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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bonus movie #3: 1956. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel. Not just another B movie, but in a way a story about conspiracy itself, concerning man's life in a new, more technical reality in which the common man can no longer contend with, or even believe in, the powers of governments.

Dark hallway, three people with a flashlight pointed at the camera.

Man and woman from shoulders up, hiding behind door looking at window into lit corridor.

From bottom of valley, looking up at crest of hill, two figures are scanning us.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bonus movie #2: 1955. Ordet, Carl Theodor Dreyer. Austere, beautiful. Loved the camera movement, hated the religious theme.

Two men in house. One at table, one sitting by window.

Carriage passes field with wild flowers.

Man in black and priest shaking hands while open door reveals another door in background.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Before hitting the 60s, bonus movie #1: The Man In Black, Francis Searle. A Hammer production adapting a popular radio program. This episode has an orientalist angle as a wealthy yoga practitioner claims he can die and come back. His wife tests that theory. So far, the film I've liked the least.

Low angle close up of The Man in Black, who is indeed covered in shadows.

The evil stepmother is out on the stairs, while shadows black out the face on a family portrait in the background.

We surreptitiously take position by a grandfather clock as two women perform a seance in the parlor.

An elderly man coming out of the dark removes his cap.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1959. Black Orpheus, Marcel Camus. "Play and make sun rise!" This movie sticks out its chest and says: do you know what color is? Let me show you. This picture is a kind of medicine. It feels incredibly new for its age. It's got guts. It's alive. It makes you want to be alive, too.

Orfeu in his streetcar driver's uniform, holding his guitar.

Serafina helps Euridyce try out a costume.

Orfeu and Euridyce, both costumed, dance during Carnaval.

Dawn. The camera looks up at power wires that look like guitar strings stretching across the sky.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1958. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Robert Brooks. Another Tennessee Williams adaptation, another landmark actor, not to mention an Oscar winning performance by Liz Taylor. Matter of fact, everybody's on fire in this movie. Explains the hot tin roof.

Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor on the balcony, visible inside is Burl Ives' Big Daddy.

Close of a contrite rain soaked Paul Newman.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1957. 3:10 to Yuma, Delmer Daves. I can see why this one's a classic. Glenn Ford is a charismatic, and by turns devilish and surprisingly romantic, outlaw. He's being transferred to the eponymous train so he can enjoy a nice, long stay in jail. Except -- aren't there always complications?

A stage coach travels on the horizon, a line of tracks curve gently to its far right limit.

Close up of Felicia Farr and Glenn Ford.

A woman whose dark figure casts a long shadow in middle of an empty road.

A line of outlaws emerges out of train steam.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1956. Written on the Wind, Douglas Sirk. A lush (read: technicolor) romantic drama in which an oil empire looms quite physically over the lives its heirs. Rock Hudson is perfect casting, Robert Stack, fantastic. Lauren Bacall's talents were wasted on a part that most could have done.

A road thru oil infrastructure, a car racing towards us.

Lauren Bacall and Rock Hudson talk in her office.

Dorothy Malone wiggles her legs in a dance while seated.

Robert Stack briefly leans against a column.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1955. Floating Clouds, Mikio Naruse. Doomed love rules this classic Showa tale of a woman who can't cut ties with her inconstant partner. They drift in and out of each other's lives during the abject poverty of the occupation years, but never long enough to make each other happy. Beautiful.

Yukiko and Kengo walking down a gravel path.

Kengo sits at a table in a candle lit room, glass in hand.

Yukiko on a small semi-deserted road between an overpass and a row of poor houses.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

1954. The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Jack Arnold. I was thoroughly bored. I liked the monster suit and some underwater shots, but felt that this concept had been done much better, and there was not a lot for me to grasp. You just had to be there in that moment to really get it, I suppose.

A webbed, chitinous hand reached out for a woman's feet.

Female figure, swimming, photographed from below.

Kay and the Gill-Man momentarily swimming together.

The Gill-Man pushing thru some underwater plants to get at the camera.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1953. The Wages of Fear, Henri-Georges Clouzot. Suspense like electric current, but also flair. Clouzot spends an hour just setting up the scene. Everyone is desperate and destitute. Money could save them. The journey is one of psychological torture and mechanical failure. It's a transcendent movie.

Mario relaxing against the side of a little bar, in what little shade there is.

Small cabin. Man talking on phone while next to him a man lies in bed covered head to toe in bandages. In background, a team moves towards a burning oil derrick.

