Saint has been on my mind constantly for the past few years. In my view, she remained youthful, fresh, and energetic, proving that age is *only* a number, not a condition. She will be deeply missed.
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alma Rubens by Herbert Mitchell in NYC, 1930. After years of battling cocaine and heroin addiction, the former silent film star was attempting a comeback on the NY vaudeville stage. She would be dead within the year at age 33.
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San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle @sfbatcc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Peter Pan Goes Wrong" SF CITY Review by Jenyth Jo Show runs in San Francisco through November 28 theatrius.com/2026/10/03/p...
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Old Hollywood @theoldhollywood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RIP Eva Marie Saint, 1924-2026
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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 07/10/2026
Happy release day to The Tattoo and Other Stories by Junichiro Tanizaki (trans Paul McCarthy, Anthony Chambers + J. Keith Vincent). "This dazzling collection of short fiction features three stories that appear here in English for the first time, plus fresh translations of his best-known classics."
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The Tattoo and Other Stories
"A writer of wicked subtlety and grace." --The Sunday Times (London) The eight stories in this dazzling collection--including three that appear here in English for the first time--showcase the sunning...
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SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 06/10/2026
We celebrate Eva Marie Saint, who died today at 102. A #SagAftraMember since 1947, Saint won an Oscar for her film debut in 'On the Waterfront' and starred in 'North by Northwest.' An advocate for organized labor, she leaves an enduring example for generations of union members.
Eva Marie Saint looking into the camera. 
Photo credit: PhotofestMarlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in 'On the Waterfront.' 
Photo credit: Columbia Pictures/Photofest © Columbia PicturesCary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in 'North by Northwest.' Photo credit: Photofest
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La Femme Merveilleuse Invisible @larwoolf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102 RIP July 4, 1924 – October 6, 2026
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 06/10/2026
Farewell to Eva Marie Saint. ❤️
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 06/10/2026
H’as spoken like a traitor, and shall answer As traitors do.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Launched in May, “the page uses data from customers’ activity to generate details about them in categories like Product Preferences, Interests & Hobbies, and Home & Family, which Amazon then uses to personalize users’ product experiences.”
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'Has flat buttocks,' 'cusses when scared': Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles. Here's how to find yours
Amazon's new 'About you' page lists many assumptions about shoppers—like their favorite brands, their hobbies, and the shape of their bodies.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
But they're gonna have to lay off thousands of people who make a fraction of the executives' income in order to be "fiscally responsible"
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In smaller font, barely above the fold. As if it's just a local possible pesky problem in California...
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass @hardlystrictly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mark your calendars! See you then! #HSB27 #hardlystrictlybluegrass
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Robert Plant @robertplant.com · 05/10/2026
From @hardlystrictly.bsky.social to Caffe Trieste to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social … pilgrimage time for me.
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LadyKdesigns @ladykdesigns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do you have a favorite Val Lewton #FilmNoir #Noirror or other? Cat People (1942) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) The Leopard Man (1943) The Seventh Victim (1943) The Ghost Ship (1943) The Curse of the Cat People (1944) The Body Snatcher (1945) Isle of the Dead (1945) 🎃 👻 #FrightClub
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The latest ICE arrest wave targets ppl with "withholding of removal," a status that means an immigration deemed they'd be in danger if deported to their home countries. The Trump admin is now pushing to deport them to third countries. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/05/t...
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'But I'm Not From Ghana': ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation
Immigrants with protected status who've lived in the city for decades are finding themselves swept up, shackled and threatened with expulsion.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 05/10/2026
#OtD 5 Oct 1789 thousands of women in Paris, angry over the high price and scarcity of bread, ransacked the city armoury for weapons and besieged the Palace of Versailles in one of the opening salvos of the French revolution shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"I couldn't stand being passive. I couldn't play the placid girl." Barbara Stanwyck (photographed in 1933).
