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Retired journalist / music addict / film buff (TCM fan) / road trips / foodie / college hoops (Kentucky) / Detroit sports / search of the perfect burger 🏳️‍🌈

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Joined January 2013
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First watch: MONSIEUR HULOT'S HOLIDAY (1953, re-edited 1978) This film made me feel nostalgic for a place I've never been, a quaint French seaside vacation spot where I could easily spend a week (or month). It's plotless really, but it's enough just to watch... #FilmTwitter 1/4
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...beachgoers. I read that the Hôtel de la Plage, featured in the film, is still there in the Saint-Marc-sur-Mer community. I like to imagine the film's characters returning every summer. MONSIEUR HULOT'S HOLIDAY was the introduction of the Mr. Hulot character, featured... 3/4
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... in three other films. I've seen the second installment (MON ONCLE, 1958, very good) but not yet PLAYTIME (1967) or TRAFIC (1971). It pokes fun at rigid summer social rituals, but it does so with warmth rather than disdain. I found it quite endearing.
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#NoirvemberChallenge A favorite newspaper film #noir
#NowWatching Los Tallos Amargos (The Bitter Stems) a riveting 1956 #FilmNoir from Argentina. Love the way it’s filmed! Things go terribly wrong when a frustrated newspaper man and shady partner set up a bogus correspondence course in journalism. #FilmTwitter #noir #ClassicMovies
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LET’S DO THIS, AMERICA!! We can be a better nation despite the efforts of tyrants to suppress our votes and hold us back. Let’s elect lawmakers who celebrate diversity rather than trying to crush it. Let’s live up to the ideals of “liberty and justice for all.” #VoteBlue
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I’m so proud of the sweeping repudiation of the Trump cult. THANK YOU, AMERICA!!
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#MonthInMyEars is the correct hashtag. Oops!
#MonthInMyEar Song from an album with an animal on the cover Kid's Alright was my favorite track from Dutch band Bettie Seveert’s 1992 album Palomine. youtu.be/EwVxcj0RtqE?si=YJFv… via @YouTube
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#MonthInMyEar Song from an album with an animal on the cover Kid's Alright was my favorite track from Dutch band Bettie Seveert’s 1992 album Palomine. youtu.be/EwVxcj0RtqE?si=YJFv… via @YouTube
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#NoirvemberChallenge Favorite noir recently discovered (thanks to #NoirAlley on TCM …
First watch: MOONRISE (1948) is one of the best #NoirAlley features I've seen in quite some time. Dane Clark (as Danny Hawkins) is perfect as a quick-tempered but sympathetic man haunted and bullied his entire life for the hanging of his father for murder in a .. #FilmTwitter 1/4
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#MonthInMyEars Third single from an album I Zimbra from Talking Heads' jittery, paranoid, brilliant album Fear of Music is a dazzling display of talent and hinted at what was to come on the band's next record, Remain in Light. youtu.be/qKFn66dzdz0?si=COa8… via @YouTube
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#NoirvemberChallenge Film noir that made you a noir fan. Hard to remember exactly, but I think it was THE MALTESE FALCON (1941), John Huston's remarkable debut as director with a perfect cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet ...
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Rewatching MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969) absolutely confirmed for me that it's one of my top 5 films of all time. Not a frame is wasted from the time naive Joe Buck (Jon Voight) leaves Texas to become a New York City hustler until he rides a bus to Florida with the... #FilmTwitter 1/5
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... adds to the storyline (see Sylvia Miles as an aging Park Avenue woman Joe Buck encounters). There's a wild, drug-laced party that epitomizes psychedelic 1969. Acid, anyone? There's subtle, intelligent humor sprinkled throughout (Joe Buck admiring his image in a mirror). 4/5
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The soundtrack is extraordinary, with Nilsson's EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' becoming a top 10 US hit. Director John Schlesinger made one of the great American films with MIDNIGHT COWBOY, which won Oscars for Best Picture, Director and Screenplay (based on James Leo Herlihy's novel). 5/5
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#MonthInMyEars A band with a city in the name The Detroit Cobras rock on this 1998 remake of the 1965 Motown song I'll Keep Holding On, originally recorded by The Marvelettes. youtu.be/GJ6afIvSEPI?si=xJH2… via @YouTube
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#MonthInMyEars Name a song by a solo artist with a one-word stage name Moby may have reached the pinnacle of his career in 1995 with his damn-near-perfect album Everything Is Wrong. Actually, everything was right. Feeling So Real (Video) youtu.be/Ju2L6NhSebQ?si=iMUN… via @YouTube
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One of the creepiest tracks ever, perfect for Halloween. “I have a portrait on my wall He's a serial killer I thought he wouldn't escape Aisha, he got out” #NowPlaying Aisha - Death In Vegas youtu.be/zzZzDbRp3z4?si=dS0J… via @YouTube
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* oh, vocals by Iggy Pop
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