Shot from below of a track whose wheels have stopped at the very edge of a rotting wooden platform.

The burning frame of an oil derrick, with massive roaring flames behind it.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

1952. Le Plaisir. Max Ophüls adapts Guy de Maupassant, choosing three stories about sensual pleasure, and the dramas and disappointments that come from its pursuit. Razzle dazzle abounds. This is the first movie on the list in which the camera moves seamlessly from room to room thru a wall.

A masked man in a dance hall goes apoplectic.

A woman looking through a window out at the field of stars over the town.

An baroque sculpted arch in a church frames of a view of angels climbing to heave on silver light.

A bitter lover pulls down the curtains while being framed by a naked tree whose branches look like thorns.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

1951. A Streetcar Named Desire, Elia Kazan. I wondered how Vivien Leigh could keep up with Marlon Brando. Naive of me, I know. I was soon served my walking papers and began to wonder how Brando could hope to keep up with Leigh. This movie is, as they say, next level. Reminded me of my childhood.

Our first good look at Stanley, a medium close up of Brando.

Vivien Leigh's Blanche looks at herself in the mirror, and encounters some emotional difficulty.

Vivien Leigh, from the back, leaning against a wooden pole on the pier.

Wide view of the courtyard where the Kowalskis live, as apparently every neighbor dips out to see what Blanche is screaming about.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Onward! 1950. Winchester '73, Anthony Mann. A piece of western myth, the eponymous rifle, travels from person to person in a series of violent episodes. Jimmy Stewart stars as a cowboy in search of justice, etc. etc. Perhaps this influenced Iñárritu's Babel?

Two horsemen riding on the crest of a hill.

An indian war party charges on horseback towards the camera, huge sky behind them.

Jimmy Stewart reflects, up the side of a cliff, at the end of his quest.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bonus movie! 1947, Black Narcissus, Powell & Pressburger. Deborah Kerr must convert a pleasure palace into a nunnery, but her congregations' convictions soon start to break. Gorgeous technicolor provides the visual, with the drama supplying a tense invisible struggle in psychic depths.

Deborah Kerr stands at the edge of the mountainside palace as she rings a bell.

David Farrar standing next to an erotic painting.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1949. Kind Hearts and Coronets, Robert Hamer. This darkly witty movie travels from one murder vignette to another with Wes Anderson whimsy. Alec Guinness imbues his eight (!) characters with the aura of a chicken about to be plucked. But maybe Joan Greenwood is better, if you look past the gimmick.

Dennis Price, from behind, looking across the law and over the river to Chalfont Castle.

Dennis Price and Valerie Hobson finagle their bows while Alex Guinness tries to take a picture of them.

Three warships on the water in central perspective.

A carriage holding Joan Greenwood against the monumental London skyline.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

1948. Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica. This amazing movie felt like an intrusion of literary fiction into a world dominated by the alternating excitement and prettiness of genre. Whether this distinction is even useful in the end, this movie felt like the start of a new era.

Antonio and Maria in their poor apartment.

Antonio rides his bike towards a busy street.

Antonio and Bruno walk home in the evening.

Antonio walking towards an unattended bicycle.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

1947. Nightmare Alley, Edmund Goulding. Tyrone Power plays a hustler who, surprise surprise, flies too close to the sun. But I believed him every step of the way because he's just that good, and this movie is just that solid.

Behind the scenes at the carnival, a male figure in the dark.

Tyrone Power gazes skeptically offscreen.

Dark garden with trees and fountain. Coleen Gray in an over-frilled 19th century getup and umbrella pretends to be a ghost.

Tyrone Power, harrowed, defeated, looks to the side towards a triumphant Helen Walker.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

1946, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Tay Garnett. I confess that I wasn't much impressed with the first third of the movie, finding it too conventional. However, what this basic and, I thought, obvious setup builds into is well worth a viewing. Another classic that I'm glad to have now seen.

Lana Turner and John Garfield, intense, in kissing distance.

A car visible only thru its headlights, climbs up a misty ridge.

John Garfield in shallow focus receives a sharply focused Lana Turner's sharper recriminations.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

1945. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Albert Lewin. I showed up for young Angela Lansbury kicking theatrical ass, was immediately seduced by George Sanders' diabolical Lord Wotton, and was ultimately a victim of Hurt Hatfield's deceptively innocent Gray. Good pick.

Close up of Angela Lansbury making a dire decision.

A street preacher and a working class crowd in a poor neighborhood, with carriage on street in background.

