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Farran Nehme

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Film writing, film history, film love.

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For my own amusement and I hope that of others, I'm starting a month-long thread of U.K. film noir for #Noirvember. Why the U.K.? I've watched a lot of British films since lockdown, so why not. Here, an example of what I won’t include (movies that everyone knows).

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My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me.

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"What did Whitey call you?" "Sugar, because I was hard to get." I love a good rationing joke.

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It is a divine precedent you perpetuate! Roll on, reels of celluloid, as the great earth rolls on!

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The Islamic Republic plans to execute #MohammadMehdiKarami this morning. his parents are begging the world to stop this execution. The leaders of the democratic countries must act now. He’s innocent protesting, is not a crime. #MahsaAmini

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Just saw #MonteBlue in the #Lubitsch film "So This Is Paris." Blue had great comedic style! Caught the WB logo at end that was the Old Warner Bros Studio at 5800 Sunset Blvd before they moved to Burbank. Now it's

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BREAKING: In what will likely be its final meeting, the House’s Jan. 6 Committee on Monday put an exclamation point on nearly 18 months of work: it approved four federal criminal referrals for former President Donald Trump.

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The Jan. 6 Panel's Christmas Gift: a Criminal Referral for Trump

In one of its final acts, the Jan. 6 Committee made criminal referrals to the DOJ on Monday for Trump and some other key players.

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Jessica Pickens

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Christmas scenes in non-holiday classic films: Joy in the Morning (1965, Segal)

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And no more than 1/10th of the people featured will be acknowledged in the Oscars In Memoriam.

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Just made this video! On the Dec. 20, 1944 episode of “The Jack Carson Show,” Jack sang a lovely rendition of #WhiteChristmas. He included a heartfelt message for “our folks” overseas that makes me weepy every time! #OTD #OldTimeRadio #WW2 #JackCarson 🎄🎶

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youtube.comJack Carson sings White Christmas, 1944Actor Jack Carson starred in a highly successful radio show for several years. The title varied over time. The wartime Dec. 20, 1944 episode of "The Jack Car...

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Audubon Society

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Building collisions kill millions of birds—like this Blackpoll Warbler—each year. Many of these deaths can be prevented. Urge your members of Congress to support the Bird-Safe Buildings Act—a bipartisan, common-sense solution to prevent bird collisions. bit.ly/3lTPuer

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Great to put a face to the name! Hey everyone, did you know that Sen. Josh Hawley's wife Erin is one of the lawyers on a suit that could result in abortion pills being banned nationwide for pure nonsense reasons? jezebel.com/activists-are-

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My beautiful wife talking about the right to life with ⁦@BreitbartNews⁩ at #AmFest2022

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Jean Renoir's masterpiece THE RULES OF THE GAME opens this Friday in a stunning new 4K restoration: bit.ly/3WfvLWY As fresh, funny, and poignant as it ever was, and even more mysterious. How did Renoir do it?” – J. Hoberman

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They outdid themselves this year.

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It's like losing family. This year, two acting fathers and an aunt. And many friends and heroes. @TCM creates the most beautiful in memoriam

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TCM outdid themselves this very, very hard year.

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It's like losing family. This year, two acting fathers and an aunt. And many friends and heroes. @TCM creates the most beautiful in memoriam

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@SECRETARIATofcl

As a pioneering photographer for the New York Racing Association, he captured one of the most famous images in American sports history. Rest in Peace, Bob Coglianese. #Secretariat #1973BelmontStakes

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One of my favourite photos of Elizabeth Taylor. Photographed for her film A Date With Judy(1948). #ElizabethTaylor

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Devastating. The parents of protestor #MohammadMehdiKarami plead for the Islamic Republic authorities not to execute their son, who has been sentenced to death. #MahsaAmini

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درخواست پدرومادر #محمدمهدی_کرمی برای #توقف_حکم_اعدام نشستن جلوی دوربین وادای کلمات،براشون دشواربودوبرای ضبط همین۴۷ثانیه،ساعتهاوقت گذاشته شد.پدرکلمات روروی کاغذنوشت وبا همسرش تمرین کرد:"من ماشاالله کرمی هستم،کارگرم،دستفروشی میکنم"لطفابازنشروحمایت کنیدتاصداشون برسه جایی که بایدو...

