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Lily Ruth Hardman

@lilyruthhardman.bsky.social
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I write about movies | Aspiring femme fatale | Seasonal tea drinker www.indiewire.com/features/commenta… open.substack.com/pub/hollywoodouto…

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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(In HD)
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I mean… count me in
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The only A.I. I want in my life is Bezzerides. #filmnoir #kissmedeadly
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BOTD Lauren Bacall!! Our faves remain her 40s films w/Bogie *Avoid* the Mann bio: midcenturycinema.org/2023/07/31/b... Instead: Matt Tyrnauer: www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/03... Key 1970 feature: www.nytimes.com/1970/03/22/a... @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social: www.indiewire.com/features/com...
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Lauren Bacall at 100: A Hollywood Casualty Who Fought Back
Look back on Lauren Bacall's career on what would have been her 100th birthday, September 16.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Unhinged to think this is an argument *for* AI
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Occasionally I write about things that only I care about.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
It’s been 29 ½ years since ‘Another 9 ½ Weeks’ was released straight to video
11 years after Adrian Lyne's landmark erotic thriller, a sequel was released straight to video that looks like a companion piece to Tommy Wiseau’s 'The Room.'
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elliepnw.bsky.social @elliepnw.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
100 years of MM 💋 #marilynmonroe
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Vera might have seemed satanically unfeminine at the time, but she is one of the most reasonable female characters of the era. She understands the imbalance of power between the sexes, and she’s taken it upon herself to assert equilibrium. #filmnoir
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In 'Detour,' Ann Savage is true to her name
“Shut up. You’re making noises like a husband.”
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Luke West @lukecinemawest.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Mirror shot of Romy Schneider during the filming of La Piscine (1969) Photo © Jean-Pierre Bonnotte #RomySchneider #JacquesDeray #lapiscine #1960s #1960sfilm #1960smovies #photography
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I LOVE ACTRESSES LIKE JULIANNE MOORE!
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The new fund would have paid for the CPB for about three years.
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Joan Crawford as Lorna Forbes/Ethel Whitehead in ‘The Damned Don’t Cry’ dir. Vincent Sherman (1950) #filmnoir
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I wrote about a phenomenon in literary adaptations that I refer to as hot-washing. lithub.com/hollywood-ne...
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Hollywood Needs to Stop Hot-Washing Literary Adaptations
I finally caught the latest film adaptation of Wuthering Heights last week and even though I knew it had been divisive I was still disappointed in a way I hadn’t imagined. I was prepared for the fi…
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This book is fucking brilliant. Paranoid and magnificently verbose, full-on Raymond Chandler in the Hamptons doing LSD. Trying to describe it is an insult to Fishkind’s specificity. Just read it. I was so sad it ended. #dontstepintomyoffice
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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Dial M for Murder (1954) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I have opinions about actors with visibly immobilized faces in dramatic scenes but it is BOLD for the Daily Mail to talk about it. The publication that makes its billions off of making women hate their bodies and fear the aging process can kindly fuck off.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 09/05/2026
Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
You know who could’ve predicted exactly this? Anyone with a degree in Humanities.
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camerontalley.bsky.social @camerontalley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Few people understand that the Odyssey is just Hitchhiker's Guide to the Mediterranean.
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is *extremely* accurate
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Such a thrill getting to interview Mark Jenkin for this magnificent, moving, enigmatic film. Go see ‘Rose of Nevada’!
faroutmagazine.co.uk
Mark Jenkin on 'Rose of Nevada' and the mystery of cinema
Mark Jenkin's new film 'Rose of Nevada' follows two fishermen who disappear into a version of their lives three decades before.
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Jennifer Dionisio @jenniferdionisio.com · 15/02/2026
Here's my pencil artwork of Joan Crawford in the killer Strait-Jacket from 1964 🪓
Pencil drawing by Jennifer Dionisio of Joan Crawford in Strait-Jacket (1964)
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A still from ‘Detour’ (1945) directed by Edgar G Ulmer. The transitions are everything. #filmnoir
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I cannot overstate how good SNL UK is. Must watch television. Don’t sleep on it.
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Just watched the Michael Jackson biopic and this 2019 piece from Margo Jefferson was the perfect cleansing ritual afterward. Like taking a walk in the cool air after sitting inside at a desk all day.
