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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 1h

What are the eight best Alfred Hitchcock movies starring Tippi Hedren?

Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At Victims of Communism museum for #AntiCommunistFilmFestival showing of THE KILLING FIELDS, a great film which I’ve never seen in a theater. There’s two moments I know I wanna boo though.

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Solicit for help … a few weeks ago, I did the €30 contribution to the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, so I could watch this year’s online offerings. Best I can tell they have neither given me a log-in nor is there a place to log in. The fest begins Saturday. Has anyone who has done this help me?

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very important steps in recovery … went to my first movie in almost seven weeks and ate my first not-intentionally-bland food since going under the knife. I just wish COYOTE VS ACME, my first movie is an officially one-eyed person, had been better. I was psyched for it. Review here: boxd.it/gzSx5p

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A ★★½ review of Coyote vs. Acme (2026)

COYOTE VS ACME (Green, USA, 2026, 5) This movie had the potential to be great but it just isn’t, on two fronts. Its own gags lack the physical and spatial purity of the original Coyote and Roadrunne...

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Surgery update on Facebook: www.facebook.com/share/p/1BXf...

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Checked in two hours before eye surgery … AMA (will start writing a blog post too about an irritating YouTube-recommended video)

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There really was only one thing I could wear to the hospital today.

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some personal news on Facebook, which I’m partially also putting on Bluesky to explain my recent lack of activity here. www.facebook.com/share/1CLozr...

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TIL … on the week that the Emotions hit No. 1 (actually, “returned” to No. 1) with “Best of My Love,” there was a song elsewhere in the Top 20 called “Boogie Nights”

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Spending day at @AFISilver … starting with a Jane Russell double feature of GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (I think this one has another well-known actress) and THE REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER (unseen by moi) … capping off with Kurosawa’s THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Just watching TCM … has Christopher Nolan ever acknowledged a debt to Kubrick’s THE KILLING? If you asked me, “what would a black-and-white B picture made by Nolan look like?” … pretty much this.

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

THE INVITE (Wilde, USA, 2026, 4) Was on the fence about this one (albeit leaning backward at that moment) when a li(n)e from Penelope Cruz tore it — “I’m not your therapist.” That’s exactly the fuck what she was being, and the exact function she serves in the film’s third act.

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

[goes to the basement for some reason] multiple dead Steves in vats

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

MEMENTO is still Christopher Nolan’s best movie, and I’m not shutting off comments because I’m not a wuss.

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I must say that THE ODYSSEY does lack an awesomeness that the 80s version would have had ... the video for the theme song "The Tough Get Tough" in which Damon, Hathaway and Pattinson are Billy Ocean's backup singers.

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

CARMEN JONES (Preminger, USA, 1954, 7) Great to see in a theater in Cinemascope at AFI Silver cuz this was a film I tried to watch on TV several times in the all-3x4 era (my father had told me about it in my pre-cinephile years, before I ever heard of Otto Preminger) but always quickly gave up on.

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

THE ODYSSEY (Nolan, USA, 2026, 9) Still processing mentally, but knew throughout that if I could bring Homer from Hades with a blood sacrifice to let me show him this film,* he would be happy and proud. * He’s acquired 21st-century American as a second language (THE needed stipularion here)

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Also, the T-shirt I usually use for fight training but decided deliberately to wear as street clothes for Homer

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

At AFI Silver for an adaptation of a central work in the Western canon featuring an anachronistically miscast black woman … and also Christopher Nolan’s latest movie

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Two things can both be true … (1) “historical accuracy” is rather dicey* when speaking of THE ODYSSEY; (2) Nolan vulgarized or did violence to Homer** * not “categorically irrelevant” though ** not seen the film yet; just speaking theoretically

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

William* Parker** (If I went by Willie, Pittsburgh Steelers AND 1979 Pirates fans would be nodding) * People have two grandfathers; I went with the one who isn’t already my middle name ** I suppose it was techically a parking space

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Walkout music is a Georges Delerue lesbian tango theme …

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I don’t think I have recenrly read a more old-feeling sentence

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The Uma-Travolta date in PULP FICTION is just one of the greatest sequences in movie history … the waiters, the dance (I literally jpined in), the framing of the trophy, Travolta’s reticence and self-talk, the “small talk,” Uma’s bloody face and the segue into panic. And panic.