Close up of a steely Hurd Hatfield in the later stages of moral degeneracy.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1944. Maria Candelaria, dir Emilio Fernandez. An entire town gangs up on an innocent woman who is worth more than all of them combined. My copy was really low quality but its beauty still shone through. I really hope I get to see this at its best one day.

Priest rings a bell as a boat laden with flowers move on.

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artemis, scary boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing · 01/09/2026

NEW STOP CARING ESSAY IS LIVE @humblepopstar.bsky.social wrote about Stray Children, playing by the rules, and the painful ways young people are taken advantage of by their elders. It would be so kind of you to read, share, and subscribe. www.stopcar.ing/object-lesson/

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Object Lesson

Learning and unlearning the rules of Stray Children.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

1943. Several times this film compelled me to softly exhale a wow! I'm talking about The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, dir Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. I loved this movie. It is so generous, so clever, the meanest shot a sumptuous tableau. There is too much to say. Damn, damn, damn.

The opening title of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is apparently a quilt showing a quixotic Colonel astride a white steed by a great tree whose branches show the names of the supporting cast.

Deborah Kerr stands by open window with her back to the camera.

A dried maple leaf floats on a water basin, dark water vaguely reflecting the buildings around it.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

1942. Holiday Inn, Mark Sandrich. Bing Crosby is a swell fella whose bride-to-be leaves him for Fred Astaire. (Who wouldn't?) Crosby sets up in Connecticut and finds a new love, but Astaire is at it again. This is a musical romance with good and bad numbers, and charming work by Crosby and Astaire.

Crosby and Astair on either side of their love interest in a musical number.

A wistful Bing Crosby plays White Christmas on the piano while Marjorie Reynolds sits besides him.

We watch Marjorie Reynolds waiting in the snow.

Marjorie Reynolds and Fred Astaire dancing on a Valentine's Day themed stage.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

1941. The Wolf Man, George Waggner directing. Featuring Lon Chaney, my man Claude Rains, a cameo by Bela Lugosi. Astoundingly moody visuals. Dark irony, fate. Not even remotely spooky of course, but who cares. Look at this thing.

Forest at night, mist barely hovers above the ground. Thick, gnarled trees.

Misty city street, lit by gas lamps. A human figure hurries.

Dark human figure in forest, framed by darker branches, trees, and shrubs.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

1940. Dance, Girl, Dance. Dorothy Arzner is the first female director on the list. Two dancers with wildly different ambitions work together, but not quite towards mutual benefit. I really liked Maureen O'Hara in this, and Lucille Ball practically runs riot. What a duo!

Club audience seated at many tables, with view of stage and dancing girls and band in the background.

Lucille Ball giving an observant bordering on feisty look to the side.

Maureen O'Hara looks wistfully at a star hanging over the skyline.

Maureen O'Hara sits on practically bauhausian chair as the ballet staff surround her.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before starting on the 40s, bonus movie! 1933, King Kong, special effects by Willis H. O'Brien. The man earned his money and then some. What a spectacle. Weak human drama, as usual. But the viciousness on display suffuses Kong's story with much more pathos than I believe was intended.

Beach, giant wall, sheer mountain face, Skull Island.

This close up of Kong is frankly amazing 90 years later.

Man on tree hopes the snarling dinosaur in the blurry middle ground won't eat him.

Maybe the best shot in the whole movie, the ant-like silhouette of Kong climbing the Empire State Building.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

1939. Ninotchka. Ernst Lubitsch. I don't mind that these classic romcoms are set in the upper crust. But it's sad how Ninotchka embracing her emotions is displayed thru her wardrobe. Does she love materialism or a person? I liked Greta Garbo, but felt she had no chemistry with Melvyn Douglas.

Medium close up of Greta Garbo looking stern in a very brown outfit.

Melvyn Douglas lays Garbo on a bed in a palatial room.

Greta Garbo appears to sleep in a lavish apartment with a portrait of Lenin on a little nightstand.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

1938. In Bringing Up Baby, Howard Hawks asks us to believe that Cary Grant is a socially awkward nerd who associates, against his will, with a pathological klutz who happens to be Katharine Hepburn. I soon upgraded Hepburn to walking calamity, and brother, I believed it. I believed it all.

Cary Grant sitting on a scaffold admiring a dinosaur skeleton.

Beautifully blocked shot of Katharine Hepburn attempting a putt as Cary Grant looks on.

Katharine's wealthy heiress in a lavish apartment speaking on a white phone wearing a white transparent dress and petting a leopard.

