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Raquel Stecher

@raquelstecher.bsky.social
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Film Historian and Critic. Writer for TCM. Podcaster, festival pre-screener and researcher. Passionate about cinema. www.raquelstecher.com

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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 14h
Brooke Eby passed away after a long struggle with ALS. She was charming, vibrant and full of joy. Her sense of humor was elite. I hate that we have to go on without her. www.tiktok.com/@limpbroozki...
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Starting the day off watching some Vitaphone shorts and reminiscing on Ron Hutchinson's legacy.
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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 01/10/2026
Letterboxd is valuable because Hollywood can’t manufacture its engaged community, but studio ownership could put that very appeal at risk.
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Can Letterboxd Stay Letterboxd Under Studio Ownership?
Letterboxd, once a niche social network for cinephiles to review, recommend and discover films, is now the subject of a potential nine-figure acquisition. As reported by the New York Times last week, the Canadian technology company Tiny is exploring selling its controlling stake in Letterboxd, with Sony Pictures, A24, and the Times itself expressing interest in a deal that could reach more than $300 million.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Playing Wolfenstein and King's Quest VI (Minotaur in the Catacombs of the Ancients) in the 1990s prepared me for Backrooms.
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Backrooms Backrooms Stare
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Passion fruit and vanilla martini
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey did you know that Paul Henreid directed and starred in movie about the dangers of frat culture, specifically hazing. It's called For Men Only (1952) but also went by the title The Tall Lie. www.tcm.com/articles/158...
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Scott Tate @typhonicbeast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Want some movies with autumn vibes but you aren't ready for a full blown Halloween monster movie marathon yet? @raquelstecher.bsky.social has you covered.
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Fade Out @fadeoutpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Luis Bunuel's rare foray into network TV @raquelstecher.bsky.social
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest for @tcmtv.bsky.social! Cozy up with TCM this October with an 18 movie line-up of fall themed movies: www.tcm.com/articles/now...
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TCM Spotlight: Sweater Weather
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I love documentary films... Nanook of the North (1922) that is my jam. I love that film." — Mahershala Ali Great recommendation for #SilentMovieDay! www.youtube.com/watch?v=16lj...
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Mahershala Ali’s Closet Picks
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🎬 Once Upon a Time in Harlem 🎬 Wicker 🎬 Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother 🎬 Gentle Monster (not on the list but should be coming out late in the month after its festival run) #filmsky #letterboxd
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From November's @sightsoundmag.bsky.social , some well-deserved praise for @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social and @kimmorgan.bsky.social #MarilynMonroe #MM100 #BFI
Readers' Letters: 'BLONDE JUSTICE' - includes photo captioned 'SUGAR RUSH: Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Cane in Some Like It Hot'

"Having recently curated a Marilyn Monroe retrospective at the Metropo-lis Kino in Hamburg, I was delighted to discover the June issue of Sight and Sound with her on the cover.

I would like to pay particular compliments to Farran Smith Nehme, Hannah McGill and Kim Morgan.

Their contributions gave Monroe the tribute she so urgently deserved: they took her seriously as an actress, rather than reduced her to the accepted narrative - Marilyn Monroe as victim. She was so much more than that. Above all, she was an exceptional artist.

Thank you for an issue that treated Monroe with the seriousness, curiosity and respect that her work merits."

