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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 11h

10/5/66 John Frankenheimer's Seconds w/Rock Hudson, John Randolph DP J W Howe🙏 Our take: midcenturycinema.org/node/86 More @mangiotto.bsky.social: filmfreakcentral.net/2013/10/seco... @scotttobias.bsky.social: thereveal.substack.com/p/the-movie-... @thehighsign.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2013...

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Care to Freak Yourself Out? Watch John Frankenheimer’s Astonishing Horror-Tinged Thriller Seconds.

For at least 20 years I’ve remembered John Frankenheimer’s Seconds (1966) with a feeling of clammy dread unique to that film, and recommended it to...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 1h

10/5/62: Dr No w/Connery, Lord, Ursula Andress Dave Kehr: "All of the elements of the formula... in pleasing moderation @wendyide.bsky.social: "still one of the best More @denofgeek.bsky.social: www.denofgeek.com/movies/dr-no... @sethabramovitch.bsky.social: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Hollywood Flashback: ‘Dr. No’ Launched James Bond With a Bang 59 Years Ago

Sean Connery originated the superspy role in a low-budget thriller that broke box office records.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 3h

BOTD #FilmNoir maestro DP John Alton!! MCCT5: 5)Witness to Murder 4)T-Men 3)Walked by Night 2)Raw Deal 1)Big Combo More: @sensesofcinema.bsky.social: www.sensesofcinema.com/2013/cteq/re... American Cinematographer: theasc.com/article/john... Roxie Theater: roxie.com/series/film-...

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Film Noir’s Visionary Genius: John Alton

FILM NOIR’S VISIONARY GENIUS: JOHN ALTON, a two-night, four-film tribute to the legendary cinematographer is being presented by Elliot Lavine, who was part of the programming team at The Roxie from…

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 5h

10/5/45: Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend W Billy/Brackett, DP John Seitz w/Ray Milland, Jane Wyman More James Agee (who would know): www.thenation.com/article/arch... @annodracula.bsky.social: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie... @cinephiliabeyond.org: cinephiliabeyond.org/billy-wilder...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Another marvelous Marchese interview www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/m... CR: The difference between first and last can be less than a second sometimes DM: I appreciate you taking the time to speak with me. I especially enjoyed it when you pushed back CR: Oh, man, that’s always where the good stuff is 🙏

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Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness

The comedian and filmmaker on what real friendship looks like, what keeps him up at night and his new movie, “Misty Green.”

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

10/4/56: Written on the Wind D Douglas Sirk/DP Russell Metty w/Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone More: @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich... Laura Mulvey: www.criterion.com/current/post... Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

10/3/41: The. Maltese. Falcon. 🙏🙏🙏 W/D John Huston w/Bogie, Astor, Lorre, Greenstreet, Cook Jr. More: @mattsinger.bsky.social: screencrush.com/the-maltese-... Sragow/ @libraryofamerica.bsky.social: www.loa.org/news-and-vie... @screenrant.bsky.social: screenrant.com/humphrey-bog...

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85 Years Later, Humphrey Bogart's Greatest Crime Movie Of All Time Is Officially Returning To Theaters

Several classics are returning to theaters.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

10/3/58: Andrzej Wajda's Ashes & Diamonds To us, his greatest film [DP: Jerzy Wójcik 🙏 ] Playing @filmforumnyc.bsky.social: filmforum.org/film/ashes-a... More: @alissawilkinson.bsky.social: www.vox.com/2016/10/12/1... @christinalefou.bsky.social on star Zbigniew Cybulski: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

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Film Forum · ASHES AND DIAMONDS

ASHES AND DIAMONDS Part of ANDRZEJ WAJDA 100, Friday, October 2 – Thursday, October 22

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

10/3/51: Yasujirô Ozu's Early Summer w/Setsuko Hara & Chishû Ryû Peak Ozu - on our S&S T10 ATG ballot More: David Bordwell: www.criterion.com/current/post... Andrew Tracy/ @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr... Asian Movie Pulse: asianmoviepulse.com/2020/12/film...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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85 Years Later, Humphrey Bogart's Greatest Crime Movie Of All Time Is Officially Returning To Theaters

Several classics are returning to theaters.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Joan Jet doc Bad Reputation (2018) Very Fine; also introduced us (via Kristen Stewart) to a phrase 10x better than Pedal to the Metal Would share it, but this is a family paper More: @joshuarothkopf.bsky.social: www.timeout.com/movies/bad-r... @glennkenny.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/m...

