Magellan
Lav Diaz, 2025

Just Claudia Cardinale on her birthday celebrating World Art Day thank you very much.

Bud Cort With Shelley Duvall.

“We should have dug deeper than a grave…”

A very happy birthday to the great Charles Tolliver!

The Conversation (1974)

Behind the Green Door (1972)

Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut PLAY MISTY FOR ME (1971) moody, lot of jazz and Monterey atmosphere, and a great unhinged Jessica Walter.

Downhill Racer (1969)
Robert Redford, Gene Hackman & Camilla Sparv, directed by Michael Ritchie with a screenplay by James Salter.

— Is it safe?
Tell me what the “it” refers to.
— Is it safe?
Yes, it's safe, it's very safe, it's so safe you wouldn't believe it.
— Is it safe?
No. It's not safe, it's... very dangerous, be careful.

Marathon Man (1976)
Dir. John Schlesinger

ROBERT DUVALL
Boo Radley, THX 1138, The Godfather, Network, Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies and so much more … (and a brief unpaid cameo in Invasion of the Body Snatchers) …

That’s great, thanks for finding that!

A film inspired by Bill Evans' 1979 tour in Argentina? I need to see this… BILL 79 (Mariano Galperín, 2023)

1972 was the only year the Porsche 911 had an exterior oil filler/door.

Maybe my favorite film of the year, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s
THE SECRET AGENT (2025)

It’s … BLACK SUNDAY (1977)
Dir. John Frankenheimer

Nice to see good old Barry McGee on the cover of a new art magazine (via Park Life on Clement Street).

They should’ve used a still from the Sean Connery haircut scene in The Rock, a real missed opportunity.

Discovered the Fairmont has a random display of films and tv with an association to the hotel and have to say I appreciate the solo Connie Sellecca highlight.

Train Dreams (2025)
Dir. Clint Bentley, adapted from the Denis Johnson novella.

Hah, yeah it’s real but that was my first thought until I parked to get a closer look.

Street parked F40 on Geary Blvd…

I very much liked the slow-burn anti-heist shaggy-dog film that is The Mastermind (2025, Kelly Reichardt).

And on the Barfly set in 1987 with Charles Bukowski.

Happy 85th Birthday Faye Dunaway (Eyes of Laura Mars, 1978)

Saturday and Billy Wilder’s
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson

The Lighthouse (2019, Robert Eggers) on rewatch has really grown on me.

I went to a baseball game in Mexicali as a kid (my aunt lived there), had a great time though don’t remember who played(!) — Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, cheers!