Jonathan Demme's SOMETHING WILD (1986) screens in 35mm on Wednesday, May 6th at 9:30pm @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

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it's so good

Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth's hybrid documentary BROKEN ENGLISH about British musician Marianne Faithfull starring Tilda Swinton and George MacKay screens Thursday, May 7th at 5:00pm

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Greta Lee and Willem Dafoe star in Kent Jones' LATE FAME, written by Samy Burch (MAY DECEMBER) and based on novella by Arthur Schnitzler (whose work also inspired EYES WIDE SHUT)

The film screens May 3rd at 6:30pm

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an all time fave. looks glorious on 35mm!

yeah it's wild that he fit in those planes!

I wish we could get an upgrade on that set. or at least have it on Criterion Channel so I can hype all those films. So many gems.

overwhelmed by the response to this piece. I appreciate everyone who went on this journey towards the truth with me.

This is a delight.

for the night crowd

This is a great piece, but it also makes me wish they used reverse-CLIFFORD trickery to turn John Malkovich into a giant in SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE.

🙏

F.W. Murnau, towering giant of cinema.

for the evening crowd

Laura Horak, a white woman with wavy brown hair to her jaw and glasses, holds up two books: TRANS CINEMA and MELODRAMA AS PROVOCATEUR.

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We all know FW Murnau was a giant of cinema, but was he a giant IRL? @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social is on the case!

Murnau the giant!!!

Attack Of The 50ft Murnau

I love this for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that I live with a man who is 6'8" and so know all about the shenanigans of tall men exaggerating their own height and also other tall men's height in comparison to their own

Surprisingly few photos of him exist that are available online. I imagine in some film archives there might be more images where we could compare his height to those in the photos, but I doubt the Margaret Herrick or any other archive would let me in just for that lmao

Oh that’s true.

It blew my mind when I first found out

Murnau shouldve hooped instead of tryna advance the art of cinema cause he tall as hell

For this week’s Silent Sundays post, I have continued working on an investigation that began on Twitter a decade ago.

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y'all this weather in Chicago tonight 🫣

for the night crowd

No, but I’ve read many of Emily’s recaps

"A poetic musing on intergenerational memory, a whimsical, yet staunchly political elegy for the glaciers, and a mournful look at the Earth in all her majesty and mystery." -- @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social

TIME AND WATER screens Monday, May 4th at 9:30pm

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"A sweetly sorrowful ode to lost family" -- @guylodge.bsky.social

ROMERÍA screens Wednesday, May 6th at 4:15pm

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