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Action double feature at AFISilver … both in 35mm … the Kurosawa-Spielberg showdown (Seen both obv., but neither ever in a theater.)

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

ROSE OF NEVADA (Jenkin, Britain, 2026, 2) Went with it for a while because the whole physical plant … the scenery, the sets, the sound, the soubd design, the cinematography, and the editing and direction of these inanimate elements is clearly superb. But in service of … ???

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Spielberg, USA, 1977, 10 was 8) NGL on two coincidences … (1) seeing it weeks after DISCLOSURE DAY even more crushing than memory allowed then; (2) story of a man who destroys himself in the name of he-barely-knows-what just ripped my guts out

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Well, ROCKY ended with Apollo winning

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I’m sure y’all are waiting with bated breath for my verdict on CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, but … this is potentially the greatest upset in sporting history. (And I saw both tbe Miracle on Ice and Tyson-Douglas live at the time.)

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Looking forward to this summer’s Steven Spielberg alien movie

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Gift his album to that chick you desperately want despite your obviously not being remotely in her league …

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

BACKROOMS (Parsons, USA, 2026, 8) Remember that Eddie Murphy routine about white people and black people in horror movies? The award for the whitest performance in a 2026 horror movie goes to … [OpensCard] Chiwetel Ejiofor!!

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

DISCLOSURE DAY (Spielberg, USA, 2026, 5) If you can turn your brain off, this might even be a great movie. This is Spielberg the pure action director at his best … Skandies Scene FYC, the car-train chase … Skandies Scenes AFYC, late for work — either speeding or rush on-camera

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Name a tv show you’re positive no one remembers but you (it’d be too easy for me to pick one of the many 70s British shows that never made it to the left side of the Atlantic)

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

THIS THIS THIS ... I saw PICTURE SNATCHER for the first time by semi-accident at like 2am on TNT* and it was one of the most captivating, pure-fun TV experiences I've ever had because so unexpected, Cagney roolz * yes, that channel showed old movies once, it was a Cagney's Birthday triple header

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I wrote an essay on my site, but not about movies, but rather the Eric Trump / Daniel Cormier text exchange and what it says (all of it bad) about public reason. I quote Max Weber and mention Stanley Kubrick. vjmorton.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/d...

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D.C., UFC, X, AI and the end of the civitas

Earlier this evening, I began writing a couple of sentences for Facebook on the Eric Trump / Daniel Cormier text exchange, and … I got into it and it got away from me. But when I was blogging near-…

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Remember that scene in RAGING BULL in which Jake's title shot against Cerdan gets delayed until "tomorrow" by rain, and so they stew in hotel (1) a reminder that this is a normal thing for outdoor fights (much MUCH commoner in past, of course) (2) I hope all the fighters' wives want a hamburger

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm heavily old-school Spielberg 1. E.T., 1982 2. Schindler’s List, 1993 3. Saving Private Ryan, 1998 4. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1984 5. Duel, 1971 6. Jaws, 1975 7. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977 8. Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 9. Lincoln, 2012 10. A.I., 2001

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Same as what I used as my fight walkout music. Ennio Morricone dance theme written for the Tavianis. youtu.be/tRE8hwk_GmE?...

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Rabbia e tarantella

YouTube video by Ennio Morricone - Topic

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I am a real new yorker because it was literally the first place I landed in the us ... at jfk ... for a connecting flight to san antonio ... go spurs

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

VictorFact rates this Zero Pinocchios

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

BLUE HERON (Romvari, Canada/Hungary, 2026, 9) This is the trauma/therapy movie for me, a man who hates The Trauma Theme and The Therapeutic Society both. The first “half” finwly balancew big and small details in a child’s-eye view of living with a bad-seed sibling, avoid preciosity and overemphasis.

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Happy Bobbie Gentry Day to all who celebrate ... which should be everybody www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZ_...

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Ode To Billie Joe

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

What is the most heartbreaking unrealized casting in movie history and why is it Greta Garbo in Ophuls’ LOLA MONTES?

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I’m a Glaswegian. I don’t much care for mince.

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

FXMovies is at the point in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD that Sharon Tate sees the marquee for THE WRECKING CREW. I feel constrained to point out that I have since subjected myself to that film. And while Tate is indeed the high point, the film is a terrible in almost every way

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Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

About to head into the National Gallery of Art to see this masterpiece for the first time in the theater .. EFFIN PSYCHED!!! x.com/vjmfilms/sta...

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