Grand and Hepburn, one in grey, the other in black,together on a scaffold.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

1937. La Grande Illusion, Jean Renoir. I waited a good long while to get Renoir in here, but it was worth it. Immediate comparison brings up The Great Escape, but no, superficial similarity. Illusion hopes we're all the same. Couldn't know better. I'm a Jean Gabin fan now.

Jean Gabin and fellow prisoners in window frame.

Deep narrow room looking toward stage. Many heads.

Pierre Fresnay playing the flute while whimsically balanced on a wooden beam.

Jean Gabin doing a morning stretch as he looks out at the beautiful hills.

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artemis, scary boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing · 19/08/2026

DEEP HELL X STOP CARING CROSSOVER @deephelldotcom.bsky.social joins the site to reflect on the search-action genre and its connections to ecological collapse, life among ruins, and dreams of the (post-)apocalypse It would be so kind if you could read and share. www.stopcar.ing/court-of-ash/

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Court of Ash

Visions of post-apocalypse, real and imagined.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

1936. Blood on Wolf Mountain by Fei Mu. Also a propaganda film but a narrative one. Day after day, bloodthirsty wolves attack a village. Inside the community there rages a debate about how to deal with them. I wonder who the wolves could possibly represent. Neat.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

1935. Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl. The only entry on the list that was 100% homework. I suppose if you were a nazi you'd quite enjoy seeing your iconography and dubious heroes so exalted. How many in the parade would be dead in ten years' time, and how many would they have killed?

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

1934. L'Atalante, Jean Vigo. Now this is kino. The first movie in the list that I would describe as whimsical. Although it's a bit aged in its social mores, I loved this air-light comedy and all the cats that came with it.

Michel Simon hold a cat in his lap while another Peaks out above his shoulder.

Jean Dasté trips on some wires and is promptly assaulted by cats.

A ground level camera records a bicycle passing by it on the waterfront.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

1933. Duck Soup! Leo McCarey. I don't know what the title refers to, unless it's the four Marx Brothers. But this was really funny. Hail Fredonia, I guess?

Harpo's tattoo of a dog house... out of which an actual dog's head emerges.

Harpo goes to sleep... and wakes up in bed with a horse.

Once again, Harpo wearing a recruitment placard that says, "Join the army and see the navy." while a tank charges thru.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

1932. Broke my one movie per director rule to watch Tod Browning's Freaks. I like this a lot more than Dracula. It shows the eponymous "freaks" leading prosaic lives with a can do attitude, avoiding the temptation of a lame "poor me!" sentimentalism. Very similar to Euripides' The Bacchae.

The "freaks" gather to celebrate the birth of the bearded woman's child.

Hans standing between Cleopatra and Hercules.

Frida looks compassionately past the camera.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

1931. Dracula (blyah!) Tod Browning. I've known about Bela Lugosi's Dracula all my life but this was my first viewing. It looks great, but it had no scares for me, in fact it was downright charming with its toy bats and gothic sets. The Count is great, but Renfield really helps carry the film.

Entrance hall to Dracula's derelict, web covered castle interior.

Bela Lugosi looking magnetic and predatory as the Count.

The Count's three ethereal vampire servants make their way through a door.

Renfield pleads with Dracula for the privilege of being his slave.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Mothership was the natural home for this piece and I love having it up there.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

1930. All Quiet on the Western Front, Lewis Milestone. Wowzers, what a picture. The first talkie on my list made me feel as if I had skipped forward a decade. It was so emotional, so well paced and edited, hitting all the expected beats, that it immediately felt exactly like classic Hollywood.

Paul lowers his face into the mud during training.

Inside of a dark train station. Large windows show a train at rest, and in the background soldiers marching thru a ruined village.

Two soldiers charge thru fog and smoke towards barb wire.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

1929. I had to go with Haiducii, or The Outlaws, (Horia Igirosanu). I confess it hadn't even crossed my mind that there might have been a film industry during the Romanian Interbellum. A young girl disguises herself as a man and joins a band of outlaws to rescue her sister from from the local boyar.

Gorgeously dressed woman lies unconscious on a wool cloak.

Man on horse rides across a low grassy horizon.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

1928. The Man Who Laughs, Paul Leni, from the Victor Hugo novel of the same name. I was moved by this melodrama in which smiles are the cleverest symbol. I was strongly reminded of The Elephant Man, but it also thematic crossover with The Phantom of the Opera.

