Emmy-winning Cameraman, Filmmaker, Editor, Musician, Writer, Dog Valet. Student of history, language, trivia, film. @ToBeTakei @rugbyplayerfilm @ArmisteadDoc
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4 May 2025
you know what i think about a lot? the knbr call of this. it could very well be because i blocked out all memories of this day and most of the 2021 season at large, but i’ve literally never heard it before. would anyone out there happen to have it?
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Ohhhh, my Precious…
I’m not sure whether I should make breakfast or open a safe deposit box.
ALT One egg left in a carton
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26 Jan 2025
#NoirChecklist for #WomanOnTheRun:
-Murder two minutes in
-Iconic San Francisco locations
-Gravel-voiced cop
-Gabby bartender
-Nightclub scene (in Chinatown)
-Dennis O’Keefe Dennis O’Keefe-ing
-A guy named Smiley
-More trenchcoats than the London Fog Xmas Sale
#TCMParty
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#WomanOnTheRun cinematographer Hal Mohr also shot The Jazz Singer, Captain Blood, Destry Rides Again, and other classics, and is the only person to win a write-in Oscar (before a rule change.) He was an early pioneer of deep-focus photography even before Gregg Toland. #TCMParty
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19 Jan 2025
#NoirChecklist for #WithoutPity:
-Naive, wrongly accused protagonist
-Worldly-wise prison friend
-Floozies aplenty
-Post-war black market dealings
-Creepy, well-dressed villain
-Quirky talkative bit characters
-Nightclub scene(s)
-His and hers jailbreaks!
#TCMParty #NoirAlley
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19 Jan 2025
Wow, #WithoutPity suddenly turned into an Italian version of a Roger Corman women-in-prison picture.
#TCMParty #NoirAlley
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“Men and women had forgotten compassion and abandoned tenderness in their desperate struggle for survival.”
Sounds like the Black Friday Sale at Walmart.
#WithoutPity #TCMParty #NoirAlley
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16 Jan 2025
This British Museum sequence in #Blackmail is like a festival of Schufftan Process shots! #TCMParty
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16 Jan 2025
One Hitchcock trademark not delved into in the #BecomingHitchcockdoc is the minor character– usually a quirky old neighbor or landlady– who talks graphically about the murder, murder in general, or murder methods. #Blackmail likely has one of the first versions. #TCMParty
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15 Jan 2025
Paul Kelly's hairline starts somewhere around the Tropic of Capricorn. #InvisibleStripes #TCMParty
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15 Jan 2025
Yikes, seems like every citizen in Midvale is packing and just shoots indiscriminately at escaping bank robbers, bystanders be damned. #InvisibleStripes #TCMParty
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15 Jan 2025
William Holden's voice seems to have changed from his early roles in the late 30s to his heyday in the 50s, probably from smoking. He almost doesn't sound like the same person. #InvisibleStripes #TCMParty
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Although it pre-dates the “official” birth of noir in the mid-40s, #TheyDriveByNight checks a lot of boxes on the #NoirChecklist:
-Femme fatale married to older rich guy
-Good girl vs. bad girl
-Honest brothers battling corrupt system
-Innocent guy wrongly on trial #TCMParty
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15 Jan 2025
Homebody family man Bogie in #TheyDriveByNight was throwing me off. Now we're back to a more familiar bitter, self-loathing Bogie. #TCMParty
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15 Jan 2025
Percentage of George Tobias's classic film roles where he didn't have a vaguely Greek-Russian-Yiddish-Eastern European accent: 4.2%
#TheyDriveByNight #TCMParty
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