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CATASTROPHE (2001) Mamet directs Beckett's short play for TV Stars Harold Pinter, Rebecca Pidgeon (of course), and John Gielgud (his final role) Beckett's abstractions are given specificity (set in a theater) and dialogue has a snappy patter Not "purist" but still a powerful piece

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 15h

"Five Fucking Movies: Works from David Mamet" I'll be taking a look at 5 random Mamet movies. Either he wrote, directed, or adapted I'm also listening to his latest book on Hollywood. Hopefully, good stories and not old-man-yelling-at-cloud rants. And he's a 45/47 fan. Gross

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

THE WIZARD OF STRINGS (1985) Oscar-nominated short doc on the former vaudeville star, Roy Smeck The film makes it clear he's a wizard, even in his 80s. Smeck plays the guitar, ukelele, banjo and Hawaiian guitar Unique insight into that time

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (1985) Susan Seidelman's sublime cocktail of New Wave, vibes, and magic Madonna's best? Basically playing herself? So many great New York actors that became household names Embrace your inner 80s Punk-Chic 4 Sight & Sound votes 1 Director, 3 Critics

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

September movie stats 46 watched. A little lower, but I am listening to more commentaries on the discs 669 movies so far in 2026

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THE MIRROR CRACK'D (1980) * Watch 5 or 6 "Fucking terrible" - Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts 😆 I never minded it Lansbury, a solid Miss Marple. Fun, catty banter between Taylor and Novak Not a splashy, whiz bang whodunnit. It's kind of a sad story in the end

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MIAMI VICE - SEASON FOUR (1987-88) I blasted through this The storylines...😆 UFOs, stolen bull semen, Sheena Easton as Sonny's wife Like Tubbs' beard, the season takes a while to get used to. Maybe I never did But the neon and pastels make a return. At least there's that

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

HEARTS OF FIRE (1987) From Richard Marquand, the director of Return of the Jedi No Ewoks here, maybe Dylan's hair As Larry Karaszewski says, "nothing about this movie works" Many music movie tropes. Fiona goes hard. Dylan's line readings are odd? Disinterested? Alien?

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"80s Mix Tape Vol. 1" Random stuff from the 80s A little bit of physical media. Some streaming Let's mix it up Five films...or maybe one is TV...🤔 See you on Side B

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

THE POWER OF THE DOG (2021) * Watch 2 Campion artfully captures the isolation of the land and within ourselves I always feel Cumberbatch is "acting", but it works well here...the performative nature of the character Bronco Henry mentioned *drink* 8 S&S votes btw

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

CHEYENNE AUTUMN (1964) 1 Sight & Sound vote, Director Gerd Kroske Germany "...Native Americans...become a mirror of America and its contradictions" Ford's final western is artistic redress. A reckoning Also, a fascinating, messy deconstruction of Ford's filmography Gorgeous cinematography

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When you buy items at full price days before the surprise flash sale from that same company

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

THE TALL T (1957) * Watch 2 Budd Boetticher's great western plays out like an existential chess match Randolph Scott gets caught up with some sick and twisted dudes Scorsese, in his intro, mentions there's a "toughness, a flintiness...a spareness" to this special picture

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Budd Boetticher has 1 film on the 2022 Sight & Sound greatest films list The Tall T

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

THE REVENGE OF PANCHO VILLA (1930-36) 1 Sight & Sound vote, Critic Dan Streible USA "...shows us an idiosyncratic cinematic creativity at work far from the film industry’s imagined centre" The Padilla father and son team make a tapestry of Villa footage, doc and recreated Unique!

