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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 1h

#NowWatching The Velvet Touch (D:John Gage,1948) "...an offbeat blend of melodrama, noir and sardonic theatre chatter tending toward camp.In the last iteration, peeking behind stages to reveal unwise cracks in the brittle facade of bonhomie, it beats All About Eve to the punch bowl by three years."

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 3h

#BOTD 1890 Stanley Augustus Holloway: English actor, comedian, singer and monologist. Famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady. Passport to Pimlico (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)...

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 4h

#BOTD 1862 Mary "May" E. Bangs (1862–1917). Along with her sister Elizabeth "Lizzie" Snow Bangs (1859–1920), were fraudulent spiritualist mediums from Chicago, who made a career out of painting the dead or "Spirit Portraits". www.encyclopedia.com/science/ency...

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 8h

Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits! Happy first of the month.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#BOTD 1903 Kathleen Tremaine in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. Actress, known for causing much embarrassment to Charters and Caldicott in The Lady Vanishes (1938) , and The Umbrella (1933).

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#BOTD 1898 Trofim Denisovich Lysenko: Soviet agronomist. He rejected Mendelian genetics in favour of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas later termed Lysenkoism. www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1507 Happy #thicktrunktuesday from St Clement's, Brighton.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#NowWatching Call Northside 777 (D: Henry Hathaway, 1948) "... it shows up to work, and does its job: to portray in absolute actuality the manipulations of systems of power - as easily done, as shifting between light, and shadow. "

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1506 Fingers crossed for Monday.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#SundayAfternoonWestern The Deputy (D:Matt Sukkar, 2026) "It's not a showy film, but it's not really supposed to be;the muted visual palette reinforces the dour nature of a small town in Middle America...a pulpy, character-rich genre cocktail that never ceases to entertain or surprise its audience."

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#BOTD 1875 Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode: French dancer of the Belle Époque. She has been referred to as the "first real celebrity icon" and the "first modern celebrity". Also the first woman whose photographic image, due in particular to photographers Nadar and Reutlinger, was distributed worldwide.

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Brian Eno #Caturday

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#NowWatching Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed (Creator: David J.Rosen,2026) "If this is less than the sum of its parts, though, many of the parts are pretty good. " Dolly de Leon's Detective Gonzalez is my new favourite tv cop.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#Caturday 'Toddy, Possim & Christine' by the great Gertrude Abercrombie, 1954.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#NowWatching Drive a Crooked Mile (D:Richard Quine,1954) "...such films take the motifs of the cycle out of the dark corners of a noir underworld and bring them into the sunlight, where human nature remains as corrupt it is in the dark."

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#BOTD 1893 Lai Man-wai: the "Father of Hong Kong Cinema", director of the first Hong Kong film Zhuangzi Tests His Wife in 1913. In the film, Lai played the role of the wife, partly due to the reluctance of women to participate in show business at the time. www.chinesecinemas.org/laimanwai.html

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1505 My favourite sycamore.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#NowWatching Black Patch (P/D:Allen H.Millner, 1957) "Virtually from the moment it opens, Black Patch is both achingly sad and almost unendurably tense..the cloud of sadness never lifts, and it feels as if everything is happening on borrowed time."

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1504 Whitehall Gardens,London.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#NowPlaying Indignant Senility - Plays Wagner (CD on Type Recordings) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh7A...

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#NowWatching The Ice Cream Man (W/P/D: Eli Roth, 2026) "...made with the swaggering confidence of someone whose friends laugh at his every joke – and the haphazard efficiency of someone who needs to get product to the marketplace for strategic Q3 growth."

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#BOTD 1922 Johnie Louise Latham: American actress, perhaps best known for her portrayal of Bernice Edgar in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964). At age 42, Latham was playing the mother of 34-year-old Tipi Hedren.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#BOTD 1917 Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, best known by his ring name El Santo: Mexican professional wrestler and actor. He is the most famous and iconic of the Mexican professional wrestlers, and has been referred to as one of "the greatest legends in Mexican sports" prowrestling.fandom.com/wiki/El_Santo

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#BOTD 1901 Ruth Andreas-Friedrich: German journalist. As a girl, was a member of the Wandervogel movement later training as a social worker and also wrote articles for various newspapers. In 1924, she married Otto A. Friedrich. www.gedenkstaette-stille-helden.de/en/silent-he...

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#NowWatching Heist (W/D: David Mamet, 2001) "Your weight and your fate, right here." "This movie is pure joy. So much Hackman yelling, equaled only by Delroy Lindo yelling. And Rockwell pulling the naif routine."

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#BOTD 1894 Minerva Urecal: "American stage,radio and film actress. Made her screen debut in 1933 and for the remainder of her career and two hundred plus movies, she played cleaning women, landladies, shopkeepers and the like." Shadow of a Doubt (1943), The Snake Pit (1948), Harvey (1950)...

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1502 Happy #thicktrunktuesday from Redstone Cemetery, Redhill.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#NowWatching The Scarecrow (W:Lee Ji-hyun, D:Park Joon-woo, 2026) "...serves as the “closing argument” to a trial that lasted 33 years. It is a crime procedural thriller but also a re-telling through the lens of victims, survivors, the wrongfully accused, and the long, arduous road to justice."

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Share a TV or movie villain or villainess you find sexy 🥵🖤

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good afternoon everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1501 surviving very well in the centre of this suburban roundabout.

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#SundayAfternoonWestern Last Train from Gun Hill (D: John Sturges, 1959) "...a father whose existential greed was bigger than the desire to create a good human being and only regretting this on his death bed." "The human race stinks. I'm practically an expert on that subject."

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#NowWatching The Garment Jungle (D:Vincent Sherman,1957) "Wesley Addy gets the rare chance to use his weird, almost alien untouchability for evil in the most delicious of ways. Richard Boone...merely existing as the human representation of the idea that clothes make the man is still pretty great."

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