There’s far too much going on in MOTHER MARY for me to spurt out an immediate reaction. So many fascinating layers to muddle through and ponder.
However, both Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel are extraordinary. They cast a hypnotic magic spell as they intimately bounce off one another. I was in awe.
Great news for Elaine May’s birthday.
MIKEY AND NICKY (1976) is returning to theaters for its 50th anniversary in a 4K restoration supervised by May.
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Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.
Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.
Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.
Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.
It was so lovely to meet up with @letterboxd.social in their hometown on Aotearoa while on the Castration Movie World Tour! Check out the video to hear me wax poetic on my Four Favourites <3
More details were emailed to library users throughout Allegheny County today. It's tough -- I know how desperately libraries try to reign in skyrocketing costs for e-materials.
Sofia Coppola's haunting 'The Virgin Suicides' hit theaters on this day in 2000. @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social on its long-lasting power: crookedmarquee.com/the-imprison...
"Genius is a word that’s thrown around a lot, but I think whatever it means, if Elaine May is not a brilliant improviser, nobody is. If Elaine May is not a brilliant actress, nobody is. If she’s not a brilliant writer, nobody is. If she’s not a brilliant director, nobody is."
- Kenneth Lonergan
elaine may 94th bday........ur all actually legally required to buy my book today. most people don't know this but it's true bit.ly/missmaymacmi...
Happy Elaine May Day to all who celebrate.
I wrote for @brightwalldarkroom.com about MIKEY & NICKY, the ubertext in her lifelong cinematic study of broken men and their slugtrail of betrayals, and a scab-torn, pus-flooded journey to the end of the night for two best friends.
Happy 94th birthday to the brilliant Elaine May.
Watch A New Leaf, Mikey and Nicky, if you can find it The Heartbreak Kid.
Heck, Ishtar isn't good but it is an interesting idea and worth checking out.
Oh, and of course Nicholas and May collabs, including Yhe Birdcage
The front page of the Star Tribune on April 22, 2016, following the passing of Prince.
Watched 1991's DOGFIGHT for the first time last night. Incredible River Phoenix performance, so subtle, nuanced, and natural. Lili Taylor destroys. And it's a beautiful portrait of a moment in time.
New: Thousands of ICE detainees are successfully petitioning for habeas corpus to get out on bond as their cases pend. Pittsburgh is a hub of this action, as the largest detention center in the Northeast is nearby.
Read how it works and the families involved: www.publicsource.org/gofundme-and...
Pittsburgh's ever-changing North Shore is a maze of temporary fencing at the moment, but its 150 years of sports history is full of sights to behold. @stephstrasburg.bsky.social and @quinnglabicki.bsky.social of @publicsource.org mined the archives www.publicsource.org/north-shore-...
Barbara Stanwyck for Bates Bedspreads in 1944.
Pittsburgh folks: doing a mock draft live from the Enclave on Wednesday with @bykevinclark.bsky.social and @foxworthshow.bsky.social
Tickets include merch and snacks:
Minapodlive.com
The 4/20 vibe tonight is Kmart in-store shopping music circa 1992.
Nothing hits quite like the soft electric piano of a Cathy Dennis slow jam when you’re shopping for some new Keds.
Few directors can make the lead up to the stand off as thrilling and intense as the stand off itself. Leone doesn’t rush anything allowing the tension build perfectly. Combined with Morricone’s absolute classic score it’s a masterful display of filmmaking at its finest!
Since 2015, Mike Clevinger is one of two players MLB probed under its domestic violence policy but didn't suspend. His ex-fiancée says MLB enabled the former star to keep harassing her, including this call where she says he threatened her.
issa new [eyeblack]
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“Bad Day at Black Rock” — John Sturges’s masterful mash-up of Western, film noir, and social commentary — is a lean, mean, 81-minute masterclass in Hollywood craft.
TCM listing for Marriage Italian Style.
TCM listing for A Special Day
Two of the best Sophia Loren movies TCM is showing this month are on late tonight/early tomorrow morning, midnight and 3:30a eastern time.
On @lastweektonight.com this week, #Pittsburgh News (KDKA 2, WTAE 4, and WPXI 11) makes an appearance on trying to pronounce the new #Pirates
#hotdog " The #Boricua dog ". #LetsGoBucs.
“The film that you are about to see has to do with a better understanding of our fellow man. We have gathered the information as intelligently and as honestly as within our power and potential. And would like to portray to you as intellectually as our medium will permit in the findings of our research.” Dr. Louis C. Pessolano, M.D., introducing She-Man: A Story of Fixation She-Man: A Story of Fixation (1967) has reappeared recently, largely due to the interest of cinephiles, including Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn, who helped in its being restored. In 1967, then unknown Canadian director Bob Clark (A Christmas Story and Black Christmas) took on the task of making a B-movie full of famous American female impersonators in the notoriously swampy, humid Florida summer as his feature-film debut.
Reading Corpses, Fools, and Monsters co-authored by @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and stumbled upon this fascinating bit of trivia
TRUST TEACHERS. Two words that, if people actually widely believed them, would utterly reform education in this country.
ZOHRAN MAMDANI: "It is sad that for too many Americans when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, they have to turn to a history book."
"Dude"
The Earthset abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that.