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#ResistanceRoots Henrietta Lacks died on this day in 1951 in Baltimore, Md. She only became well-known for what she contributed after her death. However, she deserves to be remembered as a beautiful young mother who was much more than her immortalized human cell line used in medical research. /1
Henrietta Lacks, ca. late 1940s. Lacks is the unwitting mother of modern medical research whose exploitation forced the world to reinvent medical ethics. As the source of the HeLa cell line, she unknowingly gave humanity its first “immortal” human cells, enabling medical advances that have touched millions of lives worldwide. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is the stark reality of paternalistic, Jim Crow-era medicine, where a poor Black woman’s body could be harvested without her knowledge or informed consent. For decades, Henrietta was reduced to an anonymous laboratory code. Today, her descendants, artists and global communities have fought to ensure she is remembered as a person. Her final resting place is marked with a granite headstone honoring her not just as a medical miracle, but as a mother who loved to cook, wear bright red lipstick, and take care of her family.
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
October 4, 1990
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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For this week’s Silent Sundays, an inside look at the fabulous new exhibit Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent Film on display at Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York City. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/goddesses-...
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slippedisc.bsky.social @slippedisc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Not all Kennedy Center pianos have been removed - Slippedisc
We reported last week that all pianos are...
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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Evelyn Brent poses as Salomé for an unusual photo by Otto Dyar, 1929. (Thread)
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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse.” Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë #Brontëfest
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jose Perez, Jerry Stiller, Raul Julia, Clifton Davis in the 1971 Shakespeare in the Park production of Two Gentlemen From Verona at the Delacorte Theater.
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The older Keaton got, the more one could see eternity in his look." Film critic Robert Benayoun on the great Buster Keaton, born 4 October 1895.
A black and white photo of Buster Keaton from 1952, looking deadpan at the camera and wearing his traditional pork pie hat. The photo was taken by Richard Avedon.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The silent era vampires were never rivaled
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One silent movie I really wish would be released on home media is THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1924). It's a sci-fi comedy in the future world of the 1950s, where a disease has wiped out all the men, but then they find one last specimen who has been hiding out in the woods since being turned down in 1940
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Audrey Hepburn as Ondine in the adaptation of Giraudoux's play of the same name. The drama was successfully staged on Broadway in 1954. Photo by Milton H. Greene.
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Dreyer preys upon our subconscious fears. Dread and obsession are the film's substance, and its mood is evocative, dreamy, spectral." Critic Pauline Kael on Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Vampyr" (1932).
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Alla Nazimova for Salome (1923). Costume design by Natacha Rambova.
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Midnight Eye @a0dbxza.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Anna May Wong #filmsky #photography #cinema 📽️
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Toshirō Mifune in Rashōmon (1950)
Captured in a piercing, sun-drenched close-up, Toshirō Mifune delivers a visceral portrait of raw physical intensity as the volatile bandit Tajōmaru in Akira Kurosawa’s cinematic masterpiece Rashomon (1950). Sweat glistens across his brow and cheekbones beneath the oppressive heat, while his narrowed, predatory gaze and furrowed brow radiate an unpredictable mixture of suspicion, pride, and feral defiance. Bound in a coarse, dark cloth head-wrap over disheveled hair, Mifune's weathered features and dark stubble reflect the untamed existence of an outlaw living on the margins of society. The photograph evokes a palpable sensory environment: the stifling, humid heaviness of the ancient forest, the relentless drone of summer cicadas echoing through the canopy, the abrasive scrape of rough-woven hemp against dust-streaked skin, and the blinding glint of high-noon sunlight breaking through the leaves.
As the film that catapulted post-war Japanese cinema onto the global stage, Rashomon redefined narrative storytelling through its revolutionary exploration of subjective memory, human vanity, and moral ambiguity. Adapted from Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short stories "In a Grove" (Yabu no Naka) and "Rashōmon," the plot constructs four conflicting testimonies surrounding a single violent encounter in the woods. Mifune’s landmark performance turned the traditional samurai-era villain into a kinetic, animalistic force, seamlessly fusing explosive physical theatricality with deep psychological insecurity. Collaborating with visionary cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, Kurosawa famously used angled mirrors inside the dense forest set to bounce harsh, natural sunlight directly onto the actors' faces, creating a striking visual rhythm that visually manifests the fractured, elusive nature of truth.
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EdwardMO @emo777.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This Polaroid photo of John Lennon by Annie Leibovitz #botd was taken a few hours before Lennon's murder, and is considered one of Rolling Stone magazine's most famous cover photographs.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
72 Candles 🎂 today for the always excellent LORRAINE BRACCO
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lorraine Bracco in Gus Van Sant's "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" - BOTD
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