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

THE FAR COUNTRY (1954) * Watch 2 The gold rush tests Jimmy Stewart's misanthropy and rugged individualism Anthony Mann skillfully weaves together this rich Klondike mosaic The film's look has the feeling of paintings from the era Mann's westerns are so good

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anthony Mann has 4 films in the 2022 Sight & Sound greatest films collection Winchester '73 The Far Country Man of the West It's a Big Country (segment of the anthology film)

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My next 5-film unit: "Five Bullets: Five Sight & Sound Westerns from the 2022 List" There's a couple first watches I've circled. With new-to-me films, I usually post the amount of votes The other three I've seen before. But I want to watch because they're new physical media

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

BLONDE VENUS (1932) Dazzling flurry of images and tones. Part musical, illness melodrama, road movie, posh comedy, noir, family film...everything 1 Sight & Sound vote, Critic Lucy Sante USA "Dietrich and Sternberg approach this women's-magazine weeper of a story with surrealist abandon"

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On Godard's top ten best American sound films (from Rosenbaum)

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

DISHONORED (1931) What a picture meme Sexpionage. Dietrich looking cool af and even does dorky comedy! She's incredibly compelling as a woman who decides to live as an agent and with "agency" Von Sternberg's long dissolves are hypnotic 6 Sight & Sound votes 2 Directors, 4 Critics

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

THE LAST COMMAND (1928) A former Russian general becomes a Hollywood extra A maxed-out Emil Jannings. He won an Oscar at the first Academy Awards Von Sternberg packs in ideas and layers The connection between war and movies. Is it all performative? Brilliant stuff. Loved it

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

UNDERWORLD (1927) "...positively drips with atmosphere" -Jonathan Rosenbaum This von Sternberg gangster flick does drip Written by Ben Hecht. Can see Scarface DNA And as we've seen in Casino and others, the love triangle is just as essential to this genre as violence

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

THE SHANGHAI GESTURE (1941) A casino run by the mysterious Mother Gin Sling Based on a play, sometimes feels stagebound and dramatically static But von Sternberg delectably creates worlds within worlds Rosenbaum: "...may well feature the best performance of Victor Mature"

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My next 5 film unit is "Unseen von Sternberg" I bought the Blonde Venus blu-ray; it's a movie I haven't seen So I'm going to watch 4 more new watches from JVS This unit was also inspired by Jonathan Rosenbaum's Substack article, "The Best of Josef von Sternberg"

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Josef von Sternberg has 10 films in the 2022 Sight & Sound greatest films collection The Blue Angel Morocco Blonde Venus Dishonored An American Tragedy The Scarlet Empress The Docks of New York Shanghai Express The Salvation Hunters The Saga of Anatahan

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

CUTTER'S WAY (1981) * Watch 3 A neo-noir mostly drenched in Santa Barbara sunlight More than a mystery. Love how Ivan Passer mixes the surreal and quiet human moments Stunning Radiance 4K A statement on post-Vietnam but also how the "Mar-a-lago" class corrupts everything

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

THE NICE GUYS (2016) "Nice"—the key word for me in this P.I. flick Dipping its toes in sleaze but not a full plunge Crowe and Gosling good chem Shane Black packages together a generally entertaining 70s genre pastiche It's not in your face about it. It's just kinda...nice

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE (1990) Ah, the life of a rock 'n' roll detective Renny Harlin gives stuff a sheen I chuckled a couple times in 100 mins, but man...watching this film was like archeological detective work—studies in cultural dinosaurs Ebert's 1 star review 😆

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THE TWO JAKES (1990) * Watch 5 Mystery writer Max Allan Collins says he would put this in his top ten private eye movies It's a movie I return to from time to time Jakes is no Chinatown, nor should it be It's an elegiac epilogue with its own mysteries and haunted hearts

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

THE BIG FIX (1978) * Watch 5 I actually watched this last month too, but I purchased the blu so I wanted to see again then the special features I was hoping someone would mention Jeremy Paul Kagan's The Sting II. They did *drink* But I like this P.I. flick. Kinda different

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My next 5 film unit is called "Watching the Detectives" And I will be watching those movie detectives

