Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Last night, I saw VARIETY LIGHTS/LUCI DEL VARIETÀ (1950), Fellini's first feature film, which he co-directed with Alberto Lattuada, for the first time. It nicely captured the hardscrabble existence of a touring variety show performing the frothy entertainments that TV long ago put an end to. 020
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Today’s #DoubleFeature... • Benjamin Christensen’s HÄXAN (1922) • Otakar Vávra’s WITCHHAMMER (1970) #FilmSky #MovieSky #film #cinema #movies #Halloween #horror #OctoberSky 020
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This probably isn’t going to mean much to anyone else, but for the longest time, I suspected that Sir Michael Hordern dubbed the voice for the poet Eumolpus in the English-language version of Federico Fellini’s SATYRICON (1969). Last night, a check with Google confirmed that I was correct. #FilmSky 000
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today’s #DoubleFeature... • Robert Weine’s THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) • F.W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU (1922) #FilmSky #MovieSky #film #cinema #movies #Halloween #OctoberSky 000
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026#Jori: “Freak the Freak Out” * image enhanced with A.I. 000
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #aMidsummerNightsDream #TheComedies 030
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Today’s #DoubleFeature... • François Truffaut’s THE 400 BLOWS (1959) • Jean-Luc Godard’s BREATHLESS (1960) #FilmSky #MovieSky #film #cinema #movies 000
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So far, for what it’s worth, my nominees for Time’s People of the Year would be Renee Good and Alex Pretti. 000
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Happy Birthday, Tatiana Maslany! #FilmSky #MovieSky #TVSky #film #cinema #movies #tv 021
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Criterion Collection had a sale, and I went hog wild. I bought “Essential Fellini” (15 discs), “The Adventures of Antoine Doinel” (4 discs), “By Brakhage” (3 discs), Godard’s “Vive sa vie,” Louis Malle’s “My Dinner with André,” and Wim Wenders’ “Wings of Desire.” That oughtta do me for a while. 020
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Today’s #DoubleFeature... • Tod Browings’s FREAKS (1932) • David Lynch’s THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980) #FilmSky #MovieSky #film #cinema #movies 010
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If anyone brings up Biden “revoking” 442 press passes during his administration—and therefore Trump banning 3 news outlets from the White House is no big deal—here is something that I found on Reddit: #WHPC 000
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Why June of 2022? Why not January of 2025, when Trump took office? Oil: $75 Gas: $3.14 Inflation: 2.9% 000
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Wasn’t the premise of the TV series #The100 that A.I. determined humanity was bad, so the machines launched a nuclear war to exterminate people? 010
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Today’s #DoubleFeature... • Jim Jarmusch’s STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984) • Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (1998) #FilmSky #MovieSky #film #cinema #movies 010
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Does anyone else believe that the $5000 bribe that Trump offered voters last night is legal? www.nxsmediawire.com/news/trump-p... 000
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Spent Labor Day watching ON THE WATERFRONT. Despite its McCarthyist origins, it’s a great film. Perhaps the best produced by 1950s Hollywood. 110
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The cinema of the 1960s was more than the sum of its films. #FilmSky #MovieSky #film #cinema #movies 010
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026#Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #aMidsummerNightsDream #France 040
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Which is the Frenchman? #Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #AllsWellThatEndsWell #France #FrancoisTruffaut #LanceHenriksen #BobBalaban #StevenSpielberg #CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind #FilmSky #MovieSky #film #cinema #movies 041
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Today’s #DoubleFeature... • Mark Sandrich’s SHALL WE DANCE? (1937) • Masayuki Suo’s SHALL WE DANCE? (1996) #FilmSky #MovieSky #film #cinema #movies #dancing 010
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“post your favorite female character of all time” All time? Gutsy, determined, clever—and a fool for love. Actresses have loved playing her for almost 400 years! #Shakespeare #TwelfthNight #Viola 000
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“What are your top 4 movies from the ’70s?” Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) The Other Francisco (1975) The Abandoned Field—Free-Fire Zone (1979) HM: Annie Hall (1977) #FilmSky #MovieSky #film #cinema #movies 100
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Someone needs to write something about the “Maids” multiverse. 111
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman’s eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself And where we are, our learning likewise is. #Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #LovesLaboursLost #education 070
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Who sees his true-love in her naked bed, Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white? #Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #VenusAndAdonis #education 030
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Today’s #DoubleFeature... • Peter Cattaneo’s THE FULL MONTY (1997) • Sang-il Lee’s HULA GIRLS (2006) #FilmSky #MovieSky #film #cinema #movies 000
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 23/08/2026#Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #TwelfthNight #NoThemeThisWeek 050
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Today’s #DoubleFeature: two by Ivan Passer... • INTIMATE LIGHTING (1965) • CUTTER’S WAY [a.k.a. “Cutter and Bone”] (1981) #FilmSky #MovieSky #film #cinema #movies 010
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Where are all the “I did that” stickers with Trump’s likeness on them? 220
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The lyrics to “Cry Baby Cry” on the back of the poster included in the White Album LP end with “She’s old enough to know better/So cry baby cry.” It does NOT include the lyrics to “Can you take me back?” The lyrics to “Revolution 9” (the next track) are not included. #Beatles 100
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Why, this is very midsummer madness. #Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #TwelfthNight #SummerHolidays 040
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 09/08/2026#Shakespeare #ShakespeareSunday #RomeoAndJuliet #TheSunAndTheMoon #TheSunAndMoon 040
Robert M. Payne @robertmpayne.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I’m worried that there are only two kinds of Democratic politicians out there: (1) electable Democrats who won’t stand up to Trump as forcefully as they need to & (2) tenacious Democrats who can’t get elected in statewide or nationwide races. I look forward to being proved wrong. 000