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Review: ‘Bad Reputation’ Argues for Joan Jett’s Importance (Published 2018)

A new documentary looking at Ms. Jett’s long career — from her all-girl band, the Runaways, in the 1970s to today — casts her as a feminist heroine.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

10/2/74: Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 D Sargent/DP Roizman, w/Matthau/Shaw/Balsam ++ *Nails mid-70s NYC* From us via 70s Movie Pod: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... More: Savvy @janetmaslin.bsky.social w/much '74: archive.org/details/sim_... Jo Light/No Film School: nofilmschool.com/taking-of-pe...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

BOTD Graham Greene!! Novels source This Gun for Hire, Ministry of Fear W: Brighton Rock, Our Man/Havana, 3rd Man More: Brad Stevens: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre... @appletwigli.bsky.social: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/08... Joan Acocella: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Graham Greene’s Dark Heart

Although the novelist grappled with the meaning of faith and with the global politics of his time, his true achievement is one of pure sensibility.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

10/2/73: Scorsese's Mean Streets w/Keitel, De Niro, Amy Robinson Kael: A triumph of personal film-making From us on That '70s Movie Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/3fSl... More @scotttobias.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oc... Lucy Sante: www.criterion.com/current/post...

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Film Forum @filmforumnyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ANDRZEJ WAJDA 💯 starts today! "A true master.” – Martin Scorsese A centennial fest of the great Polish director, explore the 25-film slate on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/XEwfk Recorded intros by Scorsese & Zachwatowicz-Wajda at all ASHES AND DIAMONDS shows. buff.ly/I5a4RJN

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

10/2/71: Peter Bogdanovich's Last Picture Show w/Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, Brennan, Johnson More: From Us, via '70s Movie Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/4lsQ... @kimmorgan.bsky.social: thenewbev.com/blog/2017/01... Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BOTD Walter Matthau!! Key 60s/70s incl Fail Safe, Fortune Cookie, Odd Couple, New Leaf, Charley Varrick, Laughing Police, Pelham 123 More '70s Pod on P123: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @nikdirga.bsky.social: nikdirga.com/2024/09/02/w... @chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/walter...

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Walter Matthau: 10 essential films

On the centenary of the birth of cinema’s most lovable grump, we recommend 10 of the best films featuring Walter Matthau, an actor always at his finest playing characters hilariously at odds with the ...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

10/1/91: Paris Awakens Excellent early Assayas - many of his key themes already in place, deftly handled w/Judith Godrèche, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Thomas Langmann More: @dwhdaily.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... @screenslate.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/par...

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Paris Awakens

The agitations of contemporary youth have commonly been the subject of cinema, and Olivier Assayas engaged with these tensions in his earliest films. Paris Awakens (1991), his third feature, sees him ...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Utterly baffled as to why Locke looking at Robertson is labeled as "adult content" . . . but perhaps this image is less offensive.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New From Us on That '70s Movie Podcast Antonioni's The Passenger, w/Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider Antonioni's greatest; Jack's favorite One of the great achievements of the 70s Tune in to hear us explain why open.spotify.com/episode/5Hty... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

10/1/51: Summer Interlude - Ingmar Bergman's first great film More: @jhoberman.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/a... @mookse.bsky.social & co: mookseandgripes.com/reviews/2016... Peter Cowie: www.criterion.com/current/post...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

10/1/62: Johnny's 1st tonight show Sure, you can say he was post-rat pack, middle of the road, medium cool - I know I did But he was a rock, and a master of his craft More: @jasonzinoman.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/a... Mick LaSalle: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

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Kids today don’t know Johnny Carson. Here’s why that should change

A new book celebrates Johnny Carson’s 100th birthday, revealing stories, surprises and the mystery that kept America watching him for more than 30 years.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Walter Matthau: 10 essential films

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New From Us on That '70s Movie Pod Antonioni's The Passenger We go the full @manohladargis.bsky.social: "arguably [Antonioni's] greatest film": www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/m... [NB: Nicholson loved it so much, he bought the rights] open.spotify.com/episode/5Hty... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

9/30/50: The Breaking Point [Curtiz] w/John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter Grittier adaptation of the Hemingway novel More: @szacharek.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... Crowther: www.nytimes.com/1950/10/07/a... @eddiemuller.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5c7...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

HBD Angie Dickinson! MCCT5: 5)The Chase (Penn) 4)Rio Bravo (Hawks) 3)The Killers (Siegel) 2)The Outside Man (Deray) 1)Point Blank (Boorman) More: @themaureenlee.bsky.social: ew.com/movies/angie... Sam Kashner: www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/01...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

9/30/81: François Truffaut's Woman Next Door w/Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant AD/Co-W: Suzanne Schiffman More: @djeljosevic.bsky.social: spectrumculture.com/2011/07/21/o... Sarris: www.criterion.com/current/post... S Gruder/ @reverseshot.bsky.social reverseshot.org/symposiums/e...

