Reposted by Margaret ConnorJ.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I walked into a preview of Digger last night and before I left the theater, the studio heads were fired. 1103
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Saw DIGGER. It's like if the people who made MEGALOPOLIS had known they were gonna die someday. Or BIRDMAN and OBAA had a baby. Wes Anderson's BATTLEFIELD EARTH. You do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to the Scientologists for making the first great anti-Christianity Hollywood blockbuster 110
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026one of those Having a Second Uncrustable days 000
Reposted by Margaret ConnorJ.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the LA mayoral race coming down to memes 073
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Settling into the post-vaccine ambient fever and declaring that Midge Ure–era Ultravox was better, actually 031
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026(Emerging from four–decade coma) More like Shitti Politti 051
Reposted by Margaret ConnorRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Q: And this kush has you feeling like what? A: [lips on mic] Like the white Greg Kinnear, your honor 0902113
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026spent so long looking for this lost classic 171
Reposted by Margaret ConnorDan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Got irrationally tilted learning that Piazza, New York Catcher isn’t about some old timey baseball player with a giant moustache who died in 1903, but some guy who didn’t even retire until 2008. 1834610
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Caught some kind of cold that's making my voice weird as hell. Time to start honing the old Morrissey impression I guess 010
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"Office siren" this. "Dopamine dressing" that. What about clothes for 5'4" girls who really like James Dean but can't hack it as rockabillies? Do we not deserve to wear a little costume to work, as a treat? 010
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Ducked into a Mary Oliver documentary screening at IFC to escape the rain & when I went back out the weather was *perfect.* Thank u movies <3 010
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I think we should let the 40-something-year-old hipster divorcés fight. I think this is exactly what popular culture should be all about in the age of gerontocracy. 000
Reposted by Margaret ConnorJ.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026BOOM flaminghydra.com/retractatus/flaminghydra.comRetractatusThe thing about a retractable belt stanchion, in an airport, in a movie theater, in a shopping mall, is that it isn’t stopping anyone. You can go under, over, and around. You can just unhook the thing... 3156
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 12/07/2026he's not any of the ones we expected to die but he's whetted our collective appetite. Call that an uhhhhhh amuse-douche 000
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Visited the B&H Photo superstore for the first time yesterday. Felt a bit like being isekai'd into a Fountains of Wayne song. 010
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 13/06/2026still the best way to convey what's showing over the weekend!!! 000
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 22/05/2026starting summer off with a bang feeding a whole Crumbl sugar cookie to a Central Park raccoon 000
Reposted by Margaret Connoramy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 11/05/2026you can sing “shiba at the Costco” to the tune of girlfriend in a coma by the smiths. thanks 9907
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Wishing I had a stout little chihuahua to be my friend & accomplice 010
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I'm curious how New York Magazine decides whether to use the girl A.I. voice or the boy A.I. voice for the audio version of a given article 000
Reposted by Margaret ConnorACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Air to Ground Message: YEAH I GUESS A KID PUKED ON A CAT AND ITS A MESS BACK THERE. YOU CANT MAKE THIS STUFF UP Area: Louisville, KY, USA A: #a236c6ce84d F: #ffb6c6aa8cf 432699
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Won a skein of MadTosh Triple Twist in the L.A. Yarn Crawl raffle 😎 020
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 31/03/2026*mournfully deletes all mentions of "twink death" from my Peter Watkins writeup* 010
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 29/03/2026why does so much of Mike Doughty's post–Soul Coughing output sound like rejected Phineas and Ferb songs 120
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Multi-day heat wave with <30% humidity...you know I'm wet-blocking a bigass cotton sweater on the porch 😎 021
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 13/02/2026clapping & cheering when my corner spider catches a Big One 010
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Calling it now: John Cale's "Rollaroll" is going to be way too high in my 2026 Top 100 010
Reposted by Margaret ConnorFlaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 08/01/2026TODAY: @jdconnor.bsky.social on the dads of cinema, present and past. “You can learn a lot about dads in films by the way they spend their time in the bathroom” flaminghydra.com/taking-it-ly...flaminghydra.comTaking It Lying DownA Look at Cinema’s Top Dads 1276
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 02/01/2026feeding One trader joe's horseradish & chive potato chip to my Corner Spider because he's a pretty cool dude 041
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Honestly I think this guy in 1966 or whatever had the right idea, but he truly couldn't fathom how much worse it was gonna get. I tried to watch MOBY DICK (1956) on Pluto yesterday and every ad break was for Brendan Schaub's podcast. 022
Reposted by Margaret ConnorScott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 05/11/2025For my first feature for @latimes.com, I talked to director Clint Bentley, his writing partner Greg Kwedar, and Joel Edgerton about TRAIN DREAMS, an intimate epic I'd encourage you to see in theaters before it hits Netflix later this month: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...latimes.comFrom a quiet story about a logger, they knew they could build an American epicFilmmaking duo Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar tell low-key stories about dreamers. Teaming with actor Joel Edgerton, they went into the woods and emerged with something poetic. 12510
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Enjoying some organic Audio Narrative Content as the two girls at the table behind me—who have skipped class to study together for an upcoming quiz—realize that the quiz is, in fact, happening right now in the class they skipped. 010
Reposted by Margaret ConnorJ.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Little Murders was a flop on Broadway and a flop as a movie and it is amazing. (Streaming on Prime) I saw it for the first time in June. In Q&A Elliott Gould said that Jean Renoir(!) had written a letter to Alan Arkin praising the film. Here's the letter, as read by EG on the bluray commentary track 052
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 09/08/20251. Several million people are about to learn the term "transference." 2. I always thought that what Daniel Paul Schreber really needed was a front-facing camera. 100
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 18/07/2025*Forgetting how gay slang works* Sooooooo, which one of you is the Master and which one is the Commander? 000
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Alright, who wants to go see all three screenings with me? 010
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Had dinner outside at the sidewalk rotisserie chicken joint before an evening screening of TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN and they played the entire Meat is Murder album. No amount of cops, cybertrucks, or poorly done dermal fillers will change the fact that L.A. is the greatest city on earth. 010
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Methinks part of the LA Times homepage didn't update. Otherwise, uh, 120
Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Beginning an expedition to find the worst-received Frederick Wiseman doc 000
![February 6, 1971
Dear Alan Arkin,
Your picture will never be forgotten. It is not only a good picture, but what is more important, it is a record of a stage of the destruction of our world. You managed to do what pleases me the most in the art of directing movies: I mean to forget that there is a camera. We are the unseen witnesses of a terrible drama in which not only your heroes are involved but also all our contemporaries. It is a terrifying film, treated as lightly as a Broadway comedy. Thank you for having shown to me this modern version of a Greek tragedy.
[signed] Jean Renoir
[punctuation mine]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ql4m4m77ao67hokkgmn4om7c/bafkreiglk34ygomtruqbuasjhsdi3gaddth6aes7jbegymgj2tuyr47dqe)