- Jens Wawrczeck, Hamburg
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wish the Criterion Channel would bring back Conversations with Intellectuals About Selena (1999). 😭
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A five movie kinda day: 2 for review, 2 for research, 1 for fun. #filmsky
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Now watching: Barry Lyndon (1975) #StanleyKubrick #filmsky #WatchTCM
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now watching: Playtime (1967) #JacquesTati #filmsky #CriterionChannel
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The new season of @tcmtv.bsky.social's The Plot Thickens podcast launches tomorrow. The theme is Stanley Kubrick. Looking forward to this one! youtu.be/ECHRhwoYrZo?...
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Stanley Kubrick (Promo) | The Plot Thickens | TCM
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Subscriptions that are absolute musts for me... Criterion Channel Letterboxd Patron account Cable TV for TCM Sight & Sound digital magazine #filmsky
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Surreal images from films I've watched recently... Floating shoes — Rosebush Pruning (2026) Ghost cow — Tropical Malady (2004) Giant fluffy puppies — Diamantino (2018) #filmsky #surreal
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I always say the Criterion Channel is my drug of choice." — Jim Jarmusch #CriterionChannel #FilmSky
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've been introducing my spouse to Jim Jarmusch movies. Here are the three I've shown him so far: Down by Law (1986) The Dead Don't Die (2019) Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) next up: Dead Man (1995) #filmsky #jimjarmusch
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Tom Beasley @tomjbeasley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm in this! But more importantly, there's lots of other great critics in there ready to beef up your Letterboxd watchlist.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Recently started listening to Barely Breathing again and I was surprised how I still have all of the lyrics memorized. An anthem for Gen X/Xennials. God speed Duncan Sheik.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Duncan Sheik, Who Traded Pop Stardom for Broadway, Dies at 56 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
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Duncan Sheik, Who Traded Pop Stardom for Broadway, Dies at 56
Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.”
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm sad to hear that we lost Patricio Guzmán. His documentaries on the political, social and ecological history of Chile are truly enlightening. God speed.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Earlier in the year I had the honor of writing a piece on the legendary Bob Mackie for TCM. Mackie's impact on the history of fashion especially in television and film is immeasurable. God speed to a one-of-a-kind visionary. www.tcm.com/articles/598...
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Bob Mackie: Costume Party
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I went in expecting a Leon Helm biopic. Came out having watched this kickass, righteous throwback BOXCAR BERTHA/THIEVES LIKE US backwoods actioner.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our washing machine is broken and the hubs called our local appliance shop to schedule service. But I'm like oh I'll tinker with it and save us the $199 plus parts. GUESS WHO FIXED IT. And I didn't even need a YouTube video to help me.
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Joey Tribbiani's Iconic 'It Was Me' Moment
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Annual trip with Rollie. Today we visited Wells, Maine.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
God speed Bob Mackie
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years ago? I remember September 11th like it was yesterday.Never forget the victims and the heroes of that tragic day.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The amount of secondhand embarrassment I felt while watching the Raygun documentary... yikes. I had to step away and come back to it several times.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oscar-Qualified Live Action Short Films for the 99th Academy Awards (so far) blog.miralot.com/oscar-qualif... via Miralot
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Oscar-Qualified Live Action Short Films 2027
Oscar-Qualified Live Action Short Films for the 99th Academy Awards
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IndieWire @indiewire.com · 09/09/2026
Meira Blaustein will end her 26-year run as executive director of the Woodstock Film Festival.
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Meira Blaustein, Co-Founder, Executive Director, and Head Programmer of The Woodstock Film Festival Stepping Down After 26 Years
Meira Blaustein will end her 26-year run as executive director of the Woodstock Film Festival.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Last four watched #Letterboxd #shorts
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RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“[It is] a film that might advance a new cinematic language in the mainstream non-fiction sphere." @tomilaffly.bsky.social in her 4/4 star review of YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING:
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You Can See Everything review: Nathan doc is like nothing you've ever seen
Brilliantly sits at the intersection of documentary, narrative, comedy, reality TV and performance.
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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Taylor and Francis has a corporate AI partnership and has claimed fifty percent of the anthropic settlement for their books. You can't sell authors work away and then pretend to be harmed by AI. fuck you
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 07/09/2026
Surprise! Comedian Nathan Fielder has made a secret documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, and it's coming out next month.
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Shock Elizabeth Holmes documentary, made in secret, revealed by A24
Surprise! Comedian Nathan Fielder has made a secret documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, and it's coming out next month.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I saw a man at a store tell his two young children that he was using AI to do his shopping and it made me want to drive off a cliff.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#LetterboxdFour #lastfourwatched #LetterboxdFriday #filmsky #doIevenknowalltherelevanthashtags
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Weird movies 🤝 Me
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Bilge Ebiri @bilgeebiri.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Julia Loktev's MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II -- EXILE is longer, more reflective, and more brutal than Part I. Put together, the two constitute one of the most colossal and beautiful documentary works of our time. www.vulture.com/article/the-...
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My Undesirable Friends: Part I Was Brutal, But Wait Until You See Part II
Part II closes an emotional circle that Julia Loktev’s staggering first film had just begun to delineate.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This was my jam. I’ll watch anything Efthimis Filippou writes. Definitely more Dogtooth than Saltburn. Would have been even better as a deadpan Greek Weird Wave film.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I don't need an algorithm when life shows me what movie to watch next haha
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We have a rosebush outside our townhouse that the HOA refuses to get pruned. So I do it myself. It hangs over a walkway that we use to get to our vehicles and we get snagged on the thorns. Just pruned it again tonight so I guess this should be my next movie...
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I cannot wait to see this! youtu.be/HNh9u_pxJVs?... #WilliamGreaves #filmsky
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem Trailer #1 (2026)
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Started a new daily routine of watching at least one short film every morning. Today's selection: Remote Views (2025) dir. Alexis McCrimmon #filmsky #criterionchannel #shortfilm
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
God speed Gloria Steinem ✊
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Now watching: Fear City (1984) #filmsky #AbelFerrara #CriterionChannel @criterionchannl.bsky.social
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@seanfennessey.bsky.social really enjoyed your video essay on Abel Ferrara! Looking forward to exploring that collection.
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