Sad Balloon

#SadBalloon dropped from the sky at the #BFI. Befriended by Shannon Smith (@ssmithwc1n) & Ann M. Hale (@ann_m_hale) Gradually lost helium while watching flicks.

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Martin v Lipton & Ors (RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS - MODIFICATION) [2020] UKUT 8 (LC) (14 January 2020) https://t.co/beL40chgfA

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If @SadBalloonMovie had a time machine, it would go back and float in front of screenings of lost films, such as Britannia Films' "The Suffragette" (1913)

#TheSuffragette #BritanniaFilms #AgnesGlynne #JamesCardew @womanandsphere @LostSuffragetteMovieBalloon

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@SadBalloonMovie contemplates the contrast between Bill Pullman's phone acting with a flip phone and Robert Blake's with a landline and heavy makeup.

#LostHighway #Lynch #Pullman #Blake #PostmodernNoirRoadMovieBalloon

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While Colin Farrell's phone acting in a confined space is adequate, @SadBalloonMovie doesn't think it takes into account the urine and other bodily fluids found in urban phone booths of the era

#PhoneBooth #ColinFarrell #JoelSchumacher #PhoneBoothDangersMovieBalloon

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@SadBalloonMovie admires Liam Neeson's special set of phone acting skills

#TakenMovies #Neeson #PhoneAndAGunMovieBalloon

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@SadBalloonMovie likes a catchy tune about the links between social deprivation, mental illness, and law enforcement

#WestSideStory #GeeOfficerKrupke #RobertWise #JeromeRobbins #Bernstein #QuestionableMusicalCastingMovieBalloon

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"Cordless phone acting" entry in the @SadBalloonMovie "phone acting" festival; or, "the indignity of a mid-1990s putty-coloured cordless handset with the massive antenna"

#Scream #WesCraven #DrewBarrymore #HorrorCallTropeMovieBalloon

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Audrey Hepburn's "phone acting" performance is undermined by the twisted, uneven curly cord on the handset

#WaitUntilDark #TerenceYoung #AudreyHepburn #AlanArkin #DrugDollMovieBalloon

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The @SadBalloonMovie "phone acting" fest continues with an example of stellar phone acting involving two performers and no actual phone call

#Rififi #Dassin #YouCantCallTheCopsMovieBalloon

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Prop-focused film festivals are so needed: women acting with phones, guns, knives, babies, men

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@SadBalloonMovie 'Women Acting With Phones': a film festival.

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Thanks to #TheWomen and @ssmithwc1n, @SadBalloonMovie has embarked on a little "phone acting" film festival. While she's no Joan Crawford in a glass tub, Grace Kelly isn't too shabby performing with this chunky black handset

#DialMForMurder #GraceKelly #RayMilland #Hitchcock #

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In @SadBalloonMovie's version of heaven, every buddy movie ever made is rebooted with Newman and Redford

#ButchCassidy #Redford #Newman #GeorgeRoyHill #BicycleInterludeWesternMovieBalloon

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Oh no. They're at a North Stars match. There's a Budweiser ad. Someone in this shot is doomed.

#UntamedHeart #ChristianSlater #MarisaTomei #RosiePerez #MinneapolisSchmaltzMovieBalloon @SadMovieBalloon

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If you go glasses shopping with @SadBalloonMovie, don't be surprised or hurt when you're told wire-rim frames make you look like Christian Slater in Pump Up the Volume

#PumpUpTheVolume #Slater #Mathis #Moyle #PirateRadioMovieBalloon

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After seeing American Animals, @SadBalloonMovie adds to its capering wishlist: 1) room with wood paneling for planning docs; 2) shoebox diorama of heist site; 3) tattoo of t-rex trying to turn on a ceiling fan

#AmericanAnimals #BartLayton #BookHeistDramaDocMovieBalloon

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If you change your identity to escape being prosecuted for war crimes, @SadBalloonMovie thinks you should be careful about doodling swastikas and pursuing your hobby of clock restoration

#TheStranger #OrsonWelles #EdwardGRobinson #LorettaYoung #MarriedANaziMovieBalloon

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@SadBalloonMovie finds "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" depressingly appropriate for the current political climate

#TreasureOfTheSierraMadre #JohnHuston #Bogart #WalterHuston #TimHolt #GreedAndBetrayalMovieBalloon

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@SadBalloonMovie would love to join the quirky crowd at Number 21, even if it involves murder, conspiracy, the high-pitched singing of Mila Malou, or her nosy hubby Inspector Wens.

#MurdererLivesAtNumber21 #Clouzot #SuzyDelair #PierreFresnay #OccupiedFranceCrimeComedyBalloon

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Russian comedy without subtitles? Check. Singing? Check. Jerry-Lewis-esque physical humour? Check. Shiny suits and skinny ties? Check. Next time @SadBalloonMovie will watch with subtitles

#TheDiamondArm #mosfilm #gaidai #smugglingsovietmovieballoon

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"Nothing creepy here...except that staircase. Never ignore a Hitchcock staircase," thinks @SadBalloonMovie.

#TheLodger #Hitchcock #IvorNovello #MarieAult #MarieBellocLowndes