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The Woman Next Door

The study of a movie year, neither here nor there, in between cinematic renaissances.

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BOTD Truman Capote! Influence on the movies w/In Cold Blood [More via @markharris.bsky.social: www.filmcomment.com/cinema-67-re... Outstanding portrayals via Tom Hollander [more via David Canfield: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/to... PSH [more via @kozbot.bsky.social: thespool.net/reviews/movi...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

9/29/68: Shame Ingmar Bergman's shattering masterpiece, w/von Sydow, Ullmann Our take: midcenturycinema.org/node/158 More: Liv: www.criterion.com/current/post... @szacharek.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... Schrader: www.jstor.org/stable/commu... Rog: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sham...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BOTD Robert Benton . . . For us, peak RB: W Bonnie & Clyde W/D Twilight 1964 New Sentimentality essay anticipated the New Hollywood: classic.esquire.com/article/1964... Also W/D incl Bad Co, Late Show, Kramer, Nobody's Fool More via @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: texashighways.com/culture/the-...

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The Steady Hand of Filmmaker Robert Benton

In appreciation of the quiet virtuosity of one the state's greatest film directors and creator of "Bonnie and Clyde"

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Speaking of Michelangelo Antonioni Celebrate his BD by giving a listen to the latest from That '70s Movie Podcast - just dropped - wherein we discuss (that is, praise to the skies) his masterpiece The Passenger open.spotify.com/episode/5Hty... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BOTD Lizabeth Scott!! #Filmnoir player held her own w/Bogie (Dead Reckoning) Lancaster (Desert Fury) Powell (Pitfall) Duryea (Too Late for Tears) Heston (Dark City) & Mitchum (The Racket) More: Louise Gold: lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/... Nick Pinkerton: www.filmcomment.com/lizabeth-sco...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

9/29/67: The Prisoner, via Patrick McGoohan 🙏🙏 More: @briantallerico.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/the-prisoner... BFI: www.bfi.org.uk/features/pri... @illusiveken.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-priso... Streaming via Criterion Channel - Must See: www.criterionchannel.com/series/u6s4V...

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The Prisoner

Long before TWIN PEAKS beamed prime-time surrealism into the American living room, there was THE PRISONER, the 1960s British cult sensation that pushed…

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BOTD Michelangelo Antonioni!!! MCCT5: 5)L'Eclisse 4)L'Avventura 3)Blow Up 2)La Notte 1)The Passenger More: @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich... Rodrigo Perez/ @theplaylist.bsky.social: theplaylist.net/the-essentia... @geoff-andrew.bsky.social: geoffandrew.com/2019/01/11/m...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

9/28/43: Henri-Georges Clouzot masterpiece Le Corbeau Made under occupation for Continental Films (ruh-roh) Astonishing film - condemned by the Church, the Vichy Gov, & the Resistance (!!) Painfully too relevant today From us via @cineastemagazine.bsky.social: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

9/28/46: Fritz Lang's Cloak & Dagger (wide) w/Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer Masters of Cinema Blu w/ @horrornonna.com: eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/cloak-... More @cineoutsider.bsky.social: www.cineoutsider.com/reviews/blur... @sensesofcinema.bsky.social: www.sensesofcinema.com/2022/cteq/ou...

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Out of the Shadows: Cloak and Dagger (Fritz Lang, 1946) – Senses of Cinema

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BOTD Marcello Mastroianni!! MCCT5: 5)101 Nights (Varda) 4)Dolce Vida 3)8 1/2 (Fellini x2) 2)Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos) 1)La Notte (Antonioni) More: @lwlies.com: lwlies.com/partnership/... @charlieconnelly.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marcello-mas...

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Marcello Mastroianni: The archetypal Italian leading man

His was acting of remarkable subtlety and nuance, especially when sharing the screen with some of cinema’s most magnetic women

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Coming soon to That '70s Movie Podcast:

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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BOTD Arthur Penn!!! MCCT5 AP New Hollywood: 5)Alice's R; 4)L B Man 3)Mickey One 2)Bonnie & Clyde 1)Night Moves 2x From us on Night Moves: Cineaste: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u... 70s Pod: open.spotify.com/episode/3SEo... More via @manohladargis.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/m...

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