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Elon Musk has always been a black hole of narcissism and greed who managed to fulfill his dream of becoming a dangerous plutocrat whose sole mission is to create wealth and power for himself - democracy be damned - and the only one who didn’t see this was … you.

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Museum of the Moving Image

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Next weekend (12/23 & 24), see Ernst Lubitsch’s exquisite, Christmas-set workplace romantic comedy, THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan.

The Shop Around the Corner – Museum of the Moving Image

On 12/23 & 12/24, see Lubitsch’s exquisite, Christmas-set workplace romantic comedy with James Stewart & Margaret Sullavan.

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New York Times Arts

Adrienne Mancia, who scoured the world for significant films and brought them to New York audiences as a longtime curator at the Museum of Modern Art and later at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, has died at 95.

Adrienne Mancia, Influential Film Curator, Dies at 95

Her choices for exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Academy of Music gave foreign directors and newcomers valuable exposure in New York.

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Happy birthday to our

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It can’t compete with any of those seven films but I recommend ‘Deception’, a 50-minute TV play she did with Trevor Howard in 1956 which I watched a few days back (if you’ve not already seen it). It’s available on the usual channels.

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Just wanted to assure everyone that you can post any link you want on post.news. We make it easy to add all your social media links to your profile since none of us only use one platform. Freedom = Choice

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Anne Bancroft at home in Greenwich Village. 📸 by Pierre Venant, c. 1970.

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Star of the day and her seven best. Linda Darnell (I have a huge soft spot for her). Blood and Sand Forever Amber It Happened Tomorrow Letter to Three Wives, A Mark of Zorro, The My Darling Clementine ❤️ No Way Out

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I'd much rather you all signed up for my writing-updates newsletter (ameliamangan.substack.com), but just so you guys know, my handle on my almost-never-used Facebook is amelia.mangan. ...Go ahead & end my suffering, you dorkass blood-emerald motherfucker

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I loved The Burmese Harp.

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it's been a long time and I've been itching to revisit but Burmese Harp is a little bit slept on this days maybe - remember that being incredible

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Remembering Peggy Cummins, born in Wales on today's date in 1925. #GunCrazy

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Mind you, in fifth grade, I didn't have such consistent branding. 😄 It's easier to find me now.

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Flashback to fifth grade when the meanest mean girl told my friends it wasn't just class/cafeteria, she better not find out they were talking or hanging with me anywhere else

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Simple point. You don’t have to like the journalist. You don’t have to think the person is a good journalist. What’s clear is that having gotten revved up with his first suspensions Musk is now just suspending people who he gets mad at. Even his flunkies are asking what’s up.

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SF Silent Film Fest

If you are in a position to make year-end gifts, we hope you'll consider SFSFF. Since its inception, SFSFF has been dedicated to showing silent-era masterpieces in live-cinema presentations, while our preservation dep. has restored dozens of silent films! silentfilm.org/support-sfsff/

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In a short conversation with her father detained actress #TaranehAlidoosti said she is being held in section 209 of Evin prison [m— where prisoners are notoriously tortured — and requested her medication.

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#ترانه_علیدوستی در تماسی کوتاه به پدرش اطلاع داده در بند ۲۰۹ زندان اوین است و تقاضا کرده داروهایش به زندان تحویل داده شود.

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Celebrities and rights groups called on Iran on Sunday to free the actor Taraneh Alidoosti, one of the most prominent figures yet arrested in its three-month crackdown on protests.

Iran urged to free top actor who backed protests

Celebrities and rights groups have called on Iranian authorities to free actor Taraneh Alidoosti, who was arrested after a string of social media posts supporting the protest movement.

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@LaurasMiscMovie

In 2020 I created a widely viewed #MerryVintageCardChristmas thread of vintage (or reproduction) cards. twitter.com/LaurasMiscMovi I RT'd entire thread last year; this year I've put together a brand-new thread of lovely images, Tweeting twice daily! Enjoy. 🎄

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Over past couple years I've collected many 20th century (vintage or replica) Christmas card images which I turned into a screensaver file. Thought I'd share some of the lovely pictures here this month in a thread. Here's the first! #MerryVintageCardChristmasShow this thread

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Gentle reminder that "bombastic" is not a compliment.

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In honor of his birthday, a brief salute to the late Ray Liotta, one of the great cinematic losses of 2022: The story behind one of my favorite scenes, from GQ's oral history of GOODFELLAS.

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