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not on here much anymore; over at bluesky & Insta with the same handle also @_autocouture

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I found a vintage catalogue of educational films for rental in NYC; these are some of my favorite titles

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@DHSgov fuck you.

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it’s easier to understand historically how people stayed in an encroaching fascist state instead of fleeing/fighting when you see how many people just stayed on this app

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@c0mmunicants and he pushed it a power higher in The Return, individual suffering as universal redemption (and individual ego of heroism dooming everyone)

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@notnotnuanced fuckin live flame wipe; god tier

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If we’re gonna have a second Satanic Panic may as well lean in:
four tabletop terrors play this month at Spectacle in CRITICAL FAILURE: ROLE PLAYING HORROR

https://t.co/6q00hBGo2y

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@ThatJakePC I got a SAG-AFTRA waiver because my face is a punch line

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a little late but it’s clearly still horror season

[Notebook @mubinotebook]

"Their movies lifted directly from Indian and European formulas, applying genre-blending masala conventions to Hammer horror tropes with a workmanlike approach prioritizing efficiency over artistry... If horror is where a culture’s id runs rampant, the Ramsays captured the fears and fantasies of a recently secularized country grappling with its ancient past, colonial legacy, and Westernized ideas of modernity during a turbulent era."

Revisit Danielle Burgos (@rarerborealis) on India's groundbreaking horror film family, The Ramsays:
https://t.co/q3zLKikfvq

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"First as tragedy, then as farce, finally as musical; abstracting the ongoing disaster is the only way to process it."

Danielle Burgos (@rarerborealis) writes on OFFICE, screening at @MoMAFilm as part of "Chaos and Order: The Way of Johnnie To." https://t.co/xWSAXJJaOf

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wait…really? https://t.co/Tk6xbnZ5xX

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dammit.

[One Perfect HEADshot @HeadExposure]

So apparently, famous action director Corey Yuen has passed away ☹️ (it seems Jackie Chan said so on his Weibo account). Truly one of the greatest action designers to have ever lived. So many of his works are among my favourites. Sharing a few here to celebrate his genius.

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@cronenbabe JMW Turner ass looking sky tonight

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wishing all the ladies applying to the BAM programming job good vibes and good luck

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it takes a special combo of economic security and ennui to look at the world post-Watergate, post-GLADIO (and pre-9/11) and think, they’re definitely covering up aliens

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many thanks to Liz for indulging my love of the most 90s accessory of all: alien conspiracies

[Liz @schlockvalue]

produced the new blu-ray release of the 90s teen sci-fi oddity AMANDA AND THE ALIEN — an honor to get to work with the great @willow_catelyn and @rarerborealis on a pair of video / audio essays for it

https://t.co/8oV6uhZmEQ

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@ohhoe @AshStoneman see it, we can talk, we’re out here

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@Papapishu @worldofcrap it can’t be that expensive to purchase a commercial vhs recorder and patch it in

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TODAY
4:30p @Metrograph : TOPKAPI
I wrote about this fluffy fun vacation of a film that tosses in an ace heist for kicks:

https://t.co/seeFmwRJm9

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@cronenbabe …imagine Michael Caine as gambit

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they’re really burying the lede: this film’s entire plot is ‘woman too horny for emeralds’

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📓Today in the Journal: Danielle Burgos (@rarerborealis) on the dynamic heist film Topkapi (1964) that embodied the electricity of both its filmmaker Jules Dassin and star Melina Mercouri. https://t.co/lGAYdeWQii