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PT Klein

@ptklein.com

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Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.

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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 3h

Crying! At the beauty of the movie palace!

The interior of the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan.

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 15h

“Soon you’ll be able to control several of them.”

A spread from a 1950s issue of Mechanics Illustrated titled "You'll Own 'Slaves' by 1965." On one page, an illustration of a mechanical robot dressing a white man, while another robot attends with a breakfast platter. In the next, a still of a humanoid robot from a movie.

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 16h

good morning, cowboys 🤠

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 29/09/2026

AI, an existential threat to humankind:

A screenshot of Meta’s Muse, “your personal AI agent,” offering to summarize the key takeaways from an Instagram photo of a plate of grilled hot dogs.

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 28/09/2026

@coachjerry.dad new Chad reaction image just dropped

Chad
@thomcb88.bsky.social
wait what does this spell
2:21 PM • Sep 28, 2026

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 28/09/2026

a few seconds earlier:

Garfield the cat slurping down the splut, pleased with himself.

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 28/09/2026

good morning, it’s foggy today

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 27/09/2026

Actually this part had a few zingers tbh

“On its release in October 1940, the film was largely hailed as a success. It ran for nearly four months at two of New York City's largest theaters. Despite their initial objections, the British opened the film amid the Blitz in London. In occupied Belgrade, a projectionist substituted a purloined print of the film during a screening for an assembly of Nazi officers. It played for 40 minutes before an SS official finally had enough and opened fire at the screen. So much for laughing at yourself.

Chaplin's political project—to bore holes through these bloviating buffoons —works because fascist politics ultimately center the weaknesses and insecurities of their leaders. Chaplin understood how comedy reclaims power by exploiting these insecurities.”

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 27/09/2026

“Trust me you guys, AI technology is definitely capable of destroying humanity!”

A Meta AI summary of the photo of PT introducing Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator:

“About this reel
A comedian's "high on life" joke during a stand-up set at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater subverts the expected solemn introduction to Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator with a relatable punchline about road-trip anxiety.”

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 27/09/2026

In my natural habitat (at a movie theater, talking about movies)

PT in a blue polo with microphone in hand introducing a major motion picture at a movie house.

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 26/09/2026

game time

Two shirtless frat bois playing beer pong

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 25/09/2026

Good morning, all you modern Babylonians

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 24/09/2026

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 24/09/2026

Gizmo coming out of retirement for a legacy sequel:

A close-up of Jedi master Yoda, a puppet, from The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner).

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 23/09/2026

Britney Spears in a sparkly green tube top on the set of the (You Drive Me) Crazy music video.

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 23/09/2026

My contribution to biceptember 🗓️

PT once again flexing his bicep in the gym

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 23/09/2026

Good morning, it’s Celebrate Bisexuality Day 🩷💜💙

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 23/09/2026

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 22/09/2026

going to the movies later 🤩

PT cheesing at the gym

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 22/09/2026

good morning, it’s fall y’all 🎃🍁👻

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 21/09/2026

good morning, did you remember?

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 20/09/2026

You’re looking for Bell, Book and Candle, my friend!

A close-up of Kim Novak with an absolutely bewitching gaze and holding a handsome cat from Bell, Book and Candle (1950, Richard Quine)

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 20/09/2026

Why do you think I bought these

Sunglasses with a hexagonal pattern across the lens as like a fly’s eye

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 18/09/2026

We are talking about sound today in our introduction to film and media course and I am having so, so much fun with it

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 18/09/2026

good morning, you’re not a defective shell

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 16/09/2026

🍿 Ann Arbor and Michiganders! 🍿 Join me tomorrow night at the Michigan Theater at 7:00, where I’ll introduce Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator as part of their anti-fascist film series. It will be an evening of laughter and radical optimism! Tickets here 🎟️ marquee-arts.org/event-page/t...

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 16/09/2026

Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860), an “American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life‍—‌effects sufficiently profound that friends saw him (for a time at least) as ‘no longer Gage.’”

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 16/09/2026

A still from Fargo (1996, Joel Coen). Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) speaks from the driver’s side of a car.

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 16/09/2026

Did they work?

PT flexing his back and bis

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 16/09/2026

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 16/09/2026

good morning

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 16/09/2026

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 15/09/2026

Gladys Leeman (Kirstie Alley), proud to be an American.

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 15/09/2026

Incredibly excited to pick up @gbullard.bsky.social’s new book! Book club anyone? 🤓

The cover of Gabe Bullard’s Against Convenience: Embracing Friction in an Age of Endless Ease

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 15/09/2026

Arm help write more

PT flexing his tricep poorly

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 15/09/2026

Good morning, you deserve a fat promotion

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 14/09/2026

A screenshot of a screenshot of a screenshot of a skeet of a skeet of a skeet that reads, “first of all are you fucking kidding me ?????”

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 14/09/2026

I’ve heard from those who I seek to represent, and see that my aims were misguided. I am now proposing troughs filled with ice for some, urinals with dividers for others!

A still from The Simpsons. The body-snatched Bob Dole campaigns in a hard hat in front of a busted-out factory.

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 14/09/2026

good morning, my fellow American dystopians

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 14/09/2026

A blurry Sniffies meme altered to with the location changed to Hyrox. A conversation:

“There’s a bottom shitting on everyone. Watch out.”

“Yes! Don’t come! he’s trying to shit on people and he’s crazy.”

“What?”

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 14/09/2026

The baby gotta love him from the hit (?) tv series Dinosaurs

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 11/09/2026

good morning 🤧

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 11/09/2026

not me showing up to teach tomorrow with one of these bad boys

Stock image of a CRT television monitor strapped to a rolling cart with a VCR. RETVRN

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 09/09/2026

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 09/09/2026

good morning, bros and bots

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 08/09/2026

How’s this

PT shirtlessly posing at the gym again

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 08/09/2026

I’m coming for their gig

Fembots from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997, Jay Roach). Five blonde, cyborg women in pink and purple sheer tulle negligees accented in white and purple faux-fur piping and bra fronts.

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 08/09/2026

Could a robot do this??

PT flexing in the gym after chest day

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 08/09/2026

good morning 🤖

PT Klein @ptklein.com · 08/09/2026

Resistance to so-called artificial intelligence is, in part, precisely this: a forceful claim to the true value of one’s labor. The dream of AI is guiltless slavery: a world in which real wages race to the bottom against threats of unemployment while a select class pockets excess profits.

A spread from a 1950s issue of Mechanics Illustrated titled “You’ll Own ‘Slaves’ by 1965.” On one page, an illustration of a mechanical robot dressing a white man, while another robot attends with a breakfast platter. In the next, a still of a humanoid robot from the sci-fi movie “Zombies of the Stratosphere” (1952, Fred C. Bannon)