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Was I in denial? Margo Jefferson on Michael Jackson's legacy
How does a critic and fan come to terms with the fall of an icon? Ten years after his death, the Pulitzer-winning writer revisits her book on Michael Jackson and confronts her own denial
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Perfection
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
open.substack.com/pub/hollywoo... Got a new venture underway. Weekly posts on the strangest/most obscure/wildly unhinged stories from Old Hollywood ✍️
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Hollywood Out of the Past | Lily Ruth Hardman | Substack
Cecil B DeMille's rumoured foot fetish, Elizabeth Taylor's most underrated decade, why Fritz Lang made the same movie twice. All of this and more Old Hollywood deep dives every week. Click to read Hol...
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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
He looks like a cormorant about to be cleaned by RSPB volunteers.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Sinners dropping just 6% in its second weekend merits a much bigger headline than its $48 million opening. It is actual box-office news--news as in "This never happens." Just a giant thing, for Ryan Coogler and for the future of original material.
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Favourite line from the terrible 1989 Bette Davis movie ‘Wicked Stepmother’: JENNY: “I usually carry my own teabags” WITCH SHOPKEEPER: “So many people do nowadays”
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Save cinema! Buy more DVDs! (Wrote this little manifesto and i stand behind it) faroutmagazine.co.uk/cinema-has-a...
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Cinema has a physical media problem and it just keeps getting worse
We all need to buy more DVDs and Blu-rays.
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Watching Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’ in April 2025 is like watching ‘The Twilight Zone.’
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
hey just saw this are you guys still bombing yemen
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It was an absolute joy speaking to this comedy legend who, it should be noted, turns out to be a truly lovely man.
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The most romantic film about marriage since Poltergeist #blackbag
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
@keithself.bsky.social 🚮🚮🚮
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Also… under 1 hour 40 minutes💥
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A truly stunning 21st century noir. Revenge, sex, anguish. Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay are superb.
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Femme (2023)
Jules is a drag artist in London who withdraws into himself and loses his career after a horrific attack. Months later, he recognizes one of his assailants in a gay sauna and quickly realizes he has t...
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Cillian Murphy watching that #adrienbrody acceptance speech at the #oscars
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a man in a blue shirt is sitting in front of a brick wall and looking at the camera .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt is sitting in front of a brick wall and looking at the camera .
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Spoke with Oscar winner Daniel Blumberg about his score for ‘The Brutalist.’ Turns out he’s a massive film nerd.
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I’m convinced that Gladiator 2 would’ve walked away with the costume design award at the #oscars if they’d campaigned on Denzel’s erotic fondling of the toga sleeves and that alone.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
tfw you’re wondering why Anora didn’t have more feet in it
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Happy #oscars to all the film and culture journalists out there.
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
#genehackman was never a chameleon. He always looked like himself. But that never meant he played the same character. He thrived on the subtle emotions, showing the places in between cause and effect better than just about anyone. Night Moves is the perfect encapsulation of his gifts.
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
What happened at the baby shower?!
faroutmagazine.co.uk
'The White Lotus' episode 2 recap: Sad boys need saving
Tim's money troubles get worse, the girls take their boyfriends' credit cards, and a baby shower kicks off a new mystery.
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
An impressive, unsettling feature debut from Ariane Labed. Review for Far Out Magazine below. faroutmagazine.co.uk/ariane-labed...
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Ariane Labed - 'September Says' movie review
Ariane Labed's horror-inflected coming-of-age story, 'September Says,' is a promising debut, and a chilling portrait of familial intimacy turned sour.
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Had to readjust my brain to process some good news for once. This is… so good.
thefilmstage.com
Claire Denis Eyes Crime Drama The Soap Maker
Claire Denis, set to turn 79 this year, has not slowed in the least. As cameras roll on Cry of the Guards she's entered negotiations to direct The Soap Maker, an update-of-sorts of Mauro Bolognini’s 1...
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
This is the original 1922 poster for ‘Nosferatu.’ At some point, it is quite possible that people will be more comfortable with glossy, uncanny valley AI images than they will with actual hand drawn art, just like selfie filters have made people uncomfortable with their real,“unfiltered” faces.
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Lily Ruth Hardman @lilyruthhardman.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Just another reminder that Ab Fab was ahead of its time #abfab #jennifersaunders
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