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BOOKSMART (2019) 1 Sight & Sound vote, Critic Emma Smart UK "...you laugh out loud each and every time you watch it, an utter joy to behold" I laughed Captures high school's random irreverence and core awkwardness Fire cast chemistry Directed by Olivia Wilde with pop and sizzle

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

LA POINTE COURTE (1955) Agnès Varda's debut Her photographer's eye strong right from the get-go Two parallel stories in a fishing village One feels at home in a documentary. The other intricately staged High level hybrid filmmaking 5 Sight & Sound votes, Critics

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

THE DRAGON IS THE FRAME (2014) Experimental short by Mary Helena Clark Dedicated to the trans writer and artist, Mark Aguhar A collage-like meditation on beauty and depression Fragments of memory and Hitchcock's Vertigo Hypnotic 1 Sight & Sound vote, Critic María Palacios Cruz UK

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A challenging watch No English subtitles. So I pulled up a translation app on my phone. Held it up to the tv speaker. The app did a live translation It wasn't the best translation, but I got the gist 😆

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ONNENPOTKU (1936) "A Stroke of Luck" Glory Leppänen. First woman to direct a Finnish feature. Her only film She has a theatre background. The film feels a bit stage-like A creaky melodrama. Business, romance, stolen money but revealing insights into the Finnish recession

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Milestone reached I have now watched 1,000 films in my 2022 Sight & Sound new watch project There are over 4,000 films on that greatest films list, but I wanted to focus on the ones I hadn't seen Still many more great movies to watch. Hopefully I'll be done by 2032!

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

MERRILY WE GO TO HELL (1932) Dorothy Arzner directs Sylvia Sidney and Frederic March star. Marriage on the rocks and "on the rocks" (alcohol issues) What begins as light comedy takes darker turns Arzner has clear-eyed command of this fantastic movie 2 Sight & Sound votes, Critics

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Next in film watching I'll be doing a mini unit— Women Behind the Camera 5 films directed by women

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

PARIS, TEXAS (1984) Long overdue first watch Jaw-dropping visuals. Shepardian dialogue America as alienation. And how sometimes we seek that alienation HDS 💔 Wenders says it was filmed in continuity Beautiful, haunting masterpiece 22 Sight & Sound votes 7 Directors, 15 Critics

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

FLASHPOINT (1984) * Watch 3 Gimme some Texas noir, Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams, Kurtwood Smith in asshole mode, a JFK conspiracy, and Tangerine Dream A movie I saw on early video cassette. Kinda stuck with me Ebert despises the ending It is what it is

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

SPALDING GRAY'S MAP OF L.A. (1984) Gray comes to L.A. A mix of monologue and travelogue Amidst a backdrop of cars, freeways, sun, and pools, I felt the piece was about Gray working out the fate of his mother Even with lo-fi video, Gray's storytelling skills shine through

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

BEFORE STONEWALL (1984) Highly watchable doc on the history of being gay in America Not a complete picture, but it doesn't need to be People speak their truths Fascinating discussions on the different scenes and sub-scenes Gay soldiers in WW2 was an illuminating segment

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A SOLDIER'S STORY (1984) * Watch 3 or 4 I first saw this as a kid in the theater. The concept of internalized racism was new to me Many great young actors (Denzel!) and a powerhouse Caesar Solid Jewison commentary. I learned Herbie Hancock improvised the score while watching a cut

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The year is 1984 I lived it Let's do 5 films from that time No double faults. Just aces

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For my self-curated Art of the Film class, I might do more mini-units Thematic connections, years, genres etc "This week...it's documentary or the year 1993 or the films of Billy Wilder" etc I would do 5 film units More organized and more brain thinking. More fun?

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Daddio @kidcreole3.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

WATER-MIRROR OF GRANADA (1955) 2 S&S votes 1 Director, 1 Critic Short film from José Val del Omar One of the voters called him a "mad scientist" Film poetry. Sound as important as visuals It all comes back to water and del Omar's playful flamenco rhythms

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