"The Vatican is in desperate need of criminal justice reform. As of today, any criminal can walk into the Vatican, confess to any crime, immediately be forgiven, and walk out with zero consequences."
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A San Francisco Kinetoscope parlor, c. 1894–95.
Commercial exhibition of motion pictures began #OTD in 1894.
The first Edison Kinetoscope parlor opened in New York City w/ 10 different (very) short films, viewable at individual stations.
Price: 50 cents for all 10 movies — equivalent to about $20 today. #FilmSky
it is a little odd how conservatives are just casually discussing if the president of the united states is the antichrist
Cool that lots of celebrities love birding but I need the list of celebs who love mushrooms. 🌿🍄
First there was Mel Gibson, then came John Galliano, and now Reform local elections campaigner Aaron Taylor blames his antisemitism on…drinking.
Is it time for alcohol to be labelled
WARNING: Drinking may cause you to loudly hate Jewish people?
FFS
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It's a good movie!
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This is a genuinely new researched history of the tube. First of four covering 1801-2050 coming soon! A fresh approach.
Described as 'Brilliant' by a leading writer on the subject, you can pre-order and get a nice discount by clicking on the link above.
If ever there was a movie just begging to be remastered for IMAX screens, it's BARRY LYNDON.
I'm fully expecting Christopher Nolan or Ryan Coogler to launch or at least endorse such a project one day.
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A frame grab from the 1975 film BARRY LYNDON directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is a wide shot of a lush, verdant valley with farms and rolling hills extending to the horizon, with light grey clouds floating in front of an indigo sky. I believe the location here was in Ireland.
This shot, one of the many painterly landscape scenes in the movie, is the sort of image that immediately came to mind when I saw your photo.
It reminds me so much of the many incredibly framed and perfectly exposed exterior shots that Kubrick filmed for BARRY LYNDON (1975).
This is like a Renaissance painting. Just stunning.
The sun setting over the Severn Estuary as seen from the top of Uley Bury hill fort. I took this photo in September, 2021, on the most perfect windless evening, feeling euphoric having finished the edits on my debut novel, Villager. The whole walk felt like I'd temporarily stepped inside a Kit Williams painting, which was apt since for the last several decades he has lived not far from here, and the landscape was a prime inspiration for his masterpiece Masquerade. I still associate this scene with Villager, which, although it's inspired by a more rugged landscape a couple of hours south west of here, it has some very Villager elements. If you are new to my writing and would like to read an excerpt from the book (one of the sillier, easier-to-read parts of it) you'll find one in the link. I promise it's not shit.
Almost certainly the best photo I will ever take from an Iron Age hillfort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn.
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#popeleo #trump #epstein
Just a reminder — that this current
Pope/Trump discussion is an extremely difficult time for all victims and survivors of child sexual abuse.
#filmsky #moviesky #filmlocations
GUNGA DIN (1939) was filmed in the Alabama Hills, the unique 18,700+ acres of 100 million-yr-old monzogranite, in the Eastern Sierra, Calif.
More than 400 films (mostly Westerns), were filmed in the Hills but this is its only tribute.
Plaque detail in comments.
I love Jim but now I'm obsessed with the mid-century blonde console holding your stereo components.
Photo I took of our cat Jim feeling good after he successfully sued the Church Of Scientology for 21 million dollars for kidnapping him and putting him on a bogus "life repair course".
Jim Photograph Of The Day.
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Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and you will inevitably get people saying, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." You know what else people thought was progress not long after it came into common use? Asbestos.
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I was so influenced by this brilliant record when I was writing my latest collection of short stories that I included one short story which is just a superfluous drum solo.
i can think of some one else who should stay out of us politics tbh
mr “vice president”
A small white dog is side-eyeing someone above them. They are wearing glasses.
said "hi little buddy 🙂" in a cute voice to a dog on the street and they shot me this look and now i feel like a dumbass
PROJECT HAIL MARY is back in IMAX and IMAX 70mm until Wed Apr 22.
Of course, tickets are almost gone for every screening at AMC Lincoln Sq. NYC. They could sell out 24/7 at that venue.
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i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content
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A photo portait of composer Bill Conti wearing a formal dress tuxedo and hold a baton with crossed arms as he poses and smiles for the camera.
Happy 84th birthday to film composer Bill Conti.
At the 1984 Academy Awards, fellow composers Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Claude Debussy and Gustav Holst couldn't be in attendance, so Conti graciously accepted the Oscar for Best Original Score for THE RIGHT STUFF on their behalf.
#filmsky #moviesky #BOTD
Remember how Sean Young dressed up as Catwoman and everyone collectively decided she was nuts? This month's Women They Warned You About looks at that moment, our inability to deal with feminine anger in Hollywood, and how shitty David Letterman was.
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Was not expecting this. Gonzales will also resign from Congress.
good day for resignations
mr president
Genuinely depressing to me that your partner has to Doordash to raise money for your cancer treatment when you get old. What happens if you don't have a partner? Are we just working to pay a landlord and save up for a medical emergency when we're elderly?