Barkilphedro the jester showing a conniving smile.

Duchess Josiana, the film's toxic baddie.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

1927. Napoleon, Abel Gance. It's one thing to be Bonaparte, but to have Abel Gance as your biographer, that's too much glory. In 2000 years Christ has not received propaganda this fine. At several junctures the movie compelled me to clap like a monkey. It is simply incredible.

Marat, Danton and Robespierre in their office.

Napoleon rides across the dark horizon as the moon lights the way.

A shot from the triptych sequence. On the left, Napoleon as a child, in the center, an extreme close up of Napoleon in Italy, on the right, a shadow of Napoleon in fog.

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artemis, scary boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing · 31/07/2026

NEW STOP CARING ESSAY @lesbiankakyoin.bsky.social unpacks her attraction towards toxic yakuza siblings, and how they reflect her own experiences. It would be so kind of you to share and read. www.stopcar.ing/dear-brother...

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Dear Brother, Have Some Sake With Me

What so consistently drives a girl-like organism to the toxic yakuza sibling experience?

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

1926. A Page of Madness, Teinosuke Kinugasa, looks like a charcoal drawing brought to life, presents a narrative requiring some interpretation, uses no title cards, but a lot of camera movement, including the dramatic zoom in that I was taught was Hitchcock's handiwork. Very nice.

An old man bitterly looks thru cell bars.

Motion blur heavily distorting a female figure.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

1925. The Phantom of the Opera. I confess that any time the Phantom wasn't on screen, ie most of the time, I was thoroughly bored. Lon Chaney in his grotesque make up, great, but his dramatic flourishes are better. This is the talkingest silent picture I've seen so far.

The Phantom, a dark, cloaked figure, poses dramatically as his dialogue reads: "For the present, my identity must remain a secret."

The atrium of the Paris Opera, brightly lit, gorgeous, crowded with celebrants.

The Phantom in a costume outfit featuring a skull mask, a feathered wide brimmed hat and a cane topped with, what else, a tiny skull.

The Phantom, unmasked, but donning his red cloak, sits atop a great marble statue.

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 23/07/2026

The wind is rising. This month's issue of Unwinnable Monthly features @autumn-wright.com on The Wind Rises and terror plus our regulars on topics like Marathon, Alan Wake II and Silent Hill f. Buy: buff.ly/ci350lH Subscribe: buff.ly/2FiTW11

The cover of the July 2026 issue of Unwinnable Monthly, featuring art of a woman dressed in white with a white parasol walking among piles of wrecked planes.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

1924. The Thief of Bagdad is a sparkling bit of orientalist filmmaking. The sets are so magnificent, the production so lavish that it falls into the modern fallacy of spectacle replacing emotion. It's delightful to observe such enduring dilemmas, though. Also, Douglas Fairbanks is awash in charisma.

A prince and his retinue stop by the literal foot of a giant statue.

Soldier rush along a stunningly gorgeous and huge palace facade.

Douglas Fairbanks leads his horse to an oasis as the sun quite spectacularly begins to set.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

1923. A clever person recommended Safety Last. I gave it a shot and was mightily rewarded. Beyond the iconic shot of Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hand, I realized that its "fake it 'til you make it" plot formed the blueprint to about half the comedies made in my lifetime. Also, very funny.

Harold Lloyd shouts his protest from the inside of a van.

The Boy, follow by a cop, whistles but realizes something is very, very wrong.

Harold Lloyd unhappily cradled between a clock face and its insides.

The Boy and his bride walk off, unaware that the Boy's shoes and socks have been left behind stuck in a pool of tar.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

1922: Häxan, Benjamin Christensen. A spectacular movie cheerfully depicting both the medieval imaginary of witches, devils and their confederacy, and the sad reality of the witch hunts. The film laments our attitudes toward women, mental illness and the supernatural. Still relevant, still great.

A little old lady tends to her cauldron,

A horned devil covers the pages of a book with long, evil fingers.

Two young, beautiful witches invite you to join them.

A devilish feast in the deep, midnight woods.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The Return (2024) covers the most emotional chapters of The Odyssey. Gorgeous photography, but the film left me cold.

Ralph Fiennes lowers his head the semi-darkness.

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Andrei Filote @letominor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

For 1921, I chose The Phantom Carriage, director Victor Sjöström. Although the supernatural theme seems attractive, it's ironically not the main vehicle. The movie is a "scared straight" narrative not unlike A Christmas Carol in which a dying lowlife is forced to reflect on his horrible choices.

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